School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Faculty

Faculty

Department Faculty

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Laurie Gaskins Baise

Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mapping, natural hazards
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C. Andrew Ramsburg

Associate Professor and Dean of Undergraduate Education
multiphase flow and transport in porous media, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid equilibria, sols and emulsions, surfactants and interfaces, mass transfer, biotransformation, emerging contaminants
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Brian Brenner

Professor of the Practice
structural engineering, concrete design, bridge analysis and design, structural analysis/design
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Wayne Chudyk

Associate Professor
drinking water quality and toxic materials, groundwater monitoring
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Luis Dorfmann

Professor
Mathematical models of material behavior; Nonlinear magneto- and electromechanical interactions; Biomechanics of soft materials; Rubber elasticity and inelasticity
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John Durant

Professor
Air pollution monitoring, mobile monitoring, air pollution modeling, ambient air quality, indoor air quality, air pollution control, air pollution exposure, air pollution epidemiology
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Ana Fernandes

Professor of the Practice
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John Germaine

Research Professor
geotechnical, laboratory testing, automation, soil behavior, physical properties, mechanical properties, material science
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David Gute

Professor
environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety
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Eric Hines

Professor of the Practice and Kentaro Tsutsumi Faculty Fellow
Offshore Wind Energy Structural Design Earthquake Engineering
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Neelakshi Hudda

Research Assistant Professor
urban air population, transportation emissions
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Shafiqul Islam

Professor
Water Diplomacy, Principled Pragmatism, Data Driven Decision Making, Climate and Health, Remote Sensing, Flood Forecasting
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Lucy Jen

Professor of the Practice
geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering, and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering
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Paul Kirshen

Visiting Professor
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Daniel Kuchma

Professor
design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures
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Jonathan Lamontagne

Associate Professor
water resources, decision making under uncertainty, hydrologic statistics, integrated global change assessment
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Sauro Liberatore

Kingsbury Fellow and Research Assistant Professor
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James Limbrunner

Professor of the Practice
hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM
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Babak Moaveni

Professor
Probabilistic system identification of structures, signal processing, Bayesian inference, model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models.
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Greses Pérez

McDonnell Family Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence
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Juan Pestana

Professor of the Practice
geotechnical, geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil behavior, soil property characterization
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Masoud Sanayei

Professor
Bridge structural health monitoring, building train-induced vibrations, nondestructive testing of full-scale structures, fatigue life prediction of structures with nonproportional multi-axial loading.
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Lauryn Spearing

Assistant Professor
1) Infrastructure management during uncertain contexts 2) Understanding public perceptions towards the built environment 3) Sustainable water technology adoption
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Helen Suh

Professor
Environmental health, environmental epidemiology, air pollution, exposure science, data analytics
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Deborah Sunter

Assistant Professor
Science focused on energy, development and environmental management. Computational modeling of electrical grid integration of renewable energy and storage. Interaction of science and policy in academia, industry and government
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Chris Swan

Professor
Research focuses on sustainable development and innovative engineering education, at times combining the two. Specific research projects include: 1) service-based education and how it can be best assessed and utilized in engineering and 2) waste minimization and reuse of traditional waste materials.
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Farshid Vahedifard

Professor and Louis Berger Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Resilient and equitable infrastructure - Impacts of extreme events (e.g., drought, flood, wildfire) in a changing climate on infrastructure and communities - Climate adaptation of infrastructure - Slopes, dams, and levees - Unsaturated soil mechanics - Multi-physics (e.g., hydro-mechanical, thermo-hydro-mechanical) processes in soils - Analytical and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering
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Robert Viesca

Associate Professor
applied mathematics and mechanics for geophysical and engineering problems
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Mark Woodin

Senior Lecturer
epidemiologic methods

Secondary Appointments

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Laura Corlin

Associate Professor
Dr. Corlin is an environmental epidemiologist who develops and applies cutting-edge epidemiological and exposure assessment methods to characterize and mitigate the health effects of exposure to environmental toxicants among vulnerable populations.
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Jeffrey Griffiths

Professor
How to scale up package of health, nutrition and agricultural interventions (individually known to work at a small scale) to a national scale, so as to improve maternal and child health and nutrition, the human, animal, and environmental epidemiology of the emerging pathogen Cryptosporidium, development of an ultrastable measles vaccine for use where there is no refrigeration or during emergencies, influence of malnutrition and environmental factors, such as air pollution and heavy metals, on common infectious diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia.
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Shan Jiang

Eileen Fox Aptman, J90, and Lowell Aptman Assistant Professor
Urban Analytics; Big Data Analytics; Urban Planning and Science; Spatial Data Science; Urban mobility;
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Mark Kachanov

Professor
Mechanics of materials; effective properties of heterogeneous materials; microstructure-property relationships; applications to material science
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Daniele Lantagne

Research Professor
water, sanitation, hygiene, infectious diseases, developing countries, emergencies
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Abani Patra

Center Director for Data Science of TIAI, Professor of Computer Science and Math
computational sciences, data driven modeling
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Beth Rosenberg

Associate Professor
Occupational and environmental health; designing effective safety systems; creating systems of production that do not harm workers or the environment; drivers for corporations to create those systems of production and overcoming obstacles that they encounter to this endeavor, public health improvements as social change. Current focus is safety systems and safety culture. Recent projects include: 1)health and safety curriculum development for the United Steelworkers of America, 2) health and safety systems in former nuclear weapons production sites and 3) improving safety conditions in the offshore wind industry.

Part-time Lecturers

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Jay Borkland

Part-time Lecturer
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Po-Shang Chen

Part-time Lecturer
Structural Engineering Design and Multi-Discipline Project Management
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Anne Marie Desmarais

Part-time Lecturer
environmental health
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Paul Dombrowski

Part-time Lecturer
Improving the design and implementation of in-situ groundwater and soil remediation, including permeable reactive barriers for treatment of large groundwater plumes, treatment solutions for emerging contaminants, and integrating ways to combine chemical remediation and bioremediation.
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Elizabeth Kirtland

Part-time Lecturer
Effect of infrastructure on social equity, infrastructure against climate change, automation of the design process
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Magaly Koch

Part-time Lecturer
Geology and hydrology of arid lands, coastal environmental change, natural hazards
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Ryan Marshall

Part-time Lecturer
Structural engineering, bridge design, analysis, and inspection.

Affiliate Faculty

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Linda Abriola

Adjunct Professor
Groundwater hydrology, soil and groundwater remediation, mathematical modeling of multiphase flow and transport in porous media, engineered nanoparticle transport and reactivity.
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Steven Chapra

Research Professor and Louis Berger Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus
Water quality modeling, numerical methods, advanced computer applications in environmental engineering.
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Russell Ewy

Affiliate
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Eleonora Maria Tronci

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Emeriti

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Linfield Brown

Professor Emeritus
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Lewis Edgers

Professor Emeritus
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Stephen Levine

Associate Professor Emeritus
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Lee Minardi

Senior Lecturer Emeritus
geometric modeling of manufactured products and constructed systems, spatial visualization, the use of technology in teaching mechanics, computer-aided design, and the use of computer tools for engineering problem solving
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Richard Vogel

Professor Emeritus
Stochastic and Statistical Hydrology, Environmental Statistics, Natural Hazards.