Faculty
W.H. Gardner, Jr. Chair
Henri P. Gavin
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mitigation for building contents, nonlinear dynamics, system identification, optimal control with application to systems with controllable damping.
Primary Faculty
Michael Howard Bergin
Sternberg Family Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Aerosols are generated by a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. I am interested in the processes that emit, transform and deposit particulate matter. A current focus of my research is how particles in the atmosphere directly modify the surface radiation balance of the…
Fred K. Boadu
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: How the engineering, environmental and petrophysical properties of porous media (soils, fractured rock, biological tissues) affect measurable geophysical responses, and subsequently develop methodologies by which these properties can be obtained from non-invasive geophysical…
Mark Edward Borsuk
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Mathematical models for integrating scientific information on natural, technical, and social systems; Bayesian network modeling with regular application to environmental and human health regulation and decision making; novel approaches to climate change assessment, combining…
Andrew Bragg
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Fundamental and applied problems in fluid dynamics, especially turbulence, and its role in environmental systems.
David Carlson
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Machine learning, predictive modeling, health data science, statistical neuroscience
Nathaniel Chaney
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Laura Elizabeth Dalton
Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: 4D Imaging; Carbon sequestration in porous materials; sustainable material development; structural integrity of carbon capture and storage wells; reactive transport in porous materials
Marc Deshusses
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Design, analysis and application of remediation, waste-to-energy and decentralized sanitation processes, including novel reactors and processes for air, water and solid wastes treatment.
P. Lee Ferguson
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Environmental analytical chemistry and applications of high resolution mass spectrometry to trace organic contaminant analysis, environmental fate and effects of carbon nanomaterials in the aquatic environment, proteomics in environmental toxicology, and mechanisms of…
Johann Guilleminot
Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Computational mechanics, mechanics of heterogeneous materials, molecular dynamics simulations and atomistic-to-continuum coupling, stochastic solvers, statistical inverse problem and model validation, stochastic analysis, uncertainty quantification in science and engineering
Claudia K. Gunsch
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Identifying genetic adaptation mechanisms resulting from anthropogenic contaminant exposure; developing biosensors capable of pathogen and contaminant detection in water and air; studying the impact of emerging contaminants on aquatic microbial ecology; and the development of…
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Aquatic chemistry and geochemistry, trace element environmental chemistry, nanogeoscience, mercury biogeochemistry, water-particle surface processes.
Tomasz Hueckel
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Mechanics of materials, theoretical soil mechanics, rock mechanics, theory of plasticity, multi-physics processes in geomechanics, nuclear waste disposal, energy and environmental geomechanics.
Akhenaton-Andrew Dhafir Jones
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Biofilms, cardiovascular infections, infectious diseases, biomaterials, antibiotics, porous media flows, fate and transport of nanomaterials in biofilms, water quality sensors, environmental systems analysis, environmental equity, environmental justice
Zbigniew J. Kabala
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Kabala's principal research interests cover stochastic and deterministic theory of fluid flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media, theory of related measurements, field and laboratory studies in subsurface hydrology, stochastic…
Gabriel G. Katul
Theodore S. Coile Distinguished Professor of Hydrology and Micrometeorology
Research Interests: Micrometeorology and surface hydrology, Carbon and water cycling, and Environmental fluid dynamics
Jerome Peter Lynch
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Prof. Lynch's research interests are in advancing cyber-physical system architectures that combine sensing, computing, and control to create intelligent civil infrastructure systems. He is best known for his research portfolio in structural health monitoring (SHM) that allow…
Joseph C. Nadeau
Professor of the Practice in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and applied mechanics, micromechanics, composite materials, and probabilistic methods
David E. Schaad
Professor of the Practice of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Sustainable engineering, community development, water and wastewater treatment design, stormwater retention/detention and treatment design, hazardous waste remediation, urban hydrology, constructed wetland and stream restoration design, ecological stabilization, sustainable…
Guglielmo Scovazzi
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Finite element methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics, multiphase porous media flows, computational methods for fluid and solid materials under extreme load conditions, turbulent flow computations, instability phenomena.
Manolis Veveakis
Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and applied mechanics, Geomechanics, Irreversible Thermodynamics. Emphasis on the multiphysical modelling of plasticity of solids, solid-fluid interactions, friction laws and rheology of geomaterials
Mark Wiesner
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, and environmental systems analysis
Secondary Faculty
Wilkins Aquino
Anderson-Rupp Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Computational mechanics, finite element methods, computational inverse problems and their applications in engineering and biomedicine, scientific computing, computational acoustics and acoustics-structure interaction, coupled chemo-mechanics (e.g., electrochemistry-mechanics).
Richard T. Di Giulio
Sally Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Environmental Toxicology
John Everett Dolbow
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Modeling quasi-static and dynamic fracture of structural components, the evolution of interfaces with nonlinear constitutive laws, and developing models for stimulus-responsive hydrogels
James Hench
Associate Professor of Oceanography
David E. Hinton
Nicholas Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Quality
Dana E. Hunt
Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology
Marc A. Jeuland
Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Prasad S. Kasibhatla
Professor in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Wenhong Li
Associate Professor of Climate
Joel Meyer
Associate Professor of Environmental Genomics in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Ram Oren
Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Systems Science
Heather M. Stapleton
Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: Human exposure in indoor environments Use of silicone wristbands to measure human exposure Chemical exposures and cancer risk Targeted & Nontargeted mass spectrometry methods applied to environmental samples Effects of halogenated organic contaminants (e.g. BFRs, PFAS) on…
Avner Vengosh
Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality
Lawrence N. Virgin
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Study of the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems, including the investigation of the fundamental nature of nonlinear systems based on a mathematical description of their underlying equations of motion and the application of recent results from nonlinear dynamical systems…
Research Faculty
Lisa L Satterwhite
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Satterwhite studies the genomics and epigenetics of environmental exposures in populations with clear health disparity. Her group identified the first genomic signature for pesticide exposure and is developing simple blood tests to diagnose early stage asymptomatic…
Adjunct Faculty
Melanie Auffan
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Chris E. Brasier
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ryan Calder
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massimo Germano
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Turbulence in fluids and its representation. Multiscale decompositions of turbulent flows. The Navier-Stokes, the Large Eddy and the Reynolds equations. Reynolds modeling and subgrid scale modeling for the Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flows. Hybrid RANS/LES modeling.
Christine Ogilvie Hendren
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lyesse Laloui
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eric Pierce
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jerome C. Rose
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Relation between nanostructure of materials and their reactivity and toxicity. Characterization of the structure of ultra-small (colloids and molecular clusters), and/or amorphous and highly divided materials down to the molecular scale.
Daniel Vallero
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Emeritus Faculty
Ana P. Barros
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Physics of water cycle processes in mountainous regions with a focus on cloud formation and precipitation; remote sensing of the environment using microwave and infrared sensors; long– range predictability and risk analysis of natural hazards; computational environmental fluid…
Miguel A. Medina
Profesor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Environmental engineering, cyberinfrastructure networks, sensors, geotropospheric interactions, engineering systems optimization.
J. Jeffrey Peirce
Associate Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Henry Petroski
Aleksander S. Vesic Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Structural engineering; design; interrelationship between success and failure in design; nature of invention; history of engineering and technology.