Faculty
Department Chair

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
Primary Faculty

Ana P. Barros
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Distinguished Professor 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...

Michael Howard Bergin
Professor in the Department of Civil and 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
Associate 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
Research Interests: Hydrology, Earth system science, soil science, ecology, geomorphology, numerical modeling, high performance computing, machine learning, environmental data delivery and data assimilation.

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...

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.

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
Theodore Kennedy Professor
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
Sternberg Family Professor of Civil & 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.

Zbigniew J. Kabala
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: 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 hydrogeology, stochastic fields and processes, numerical and analytical...

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
Assistant Professor 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
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
Research Interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, shallow-water physical oceanography, physical-biological interactions in marine environments, and marine technology

David E. Hinton
Nicholas Distinguished Professor 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
Research Interests: Atmospheric chemistry, Regional and Global Modeling and Atmospheric chemical data analysis

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

Wenhong Li
Associate Professor of Climate
Research Interests: Dr. Li's research interests focus primarily on climate dynamics, land-atmosphere interaction, hydroclimatology, and climate modeling. Her current research is to understand how the hydrological cycle changes in the current and future climate and their impacts on the ecosystems,...

Joel Meyer
Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown and Sons Associate Professor of Molecular Environmental Toxicology

Ram Oren
Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Systems Science

Heather M. Stapleton
Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Distinguished Professor
Research Faculty
Lisa L Satterwhite
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil & 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

Jean-Yves Bottero
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Physical chemistry of organic, inorganic, and heterogeneous contaminants; physicochemical properties of surfaces; mechanisms of coagulation and flocculation; water and wastewater treatment.

Chris E. Brasier
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Architectural design

Dwayne Elias
Adjunct 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

Thilo Hofmann
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, applied geology, colloids, modeling, inorganic and organic pollutants.

Christopher Enochs Kees
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lyesse Laloui
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Natural and man-made systems with coupled phenomena. Environmental Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials. Area of activities at Duke University: Thermo-mechanical behavior of soils, soil desiccation and shrinkage.

Nicolas Moes
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Eric Pierce
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Amilcare Porporato
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Near-wall turbulence, nonlinear analysis of hydrologic time series, stochastic soil moisture dynamics and water balance, soil-atmosphere interaction, and ecohydrology, complexity in the environment, sustainable use of soil and water resources.

James R. Rigby
Adjunct Assistant Professor

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.

Peter Thornton
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Daniel Vallero
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Measurement and modeling research in environmental systems, including high throughput risk screening, tracer studies, development of pollution collection devices, and biosystem engineering. Life cycle analysis and sustainable design.
Emeritus Faculty

Peter K. Haff
Professor Emeritus

Miguel A. Medina
Profesor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Contaminant transport hydrology, specifically modeling flow and mass transport across surface/subsurface interfaces and interactions; and international water issues which include transboundary contaminant transport.

Bruce Muga
Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering

J. Jeffrey Peirce
Associate Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Environmental engineering, cyberinfrastructure networks, sensors, geotropospheric interactions, engineering systems optimization.

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.