All Faculty
Department Chair
Mark Wiesner
James B. Duke 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
Wilkins Aquino
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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).
Ana P. Barros
James L. Meriam Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of 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: My research seek to develop an understanding of 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...
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
Marc Deshusses
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Deshusses' broad research interests are related to the design, analysis and application of processes for the bioremediation of contaminated air, water and soils. One area of on-going research is bioreactors for air pollution control. Results from this work have resulted...
John Everett Dolbow
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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
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 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 Associate 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
Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor 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, and environmental geomechanics, theory of plasticity
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...
Marco Marani
Professor of Eco-hydrology
Research Interests: My research interests include: understanding, through observations and modelling how the interaction between vegetation species and erosion/deposition processes leads to observed intertidal landforms, vegetation patterns, and biodiversity; development of an observational and a...
Joseph C. Nadeau
Professor of the Practice in Civil And Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and applied mechanics, micromechanics, composite materials, and probabilistic methods
Henry Petroski
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Structural engineering; design; interrelationship between success and failure in design; nature of invention; history of engineering and technology.
David E. Schaad
Professor of the Practice of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Current research focuses on 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...
Guglielmo Scovazzi
Associate 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 in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (beginning July 2018)
Research Interests: Geomechanics, theoretical and applied mechanics, and thermodynamics, with emphasis in multiphysical modelling of plasticity of solids, solid-fluid interactions, friction laws and rheology of geomaterials
Secondary Faculty
Richard T. Di Giulio
Sally Kleberg Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Martin Doyle
Professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division
Research Interests: River processes (hydraulics, hydrology, sediment transport, ecology) River policy (Clean Water Act, hydropower relicensing, large river management)
Jay Golden
Adjunct Professor of the Practice
Research Interests: Sustainable systems and production consumption systems of earth resources using risk analysis and lifecycle modeling.
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 Professor of Environmental Quality
Dana E. Hunt
Assistant 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 Professor of Hydrology and Micrometeorology
Research Interests: Micrometeorology and surface hydrology, Carbon and water cycling, and Environmental fluid dynamics
Omar Mohamad Knio
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Computational fluid mechanics, oceanic and atmospheric flows, turbulent flow, physical acoustics, chemically-reactive flow, energetic materials, microfluidic devices, dynamical systems, numerical methods, and asymptotic and stochastic techniques.
Mukesh Kumar
Assistant Professor of Watershed Hydrology in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy
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,...
Brian Mann
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamics and vibration utilizing analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Fundamental investigations of phenomenon and application areas where dynamical systems theory plays an important role.
Joel Meyer
Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown and Sons Associate Professor of Molecular Environmental Toxicology
Ram Oren
Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science
Heather M. Stapleton
Dan and Bunny Gabel Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Environmental Management
Avner Vengosh
Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Lawrence N. Virgin
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Experimental verification of low-order nonlinear dynamical behavior (including chaos) using mechanical models. The interaction between dynamics and buckling including secondary bifurcation. Time series analysis in the context of condition monitoring and damage detection. Dynamic...
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.
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.
Stefano Orlandini
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Terrain analysis. Surface flow propagation. Surface-subsurface flow interaction. Flood protective measures. Flood control reservoirs. Wildlife impact on earthen dams and levees.
Desiree Louise Plata
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: The focus of my work is on improving the development of novel chemicals and engineered systems to include environmental objectives, along with traditional performance and cost metrics. In particular, I seek to (1) predict and mitigate environmental damage through physiochemical...
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.
Lecturers
Eduardo Saucedo
Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Visiting Faculty
Khara Grieger
Visiting Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Nanomaterials, risk analysis, risk assessment, decision-support.
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.
J. Jeffrey Peirce
Associate Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Environmental engineering, cyberinfrastructure networks, sensors, geotropospheric interactions, engineering systems optimization. Professor Jeffrey Peirce has been a member of the environmental engineering faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University for 28...
James F. Wilson
Professor Emeritus