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Fred Boadu, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Fred Boadu, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Fred Boadu, Ph.D.

CEE Director of Master's Studies, Associate Professor of Civil & 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…

Andy Bragg, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Andy Bragg, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Andy Bragg, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Physics and modeling of turbulence and turbulent transport; theoretical and computational fluid dynamics; applied mathematics.

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Nathaniel Chaney Profile Photo

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. 

Laura Dalton, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Laura Dalton, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Laura Dalton, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

4D Imaging; sustainable material development; thermal cycling in porous media; reactive transport in porous materials

Henri P Gavin Profile Photo
Henri P Gavin Profile Photo

Henri P Gavin

W.H. Gardner Jr. Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor in the Department of CEE

Research Interests

Our group works in the broad area of dynamic systems analysis, modeling, measurement, and control with particular emphasis on the mitigation of losses induced by…

Prof Andrew D Jones, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Prof Andrew D Jones, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Prof Andrew D Jones, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

We study transport at biological interfaces. This includes developing tools to treat biofilms responsible for vascular graft infections, skin infections, water borne diseases, and mold…

Zbigniew Kabala, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Zbigniew Kabala, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Zbigniew Kabala, Ph.D.

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…

Gaby Katul, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Gaby Katul, Ph.D. Profile Photo
NAE Member

Gaby Katul, Ph.D.

George Pearsall Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

Describing the reciprocal influences between the biosphere and the atmosphere are becoming a scientific imperative as human-induced changes in land surface characteristics are impacting the…

Joseph C. Nadeau Profile Photo
Joseph C. Nadeau Profile Photo

Joseph C. Nadeau

Professor of the Practice in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Theoretical and applied mechanics, micromechanics, composite materials, and probabilistic methods

Hossein (Amir) Salahshoor Profile Photo
Hossein (Amir) Salahshoor Profile Photo

Hossein (Amir) Salahshoor

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Mechanics of biological and bio-inspired systems, brain mechanics, data-driven methods, advanced (meta)materials and (meta)structures, material design, and mathematics of materials and structures.

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David E. Schaad Profile Photo

David E. Schaad

CEE Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor of the Practice

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,…

Guglielmo Scovazzi, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Guglielmo Scovazzi, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Guglielmo Scovazzi, Ph.D.

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…

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Manolis Veveakis Profile Photo

Manolis Veveakis

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, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Mark Wiesner, Ph.D. Profile Photo
NAE Member

Mark Wiesner, Ph.D.

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

Marta Zaniolo, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Marta Zaniolo, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Marta Zaniolo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Water resources planning and management, drought modeling and control, flexible climate change adaptation, conceptual and data-driven systems modeling, reinforcement learning for water systems, multi-objective control,…