College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Faculty & Staff

Primary Appointments

Faculty Subdisciplines and Areas of Foci (PDF)

Staff

Profile	Name & Title	Email
	Pattie McNatt Administrative Assistant	Pattie.McNatt@uvm.edu

Faculty

Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
Mandar Dewoolkar Chair and Professor	Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; Hazard mitigation; Applications of laboratory, in-situ and field testing and numerical methods in geomechanics; Natural and built infrastructure; Engineering applications for heritage preservation; Geotechnical aspects of space exploration; Engineering Education	Mandar.Dewoolkar@uvm.edu
Lisa Aultman-Hall Professor	Transportation: long-distance travel, system resiliency, bicycle transportation, travel surveys and data	Lisa.Aultman-Hall@uvm.edu
Appala Raju Badireddy Assistant Professor	Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry	raju.badireddy@uvm.edu
Arne Bomblies Associate Professor	Hydrology	Arne.Bomblies@uvm.edu
Luis Garcia Professor	Water resources, agricultural water use, and decision support systems	Luis.Garcia@uvm.edu
Ehsan Ghazanfari Associate Professor	Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; Geo-energy systems; Sensors/sensing for civil infrastructure	Ehsan.Ghazanfari@uvm.edu
Courtney Giles Director of Curricular Enrichment and Lecturer	Phosphorus biogeochemistry, laboratory instrumentation & management, technical writing, active & project based learning	Courtney.Giles@uvm.edu
Scott Hamshaw Research Assistant Professor	Water Resources, Geomatics, Machine Learning, Environmental Sensing	Scott.Hamshaw@uvm.edu
Eric Hernandez Associate Professor Graduate Coordinator	Structural engineering, structural dynamics, state estimation, structural health monitoring, Bayesian reliability	Eric.Hernandez@uvm.edu
Britt A. Holmén Professor	Particle Interface Chemistry, Airborne Particle Emissions & Processes, Herbicide Gas/Particle Partitioning, Lidar Remote Sensing, Transportation & Air Quality, Nonpoint Source Emissions	Britt.Holmen@uvm.edu
John Lens Professor of Practice	Geotechnical Engineering, Capstone Design Experience	John.Lens@uvm.edu
Clelia Marti Assistant Professor	Coupled physical and biogeochemical processes in surface water systems, field monitoring and numerical modeling of surface water systems, environmental fluid dynamics, climate change, and sustainability	Clelia.Marti-De-Ocampo@uvm.edu
Bree Mathon Lecturer	Hydrology, geochemistry, diversity in engineering, technical communication	Bree.Mathon@uvm.edu
George Pinder University Distinguished Professor National Academy of Engineering	Mathematic methods applied to groundwater hydrology	George.Pinder@uvm.edu
Douglas Porter Research Assistant Professor	Architectural Conservation	Douglas.Porter@uvm.edu
Donna Rizzo Professor	Development of new computational tools, including artificial neural networks, to improve the understanding of human induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources	Donna.Rizzo@uvm.edu
Victor Rossi Lecturer	Computer-aided engineering technology	Victor.Rossi@uvm.edu
David Rosowsky Professor	Structural engineering and mechanics, wind and earthquake engineering, structural reliability, risk analysis, modeling natural hazards	David.Rosowsky@uvm.edu
Dana Rowangould	Environmental Justice, Transportation and Health, Transportation Planning	Dana.Rowangould@uvm.edu
Gregory Rowangould	Transportation System and Land-use Modeling, Mobile Source Emissions and Air Quality Analysis, Regional Transportation Planning, Transportation Policy Analysis, Active Travel (bicycling and walking)	Gregory.Rowangould@uvm.edu
Matthew Scarborough Assistant Professor	Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes	Matthew.Scarborough@uvm.edu
Ting Tan Associate Professor	Fracture of materials, energy infrastructure materials, experimental mechanics, art-structure conservation	Ting.Tan@uvm.edu
Kristen Underwood Research Assistant Professor	Hydrology, Geomorphology, Geostatistics	kristen.underwood@uvm.edu
Priyantha Wijesinghe Senior Lecturer	Structural health monitoring, fatigue monitoring and detection of steel highway bridges, linear and nonlinear finite element modeling/analysis and restoration and preservation of historic structures	Priyantha.Wijesinghe@uvm.edu

Affiliated Faculty, Adjunct Faculty and Research Staff

Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
Dr. Huijie Lu Adjunct Assitant Professor	Environmental biological processes, water and wastewater	Huijie.Lu@uvm.edu
William Gray Adjunct Professor National Academy Engineering	Physics of flow and transport in porous media	William.G.Gray@uvm.edu
James Sullivan Research Projects Director, Transportation Research Center	Sustainable transportation infrastructure systems, travel modeling, roadway snow and ice control, transportation energy, network modeling, system efficiency & optimization, and survey data analysis	James.Sullivan@uvm.edu
Joshua Faulkner Adjunct Assistant Professor	Agricultural hydrology, soil and water resource engineering, nutrient fate and transport, and climate change adaptation	joshua.faulkner@uvm.edu

Affiliated Staff

Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
Sanfeng Miao	CEMS Graduate Program Coordinator	sanfeng.miao@uvm.edu
Floyd Vilmont	CEMS Machine Shop Supervisor	Floyd.Vilmont@uvm.edu
Geeda Searfoorce	Director of Communications	geeda.searfoorce@uvm.edu
Becca Kronenbitter	CEMS Career Readiness Program Coordinator	rebecca.kronenbitter@uvm.edu
Amanda Wells, Genevieve Anthony and Matt Manz	CEMS Student Services Team	cems.student.services@uvm.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Photo	Name	Area of Expertise
	Richard Downer	Water Resources
	Nancy Hayden	Environmental
	David Hemenway	Environmental
	Jeff Laible	Structures
	Jim Olson	Geotechnical
	Joe Openlander	Transportation