College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
Donna Rizzo Acting Chair and 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
Appala Raju Badireddy Associate Professor	Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry	raju.badireddy@uvm.edu
Arne Bomblies Associate Professor Director of Vermont EPSCoR	Hydrology	Arne.Bomblies@uvm.edu
Mandar Dewoolkar Acting Dean of CEMS and Professor	Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; transportation geotechnics, hazard mitigation; geotechnical aspects of space exploration; cultural preservation; engineering education	Mandar.Dewoolkar@uvm.edu
Elizabeth M. B. Doran Research Assistant Professor	Urban climate; land use and land cover change; social-ecological systems; systems modeling	Elizabeth.Doran@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
Eric Hernandez Associate Professor Graduate Program Director	Structural engineering, structural dynamics, state estimation, structural health monitoring, Bayesian reliability	Eric.Hernandez@uvm.edu
Kathryn Hinkelman Assistant Professor	Energy sustainability and resiliency, Building and district energy systems, Bio-inspired design, Numerical modeling and simulation	kathryn.hinkelman@uvm.edu
John Lens Professor of Practice	Geotechnical Engineering, Capstone Design Experience	John.Lens@uvm.edu
Bree Mathon Lecturer	Hydrology, geochemistry, diversity in engineering, technical communication	Bree.Mathon@uvm.edu
Panagiotis Oikonomou	Water Resources, Extreme Hydroclimatic Events, Hydroinformatics, Climate Change Impacts	Panagiotis.Oikonomou@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
Dana Rowangould Assistant Professor	Environmental Justice, Transportation and Health, Transportation Planning	Dana.Rowangould@uvm.edu
Gregory Rowangould Associate Professor Director of Transportation Research Center	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
John Sangster Senior Lectuer	Engineering education with a focus on differentiated curricula. Transportation engineering with a focus on alternative intersection designs.	john.sangster@uvm.edu
Matthew Scarborough Assistant Professor	Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes	Matthew.Scarborough@uvm.edu
Lampros Svolos Assistant Professor	Computational Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Multiphysics Modeling, Numerical Analysis	lampros.svolos@uvm.edu
Kristen Underwood Research Assistant Professor	Hydrology, Geomorphology, Geostatistics	kristen.underwood@uvm.edu
Priyantha Wijesinghe Director of Curricular Enrich, 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

Secondary Appointments and Adjunct Faculty

Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
Lisa Aultman-Hall Adjunct Professor	Long-distance intercity travel, transportation sector emissions, network resiliency, streetscape design, and non-motorized transportation	Lisa.Aultman-Hall@uvm.edu
Dr. Huijie Lu Adjunct Assistant 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
Clelia Marti Adjunct 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
Eric Roy Assistant Professor	Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, ecological engineering & design, aquatic ecology, food systems, material flow analysis	Eric.Roy.1@uvm.edu
Joshua Faulkner Extension Research Assistant Professor	Agricultural hydrology, soil and water resource engineering, nutrient fate and transport, and climate change adaptation	joshua.faulkner@uvm.edu
Scott Hamshaw Adjunct Assistant Professor	Water Resources, Geomatics, Machine Learning, Environmental Sensing	Scott.Hamshaw@uvm.edu
David Rosowsky Adjunct Professor	Structural Reliability, Natural Hazards, Stochastic Modeling, Wind & Earthquake Engineering	David.Rosowsky@uvm.edu
Ting Tan Associate Professor	Fracture of materials, energy infrastructure materials, experimental mechanics, art-structure conservation	Ting.Tan@uvm.edu

Affiliated Staff

Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email

Floyd Vilmont	CEMS Machine Shop Supervisor	Floyd.Vilmont@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
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
	Britt A. Holmén Professor	Particle Interface Chemistry, Airborne Particle Emissions & Processes, Herbicide Gas/Particle Partitioning, Lidar Remote Sensing, Transportation & Air Quality, Nonpoint Source Emissions
	Jim Olson	Geotechnical
	Joe Openlander	Transportation