Faculty

Acting Chair

Donna Rizzo

Acting Chair and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

drizzo@uvm.edu
Expertise

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.

Faculty

Appala Raju Badireddy

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

raju.badireddy@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry

Arne Bomblies

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

abomblie@uvm.edu
Expertise

Environmental Engineering, Hydrology.

Mandar Dewoolkar

Acting Dean, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences • Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

mdewoolk@uvm.edu
Expertise

Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; transportation geotechnics, hazard mitigation; geotechnical aspects of space exploration; cultural preservation; engineering education

Elizabeth M. B. Doran

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

elizabeth.doran@uvm.edu
Expertise

Urban climate; water quality best management practices; land use and land cover change; social-ecological systems; complex dynamic systems modeling

Luis Garcia

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lag@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water resources, agricultural water use, and decision support systems

Ehsan Ghazanfari

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ehsan.Ghazanfari@uvm.edu
Expertise

Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; Geo-energy systems; Sensors/sensing for civil infrastructure

Courtney D Giles

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs • Senior Lecturer

cdgiles@uvm.edu
Expertise

STEM Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Faculty Development, Scheduling and Enrollment Management, Institutional Effectiveness, Environmental Biogeochemistry, Service and Civic Learning

Eric Hernandez

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Graduate Program Director

eric.hernandez@uvm.edu
Expertise

Structural Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring, Inverse Problems.

Kathryn Hinkelman

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Principal Investigator, The SEE Lab

kathryn.hinkelman@uvm.edu
Expertise

Energy sustainability, Building technologies, Equation-based modeling, Bio-inspired design, Life cycle assessment

John Lens, P.E., D.GE

Senior Lecturer - Professor of Practice, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

John.Lens@uvm.edu
Expertise

Primary: Geotechnical and geoenvironmental, Seismic, Infrastructure systems
Secondary: Structures and Materials, Climate and geo-hazard mitigation, Sustainable design processes

Bree Mathon

Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

bree.mathon@uvm.edu
Expertise

Hydrology, geochemistry, and technical communication

Panagiotis (Takis) Oikonomou

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

panagiotis.oikonomou@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water Resources, Extreme Hydroclimatic Events, Hydroinformatics, Climate Change Impacts

George Pinder

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

gpinder@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water Resources, Environmental, Sustainability & Energy, Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental, Climate Change & Hazard Mitigation

Douglas Porter

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Douglas.Porter@uvm.edu
Expertise

Architectural Conservation, Structures & Materials, Infrastructure Systems, Sustainability & Energy

Dana Rowangould

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dana.Rowangould@uvm.edu
Expertise

Transportation equity and justice, rural travel behavior, accessibility measurement, transportation planning

Gregory Rowangould

Director, Transportation Research Center • Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

gregory.rowangould@uvm.edu
Expertise

Transportation System and Land-use Modeling, Mobile Source Emissions and Air Quality Analysis, Regional Transportation Planning, Transportation Policy Analysis, Active Travel (bicycling and walking)

John Sangster

Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

john.sangster@uvm.edu
Expertise

Engineering education with a focus on differentiated curricula. Transportation engineering with a focus on alternative intersection designs.

Matthew J. Scarborough

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

mscarbor@uvm.edu
Expertise

Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Landfill Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes.

Lampros Svolos

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lampros.Svolos@uvm.edu
Expertise

Computational Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Multiphysics Modeling, Numerical Analysis

Kristen Underwood

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kristen.Underwood@uvm.edu
Expertise

Hydrology, Fluvial Geomorphology, Geostatistics, Catchment Dynamics, Clustering & Classification, Infrastructure & Hazard Mitigation, Bayesian Inference

Priyantha Wijesinghe

Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Director of Curricular Enrichment

Priyantha.Wijesinghe@uvm.edu
Expertise

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

Secondary Appointments and Adjunct Faculty

Lisa Aultman-Hall

Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

laultman@uvm.edu
Expertise

Long-distance intercity travel, transportation sector emissions, network resiliency, streetscape design, and non-motorized transportation

William Gray

Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

William.G.Gray@uvm.edu
Expertise

Physics of flow and transport in porous media.

Eric Roy

Associate Professor • Director of the Casella Center for Circular Economy and Sustainability • Gund Institute for Environment Fellow

eric.roy@uvm.edu
Expertise

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences; Sustainability, Ecology, & Policy
Research: Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, Circular bioeconomy, Ecological engineering &...

Joshua Faulkner

Research Associate Professor • Director, Agricultural and Environmental Testing Lab • Director, UVM Extension Center for Sustainable Agriculture

joshua.faulkner@uvm.edu
Expertise

Climate change impacts and adaptation in Northeastern agricultural systems; Treatment of agricultural wastewater and best management practices for control of nonpoint source pollution; Field scale hydrology and water management in agricultural...

Scott Hamshaw

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

shamshaw@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water Resources, Machine Learning, Environmental Sensing, and Geomatics

David V. Rosowsky

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

David.Rosowsky@uvm.edu
Expertise

Structural Reliability, Performance of Wood Structural Systems, Design for Natural Hazards, Stochastic Modeling of Structural and Environmental Loads, Probability-Based Codified Design, Wind and Earthquake Engineering.

Ting Tan

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ting.Tan@uvm.edu
Expertise

Fracture of materials, energy infrastructure materials, experimental mechanics, art-structure conservation

Affiliated Staff

James Sullivan

Senior Research Analyst

james.sullivan@uvm.edu
Expertise

Primary

  • Network Disruption Analysis
  • Network Performance Measurement

Secondary

  • Roadway Snow and Ice Control
  • Transportation Climate Adaptation

Civil and Environmental Engineering Emeritus Faculty

Emeritus FacultyExpertise
Richard DownerWater Resources
Nancy HaydenEnvironmental Engineering
David HemenwayEnvironmental Engineering
Britt A. HolménEnvironmental Engineering
Jeff LaibleStructural Engineering
Jim OlsonGeotechnical Engineering
Joe OpenlanderTransportation