College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Faculty & Staff

Primary Appointments

Faculty Subdisciplines and Areas of Foci (PDF)

Photo	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
	George Pinder University Distinguished Professor Faculty Graduate Coordinator	Mathematic methods applied to groundwater hydrology	George.Pinder@uvm.edu
	Lisa Aultman-Hall Professor	Collection of innovative travel data; Policy studies on safety, accessibility, and resiliency especially as it relates to planning for climate adaptation	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 Assistant Professor	Geotechnical engineering; Geo-energy systems, Wireless Sensor Network application in health monitoring of subsurface geo-systems; Soil-structure interaction evaluation through advanced sensing methodologies	Ehsan.Ghazanfari@uvm.edu
	Eric Hernandez Associate Professor	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 Research Assistant	Geotechnical Engineering	John.Lens@uvm.edu
	Bree Mathon Lecturer	Hydrology, geochemistry, diversity in engineering, technical communication	Bree.Mathon@uvm.edu
	Douglas Porter Research Assistant	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 UVM Provost and Senior Vice President Professor	Structural engineering and mechanics, wind and earthquake engineering, structural reliability, risk analysis, modeling natural hazards	David.Rosowsky@uvm.edu
	Ting Tan Assistant Professor	Fracture of materials, energy infrastructure materials, experimental mechanics, art-structure conservation	Ting.Tan@uvm.edu
	Priyantha Wijesinghe 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

Photo	Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
	Dr. Huijie Lu Adjunct Assitant Professor	Environmental biological processes, water and wastewater	Huijie.Lu@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
	Dr. John Hanley Adjunct Faculty	Hydrology, Computational methods, Risk assessment, Big data	john.hanley@uvm.edu
	Jonathan Dowds Research Analyst Transportation Research Center	Sustainable transportation infrastructure systems, transportation sector energy use, climate change adaptation planning and transportation investments	Jonathan.Dowds@uvm.edu
	Karen Sentoff Research Specialist Transportation Research Center	Sustainable transportation infrastructure systems, emphasis on infrastructure resilience in the face of an uncertain climate future, alternatives to the fossil fuel driven transportation system, and mechanisms to fund a sustainable infrastructure system in the future	Karen.Sentoff@uvm.edu
	Kristen Underwood Adjunct Faculty	Hydrology, Geomorphology, Geostatistics	Kristen.Underwood@uvm.edu

Affiliated Staff

Photo	Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
	Pattie McNatt	General Assistance	Pattie.McNatt@uvm.edu
	Samantha Williams	CEMS Graduate Coordinator	Samantha.Williams@uvm.edu
	Courtney Giles	CEMS Lab Manager	Courtney.Giles@uvm.edu
	Floyd Vilmont	CEMS Machine Shop Supervisor	Floyd.Vilmont@uvm.edu
	Jenn Karson	Director of Communications and the UVM CEMS FabLab	Jennifer.Karson@uvm.edu
	Lauren Petrie	CEMS Career Readiness Program Coordinator	Lauren.Petrie@uvm.edu
	Marnie Owen, Amanda Wells, Lauren Petrie, 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