Department Directory
Jennie C. Stephens
Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy and Director,
School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs Renewable energy transformation, reducing fossil fuel reliance, energy resilience, energy democracy, climate engineering, gender & energy, integrating social justice with climate and energy innovations
- j.stephens@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8341
Aron Stubbins
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
& Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental chemistry; geochemistry; the carbon cycle; freshwater, coastal and ocean biogeochemistry; feedbacks between natural biogeochemical cycles and climate change; permafrost; black carbon; aquatic microplastics
- a.stubbins@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5872
Robert R. Tillman
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Cooperative education; professional ethics; education research
- r.tillman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3469
Ali Touran
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Risk assessment; construction cost/schedule uncertainty; project delivery systems; simulation; construction productivity
- atouran@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5508
Eleonora Tronci
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering applied machine learning for damage assessment in civil structures; multi-domain transfer learning; performance and structural assessment of offshore wind structures
Geoffrey C. Trussell
Chair and Doherty Professor ,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Evolutionary and community ecology; coastal sustainability
- g.trussell@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370
Muhammad Usama
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Traffic Emission Modelling, Active Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Julia Varshavsky
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Department of Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental chemical mixtures and maternal-child health outcomes, intervention strategies, systematic review, risk assessment, biomonitoring, community-engaged research, green chemistry/engineering
- j.varshavsky@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7348
Sara Wadia-Fascetti
Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Condition assessment methodologies for infrastructure systems; life cycle and life span analysis; structural and earthquake engineering uncertainty
- s.wadia-fascetti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5828
Ming L. Wang
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems
- mi.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3900
Qi “Ryan” Wang
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing
- q.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7984
Irvine W. Wei
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Ozonation & Chlorination of Water, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Chemical Precipitation & Coagulation, Kinetics & Mechanism of Chemical Processes
- iwei@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3368
Megan Woodbury
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
PROTECT Prenatal exposures and neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, public health, endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs and supplements, interactive effects of exposures
Mishac K. Yegian
COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil dynamics; geosynthetics; seismic response of landfills; base isolation; liquefaction; bridge engineering; use of shaking table in earthquake engineering
- m.yegian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2448
Moira Zellner
Professor,
Public Policy and Urban Affairs complex systems modeling, human-natural systems modeling, participatory modeling, environmental planning and policy
Yang Zhang
Professor, Distinguished Fellow, and Associate Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; cloud/aerosol microphysics; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; multiscale atmospheric modeling and forecasting; climate and Earth system modeling; health impact assessment; eco-environmental sustainability; human-Earth system interactions
- ya.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3503