Faculty and Staff Directory
Serena Alexander
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Climate change, sustainable and resilient transportation systems, environmental policy
Akram N. Alshawabkeh
George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration
- a.alshawabkeh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3994
Marieh Arekhi
Future Faculty Fellow,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental chemistry, environmental forensics, advanced analytical chemistry, contaminant fate and transformation kinetics, innovative water/wastewater treatment technology
R. Edward Beighley
COE Distinguished Professor and Interim Chair,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment
- r.beighley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3368
Dionisio P. Bernal
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering System identification, fault detection and fault localization, earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, structural stability
- bernal@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4417
Sujit Bhandari
Laboratory Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Large-scale structural testing
- su.bhandari@northeastern.edu
- (781) 238-8419
Kurt Braun
Senior Laboratory Technician,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - k.braun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5931
Luca Caracoglia
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Wind engineering; wind energy; fluid-structure interaction; wind events influenced by extreme climate; linear and nonlinear cable dynamics
- l.caracoglia@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5186
Qin Jim Chen
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Coastal engineering and science, particularly in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability
- q.chen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5465
Sally Conant
Senior Co-op Coordinator, Global Engineering & Associate Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373
Shannon Creedon
Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - s.creedon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154
David Deeter
Marketing & Communications Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - d.deeter@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7188
Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation
- pjdf@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2426
Daniel M. Dulaski
Teaching Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Transportation safety; roadway geometry and roadside design; human factors in transportation.
- d.dulaski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2993
Matthew J. Eckelman
Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, sustainable production and green design, energy systems and emissions modeling, climate change and health, healthcare sustainability
- m.eckelman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4256
Muhammad Fahad Ehsan
Research Scientist,
PROTECT Environmental Health | Circular Economy | Sustainability | Biomass Utilization | Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Processes (EAOPs) | Nanotechnology | Advanced Functional Materials | Water Treatment | Energy Storage | Solar Fuels | Artificial Photosynthesis | Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
- m.ehsan@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-6036
Ozlem Ergun
COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics
- o.ergun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6254
David Fannon
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
School of Architecture & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sustainable and high performance building design; persistent architecture and resilience; human health, safety, and comfort in the built environment.
- d.fannon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2641
Loretta A. Fernandez
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Community and Outreach,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods; transport and transformation of contaminants in built and natural environments
- l.fernandez@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5461
Stephen Flynn
Professor,
Political Science critical infrastructure resilience; public policy
- s.flynn@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4220
Peter G. Furth
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Traffic signal control including transit signal priority and better serving pedestrians; bicycle safety and bicycle network analysis; transit operations analysis
- p.furth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2447
Auroop R. Ganguly
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Science: Climate Dynamics, Weather Extremes, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology, and Ecology
Engineering: Critical Infrastructructure, Water Resources, Transportation Security, and Lifeline Systems
Data Science: Machine Learning, Network Science, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Extreme Value Theory
Interdisciplinary Methods: Knowledge Guided Data-Driven Sciences and Artificial Intelligence
Convergent Challenge: Environmental Security, Climate Adaptation, and Infrastructure Resilience
- a.ganguly@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-3710 (email preferred)
Khaled Ghannam
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology
Fatemeh Ghoreishi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Design and decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning and data analysis, Bayesian statistics, multidisciplinary design optimization, autonomous and cyber-physical systems
- f.ghoreishi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4908
Tarik Gouhier
Associate Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Population Biology
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2061
Jonathan Grabowski
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences environmental science and policy, fisheries, ecological economics
- j.grabowski@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x337
Jerome F. Hajjar
University Distinguished Professor and CDM Smith Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Sustainable and resilient steel and composite steel/concrete structures; earthquake engineering; structural stability; large-scale experimental testing of structures; regional simulation
- jf.hajjar@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3242
Brian Helmuth
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments
- b.helmuth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2059
Randall Hughes
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Marine biodiversity and conservation; genetic management for climate adaptation
- rhughes@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x314
Michael Kane
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Citizen-centric controls, infrastructure automation; community resilience; grid-interactive efficient buildings; sustainability
- mi.kane@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7193
Leila Keyvani Someh
Associate Teaching Professor, Oakland,
First Year Engineering Program Resilience Engineering, Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Progressive Collapse
- l.keyvani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2890
Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban transportation networks and informatics, public transportation operations, mobility on demand
- h.koutsopoulos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6263
Michelle Laboy
Associate Professor,
School of Architecture Building and site systems integration; structures and landscape performance; building and urban resilience; green infrastructure; socio-ecological factors in design, transdisciplinary teaching and learning
- m.laboy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5320
Philip Larese-Casanova
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Physical, chemical, and electrochemical transformation processes of metallic, inorganic, and organic water pollutants, with applications to groundwater environments and unit operations
- phil@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2899
Jack Lesko
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering
emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems
- j.lesko@northeastern.edu
- 540-553-5456
Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
- y.levendis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3806
Shang Liu
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Air pollutant origin, transport, and formation; aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics; indoor air quality
- shang.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4641
Yu (Rain) Miao
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Environmental biotechnology for groundwater remediation, wastewater treatment, and public and ecological health
Lorraine Mountain
Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.
- l.mountain@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2966
Amy Mueller
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Biogeochemistry of natural and engineered systems; in-situ sensors and instrumentation for high-resolution process characterization; remediation and sustainability in natural and built coastal environments; sensor-driven closed-loop controls for resource optimization in engineered systems; signal processing and machine learning, embedded systems, and sensor networks
- a.mueller@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8131
Sinan Müftü
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Cold-spray additive manufacturing; high-velocity impact of micron-scale particles; mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling
- s.muftu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4743
Samuel Munoz
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sedimentary records of environmental change, paleoclimate and climate change, rivers and fluvial processes, hydroclimatic extremes
- s.munoz@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370