Faculty and Staff Directory
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Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Global University Campus,
Office of the Dean Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration
- a.alshawabkeh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3994

R. Edward Beighley
Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty,
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

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

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

Matthew J. Eckelman
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure
- m.eckelman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4256

Loretta A. Fernandez
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice,
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

Auroop R. Ganguly
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geoscience (Climate Science, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology); Engineering (Infrastructure Resilience, Water Resources, Lifeline Systems); Data Sciences (Machine Learning, Data Mining, Nonlinear Physics)
- 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

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

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

Julia Hopkins
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Coastal morphodynamics, including effects of extreme weather events on sediment transport in the surf zone; wave-current interactions in the nearshore; developing and implementing field-verified numerical models to study coastal processes, informing coastal management with process-based research
- ju.hopkins@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8058

Randall Hughes
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Marine biodiversity and conservation; genetic management for climate adaptation
- rhughes@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x314

Philip Larese-Casanova
Associate 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

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

Amy Mueller
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies,
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

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

Annalisa Onnis-Hayden
Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems
- aonnis@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2005

Mark Patterson
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems
- m.patterson@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x313

Kelsey Pieper
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering

Cristina Schultz
Foley Family Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Influence of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry

Thomas C. Sheahan
Executive Vice Provost,
Office Of The Provost Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists
- t.sheahan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3995

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

Geoffrey C. Trussell
Chair and Doherty Professor ,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Evolutionary and community ecology; coastal sustainability
- g.trussell@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370

Julia Varshavsky
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Department of Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental exposures and maternal-child health outcomes, biomonitoring, risk assessment in vulnerable communities
- j.varshavsky@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7348

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

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