Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Northeastern University College of Engineering

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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

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
James Dennedy-Frank

Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation

Matthew J. Eckelman


Associate Professor, 
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

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

Auroop R. Ganguly


College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and 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
Khaled Ghannam

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

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
Shang Liu

Shang Liu


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Air pollutant origin, transport, and formation; aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics; indoor air quality
Yu Miao

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

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

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

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

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
Julia Varshavsky

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
Moira Zellner

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