Research faculty

Absar Alum

Absar Alum

Absar Alum
Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests
Health related environmental microbiology, microbial pathogen survival and detection

[email protected]
480-727-2962
ISTB4 336
Tempe campus

Irfan Batur

Irfan Batur

Irfan Batur​
Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Multimodal transportation system planning, travel behavior, sustainable and equitable transportation, emerging transportation technologies, travel demand forecasting, transportation policy, and smart cities

[email protected]
480-738-3398
CAVC 541B
Tempe Campus

Paul Dahlen

Paul Dahlen

Paul Dahlen
Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests
Impacts to groundwater resources from leaking underground storage tanks, Oxygen injection technologies for in-situ permeable reactive barriers

[email protected]
480-727-2960
ISTB4 L1-09
Tempe campus

Klaus Lackner

Klaus Lackner

Klaus Lackner
Research Professor

Research Interests
Closing the carbon cycle by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties

Peter Lammers

Peter Lammers

Peter Lammers
Research Professor

Research Interests
Biochemical pathway discovery, large-scale algae cultivation, algae-based wastewater treatment systems, algal strain characterization

[email protected]
480-727-1484
ISTB3 103B
Polytechnic campus

Steven Polzin

Steven Polzin

Steven Polzin
Research Professor (FSC)

Research Interests
His current research focuses on changes in travel behavior and consequences of technology changes on travel and transportation planning and policy.

Jafar Razmi

Jafar Razmi

Jafar Razmi
Research Associate Professor

Research Interests
Material behavior, fatigue and damage in engineering structures, infrastructural design and behavior under transportation, environmental, and other dynamic loads in geotechnical engineering. Additive manufacturing and its numerous applications such as in the fabrication of new materials, process optimization for AM of metals, and experimental characterization of metallic powders.

[email protected]
480-965-2277​
GWC
Tempe campus

Peter Stopher

Brian Volker

Peter Stopher
Research Professor

Research Interests
Travel Surveys, Transportation Policy Issues, Application of new technology to surveys, travel demand modeling and forecasting, evaluation of transportation projects

[email protected]
435-592-4023
Tempe Campus