Tenured and tenure-track faculty
Alphabetical
Morteza Abbaszadegan
Morteza Abbaszadegan
Professor
Research Interests
Contemporary water quality issues concerning health-related water microbiology
[email protected]
480-965-3868
ISTB4 373
Tempe campus
Braden Allenby
Braden Allenby
Professor, President’s Professor, and Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Technology
Research Interests
Sustainable engineering, earth systems engineering and management, industrial ecology, emerging technology (especially military and security technologies), weaponized narrative and identity
[email protected]
480-727-8594
CAVC 405
Tempe campus
Samuel Ariaratnam
Samuel Ariaratnam
Professor, Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Construction Engineering
Research Interests
Sustainable urban underground infrastructure systems, trenchless engineering and construction methods, underground asset management, performance modeling
[email protected]
480-965-7399
CAVC 480
Tempe campus
Treavor H. Boyer
Treavor Boyer
Professor, Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Drinking water and wastewater treatment, urine source separation, nutrient management and resource recovery
[email protected]
480-965-7447
ISTB4 361
Tempe Campus
Mikhail Chester
Mikhail Chester
Professor and Director of the Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
Research Interests
Infrastructure resilience and sustainability, climate change and extreme events, interdependent infrastructure systems, transportation life cycle assessment, infrastructure complexity and adaptation
[email protected]
480-965-9779
CAVC 527A
Tempe campus
Oswald Chong
Oswald Chong
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Sustainable design and project planning, eco-efficiency and technical metabolism, sustainable engineering knowledge system & clusters
[email protected]
512-496-1719
CAVC 570
Tempe campus
Otakuye Conroy-Ben
Otakuye Conroy-Ben
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Antibiotic and metal resistance in bacteria, environmental endocrine disruption, wastewater epidemiology, solid waste management, bacterial gene expression, bioremediation of petroleum contaminated water and soil, wastewater reuse, boron stable isotopes, proteoliposomes for water treatment
[email protected]
480-727-4514
ISTB4 363
Tempe campus
Anca Delgado
Anca Delgado
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Soil and groundwater microbial processes; Microbial chain elongation; Bioremediation of halogenated compounds, petroleum hydrocarbons, and heavy metals; Conversion of biomass to biochemicals; Microbial kinetics; Bioreactors for environmental biotechnology; Analytical chemistry in environmental engineering
[email protected]
480-727-0046
BDA 214B
Tempe campus
James Ernzen
James Ernzen
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Alternate project delivery methods, project management and safety, reinforced concrete design
[email protected]
480-965-0389
CAVC 566
Tempe campus
Elham (Ellie) Fini
Elham (Ellie) Fini
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Sustainable Construction, Bio-based and Bio-inspired Materials, Adhesives and Sealants for Use in Construction, Multi-scale Characterization and Modeling, Surface and Interface Characterization
Peter Fox
Peter Fox
Professor
Research Interests
Water reuse, biological treatment, salinity/brine disposal
[email protected]
480-965-1734
ISTB4 365
Tempe campus
Matthew Fraser
Matthew Fraser
Professor, Associate Director
Research Interests
Air quality, air pollution, energy conservation, energy efficiency technologies
[email protected]
480-965-3489
CAVC 402
Tempe campus
Margaret Garcia
Margaret Garcia
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Water resources engineering, infrastructure sustainability, and resilience, couple human and natural systems, numerical modeling.
[email protected]
WCPH 414
Tempe campus
480-965-8838
Sergio Garcia-Segura
Sergio Garcia-Segura
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Electrochemical Water Treatment
[email protected]
480-727-2505
ISTB4
Tempe campus
David Grau
David Grau
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Systems engineering, uncertainty and risk, automation, computing, and remote sensing, lean philosophy and processes, construction productivity
[email protected]
480-727-0665
CAVC 574
Tempe campus
Rolf Halden
Rolf Halden
Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering
Research Interests
Public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism & exposure assessment
[email protected]
480-727-0893
BDB 240C
Tempe campus
Kerry Hamilton
Kerry Hamilton
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Risk assessment, decision analysis, environmental microbiology, modeling & data analysis
[email protected]
480-727-9393
BDB 240A
Tempe campus
Keith Hjelmstad
Keith Hjelmstad
President’s Professor
Research Interests
Computational mechanics, structural engineering, structural stability, simulation of complex systems
[email protected]
480-965-2471
CAVC 408
Tempe Campus
Christian G. Hoover
Christian Hoover
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Structural and solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, multi-scale material characterization, materials and structural testing
[email protected]
480-965-2693
ISTB2 229B
Tempe Campus
Kamil Kaloush
Kamil Kaloush
Civil Engineering Undergraduate Program Chair, Professor, Senior Global Futures Scientist
Research Interests
Pavements, materials, design and evaluation, management, urban heat island
[email protected]
602-614-1691
GWC 136
Tempe campus
Edward Kavazanjian, Jr.
Edward Kavazanjian, Jr.
Regents Professor and Director of Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Research Interests
Biogeotechnical engineering, ground improvement, geotechnical earthquake engineering, waste containment system design, mechanical properties of municipal solid waste
[email protected]
480-727-8566
GWC 112B
Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Tempe campus
Hamed Khodadadi Tirkolaei
Hamed Khodadaditirkolaei
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Sustainable Geotechnics, Interdisciplinary Geotechnics, Biogeotechnical Engineering
[email protected]
480-965-1034
GWC 116
Tempe Campus
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Professor, ACD Center Director
Research Interests
Bio-degradation of toxic compounds, intestinal microbial ecology-obesity, intestinal microbial ecology-autism, bio-energy, bio-prospecting/microbial metabolic exploration
[email protected]
480-727-7574
BDA 210C
Tempe campus
Saurav Kumar
![Saurav Kumar NFO2022[25] Saurav Kumar](https://ssebe.engineering.asu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2022/08/Saurav-Kumar-NFO202225-scaled.jpg)
Saurav Kumar
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Hydrology, water system modeling, hydroinformatics, aerial and satellite remote sensing
[email protected]
602-496-5719
WCPH 422
Tempe campus
Anthony J. Lamanna

Anthony J. Lamanna
Associate Professor, Sundt Professor of Alternative Delivery Methods and Sustainable Development
Research Interests
Anchorage to concrete, Sustainable development, Strengthening, repair, retrofit, and adaptive reuse of existing structures.
[email protected]
480-727-0155
CAVC 478
Tempe campus
Nariman Mahabadi
Michael Mamlouk
Michael Mamlouk
Professor
Research Interests
Pavement design and management, pavement evaluation, pavement preservation and rehabilitation, material characterization
[email protected]
480-965-2892
GWC 134
Tempe campus
Giuseppe Mascaro
Giuseppe Mascaro
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Stochastic hydrology, watershed modeling, hydroclimatology, food-water-energy nexus
[email protected]
480-727-2474
WCPH 416
Tempe campus
Barzin Mobasher
Barzin Mobasher
Professor
Research Interests
Mechanics of composite materials, development of new construction materials, durability of building materials
[email protected]
480-965-0141
ISTB2 239C
Tempe Campus
Narayanan Neithalath
Fulton Professor of Structural Materials, Graduate Programs Chair for the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Interests
Materials in civil infrastructure, novel cement-based materials and design, microstructure and mechanics, sustainable materials, computational materials science
[email protected]
480-965-6023
ISTB2 229C/D
Tempe Campus
Hasan Ozer
Hasan Ozer
Associate Professor and Director of the National Center of Excellence on Smart Innovations
Research Interests
Airfield and highway pavements, asphalt materials characterization, pavement design and structural analysis, computational fracture mechanics, life-cycle assessment and sustainability, preservation and rehabilitation of pavements.
[email protected]
GWC 138
Tempe campus
Kristen Parrish
Kristen Parrish
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator for Construction Management
Research Interests
Energy efficiency in buildings, building energy analysis, efficient process design and execution, construction planning, engineering education
[email protected]
480-727-6363
CAVC 572
Tempe campus
Ram Pendyala
Ram Pendyala
Professor and Director of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment.
Research Interests
Multimodal transportation systems planning, activity-travel behavior analysis, transportation demand forecasting/modeling, travel surveys and data analytics, land use-transportation policy analysis
[email protected]
480-297-8724
CAVC 502
Tempe campus
Subramaniam “Subby” Rajan
Subramaniam “Subby” Rajan
Professor
Research Interests
Structural and solid mechanics, finite element analysis, design optimization, materials and structural testing, high-performance software development
[email protected]
480-965-1712
ISTB2 239B
Tempe Campus
Bruce Rittmann
Bruce Rittmann
Regents Professor and Director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Research Interests
Environmental biotechnology, biofilms, resource recovery, modeling, microbial ecology
[email protected]
480-727-0434
BDA 210B
Tempe campus
Thomas P. Seager
Thomas P. Seager
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Resilient infrastructure, anticipatory environmental life cycle assessment, team science, sustainable systems & technologies, energy analysis
[email protected]
480-727-0531
ISTB4 369
Tempe campus
Kenneth Sullivan
Kenneth Sullivan
Professor
Research Interests
Organizational transformation, expertise-based project delivery, performance measurement, human factors, and accountability systems, procurement & supply chain, facility management
[email protected]
480-965-4213
CAVC 582
Tempe campus
Junliang (Julian) Tao
Junliang (Julian) Tao
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Bioinspired burrowing mechanisms, bioinspired geosystems, smart and sustainable geosystems, soil behavior
[email protected]
480-965-1108
GWC 126
Tempe campus
Enrique Vivoni
Enrique Vivoni
Fulton Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering
Research Interests
Numerical modeling of watershed processes, eco-hydrology and hydro-meteorology of semiarid regions, applications of environmental sensing technologies, climate and land use change impacts on water resources, stakeholder engagement and decision making support
[email protected]
480-727-3575
WCPH 418
Tempe campus
Zhihua Wang
Zhihua Wang
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Multiscale urban climate modeling, land-atmospheric interactions, landscape and infrastructure management, urban environmental sustainability study, energy efficiency analysis
[email protected]
480-727-2933
WCPH 420
Tempe campus
Paul Westerhoff

Paul Westerhoff
Regents Professor and Fulton Chair of Environmental Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Research Interests
Environmental geochemistry; food, water, and energy nexus; drinking water treatment, water quality
[email protected]
480-965-2885
ISTB4 395D
Tempe campus
Tianfang Xu

Tianfang Xu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport, uncertainty quantification, and applications of machine learning in hydrology
[email protected]
480-965-7666
WCPH 412
Tempe campus
Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala
Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Experimental and theoretical mechanics,damage mechanics, data-driven structural engineering
[email protected]
480-965-2790
ISTB2 229A
Tempe Campus
Claudia Zapata
Claudia Zapata
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Geotechnical engineering, environmental effects in pavement design
[email protected]
480-727-8514
GWC 124
Tempe campus
Ruijie Zeng
Ruijie Zeng
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Hydrologic Modeling
[email protected]
480-727-2944
WCPH 423
Tempe campus
Xuesong Zhou
Xuesong Zhou
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Transportation network modeling, railway engineering, intelligent transportation systems, dynamic traffic assignment
[email protected]
480-965-5827
CAVC 474
Tempe campus