Faculty and Staff
Department Leadership
D V “Vaughan” Griffiths
Department Head and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Foundation analysis and design, slope stability analysis, soil mechanics, finite element modeling and risk assessment in civil and geotechnical engineering.
vgriffit@mines.edu
Jonathan “Josh” Sharp
Associate Department Head and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Microbiology of natural and engineered systems; sustainable water treatment; watershed biogeochemistry.
jsharp@mines.edu
Academic Faculty
Eric Anderson
Associate Professor Jointly Appointed , Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geophysics
Hydrodynamic Modeling; Coastal Processes; Limnology; Physical Oceanography; Ice Dynamics; Atmosphere-Surface Water Interaction.
ejanderson@mines.edu
Christopher Bellona
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Membrane processes/Fate of organic contaminants in water and wastewater treatment; Potable water reuse. Advanced oxidation for the destruction of organic contaminants. Remediation of contaminated sites.
cbellona@mines.edu
Tzahi Cath
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Brackish water and seawater desalination; water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable water reuse; energy recovery in water treatment.
tcath@mines.edu
Linda Figueroa
Professor, Jointly Appointed, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mining Engineering
Microbially mediated radionuclide and metals removal; biotransformation of nitrogen; application of molecular tools; water and waste treatment.
lfiguero@mines.edu
Andres Guerra
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Innovative approaches to educate CSM students about civil engineering applications in geotechnical and structural engineering, land development, construction practices, risk assessment,
and optimization.
aguerra@mines.edu
Karen Gupta
Professor of Practice, Civil and Environmental Engineering Experiential teaching approaches to educate CSM students in construction engineering topics. Research in sustainable construction methodology to reduce water impacts and construction law topics. karen.gupta@mines.edu
Reza Hedayat
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering; Rock and Fracture Mechanics; Underground Construction and Tunneling; Applied Geophysics; Hydraulic Fracturing.
hedayat@mines.edu
Christopher Higgins
University Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental organic chemistry;
inorganic and organic contaminant fate and transport; contaminant bioaccumulation; perfluorochemicals; nanoparticles.
chiggins@mines.edu
Jeffrey A. Holley
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering mechanics; environmental studies; civil infrastructure design; storm water management; storm water quality enhancement.
jholley@mines.edu
Kristoph Kinzli
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
River mechanics; stream rehabilitation; water resources; agricultural water use; fisheries biology; engineering teaching pedagogy;
and active learning.
kkinzli@mines.edu
Amy Landis
Professor, Mines Presidential Fellow for Diversity, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quantitative sustainability of renewable fuels; biobased products and plastics and healthcare. Developing new sustainability tools in Life Cycle Assessment, industrial ecology, & systems analysis.
amylandis@mines.edu
Hongyan Liu
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching interests are engineering mechanics, structural analysis and design, and engineering materials.
Research interests are structural engineering and earthquake engineering.
hyliu@mines.edu
Ning Lu
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Soil physical phenomena including fluid flow, chemical transport, heat transfer, stress, and deformation; unifying atomic-scale potentials,
inter-particle forces, and engineering-scale stresses in soils; groundwater hydrology, unsaturated soil mechanics, expansive soils, environmental geotechnics.
ninglu@mines.edu
John McCray
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contaminant hydrology; subsurface remediation;
vadose-zone hydrology; watershed hydrology; PFAS investigations; hydrologic modeling; stormwater reclamation using green infrastructure.
soil-based wastewater treatment.
jmccray@mines.edu
Michael Mooney
Grewcock Distinguished Chair Professor of Underground Construction & Tunneling; Director, Center for Underground and Underground Construction & Tunnel Engineering graduate degree program.
Tunnel design and construction in soil and soil/rock conditions; geotechnical and geostructural engineering; geoconstruction.
mmooney@mines.edu
Junko Munakata Marr
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Microbial communities in groundwater and water
treatment systems; application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems; engineering education; humanitarian engineering.
junko@mines.edu
Chelsea L. Panos
Teaching Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaches courses in fluid mechanics, hydrology, and environmental engineering; passionate about engineering learning and effective teaching practices. Does not have a research group.
cpanos@mines.edu
Shiling Pei
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Extreme hazard mitigation; structural reliability; modern timber structural systems; structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.
spei@mines.edu
Cara Phillips
Teaching Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural analysis and building design; steel, concrete, masonry and wood. Lateral load design and detailing, post-installed concrete and masonry anchorage.
caraphil@mines.edu
Susan Reynolds
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural analysis and design;
historic preservation technology; sustainable / integrated design
approaches for buildings.
reynolds@mines.edu
Yangming Shi
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Construction Automation, Construction Informatics, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI), Disaster Visualization, and Human Factors.
yangming.shi@mines.edu
Syd Slouka
Teaching Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Active learning pedagogy, psychology of learning, teaching interests in statics, soil mechanics, and mine ventilation
sslouka@mines.edu
John Spear
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering
Environmental microbiology; geobiology; metals bioremediation; subsurface microbiology; cave and mine microbiology; environmental policy—impact analysis (NEPA), reclamation & restoration.
jspear@mines.edu
Timothy Strathmann
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Catalysts and advanced materials for water
and energy applications; hydrothermal biomass conversion technologies; wastewater and waste solid valorization; aquatic fate and treatment of contaminants of emerging concern; life cycle analysis-directed design of environmental technologies.
strthmnn@mines.edu
Lori Tunstall
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cementitious materials; concrete durability; frost damage; mechanisms of air entrainment.
ltunstall@mines.edu
Alexandra Wayllace
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of focus include designing and conducting experiments to measure different soil properties for saturated and unsaturated soils.
awayllac@mines.edu
Campus Leadership
Paul C. Johnson
President, Colorado School of Mines, and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chemical fate and transport in the environment with emphasis on contaminated soil and groundwater monitoring, remediation, and risk assessment and subsurface vapor migration to indoor air.
presoffice@mines.edu
Terri Hogue
Dean, Earth and Society Programs, and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Surface hydrology; catchment response to wildfire, urbanization and climate variability; watershed modeling, parameter estimation, remote sensing, and field studies.
thogue@mines.edu
Research Faculty
Shilai Hao
Research Assistant Professor
Environmental Chemistry, PFAS Treatment and Analysis
shao@mines.edu
Tissa Illangasekare
Research Hourly
Subsurface flow, transport and fate of chemicals in porous media, groundwater hydrology, numerical modeling; fracture flow; flow in snow, NAPLs
tillanga@mines.edu
Hooman Vatankhah
Research Assistant Professor
Potable Reuse, Emerging Micropollutants
hvatankhah@mines.edu
Jointly Appointed Faculty
Alina Handorean
Teaching Professor Engineering, Design, and Society
Environmental Engineering (Drinking Water, Bioaerosols); Chemistry; Cancer Biology; Pedagogy; Teaching User-Centered Design, Communication Skills, and Teamwork in Cornerstone Classes.
ahandorean@mines.edu
Serveh Kamravah
Assistant Professor
Petroleum Engineering,
Machine Learning;
Fluid Dynamics; Energy Storage Systems.
kamrava@mines.edu
Adrienne Marshall
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Snow hydrology; Ecohydrology in discontinuous permafrost regions; Hydropower in the energy system; Climate change; Computational approaches including: spacial data, data science, physically based hydrologic models, statistical models, and high performance computing.
adriennemarshall@mines.edu
Pejman Tahmasebi
Associate Professor
Petroleum Engineering,
Modeling of porous media using data analytics; Statistical modeling for data integration and uncertainty; Granular particles for geomechanical applications; Computational modeling and multiple-point statistics; Machine learning: physics-guided AI; Subsurface systems (energy, water, storage) modeling.
tahmasebi@mines.edu
Jessica Smith
Professor, Engineering, Design, and Society
Ethnography; energy ethics; engineering studies; corporate social responsibility; equity and engineering education.
jmsmith@mines.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Bruce Honeyman
Professor Emeritus Environmental Radiochemistry and Surface Chemistry bhoneyma@mines.edu
Joe Crocker
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural materials and design; geotechnical and structural engineering; curriculum development.
jcrocker@mines.edu
Panos Kiousis
Associate Professor Emeritus
Computational Methods and Finite Elements
pkiousis@mines.edu
Robert Siegrist
Professor Emeritus
Soil and Water Reclamation/Remediation
rsiegris@mines.edu
Ronald Cohen
Associate Professor Emeritus
Microbiology and Mine Reclamation
rcohen@mines.edu
Department Staff
D V "Vaughan" Griffiths
Department Head
Jonathan "Josh" Sharp
Associate Department Head
Kimberly Brock
Department Manager
Mona Lisa Lucero
Program Assistant
Cherie Nash
Administrative Assistant
Kate Spangler
Laboratory Coordinator
CASA Undergrad Advising
Dana Morrison
Academic Advisor A-G
Lindsey Daly
Academic Advisor H-N
Sadie Downs
Academic Advisor O-Z