Faculty and Staff
Academic Faculty
Christopher Bellona
Assistant 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
Joe Crocker
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural materials and design; geotechnical and structural engineering; curriculum development.
jcrocker@mines.edu
Linda Figueroa
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Microbially mediated radionuclide and metals removal; biotransformation of nitrogen; application of molecular tools; water and waste treatment.
lfiguero@mines.edu
D.V. Griffiths
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Finite element modeling of geotechnical problems across a spectrum ranging from traditional areas of foundations engineering, to oil recovery geomechanics and probabilistic methods.
vgriffit@mines.edu
Andres Guerra
Teaching Associate 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
Marte Gutierrez
James R. Paden Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geomechanics; coupled multiphase fluid flow, thermal and geomechanical processes in porous and fractured media; experimental studies and computational modeling.
mgutierr@mines.edu
Reza Hedayat
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering; Rock and Fracture Mechanics; Underground Construction and Tunneling; Applied Geophysics; Hydraulic Fracturing.
hedayat@mines.edu
Christopher Higgins
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental organic chemistry;
inorganic and organic contaminant fate and transport; contaminant bioaccumulation; perfluorochemicals; nanoparticles.
chiggins@mines.edu
Terri Hogue
Department Head 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
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
Tissa Illangasekare
Professor, AMAX Distinguished Chair
Director, Center for Experimental Study of Environmental Processes (CESEP), Civil and Environmental Engineering
Subsurface flow; transport and fate of chemicals in porous media;
groundwater hydrology; numerical modeling; fracture flow; flow in snow; NAPLs.
tillanga@mines.edu
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
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; subsurface vapor-transport; watershed hydrology; mathematical modeling;
soil-based wastewater treatment.
jmccray@mines.edu
Michael Mooney
Professor, Grewcock University Endowed Chair, Director, Center for Underground Construction & Tunneling and SmartGeo, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tunnel design and construction in soil and soil/rock conditions; earth dams and levees; data-driven risk reduction in geotechnical problems; instrumentation and monitoring; geoconstruction.
mmooney@mines.edu
Junko Munakata Marr
Associate Department Head and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biological degradation of organic compounds; microbial communities in groundwater and water
treatment systems; application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems.
jmmarr@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
Susan Reynolds
Director, Thorson First-Year Honors Program and Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural analysis and design;
historic preservation technology; sustainable / integrated design
approaches for buildings.
sreynold@mines.edu
Jonathan Sharp
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology and biogeochemistry; biotechnological applications toward groundwater remediation and water reuse; bacterial cytochrome-mediated degradation of emerging organic contaminants with a focus on micropollutants such as nitrosamines; bioattenuation of metals and radionuclides.
jsharp@mines.edu
Kamini Singha
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Fluid flow and contaminant transport in porous media and fractured rock as well as groundwater-surface-water interactions.
ksingha@mines.edu
John Spear
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology; metalbioremediation; environmental policy and impact analysis.
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
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
Department Staff
Angela Knighton
Program Assistant
303-273-3420
aknighto@mines.edu
Kathryn Lowe
Senior Research Associate
303-273-3685
klowe@mines.edu
Cassie Glenn
Program Manager and Graduate Coordinator
303-384-2616
caungst@mines.edu
Jaime Bachmeier
Undergraduate Program Manager
303-273-3860
jbachmeier@mines.edu
Research Faculty
Abdulhadi Mahdi Almrabat, Research Associate, aalmraba@mines.edu
Colin Bell, Research Assistant Professor, cdbell@mines.edu
Wilson Stone Clayton, Affiliate Faculty, wclayton@mines.edu
Bryan Coday, Affiliate Faculty, bcoday@mines.edu
Paul Dahlen, Research Assistant Professor, paul.dahlen@asu.edu
Kelum Chamindu Deepagoda Thuduwe Kan, Research Associate, kdeepago@mines.edu
Deng, Peng, Research Associate, pdeng@mines.edu
Eric Dickenson, Affiliate Faculty, edickens@mines.edu
Joerg (Jörg) Drewes, Affiliate Faculty, jdrewes@tum.de
Pragnya Eranki, Research Associate, peranki@mines.edu
Luke Frash, Research Associate, lfrash@lanl.gov
Radek Fucik, Research Associate, rfucik@mines.edu
Yuanming Guo, Research Associate, yguo45@asu.edu
Shuangfeng Guo, Visiting Scholar, guoshuangfeng@mines.edu
Lee Landkamer, Research Assistant Professor, llandkam@mines.edu
Shijie (Moses) Leow, Research Associate, leow@mines.edu
Xinpo Li, Visiting Scholar, lixinpo@imde.ac.cn
Mingjing Lu, Visiting Scholar, lumingjing@mines.edu
Shuqi Ma, Research Associate, shuqima@mines.edu
Amy Martin, Research Associate, acmartin@mines.edu
Fanyan Meng, Visiting Scholar, fanyanmeng@mines.edu
Kristin Mikkelson, Research Associate, kmikkels@mines.edu
Soroush Mokhtari, Research Assistant Professor, smokhtari@mines.edu
Pongsak (Lek) Noophan, Research Associate, pnoophan@mines.edu
Andrew Pfluger, Research Associate, apfluger@mines.edu
Yong Qi, Visiting Scholar, yongqi@mines.edu
Weiwei Qin, Visiting Scholar, weiweiqin@mines.edu
Doritha (Dotti) Ramey, Affiliate Faculty, dramey@mines.edu
Jacqueline Randell, Research Associate, jrandell@mines.edu
Julia Regnery, Affiliate Faculty, jregnery@mines.edu
Michelle Schwartz, Research Associate, mschwart@mines.edu
Zhou Shi, Visiting Scholar, zshi@mines.edu
Robert (Bob) Siegrist, Research Professor, rsiegris@mines.edu
Kathleen (Kate) Smits, Research Associate Professor, ksmits@mines.edu
Kathryn Spangler, Research Associate, kspangler@mines.edu
Raul Tenorio, Research Associate, raultenorio@mines.edu
Andrew Trautz, Research Associate, atrautz@mines.edu
Johan Vanneste, Research Assistant Professor, vanneste@mines.edu
Gary Vanzin, Research Faculty, gvanzin@mines.edu
Michael Veres, Research Associate, mveres@mines.edu
Wei Wang, Visiting Scholar, wangwei@mines.edu
Hanyang Wu, Visiting Scholar, wuhanyang@mail.dlut.edu.cn
Xin Wu, Visiting Scholar, wuxin1@mines.edu
Boran Wu, Visiting Scholar, boranwu@mines.edu
Guowen Xu, Visiting Scholar, xuoguowen@mines.edu
Jing Zhang, Visiting Scholar, zhangjing@mines.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Paul Queneau
Adjunct Professor
Recycling and waste minimization; hazardous waste management
Paddy Ryan
Adjunct Associate Professor
Environmental biology, aquatic biology, nature photography, marine ecology
303-273-3650
patryan@mines.edu
David Grimm
Adjunct Professor
Construction engineering; project engineering; historic structures; structural condition assessment
281-831-4610
dfgrimm@mines.edu