Faculty and Staff

Department Leadership

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D. V. “Vaughan” Griffiths

Department Head and Professor
Focus areas include: Foundation analysis and design; Slope stability analysis; Soil mechanics; Finite element modeling and Risk assessment in civil and geotechnical engineering.
vgriffit@mines.edu

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Jonathan “Josh” Sharp

Associate Department Head and Professor
Focus areas: Microbiology of natural and engineered systems; Sustainable water treatment and Watershed biogeochemistry.
jsharp@mines.edu

Academic Faculty

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Eric Anderson

Associate Professor, Associate Director, Hydrologic Science & Engineering Program.
Focus areas include: Hydrodynamic Modeling; Coastal Processes; Limnology; Physical Oceanography; Ice Dynamics and Atmosphere-Surface Water Interaction.
ejanderson@mines.edu

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Christopher Bellona

Associate Professor
Focus areas include: Membrane processes; Fate of organic contaminants in water and wastewater treatment; Potable water reuse; Advanced oxidation for the destruction of organic contaminants and Remediation of contaminated sites.
cbellona@mines.edu

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Tzahi Cath

Professor
Focus areas include: Brackish water and seawater desalination; Water and wastewater treatment engineering; Potable water reuse and Energy recovery in water treatment.
tcath@mines.edu

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Linda Figueroa

Professor, Jointly Appointed, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mining Engineering.
Focus areas include: Microbially mediated radionuclide and metals removal; Biotransformation of nitrogen; Application of molecular tools and Water and waste treatment.
lfiguero@mines.edu

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Andres Guerra

Teaching Professor
Innovative approaches to educate Colorado School of Mines students about Civil Engineering applications in geotechnical and structural engineering, land development, construction practices, risk assessment and optimization.
aguerra@mines.edu

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Reza Hedayat

Associate Professor
Focus areas include: Geotechnical Engineering; Rock and Fracture Mechanics; Underground Construction and Tunneling; Applied Geophysics and Hydraulic Fracturing.
hedayat@mines.edu

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Christopher Higgins

AMAX Distinguished Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor,
Focus areas include: Environmental organic chemistry; inorganic/organic contaminant fate and transport; contaminant bioaccumulation; perfluorochemicals and nanoparticles.
chiggins@mines.edu

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Jeffrey A. Holley

Teaching Associate Professor
Focus areas include: Engineering mechanics; Environmental studies; Civil infrastructure design and Storm water management/quality enhancement.
jholley@mines.edu

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Kristoph Kinzli

Teaching Professor
Focus areas include: River mechanics; Stream rehabilitation; Water resources; Agricultural water use; Fisheries biology; Engineering teaching pedagogy and Active learning.
kkinzli@mines.edu

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Amy Landis

Professor, 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

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Hongyan Liu

Teaching Professor
Focus areas include: Engineering mechanics, Structural analysis and design and Engineering materials. Research interests are structural engineering and earthquake engineering.
hyliu@mines.edu

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Ning Lu

Professor
Focus areas include: Soil physical phenomena including fluid flow, chemical transport, heat transfer, stress, and deformation; Unifying atomic-scale potentials/inter-particle forces/engineering-scale stresses in soils; Groundwater hydrology; Unsaturated soil mechanics; Expansive soils and Environmental geotechnics.
ninglu@mines.edu

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John McCray

Professor
Focus areas include: Contaminant hydrology; Subsurface remediation; Vadose-zone hydrology; Watershed hydrology; PFAS investigations; Hydrologic modeling; Stormwater reclamation using green infrastructure and Soil-based wastewater treatment.
jmccray@mines.edu

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Michael Mooney

Grewcock Distinguished Chair, Professor,
Director,
Center for Underground Construction & Tunneling
Focus areas: Tunnel design; Construction in soil and soil/rock conditions; Geotechnical/Geostructural engineering and Geoconstruction.
mmooney@mines.edu

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Junko Munakata Marr

Professor
Focus areas include: Microbial communities in groundwater and water treatment systems; Application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems and Engineering education.
junko@mines.edu

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Chelsea L. Panos

Teaching Associate Professor
Teaching courses in fluid mechanics, hydrology, and environmental engineering. Passionate about engineering learning and effective teaching practices. Not involved in a research project.
cpanos@mines.edu

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Shiling Pei

Professor
Focus areas include: Extreme hazard mitigation; Structural reliability; Modern timber structural systems; Structural dynamics and Earthquake engineering.
spei@mines.edu

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Cara Phillips

Teaching Assistant Professor
Focus areas include: Structural analysis and building design with steel, concrete, masonry and wood; Lateral load design and detailing and Post-installed concrete and masonry anchorage.
caraphil@mines.edu

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Susan Reynolds

Teaching Professor
Focus area: Structural analysis and design; Historic preservation technology and Sustainable/integrated design approaches for buildings.
reynolds@mines.edu

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Yangming Shi

Assistant Professor
Focus areas include: Construction Automation; Construction Informatics; Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI); Disaster Visualization and Human Factors.
yangming.shi@mines.edu

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Syd Slouka

Teaching Assistant Professor
Focus areas include: Active learning pedagogy and psychology of learning. Teaching interests in statics, soil mechanics and mine ventilation.
sslouka@mines.edu

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John Spear

Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering.
Focus areas: Environmental microbiology; Geobiology; Metals bioremediation; Subsurface microbiology; Cave and mine microbiology; Environmental policy—impact analysis (NEPA) and Reclamation & restoration.
jspear@mines.edu

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Timothy Strathmann

Professor
Focus areas: 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 and Life cycle analysis-directed design of environmental technologies.
strthmnn@mines.edu

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Lori Tunstall

Assistant Professor
Focus areas include: Cementitious materials; Concrete durability; Frost damage and Mechanisms of air entrainment.
ltunstall@mines.edu

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Alexandra Wayllace

Teaching Professor
Focus areas: Designing and conducting experiments to measure different soil properties for saturated and unsaturated soils.
awayllac@mines.edu

Campus Leadership

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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

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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

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Pablo Chevesich Garcia

Research Assistant Professor
Watershed Hydrology pablogarcia@mines.edu

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Shilai Hao

Research Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Environmental Chemistry, PFAS Treatment and Analysis shao@mines.edu

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Tissa Illangasekare

Research Professor,
Director, Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes.
Focus areas: Groundwater and vadose zone hydrology; Transport and fate of chemicals; Aquifer remediation; Numerical modeling; Flow in snow, land-atmospheric interaction, soil and environmental sensing and Carbon storage. tillanga@mines.edu

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James Rosenblum

Research Assistant Professor
Water Reuse jrosenblum@mines.edu

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Johan Vanneste

Research Associate Professor
Focus areas: Separation Processes and Desalination vanneste@mines.edu

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Andy Wood

Research Professor
Focus areas: Hydrology and Water resources management awwood@mines.edu

Jointly Appointed Faculty

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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

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Serveh Kamravah

Assistant Professor
Petroleum Engineering,
Machine Learning; Fluid Dynamics; Energy Storage Systems.
kamrava@mines.edu

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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

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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

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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
Focus areas: 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

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D V "Vaughan" Griffiths

Department Head

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Jonathan "Josh" Sharp

Associate Department Head

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Kimberly Brock

Department Manager

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Mona Lisa Lucero

Program Assistant

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Cherie Nash

Administrative Assistant

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Kate Spangler

Laboratory Coordinator

CASA Undergrad Advising

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Dana Morrison

Academic Advisor A-G

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Lindsey Daly

Academic Advisor H-N

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Sadie Downs

Academic Advisor O-Z