Faculty and Staff
DEPARTMENT Leadership

Junko Munakata Marr
Department Head and 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
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

Kamini Singha
Associate Dean, University Distinguished 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
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chelsea L. Panos
Teaching Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching interests are Urban hydrology; stormwater modeling; urbanization; stormwater management; engineering learning; effective teaching practices.
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

Susan Reynolds
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural analysis and design;
historic preservation technology; sustainable / integrated design
approaches for buildings.
reynolds@mines.edu

Serveh Kamravah
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering: Machine Learning; Fluid Dynamics; Energy Storage Systems.
kamrava@mines.edu

Jonathan Sharp
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Microbiology of natural and engineered systems; sustainable water treatment; watershed biogeochemistry.
jsharp@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

Jessica Smith
Professor, Engineering, Design, and Society
Ethnography; energy ethics; engineering studies; corporate social responsibility; equity and engineering education.
jmsmith@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
Associate Department Head and 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

Omid Moradian
Research Associate Professor
Rock/Fracture Mechanics, Machine Learning
moradian@mines.edu

Hooman Vatankhah
Research Assistant Professor
Potable Reuse, Emerging Micropollutants
hvatankhah@mines.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Bruce Honeyman
Professor Emeritus Environmental Radiochemistry and Surface Chemistry bhoneyma@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
Candace Sulzbach
Teaching Professor Emeritus
Civil and Mineral Engineering
csulzbac@mines.edu
Department Staff

Junko Munakata Marr
Department Head

D.V. Griffiths
Associate Department Head

Kimberly Brock
Department Manager

Gabrielle Edwards
Program Assistant

Mona Lisa Lucero
Administrative Assistant

Kate Spangler
Laboratory Coordinator

Dana Morrison
Academic Advising Coordinator