EFRE Team
Assistant Professor Corey Markfort (right) with graduate student members of the EFRE Lab team: (L to R) Hao Chen, Jian Teng, Shivendra Prakash, Mohsen Vahidzadeh, and Sarah Douglas.
EFRE Lab Director
Corey D. Markfort
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas
- Environmental fluid mechanics
- Turbulence
- Atmospheric boundary layer
- Renewable energy and wind engineering
- Biosphere-atmospshere exchange
- Physical limnology
Graduate Students
Nicole Liljestrand
Graduate Research Assistant
Education
BS, The University of Iowa, 2020
MS Candidate, The University of Iowa
Research Projects
Hao Chen
Graduate Research Assistant
Co-Advised with Marian Muste
Education
BS, The University of Iowa, 2018
MS Candidate, The University of Iowa
Research Projects
Shivendra Prakash
Graduate Research Assistant
Education
MS, India Institute of Technology, 2015
PhD Candidate, The University of Iowa
Research Projects
Mohsen Vahidzadeh
Graduate Research Assistant
Education
BS, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2011
MS, University of Tehran, 2014
Research Projects
- “Advancing Wind and Hydrokinetic Energy Prediction”
- “Detecting and Modeling of Hazardous Environmental Conditions”
Alumni
Payam Aghsaee
Postdoctoral Scholar
IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering
PhD, Queen’s University, 2011
MS, Sharif University of Technology, 2005
BS, Sharif University of Technology, 2002
Roman Doyle
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Sean Seelau
Undergraduate Research Assistant
IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Sarah Douglas
Graduate Research Fellow
Co-Advised with Greg LeFevre
Education
BS, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2018
MS, The University of Iowa, 2020
Research Projects
Jian Teng
Graduate Research Assistant, now at Brown University
Education
BS, The University of Iowa, 2018
MS, The University of Iowa, 2020
Research Projects
- “Advancing Wind and Hydrokinetic Energy Prediction”
- “Evaluating Environmental Impacts of Wind Energy”
