Research Staff
Gabriele Villarini
Director, IIHR
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Office: 107C Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 384-0596
Email:
gabriele-villarini@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://www.gabrielevillarini.com/
Research Areas
Hydrometeorology
Climatology
Extreme events
Climate change
Hurricanes
Seasonal forecast
Remote sensing of rainfall
Applied statistics
Research Areas
Fish passage design
Physically-based watershed simulations
Total dissolved gas modeling
Office: S316 College of Public Health Building (CPHB)
Phone: (319) 384-4008
Email:
kelly-k-baker@uiowa.edu
Research Areas
Occupational and environmental health
Research Areas
Hydrology
Hydroclimatology
Watershed modeling
Office: 323B Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5224
Email:
james-h-buchholz@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www2.iihr.uiowa.edu/jbuchholz/
Research Areas
Unsteady aerodynamics of biologically-inspired underwater and aerial vehicles
Urban microclimate and transport phenomena
Cardiovascular fluid mechanics.
Pablo Carrica
Professor
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor
Research Areas
Multiphase flow
Computational fluid dynamics
Boiling and heat transfer
Research Areas
Statistics and actuarial science
Office: 323C Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 384-0630
Email:
george-constantinescu@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www2.iihr.uiowa.edu/gconstantinescu/
Research Areas
Computational fluid dynamics
River mechanics
Turbulence
Hydraulics
David Cwiertny
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
William D. Ashton Professor of Civil Engineering
Research Areas
Pollutant fate and transport
Water and watershed treatment
Kajsa Dalrymple
Associate Professor
School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Associate Research Scientist
Office: W339 Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building (AJB)
Phone: (319) 335-3360
Email:
kajsa-dalrymple@uiowa.edu
Research Areas
The intersection between science, strategic communication, and public policy
Ibrahim Demir
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Assistant Professor
Office: 314 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5780
Email:
ibrahim-demir@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://hydroinformatics.uiowa.edu/
Research Areas
Environmental information systems
Data informatics
Scientific visualization
Data management
Web-based systems
Jeffrey Dorale
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Research Engineer
Office: 35a Trowbridge Hall (TH)
Phone: (319) 335-0822
Email:
jeffrey-dorale@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://geoscience.clas.uiowa.edu/people/faculty/regular-faculty/jeffrey-a-dorale/
Research Areas
Paleoclimatology
Paleoecology
Global change
The use of isotopic and elemental tracers and chronometers to reconstruct past environmental conditions
Office: W374 Chemistry Building (CB)
Phone: (319) 384-1320
Email:
tori-forbes@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://www.chem.uiowa.edu/people/tori-z-forbes
Research Areas
Synthesis and characterization of novel actinide-based nanotubes and molecular clusters
X-ray diffraction and scattering techniques
Transport and mobility of nuclear materials in aqueous environmental systems
Radiochemistry
Office: 223F Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5749
Email:
casey-harwood@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://prism.iihr.uiowa.edu/uploads/people/2018/09/694_cmharwood_CV_090418.pdf
Keri Hornbuckle
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Donald E. Bently Professorship in Engineering
Office: 4126 Seamans Center
Phone: (319) 384-0789
Email:
keri-hornbuckle@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://research.engineering.uiowa.edu/hornbuckle/
Research Areas
Cycling of organic contaminants in the Great Lakes
Air pollution
Environmental engineering
Office: 332 Trowbridge Hall (TH)
Phone: (319) 335-0589
Email:
christopher-s-jones@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www2.iihr.uiowa.edu/cjones/welcome/
Research Areas
Water Quality and Agriculture
Water Monitoring
Nutrient and Sediment Transport
Office: 4111 Seamans Center
Phone: (319) 335-5051
Email:
craig-just@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://www.craigjust.org/
Research Areas
Use of sensors to measure water quality at rapid intervals
Use of mussels as living biosensors
Fate of pharmaceuticals in non-conventional wastewater treatment systems
Human exposure to PCBs resulting from industrial dredging operations
Witek Krajewski
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Director, IFC
Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering
Office: 523D Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5231
Email:
witold-krajewski@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www2.iihr.uiowa.edu/wkrajewski/
Research Areas
Hydrometeorology
Remote sensing
Water resources systems
Anton Kruger
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Donald E. Bently Faculty Fellow of Engineering
Office: 523F Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-6287
Email:
anton-kruger@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://s-iihr64.iihr.uiowa.edu/MyWeb/index.html
Research Areas
Hydrometeorology instrumentation
Particle image velocimetry and image processing
Visualization and management of large geographic datasets
Research Areas
Aquatic redox reactions
Fate and transport of groundwater contaminants
Geochemistry of major and trace metals
Gregory LeFevre
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Research Scientist
Office: 4106 Seamans Center
Phone: (319) 335-5655
Email:
gregory-lefevre@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://prism.iihr.uiowa.edu/uploads/people/2016/07/298_lefevre_cv-2pg.pdf
Research Areas
Fundamental mechanisms related to the microbial and vegetative biotransformation of emerging contaminants in aquatic environments.
Office: 221 Institute for Rural and Environmental Health (IREH)
Phone: (319) 335-4310
Email:
hans-joachim-lehmler@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/people/hans-joachim-lehmler/
Research Areas
Disposition and metabolism of chiral environmental contaminants
Toxicity of perfluorinated surfactants
Interaction of fluorinated materials with biological lipid assemblies
Synthesis of halogenated POPs and their metabolites
Research Areas
Ship dynamics
Two-phase flows
Office: 2406 Seamans Center
Phone: (319) 335-5673
Email:
ching-long-lin@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://css.engineering.uiowa.edu/~ching/
Research Areas
Level-set simulation of two-phase flow
Free-surface turbulence
Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of liquid-gas
Liquid-liquid and fluid-solid interactions for microfluidics
Four-dimensional assimilation of atmospheric LiDAR data
Pulmonary flow
Ricardo Mantilla
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Research Engineer
Research Areas
Surface hydrology
River networks
Research Areas
Siloxanes, pesticides, PCBs, and PCB breakdown products in the environment and in people Passive air sampling PCBs in schools
Office: 323E Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-6168
Email:
corey-markfort@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www2.iihr.uiowa.edu/efre
Research Areas
Environmental fluid mechanics
Turbulence
Atmospheric boundary layer
Renewable energy and wind engineering
Biosphere-atmopshere exchange
Physical limnology
Research Areas
CFD
EFD
Andres Martinez Araneda
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Asst Research Engineer
Research Areas
Environmental contaminant fate and transport modeling
Emphasis on analyzing and simulating the behavior of organic pollutants in urban, remote, and industrial areas
Office: 4112 Seamans Center
Phone: (319) 335-5065
Email:
tim-mattes@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faculty-staff/timothy-e-mattes
Research Areas
Environmental biotechnology
Oxidative biocatalysis
Evolution of microbial biodegradation pathways
Application of genomics and proteomics techniques in the study of environmentally relevant microbial communities
Office: 209 Trowbridge Hall (TH)
Phone: (319) 335-1831
Email:
jessica-meyer@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://jessica-meyer.weebly.com/
Office: 302 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 384-0624
Email:
marian-muste@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www2.iihr.uiowa.edu/mmuste/
Research Areas
Experimental methods in hydraulics and fluid mechanics
Sediment transport
Environmental fluid mechanics
Engineering education
Research Areas
Water quality
Nutrient fate and transport
Biogeophysics
Near-surface environmental geophysics
Office: 321 Schaeffer Hall (SH)
Phone: (319) 335-2360
Email:
elise-pizzi@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://www.elisepizzi.com/
Research Areas
Water Sustainability Initiative
Office: 223-4 SHL Hydraulics Wave Basin Facility (HWBF, Oakdale)
Phone: (319) 467-4572
Email:
yugo-sanada@uiowa.edu
Research Areas
Ship hydrodynamics
Michelle Scherer
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Donald E. Bently Professorship in Engineering
Office: 4105 Seamans Center
Phone: (319) 335-5654
Email:
michelle-scherer@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faculty-staff/michelle-m-scherer
Research Areas
Fundamental and practical aspects of chemical contamination of aquatic environments
Heterogeneous processes occurring in both natural and engineered systems, including surface redox reactions and adsorption/complexation phenomena
Understanding and modeling the kinetics of transformation reactions at the mineral-water interface
Keith Schilling
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
State Geologist of Iowa
Research Areas
Hydrogeology
Nonpoint source pollution
Jerry Schnoor
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Allen S. Henry Chair in Engineering
Office: 4112 Seamans Center
Phone: (319) 335-5649
Email:
jerald-schnoor@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/cee/faculty-staff/jerald-l-schnoor
Research Areas
Water quality, phytoremediation, and climate change
Silvia Secchi
Associate Professor
Department of Geographical and Sustainable Sciences
Associate Research Engineer
Research Areas
Environmental Impacts of Agriculture, Water Sustainability, Floodplain Policy, Conservation Policy
Research Areas
Computational mechanics
Research Areas
Radar hydrology
Rainfall uncertainties
Research Areas
Laboratory investigation and field sampling of air pollution, particularly of aerosol particles
Computation simulations to elucidate questions of atmospheric, aerosol chemistry, and the health effects of airborne contaminants
Fred Stern
Professor
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
George D. Ashton Professor of Hydroscience and Engineering
Research Areas
6DOF viscous ship hydrodynamics
High performance, multi-criteria CFD-based optimization for ship design
Towing tank maneuvering test flow-map measurement system
Integration of simulation technology into undergraduate engineering courses and laboratories
Eric Tate
Associate Professor
Department of Geographical and Sustainable Sciences
Associate Research Engineer
Research Areas
Development of social vulnerability and resilience indicators
Assessment of uncertainty and sensitivity in geospatial models
GIS modeling in support of local and regional flood hazard mitigation
Research Areas
Numerical methods to materials processing
Biofluid mechanics
Elasto-plastic wave propagation in impacting media
Fluid-structure Interactions
Advanced numerical schemes for moving boundary problems
Research Areas
Computational fluid mechanics
Cardiovascular biomechanics
Multiscale modeling
Fluid-structure Interactions
Coronary blood flow dynamics
Heart valve mechanics
Cardiovascular implant design and analysis
RBC dynamics for analysis of blood damage
Vocal cord dynamics
Research Areas
CFD
Free surface and interfacial flows
VOF and level set methods
Free surface tracking and surface tension modeling
Research Areas
Smart and connected systems, Transfer/multitask learning for information fusion, High dimensional data modeling and analysis, Manufacturing process control and infrastructure management
Larry Weber
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics
Office: 306 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5597
Email:
larry-weber@uiowa.edu
Personal Website/Resume: https://www2.iihr.uiowa.edu/lweber/
Research Areas
Fish passage facilities
Physical modeling
River hydraulics
Hydropower
Computational hydraulics
Ice mechanics
Water quality
Watershed processes
Frank Weirich
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Research Engineer
Research Areas
Geomorphology and related hydrologic processes
Sediment transport and reservoir sedimentation
Watershed response to environmental changes
Nate Young
Adjunct Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Engineer
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Director, LACMRERS
Research Areas
Ecohydraulics
Field measurements
Freshwater mussel habitats
