2023 Civil and Environmental Engineering Newest Faculty Hires

FEATURING OUR

NEWEST FACULTY 2023-2024

38 $34M 59%

TENURED/ TENURE-TRACK FACULTY

EXTERNAL RESEARCH AWARDS (FY2021 - 2023)

T/TT FACULTY

ARE FELLOWS OR YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD RECIPIENTS

Serena Alexander Associate Professor

Jointly Appointed: Public Policy and Urban Affairs PhD: Cleveland State University, 2016 Previously: Associate Professor, San Jose State University Scholarship Focus: Climate change, sustainable and resilient transportation systems, environmental policy

P. James Dennedy-Frank Assistant Professor

Jointly Appointed: Marine and Environmental Sciences PhD: Stanford University, 2018 Previously: Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scholarship Focus: Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation

Khaled Ghannam Assistant Professor

PhD: Duke University, 2017 Previously: Associate Research Scholar and Postdoc, Princeton University & NOAA Scholarship Focus: Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology

Shang Liu

Assistant Professor PhD: University of California, San Diego, 2012 Previously: Scientist, California Air Sciences Board, and Professor, University of Science and Technology China Scholarship Focus: Field measurements of atmospheric aerosols and volatile organic compounds using advanced instrumentation

Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Thrusts

Yu “Rain” Miao Assistant Professor

Jointly Appointed: Marine and Environmental Sciences PhD: University of California, Los Angeles, 2019 Previously: Postdoc, University of California, Los Angeles Scholarship Focus: Environmental biotechnology for water and soil quality, resource recovery, and ecosystem and public health

Eleonora Tronci Assistant Professor

PhD: Columbia University, 2022; Sapienza University, 2019 Previously: Postdoc, Tufts University Scholarship Focus: Applied machine learning for damage assessment in civil structures, multi-domain transfer learning, performance and structural assessment of offshore wind structures

Cristina Schultz Assistant Professor

Jointly Appointed: Marine and Environmental Sciences PhD: MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2019 Previously: Postdoc, Princeton University and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Scholarship Focus: Ocean modeling, impacts of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry

Nancy Larson Varney Associate Teaching Professor

PhD: The University of Texas, Austin, 2013 Previously: LeMessurier Consultants, and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Teaching Focus: Structural engineering, sustainable and resilient structures, architectural design

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About Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern The department has 38 tenured/tenure-track faculty and $34 million in external research funding received from 2021-2023. Strategically focused on urban engineering, we are preparing students for global challenges by exploring the unique ways in which the built and natural environment interact. Our faculty are conducting critical research on civil infrastructure security, environmental health, and sustainable resource engineering.