Faculty Recruiting PhD Students for Fall 2024
Please review the list of faculty who are actively seeking new Ph.D. students for Fall 2024. Browse their web pages and look through a few faculty publications prior to contacting potential advisors as these steps can help you to articulate what excites you about a faculty member's research program.
| Faculty Member |
Research Area |
Example Projects |
| Oluwaseyi Balogun |
Material Systems
Ecosystems
Urban Systems |
- Wave propagation in hyperviscoelastic materials for medical diagnostics
- Interface fracture of biofilms
|
| Yu Marco Nie |
Urban Systems
Human Systems
|
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| Pablo Durango-Cohen |
Urban Systems
Human Systems
|
- Designing pathways to decarbonization of (transportation and energy) infrastructure systems: Estimation and control models
|
| Sinan Keten |
Material Systems
Ecosystems
|
- Computational Mechanics
- Machine Learning
- Soft Matter
|
| Amanda Stathopoulos |
Urban Systems
Human Systems
|
- Automation and equity
- Evacuation and relocation behaviour
|
| Erica Hartmann |
Material Systems
Ecosystems
Human Systems
|
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Metagenomics
- Bioinformatics
- Bacteriophage Therapy (Synthetic Biology)
|
| Alessandro Rotta Loria |
Material Systems
Urban Systems
|
- Underground Climate Change
|
| Giuseppe Buscarnera |
Material Systems
Urban Systems
|
- Subsurface Carbon Storage
- Adaptive Granular Systems
|
| Jean-François Gaillard |
Material Systems
Ecosystems
Urban Systems
Human Systems
|
- Cu, Pb and PFAS in drinking water distribution systems: Testing the validity and use of biosensors.
- How the chemical speciation of metals control their bioavailability in aquatic systems.
|
| George Wells |
Material Systems
Ecosystems
Urban Systems
Human Systems
|
- Nitrogen recovery from urban and agricultural waste streams
- Microbiome analyses of engineered bioprocesses
- Bioenergy production from urban/ suburban waste streams
- Structure-material property-function relationships in mixed culture biofilms
|
| Ludmilla Aristilde |
Material Systems
Ecosystems
Urban Systems
|
- Bacteria metabolism for carbon waste recycling
- Soil minerals as catalysts of nutrient recycling
- Biosynthesis of carbon storage polymers as petroleum chemical replacements
- Surface chemical dynamics of plastics degradation in natural waters.
|
| Neal Blair |
Material Systems
Ecosystems
|
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| Luisa Marcelino |
Ecosystems
|
- Coral Epigenetics and adaptation to warmer oceans
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