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Who is recruiting Ph.D. 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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