People Core Faculty
Ludmilla Aristilde
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, and (by courtesy), Earth and Planetary Sciences
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Urban Systems, Human Systems
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Urban Systems
Zdeněk Bažant
McCormick Institute Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Urban Systems
Neal Blair
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems
Laurence Booth
Richard C. Halpern/Rise International Distinguished Architect in Residence
Clinical Professor
Giuseppe Buscarnera
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies
Research areas: Material Systems, Urban Systems
Jian Cao
Associate Vice President for Research
Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation (NIMSI)
Research area: Urban Systems
Giorgia Chinazzo
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of the Architectural Engineering and Design Program
Gianluca Cusatis
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Urban Systems
Pablo Durango-Cohen
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Urban Systems, Human Systems
Horacio Espinosa
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship
Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program
Director of the Institute for Cellular Engineering Technologies
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jean-François Gaillard
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Earth and Planetary Sciences
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Urban Systems, Human Systems
Kimberly Gray
Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Family Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Urban Systems, Human Systems
Ahmad Hadavi
Clinical Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Deputy Director of the Master of Project Management Program
Erica Hartmann
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Medicine (Pulmonary Division)
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Human Systems
Daniel Horton
Assistant Professor, of Earth and Planetary Sciences and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
Yonggang Huang
Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Research area: Material Systems
Sinan Keten
Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering
Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Urban Systems
Wing Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Hani Mahmassani
Professor of Civil and Environmental and (by courtesy) Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Engineering
William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation
Research areas: Urban Systems, Human Systems
Luisa Marcelino
Research Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lecturer of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research area: Ecosystems
Yu (Marco) Nie
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Urban Systems, Human Systems
Magdalena Osburn
Assistant Professor, of Earth and Planetary Sciences and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aaron Packman
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Urban Systems, Human Systems
Alessandro Rotta Loria
Louis Berger Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Urban Systems
John Rudnicki
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Urban Systems
Amanda Stathopoulos
William Patterson Junior Professor
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Urban Systems, Human Systems
George Wells
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Material Systems, Ecosystems, Urban Systems, Human Systems
Hyejin Youn
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar; Assistant Professor, of Management & Organizations and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research area: Human Systems