People

Faculty

Core Faculty

Edward Kavazanjian, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, NAE
Regents Professor, Director of CBBG
Research: Biogeotechnical engineering, ground improvement, geotechnical earthquake engineering, waste containment system design, mechanical properties of municipal solid waste
Teaching: CEE 552, CEE 557, CEE 559
:
: 480-727-8566, : GWC 112B

Claudia Zapata, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Deputy Director of CBBG
Research: Geotechnical engineering, environmental effects in pavement design
Teaching: CEE 452, CEE 553, CEE 554, CEE 598
:
: 480-727-8514, : GWC 124

Leon A. van Paassen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research: Engineering geology, geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, soil mechanics, ground improvement
Teaching: CEE 351, CEE 494, CEE 598
:
: 480-965-1075, : GWC 122

Julian Tao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research: Bioinspired burrowing mechanisms, bioinspired geosystems, smart and sustainable geosystems, soil behavior
Teaching: CEE 452, CEE 550, CEE 494/598
:
: 480-965-1108, : GWC 126

Hamed Khodadadi Tirkolaei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research: Sustainable Geotechnics, Biogeotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement
Teaching: CEE 351, CEE 554
:
: 480-965-103, : GWC 120

Research Professors

Nasser Hamdan, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Director of Industrial Collaboration, CBBG
Research: Biogeotechnical engineering for ground improvement, Biogeochemical processes, Biopolymers, Mineral precipitation in soils, Geomicrobiology
:
: 480-965-2277, : GWC 112

Jean Larson, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Education Director, CBBG
Research: Engineering Education
:
: 480-965-7804, : GWC 118

Jafar Razmi, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Research: Material behavior, infrastructural design and behavior under transportation, environmental, and other dynamic loads in geotechnical engineering.
Teaching: CEE 555
:
: 480-965-2543, : ISTB2

Lecturers

Chris Lawrence, Ph.D.
Lecturer Senior
Research:Vector mechanics, mastery based and collaborative learning, geotechnical engineering, unsaturated soil mechanics, advanced soil testing systems Teaching: CEE 494/598
:
: 480-965-2893, : CAVC 470

Faculty Emeritus

Sandra Houston, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor Emeritus
Research: Unsaturated soils, expansive and collapsible soils, arid region soils, foundations, modeling of unsaturated flow/deformation
: SANDRA.HOUSTON@asu.edu

William (Bill) Houston, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor Emeritus
Research: Geotechnical Engineering

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

Emmanuel Salifu, Ph.D.
Research: land-based engineering, environmental sustainability and soil/water engineering for agriculture and civil infrastructure
:
: GWC 128

Visiting Scholars

• Daehyun Kim

Staff

Charlotte Bowens
CBBG Administrative Director
:
: (480) 965-7030, : GWC 112A

Mary Bankhead, M.A., M.S.
Project Coordinator/Fiscal Specialist
:
: (480) 965-2489, : GWC 112

Jane Nguyen
Student Worker
:
: GWC 112

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