SAFL Affiliated Faculty
SAFL's faculty researchers come from various departments across the UMN campus, but their research interests intersect across a spectrum of fluids-related questions and problems. SAFL faculty include experimentalists, modelers, and field researchers that frequently collaborate on research questions and projects that look to address major challenges confronting society. Most faculty house their research groups and graduate students at SAFL.
SAFL Affiliated Faculty
Lian Shen
Director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
Whitby Professor of Mechanical Engineering
SAFL Office 301
ph: 612-624-2022
shen@umn.edu
Research group website
Roger Arndt
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 381
ph: 612-625-2883
arndt001@umn.edu
Xiang Cheng
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
612-624-6165
xcheng@umn.edu
Research group website
Ardeshir Ebtehaj
Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 378
ph: 612-301-1483
ebtehaj@umn.edu
Research group website
Xue Feng
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 387
feng@umn.edu
Research group website
Jacques Finlay
Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
ph: 612-624-4672
jfinlay@umn.edu
Research group website
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
efi@umn.edu
Melissa Green
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
ph: 612-625-6453
magreen@umn.edu
Michele Guala
Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 382
ph: 612-625-9108
mguala@umn.edu
Research group website
John Gulliver
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 389
ph: 612-625-4080
gulli003@umn.edu
SAFL stormwater website
Kimberly Hill
Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 384
ph: 612-626-0311
kmhill@umn.edu
Miki Hondzo
James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 385
ph: 612-625-0053
mhondzo@umn.edu
Jiarong Hong
Associate Director of the Eolos Wind Energy Research Consortium
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
SAFL Office 381
ph: 612-624-5102
jhong@umn.edu
Flow Field Imagining Lab
Cavitation and bubbly flows Lab
Sungyon Lee
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
612-625-2315
sungyon@umn.edu
Omid Mohseni
Adjunct Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
omohseni@umn.edu
Gene-Hua Crystal Ng
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 387
ph: 612-624-9243
gcng@umn.edu
Research group website
Chris Paola
CSE Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 376B
ph: 612-624-8025
cpaola@umn.edu
Fotis Sotiropoulos
Adjunct Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
fotis@umn.edu
Heinz Stefan
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 383
ph: 612-625-2810
stefa001@umn.edu
Vaughan Voller
James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 383
ph: 612-625-0764
volle001@umn.edu
Andy Wickert
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 379
ph: 612-625-5446
awickert@umn.edu
Research group website
Boya Xiong
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
bxiong@umn.edu
Research group website
Judy Yang
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
judyyang@umn.edu
Research group website