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

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

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Roger Arndt

Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 381
ph: 612-625-2883
arndt001@umn.edu

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Xiang Cheng

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
612-624-6165
xcheng@umn.edu 
Research group website

Ardeshir Ebtehaj

Ardeshir Ebtehaj

Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 378
ph: 612-301-1483
ebtehaj@umn.edu
Research group website

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Emily Fairfax

Assistant Professor of Physical Geography
efairfax@umn.edu
Research website

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Xue Feng

Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 387
feng@umn.edu
Research group website

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Jacques Finlay

Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
ph: 612-624-4672
jfinlay@umn.edu
Research group website

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Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
efi@umn.edu

Melissa Green

Melissa Green

Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
ph: 612-625-6453
magreen@umn.edu

Dan Griffin

Daniel Griffin

Professor of Geography, Environment & Society
612-625-2562
Research group website

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Michele Guala

Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 382
ph: 612-625-9108
mguala@umn.edu 
Research group website

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John Gulliver

Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 389
ph: 612-625-4080
gulli003@umn.edu
SAFL stormwater website

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Kimberly Hill

Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 384
ph: 612-626-0311
kmhill@umn.edu

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Miki Hondzo

James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 385
ph: 612-625-0053
mhondzo@umn.edu

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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

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Peter K. Kang

Associate Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
SAFL Office 379
 
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Sungyon Lee

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
612-625-2315
sungyon@umn.edu
 

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Omid Mohseni

Adjunct Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
omohseni@umn.edu

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Gene-Hua Crystal Ng

Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 387
ph: 612-624-9243
gcng@umn.edu
Research group website

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Chris Paola

CSE Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 376B
ph: 612-624-8025
cpaola@umn.edu

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Gary Parker

Adjunct Professor
parkerg@ad.uiuc.edu

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Fotis Sotiropoulos

Adjunct Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
fotis@umn.edu

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Heinz Stefan

Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 383
ph: 612-625-2810
stefa001@umn.edu

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Vaughan Voller

James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 383
ph: 612-625-0764
volle001@umn.edu

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Andy Wickert

Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 379
ph: 612-625-5446
awickert@umn.edu
Research group website

Boya Xiong

Boya Xiong

Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
bxiong@umn.edu
Research group website

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Judy Yang

Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
judyyang@umn.edu
Research group website

Kyungsoo Yoo

Kyungsoo Yoo

Professor of Soil, Water, and Climate 
SAFL Office 378
kyoo@umn.edu

612-624-7784
Research group website