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](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ShenB2_18.jpg.webp?itok=5nbuJkvM)
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
![Photo of Roger Arndt](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/arndt_CEnew.jpg.webp?itok=_nGnxkhV)
Roger Arndt
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 381
ph: 612-625-2883
arndt001@umn.edu
![Photo of Prof. Xiang Cheng](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-01%20at%2010.43.57%20AM_0.png.webp?itok=jCf4El7V)
Xiang Cheng
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
612-624-6165
xcheng@umn.edu
Research group website
![Ardeshir Ebtehaj](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ebtehaj_v1_03_18.jpg.webp?itok=RqFUYe_F)
Ardeshir Ebtehaj
Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 378
ph: 612-301-1483
ebtehaj@umn.edu
Research group website
![Headshot of Emily Fairfax](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/headshot1.jpeg.webp?itok=SS8JtkYl)
![Photo of Xue Feng](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Feng-IMG8118%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=dzNe4J-i)
Xue Feng
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 387
feng@umn.edu
Research group website
![Photo of Jacques Finlay](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Finlay_Jacques2009.jpg.webp?itok=zxD9Gv4c)
Jacques Finlay
Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
ph: 612-624-4672
jfinlay@umn.edu
Research group website
![Photo of Efi Foufoula-Georgiou](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Efi-3.jpg.webp?itok=05Pv9-hx)
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
efi@umn.edu
![Melissa Green](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Green_Melissa.jpeg.webp?itok=DJIpKit_)
Melissa Green
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
ph: 612-625-6453
magreen@umn.edu
![Dan Griffin](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/EmbeddedImage_1.jpg.webp?itok=kB3IBkc4)
![Michele Guala photo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/micheleguala_0.jpg.webp?itok=tYmgTLmm)
Michele Guala
Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 382
ph: 612-625-9108
mguala@umn.edu
Research group website
![Photo of John Gulliver](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/John-S.-Gulliver%202017%20cropped.jpg.webp?itok=ZfI9pREp)
John Gulliver
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 389
ph: 612-625-4080
gulli003@umn.edu
SAFL stormwater website
![Photo of Kimberly Hill](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/hill.jpg.webp?itok=cuy4wb2E)
Kimberly Hill
Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 384
ph: 612-626-0311
kmhill@umn.edu
![Photo of Miki Hondzo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/P9157429.JPG.webp?itok=RjMgMt-N)
Miki Hondzo
James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 385
ph: 612-625-0053
mhondzo@umn.edu
![photo of jiarong hong](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Screenshot%202024-04-17%20at%2010.44.26%20AM.png.webp?itok=RMDF4yla)
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
![Photo of Peter K. Kang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Profile%20small%203.png.webp?itok=xFLWOMVB)
![Photo of Sungyon Lee](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sungyon-headshot.jpeg.webp?itok=RYopREK-)
Sungyon Lee
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
612-625-2315
sungyon@umn.edu
![Photo of Omid Mohseni](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mohseni%2C%20Omid.jpg.webp?itok=E6XrLTkK)
Omid Mohseni
Adjunct Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
omohseni@umn.edu
![Photo of Gene-Hua Crystal Ng](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ng%2C%20Crystal.jpg.webp?itok=TFek77uD)
Gene-Hua Crystal Ng
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 387
ph: 612-624-9243
gcng@umn.edu
Research group website
![Photo of Chris Paola](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/paola_2004.jpg.webp?itok=_gPukQ5w)
Chris Paola
CSE Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 376B
ph: 612-624-8025
cpaola@umn.edu
![Photo of Gary Parker](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Parker_CVPhoto.jpg.webp?itok=FpnlBkRL)
![Photo of Fotis Sotiropoulos](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/fotis_safl1.jpg.webp?itok=eBg2-ukg)
Fotis Sotiropoulos
Adjunct Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
fotis@umn.edu
![Photo of Heinz Stefan](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/stefan_heinz.jpg.webp?itok=RNhV8kLm)
Heinz Stefan
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 383
ph: 612-625-2810
stefa001@umn.edu
![Photo of Vaughan Voller](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/voller_vaughan_bb.jpg.webp?itok=h06BrWa3)
Vaughan Voller
James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 383
ph: 612-625-0764
volle001@umn.edu
![Photo of Andy Wickert](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Wickert%2C%20Andrew.jpg.webp?itok=CNKQrP2Y)
Andy Wickert
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 379
ph: 612-625-5446
awickert@umn.edu
Research group website
![Boya Xiong](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Pictureboya.png.webp?itok=ZQrydO7M)
Boya Xiong
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
bxiong@umn.edu
Research group website
![Headshot of Judy Yang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/yang_200px.jpg.webp?itok=km3IvzPY)
Judy Yang
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
judyyang@umn.edu
Research group website
![Kyungsoo Yoo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yoo_Kyungsoo%20300x300_1.jpg.webp?itok=xVXFuPG9)