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
[email protected]
Research group website

Xiang Cheng
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
612-624-6165
[email protected]
Research group website

Ardeshir Ebtehaj
Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 378
ph: 612-301-1483
[email protected]
Research group website


Xue Feng
McKnight Land-Grant Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 387
[email protected]
Research group website

Jacques Finlay
Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
ph: 612-624-4672
[email protected]
Research group website

Melissa Green
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
ph: 612-625-6453
[email protected]

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

Michele Guala
Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 382
ph: 612-625-9108
[email protected]
Research group website

John Gulliver
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 389
ph: 612-625-4080
[email protected]
SAFL stormwater website

Kimberly Hill
Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 384
ph: 612-626-0311
[email protected]

Miki Hondzo
James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 385
ph: 612-625-0053
[email protected]

Jiarong Hong
Associate Director of the Eolos Wind Energy Research Consortium
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
SAFL Office 381
ph: 612-624-5102
[email protected]
Flow Field Imagining Lab
Cavitation and bubbly flows Lab



Gene-Hua Crystal Ng
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 387
ph: 612-624-9243
[email protected]
Research group website

Chris Paola
CSE Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 376B
ph: 612-624-8025
[email protected]

Vaughan Voller
James L. Record Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
SAFL Office 383
ph: 612-625-0764
[email protected]

Andy Wickert
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
SAFL Office 379
ph: 612-625-5446
[email protected]
Research group website

Boya Xiong
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
[email protected]
Research group website

Judy Yang
Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
[email protected]
Research group website

Adjunct Faculty

Omid Mohseni
Adjunct Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
[email protected]


Emeritus Faculty
SAFL Emeritus Faculty

Roger E.A. Arndt
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering

Heinz Stephan
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
