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
Associate 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 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