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
[email protected]
Research group website

Prof. Xiang Cheng

Xiang Cheng

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

Ardeshir Ebtehaj

Ardeshir Ebtehaj

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

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Emily Fairfax

Assistant Professor of Physical Geography
[email protected]
Research website

Xue Feng

Xue Feng

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

 Jacques Finlay

Jacques Finlay

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

Melissa Green

Melissa Green

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

Dan Griffin

Daniel Griffin

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

Michele Guala

Michele Guala

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

 John Gulliver

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

Kimberly Hill

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

 Miki Hondzo

Miki Hondzo

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

 jiarong hong

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

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Peter K. Kang

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

Sungyon Lee

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
612-625-2315
[email protected]
 

Gene-Hua Crystal Ng

Gene-Hua Crystal Ng

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

 Chris Paola

Chris Paola

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

 Vaughan Voller

Vaughan Voller

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

Andy Wickert

Andy Wickert

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

Boya Xiong

Boya Xiong

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

 Judy Yang

Judy Yang

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

Kyungsoo Yoo

Kyungsoo Yoo

Professor of Soil, Water, and Climate
[email protected]
Research group website

Adjunct Faculty

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Omid Mohseni

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

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Gary Parker

Adjunct Professor
[email protected]

 

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Fotis Sotiropoulos

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

Emeritus Faculty

SAFL Emeritus Faculty

Roger E.A. Arndt

Roger E.A. Arndt

Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
 

Heinz Stefan

Heinz Stephan

Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
 

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Efi Foufaula

Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering