Faculty
Our faculty are active researchers and are always looking to find new solutions to the world’s biggest problems. They inspire our students to have a deeper understanding of the world.
Eric J. Alm
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering Associate Member, Broad Institute Research Interests: computational and systems biology
Saurabh Amin
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Associate Professor Research Interests: network control, resilient infrastructures
Cynthia Barnhart
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Chancellor Ford Professor of Engineering Research Interests: operations research, airlines
Moshe E. Ben-Akiva
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: transportation demand
Lydia Bourouiba
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Associate Professor Research Interests: fundamental fluid dynamics, instabilities, interfacial flows, pathogen-fluid interactions, contamination, contact and disease transmission, infectious diseases, infection control, epidemiology
Markus J. Buehler
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Department Head Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering Research Interests: materials, molecular dynamics, protein-based material
Oral Buyukozturk
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
George Macomber Professor Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: structural engineering, infrastructure mechanics, sustainable materials, sensing and monitoring
Josephine V. Carstensen
Faculty, Structures and Design
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: Developing and evaluating generative design methods for optimized, High performance engineering design
Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems
Institute Professor Research Interests: biological oceanography
Tal Cohen
Faculty, Structures and Design
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Research Interests: nonlinear mechanical behavior, instabilities of solids
Otto Cordero
Ecological Systems, Faculty
Associate Professor Research Interests: natural microbial communities as complex dynamical systems with multi-scale structure
David L. Des Marais
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Gale Assistant Professor Research Interests: Plant ecology and evolution, physiology, functional genomics, sustainable agriculture, plant-water relations
Herbert H. Einstein
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Professor Research Interests: rock mechanics
Elfatih A.B. Eltahir
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Breene M. Kerr Professor (1951) Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: Hydrology and climate
Dara Entekhabi
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Research Interests: hydrology, hydroclimatology and remote sensing
Michael Follows
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems
Associate Professor Research Interests: biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients in the ocean
Philip M. Gschwend
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Ford Professor of Engineering Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: environmental organic chemistry
Charles F. Harvey
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Professor Research Interests: hydrogeology, geochemical processes
Colette L. Heald
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Research Interests: atmospheric composition and chemistry
Ali Jadbabaie
Faculty, Urban Systems
JR East Professor Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Director of Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Research Interests: dynamic systems, networks
Patrick Jaillet
Faculty, Global Systems, Urban Systems
Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Electrical Engineering Co-Director of Operations Research Center Research Interests: operations research, online and stochastic optimization
Ruben Juanes
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Professor Director, Henry L. Pierce Laboratory for Infrastructure Science and Engineering Research Interests: multiphase flow in porous media, energy resources, CO2 sequestration
Jesse H. Kroll
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering Director, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering Research Interests: environmental chemistry
Tami Lieberman
Ecological Systems, Faculty
Herman L.F. Von Helmholtz Career Development Professor Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Research Interests: evolutionary microbiology; computational and systems biology; public health
Benedetto Marelli
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: bio-inspired materials, self-assembly, mechanical and optical properties, 3D printing, and emerging technologies
Admir Masic
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: Multi-scale chemical imaging; structural and mechanical characterization of biological and synthetic materials; degradation and preservation of building materials and cultural artifacts
Dennis McLaughlin
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
H.M. King Bhumibol Professor Research Interests: hydrology, data assimilation
Caitlin Mueller
Faculty, Structures and Design
Ford International Career Development Professor Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor of Architecture Research Interests: computational methods and tools for synthesizing architectural and structural intentions in early-stage design.
Heidi Nepf
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Margaret MacVicar Fellow Research Interests: environmental fluid mechanics
John A. Ochsendorf
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Class of 1942 Professor Professor of Architecture Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: structural engineering, sustainable development
Carolina Osorio
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Visiting Associate Professor Research Interests: operations research applied to urban transportation
Desiree Plata
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Gilbert W. Winslow (1937) Career Development Professor in Civil Engineering Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: environmental chemistry, environmentally and economically sustainable design, industrially-important processes and materials, energy technologies (fossil and low-carbon), advanced materials synthesis and manufacture
Martin F. Polz
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Professor Research Interests: environmental microbiology
Serguei Saavedra
Ecological Systems, Faculty
Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology
Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Structural Ecology
Yossi Sheffi
Faculty, Global Systems
Elisha Gray II Professor
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of Center for Transportation and Logistics
Research Interests: logistics
David Simchi-Levi
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Co-Director of Leaders for Global Operations Research Interests: operations research, supply chain
Franz-Josef Ulm
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Professor Faculty Director, Concrete Sustainability Hub Research Interests: materials, durability mechanics
Andrew Whittle
Faculty, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering Research Interests: geotechnical engineering
John R. Williams
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Professor
Research Interests: computational methods, IT
Cathy Wu
Faculty, Global Systems, Urban Systems
Gilbert W. Winslow (1937) Career Development Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor of IDSS Research Interests: Machine learning, reinforcement learning, Large-scale optimization, Control theory, Multi-agent systems, Societal systems, urban systems, mobility systems, Implications of AI & automation
Xuanhe Zhao
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: solid mechanics, soft materials, bioinspired design