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
Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Associate 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
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor Research Interests: network control, resilient infrastructures
Cynthia Barnhart
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Chancellor Ford Professor of Engineering Director, Transportation@MIT Research Interests: operations research, airlines
Moshe E. Ben-Akiva
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Edmund K. Turner 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
Assistant Professor Research Interests: fluid dynamics, pathogen-fluid interactions, contact and disease transmission, mathematical epidemiology
Rafael L. Bras
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Professor Emeritus Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Georgia Tech Research Interests: hydrology and hydroclimatology
Markus J. Buehler
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Department Head McAfee Professor of Engineering Research Interests: materials, molecular dynamics, protein-based material
Oral Buyukozturk
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Professor Research Interests: structural engineering and mechanics, materials, structural integrity assessment
Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems
Institute Professor Research Interests: biological oceanography
Tal Cohen
Faculty, Structures and Design
Assistant Professor Research Interests: nonlinear mechanical behavior, instabilities of solids
Otto Cordero
Ecological Systems, Faculty
Assistant Professor Research Interests: natural microbial communities as complex dynamical systems with multi-scale structure
Daniel James Cziczo
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Associate Professor Research Interests: Atmospheric chemistry
David L. Des Marais
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
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 Research Interests: Hydrology and climate
Dara Entekhabi
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department 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
Lynn Gelhar
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
William E. Leonhard Professor Emeritus Research Interests: hydrology
Marta C. González
Faculty, Global Systems, Urban Systems
Visiting Professor Research Interests: human dynamics, complex networks, systems of mobile agents, multiphase flow
Philip M. Gschwend
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Ford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Director, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and 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
Associate Department Head, CEE Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Research Interests: atmospheric composition and chemistry
Harry F. Hemond
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor Research Interests: environmental chemistry and wetland geochemistry
Ali Jadbabaie
Faculty, Urban Systems
JR East Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering and 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 and Computer Science Co-Director, Operations Research Center Research Interests: operations research, online and stochastic optimization
Ruben Juanes
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Associate Professor Director, Henry L. Pierce Laboratory for Infrastructure Science and Engineering Research Interests: multiphase flow in porous media, energy resources, CO2 sequestration
Eduardo Kausel
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Professor Research Interests: structural dynamics
Benjamin Kocar
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Assistant Professor Research Interests: soil and aqueous biogeochemistry
Jesse H. Kroll
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Chair of CEE Graduate Admissions 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
Robert Logcher
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Professor Emeritus Research Interests: information systems for construction
Chandra Madramootoo
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Visiting Professor Research Interests: water and food security, irrigation, agricultural land drainage, agricultural water quality
Ole S. Madsen
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Donald and Martha Harleman Professor Emeritus Research Interests: fluid mechanics, coastal engineering
Benedetto Marelli
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Paul M. Cook Career Development Professor 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
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor 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
Chiang C. Mei
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus Research Interests: fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics
Fred Moavenzadeh
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Professor Research Interests: construction management
Caitlin Mueller
Faculty, Structures and Design
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant 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 of Architecture Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: structural engineering, sustainable development
Amedeo Odoni
Faculty, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: operations research, airlines
Carolina Osorio
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Associate Professor Research Interests: operations research applied to urban transportation
Martin F. Polz
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Professor Research Interests: environmental microbiology
Pedro Miguel Reis
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Visiting Associate Professor Research Interests: mechanics and materials: elasticity of thin objects, deformation, fracture, granular media
Daniel Roos
Faculty, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Japan Steel Industry Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, Emeritus
Director, MIT Portugal Program
Research Interests: technology and policy, transportation systems
Serguei Saavedra
Ecological Systems, Faculty
Mitsui Chair Professor
Research Interests: Structural Ecology
Yossi Sheffi
Faculty, Global Systems
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems
Director, Center for Transportation and Logistics
Research Interests: logistics
David Simchi-Levi
Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
Professor Co-Director, Leaders for Global Operations Research Interests: operations research, supply chain
Roman Stocker
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Visiting Associate Professor
Research Interests: microfluidics, microbial ecology, fluid mechanics
Joseph M. Sussman
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Urban Systems
JR East Professor
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems
Research Interests: transportation systems
Janelle Thompson
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Resources and Sustainability
Visiting Assistant Professor Research Interests: environmental microbiology
Franz-Josef Ulm
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design, Urban Systems
Professor Faculty Director, Concrete Sustainability Hub Research Interests: materials, durability mechanics
Daniele Veneziano
Ecological Systems, Faculty, Global Systems, Resources and Sustainability
Professor Research Interests: stochastic modeling
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
Nigel H.M. Wilson
Faculty, Urban Systems
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: urban transportation systems
Xuanhe Zhao
Faculty, Resources and Sustainability, Structures and Design
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: solid mechanics, soft materials, bioinspired design