Current Advisees and Research Team

• Mindy Kimball, Ph.D., Research Assistant Director, The Polytechnic School
• Sneha Roy, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Eleanor Hennessy, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Mattheus Porto, Doctoral Student, Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Rob Wolfinbarger, Doctoral Student, Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Sam Fletcher, Masters Student, Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering

Contingency Team

• Irfan Batur, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Ryan Sparks, Doctoral Student, The Polytechnic School
• Nehal Srivastava, Doctoral Student, Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Kayla Tarr, Doctoral Student, School of Sustainability

Research Faculty Supervision

• Sneha Roy, Assistant Research Professor (2024-present), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Mindy Kimball, Research Assistant Director (2024-present), The Polytechnic School
• Gabriel Cotlier, Research Scientist (2024), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Samuel Markolf, Assistant Research Professor (2019-2021), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
• Andrew Fraser, Assistant Research Professor (2017-2019), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering

Post-doctoral Advisees

• Eleanor Hennessy, Postdoctoral Scholar (2023-present), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: Post-wildfire Debris Flows: California Electricity and Arizona Roadways
• Rui Li, Postdoctoral Scholar (2022-2023), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: Protecting Against Black Swan Cascading Failures
• Alysha Helmrich, Postdoctoral Scholar (2021-2022), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: US State Department Facility Vulnerability Assessment
• Nasir Ahmad, Postdoctoral Scholar (2018-2021), Global Institute of Sustainability
  Project: Urban Sustainability Data Analytics / Synthetic Infrastructure Modeling
• Emily Bondank, Postdoctoral Scholar (2019-2020), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: Reliability Analysis for Roadway Flooding Mitigation
• Samuel Markolf, Postdoctoral Scholar (2016-2019), Global Institute of Sustainability
  Project: Infrastructure Resilience and Climate Adaptation
• Andrew Fraser, Postdoctoral Scholar (2016-2017), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: Critical Assessment of Wildfire Potential and Roadway Infrastructure Vulnerability
• Andrew Berardy, Postdoctoral Scholar (2015-2016), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: Climate Change Vulnerability in the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus
• Susan Spierre Clark, Postdoctoral Scholar (2014-2015), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: The Metabolism of Energy for Urban Transportation
• Kullapa Soratana, Postdoctoral Scholar (2012), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Project: Environmental Assessment of Air and High-speed Rail Corridors

Ph.D. Advisees

• Ryan Hoff, Ph.D. (2023), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: A Proposal for Infrastructure Adaptation and Cascading Failures for Black Swans
• Rui Li, Ph.D. (2022), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Advancing Transportation Climate Vulnerability Assessment Across Infrastructure and Travel Behavior
• Alysha Helmrich, Ph.D. (2021), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Alternative Design Approaches for Advancing Infrastructure Resilience
• Thomaz Carvalhaes, Ph.D. (2021), School of Sustainability
  Thesis: Transitioning into Complexity-Driven Resilience Assessments for Urban Systems
• Christopher Hoehne, Ph.D. (2019), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Urban Heat and Transportation: Human Exposure and Infrastructure
• Emily Bondank, Ph.D. (2019), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Water Distribution Infrastructure Reliability Under Extreme Heat from Climate Change
• Mukunth Natarajan, Ph.D. (2019), School of Sustainability
  Thesis: Food, a Global Product: An Enhanced FEW Nexus Approach
• Daniel Burillo, Ph.D. (2018), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Electric Power Infrastructure Vulnerabilities to Heat Waves from Climate Change
• Yeowon Kim, Ph.D. (2018), School of Sustainability
  Thesis: Safe-to-Fail Infrastructure for Resilient Cities Under Non-stationary Climate
• Andrew Fraser, Ph.D. (2016), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Transportation Infrastructure and Heat Vulnerability
• Vee Subramanian, Ph.D. (2016), School of Sustainability
  Thesis: Addressing Uncertainty and Variability in Attributional LCA
• Janet Reyna, Ph.D. (2016), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Analyzing Urban Energy Use in Buildings: Historic Turnover, Spatial Patterns, and Future Forecasting
• Mindy Kimball, Ph.D. (2014), School of Sustainability
  Thesis: Breaking Automobile Use Path Dependency through Transportation Infrastructure Investment

Masters Advisees

• Madison Horgan, M.S. (2024), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Artificial Intelligence and Electric Power Decision-making
• Macie Joines, M.S. (2023), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Cross-boundary Risks of Hinterland Hazards on City Infrastructure Systems
• Ameyalli Santibanez, M.S. (2021), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Pathways of disruptions between infrastructures in Phoenix, Arizona during an extreme flooding event
• Erica Gilrein, M.S. (2018), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Concepts and Practices for Transforming Infrastructure from Rigid to Adaptable
• Christopher Hoehne, M.S. (2016), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: First-Last Mile Life Cycle Assessment of Los Angeles Transit
• Abhay Khaire, M.S. (2015), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Changing Energy Use Profiles of Urban Transit Systems
• Andrew Fraser, M.S. (2014), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Peak Travel: The Role of Infrastructure Saturation on the Suppression of Automobile Use
• Matthew Nahlik, M.S. (2014), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Transportation and Land Use Life Cycle Environmental Impacts for Public Rail Transit
• Andrew Kaehr, M.S. (2013), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Environmental Life-cycle Assessment of Multi-modal Freight Operations in California
• Ashok Sekar, M.S. (2012), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Is Carbon Sequestration Good for the Environment?
• Chris Gino, M.S.E. (2012), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Integrated Transportation and Land Use Life Cycle Environmental Impacts Along Phoenix’s Light Rail Line
• Melissa Bernardo, M.S. (2012), School of Sustainability
  Thesis: Product Ecolabelling Criteria Using Life Cycle Assessment

Undergraduate Advisees

• Benjamin Bronwlee, B.S. Barrett Honors College (2021), Computer Science
  Thesis: Icarus: Urban-scale Personal Heat Exposure and Mitigation
• Austin Michne, B.S. Barrett Honors College (2019), Computer Science
  Thesis: Icarus: Modeling Large-scale Traffic Patterns and Heat Exposure
• Nathan Holt, B.S. Barrett Honors College (2017), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Roadway Infrastructure Vulnerability to Future Precipitation
• Matthew Bartos, B.S. Barrett Honors College (2014), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Valuing the Water-Energy Nexus Future in Arizona
• Matthew Nahlik, B.S. Barrett Honors College (2013), Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
  Thesis: Integrated Transportation and Land Use Life Cycle Environmental Assessment for Phoenix, Arizona