Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
Education
PhD,The University of Akron,2017
BS,Tribhuvan University,2011
Research Areas
Ship Hydrodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Hayder Alalwan
Graduate Student
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Cwiertny, David
Office: W106 Chemistry Building (CB)
Phone: (319) 335-1400
Email:
hayderabdulkhaleq-alalwan@uiowa.edu
Federico Antolini
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate student
Department of Geographical and Sustainable Sciences
Education
MS,University of Udine,2011
Andrew Arnold
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Education
BS,Webb Institute,2017
Research Areas
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Yog Aryal
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
PhD,The University of Iowa,2017
BS,Tribhuvan University,2007
MS,University of Wyoming,2015
Jessi Ayers
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Advisor: Villarini, Gabriele
Office: 323-7 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Email:
jessica-ayers@uiowa.edu
Education
BS,Indiana University,2015
Research Areas
Hydroclimatology
Christian Bako
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mehedi Hasan Bappy
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Advisor: Carrica, Pablo
Office: 223-5 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Email:
mehedihasan-bappy@uiowa.edu
Education
BS,Bangladesh University,2016
Research Areas
CFD, FEM, Cavitation, Hull Form Optimization
Nancy Barth
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Villarini, Gabriele
Office: 323-21 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 384-0672
Email:
nancy-barth@uiowa.edu
Education
BA,University of California, Berkeley,2001
MS,California State University, Sacramento,2010
Randall Berdon Jr.
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Buchholz, James
Office: 16 Hydraulics Wind Tunnel Annex (HWTA)
Email:
randall-berdon@uiowa.edu
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2016
Patrick Bitterman
Graduate Student
Statistics & Actuarial Science
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2011
Ellen Black
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2014
MS,The University of Iowa,2014
Jordan Brady
Graduate Student
Department of Geographical and Sustainable Sciences
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Weirich, Frank
Office: 121B Trowbridge Hall (TH)
Phone: (319) 335-1819
Email:
jfoye@iowa.uiowa.edu
Education
BS,University of South Dakota,2013
John Brammeier
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS, Iowa State University, 2016
MS, The University of Iowa,
Iris Brenner
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BA,St. Olaf College,2017
Max Brourman
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BA,The Ohio State University,2017
Megan Christiansen
Graduate Student
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Pratik Das
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
MS,India Institute of Technology,2015
Education
PhD,Bordeaux Graduate School of Engineering,2012
Office: 333 Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building (AJB)
Phone: (319) 335-3945
Email:
mary-deline@uiowa.edu
Education
PhD,Cornell University ,2016
Research Areas
Environmental Communication, Information Avoidance, Resistance to Change
Isaac Di Napoli
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Education
BS,University of Alabama,2017
Research Areas
Fluid Mechanics
Timur Dogan
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Stern, Frederick (Fred)
Office: 223-9 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5257
Email:
timur-dogan@uiowa.edu
Education
MS,The University of Iowa,2013
Can Dong
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,Shandong University,2008
MS,Shandong University,2012
Gregory Dooley
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2017
Research Areas
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Ship Hydrodynamics, Ship Aerodynamics
Chad Drake
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
PhD, The University of Iowa,
BS, Washington State University, 2012
MS, The University of Iowa, 2014
Anthony Emigh
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Advisor: Krajewski, Witold (Witek)
Office: 207-7 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Email:
anthony-emigh@uiowa.edu
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2017
Jessica Ewald
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Education
BS,University of Alabama,2015
Olivia Felber
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS,Clemson University,2017
Greg Geimer
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
MS, The University of Iowa,
BS, Saint Louis University, 2016
Research Areas
Hydrology
Ganesh Ghimire
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
MS, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2016
PhD, The University of Iowa,
Aaron Goddard
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Research Areas
Fluid Structure Interaction
Amina Grant
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS,The Pensylvania State University,2017
Research Areas
Geochemistry, Water Quality
Lauren Grimley
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS, Calvin College, 2016
MA, The University of Iowa,
Research Areas
Urban hydrology
Education
BS,Harbin Institure of Technology,2016
Babak Haghighi
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Nick Herkert
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Navid Jadidoleslam
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Office: 223-25 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 384-2191
Email:
navid-jadidoleslam@uiowa.edu
Education
PhD, The University of Iowa,
MS, Istanbul Technical University, 2014
BS, University of Tabriz, 2012
Research Areas
Hydrology
Numerical modeling
Jacob Jahnke
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BA,Gustavus Adolphus College,2016
Research Areas
Environmental Engineering
Nathan Janechek
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Maddy Jensen
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BA,Coe College,2017
Research Areas
Emerging Water Contaminants, Treatment Solutions
Adam Johns
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Munsung Keem
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
PhD, The University of Iowa,
BS, Pukyong National University, 2007
MS, Pukyong National University, 2010
Dong Hwan Kim
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Stern, Frederick (Fred)
Office: 223-12 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5220
Email:
donghwan-kim@uiowa.edu
Research Areas
Computational fluid dynamics
Yagin Kim
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Carrica, Pablo
Office: 223-8 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 384-0642
Email:
yagin-kim@uiowa.edu
Education
MS,Pusan National University,2015
Research Areas
Ship Hydrodynamics
CFD
Dong Young Kim
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Education
MS,Inha University,2017
BS,Inha University,2015
Andrew Kral
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mike Krasowski
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,2017
Austin Krebill
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
MS,National Taiwan University,2014
Kendra Markland
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Email:
kendra-miner@uiowa.edu
Education
MS,The University of Iowa,
BA,Coe College,2016
Research Areas
Water Quality
Kendra Markland
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email:
kendra-miner@uiowa.edu
Education
BA,Coe College,2016
MS,The University of Iowa,2018
PhD,The University of Iowa,
Becca Mattson
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,University of Minnesota,2016
Ryan McCarthy
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Monica McFadden
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS,University of Notre Dame,2017
Research Areas
Biotransformation of Emerging Contaminants
Matthew Meulemans
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS,Upper Iowa University,2017
Research Areas
SWD
Hannah Molitor
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,University of Wisconsin - Platteville,2016
Alex Morrison
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
PhD, The University of Iowa,
Claire Muerdter
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,University of Washington,2007
MS,University of Maryland,2015
Research Areas
Environmental Engineering
Plant Processing of Pollutants
Cristina E. Muñoz
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Matthew Nagorzanski
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2016
Anas Nassar
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Research Areas
CFD, Combustion, Optimization
Luiza Notini De Andrade
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,Federal University of Minas Gerais,2014
MS,Federal University of Minas Gerais,2016
Sungtek Park
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Education
BS,Busan National University,2012
MS,Seoul University,2014
PhD,The University of Iowa,
Research Areas
Ship Hydrodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Gabriel Perez Mesa
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Mantilla Gutierrez, Ricardo
Office: 323-26 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-5638
Email:
gabriel-perezmesa@uiowa.edu
Education
BS,University of Colombia,2012
MS,University of Colombia,2015
Advisor: Cwiertny, David
Office: E431 Chemistry Building (CB)
Phone: (319) 384-1888
Email:
nicholas-pflug@uiowa.edu
Education
MS,University of Nevada, Reno,2012
BA,Drake University,2003
Shivendra Prakash
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,Jabalpur Engineering College,2011
MS,Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,2013
Research Areas
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Jiajie Qian
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Email:
jiajie-qian@uiowa.edu
Education
MS,The University of Iowa,
Education
PhD,Montana State University,2016
M.Sc,Montana State University,2012
BS,Montana State University,2010
Research Areas
Biomedical Engineering
Maral Razmand
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Weber, Larry
Office: 223-10 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 384-0646
Email:
maral-razmand@uiowa.edu
Education
MS,Middle East Technical University,2015
Research Areas
Watershed Mathematical Model Development
Pat Richards
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,University of Wyoming,2010
Research Areas
Vinyl Chloride Oxidizing Bacteria
Thomas Robinson
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BA,Grinnell College,2016
Sidhartha Roy
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2015
Trevor Rundhaug
Education
BS,University of Wisconsin,2015
Education
M.Sc,Chulalongkorn University,2010
BS,Chulalongkorn University,2007
Research Areas
Analytical method development for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) metabolites
Hunter Schroer
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,Baylor University,2014
Education
BS,National Institute of Technology, Calicut,2009
MS,Michigan State University,2011
Research Areas
Computational mechanics
Muhammed Sermet
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,Ege University Turkey,2012
Muhammed Ali Sit
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,Istanbul Sehir University,2017
Rachel Smoak
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS,University of South Carolina,2016
Danielle Thomas
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Advisor: Krajewski, Witold (Witek)
Office: 207-5 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Email:
danielle-thomas@uiowa.edu
Education
BS,University of Southern California,2017
Research Areas
Flood Frequency as it Relates to Climate Change
Mohsen Vahidzadeh
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,Amirkabir University of Technology,2011
MS,University of Tehran,2014
Research Areas
Renewable Energies
Srishti Vishwakarma
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Krajewski, Witold (Witek)
Office: 323-25 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-6486
Email:
srishti-vishwakarma@uiowa.edu
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee,2015
Kevin Wabick
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Research Areas
Aerodynamics
Fluid dynamics
Education
PhD,University of Hong Kong,2012
Bo Wang
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Statistics & Actuarial Science
Danielle Webb
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,The University of St. Thomas,2016
Erica Wiener
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS,University of Colorado - Boulder,2016
Research Areas
Engineered Natural Treatment Systems, Fungal Bioremediation
Hao Wu
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
MS,NTNU,2017
BS,Harbin Engineering University,2014
Research Areas
Hydraulics and Water Resource
Zhongrun Xiang
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
MA,University of Maryland,2016
BS,China Pharmacentical University,2015
BS,Troy University,2015
Research Areas
Water Resources
Haowen Xu
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Advisor: Weber, Larry
Office: 207-3 Stanley Hydraulics Lab (SHL)
Phone: (319) 335-6486
Email:
haowen-xu@uiowa.edu
Education
BS,The University of Iowa,2013
Zhiqi Yang
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
MS,Nanjing University,2017
Enes Yildirim
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
PhD,The University of Iowa,
MA,The University of Iowa,2017
BS,Cumhuriyet University,2013
Ben Yuan
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Education
BS,University of Science and Technology, China,2017
Research Areas
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Hui Zhi
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,China Pharmacentical University,2009
MS,Cornell University ,2015
Research Areas
Fundamental Mechanisms Related to the fate, Transport and Biotransformation of Emerging Contaminants in Aquatic Systems.
Zhe Zhou
Graduate Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Education
BS,China University of Mining and Technology,2012
MA,Tongji University,2015
Chen Zhu
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Advisor: Lin, Ching-long
Chunrui Zou
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Research Areas
Mechanical Engineering (Fluid-Solid Interactions)
