Water Systems

Damena Agonafer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Email: agonafer@wustl.edu
- Data Center Cooling
- Thermal Management
- Thermal Desalination
- Hypersonics
- Additive Manufacturing

Jeffrey G Catalano, PhD
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: catalano@levee.wustl.edu
- Biogeochemistry in soils and aquatic system

Daniel Giammar, PhD
Professor of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
- Email: giammar@wustl.edu
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration
- Biogeochemical Processes Influencing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Zhen (Jason) He, PhD
Professor of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
- Email: zhenhe@wustl.edu
- Energy-efficient water and wastewater treatment
- Resource recovery from wastes
- Bioenergy production

Derek Hoeferlin, MArch
Associate Professor, Chair of landscape architecture and urban design programs
- Email: hoeferlin@wustl.edu
- Architecture
- Landscape architecture
- Urban design
- Water-based design strategies
- Climate change adaptation
- Comparative watershed research

Young-Shin Jun, PhD
Professor in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
- Email: ysjun@wustl.edu
- Carbon capture, utilization, and storage
- CO2-material interactions
- Water purification for remote or disaster-struck areas

Bronwen L Konecky, PhD
Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: bkonecky@wustl.edu
- Tropical climate variability and change
- Paleoclimatology
- Global water cycle
- Stable isotope and organic geochemistry
- Paleoclimate modeling and data-model intercomparison
- Natural drivers of climate change

Edward McPherson, MFA
Associate Professor of English
- Email: emcpherson@wustl.edu
- Environmental justice
- Climate Change
- Radioactive/nuclear legacy
- Fracking/oil & gas production

Kimberly Parker , PhD
Assistant Professor, Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering
- Email: kmparker@wustl.edu
- Pollutant fate & transport
- Emerging biotechnology
- Water treatment

Ramesh Raliya, PhD
Research Scientist, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
- Email: rameshraliya@wustl.edu
- Reducing fertilizer runoff
- Sustainable agriculture
- Energy efficient recovery
- Recycling and reuse of nutrients and water
- Integration of data science and artificial intelligence

William H Smith, PhD
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: whsmith@levee.wustl.edu
- Viability and composition of ecological niches
- Identification of species in oceans
- Land and urban environments