Faculty & Project Investigators
Ross W. Boulanger, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil liquefaction, ground improvement, and seismic soil-structure interaction
Colleen Bronner, Ph.D.
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: diversity and inclusion in engineering, project-based learning, engineering pedagogy and assessment, innovative teaching techniques for civil and environmental engineering courses
Jason T. DeJong, Ph.D.
Soil Interactions Laboratory
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: geotechnical engineering, biocementation, MICP, biofilms, root-inspired foundations, soil & site characterization, and earthquake engineering
Michael Gomez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington
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Center Research Interests: biogeochemistry, biostimulation, geophysics, upscaling of MICP
Alissa Kendall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: industrial ecology, life cycle sustainability assessment, environmental assessment
Alejandro Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: bio-inspired geotechnics, soil-structure interfaces, site characterization, discrete element modeling, 3D printing
Doug Nelson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: ecology, physiology, and genetics of bacteria from pure cultures and stimulated in soils, bacteria species active in calcite precipitation and bio-film production
Rebecca Parales, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: bacterial degradation of man-made environmental pollutants, bacterial chemotaxis to pollutants and man-made chemicals
Dan Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Geotechnical Modeling
Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: bio-inspired foundation and anchorage systems, experimental geotechnical engineering, dynamic centrifuge modeling, instrumentation, and data management and visualization
Katerina Ziotopoulou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
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Center Research Interests: constitutive modeling of soils, geotechnical earthquake engineering, cemented sands, microbially induced calcite presentation
Current Student Researchers
- Matthew Burrall (2015-present) – M.S.C.E./Ph.D.: “Root-Inspired Reinforcement Systems”
- Kate Darby (2017-present) – PhD.: “Effect of Cementation on Liquefaction Triggering”
- Alex Camil San Pablo (2015-present) – B.S.C.E.: “Bio-mediated Soil Improvement”
- Charles Graddy (2014-present) – Ph.D.: “Microbial Processes & Population Changes: Biostimulation for Ureolysis-MICP & Denitrification”
- Gabby Hernandez (2015-present) – B.S.C.E / M.S.C.E.: “Effect of Cementation on Liquefaction Triggering”
- Ali Khosravi (2017-present) – Post-Doc: “Bio-Inspired Soil Penetrometer”
- Sophia Palumbo (2016-present) – M.S.C.E.: “Bio-Inspired Soil Structure Interfaces”
- Alena Raymond (2015-present) – M.S.C.E.: “LCSA Framework for Evaluation of Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Technologies”
- Jamie Tipton (2016-present) – M.S.C.E.: “LCSA Framework for Evaluation of Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Technologies”
Former Student Researchers
- Michael Gomez (2013-2017) – Ph.D.: “Bio-cementation Field Scale Trials: Addressing the Challenges of Treatment Uniformity & Verification, Biostimulation, & By-product Management”
- Diana Nguyen (2016) – B.S. Biotechnology: “Engaging Girls in Civil Engineering through Educational Outreach”
- Mohamed Nassar (2016) – Post-doc: Upscaled Modeling for Field MICP Applications”
- Deviyani Gurung (2014-2016) – M.S.C.E.: “Biogeochemical Upscale Modeling of MICP”