Faculty

The Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty shown below include professors, associate professors, and assistant professors with primary and joint appointments. To view additional faculty (courtesy, emeritus and visiting), select the "Find Faculty by Appointment" tab to filter results.
  • Nicholas J. Garber

    Henry L. Kinnier Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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    Nicholas J. Garber is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Central Florida, and the Henry L. Kinnier Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia.

  • Jose Pantaleon Gomez III Headshot

    Jose Gomez was recently the Director of Research for the Virginia Transportation Research Council, the Virginia Department of Transportation’s research division until he retired in 2016. Highlights from his career include co-Principal Investigator on 16 external grants totaling over $5.4 million in research and co-author of 42 research reports.

  • Jonathan L. Goodall

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Director, Link Lab
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    Jonathan Goodall is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA) and Director of the UVA Engineering Link Lab

  • Devin K. Harris

    Professor of Civil Engineering Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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    Professor Harris is chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching interests focus on large scale infrastructure systems with a primary focus on condition monitoring and system performance.

  • Arsalan Heydarian

    Associate Professor
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    Arsalan Heydarian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as the UVA Link Lab. His research broadly focuses on user-centered design, construction, and operation of intelligent infrastructure with the objective of enhancing their sustainability, adaptability, and resilience. 

  • Lester A. Hoel

    L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus
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    Lester A. Hoel is the L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Virginia. He held the Hamilton Professorship in Civil Engineering from 1974 to 1999. From 1974 to 1989, he was Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering. Before this, he served…
  • Cornelius O. Horgan, Professor Emeritus

    Wills Johnson Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Emeritus, University of Virginia
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    Cornelius O. Horgan is the Wills Johnson Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Emeritus in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. He was educated at the National University of Ireland (B.Sc. 1964, M.Sc. 1965, Mathematical…
  • Lindsay Ivey-Burden

    Assistant Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track Managing Director, MATS UTC Director, Center for Transportation Studies
    Lindsay Ivey-Burden

    Dr. Ivey-Burden joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia in January 2012. Her research and teaching interests include geotechnical engineering, foundations engineering, solid waste management, risk analysis in infrastructure systems, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and geophysical testing techn

  • klotz
    Leidy Klotz is filling in underexplored overlaps between engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable systems. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in venues that include top academic journals in built environment engineering, engineering education…
  • Venkataraman Lakshmi

    John L. Newcomb Professor of Engineering President-Elect Hydrology Section, American Geophysical Union
    Venkataraman Lakshmi

    Venkat graduated from University of Roorkee in 1987 with a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and a Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1996 from Princeton.