PhD Advisors at Colorado School of Mines 科罗拉多矿业学院 US
Quick answer: Colorado School of Mines in the US has 360 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 6 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at Colorado School of Mines, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (6)
Professors at Colorado School of Mines with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Andriy Zakutayev
Research Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ If you are interested in research opportunities at NLR supported by an external graduate, postdoctoral or professional felowship, please contact me at Andriy.Zakutayev@nrel.gov.
Discovery and design of inorganic materials; high-throughput experimental methods, including automated and autonomous experimentation; non-equilibrium synthesis of metastable materials (in particular nitrides); discovery of previously unreported compositions and structures; funda…
Brooks Tellekamp
Research Scientist · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ If you are interested in research opportunities at NLR supported by an external graduate, postdoctoral or professional fellowship, please contact me at brooks.tellekamp@nlr.gov.
Development of materials for next generation power electronic devices and neuromorphic computing; ultra-wide band gap (UWBG) semiconductors with nitride and oxide chemistry; ternary nitrides, correlated oxides, and crystalline carbide thin films; high-temperature and extreme envi…
C. Estelle Smith
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Professor Smith is seeking excellent students to join her research lab beginning in January 2023. Positions are available for highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students interested in HCI, participatory design, and health and wellbeing. Prospective researchers should complete the following …
Human-Computer Interaction and Social Computing
Whole-Human-Centered Design for UI/UX, AI/ML, and Community Data Science
Computational Spiritual Support
Mental Health and Social Support
Online Communities
Guannan Liu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Dr. Liu has multiple openings for self-motivated students to work on cybersecurity research. Prospective researchers should email Dr. Liu with CVs and any other supporting materials.
Network security, System security, Cloud computing security, User Authentication, access control, and authorization
Parisa Bazazi
Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Two Ph.D. positions are available on experimental studies related to Interfacial Flows and Soft Matter. Candidates with a background in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Petroleum) or related disciplines with a strong interest in laboratory work, experimental fluid dynamics, and hands-on assembly o…
Emulsions/Foams
Wetting dynamics
3D Printing/Coating
Interfacial Flow
Interfacial Rheology
Hydrogen Storage and Transport
Ryan M. Richards
Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Post-Doctoral Researcher Position Available
The Richards group works at the interface of the fields of renewable energy, nanoscale materials, sustainability, circular economy, catalysis and inorganic chemistry. The group leverages collaborative efforts (predominantly at Mines and NRL) with in-situ characterization (ie. mic…
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Aaron Goodman
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Developing new analytical methods in geochemistry and environmental chemistry, with an emphasis on nanoscale particles. Single particle ICP-MS methods to detect, quantify, and characterize nanoparticles for several geochemical applications, ranging from mineral exploration to air…
Aaron Malone
Research Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
critical minerals and energy transition, rural development and economic change, migration and mobility, and public policy, with a focus on Latin America and the US
Aashutosh Mistry
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abd Arkadan
Interim Department Head, Professor (Graduate and Teaching Faculty), Electrical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Power and Energy Systems
Electric Machines and Drives
Design Optimization
Applications:
Renewable and Efficient Energy and Power Systems
Electric Vehicles
Micro-grids
Onboard Aerospace and Marine Power Systems
Adam Creuziger
Affiliate Faculty, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adam Duran
Teaching Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adrianne C. Kroepsch
Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
I study environmental governance in the American West and have active research projects on water, unconventional oil and gas, and wildfire.
Adrienne Marshall
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Dr. Adrienne Marshall is a computational hydrologist with research focused on snow, ecohydrology, permafrost, and hydropower. These research interests are united by a desire to understand how climate change is altering water resources and identify solutions to these problems from…
Ahmad Afif Abdul Majid
Chemical and Biological Engineering Affiliate Faculty · Colorado School of Mines
My research expertise is in rheology of gas hydrate slurries, droplet and particle size distribution, flow assurance in oil/gas flowlines. My research interests include studying the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of gas hydrates system. My current research works includes ga…
Alan Mencin
Research Faculty, Tailings Center Site Director · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alan Sellinger
Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
The Sellinger research group focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of organic, polymer, and hybrid based materials for application in thin film solar cells (polymer semiconductors), radiation detection (organic/polymer scintillators, 3D printing), critical rare ea…
Alexander Pak
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
The “bottom-up” design of soft materials from self-assembled and/or self-organized molecular building blocks has broad applications in energy, sustainability, and healthcare. Thermodynamic and kinetic control over molecular structures, which can be hierarchical or dynamical in na…
Alexandra Chakarov
Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexis Navarre-Sitchler
Professor, Department Head, and Ben Fryrear Endowed Chair for Innovation and Excellence, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Aqueous geochemistry including water-rock interactions.
Interaction between fluid transport and mineral dissolution kinetics including the use of reactive transport modeling.
Characterization of natural materials using multiple techniques including X-ray diffraction, scanning ele…
Ali Kerr
Teaching Assistant Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. Her most recent projects have focused on developing engineering and science students’ relevant non-technical professional skills including leadership, creativity …
Ali Tura
Professor, Petroleum Engineering
Reservoir characterization
Seismic data processing
Seismic data analysis
Time-lapse seismic
Rock physics
Fiber optic technology
Data analytics
Distributed fiber optic sensing in the subsurface.
Using data analytics to invert problems with complex physics.
Allyce Horan
Teaching Associate Professor · Colorado School of Mines
understanding how literature, law, and language shaped 18th-century France's perception of family, citizenship, and class; understanding how individual STEM disciplines discuss and categorize concepts of 'good' writing; methods to cultivate community for STEM graduate students; w…
Amadeu K. Sum
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Our research centers around WATER as a sustainable functional material, in particular when combined with gases to form a crystalline phase, known as CLATHRATE HYDRATES. These phase change properties of water can be tuned depending on the gas(es), temperature, and pressure, makin…
Amanda Jameer
Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amy Clarke
Joint Appointment from Los Alamos National Laboratory · Colorado School of Mines
Physical metallurgy and making, measuring, and modeling metallic alloys during processing to realize advanced manufacturing. Multiscale materials characterization with electrons, x-rays, neutrons, and protons, such as real-time imaging of metallic alloy solidification dynamics du…
Andrew H. Pederson
Teaching Associate Professor, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Herring
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Research in the Herring group is generally in the area of Energy with a particular emphasis on Renewable Energy. We work at the interface of materials science and chemical engineering and most of our work is collaborative in nature the majority with the National Laboratory of the…
Andrew Kustas
Affiliate Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Osborne
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
application of high performance computing and reactor theory to model coupled multiphysics phenomena in a broad variety of nuclear reactor systems; hybrid energy systems, numerical methods and software engineering
Angel Abbud-Madrid
Professor of Practice, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Space Resources, Microgravity Science, Aerospace Technology, Combustion Phenomena, Planetary Science
Anna Staerz
Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Operando Spectro-Electrochemical Studies of the Metal Oxide Gas Interface
Gas Sensor Applications
Annalise Maughan
Assistant Professor, Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Research in the Maughan group is aimed at developing structure-dynamics-property relationships in functional solid-state materials for applications in renewable energy. Inspired by the grand challenge of “Materials by Design”, our research emphasizes crystal-chemical control thro…
Annette Bunge
Emerita Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Manifestation of therapeutic or toxic effects following chemical contact with our skin only occurs if there is dermal absorption. The goal of our research is to understand skin’s behavior as a barrier to chemicals that contact the skin whether they are applied intentionally as me…
Anthony Petrella
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
computational and also experimental study of the musculoskeletal system. Specific areas of focus include spine, hip, and knee mechanics.
Antonie (Tony) Vandenberge
Professor of Practice · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anuj Chauhan
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Our group is interested in transport and interfacial phenomena in a broad range of biomedical applications with a strong focus on ophthalmology. We are working in a number of areas including ophthalmic drug delivery, designing lubricious contact lenses, modeling ocular physiolog…
Arun Devaraj
Research Faculty, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformation in metallic alloys; behavior of metastable phases.
Interfacial phenomenon in materials: solute segregation at grain boundaries and interphase boundaries.
Microstructure-mechanical/magnetic/electronic property relationships in ma…
Atef Elsherbeni
Professor, Electrical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
scattering/diffraction of EM waves, computational EM using FDTD, field visualization/software development for EM education, RFID/sensor integrated RFID systems, reflector/printed antennas & antenna arrays
Aubrey Wigner
Teaching Assistant Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aysu Betin-Can
Teaching Associate Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Automated Software Testing & Verification
Ben Frieman
Research Assistant Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ben Gilbert
Associate Professor, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
Environmental and natural resource economics
Energy economics
Applied microeconomics
Public economics
Economics of institutions
Bettina M. Voelker
Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Biogeochemical cycling of toxic and nutrient metals. Photochemistry and free radical chemistry in aqueous environment systems.
Bia Villas Bôas
Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
Physical oceanography
Remote sensing
Air-sea interactions
Ocean surface waves
Coupled modeling of winds, currents, and waves
Scientific computing education
Bill Zisch
J. Steven Whisler Head of Mining Engineering Endowed Chair · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bo Wu
Associate Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
My research interest lies in the broad field of compilers and programming systems, with an emphasis on program optimizations for heterogeneous computing and emerging architectures. Most of my research activities have centered around data locality enhancement for heterogeneous com…
Brandon Dugan
Associate Department Head, Professor, Geophysics, Baker Hughes Chair in Petrophysics and Borehole Geophysics · Colorado School of Mines
Geomechanical and petrophysical properties of mud and shale
Fluid flow and slope stability in sedimentary basins
Fluids, faults, and megathrust earthquakes
Unconventional freshwater resources
Hydrologic impacts of charcoal on soil
Brendan Hanger
Teaching Assistant Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Geoscience Education
Mantle Processes, Phenomena and Geochemistry
Igneous Petrology and Geochemistry
In-situ Mineral Chemistry
Not taking graduate students
Brennan Sprinkle
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
Brownian dynamics, Numerical methods for SDEs, Colloidal suspensions; Computational fluid dynamics, Immersed boundary methods; Simulating actin suspensions/fiber networks
Brian G. Trewyn
Professor and Department Head, Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Research in the Trewyn group includes “all things porous.” The highly interdisciplinary research activities have us discussing and investigating new materials for drug delivery and controlled release systems, challenging electrocatalysis systems with methane and CO2, heterogeneou…
Brian Gockel
Professor of Practice, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Brian P. Gorman
Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Brianna Zrinsky
Teaching Assistant Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
International students’ music education experiences, wind repertoire and conducting, and instrumental music education methods.
C. Matthew Enloe
Affiliate Faculty for Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
C. Michael McGuirk
Associate Professor, Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Research in the McGuirk Lab exists the interface of synthetic chemistry and materials science, addressing fundamental scientific challenges related to organic and hybrid materials, supramolecular assembly, and environmental sustainability. Our group leverages expertise in non-cov…
Cara Juergensen
Cara Juergensen - Engineering, Design, & Society · Engineering, Design, & Society
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Cara Phillips
Teaching Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Carl Frick
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Dean, Graduate Studies · Colorado School of Mines
Carl’s research activities involve integration of materials science and mechanical engineering, to characterize materials for use in emerging technologies. Current projects primarily focus on exploring the mechanical behavior of materials, with specific interests in additive manu…
Carolyn Koh
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Natural gas hydrates are crystalline inclusion compounds, which are capable of hosting small molecules inside the cages of a hydrogen-bonded water framework. Hydrates of natural gas present a potential hazard to the oil and gas industries when they form in subsea oil/gas flowline…
Carrie Farberow
Chemical and Biological Engineering Affiliate Faculty · Colorado School of Mines
Design processes and catalysts to produce fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste resources; experimental reaction kinetics, materials characterization, quantum chemical calculations, and kinetic and microkinetic modeling; hydrodeoxygenation for vapor-phase upgrading in ex sit…
Cathy Skokan
Cathy Skokan ’70, MS ’72, PhD ’75 - Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Mines · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Cecilia Diniz Behn
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
My research applies multiscale mathematical modeling to investigate key research questions in metabolism, sleep, and circadian rhythms. Specifically, I model key dynamics in whole-body metabolism including changes in glucose, glycerol, and insulin; sleep and circadian (~24 h) neu…
Chelsea L. Panos
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christian Beren
Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
My research interests focus on the physical principles of viral self-assembly. Viruses are simple physical objects (and therefore, very simple organisms!), with the simplest viruses being composed of only two components, a single-stranded (ss)RNA genome and 180 identical copies o…
Christine Liebe
Professor of Practice, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
K-12 computer science teacher education, abstraction, computational thinking, critical thinking, and learning through research
Christopher Bellona
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Dr. Christopher Bellona's teaching and research interests primarily revolve around technologies for water and wastewater treatment, water reuse, and remediation. Particularly, he strives to use fundamental concepts to understand the behavior of large treatment systems. A large pe…
Christopher Dreyer
Professor of Practice, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Space resource technology development; Mining of the Moon, asteroids, and Mars; Resource processing; Space manufacturing and construction methods; Instruments for space exploration and in situ evaluation
Christopher P. Higgins
AMAX Distinguished Chair, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Dr. Christopher Higgins' research focuses on the fate, transport, and bioaccumulation of emerging contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial systems. Current research projects are examining:
- the release and transport of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) through soils
- h…
Chuan Yue
Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Web, Mobile, Cloud, Cyber-Physical, IoT and AI systems security, usable security and privacy, vulnerability measurement and analysis, and cybersecurity education.
Cindy Athanasiou
Teaching Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Colin Wolden
William K. Coors Distinguished Chair and Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Our research interests are focused on the synthesis of nanostructured materials and their application to solving challenges in the areas of renewable energy and sustainability. Synthesis techniques include both vapor deposition (sputtering, CVD) and solution processing (reactive …
Conrad (Brock) O'Kelley
Research Associate Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Corby Anderson
Joint Appointment, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering; Professor, Mining Engineering; Director, Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Craig Brice
Fryrear Endowed Chair and Professor of Practice, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Additive Manufacturing Program · Colorado School of Mines
Additive manufacturing in a range of materials from metals to ceramics to polymers; Process feedback control of AM systems; Alloy design and property development; Qualification and certification of AM processes and part; AM education and workforce development
Cristian V. Ciobanu
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Nanoscale surface problems, two-dimensional materials, materials for renewable energy applications, developments of evolutionary algorithms for computational materials design and optimization of atomic structures, self-organized nano and bio structures on crystal surfaces, among …
Crystal Dobratz
Teaching Associate Professor, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
D. Vaughan Griffiths
Department Head and Professor · Colorado School of Mines
finite element modeling and risk assessment in civil and geotechnical engineering; e.g. slope stability, foundations and seepage analysis
Daisy Philtron
Teaching Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
Bayesian modeling of genetic data and problems in multiple comparisons. Currently working to identify genetic modifiers of Parkinson's disease as part of a collaborative effort with the Gladstone Institutes.
Daniel Blood
Teaching Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Daniel Jerrett
Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
Macroeconometrics and commodities; Gold
Daniel M. Knauss
Associate Dean of Energy and Materials, Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Polymer and materials chemistry is a vibrant area of research key to continued technological progress particularly in the areas of nanomaterials and nanotechnology. Research in the Knauss Group is dedicated to the study of macromolecular chemistry and characterization of new mate…
Daniel McKenzie
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
Derivative-free optimization and applications
Implicit neural networks
Geometric methods in data science
David Benson
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Fractional Calculus and Hydrology.
Mixing-Limited Chemical Reactions in Porous Media.
Numerical Methods, including Lagrangian Schemes.
Self-Similar Random Fields.
David Diercks
Research Faculty, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David Halat
Assistant Professor, Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David N. Culbreth
Professor of Practice, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David W.M. Marr
Gaylord and Phyllis Weaver Distinguished Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
The controlled assembly of colloidal particles has received significant attention because of their potential application as nano- and micro-structured materials. To vary their structure and behavior, we employ external fields, including applied time-varying electromagnetic, elect…
Dean Nieusma
Associate Professor and Department Head, Engineering, Design, & Society · Colorado School of Mines
integrating social and technical dimensions of engineering in education and practice, with a focus on design and project-based learning; social and ethical implications of technologies; application of engineering and design expertise to enduring social and environmental problems
Dejun Yang
Associate Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
My research interests are in networking, mobile sensing and computing, and Internet of things. Specifically, I apply game theory, optimization, algorithm design, and machine learning to resource allocation, security, and privacy problems in these areas.
Denis Aslangil
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Turbulence theory, hydrodynamic instabilities, interfacial flows, and fluid-solid-shock interactions. He has extensive experience in high-fidelity numerical simulations, including Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES), as well as high-performance compu…
Diego Gomez-Gualdron
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
The discovery of new materials is fundamental to the development of innovative technologies for production, storage and efficient use of energy. The advent of nanotechnology has given rise to the possibility of tuning the properties of materials by manipulating their architectur…
Dinesh Mehta
Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
My core research expertise is in algorithms and data structures which I have applied to interdisciplinary areas such as VLSI design automation, cheminformatics, computational materials and cyber-physical systems. I am focusing my current research to address algorithmic problems a…
Dong Chen
Associate Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Embedded AI, Embodied AI, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), user/system security and privacy, system sustainability, system efficiency in smart/edge devices, smart homes, smart buildings, smart urban and connected communities, smart cities
Donna Bodeau
Professor of Practice, Engineering, Design, and Society
research, product development, data and spectral analysis; cathode ray tubes and electron beam uniformity characterization; developing solutions for people with disabilities; teaching students design methodology, how to develop controller technologies, data analysis skills, and p…
Dorit Hammerling
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
Spatial statistics for large data, Environmental statistics, Computational statistics, Weather and climate applications, Oil and gas emissions and local sensing, Remote sensing data applications
Duncan Davis-Hall
Teaching Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dylan Domaille
Associate Professor, Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
The Domaille lab is a chemical biology lab in the Department of Chemistry at the Colorado School of Mines. Using principles from organic chemistry, engineering, and materials science, we develop tools and processes that address critical concerns in the fields of energy and human …
Ebru Bozdağ
Associate Professor Jointly Appointed: Applied Math & Statistics and Geophysics · Colorado School of Mines
Global & Computational Seismology
Eileen Martin
Associate Professor, Geophysics and Applied Math and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
Near-surface, engineering, environmental and urban geophysics
Analysis of large sensor networks
Fiber-optic sensing, including distributed acoustic sensing
Signal processing, imaging, and inverse problems
Data-intensive high performance computing
Passive seismic methods
Elijah Kuska
Teaching Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Computational research aimed at improving treatment outcomes for disabled individuals through in silico techniques.
Eliza Buhrer
Teaching Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Elizabeth Holley
Associate Professor, Mining Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Mineral exploration vectors and genetic models: Carlin-type, porphyry and epithermal deposits
Sulfide and sulfate mineral behavior in the heap leach and mine waste environments
Geological controls on production, processing and reclamation
Public policy and public participation in…
Elizabeth Reddy
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, Design, & Society
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Emmanuel De Moor
Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Alloying; Microstructure and properties of steel
Erdal Ozkan
Professor, Petroleum Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
horizontal and multilateral well technology, pressure-transient analysis, modeling fluid flow in porous media, and unconventional reservoirs
Eric Anderson
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Interactions between the hydrosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere; numerical modeling of Earth's largest lakes and rivers, extreme storms (meteotsunamis), coastal flooding, lake-effect precipitation, and impacts on the ecosystem.
Eric Anderson
External Joint Appointee · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Eric Roberts
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Basin analysis, energy exploration and sedimentary geology with a focus on Mesozoic-Cenozoic basins in Gondwana and North America
U-Pb geochronology and sedimentary provenance analysis
Critical minerals and resources, including Helium and Hydrogen exploration
Hydrocarbon explorat…
Eric Toberer
Professor, Department of Physics · Colorado School of Mines
Our work is at the interface between chemistry, solid-state physics, and material science, and targets new materials for energy applications. We develop predictive relationships between the chemical structure of a material and the resulting properties, thereby guiding our search …
Eve Mozur
Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
The central question of Dr. Mozur's scholarship is "Why do we use the materials that we use?". Answering this question necessitates an atomistic and microscale understanding of the relationship between the structure and properties of the material in question. It also generates ne…
Frankie Zhu
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
dynamics and controls, robotics, machine learning, and space exploration
Fred Day-Lewis
Joint Appointee Research Faculty · Colorado School of Mines
Hydrogeophysics
Groundwater/surface-water exchange
Real-time geophysical monitoring
Predictive data analytics, inverse modeling, and parameter estimation
Digital signal processing
Frederic Sarazin
Professor, Department Head, Department of Physics · Colorado School of Mines
Low-energy nuclear structure & nuclear astrophysics; Ultra high-energy cosmic-ray physics
Gabriel Fierro
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
databases, cyberphysical systems, the Internet of Things, data modeling and semantic interoperability
Gabriel Santamaria-Botello
Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
Nonlinear and quantum optics, Microwave and integrated photonics, Low-noise mm-wave and THz sensing, Superconducting circuits, Computational Electromagnetics (MLFMM)
Gabriel Walton
Associate Department Head, Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Rock Mechanics
Numerical modelling of slopes and underground works
Rockmass characterization
Applications of geophysics and remote sensing in Geological Engineering
Garrett Erickson
Garrett Erickson - Engineering, Design, & Society · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Garrison Hommer
Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Mechanical testing of traditional and additive alloys, including hydrogen embrittlement, high and low temperature, fatigue, and digital image correlation (DIC).
Ge Jin
Associate Professor, Geophysics · Colorado School of Mines
Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing applications
Machine learning and data mining applications in Geophysics
Advanced seismic imaging methods
Geoff Brennecka
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department Head, George S. Ansell Chair, Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
My group is interested in a wide variety of problems that can be solved (or at least addressed) through the enabling capabilities of advanced ceramic materials. In particular, our work tends to focus on materials that do something interesting under an applied electric field (e.g.…
George P. Kontoudis
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Robotic motion planning, Multi-agent systems, Distributed machine learning, Optimal control, Robot hands for grasping and manipulation
George Sturgis
J. Steven Whisler Professor of Practice · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Greg Fasshauer
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
Kernel-based Methods
Applications of Kernel-based Methods
Numerical Analysis
Functional Analysis
Approximation Theory
Statistics and Stochastics
Machine Learning
Computer-Aided Geometric Design
Multivariate Splines
Greg Jackson
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Concentrated solar energy, high-temperature energy storage, solid-oxide electrochemical systems, high-temperature catalysis and electrochemistry, particle-based heat exchangers and receivers, solid oxide fuel cells, high-temperature steam electrolysis
H. Sebnem Düzgün
Fred Banfield Distinguished Endowed Chair and Professor, Mining Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
systems dynamics modeling, systems safety, mineral supply chains resiliency and transparency, decarbonization and net zero carbon strategies, sustainability, big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality, GIS, remote sensing, information…
Hao Zhang
Associate Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Human-centered robotics, visual perception, robot learning, human-robot interaction, human-robot teaming, and field robotics.
Heather Fester
Teaching Associate Professor and Nature & Human Values Director · Colorado School of Mines
The rhetoric of ideologies, technology and rhetoric, creative and contemplative writing pedagogies, writing program administration, creative nonfiction, documentary poetics, and alternative discourses and composing methods.
Heather Lammers
Associate Department Head & Teaching Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
Mine closure and reclamation strategies with consideration for sitewide water management, cover systems, and geomorphic design.
Mine waste and water management strategies for the lifecycle of a facility considering risk-based design approaches.
Multi-criteria selection and assess…
Hisham Sager
Teaching Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
embedded systems
image processing
computer vision
signal processing
pattern recognition
pedestrian detection
activity recognition
human detection in surveillance videos.
Dr. Sager has been working in the research area of people detection and activity recognition in videos. Speci…
Hojun Choi
Assistant Professor, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Hossein Kazemi
Professor, Chesebro’ Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Petroleum reservoir simulation, improved and enhanced oil recovery, transient testing in wells, and geomechanics simulation
Hua Wang
Graduate Director and Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
machine learning and data mining, as well as their applications in medical image computing, health informatics, cheminformatics, material informatics, additive manufacturing, bioinformatics, and computer vision
Huayang Zhu
Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Hussein A. Amery
Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
water and food security in the Middle East, with a focus on the Arab Gulf states; Islamic perspectives on water management; trans-boundary water politics especially along the Litani, Jordan, Nile, Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Ian Jehn
Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Regolith Mechanics
Lunar Surface Construction
Lunar Launch and Landing Pad Systems
Moonquake Hazard Quantification and Mitigation Systems
Space Resources
Ian Lange
Professor, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
Energy, environmental, and resource economics; Applied Microeconometrics; Behavioral Economics
Ilya Tsvankin
University Distinguished Professor, Geophysics · Colorado School of Mines
Seismic wave propagation
Processing and inversion of seismic data for anisotropic media
Multicomponent seismology
Fracture characterization
Iris Bahar
Department Head and Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Prof. Bahar has published over 200 articles on diverse topics in electronic design automation, computer architecture design, and low power computing. While much of her work falls within "classical" computer systems themes, she is also interested in working in interdisciplinary ar…
Ishan Rao
Chemical and Biological Engineering Affiliate Faculty · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ivar E. Reimanis
Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering; Director, Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics; Herman F. Coors Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Mechanical Behavior: Fracture of ceramics, glasses and composites; crack propagation studies of metal/ceramic interfaces
Processing Science: Synthesis and sintering of ceramics; sintering, densification and microstructure evolution of transparent spinel
Structural Ceramics Grou…
J. McClurg
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Programming Languages, Program Synthesis/Verification, Software-Defined Networking
Jaeheon Lee
Joint Appointment in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Associate Professor in Mining Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Ore characterization and Extractive Metallurgy of Precious and Base Metals
Extraction/Recovery of Rare Earth Elements and Strategic Materials
Recovery of Metals from Aqueous Solutions
Comminution and Mineral Processing
Biomining/Biohydrometallurgy
Processing of Refractory Sulfide…
Jamal Rostami
Professor, Timothy J. Haddon / Alacer Gold Chair in Mining Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
James Ranville
Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Part of my research involves the role of colloids and particles in environmental processes. Environmental colloids can be described as particles smaller than one micrometer. They can make up a significant proportion of suspended sediments and are important in that they: effective…
James Rosenblum
Research Assistant Faculty · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jared Carbone
Professor, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
Environmental economics, Climate change, General equilibrium modelling
Jay Straker
Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
youth, nationalism, ethnicity, cultural politics, and social conflict in West Africa; postcolonial literature and ethnographies of landscape, urbanization and performance
Jeffrey A. Holley
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jeffrey Ackerman
Teaching Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Design, Robotics, Biomechanics
Jeffrey C. King
Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Nuclear reactor design and analysis
Nuclear reactor physics
Small and medium reactors
Nuclear Materials
Computational Methods
Public Policy and Outreach
Jeffrey D. Hyman
External Joint Appointee · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jeffrey Shragge
Professor, Geophysics; Director, Center for Wave Phenomena · Colorado School of Mines
3D acoustic and elastic wave propagation, 3D/4D velocity inversion,
3D/4D Reverse-time migration (RTM), wave-equation migration,
Rock physics, computational geometry and differential meshing
Near-surface geophysics: Ground penetrating radar, magnetics, conductivity profiling, res…
Jeffrey Wheeler
Teaching Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
instrumentation development, diagnostic techniques, process monitoring, and material characterization
Jenifer C. Shafer
Ben L. Fryrear Presidential Chair and Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Advancing f-element separations technology through the use of new materials, supramolecular assembly, unique oxidation states, and controlling electronic structure. Advancing f-element separations technology has broad applications from advanced nuclear fuel cycles, nuclear forens…
Jennifer L. Miskimins
F.H. Mick Merelli/Cimarex Energy Distinguished Department Head Chair in PE, Professor · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jeremy Suiter
Teaching Associate Professor, Economics and Business · Colorado School of Mines
Strategic Management: studying knowledge transfer within organizations, including the extent to which templates or standardized routines are used and the reasons why replication efforts follow/deviate from a strategy of copying templates exactly;
International Business: assessing…
Jessica Jackson
Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Research interests include fundamental understanding of the nature of covalency within the heavy actinides; identification of extractant degradation products via electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; Pu-ligand gas phase behavior; development of extraction chromatographic mat…
Jessica Smith
Professor, Engineering, Design, & Society · Colorado School of Mines
energy, engineering, and public accountability; gender and mining; engineering education; funds of knowledge of low-income and first generation engineering students; belongingness among under-represented students in engineering; influence of social science learning for students' …
Jessica Weihermann
Research Associate · Colorado School of Mines
My interest is in developing new approaches to the radiometric method for geological purposes, e.g., mineral exploration, geological mapping, and environmental studies. My research focuses on data analysis, processing, and interpretation of radiometric data combined with interdis…
Jihye Kim
Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
My research interests lie in the area of extractive metallurgy, carbon sequestration, and waste management. My research group focuses on developing novel, robust, and efficient technologies that tackle the sustainability challenges associated with the supply of critical metals an…
Jim Wong
Teaching Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Johan Vanneste
CEE Research Faculty · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John Berger
Professor · Colorado School of Mines
Electrochemical stresses in lithium-ion batteries and transport membranes
Homogenization methods for heterogeneous materials
Fracture mechanics
Green's functions and boundary element methods
Mechanics of anisotropic materials
John Bradford
Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Global Initiatives · Colorado School of Mines
Ground-penetrating radar
Reflection seismology
Wavefield modeling
Reflection imaging
Waveform attribute analysis
Material property estimation
John G. Speer
Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Steel product development and applications
Physical metallurgy
Phase transformations and microstructural development
John Griesmer
Teaching Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics · Colorado School of Mines
Ergodic theory, additive combinatorics, and harmonic analysis
John Jechura
Professor of Practice, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Petroleum refining
Biofuel production
Improved calculation tools for chemical process design & analysis
John McCray
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Dr. John McCray's research focuses on chemical transport in hydrologic systems, and generally utilize some combination of field, laboratory, and modeling work. His current projects include: current and future sustainability assessment of important watersheds in southern Peru and …
John R. Spear
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
The Spear Research Group is primarily interested in microbes—in any environment. For the past 20 years or so, we have been engaged mostly with the geology : biology interface—Geobiology. We begin with skilled field work to different environments for sample collection that typical…
Jon A. Leydens
Professor, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
problem contextualization, sociotechnical thinking, and social justice
Jonah Klemm-Toole
Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
Alloy and microstructure design for high performance structural materials
Optimizing welding and joining technologies for improved mechanical properties and performance
Welding and brazing filler metal development
Developing additive manufacturing technologies for high temperatur…
Jonathan Miorelli
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Theoretical and computational chemistry, with an interest in how the structure and evolution of a molecule/material’s electron density gives rise to its observed reactivity, specifically within the context of the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM) and Conceptual Density…
Jonathan O. (Josh) Sharp
Professor and Associate Department Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Our group applies biogeochemical processes and insights to better understand water quality and to help develop more sustainable solutions toward water treatment. Current and recent research projects include:
- Nature-based solutions to address water quality challenges in arid env…
Joseph Capriotti
Research Associate · Colorado School of Mines
Open source software development
Gravity and electromagnetic time-lapse monitoring
Procedural model generation
Joseph Samaniuk
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
My group investigates the dynamics of soft matter and complex fluids, which are critical to understand for many applications involving energy and the environment. For example, there are challenges associated with pumping, pouring, and mixing lignocellulosic biomass in processes d…
Joseph Sperling
Research Associate Professor, Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Nuclear Energy for the Modern World
Josue Campos do Prado
Teaching Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
Power and energy systems, Renewable energy, Electricity markets, Engineering education
Joy Gockel
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Additive manufacturing, processing-structure-properties-performance (PSPP) relationship, qualification and certification in AM, development of next-generation AM processes and materials, strategic processing experiments, process modeling, in-situ monitoring, innovative mechanical…
Juan C. Lucena
Professor, Engineering, Design, & Society · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Judith Gomez
Research Assistant Professor (Joint Appointment), Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Chemical and electrochemical conversion of materials. Recycling and resource recovery.
Junko Munakata Marr
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
The unifying theme for my research interests is water reclamation and resource recovery, primarily by using microorganisms in engineered systems. Bacteria and other microbes have useful and sometimes surprising metabolic capabilities that we can harness to remove organic pollutan…
Kadri Dagdelen
Professor, Mining Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Kamini Singha
University Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Earth and Society Programs, Jointly Appointed: Geology and Geological Engineering and Geophysics · Colorado School of Mines
Fluid flow and contaminant transport in porous media and fractured rock as well as groundwater-surface-water interactions.
Integration of hydrologic and geophysical techniques.
Mathematical simulation to improve predictive modeling.
Quantification of the "geophysical footprint" t…
Katharina Pfaff
Research Associate Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Mineral chemistry and mineralogy.
Geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits.
Economic geology of hydrothermal ore deposits.
Thermodynamic modeling of element solubilities, transportation and precipitation mechanisms, and fluid/rock interaction.
Igneous petrology in peralkaline sy…
Kathleen J. Hancock
Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
energy politics, renewable energy, energy equity, nuclear energy, community solar, energy regionalism, regional integration, former Soviet states, mining laws, Africa, hydropower
Kathleen Kelly
Teaching Associate Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Kathryn Johnson
Professor, Electrical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
wind energy control systems and engineering education. Some of her recent wind energy control projects include optimal wind farm control, control of ultra-scale 25-MW and 50-MW wind turbines, control co-design for novel floating offshore wind turbine structures. Her engineering e…
Katie Knaus
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Multiscale mechanical interactions of muscle and tendon
Finite element modeling of 3D muscle and connective tissue structures
Relationships between mobility performance and musculoskeletal properties that vary with age, sex, exercise, and injury
Kaveh Fathian
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Certifiable, Robust, and Resiliant Algorithms
Multi-Agent Systems and Multi-Robot SLAM
Field Robotics and Applied Machine Learning
Keisuke Yazawa
Research Faculty, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Keith Hellman
Teaching Associate Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Kelsey Fulton
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
Human-centric approach to secure software development; Emphasis on mental models and processes of software developers; Usability and improvement of secure development tools
Kenneth Osgood
Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences · Colorado School of Mines
History of U.S. politics and diplomacy, propaganda and intelligence, history of media, advertising, and public relations, international affairs
Kester Clarke
Joint Appointment from Los Alamos National Laboratory · Colorado School of Mines
Hands-on improvement and analysis of metal thermal- and deformation-processing methods, and the use of experimental and modeling techniques to examine the effect of material processing history and microstructure on mechanical properties and performance.
Kevin Cash
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Current molecular probes and sensor technologies present limitations in both the range of targets that can be measured and the ability to function in the complicated in vivo environment. My research program will help answer pressing biomedical questions by developing novel nanose…
Kim R. Williams
Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
Research in the Williams group is highly interdisciplinary, integrating analytical chemistry, (nano)materials, polymers, and biology. We are interested in developing new analytical techniques and probing complex materials and biological systems to better understand their functio…
Kimberly Watanabe
Professor of Practice, Construction Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Kip O. Findley
Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
Mechanical metallurgy
Fatigue and fracture of advanced metal alloys
Quantitative microstructural characterization
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