![large group of people standing on green grass](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Beaumont-teammembers-1024x462.jpg)
Executive Committee
The SETx-UIFL is led by an Executive Committee comprising of researchers from four Texas universities, including the University of Texas at Austin, Lamar University, Texas A&M University, Prairie View A&M University, and alongside experts from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
![Paola Passalacqua](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/passalacqua_office-edited-scaled.jpg)
Lead PI; Science Lead
The University of Texas at Austin
![Fernanda Leite](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fernanda-Leite_2018-edited-scaled.jpg)
Co-PI; PM Lead
The University of Texas at Austin
![Ethan Coon](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Coon_HeadShot_2022-edited.jpg)
ORNL PI; Water Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![Michelle Meyer](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Meyer-flood-sign-2020-edited.jpg)
TAMU PI; Equity Lead
Texas A&M University
![Liv Haselbach](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Liv-Blouse-2016-cropped-edited-scaled.jpg)
Lamar PI; AA Lead
Lamar University
![Noel Estwick](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Estwick_Noel_-1024x1024.jpg)
PVAM PI
Prairie View A&M University
Project Teams
SETx-UIFL brings a cross-disciplinary team of scholars together to accomplish our outcome-oriented and equity-focused resilience.
Theme 1 – Environment
Climate
![Geeta Persad](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Geeta_Persad_Headshot-edited.png)
Co-PI; Climate Lead
The University of Texas at Austin
![](https://setx-uifl.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ifeanyi-Nduka-1024x1024.jpg)
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Texas at Austin
Water research team
![Paola Passalacqua](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/passalacqua_office-edited-scaled.jpg)
Lead PI; Science Lead
The University of Texas at Austin
![Ethan Coon](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Coon_HeadShot_2022-edited.jpg)
ORNL PI; Water Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![Christina Brelsford](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Brelsford_2020-1024x1024.jpg)
Co-PI
Los Alamos National Laboratory
![Benjamin Sulman](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sulman-headshot-edited.png)
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![Philipe Ambrozio Dias](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PDias_portrait-edited.png)
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![Phong Le](https://setx-uifl.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PhongLe_ORNL.png-1024x990.png)
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![Saubhagya Rathore](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SRathore.jpg)
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Gabriel_Headshot-1-1024x936.jpeg)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shannon-jones-1024x1024.jpg)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Air research team
![Sidney Lin](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SLin.jpg)
Co-PI; Air Lead
Lamar University
![Pawel Misztal](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Misztal-Pawel-edited.png)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![Elena mcdonald-buller](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/mcdonald-buller-headshot-4-1.png)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![Clayton Jeffryes](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CJeffryes.jpg)
Co-PI
Lamar University
![Kinney-Kerry](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Kinney-Kerry-edited.jpg)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TCai.jpg)
Co-PI
Lamar University
![](https://setx-uifl.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-1.png)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![](https://setx-uifl.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSC_0397-PL-Dyplom-45x65-mm-e1710517475566-1024x1024.jpg)
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Texas at Austin
Theme 2 – Co-design
![Katherine Lieberknecht](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Katherine-Lieberknecht.jpg)
Co-PI; Co-design Lead
The University of Texas at Austin
![Fernanda Leite](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fernanda-Leite_2018-edited-1024x1024.jpg)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![Kacey Faust](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/KF-edited.png)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![Liv Haselbach](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Liv-Blouse-2016-cropped-edited-1024x1024.jpg)
Lamar PI
Lamar University
![Jaimie Masterson](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jaimie-Masterson.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas Target Communities
Texas A&M University
![Jeewasmi Thapa](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jeewasmi-Thapa-1-edited-scaled.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas Target Communities
Texas A&M University
![](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/John-Cooper-Jr-1.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas Target Communities
Texas A&M University
Theme 3 – Equity
![Michelle Meyer](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Meyer-flood-sign-2020-edited-1024x1024.jpg)
TAMU PI; Equity Lead;
Texas A&M University
![Dongying Li](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Dongying-Li-1024x1024.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas A&M University
![](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Nathanael-Rosenheim_Sept2015_medium-1-edited.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas A&M University
![Galen Newman](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Galen-Newman-headshot.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas A&M University
![Patrick Bixler](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bixler_white_grey-1-edited-scaled.jpg)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![Christina Brelsford](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Brelsford_2020-1024x1024.jpg)
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
![Noel Estwick](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Estwick_Noel_-1024x1024.jpg)
PVAM PI
Prairie View A&M University
![Siyu Yu](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Siyu-edited.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas A&M University
KMP
![Suzanne Pierce](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SP-edited.jpg)
Co-PI; KMP Lead
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin
![Fernanda Leite](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fernanda-Leite_2018-edited-1024x1024.jpg)
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin
![William Mobley](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/HeadshotMobley-1-edited.jpg)
Co-PI
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin
![](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/chih-shen-cheng-1.jpg)
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Texas at Austin
Activity Areas
![Liv Haselbach](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Liv-Blouse-2016-cropped-edited-1024x1024.jpg)
Lamar PI; AA Lead
Lamar University
Management Team
![Trang Le](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Trang-edited.jpg)
Managing Director
The University of Texas at Austin
![](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Davon1-1024x1024.jpg)
Grant Manager
Lamar University
![seth jordan](https://utw11212.utweb.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/seth-jordan-1.jpg)
Program Coordinator
Texas A&M University
Students
Theme 1 – Environment
- Lochana Kalyanaraman, Undergraduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin (Climate)
- Matthew Preisser, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin (Water)
- Mark Wang, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin (Water)
- James Bronikowski, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin (Water)
- Daniel Blomdahl, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin (Air)
- Evelyn Deveraux, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin (Air)
- Chou-Hsien Lin, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin (Air)
- David Jarma, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin (Air)
- Arun Kshetri, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Hossein Hariri Asli, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Faria Jahan, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Prasad Pawar, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Moumita Manjur, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Air)
- Dinesh Joshi, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Riwaz Niroula, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- S M Farhad, Graduate Student, Lamar University (Air)
- Damidrick Fearce, Undergraduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Dustin W. Barnes, Undergraduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Dylan Roberts, Undergraduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
- Isaac Sleeman, Undergraduate Student, Lamar University (Water)
Theme 2 – Co-design
- Linchao Luo, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
- Carrie Smith, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
- Yueying Ma, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
- Sean Murphy, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
- Zane Colvin, Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
- Jenna Beyer, Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
- Heather Wade, Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
- Cedric Shy, Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
Theme 3 – Equity
- Farzana Ahmed, Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
- Hyewon Yoon, Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
- Gianna Sorola, Graduate Student, Prairie View A&M University
- Lidia Meizei, Graduate Student, Texas A&M University