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 — Geeta Persad
Co-PI; Climate Lead
The University of Texas at Austin

Ifeanyichukwu Nduka
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Texas at Austin

Water research team

Paola Passalacqua — Paola Passalacqua
Lead PI; Science Lead
The University of Texas at Austin

Ethan Coon — Ethan Coon
ORNL PI; Water Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Christina Brelsford — Christina Brelsford
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Benjamin Sulman
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Philipe Ambrozio Dias — Philipe Ambrozio Dias
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Phong Le — Phong Le
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Qin Qian — Qin Qian
Co-PI
Lamar University

Nicholas Brake — Nicholas Brake
Co-PI
Lamar University

Matthew Hoch — Matthew Hoch
Co-PI
Lamar University

Saubhagya Rathore — Saubhagya Rathore
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Gabriel Perez Mesa
Postdoctoral Researcher
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Shannon Jones
Postdoctoral Researcher
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Air research team

Sidney Lin — Sidney Lin
Co-PI; Air Lead
Lamar University

Pawel Misztal — Pawel Misztal
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

Elena McDonald-Buller
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

Clayton Jeffryes — Clayton Jeffryes
Co-PI
Lamar University

Kinney-Kerry — Kerry Kinney
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

Tianxing Cai
Co-PI
Lamar University

Yosuke Kimura
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

Kacper Przykaza
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Texas at Austin

Theme 2 – Co-design

Katherine Lieberknecht — Katherine Lieberknecht
Co-PI; Co-design Lead
The University of Texas at Austin

Fernanda Leite — Fernanda Leite
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

Kacey Faust — Kasey Faust
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

Liv Haselbach — Liv Haselbach
Lamar PI
Lamar University

Jaimie Masterson — Jaimie Masterson
Co-PI
Texas Target Communities
Texas A&M University

Jeewasmi Thapa — Jeewasmi (Jee) Thapa
Co-PI
Texas Target Communities
Texas A&M University

John Cooper
Co-PI
Texas Target Communities
Texas A&M University

Theme 3 – Equity

Michelle Meyer — Michelle Meyer
TAMU PI; Equity Lead;
Texas A&M University

Dongying Li — Dongying Li
Co-PI
Texas A&M University

Nathanael Rosenheim
Co-PI
Texas A&M University

Galen Newman
Co-PI
Texas A&M University

Patrick Bixler — Patrick Bixler
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

Christina Brelsford — Christina Brelsford
Co-PI
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Noel Estwick — Noel Estwick
PVAM PI
Prairie View A&M University

Siyu Yu — Siyu Yu
Co-PI
Texas A&M University

KMP

Suzanne Pierce — Suzanne Pierce
Co-PI; KMP Lead
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Fernanda Leite — Fernanda Leite
Co-PI
The University of Texas at Austin

William Mobley — William Mobley
Co-PI
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Chih-Shen Cheng
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Texas at Austin

Activity Areas

Liv Haselbach — Liv Haselbach
Lamar PI; AA Lead
Lamar University

Management Team

Trang Le — Trang Le
Managing Director
The University of Texas at Austin

Davon Chargois
Grant Manager
Lamar University

seth jordan — Seth Jordan
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