Thought Leadership
Anand Puppala
Professor
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the CIR, Texas A&M University
Dr Puppala's research areas of interest include expansive and unsaturated soils, pavement geomaterials, ground improvement studies using chemical additives and geosynthetics, dam safety and highway embankment studies, site characterization, UAV studies and visualization, infrastructure resilience studies and asset management.
Edith Arámbula-Mercado
Research Engineer and Program Manager of the Recyclable Pavement Materials Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)
Deputy Director of the Center for Infrastructure Renewal (CIR)
Dr. Edith Arámbula-Mercado specializes in the design, production, and construction of sustainable pavement base and surface layers. Her research focuses on incorporating reclaimed asphalt pavement and other waste and by-products in flexible pavements to achieve balanced cracking and rutting performance, along with enhanced durability against moisture-induced damage.
Homero Castaneda-Lopez
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
Dr. Homero Castaneda-Lopez's research areas include cathodic protection, protective coatings, corrosion mechanisms, and batteries.
Zach Grasley
Professor & Department Head
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
Dr. Zachary Grasley's research areas include behavior and modeling of porous materials, durability and sustainability of cementitious materials, and the mechanics and thermodynamics of concrete.
Charles Gurganus
Instructional Professor
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
Dr. Charles Gurganus's research areas include infrastructure and asset management, pavement forensics, non-destructive testing, and roadway rehabilitation techniques.
Mary Beth Hueste
Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
Dr. Mary Beth Hueste's research areas include earthquake resistant design of reinforced concrete structures, structural rehabilitation and repair including seismic retrofitting, performance-based seismic design, probabilistic assessment of structural performance and design and evaluation of prestressed concrete bridge structures.
Stefan Hurlebaus
Professor
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Division Head of Construction, Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Division, Texas A&M University
Dr. Stefan Hurlebaus's areas of research are smart structures, structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing, laser ultrasonics, active vibration control, semi-active damping, active vibration isolation, wave propagation in elastic solids, and vibrations.
Anol Mukhopadhyay
Senior Research Scientist and Program Manager
Rigid Pavements Division, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Adjunct Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Leader, Concrete Innovation Lab, CIR
Dr. Anol Mukhopadhyay's research areas include concrete durability, recycled and waste materials, high-performance concrete, ultra-high-performance concrete, cement chemistry, coal combustion by-products, cement paste rheology, nano-materials and concrete microstructures and petrography.
Tom Overbye
Professor
Director, Smart Grid Center
Dr. Overbye’s research areas include power system analysis and simulations; Visualization of power system information; big data and cyber security applied to power systems; and power system aspects of geomagnetic disturbances and EMP.
Petros Sideris
Associate Professor
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
Dr. Sideris' research areas include structural resilience and sustainability to natural hazards in the context of advanced construction methods - particularly construction 3D printing - and novel sustainable materials, such as hempcrete, bio/geo-polymers and low carbon concrete. His research work combines computational mechanics, topology optimization, large-scale structural testing, and performance-based engineering.
Darlene Goehl
Research Engineer and Associate Agency Director for the Infrastructure Group
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Ms. Goehl’s research areas include pavement design, pavement materials, pavement management, pavement forensics, non-destructive testing and roadway rehabilitation techniques.
Julie Ann Hartell
Assistant Professor
Department of Construction Science, School of Architecture, Texas A&M University
Dr. Hartell's research interests are construction materials, recycling strategies and sustainable material design, testing methods and characterization of material performance, nondestructive condition assessment, and affordable and sustainable construction solutions.
