CSE Director
Professor | Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
oya.mercan@utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Development and implementation of real-time testing methods that couple computer simulation with physical testing
- Dynamic behaviour of complex structures
- Vibration mitigation
- Structural control
CSE Executive Team
Associate Professor | Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
daniel.posen@utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Life cycle assessment and life cycle thinking
- Greenhouse gas mitigation strategies
- Alternative fuels and chemicals, including carbon capture & utilization, biofuels, bio-based products, and electrification
- Sustainability consequences of technology deployment at scale
- Interactions between climate science and greenhouse gas mitigation
- Economic modeling of fossil fuel and energy markets
- Public policy, decision support models, and uncertainty in environmental decision making
Assistant Professor | Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
hamed.ibrahim@utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Hydrological processes
- Regional water resources
- Hydrological modelling
- Ocean basin dynamics
- Hydrologic variability
- Earth’s hydrologic cycle
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream | Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
karen.smith@utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Atmosphere-cryosphere interactions
- Stratosphere-troposphere coupling
- Polar climate change
- Atmospheric general circulation
Assistant Professor | Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
mohammed.basheer@utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Hydrology and Water Resource Systems
- Hydropower planning and operations
- Water-energy-food nexus
- Artificial Intelligence in water resources
- Coupled human-water systems
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Multi-hazard assessment and management
Professor | Department of Physics
paul.kushner@utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Climate dynamics
- Atmospheric physics
- Cold-climate processes
Assistant Professor | Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | UC Merced
smarkolf@ucmerced.edu
Research Interests:
- Sustainability and resilience of urban and infrastructure systems
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Interconnected social-ecological-technological systems
- Systems thinking and risk analysis under uncertainty
CSE Manager
