Leadership
Evan Thomas, PhD, PE, MPH
Director | Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering
Laura MacDonald, PhD
Managing Director
Amy Javernick-Will, PhD
Associate Director, Graduate Research | Nicholas R. and Nancy D. Petry Professor in Construction Engineering and Management
Rita Klees, PhD
Associate Director, Outreach | Scholar-in-Residence | Professor of Engineering Practice
Karl G. Linden, PhD
Associate Director | Mortenson Professor of Sustainable Development
Jason Neff, PhD
Associate Director | Professor | Enivironmental Studies
Bernard Amadei, PhD, NAE
Founding Director | Distinguished Professor
Faculty and Staff
Carlo Salvinelli, PhD
Teaching Assistant Professor
Sarah Goodroad
Program Coordinator
Nancy Wright, MS
Financial Manager
Zia Mehrabi, PhD
Assistant Professor | Environmental Studies
Chantal Iribagiza, PhD
Research Associate
Kat Demaree
Project Manager | Climate Innovation Collaboratory
Gunārs Platais, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Christina Barstow, PhD
Project Manager
Annalynne Doll
Student Assistant
Affiliate Faculty
Paola Almeida Guerra, PhD
Visiting Professor | ESPOL
Karen Bailey, PhD
Assistant Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Elizabeth Carlton, PhD
Assistant Professor | Colorado School of Public Health
Christie Chatterley, PhD
Assistant Professor | Fort Lewis College
Sherri Cook, PhD
Assistant Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Laura DeLuca, PhD
Instructor | University of Colorado Boulder
Katherine Dickinson, PhD
Assistant Professor | Colorado School of Public Health
Mike Hannigan, PhD
Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Julie Korak, PhD
Assistant Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Jessica Rush Leeker, PhD
Faculty Director | University of Colorado Boulder
Ben Livneh, PhD
Assistant Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Abbie Liel, PhD, PE
Associate Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Alan Mickelson, PhD
Associate Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Keith Porter, PhD
Research Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, PhD
Associate Dean | University of Colorado Boulder
Patrick Thomson
Senior Researcher | University of Oxford
Kathryn Wendell
Executive Director | University of Colorado Boulder
Tom Yeh, PhD
Associate Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Edith Zagona, PhD
Research Professor | University of Colorado Boulder
Mortenson Fellows
Ron Garan
Astronaut
Styvers Kathuni
Regional Director | SweetSense Inc.
Lambert Mugabo
Research Manager | Amazi Yego Ltd.
Pacifique Mugaruka Ntabaza
Senior ETLA Specialist | DRC WASH
Lars Schöbitz
Data Science Instructor
Emily Bedell, PhD
Environmental Engineer | Virridy