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Wave Lab Staff	Name	Position	HWRL Related Interests
	Pedro Lomonaco	Director O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory	Physical and numerical modelling of wave generation and propagation, wave-structure interaction, stability of coastal and submarine structures, behavior of floating structures, hydrodynamics, and non-linear propagation of long-waves in shallow waters.
	Tim Maddux	Faculty Research Associate O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory	Laboratory research and testing of: coastal engineering and nearshore processes; tsunamis and coastal hazards; wave and renewable energy sources; sediment transport by currents, waves, and turbulence.
	Bret Bosma	Faculty Research Associate O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory	Physical and numerical modelling of ocean wave energy converters and instrumentation of physical models of coastal/nearshore structures and marine renewable devices to be tested in the laboratory.
	Jeff Gent	Civil & Construction Engineering Faculty Research Assistant	Provides fabrication, rigging, problem solving related to wave lab research and testing projects.
	James Batti	Lab/Research Manager Civil & Construction Engineering	Provides engineering and technical support related to wave lab instrumentation.
	Rebekah Miller	Faculty Research Assistant O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory	Provides engineering and technical support related to wave lab physical model experimentation.
Affiliated Faculty	Name	Position	HWRL Related Interests
	Belinda Batten	Executive Associate Dean, College of Engineering Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Subject matter expert in computational methods for controlling and optimizing distributed parameter systems, mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, and dynamics and control of autonomous vehicles and wave energy devices.
	Andre Barbosa	Assistant Professor Civil & Construction Engineering
	Dan Cox	Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Coastal Engineering, mitigation of coastal hazards including coastal flooding from waves and surge and from tsunamis. Wave loads on structures, coastal erosion and scour, natural and nature-based solutions to coastal hazards.
	Merrick Haller	Associate Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Remote sensing of wave transformation processes, especially related to wave/current interaction and hazardous wave conditions. Other efforts include rip current dynamics and quantifying the physical effects of wave energy converter arrays.
	Christopher Higgins	Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Performance of structures subjected to hydraulic and other loads.
	David F. Hill	Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Optical imaging of wave and turbulent processes; combined numerical and experimental studies of wave and surge processes.
	Rob Holman	Professor Emeritus College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences	Swash and inundation processes; bore-bore capture; the use of optical remote sensing for making nearshore measurements.
	Judy Liu	Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Performance of structural steel building components (e.g., connections, frames, cladding, secondary members) subjected to hydraulic and other loads.
	Tuba Ozkan-Haller	Associate Vice President for Research Administration and Development Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Numerical, field and analytical investigations of water motions in the nearshore zone (depth of 10 meters or less).
	Peter Riggiero	Associate Professor Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences	Coastal geomorphology and coastal hazards; impacts of storms on beaches and dunes.
	Harry Yeh	Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Hydrodynamics of tsunamis; Laboratory and numerical experiments of complex waves motions in 3D domain, and the flow analyses.
	Solomon Yim	Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Structural and fluid mechanics in the marine environment; fluid contact and impact effects on deformable structures; environmental waves modeling and wave load characterization; high-performance-computing based simulation of multi-physics, multi-scale, multi-domain systems; physical and numerical wave-basin system modeling, development, operation and experimentation; naval and marine hydrokinetic system development, modeling and analysis.
	Bryson Robertson	Associate Professor; Co-Director, Pacific Marine Energy Center Civil & Construction Engineering	Detailed wave, tidal and offshore wind energy resource assessments, optimizing energy harvesting technologies, and numerically integrating marine power into the electrical grid; at a variety of scale and opportunities.
	Ted Brekken	Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering	Control, power electronics, and electric drives; specifically, advanced control techniques applied to renewable energy systems. Codirector of the Wallace Energy Systems and Renewables Facility (WESRF).
	Bryony DuPont	Associate Professor Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering	Development and application of computational design tools for renewable energy systems and sustainable product design.
	Barbara Simpson	Assistant Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Advanced computational and experimental methods to characterize structural response. Development of innovative structural systems that improve building performance and reduce the effects of natural hazards on the built environment. Research areas include resilient design and retrofit of building structures, performance-based earthquake engineering, and next-generation computational modeling, optimization, and simulation.
	Meagan Wengrove	Assistant Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Mechanics of sediment transport and hydraulic design of nature based features. Specifically, focusing on the relationship between scales of sediment transport (e.g. a ripple feeding morphologic change of a sandbar), the effects of large storm events on deep seated erosion, and the hydraulics of nature based features such as living shorelines, marsh restorations, and coastal dunes.
	Matt Evans	Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Granular mechanics, image analysis, numerical methods, and unsaturated soil mechanics, with applications to renewable energy, multiphysics problems, waste isolation, and sustainable infrastructure.
	Greg Wilson	Assistant Professor Geology and Geophysics, CEOAS	Physics of the nearshore coastal ocean including waves, currents, and sediment transport.

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