People

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.
	Alicia Lyman-Holt	Education and Outreach Coordinator O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory	Science and Engineering educator working with civil and coastal engineering researchers to develop informal education and outreach programming for K-16 and general public. Interests also include undergraduate research and life-long STEM learning.
	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.
Affiliated Faculty	Name	Position	HWRL Related Interests
	Belinda Batten	Professor Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering	Director of NNMREC; 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 Borello	Assistant Professor Civil & Construction Engineering	Investigation of dynamic structural response and loads imposed by tsunami and storm-surge excitation.
	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	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.

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