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Dr. Franco Montalto, Ph.D, PE - Lab Director

Dr. Franco Montalto is an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department at Drexel University. Franco came to Drexel after a two-year fellowship at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, before which he was an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where he also completed his Bachelor's degree. His Masters and PhD are from Cornell University's Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering. His current research is in the fields of ecological restoration, urban stormwater management and green design, and the planning of water interventions in rural, dryland settings of the developing world.

Dr. Franco Montalto's CV

Contact Information
fam26@drexel.edu
 
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Kim DiGiovanni

BS: Drexel University
Home City: Hammonton, NJ

Undergraduate Study
Drexel University

Research Interest
Sustainable water resource
management, urban hydrology,
green infrastructure and low
impact development technologies,
hydrologically driven ecosystem
goods and services

Fellowships & Honors
2009 NSF GRFP Fellowship
2008 GAANN Fellowship

Contact Information
E-Mail: kad54@drexel.edu

 
Alex Waldman

BS: Colgate University
MS: Drexel University

Research Interest
Sustainable urban development,
urban water resources and
management, environmental policy
and justice, appropriate technology
and policy in developing nations

Fellowships & Honors
2008 - present: GAANN Fellowship
2008: Giegerich Fellowship

Contact Information
E-Mail: amw47@drexel.edu

 

  
Ziwen Yu

BS: Tongji University
Home City: Shanghai, China

Research Interest
Low Impact Development on
Combined Sewer Overflow
(CSO) reductions

Contact Information
E-Mail:zy32@drexel.edu

 

  
Stephen White

BS: East Carolina University
Home City: Nashville, NC

Research Interest
Sustainable urban water resource
development, green infrastructure and low
impact development technologies,relational
databases and GIS as tools for water
resource management

Contact Information
E-mail: sew73@drexel.edu

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Nathan Rostad

BS: Drexel University
Home City: Exton, PA

Research Interest
Decentralized urban water management, water reuse, canopy effects of vegetated stormwater management features, and experimental hydrology incorporating simulated rainfall

Fellowships & Honors
2010 – present: GAANN Fellowship
2010 – present: Dean’s Fellowship

Contact Information
Email: nathan.c.rostad@drexel.edu


 

  

Maria Raquel Catalano
de Sousa

BS: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
MS: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; Center of Training and Experimentation in Public Works – CEDEX –, Spain

Research Interest
Life Cycle Assessment applied to evaluation of Green Infrastructures environmental performance, Cost-effectiveness of Green Infrastructure, Integrated water resources management

Fellowships & Honors 
2004 - 2006: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
2005: Spanish International Cooperation Agency– AECI
Present: CCRUN -Consortium  for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast

Contact Information
Email: mc3233@drexel.edu

 

  

Bita Alizadehtazi

AS: Iran University of Medical Sciences
BS: Shahid Beheshti University
Home City: Tehran, Iran

Research Interest           
Green infrastructure design and low impact development, rainwater harvesting systems, sustainable water resources planning and management, urban hydrology

Contact Information
E-Mail: Bita@drexel.edu

 

 

  

Scott Jeffers

BS/MS: Environmental Engineering  (Drexel)
Home City: Exton, PA

Research Interest: Urban Stormwater,  Urban Greening

Fellowships & Honors: A.J. Drexel Academic Scholarship, Drexel Honors Program

Contact Information:  smj46@drexel.edu

 
   

Ajay Sunder

BS Degree: Electrical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India
MS Degree: Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Home City: Chennai, India
 
Research Interests: Water Resources Engineering, Hydrologic & Hydraulic Modeling and Analysis, Geographical Information Systems, Data Based Engineering and Modeling, Urban Watershed Management, Analytical and Numerical Modeling, Data Analysis
 
Fellowships and Honors: ELOF HANNSON FOUNDATION – full scholarship for Academic Year 2010-11 & 2011-12                  
 
Contact Information: as3422@drexel.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Alisha Goldstein
(past SWRE member)

BS: Columbia University
Home City: Miami, FL

Research Interest
Decentralized water and
wastewater networks, coupled
human-natural systems, complex
systems

Contact Information
E-Mail:aeg68@drexel.edu