Meet Our Faculty

Faculty Backgrounds and Areas of Interest:

  • Mason lecturer David Binning

    Lecturer and CEC Director of Assessment & Accreditation, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Water resources engineer with over 40 years of practice in the design, construction, operation, and management of public water and wastewater systems.
  • GM associate professor Doaa Bondok wears a mauve hijab and black suit in her faculty profile

    Instructional Associate Professor of Structural Engineering, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Faculty Advisor to Mason's ASCE Student Chapter, the Steel Bridge Team, and the Concrete Canoe Team with expertise in blast analysis and design of steel structural walls and roof systems.
  • Headshot of CEC associate dean Liza Wilson Durant

    Professor, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement

    Research Interest: Environmental Engineering
  • GM Civil Engineering Professor Celso Ferreira

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Water-related extreme weather hazards, their impacts on infrastructure and societies, and nature-based climate adaptation strategies.
  • CEIE assistant professor Kirin Furst

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research interests: Water treatment and wastewater reuse, distribution system and tap water quality, fate and transport of wastewater tracers and emerging contaminants, including PFAS.
  • Mason CEIE professor Catalina Gonzalez-Duenas

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Risk and resilience assessment of infrastructure systems, performance‐based assessment of structural systems under multi‐hazard conditions, structural adaptation engineering for climate change
  • Mason CEIE professor Deborah Goodings

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering; Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, CEC

    Research Interest: Geotechnical engineering.
  • CEIE assistant professor Lucas Henneman

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Air quality, health, and equity using computer models and large datasets.
  • Mason CEIE Assistant Professor Wenying Ji

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Integration of advanced data analytics, and complex system simulation in construction management and infrastructure systems.
  • Mason CEIE associate chair and associate professor Laura Kosoglu

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair; Director of CEIE Graduate Program, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, soil-structure interaction, clay surface science, environmental geotechnics, electrokinetics, foundations.