FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Alastair Harborne

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Alicia Boymelgreen

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Assistant Professor

Amir Khoddamzadeh

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  • Assistant Professor Undergraduate Program Director

Arturo Leon

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  • Associate Professor

Assefa M. Melesse

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  • Professor

Benjamin Binder

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the Boswell Lab for Marine Ecology and Acoustics / Postdoctoral Associates

Biayna Bogosian

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  • Assistant Professor

Brad Schonhoff

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  • Program Manager

Brandon Guell

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  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Celia Merzbacher

Having served in leadership positions in science and technology policy, Dr. Merzbacher brings a wealth of expertise in strategic planning and program management.

Colin Polsky

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies at Florida

Daniel Gann

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  • Assistant Professor

Danielle Ogurcak

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  • Research Assistant Professor

Ebru Ozer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Elizabeth Anderson

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  • Associate Professor

Evelyn E. Gaiser

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  • Fate and Transport

Fernando Nardi

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  • Courtesy Affiliate Professor / Faculty / Fate and Transport

Francisco Alberto Fernandez-Lima

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  • Professor / Leadership

Gregory Murad Reis

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  • Assistant Teaching Professor

Henry Briceno

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  • Research Professor

Himadri Biswas

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  • Student, Earth and Environment
Himadri is a Ph.D. student (2nd year) at the Department of Earth and Environment, FIU. He is being co-advised by Dr. Keqi Zhang and Dr. Michael Ross. Presently working as a Research Assistant at the South Florida Terrestrial Ecosystems Laboratory (SOFTEL), FIU, Himadri is interested in application of remote sensing, geographical information systems (GIS), and machine learning to understand mangrove dynamics in South Florida.

James W. Fourqurean

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished University Professor Associate Director, Institute of Environment / Faculty / Fate and Transport

Janelle Goeke

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  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Javier Rodriguez Casariego

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Jay Sah

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate Professor

Jayantha T. Obeysekera

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  • Director of the Sea Level Solutions Center Research Professor

Jennifer Schopf Rehage

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  • Associate Professor

Jeremy Kiszka

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  • Associate Professor

Jessie G. Guevara

Job Titles:
  • Director of Program and Institute Operations

John Kominoski

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  • Professor / Leadership

John Meeder

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  • Professor Emeritus

John P. Berry

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  • Associate Professor

Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Leadership

Kemal Akkaya

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kevin M. Boswell

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  • Associate Professor Director, Marine Biology Program

Kevin O'Shea

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Konstantinos Kavallieratos

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Krishnaswamy Jayachandran

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  • Co - Director of Agroecology Program

Laird H. Kramer

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  • Professor / Leadership

Laura Lindenfeld

Job Titles:
  • Interim Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism
Laura Lindenfeld, PhD Interim Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism and Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Dr. Lindenfeld brings to the table a wealth of experience in science communication. laura.lindenfeld@stonybrook.edu

Lauren Kabat

Job Titles:
  • Student, Biological Sciences

Leila S. Lemos

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  • Distinguished Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Leonard Scinto

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  • Chairman of the Department of Earth and Environment

Leonardo Bobadilla

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  • Assistant Professor

Ligia Collado-Vides

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  • Teaching Professor / Faculty / Fate and Transport

Lilian Valadares Tose

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  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

M. Hadi Amini

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  • Assistant Professor

Mahadev Bhat

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mark A. Finlayson

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  • Assistant Professor

Mark J. Butler IV

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  • Walter and Rosalie Goldberg Professor of Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Mark Kershaw

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  • Lab Manager II

Marta D'Elia

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  • Grant Administrator II - Research Development Officer Postdoctoral Associate

Michael Heithaus

Job Titles:
  • Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education Professor

Michael Ross

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  • Adviser
  • Professor

Milena Ceccopieri

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Natalia Soares Quinete

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  • Assistant Professor

Nathan Dorn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Pablo Batista Oliveira

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Patrick Roman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Paulo Olivas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Pedro A. Peres

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Piero R. Gardinali

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Director, Institute of Environment

Quentin Felty

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Reinaldo Garcia

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  • Research Professor

Rita Teutonico

Job Titles:
  • Administrator Associate Dean of Research Associate Director
  • Leadership / Faculty / Staff / Education

Rolando Omar Santos Corujo

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  • Assistant Professor

Rudolf Jaffe

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  • Professor Emeritus

Scott Graham

Job Titles:
  • Grant Administrator IV Associate Director of Coordination and Strategy

Shahin Vassigh

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  • Professor Associate Dean of Faculty Development

Shekhar Bhansali

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  • Professor Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Shu-Ching Chen

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  • Eminent Scholar Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs RFA 3 Co - Lead for CREST CAChE / Leadership / Faculty / Impacts and Visualization

Sonia Underwood

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Tiffany Troxler

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  • Associate Professor Associate Director of Science, Sea Level Solutions Center

Todd Crowl

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director, Institute of Environment Director / PI

William Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William James

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

William McDowell

Presidential Chair and Director of the New Hampshire Water Resources Center at the University of New Hampshire. With a background in ecosystem ecology and aquatic ecology, Dr. McDowell provides expertise in environmental chemistry and biogeochemistry. His research focuses on understanding land-water interactions, emphasizing the controls on stream chemistry and watershed solute and sediment export.

William Michener

Job Titles:
  • Director
Director of the e-Science Program, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and PI/Director of NSF's Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) project. Dr. Michener provides expertise in Data Analytics research as well as large-project management.

Yan Ding

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor Director, Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Ecotoxicology

Yong Cai

Job Titles:
  • Professor Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry RFA 1 Co - Lead