Our Team
We are a group of curious and passionate researchers working together to make our habitats safer and water cleaner. We collaborate and support each other and welcome new motivated members to join us!
Principle Investigator - Judy Yang
I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota (UMN). I obtained my M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering at MIT in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Before joining UMN, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University from 2018 to 2020. I am a passionate environmental scientist interested in developing multiscale and interdisciplinary research to unravel the complex interactions among biota, fluids, and particles (sediment, soil). My group designs multiscale experiments, ranging from microfluidics to flume experiments, to address critical environmental questions related to coastal erosion, harmful algal blooms, soil carbon dynamics, and pathogen and contaminant transport in soil and sediment. I am also a proud first-generation college graduate, teacher, and mentor. As a teacher, my greatest pleasure would be to help empower students from various backgrounds to reach their full potential. Learn more
Graduate & Undergraduate Students
Postdoc Associates
Our Alumni
Postdocs and graduate students
Jorge San Juan Blanco: postdoc scholar, 2021-2023 (currently an assistant professor at North Carolina State University)
Undergraduates
Travis Wayne Klein: Summer Student, Oklahoma State University, 2023 summer
Erika Christiansen: Undergraduate student, University of Minnesota, 2021-2023 (honor thesis student)
Anna Klein: Summer Student, Carleton College, 2022 summer
Buneya Mohammed: Summer student, Saint Paul College, 2022 summer
Katherine Tomaska: Undergraduate student, University of Minnesota, 2020-2021 (honor thesis student)
Sam Nguyen, Summer student, University of Minnesota, 2021 summer
Vladimir Kalamanov, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
Kendall Johnson, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
Sydney Hughes, Undergraduate student, Princeton University, 2019
Milani Chatterji-Len, Undergraduate student, MIT, 2015
Hayoon Chung, Undergraduate student, MIT, 2014-2016