Our lab

2024 Lab Retreat. Cape Cod.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dave Des Marais

Amgen Career Development Professor

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Postdoctoral Scholars

Hsin-fang Chang

Ian McCahill

PhD Students

Chloe Heitmeier

Tomo Yoshino

Elizabeth Roberts

Charlie Neufeldt

Masters students

Junchi (Ivan) Cui

MEng Student

Research Technicians

Theresa McHugh

Undergraduate Students

Haylea Brock

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Vela Velazquez

Earth, Atmosphere & Planetary Sciences

Alumni

Post-docs:

Meghan Blumstein (2020-2024): Assistant Professor, University of Virginia.

Rui Cheng (2022-23, Co-Advised): Assistant Professor, Claremont-McKenna College

Caio Guilherme Pereira (2019-21): Postdoc, The University of Texas at Austin

Marjorie R Lundgren (2018): Lecturer (Associate Professor), Lancaster University

Graduate Students:

Lana Van Note (MEng, 2025): McKinsey Consulting

Katie Kitzinger (MEng, 2025): PhD Student, University of Michigan

Charlie Neufeldt (SM, 2025): PhD Student, MIT

Jie Yun (PhD, 2024): Post-doc, Yale

Haoran Cai (PhD, 2024): Post-doc, UCLA

Kevin Headrick (MEng, 2022): PhD program, Tufts University

Research Technicians:

MJ Kabongo (2023-2025)

Katie Irelan (2022-23): Masters Student, Tufts University

Undergraduate Students:

Samuel Nitz (MIT Biology; 2018): PhD Program, Weill-Cornell-Medicine

Anna Blaustein (Bowdoin College; 2018): Science Writer

Andrew Walter-McNeill (Bowdoin College; 2018): Staff Scientist, Pattern Ag

Meriah Gannon (MIT CEE; 2019)

Greg Greggory (UMass Boston; 2018-2019): PhD Program, UMass Amherst

Catherine Griffin (Bioengineering; 2020): PhD Program, Caltech

Aviva Intveld (MIT Earth, Atmosphere, & Planetary Science; 2020): Gates Cambridge Scholar (Mphil)

Andrea Lo (MIT Biology; 2020)

Theresa McHugh (MIT Music; 2021-23): Research Technician, Des Marais Lab

Eldar Urkumbayev (MIT CEE; 2022-2024): MEng student, MIT.

Haley Nakamura (MIT CEE; 2022)

Lily Rose Smith (MIT CEE; 2023)

Lana Van Note (MIT ChemE; 2023-2024): McKinsey Consulting

Katherine Reisig (MIT CEE; 2024)

Ananda Santos Figueiredo (MIT Climate System Science & Engineering; 2024-2025): Masters Student, MIT

Sophie Latz (MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences; 2024-2025)

Vieyiti Kouadio (MIT Biological Engineering; 2025)

Lab Visitors:

Barry Logan, Bowdoin College. Sabbatical 2018

Luis-Miguel Chevin, CEFE-CNRS. 2023

Danielle Garcia Furuya, PhD student at the University of Western Sao Paolo. 2022-23

Rasit Bilgin, Boğaziçi University. 2019

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