Martha Santos

PhD Student  (join UCF in 2023)

Hometown: Itabuna, Brazil

Research Topics: Groundwater modeling

Award: Jim Jamal Scholarship, USCGER Travel Grant, FL AWMA Scholarship, and Madrid Family Scholarship.

Nimna Manage

PhD Student  (join UCF in 2023)

Hometown: Sri Lanka

Research Topics: Life-cycle Assessment, PFAS in waste management

Award: 2025 Roy Likins scholarship FSAWMA

Kyungwon Park

Postdoc Researcher

Hometown: Seoul, Korea

Research Topics: InSAR, UAV, and Machine Learning

Lina Aristizabal

PhD Student (join UCF in 2026)

Hometown: Medellin, Colombia

Research Topic: Solid waste and Machine Learning

Meredith Burkett

Researcher Assistant

Miguel Da Silva

Researcher Assistant

Chloe Nina Molina

Researcher Assistant Research Topic: PFAS in special waste

Danielle Y Ulhoa

Research Assistant Hometown: Brazil Research Topics: Coal Ash Disposal

Ellen Jackson

Research Assistant Hometown: Florida Research Topics: Coal Ash Disposal

Rafael Serta

Research Assistant Hometown: Brazil Research Topics: Coal Ash Disposal

Tim Copeland, PhD, PE

Graduated in Spring 2023, now working at Geosyntec Consultants Inc.

Hometown: Orlando, FL Research Topic: Identify the failure line of underground cavity

Dana Hernandez

Research Assistant Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela

Research Topics: Fate and transport of emerging contaminants

Mery Mbenge

Research Assistant Hometown: Dakar, Senegal Research Topics: Groundwater modeling; solid waste management

Ryan Parker

NIH Project

Isabella Buitano

NIH Project

Evan Mcleod

NIH Project

Franz Apel

CRESP Modeling

Xiaoyun Du

Machine Learning

Jonathan Angioi

Machine Learning

Poyu Zhang, PhD

Graduated in Summer 2025. Ardman & Associates, Inc.

Mert Gokgoz

Graduated in Fall 2025

Hometown: Ankara, Turkey

Research Topics: Groundwater modeling; Life-cycle Assessment

Syed Zohaib Hassan

PhD Candidate (Co-advise with Dr. Sun, join UCF in 2021)

Hometown: Pakistan

Research Topic: Landfill Remote Sensing

Matthew Davies

PhD Candidate (join UCF in 2020)

Hometown:

Research Topic: coastal erosion; computational fluid dynamics (CFD)