GETTING TO KNOW YOU! - Mines

GETTING TO KNOW YOU!

New Faculty Bios 2020 - 2021

Tim Barbari

Where are you from, originally? Colorado Springs, CO

Where were you educated? BS, Chemical Engineering,

Colorado School of Mines MS, Chemical Engineering,

University of California, Berkeley

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

What are some of your most significant work experiences? Associate Provost for Graduate

Affairs, Boston University Dean of the Graduate School,

Georgetown University Department Chair, University of

Maryland Associate Dean, Johns Hopkins Professor, JHU, UMCP, GU, BU

What do you love to teach? Transport Phenomena Engineered Drug Delivery to

Freshman via System Dynamics What research topics most interest you? Membrane Science Diffusion in Polymers

What is your most significant publication? G. T. Fieldson and T. A. Barbari, “The Use of FTIR-ATR Spectroscopy to Characterize Penetrant Transport in Polymers”, Polymer, 34, 1146-1153 (1993).

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? My Dog Biking Hiking Running Your Dog

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Underground bunkers beneath

the White House Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Provincetown, MA

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Italian Piano (again)

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I played the clarinet in high

school and college

Christian Beren

Where are you from, originally?

Philadelphia, PA Where were you educated? BS, Chemical Engineering,

Lehigh University PhD, Physical Chemistry, UCLA

What are some of your most significant work experiences? Assistant Adjunct Professor of

Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

Graduate student, UCLA Waited tables Hockey Ref Grocery store worker Worked at a state fair

What do you love to teach? General chemistry Physical chemistry Biochemistry and biophysics

What research topics most interest you? Virology RNA Biophysics

What is your most significant publication?

Beren C, Cui Y, Chakravarty A, Yang X, Rao ALN, Knobler CM, Zhou ZH and Gelbart WM. Genome organization and interaction with capsid protein in a multipartite RNA virus. PNAS. 2020, 117(20), 10673-10680.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Snowboarding & skiing Hockey Mountain & road biking Hiking & backpacking Cooking

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled?

San Blas Islands, Panama Where is the best place you’ve ever visited?

Landmannalaugur, Iceland What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time?

Backpack the John Muir Trail Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know.

I used to work at an authentic Sichuan Chinese restaurant

Emily Bongiovanni

Where are you from, originally?

• Pittsburgh, PA Where were you educated?

• B.A. in International Studies and Art History, Denison University

• MS, Library and Information Science, University of Denver

What are some of your most significant work experiences?

• Currently serve as Vice-Chair of the Colorado Department of Higher Education’s Open Educational Resource Council

What do you love to teach?

• Research Data Management • Total Body at the Mines Rec Center 😊😊

What research topics most interest you?

• Open Educational Resources • Open Access Publishing Models


• Bongiovanni, E., & Buljung, B. (2020). Open Mines: Launching a Mini-Grant Program to Incentivize Open Educational Resource Development for STEM Disciplines. Paper presentation for the American Society for Engineering Education 2020 Virtual Annual Conference & Exposition, June 25, 2020.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests?

• Skiing • Hiking • Playing tennis • Reading autobiographies • Being an aunt!

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever visited?

• The kitchen of a KFC in Tamil Nadu, India Where is the best place you’ve ever traveled?

• Dolomites What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time?

• Ceramics Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know.

• I’m a self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur

Jim Crompton


Where were you educated? B.S. in Geophysical Engineering,

Colorado School of Mines MS in Geophysics, Colorado

School of Mines MBA from Our Lady of the Lake

University, San Antonio, TX, What are some of your most significant work experiences? Upstream CIO for North

America operations, Chevron IT Advisor for Digital Oilfield

program, Chevron What do you love to teach? Fundamentals of Data Analytics

applied to Digital Oilfield problems

What research topics most interest you? Digital Oilfield operations Continuous monitoring of

methane from oil and gas operations


“The Future Belongs to the Digital Engineer”, Dutch Holland and Jim Crompton, 2014, Xlibris. “A Digital Journey: The Transformation of the Oil and Gas Industry”, Dr. Steve Cooper and Jim Crompton, 2019,

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? English Football (soccer Being a grandfather Colorado history

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Tengiz Oil Field, Kazakhstan

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? The Isle of Skye, Scotland

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? More about Colorado’s mining

history Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. My family first came to Colorado

in the 1870s

Chris Dreyer

Where are you from, originally? Cherry Hill, NJ

Where were you educated? B.S. in Mechanical Engineering,

Drexel University MS and PhD, Mechanical

Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder

What are some of your most significant work experiences? PI of several NASA Space

Instrument Development Grants Co-founder of the CSM Space

Resources Program What do you love to teach? Space Resources Fundamentals Engineering Project Classes

What research topics most interest you? Lunar polar ice mining methods Instruments for space exploration

Research on how to use the resources of space to develop a more just and equitable civilization

What is your most significant publication? George F. Sowers and

Christopher B. Dreyer. Ice Mining in Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions. New Space. Dec 2019.235-244.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Beer Brewing Painting Mountain Biking Hiking Being a father

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Kiruna, Sweden

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Maui, Hawaii

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Open a Micro-Brewery

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I’m an avid Star Trek fan.

Veronica Eliasson

Where are you from, originally? ✓ Sundsvall, Sweden

Where were you educated?

✓ BS (Vehicle Engineering), MSc and PhD (Mechanics) at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), in Stockholm, Sweden

✓ Postdoc at Caltech What are some of your most significant work experiences?

✓ Working with students definitely one of the most fun and enriching experiences I know

✓ Developing new types of experiments with my students: so fun when the experiments work better than we ever thought!

What do you love to teach?

✓ Any undergraduate course, but in particular Dynamics

✓ Compressible Flows ✓ Fracture Mechanics


✓ Shock wave dynamics ✓ Experimental mechanics


W. Mellor, E. Lakhani, J. C. Valenzuela, B. Lawlor, J. Zanteson & V. Eliasson, Design of a multiple exploding wire setup to study shock wave dynamics, Experimental Techniques, 2019.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests?

✓ Drawing, painting ✓ Cycling ✓ Boxing and Muay Thai ✓ Being outdoors ✓ My -66 Mustang

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? ✓ IISC in Bangalore, India. The

students were awesome! Where is the best place you’ve ever visited?

✓ Ramsele, my grand parents place in Sweden near a river and in the forest… far away from everything else!

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time?

✓ Bike across the US or Europe Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know.

✓ I collect, and use, vintage pencils

Amelia Read Garripoli

Where are you from, originally? Carshalton, England

Where were you educated? B.S. in Computer Science, CU

Boulder MS in Computer Science,

specializing in Database Systems, Stanford

What are some of your most significant work experiences? Digital Equipment Corp, Jr.

Software Engineer, RDB/Star HP, Staff Software Engineer,

Allbase/SQL Cloudscape, Senior Staff

Software Engineer and Vice President of Engineering (now Apache Derby)

ANSI SQL Committee member What do you love to teach? Software Engineering Systems programming (database,

OS, web) Programming, in any language

What research topics most interest you? Query optimization & processing Web security Computer Science education


Contributions to the ANSI-ISO SQL92 and SQL99 standards

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Fiber arts Permaculture Mentoring others

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? The docks in Tokyo at 4 a.m.

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Portmerion, Wales

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Wood carving

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I make socks on a circular sock

machine

Stephen R. Geer

Where are you from, originally? Denver, CO

Where were you educated? BS, MS, and PhD all at Colorado

School of Mines What are some of your most significant work experiences? Post-Doctoral Researcher,

University of Arkansas Adjunct Professor, Colorado

School of Mines What do you love to teach? Dynamics Intro to Finite Element Analysis

What research topics most interest you? Discrete Element Method (DEM) Anisotropic Geomaterials Learning & Education


Geer, S., Bernhardt-Barry, M.L., Garboczi, E.J. et al. A more efficient method for calibrating discrete element method parameters for simulations of metallic powder used in additive manufacturing. Granular Matter 20, 77 (2018).

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Family Drumming Gaming Skiing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Cooking & BBQ

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Stratton Hall

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Isla Mujeres, Mexico

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? PUBG Champion of the World

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I’m terrified of public speaking,

which is obviously why I became a teacher (?!?).

Jonah Klemm-Toole

Where are you from, originally? Gainesville, FL

Where were you educated? B.S. in Materials Science and

Engineering, University of Florida

PhD, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

What are some of your most significant work experiences? Welder, Gainesville Welding and

Fabrication, Gainesville, FL Process Engineer, Power

Systems Manufacturing LLC, Jupiter, FL

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

What do you love to teach? Mechanical Properties of

Materials Physical Metallurgy of Welding

and Additive Manufacturing

What research topics most interest you? Alloy Design Processing – Microstructure –

Mechanical Property Relationships


J. Klemm-Toole, J. Benz, S.W. Thompson, K.O. Findley, “A quantitative evaluation of microalloy precipitation strengthening in martensite and bainite,” Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 763, no. 138145, 2019.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Sourdough bread baking Cooking Helping my wife brew beer Being a new dad

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Dubai, UAE

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Tuscany Region, Italy

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Saxophone

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I became interested in welding

and metallurgy by making replica medieval armor

Stephanie Kwon

Where are you from, originally? Seoul, Korea

Where were you educated? B.S. in Chemical and Biological

Engineering, Seoul National University

Ph.D., Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University

What are some of your most significant work experiences? Postdoc, University of

California, Berkeley What do you love to teach? Kinetics Reaction engineering and

catalysis What research topics most interest you? Surface science Catalysis

What is your most significant publication? Kwon, S., P. Deshlahra, and E. Iglesia. (2018) Dioxygen activation routes in Mars-van Krevelen redox cycles catalyzed by metal oxides, Journal of Catalysis, 364, 228–247. What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Scuba diving Being a mom Cooking Traveling

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Bahariya Oasis Desert, Egypt

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Cappadocia, Turkey

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Interior design

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I have an advanced certificate for

scuba diving

Justin Latici

Where are you from, originally? Gilmanton, NH

Where were you educated? B.S. Environmental Science,

Roanoke College, Salem VA MFA Iowa Writers’ Workshop,

University of Iowa, Iowa City What are some of your most significant work experiences? UHSP HASS Writing Center Pedagogy and

Tutoring University of Colorado, Boulder Graduate Writing Support

What do you love to teach? Writing Practicum Humanities in STEM

What research topics most interest you? Effective teaching practices Factors that impact learning Teaching for transfer


Currently working on a collection of short fiction

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Being a Dad Cooking Biking Skiing Travel Reading Woodworking

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Cappadocia, Turkey

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Spannocchia – Chiusdino, Italy

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? violin

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I was a ski jumper in high school.

Jonathan Miorelli

Where are you from, originally? Hazleton, PA

Where were you educated? B.S. in Chemistry and Physics,

Metropolitan State University of Denver

PhD, Applied Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines

What are some of your most significant work experiences? Affiliate Instructor, Metropolitan

State University of Denver What do you love to teach? Physical/Computational

Chemistry Introductory Chemistry

What research topics most interest you? Finding rigorous definitions for

“fuzzy” chemical concepts (e.g. bonding)

Implementation/assessment of computational tools in chemical education


J. Miorelli, T. Wilson, A. Morgenstern, T. Jones, M. E. Eberhart. (2014). ChemPhysChem, 16 (1), 152-159. “A Full Topological Analysis of Unstable and Metastable Bond Critical Points”.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Drawing/sketching Painting Music/concerts Cooking Hiking Biking

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Trinity Test Site, White Sands,

NM Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Seattle, WA

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Sculpting

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I was born/raised in a cult and

through my science education I realized such and was able to free my mind

Alex Pak

Where are you from, originally? New York City, NY

Where were you educated? B.S. in Chemical Engineering,

MIT PhD in Chemical Engineering,

UT Austin What are some of your most significant work experiences? Postdoc Fellow, UChicago,

Chemistry and Biophysics Junior Scientist, NanoTerra Inc.,

Boston, MA What do you love to teach? Thermodynamics Transport Computational Modeling


Molecular engineering Materials Biophysics Multiscale computational

methods What is your most significant publication?

Pak, A.J., Grime, J.M.A., Yu A., and Voth, G.A. (2019). Off-Pathway Assembly: A Broad-Spectrum Mechanism of Action for Drugs that Undermine Controlled HIV-1 Viral Capsid Formation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141 (26), 10214-10224.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Cooking Soccer Board games and puzzles Outreach

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Lusaka, Zambia

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Kyoto, Japan

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? How to make the perfect

croissant Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. Growing up, I lived in a rural

Buddhist monastery during the summers

Chelsea Panos


Where were you educated? B.S. Environmental Engineering,

Colorado School of Mines MS and PhD Hydrology,

Colorado School of Mines What are some of your most significant work experiences? National Science Foundation

Graduate Research Fellow Member of ReNUWIt

Engineering Research Center including the Student & Postdoc Committee on Diversity & Inclusion (SPCDI)

What do you love to teach? Fluid Mechanics for Civil &

Environmental Engineers Hydrology Laboratory

What research topics most interest you? Urban hydrology Stormwater modeling Effective teaching practices


Bell, C.D., J.M. Wolfand, C.L. Panos, A.D. Bhaskar, R.L. Gilliom, T.S. Hogue, K.G. Hopkins, and A.J. Jefferson. (2020). “Stormwater control impacts on runoff volume and peak flow: A meta-analysis of watershed modelling studies.” Hydrological Processes. doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13784

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Dance Photography Home Decorating Journaling

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Strasbourg, France

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Torquay, England

What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Digital drawing Embroidery

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. Growing up, my family visited

Moab, UT one-two times per year (ages 9 through high school)

Phil Romig

Where are you from, originally? Golden, CO

Where were you educated? B.S. in Religion, Nebraska

Wesleyan University MS and PhD, Computer Science,

University of Nebraska, Lincoln What are some of your most significant work experiences? Chief Information Security

Officer, Colorado School of Mines

Research Associate, Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies.

What do you love to teach? Information Security Computer Networking Programming Languages

What research topics most interest you? Cyber Security in Open

Environments Protocol support for Very High-

Speed Networking Distributed and Parallel

Computing.


It has been 20+ years since I’ve published scholarly research, but the publication with the most significant impact on this group would be the Cyber Security and Computer Use policies for Mines.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Cycling (Road) Hiking/Camping Disaster Response Philosophy, esp. Ethics Parenting

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? Halsey National Forest (I

wouldn’t recommend it, but it IS an unusual place to visit…)

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Sea Kayaking in the caves off the

California coast. What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Quantum Physics Major disaster response.

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. Although born in Milwaukee,

I’ve never been there (my folks moved a few weeks after I was born).

and your hosts!

Kamini Singha

Where are you from, originally? We moved around a bit as kids—

New York, West Virginia, and then Connecticut.

Where were you educated? B.S. in Geophysics, University of

Connecticut Ph.D., Hydrogeology, Stanford

University What are some of your most significant work experiences? My job here at Mines! I was an assistant and associate

professor at Penn State before moving

My first “real” job was with the U.S. Geological Survey

What do you love to teach? Field Hydrology Groundwater Engineering

What research topics most interest you? Interfaces! How trees use water,

how groundwater and surface water mix, how tiny pores hold onto contaminants for a looooong time, many other topics.


Singha, K. , Day-Lewis, F.D. and Lane, J.W., Jr. (2007). Geoelectrical evidence of bicontinuum transport in groundwater. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(12), L12401, doi:10.1029/2007GL030019, 5 p.

What are you passionate about beyond your professional interests? Rock and ice climbing Bicycles (and motorcycles) Travel

What is the most unusual place you’ve ever traveled? The Galapagos were pretty rad

Where is the best place you’ve ever visited? Maybe the sand dunes of

Namibia What new thing do you aspire to learn or pursue “someday” when you get the time? Finish my pilot’s license

Tell us something unique about yourself that few people know. I used to box.

Roel Snieder

Where are you from, originally? Leiden, the Netherlands

Where were you educated?

Drs. Degree, Theoretical Physics,

Utrecht University

MA, Atmospheric Science, Princeton

University

PhD, Seismology, Utrecht University

What are some of your most

significant work experiences? W.M. Keck Professor of Professional

Development Education, CSM

W.M. Keck Professor of Basic

Exploration Science, CSM

Dean of Faculty of Earth Sciences,

Utrecht University

What do you love to teach? The Art of Science

Ethics

Science and Spirituality

What research topics most interest

you? Anything that wiggles (Center for

Wave Phenomena)

Time-lapse changes in rocks

Extracting information from noise

What is your most significant

publication?

Snieder et al., Coda wave interferometry for

estimating nonlinear behavior in seismic

velocity, Science, 295, 2253-2255, 2002

What are you passionate about

beyond your professional interests? Playing the saxophone

My counseling and coaching work

Being on/near water

What is the most unusual place

you’ve ever traveled? Iran

Where is the best place you’ve ever

visited? Corsica, France

What new thing do you aspire to

learn or pursue “someday” when

you get the time? Build a wooden canoe

Pick up sailing again

Tell us something unique about

yourself that few people know. I have been a firefighter for 14 years

and was Fire Chief for 2 years.

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