Dr. Susan Bogus Halter

Chair and Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Bogus teaches and researches in the area of construction engineering and management. Her research focuses on integrating design and construction to improve sustainability and reduce project delivery time. She has worked extensively in the areas of design-build project delivery, asset management, and sustainable design and construction. Prior to joining UNM, she worked for ten years at CH2M HILL as a project engineer and project manager.

Dr. Maryam Hojati

Assistant Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering 

Dr. Maryam Hojati is an assistant professor in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from the Pennsylvania State University. During her academic experience, she worked on a variety of research studies that equipped her with the skills to conduct diverse research in material, structure, and application of additive manufacturing in construction. She was involved in multiple phases of the NASA Centennial Challenge from 2016 to 2019 NASA to build a 3D-printed habitat for deep space exploration. She joined the CCEE department at UNM in Aug. 2019 and established the Advanced Sustainable Construction (ASC) Lab, leveraging her prior experience setting up a 3D-printing lab. Working alongside her team, she focused on designing and developing innovative sustainable materials, adapting them for additive manufacturing (AM) technology. Her research addresses three critical areas in the construction industry, including (1) designing and constructing resilient infrastructures (2) building affordable houses, and (3) designing sustainable construction materials and practices on the earth and beyond.

Dr. Arthur Kaufman

Vice Chancellor, Office of Community Health

Dr. Arthur Kaufman has been a Family Medicine Physician for over 30 years at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. He has held multiple positions of importance to the health of individuals and communities, including Director of the Primary Care Curriculum, Director for the Health of the Public Program, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for the Dissemination of Community-Oriented, Problem–Based Education and, currently, Chairman for the UNM Department of Family and Community Medicine. In all of these roles, Dr. Kaufman has been the leader of numerous programs of local, national and international significance

Dr. Lisa L. Losada-Rojas

Assistant Professor, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Lisa L. Losada-Rojas's research aims to advance communities’ public health through  transportation solutions. Other research interests include transportation planning, accessibility, modelling and forecasting, rural transportation, and sustainability. Dr. Losada-Rojas was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto St. George Campus in Canada. Dr. Losada-Rojas has received several awards and recognitions, such as being named a 2021 MIT CEE Rising Star and 2021 LATinE: Latinx Trailblazers in Engineering Fellow

 Dr. Madura Pathrige

Assistant Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

We seek to understand, model, and predict the fracture mechanics and multi-physics behavior of various materials and structures in extreme environments. Our research scope is multidisciplinary and encompasses several time and length scales, and incorporates a wide range of numerical methods in applied solid mechanics.

Dr.Fernando Moreu

Associate Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Prior to his doctorate degree, Fernando Moreu worked in consulting engineering for over ten years, mostly focused in structural design and construction of bridges and structures. His exposure to both industry, design, and construction informs his research interests and publications. He stays active in domestic and international societies related to smart infrastructure design; maintenance and management of infrastructure policies; and structural sensing for safer and cost-effective assessment. He is a registered professional engineer.

Dr. Carlos Rivera-Gonzalez

Assistant Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Carlos Rivera-Gonzalez is an assistant professor in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a master’s degree in economics from RPI, and a master’s degree in civil engineering with a focus on transportation engineering from Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia), the university where he completed his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. Dr. Rivera-Gonzalez was named a 2023 LatinX Trailblazer in Engineering by Purdue University and has received several awards, including the prestigious Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship from the World Resources Institute and the Volvo Research Educational Foundation.

His line of research aims to foster transportation systems and supply chains in which efficiency, livability, and environmental objectives are achieved simultaneously. To accomplish this goal, his research focuses on the interconnections among urban economies, land-use and transportation systems, and supply chain efficiency. His research aims to find ways to foster economic efficiency, sustainability, quality of life, and environmental justice.