The Team

Muriel Brückner, PhD, Assistant Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Biophysical feedbacks, eco-morphodynamic modeling, fluvial and coastal geomorphology and ecology, remote sensing

• PhD (2021) Physical Geography, Utrecht University - The Netherlands.
• MS (2016) Civil & Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig - Germany.
• BS (2013) Civil & Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig - Germany.

Zhenwei (Vic) Wu, PhD Student in Civil Engineering (Fall 2024 – Expected 2028)

Dissertation Topic: The impact of varying flooding periods on sediment transport and delta morphology
• MS (2024) in Watershed Hydrology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA - USA.
• BS (2020) in Marine Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan - China.

Anderson Amaya-Saldarriaga, PhD Student in Coastal & Ecological Engineering (Fall 2024 – Expected 2028)
Dissertation Topic:  Influence of Dynamic Vegetation-Induced Roughness on Morphodynamics in Deltas

• BS (2021) Civil Engineering focused on Computational Mechanics, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín – Colombia.

Valeria Andrea Perez Rivera, MS Student in Coastal & Ecological Engineering (Spring 2026 – Expected 2029)
Thesis Topic:  Modeling Vegetation Establishment Under Varying Grid Size Resolutions

• BS (2025) Geology focused on Coastal Geomorphology and Shoreline Change, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez – Puerto Rico.

Omid Boushehri, BS Student in Coastal Environmental Science

Student Research Assistant: Modeling Hydrodynamics and Dynamic Vegetation in ANUGA

Ethan Nguyen, BS Student Civil Engineering (Expected Graduation: 2026)

Student Research Assistant: CRMS vegetation data analysis in Python

Nelson Tull, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, eco-morphodynamic modeling

During his PhD, Nelson Tull studied how river water moves through floodplains during high flows. His work focused on the role of natural levee topography in facilitating the exchange of water, sediment, and solutes between a river and its floodplain over a wide range of river discharges and used a variety of hydrodynamic models, including ADCIRC, ANUGA, and HEC-RAS. At LSU, Nelson is developing an open-source model for the dynamic coupling of dynamic vegetation with Delft3D Flexible Mesh.

• PhD (2024) Civil Engineeging, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX - USA.
• MS (2018) Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC - USA.
• BS (2016) Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst - MA, USA.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MLYTfLIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao