All Investigators and Staff

Akram Alshawabkeh

Co-Director, PROTECT Program,
Project 5 Leader, Core A Co-Leader

Professor, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University
aalsha@coe.neu.edu – visit website

José F. Cordero

Co-Director, PROTECT Program,
Core C Leader, Core A and B Co-Leader

Dean, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico
jose.cordero6@upr.edu – visit website

Antonia Calafat

Collaborator, Project 3

Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ACalafat@cdc.gov

John Chen

Database Administrator, Core D

Database Administrator, Northeastern University
johnc@coe.neu.edu

Roger Giese

Project 1 Leader

Director, Environmental Cancer Research Program & Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Science, Northeastern University
r.giese@neu.edu - visit website

Craig Harris

Investigator, Project 2

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences/Associate Research Scientist, Reproductive Sciences Program
Environmental and Industrial Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
charris@umich.edu – visit website

Ferdinand Hellweger

Investigator, Core D

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University
ferdi@coe.neu.edu

Kristin Hicks

Education Coordinator, Core E

Partnership and Education Services Coordinator, Northeastern University
khicks@coe.neu.edu

Howard Hu

Investigator, Project 3

NSF International Dept Chair, Environmental Health Sciences & Professor of Epidemiology, Internal Medicine
School of Public Health, University of Michigan
howardhu@umich.edu – visit website

Sangchul Hwang

Investigator, Project 4 and Core E

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
shwang@uprm.edu – visit website

Braulio Jimenez

Investigator, Core C

Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Environmental Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
braulio.jimenez@upr.edu – visit website

David Kaeli

Core D Leader

Director of the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
kaeli@ece.neu.edu – visit website

Richard Lieberman

Investigator, Project 2

MD, FACOG, FCAP, Departments of Pathology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Michigan Health Systems
jakrwl@umich.edu – visit website

Rita Loch-Caruso

Project 2 Leader

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Associate Research Scientist, Reproductive Sciences Program
Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
rlc@umich.edu – visit website

Robert Lyons

Collaborator, Project 3

Director of DNA Sequencing Core, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
boblyons@umich.edu

Raul Macchiavelli

Investigator, Project 4

Professor, Department of Crops and Agroenvironmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico at  Mayagüez
raul.macchiavelli@upr.edu – visit website

Anne Magrath

Director of Finance and Research Contracts Administration Operations, Core A

Director of Finance and Research Contracts Administration Operations, Northeastern University
a.magrath@neu.edu

Emanuel Mason

Investigator, Core E

Professor, Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology, Northeastern University
e.mason@neu.edu

Daniel McConnell

Collaborator, Project 3

Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology, University of Michigan
danmcc@umich.edu

Patrick S. McHallam

Consultant, Core D

Software Architect, Quinobequin GIS and IT Consulting

John Meeker

Project 3 Leader

Assistant Professor, Enviromental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
meekerj@umich.edu – visit website

Bhramar Mukherjee

Investigator, Project 3

Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
bhramar@umich.edu – visit website

Mariah Nobrega

Program Manager, Cores A and B

Administrative Coordinator, Northeastern University
mnobrega@coe.neu.edu

Ingrid Padilla

Project 4 Leader

Associate Professor in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
padillai@uprm.edu

Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy

Investigator, Project 5

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
e.podlaha-murphy@neu.edu – visit website

Camille Rivera

Nurse, Core C

Staff, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
camille.rivera@upr.edu

Dalitza Ramon

Nurse, Core C

Staff, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
dalitzarb@gmail.com

Laura Rozek

Investigator, Project 2

Assistant Professor, Enviromental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
rozekl@umich.edu – visit website

Gang Shao

Investigator, Project 1

Senior Research Scientist, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University
g.shao@neu.edu – visit website

Thomas Sheahan

Core E Leader

Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University
tsheahan@coe.neu.edu – visit website

Michael Silevitch

Core B Leader

Director, The Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
Robert D. Black Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
msilevit@ece.neu.edu

Perla Torres

Laboratory Analyst, Project 4

Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

Carlos Valero

Administrative Coordinator, Core A

Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico
carlos.valero@upr.edu – visit website

Dorothy Vesper

Investigator, Projects 4 and 5

Associate Professor, Department of Geology, West Virginia University
djvesper@mail.wvu.edu – visit website

Poguang Wang

Investigator, Project 1

Principal Research Scientist, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Barnett Institute of Chemical Analysis, Northeastern University
p.wang@neu.edu – visit website