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FIBER CONTACT

Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)
Jonathan and Melanie Antevy Hall, Room 160
1480 Inner Road
Gainesville, Fla. 32611
Phone: 352.294.3370
Email: fiber@dcp.ufl.edu
Web: dcp.ufl.edu/fiber

DCP

Jeffrey Carney

Associate Professor
FIBER Director

Jeff is an architect and urban designer working at the scale of housing and neighborhoods as an interface between urbanism, infrastructure, and ecosystem. 
j.carney@ufl.edu
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DCP

Ryan Sharston

Assistant Professor

Ryan is an architect and a civil and environmental engineer focusing on high performance buildings and the health and well-being of occupants. 
r.sharston@ufl.edu
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DCP

Jason Von Meding

Associate Professor

Jason is a social scientist investigating narratives of disaster, including injustice and inequality but also solidarity and hope. 
jason.vonmeding@ufl.edu
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DCP

Yan Wang

Assistant Professor

Yan is a civil engineer who studies geographical and semantic urban-scale data to track spatiotemporal dynamics of human-spatial systems. 
yanw@ufl.edu
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Lisa Platt

Assistant Professor

Lisa is an Engineering Psychologist and Interior Designer using Systems Science to study operations in health and continuing care settings.  lisaplatt@ufl.edu
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Jiayang Li

Assistant Professor

Jiayang is a landscape architecture scholar studying public perception and everyday experience of novel design interventions for climate resilience.
jiayangli@ufl.edu




Changjie Chen

Assistant Scientist


Changjie is a planner and statistician whose research emphasis is directed at the simulation of future land-use scenarios and transportation modeling by integrating spatial analytics, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms.
chj.chen@ufl.edu

Carla Brisotto

Assistant Director, Assistant Scholar

Carla Brisotto is an architect (Italy) and urban theorist. Her research focuses on productive landscapes and climate asymmetric impacts on population and their environment.
c.brisotto@ufl.edu




Christian Calle Figueroa

Urban Designer, Assistant Scholar

Christian Calle Figueroa is an architect and urban designer who focuses on adaptive spatial strategies and digital tools to enhance climate resilience and public life in vulnerable coastal communities.
callefigueroac@ufl.edu









FIBER Students

Zahra Zare, Architecture, zzare@ufl.edu

Guo Ziyi, Urban and Regional Planning, ziyiguo@ufl.edu

Xiyi Hu, Interior Design, huxiyi@ufl.edu

Goshtasb Shahriari-Mehr, Urban and Regional Planning, g.shahriarimehr@ufl.edu

Arezoo Zeinali, Interior Design, arezoo.zeinalika@ufl.edu

Haleh Mehdipour, Construction Management, haleh.mehdipour@ufl.edu

Ana Orosco, Design, Construction, and Planning, ana.orosco@ufl.edu

Lyndsey Weisman, Architecture, lweisman@ufl.edu

Forough Foroutan, Design, Construction, and Planning, forough.foroutan@ufl.edu

Xiaoyu Chen, Interior Design, xiaoyu51@ufl.edu

Ana Lucia Rodriguez-Valdes, Architecture, rodriguezvaldesa@ufl.edu

Shen Jingyuan, Construction Management, jingyuan.shen@ufl.edu

FIBER Advisory Board

William Craig Fugate

Former FEMA Administrator under
the Obama Administration

craig@craigfugate.com

Ann-Marie knight

Vice president of community engagement at UF Health in Jacksonville

ann-marie.knight@jax.ufl.edu

Janice Barnes

Founder of Climate Adaptation Partners

janice@climateadaptationpartners.com

John Sapora

Housing Resiliency Program Officer,
LISC Jacksonville

jsapora@lisc.org

Gary Cecchine

Director, RAND Gulf States Policy Institute

cecchine@rand.org

Anthony Oliver-Smith

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Florida

aros@ufl.edu

Gary Hoyt

Principal Hoyt Architects

gary@hoytarchitects.com

Randy Carter

Vice President for Relationship Development, The Center for Health Design

rcarter@healthdesign.org

DCP & UF Affiliates

UF Affiliates

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