
Jeffrey Carney
Associate ProfessorFIBER 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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Ryan Sharston
Assistant ProfessorRyan 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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Jason Von Meding
Associate ProfessorJason 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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Yan Wang
Assistant ProfessorYan 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 ProfessorLisa 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 ProfessorJiayang 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 ScholarCarla 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 ScholarChristian 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


Ann-Marie knight
Vice president of community engagement at UF Health in Jacksonville





Randy Carter
Vice President for Relationship Development, The Center for Health Design
DCP & UF Affiliates
DCP Affiliates
Chimay Anumba (BCN), anumba@ufl.edu
Julie Bruck (LA), jbruck@ufl.edu
David Rifkind (ARCH), rifkind.david@ufl.edu
Robert Cox (BCN), robcox@ufl.edu
Rengel,Roberto (IND), rrengel@ufl.edu
Lingoian (Ivy) Hu (URP), hul@ufl.edu
Stephen Bender (ARCH), sbender@ufl.edu
Nancy Clark (ARCH), nmclark@ufl.edu
Sarah Gamble (ARCH), sarah.gamble@ufl.edu
Martha Kohen (ARCH), mkohen@ufl.edu
Lex Thomas (GeoPlan), alexist@ufl.edu
Bill O’Dell (Shimberg), billo@ufl.edu
Mike Volk (LA), mikevolk@ufl.edu
Karla Saldana Ochoa (ARCH), ksaldanaochoa@ufl.edu
Maria Watson (BCN), maria.watson@ufl.edu
Crystal Goodison (GeoPlan), cgoody@ufl.edu
Chaofeng Wang (BCN), chaofeng.wang@ufl.edu
Hal Knowles (SBE), hknowles@ufl.edu
Margaret Portillo (IND), mportillo@ufl.edu
Sheila Bosch (IND), sheilabosch@ufl.edu
Shabboo Valipoor (IND), sh.valipoor@ufl.edu
Bahar Armaghani (SBE), barmagh@ufl.edu
Andrea Galinski (LA), andrea.galinski@ufl.edu
Ravi Srinivasan (BCN), sravi@ufl.edu
Ruth Steiner (URP), rsteiner@ufl.edu
Cleary Larkin (HP), clarkin@ufl.edu
Hassan Azan (ARCH), h.azad@ufl.edu
Charlie Hailey (ARCH), clhailey@ufl.edu
Sherry Larkin (URP), slarkin@ufl.edu
UF Affiliates
Maitane Olabarrieta, maitane.olabarrieta@essie.ufl.edu
Chritine Angelini (ENG), christine.angelini@essie.ufl.edu
Rich Doty (BEBR), richardldoty@ufl.edu
Colin Tucker Smith (PSYCH), colinsmith@ufl.edu
David Prevatt (ENG), dprev@ce.ufl.edu
Carolyn Cox (FCI), crcox@ufl.edu
Xiang Yan (ENG), xiangyan@ufl.edu
Kevin Ash (GEOG), kash78@ufl.edu
Whitt Schroder, wschroder@latam.ufl.edu
H. Robert Kolb (CTSI/EGH), kolbhr@ufl.edu
Tara Sabo-Atwood (EPI/EGH), sabo@phhp.ufl.edu
Elif Akcali (ISE), akcali@ise.ufl.edu
Rick Stepp (ANTHRO), stepp@ufl.edu
Angelica Almeyda Zambrano (IFAS), aalmeyda@ufl.edu
Eben Broadbent (IFAS), eben@ufl.edu
Cori Matyas (GEOG), matyas@ufl.edu
Jose Fortes (ELEC & COMP ENG), fortes@ufl.edu
Jiangxiao Qiu (Forest Resources), qiuj@ufl.edu
Savanna Barry (SEAGRANT/IFAS), savanna.barry@ufl.edu
Eban Bean (IFAS), ezbean@ufl.edu
Maitane Olabarrieta (ESSIE), maitane.olabarrieta@essie.ufl.edu
Ray Bodrey (SEAGRANT/IFAS), rbodrey@ufl.edu
Thomas Hawkins (LAW), hawkins@law.ufl.edu
Gail Hansen De Chapman (IFAS), ghansen@ufl.edu
Todd Manini (Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics), tmanini@ufl.edu
Matthew Jacobs (Graham Center), mjacobs@ufl.edu
Michael Kung (UF International Center), mkung@ufic.ufl.edu