FIBER CONTACT
Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)
Architecture Building, Room 160
1480 Inner Road
Gainesville, Fla. 32611
Phone: 352.294.3370
email: fiber@dcp.ufl.edu
Web: dcp.ufl.edu/fiber
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 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 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 change asymmetric impacts on population and their environment. She employs participatory design methodologies and placemaking.
c.brisotto@ufl.edu
Sheyla Santana
Post-Doctoral AssociateSheyla Santana is an urban planner with a background in GIS. Sheyla holds a PhD in Architecture, Urban Planning, and GIS from UFMG. Her research focuses on vulnerability assessment, community-focused planning, citizen science, digital twin, and visioning scenarios to support adaptation to urban spaces.
sheyla.santana@ufl.edu
FIBER Administrative Staff
Olivia Facundo
Research AdministratorOlivia leverages her knowledge of administrative processes and procedures to guide and facilitate FIBER research endeavors.
o.facundo@dcp.ufl.edu
FIBER Students
Fang Yao, Urban and Regional Planning, fang.yao@ufl.edu
Haiyan Hao, Urban and Regional Planning, hhao@ufl.edu
Shangde Gao, Urban and Regional Planning, gao.shangde@ufl.edu
Manan Singh, Construction Management, manansingh5@ufl.edu
Guo Ziyi, Urban and Regional Planning, ziyiguo@ufl.edu
Luwei Wang, Landscape Architecture, weiwei88117@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
Amer Hamad Abukhalaf, Construction Management, amer.abukhalaf@ufl.edu
Collin Bowie, Construction Management, gville1515@ufl.edu
Isabella Guttuso, Landscape Architecture, isabellaguttuso@ufl.edu
Ana Orosco, Design, Construction, and Planning, ana.orosco@ufl.edu
Jessica Hays, Landscape Architecture, jessica.hays@ufl.edu
Forough Foroutan, Design, Construction, and Planning, forough.foroutan@ufl.edu
Xiaoyu Chen, Interior Design, xiaoyu51@ufl.edu
Ali “Khashayar” Mahmoudi, Interior Design, alimahmoudi@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
Robert R. Twilley
Executive Director of Louisiana Sea Grant College Program and Professor of Oceanography and CoastalSciences at Louisiana State University
DCP & UF Affiliates
DCP Affiliates
Chimay Anumba (BCN), anumba@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 (Admin, IND), mportill@ufl.edu
Sheila Bosch (IND), sheilabosch@ufl.edu
Shabboo Valipoor (IND), sh.valipoor@ufl.edu
Bahar Armaghani (SBE), barmagh@ufl.edu
Andrea Galinski, andrea.galinski@ufl.edu
UF Affiliates
Maitane Olabarrieta, maitane.olabarrieta@essie.ufl.edu
Chritine Angelini, christine.angelini@essie.ufl.edu
Rich Doty, 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