The Team
Dr. Hadis Matinpour
Principal Investigator · Assistant Professor
Hadis Matinpour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at Texas Tech University. Before joining Texas Tech, she was a Senior Water Resources Engineer at the Flood Risk Solution (FRS) Department at AECOM and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2019. Her work focuses on fluid mechanics and particle transport in environmental and engineered systems. She is committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and to mentoring graduate and undergraduate students in a rigorous and supportive research environment.
Graduate Students
Hossein Haghgou
Ph.D. Student
Hossein Haghgou is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on hydrologic, hydraulic, and surface water quality modeling, as well as multi-hazard risk assessment. He is proficient in using tools such as PCSWMM, Delft3D, MATLAB, and ArcGIS Pro for watershed mapping, hydrodynamic and water quality analysis, and flood risk assessment. Prior to his doctoral studies, Hossein worked as a Water Resources Engineer, where he led the design and construction of a variety of infrastructure projects, including dams, spillways, pumping stations, piles, micropiles, and retaining structures.
Andre Lima
Ph.D. Student
Andre Lima is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at Texas Tech University. Prior to joining Texas Tech, he worked as a construction inspector with the 1st Regional Works Commission of the Brazilian Army. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Brazil, in 2021. His research focuses on the behavior of suspensions, including segregation and transport phenomena in viscous and turbulent multiphase flows.
Mehedi Sohan
Ph.D. Student
Mehedi Hasan Sohan is a PhD student at Texas Tech University. He received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). His research interests include water quality, sediment transport, hydrology, and hydraulics. He also works with computational fluid dynamics in his research. His current work focuses on Drop Impact Physics on Immersed Sediment Beds with Surface Runoff. Outside of research, he enjoys playing cricket, football, and exploring new places.
Sajib Das
Ph.D. Student
Sajib Das is Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering. Before joining, Texas Tech, he previously completed his Bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2024, where he established a profound interest on fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics. His current research focuses turbulence aerosol interactions depending on different turbulent eddy sizes and how the influence of strong turbulence effects aerosol transport, mixing state and particle behavior phenomena by experimental and computational approach.
Erica Lopez
Master student (co-advised by Dr. Malmali)
Erica Lopez is an M.S. student in Chemical Engineering. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University in 2022, where she conducted Density Functional Theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics research. This work was presented at the GSC Collaboration Workshop through the DOE/NNSA MSIPP Growing STEMS Consortium which led to a research internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Before graduate school, Erica worked as a Process Engineer in Ion Implantation at Texas Instruments, specializing in high-energy particle accelerators, process optimization, DOE, metrology, and data analysis. She also gained experience in fiberglass composite manufacturing where she led plant-wide quality initiatives. She brings experience in both computational research and industrial process engineering. As a member of the Matinpour Lab, Erica will conduct research using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).