Personnel
Allen Bradley Jr, PhD
Title/Position
Faculty Research Engineer
Allen Bradley is an IIHR faculty research engineer, as well as a professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Bart Brown
Title/Position
Senior Application Developer
Bart Brown is a senior application developer at the Iowa Flood Center. He does web development and programming and works on the Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS).
George Constantinescu, PhD
Title/Position
Faculty Research Engineer
George Constantinescu is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and a research engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering.
Bekir Zahit Demiray
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Bekir Zahit Demiray is a graduate research assistant at the Iowa Flood Center.
Teresa Gaffey
Title/Position
Director of Finance and Business Operations, IIHR
Teresa Gaffey is the director of finance and business operations at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering and the Iowa Flood Center.
Kate Giannini
Title/Position
Program Manager, IIHR
Kate Giannini is a Program Manager at IIHR, where she leads partner engagement and strategic initiatives to enhance flood resilience across Iowa. With a background in watershed management, and conservation implementation, she collaborates with communities, researchers, and stakeholders to translate flood science into actionable solutions.
Daniel Gilles
Title/Position
Water Resources Engineer
Daniel Gilles is a water resources engineer at the Iowa Flood Center. He develops flood models to simulate how flooding occurs in communities.
Radek Goska
Title/Position
Design Engineer
Radek Goska is a design engineer at the Iowa Flood Center. His research interests include database development, real-time data acquisition for the Iowa Flood Information System and other projects, and the development of GUI for hydro-NEXRAD and XPOL radars.
Santiago Henao Gomez
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Santiago Henao Gomez is a graduate research assistant at the Iowa Flood Center.
Witold Krajewski, PhD
Title/Position
Faculty Research Engineer
Witek Krajewski is the former director and a current faculty research engineer at the Iowa Flood Center. His scientific research interests concern multiple aspects of rainfall measurement, modeling, forecasting, and estimation, using radar and satellite remote sensing.
Anton Kruger, PhD
Title/Position
Faculty Research Engineer
Anton Kruger is a research engineer at IIHR and the Iowa Flood Center, as well as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa
Ruben Dario Molina Santamaria
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Jerry Mount, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Jerry Mount is an assistant research scientist in the Iowa Flood Center
Marian Muste, PhD
Title/Position
Research Engineer
Marian Muste is a research engineer with IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering and an adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Iowa. His research interests include river monitoring, uncertainty analysis, and cyberinfrastructure-based watershed data and information systems.
James Niemeier, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
James Niemeier is an assistant research scientist at the Iowa Flood Center. His work includes developing, building, and deploying new instrumentation.
Felipe Quintero Duque, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Research Scientist
Felipe Quintero Duque is an assistant research scientist at the Iowa Flood Center. He works to enhance the Iowa Flood Information System by designing tools that enable river stage forecasts for any location in Iowa.
Marcela Rojas Oliveros
Title/Position
Design Engineer
Marcela Rojas Oliveros is a design engineer at the Iowa Flood Center. She works to develop rating curves for bridge sensors at many locations on rivers in Iowa as part of a project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Breanna Shea
Title/Position
Program Manager, Iowa Flood Center
Breanna Shea is a program manager at the Iowa Flood Center. She develops and implements communications and outreach programs for IFC projects.
Humberto Vergara Arrieta, PhD
Title/Position
Faculty Research Engineer
Dr. Vergara is a faculty research engineer at the Iowa Flood Center providing expertise in hydrologic modeling with a focus on river-flood and flash-flood forecasting.
Larry Weber, PhD
Title/Position
Director, IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering
Interim Director, Iowa Flood Center
Director, Center for Hydrologic Development
Larry Weber is the IIHR director, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and the Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics. With Director Witold Krajewski, he helped create the IFC and continues to be active in its development through work with the Iowa Legislature
Nate Young
Title/Position
Associate Director, Iowa Flood Center
Nate Young is associate director of the Iowa Flood Center and a research engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering.