Professor Elfatih Eltahir
Lead Principal Investigator
Dr. Elfatih Eltahir is H. M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Eltahir is a recipient of the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1997; and the Kuwait Prize in Applied Science in 2000 for his work on climate change. He has been elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008. He received the Hydrologic Sciences Award of the American Geophysical Union in 2017. He is elected member of National Academy of Engineering (2023), fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2023), and member of the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences.
Learn more about Dr. Eltahir’s work at Eltahir Research Group– Highlighted Papers
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John Aldridge
Lead Principal Investigator
John Aldridge is Assistant Leader of the Human Resilience Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His team leverages the research and development expertise of the Laboratory’s nearly 4,000 staff in support of humanitarian assistance, economic and social development, and disaster relief organizations.
Dr. Deborah Campbell
Executive Director
Dr. Deborah Campbell is a Senior Staff Scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She co-leads the Laboratory’s work on Environmental Resilience and Natural Hazard Adaptation Technologies. This work brings together the Laboratory’s multidisciplinary expertise in areas including systems analysis, sensing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and decision support to contribute to novel resilience and adaptation technology and capability development.
In Campbell’s prior work at the Laboratory, she served as an Associate Technology Officer in the Laboratory’s Director’s Office. In her earlier work at the Laboratory, she applied her chemistry expertise to chemical and biological threat detection, forensics and attribution. Campbell earned a BS degree in chemistry from Bates College and a PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.