Dr. Jennifer Veilleux is a geographer with a focus on internationally shared freshwaters research. Before coming to Tulane, Veilleux worked for nineteen years on water security, development, and management in Europe, Africa, and Asia. She has consulted with foreign governments, tribal governments, traditional societies, international non-governmental organizations, and the US Government as well as worked for Oregon State University and Florida International University. Veilleux is a former Boren Fellow. She is also a professional photographer and visual artist.

Matthew Toups holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans (UNO) and a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

Sönke Dangendorf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering. Dr. Dangendorf has more than 12 years of experience researching mean and extreme sea levels, ocean tides, and storm surges and the impact on coastal flooding. He previously held positions as an “Akademischer Rat” at the University of Siegen, Germany, and as an Assistant Professor for Ocean and Earth Science at the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Dr.

Dr. Alireza Shirvani received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Kentucky. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Game Development.

Dr. Punshon-Smith received his Ph.D in Mathematics from University of Maryland in 2017. In 2018 he joined the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University for 3 years as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2021 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study as a Member for the special year on "h-Principle and Flexibility in Geometry and PDEs". He joined Tulane in the Fall 2022 as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Mathematics department.

Dr. Molini received her Master’s degree in environmental sciences (summa cum laudæ) from the University of Genova (Italy) with a Major in Physics of the Atmosphere, and her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Basilicata (Italy) with a major in Hydroclimatology. 

Ken McLaughlin is joining Tulane’s mathematics department as the Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Mathematics.  He studied mathematics at New York University and went on to earn his Ph.D. from that school’s Courant Institute in 1994.   He has served as Head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona, and as the Chair of the Mathematics Department Colorado State University.

Keena Kareem is a native of New Orleans and an alumna of Tulane University, earning a B.S. in geology and the Harold E. Vokes undergraduate student award.  She earned a Ph.D. in geology from Louisiana State University before moving to industry.  She worked as an exploration and development earth scientist at Chevron for 10 years in Deep Water and Onshore basins. After leaving Chevron she embarked on a career in teaching, since academia has always been her passion.

y long-term research interest is to study healthy blood vessel development and remodeling, and to use both microphysiological organ-on-a-chip systems as well as transgenic mouse models to understand how intercellular signals – including, those involving gap junctions and their constituent proteins (connexins, Cx) – regulate these processes.