
Melissa M. Bilec
Faculty
PhD, LEED AP
mbilec@pitt.edu
William Kepler Whiteford
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Co-Director
Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
Dr. Bilec's focuses on the sustainable built environment. She is committed to exploring how the built environment can be an integral part of climate change solutions. She views the world and her research using a systems-level approach, as she is an expert in the life cycle assessment. Using this view, she integrates critical built environment modeling approaches from building energy modeling to indoor air quality to develop robust strategies to mitigate climate change and deleterious environmental and human health impacts. Most recently, she is working to solve the global waste challenge through the advancement and development of circular economy principles, since the built environment is a major consumer of resources and producer of waste.
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Sam Copeland
M.S. Student

Sila Temizel
Post Doc
Now: LCA Consultant

Fernanda Cruz Rios Ford
Post Doc
Now: Assistant Professor at Drexel University
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Vaclav Hasik
PhD
Now: UrbanFabrick

Shen Tian
PhD
Now: Covestro

Briana Niblick
PhD
Now: Environmental Engineer at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Can Aktas
PhD
Now: Assistant Professor at Tagliatela College of Engineering University of New Haven

Christi Saunders
M.S. Student
Now: Virtual Construction Engineer at Mascaro Construction Company

Neethi Rajagopalan
PhD
Now: Researcher for Department of Forest Biomaterials North Carolina State University

Abdul-Aziz Banawi
PhD
Now: Department Chair at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Scott Shrake
PhD
Now: Colorado State University

Sami Al-Ghamdi
PhD
Now: Assistant Professor at College of Science and Engineering Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Alexander Dale
PhD
Now: Community Relations Sr. officer at MIT Solve Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bill Collinge
PhD, Post Doc
Now: Researcher at Bayer/Covestro

Nicole Campion
PhD
Now: Associate Engineer at Delaware River Port Authority

Kevin Ketchman
PhD
Now: Managing Consultant at Opinion Dynamics

Cassandra Thiel
PhD, Post Doc
Now: Assistant Professor at Pantone School of Medicine New York University

Harold Rickenbacker
PhD
Now: Environmental Defense Fund

Haley Gardner
M.S. Student
Now: ILFI