Diogo Bolster
Associate Faculty Director, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Hydrology
- dbolster@nd.edu
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- 156A Fitzpatrick Hall Of Engineering
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Biography
Diogo Bolster serves as the Associate Director of the Environmental Change Initiative, and directs ND-ECI’s Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND-LEEF).
Bolster is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Hydrology and Henry Massman Department Chair in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on the impacts humans have on the earth and its resources, specifically targeting environmental fluid flows and contaminant transport across a wide range of scales from groundwater flows in porous media to more confined flows in enclosed spaces such as buildings.
Bolster has developed mathematical and numerical models with the goal of providing useful tools to practitioners and policy makers for effective decision-making. To date, he has published more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Hydrologic Processes.