Akram Alshawabkeh is Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the PROTECT Superfund Research Center and Director of the  Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico (CRECE).  His research areas include geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration.