Emmanuel Salifu
Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Emmanuel Salifu is an assistant professor of bio-geotechnical engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He is an expert in bio-geotechnical engineering, soil erosion mitigation and bioremediation, with interests in environmental impact analysis of products and projects. Salifu provides courses that will deepen students’ worldview, sharpen their engineering intuition and promote varying perspectives to solve problems.
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Current research focus: soil restoration post-wildfire events, erosion control using microbial- and/or fungi-mediated approaches, development and characterization of fungi mycelium-based biomaterials and composites.