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 within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. His research explores how biological, environmental, and geotechnical processes interact within earth materials and infrastructure systems, with the goal of developing climate-responsive, resilient, and sustainable engineering solutions.
His work spans bio-mediated and bio-inspired geotechnics, fungal and microbial engineering, post-wildfire landscape recovery, soil erosion and dust mitigation, ecological restoration, contaminant remediation, and sustainable infrastructure systems. More broadly, he is interested in understanding and engineering coupled processes in earth systems to improve resilience, recovery, and environmental performance under cyclic/extreme climatic conditions.
Salifu is passionate about mentoring the next generation of engineers and researchers through interdisciplinary, hands-on learning experiences that cultivate technical excellence, creativity, and systems thinking.
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Soil restoration post-wildfire events, erosion control using microbial- and/or fungi-mediated approaches, development and characterization of fungi mycelium-based biomaterials and composites.