Jesus Gomez-Velez, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on understanding and predicting how water, energy, and matter move, accumulate, and transform within complex, interconnected natural and engineered systems, as well as how these processes impact humans and ecosystems. To do this, he uses field experiments, environmental observations, numerical modeling, data science, and artificial intelligence.

Before joining the University of Iowa, Jesus worked as a senior research scientist in the Environmental Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In academia, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University and in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at New Mexico Tech. He earned a PhD in earth and environmental science from New Mexico Tech, along with MS degrees in hydrology and applied mathematics from the same institution and a BS in civil engineering from the National University of Colombia at Medellin. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship as part of the National Research Program at the US Geological Survey in Reston, VA.