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Zbigniew J. Kabala

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duke University, North Carolina

Born and raised behind the Iron Curtain, Dr. Zbigniew J. Kabala is a naturalized United States citizen who cherishes the freedoms and opportunities granted by this country. He earned his master's degree in civil engineering in 1980 from Poznan Polytechnic in Poznan, Poland, and master's degree in mathematics in 1982 from A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan. At Princeton University, he earned another master's and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering and operations research in 1985 and 1988, respectively. Next, Dr. Kabala held one-year postdoctoral appointments at the MIT in the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory and at the UC-Berkeley in the Department of Soil Science. He was then appointed an assistant professor of hydrology in the Department of Soils and Environmental Sciences at the UC-Riverside. He joined the Duke faculty in the summer of 1994.

Dr. Kabala's principal research interests cover stochastic and deterministic theory of fluid flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media, theory of related measurements, field and laboratory studies in subsurface hydrology, stochastic fields and processes, numerical and analytical methods and sensitivity analysis.

Dr. Kabala teaches currently the following courses: Fluid Mechanics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, and Groundwater Hydrology. He enjoys his interactions with students in and outside of class. He has served as a faculty in residence (FIR) for a number of years. He mentors gifted high school students from around the world through Pioneer Academics, and he published peer-reviewed papers with some of them.

Dr. Kabala is also an avid member of Toastmasters International and a sponsor of the PRATTically Speaking Toastmasters club in PRATT School of Engineering, where he hones his public speaking skills and helps students and postdocs do the same.

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