Energy and Natural Resources

Energy and natural resources target transformative research that will enable sustainable resource and energy conservation, production and recovery.

Faculty involved in energy and natural resources research:

	Mark Abkowitz Research Focus: Risk management, risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, freight transportation, spatial analysis, disaster preparedness Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Douglas Adams Research Focus: Nonlinear structural dynamics and vibrations, structural health monitoring/diagnostics and damage prognosis, noise and vibration control, aerospace and automotive systems, energy systems, defense and security platforms Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	A. V. Anilkumar Research Focus: Drop dynamics, aero-propulsion, energy conversion, design and development of experimental facilities, flow diagnostics and instrumentation Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Robert Joel Barnett Research Focus: Welding and welding controls, weld pool thermal and fluid modeling, sensor development, machine-vision-based quality control systems, robotic weld-path programming and robotic welding, alternative fuel engines, technical photography and imaging systems. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Hiba Baroud Research Focus: critical infrastructure systems modeling, risk analysis, statistical modeling, risk-informed decision analysis, resilience monitoring Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Prodyot (P.K.) Basu Research Focus: Multiscale behavior of composites, rapid repair of damaged structures using composite patches, real-time health monitoring of bridge structures, and accurate modeling and simulation of complex high-performance material systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	David Berezov Research Focus: Tech-based entrepreneurship, finance and accounting, engineering economy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Kevin Brown Research Focus: Life-cycle risk evaluation, model integration, and waste management issues related to proposed advanced nuclear fuel cycles and cementitious barriers for nuclear applications. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Joshua Caldwell Research Focus: Nano-optics, polaritonics, nanophotonics, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, active photonics, infrared optics and imaging, power electronic materials, defects in semiconductors Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Janey Camp Research Focus: Spill management information system, geographic information system mapping, impacts of climate change on civil infrastructure Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	James Clarke Research Focus: Chemical and nuclear waste management, human health and ecological risk assessment, sustainable and resilient approaches to the remediation of contaminated sites, long term stewardship of legacy hazardous and radioactive waste sites, environmental policy and environmental forensics. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Peter Cummings Research Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Abhishek Dubey Research Focus: Decision Procedures, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart-Cities, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Russell Dunn Research Focus: Polymer and chemical technologies, plant-wide design and optimization strategies, chemical product and process safety, polymer product characterization and failure analysis, and process integration Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Douglas Fisher Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, particularly machine learning. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Andrew Garrabrants Research Focus: transportation of contaminants, subsurface environments, leaching methods, energy production residuals, construction waste reuse Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Jesus Gomez-Velez Research Focus: Environmental flow and transport, groundwater-surface water interactions, watershed hydrology, analytical and numerical modeling, data mining and assimilation Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Kelsey Hatzell Research Focus: Interfaces, solid state batteries, inorganic ion conductors, intermediate temperature fuel cells, low-dimensional carbide materials Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	George Hornberger Research Focus: Hydrology, water scarcity, infrastructure resiliency, transport of dissolved and suspended constituents through catchments and aquifers Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Kane Jennings Research Focus: Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Weng Poo Kang Research Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	David Kosson Research Focus: Nuclear waste management, environmental remediation, leaching assessment and methods, management of residuals from energy production, contaminant mass transfer applied to groundwater, soil, sediment and waste systems. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Steven Krahn Research Focus: Nuclear and environmental policy and regulation; risk assessment and risk management; operational readiness and technology insertion in nuclear facilities; the nuclear fuel cycle. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Matthew Lang Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Eugene LeBoeuf Research Focus: Environmental and water resources engineering, hydropower optimization and management, sustainability engineering, environmental security, and contaminant fate and transport applied to groundwater, soil, and sediment systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	M. Douglas LeVan Research Focus: Fixed-bed adsorption, adsorption from the vapor phase, adsorption equilibria Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Deyu Li Research Focus: Micro/Nano scale energy and molecular transport phenomena,. Nanofabrication techniques, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, Micro/Nanofluidics. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Shihong Lin Research Focus: Membrane processes, water-energy-environment nexus, environmental surface science, environmental application and implication of nanotechnology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Clare M^cCabe Research Focus: Molecular modeling of nanoscale systems, development and application of molecular theories, improving efficiency of biofuel conversion, computational studies of skin lipid self-assembly Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Himanshu Neema Research Focus: Heterogeneous simulation integration, modeling and simulation, cloud computing, model-integrated computing, design-space exploration, artificial intelligence, planning and scheduling Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Craig Philip Research Focus: Management and design of urban and freight transportation networks and operations, infrastructure resilience and application of risk management tools to public policy making, carrier safety management and regulation of 24/7/365 operations, water resource management and balancing multistakeholder interests. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Peter Pintauro Research Focus: New proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells, development of space-charge models for ion uptake and transport in ion-exchange membranes, organic electrochemical synthesis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Robert Pitz Research Focus: Laser diagnostics, laminar & turbulent combustion, turbulence-chemistry interaction, pollutant formation, supersonic combustion, gas turbine combustion, rocket propulsion, Raman scattering, laser-induced fluorescence, molecular-tagging velocimetry. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Bridget Rogers Research Focus: Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materials Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Florence Sanchez Research Focus: Chemo-mechanical behavior and long-term performance of cement-based composites; Nanoscale behavior and nanomodification of cement and concrete materials; 3D printing of infrastructure materials; Mechanical/chemical/energy responses at material interfaces; Nanoscale interfacial interactions and dynamics in heterogeneous materials; Chemomechanically adaptive materials; Coupled chemo-transport-mechanical modeling Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Ahmad F. Taha Research Focus: Dynamic networks and cyber-physical systems sciences; Sustainable power systems control, operation, and planning; Water distribution networks control and optimization; Transportation systems state estimation and feedback control problems; Cyber-security of power grids, water networks, and global positioning system (GPS) Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Lori Troxel Research Focus: Sustainable Design, Structural Design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Hamp Turner Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Jason Valentine Research Focus: Optical metamaterials, plasmonics, transformation optics, nanophotonics, nanoimaging, active photonics, gradient index optics, high spatial resolution bioimaging and sensing, solar energy conversion, scalable 3D nanomanufacturing. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Eugene Vorobeychik Research Focus: Adversarial machine learning and data mining, data-driven agent-based modeling, economics of data sharing, game theoretic modeling of security and privacy, cyber-physical system security. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Greg Walker Research Focus: Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Francis Wells Research Focus: Arc detection in power equipment, discontinous control of space conditioning processes Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Arthur Witulski Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronic power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters, radiation reliability of complex systems in radiation environments such as satellites and robots in nuclear disasters. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Ryszard Wycisk Research Focus: Energy conversion and storage; membranes and separators from functional polymers and composites. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10
	Jamey Young Research Focus: Metabolic engineering; metabolic flux analysis; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; cancer and immune cell metabolism; photosynthesis research; cell culture engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources	10