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
	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
	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