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:
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Mark AbkowitzResearch Focus: Risk management, risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, freight transportation, spatial analysis, disaster preparednessIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Douglas AdamsResearch 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 platformsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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A. V. AnilkumarResearch Focus: Drop dynamics, aero-propulsion, energy conversion, design and development of experimental facilities, flow diagnostics and instrumentationIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
Hiba BaroudResearch Focus: critical infrastructure systems modeling, risk analysis, statistical modeling, risk-informed decision analysis, resilience monitoringIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 | |
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Prodyot (P.K.) BasuResearch 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 systemsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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David BerezovResearch Focus: Tech-based entrepreneurship, finance and accounting, engineering economyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
Kevin BrownResearch 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 | |
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Joshua CaldwellResearch Focus: Nano-optics, polaritonics, nanophotonics, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, active photonics, infrared optics and imaging, power electronic materials, defects in semiconductorsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Janey CampResearch Focus: Spill management information system, geographic information system mapping, impacts of climate change on civil infrastructureIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Peter CummingsResearch Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systemsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Abhishek DubeyResearch Focus: Decision Procedures, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart-Cities, Machine Learning, Distributed SystemsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Russell DunnResearch Focus: Polymer and chemical technologies, plant-wide design and optimization strategies, chemical product and process safety, polymer product characterization and failure analysis, and process integrationIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Douglas FisherResearch Focus: Artificial Intelligence, particularly machine learning.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Andrew GarrabrantsResearch Focus: transportation of contaminants, subsurface environments, leaching methods, energy production residuals, construction waste reuseIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Jesus Gomez-VelezResearch Focus: Environmental flow and transport, groundwater-surface water interactions, watershed hydrology, analytical and numerical modeling, data mining and assimilationIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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George HornbergerResearch Focus: Hydrology, water scarcity, infrastructure resiliency, transport of dissolved and suspended constituents through catchments and aquifersIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Kane JenningsResearch Focus: Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Weng Poo KangResearch Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI designIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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David KossonResearch 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 |
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Steven KrahnResearch 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 |
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Matthew LangResearch Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunologyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Eugene LeBoeufResearch 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 systemsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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M. Douglas LeVanResearch Focus: Fixed-bed adsorption, adsorption from the vapor phase, adsorption equilibriaIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
Deyu LiResearch 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 | |
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Shihong LinResearch Focus: Membrane processes, water-energy-environment nexus, environmental surface science, environmental application and implication of nanotechnologyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Clare McCabeResearch Focus: Molecular modeling of nanoscale systems, development and application of molecular theories, improving efficiency of biofuel conversion, computational studies of skin lipid self-assemblyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Himanshu NeemaResearch Focus: Heterogeneous simulation integration, modeling and simulation, cloud computing, model-integrated computing, design-space exploration, artificial intelligence, planning and schedulingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
Craig PhilipResearch 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 | |
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Peter PintauroResearch Focus: New proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells, development of space-charge models for ion uptake and transport in ion-exchange membranes, organic electrochemical synthesisIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Robert PitzResearch 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 |
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Bridget RogersResearch Focus: Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materialsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Florence SanchezResearch 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 modelingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Ahmad F. TahaResearch 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 |
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Lori TroxelResearch Focus: Sustainable Design, Structural DesignIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Hamp TurnerIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Jason ValentineResearch 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 |
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Eugene VorobeychikResearch 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 |
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Greg WalkerResearch Focus: Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Francis WellsResearch Focus: Arc detection in power equipment, discontinous control of space conditioning processesIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Arthur WitulskiResearch 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 |
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Ryszard WyciskResearch Focus: Energy conversion and storage; membranes and separators from functional polymers and composites.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |
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Jamey YoungResearch Focus: Metabolic engineering; metabolic flux analysis; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; cancer and immune cell metabolism; photosynthesis research; cell culture engineeringIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 |