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 |
Rizia BardhanResearch Focus: Nanomedicine, immunoimaging and immunotherapies, drug delivery and light-based therapies, Raman spectroscopyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources | 10 | |
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Robert Joel BarnettResearch 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 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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Ralph BruceIntellectual 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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James ClarkeResearch 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 |
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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: Dynamic and resilient cyber-physical platformsIntellectual 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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Kelsey HatzellResearch Focus: Interfaces, solid state batteries, inorganic ion conductors, intermediate temperature fuel cells, low-dimensional carbide materialsIntellectual 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 |
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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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Supil RainaResearch Focus: Thin-film diamond and carbon nanotubes, advanced energy storage solutions using lithium ion batteries and ultracapacitors, vacuum field emission technology, sensors.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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Lori TroxelIntellectual 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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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 |