Isabelle Anguelovski
Urban Studies & Planning
Addressing environmental injustices through innovations in civic participation. Environmental protection and equitable developments
Damian Burch
Mathematics
Continuum and stochastic modeling of micro-scale physical phenomena, with a focus on applications to rechargeable batteries. Rechargeable batteries.
Yang Chen
Urban Studies & Planning
Climate mitigation within the Chinese urban transportation. Urban transportation and greenhouse gas emission mitigation.
Jing Cheng
Materials Science and Engineering
Novel designs and prototypes for Si/Ge tandem thin film solar cells and Ge/photonic crystal heterostructures for thermophotovoltaic conversion to heat to electricity. Thermophotovoltaic cells.
Katya Frois-Moniz
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ecology of marine cyanobacteria and viruses. Effects of viruses on nutrient cycling, phytoplankton productivity, and phytoplankton evolution in the oceans.
Nicholas Gayeski
Architecture
Energy efficient buildings: auto-calibrating building energy models using web-based energy management and control systems to inform building operations and enhance retrofit assessment. Building technology sustainability.
Scott Geyer
Chemistry
Transport physics and materials chemistry of arrays of nanocrystal quantum dots, with emphasis on photovoltaic devices. Solar energy conversion.
Rebecca L. Gianotti
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Investigating the effects of large-scale biofuel crop production in Southeast Asia on regional water and carbon cycles and associated impacts on ecosystems, climate feedbacks, and other water users. The potential for environmental management to contribute to malaria vector control in western Niger.
Jason J. Jay
Organizational Study Group, Sloan School of Management
Analysis of buyer-driven efforts to improve sustainability in global supply chains. Sustainable business practices, the organizational learning and change processes that produce them, and the institutional supports that enable them.
Eunjee Lee
Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Science
Evaluation of terrestrial carbon dioxide fluxes to climate change and their implications to the alteration of the carbon cycle dynamics in the Arctic. Environmental sustainability.
Elise Y. Li
Chemistry
Developing a microscopic understanding of the structure and electronic structure of the oxygen-evolving center in photosystem II. Application of my research to fuel cell development.
Christopher MacMinn
Mechanical Engineering
Analytical modeling of multiphase fluid flow in porous media: gravity segregation, viscous fingering, and capillary trapping effects with specific application to geological CO2 storage. Geological storage of carbon dioxidey.
Marcos
Mechanical Engineering
Interaction between bacterial motility and environmental fluid flow. Microbiological and ecological aspects of bacteria.
Vikram Mittal
Mechanical Engineering
How the sensitivity of a gasoline affects its antiknock resistance. Increasing engine efficiencies; automotive and aviation structures.
Ivan Nausieda
Electrical Enginering & Computer Science
Energy and materials efficient fabrication of electronics through use of low temperature processing and additive patterning. Integrated organic technology.
Matthew S. Orosz
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Hybrid solar energy systems suitable for off-grid power systems in developing areas. Renewable energy technology.
Katherine Potter
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science Earth
The measurement of tropospheric nitrous oxide (N2O) isotopes to elucidate the global budget of N2O sources and sinks. Climate change and environmental sustainability.
Meredith Silberstein
Mechanical Engineering
Development of new materials for alternative energy techniques. Mechanics of proton exchange membranes of persulfonated polytetra fluorethylene.
Malima I. Wolf
Mechanical Engineering
Design and performance of recycling systems and product design for recyclability . Recycling and reclaiming of materials from products.
Kevin Xueyan Zhang
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Studying the impacts of thermally-driven exchange flows on water qualities in lakes. Water quality, water resource.