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Bradley Olsen
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Low carbon materials, Natural materials and systems, Carbon management in ecosystems
Shuhei Ono
Professor
Department of Earth; Atmospheric; and Planetary Sciences
Research Interests
Geologic carbon sequestration, Isotopologue measurements, Natural gas and petroleum generation and storage
Tomás Palacios
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests
Hydrogen sensing, Power electronics, Infrastructure monitoring
Sergey Paltsev
Deputy Director, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
MIT Energy Initiative
Research Interests
Energy economics, Technology deployment, Climate policy
Joseph Paradiso
Professor
Department of Media Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
Leveraging wearable sensing, the Internet of Things, AI
John Parsons
Deputy Director for Research
Sloan School of Management
Research Interests
nuclear, electricity, finance
Thomas Peacock
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Matěj Peč
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth; Atmospheric; and Planetary Sciences
Research Interests
Carbon mineralization, Hydrogen production, Geothermal energy
Alex Pentland
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
Systems design including behavior change, Microbiome engineering for carbon reduction and human health
Jaime Peraire
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests
Aerodynamics, Wind power, Metamaterial design
Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga
Professor
Sloan School of Management
Research Interests
Power sector regulation, Universal energy access, Regional electricity markets
David Perreault
Ford Professor of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests
Power electronics and applications
Ethan Peterson
Group Leader, Neutronics
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Research Interests
Nuclear fusion and fission power, Radiation transport methods for nuclear energy
Desiree Plata
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Carbon removal and abatement, Complex mixture characterization, Geochemical fate
Tomaso Poggio
Professor
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Kristala Prather
Department Head, Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Biobased chemicals and fuels
Ronald Prinn
Director and Professor
MIT Center for Global Change Science
Maggie Qi
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Biofuels
Alexander Radosevich
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Research Interests
Catalytic chemistry
Rajeev Ram
Associate Director and Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
David Rand
Professor
Sloan School of Management
Research Interests
Behavior Change, Adoption of sustainable technologies, Green marketing
Carlo Ratti
Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Research Interests
Nuclear batteries, Thermal energy storage, Decarbonization of cities
Cristina Rea
Principal Research Scientist, Group Leader
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Research Interests
Nuclear fusion as alternative energy source, Machine learning for scientific discovery
John Reilly
Senior Lecturer
Sloan School of Management
Christoph Reinhart
Professor
Department of Architecture
Research Interests
Sustainable building design, Building retrofits, Urban building energy modeling
Karen Rennell
Director, CRSP Renovations
Department of Facilities
John Rice
Senior Research Scientist
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Research Interests
Magnetic fusion energy
Roberto Rigobon
Professor
Sloan School of Management
Pablo Rodríguez-Fernández
Group Leader, MFE Integrated Modeling Group
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Research Interests
Fusion energy, Tokamaks, Plasma physics
Yuriy Roman
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Giuseppe Romano
Research Scientist
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Research Interests
Accelerated materials discovery, Thermal energy conversion, Computing
Caroline Ross
Professor of Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
Materials for low energy electronics
Nicholas Roy
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Deb Roy
Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
AI, computational social science, digital interactive design
Michael F. Rubner
Professor Emeritus
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Carolyn Ruppel
Deputy Director of Science and Technology
MIT Energy Initiative
Gregory Rutledge
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Sustainable plastics, Light weighting, Textiles
Michael S. Strano
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Thermal energy garvesting, Thermal engineering, Nanoenergetics
Donald Sadoway
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Paolo Santi
Principal Research Scientist, Senseable City Lab
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Research Interests
Shared mobility, Electrification
Bishwapriya Sanyal
Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Research Interests
Formalizing informal housing settlements with sustainable energy needs in mind
Sanjay Sarma
Vice President for Open Learning
Office of the Provost
Research Interests
Building systems, Vehicular transportation, Government and public policy
Tim Schittekatte
Senior Lecturer
Sloan School of Management
Adam Schlosser
Senior Research Scientist
MIT Center for Global Change Science
Research Interests
Natural and managed land systems, Water resources, Climate/weather extremes
Richard Schmalensee
Professor
Sloan School of Management
Research Interests
Electricity policy, Retail pricing, Decarbonization
Paul Sclavounos
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
Offshore wind, Wave, current
Noelle Selin
Professor
Institute for Data; Systems; and Society
Research Interests
Air quality, Sustainability, Climate policy
Yang Shao-Horn
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
Electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies, Catalysis, electrocatalysis