Participating Faculty Members
Yip-Wah Chung
Surface science, tribology, design and characterization of lubricant additives, hard coatings and alloys
Sinan Keten
Computational materials science and mechanics, nanostructured polymeric materials, biomolecular and bioinspired materials
Harold Kung
Catalysis science, energy conversion and storage, catalytic water purification
William Miller
Environmental aspects of water, energy, and sustainability with a focus on ecosystem services provided by urban nature preserves and green infrastructure (GI) including water storage, flood mitigation, urban microclimate regulation, and air pollution mitigation.
Neelesh Patankar
Metasurface design, the immersed body technique, and applications of the immersed body technique
Franz Geiger
Laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and computational techniques, geo and atmospheric chemistry, biophysics
Mayfair Kung
David Morton
Stochastic optimization and its application to energy, security, and health systems
Joseph Ferrie
Economic mobility, rural and urban migration, socio-economic mobility in Britain, France, and United States
Randall Berry
Resource allocation for wireless networks, dynamic spectrum sharing and wireless spectrum policy, network security, and social networks
David Chopp
Numerical methods; scientific computing; motion of interfaces, bacterial biofilms, neurophysiology, crack propagation, and solidification
Marco Gallio
Cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurogenetics, systems neuroscience, brain and behavior
William Dichtel
Organic and polymer chemistry, materials for water purification, nanofabrication
Kyoo-Chul Park
Multi-length scale surface fabrication, thermal-fluids engineering, and bio-inspired surface engineering for a sustainable future
David Dana
Environmental law, property, land use, and professional responsibility
George Wells
Microbial nitrogen cycling and nutrient removal processes, microbial ecology of engineered and natural settings, sustainable wastewater treatment
Daniel Abrams
Nonlinear dynamics physics of social systems, mathematical geoscience, pattern formation, coupled oscillators, synchronization, chimera states
Greg Wagner
Computational simulation methods for multi-scale and multi-physics problems in engineering, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and material transport
Jian Cao
Innovative manufacturing processes and systems, energy-efficient manufacturing, surface engineering, and distributed manufacturing
David Seidman
Development of high-temperature cobalt-based super-alloys, high-temperature aluminum alloys
Justin Notestein
Catalysis science, energy, materials and nanoscience
Elie Rekhess
Middle East and Israeli History, Arab Minority in Israel, Islamic Resurgence, Water in Israel, Middle Eastern and North African History
Nancy Loeb
Energy law, economics and the environment, regulatory communications and strategy, antitrust
Seema Jayachandran
Economic issues in developing countries, children’s health and education, the environment, gender equality, labor markets, and political economy
Neha Kamat
Engineered membranes, artificial cells, membrane biophysics, polymersomes, biomaterials
Jeffrey Richards
Generation, storage and transport of electrical charge, renewable energy infrastructures,
Niall Mangan
Data-driven mechanistic modeling, nonlinear dynamics on biological networks, renewable energy systems, Modeling and engineering of metabolic biological networks
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Optical and acoustic wave Sensing, Biomechancs of Soft Materials, Phononic Structures, Thermal Transport
Erica Hartmann
Microbiology, public health, environmental engineering, ecology of the built environment
Jennifer Dunn
Emerging technologies, energy and environmental impacts, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy consumption
Sera Young
Food insecurity, household-level water insecurity, malnutrition, global health and ecology
Julius Lucks
RNA Engineering, RNA Folding and Function, Gene Expression Control, Cell-Free Synthetic Biology, Diagnostics
Daniel E. Horton
Climate Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental observations, near-term meteorological, societal, and public health impacts of anthropogenic climate change, co-benefits and tradeoffs of green infrastructure and transportation initiatives
Richard M. Lueptow
Modeling, simulation, and experiments on the segregation and mixing of bi-and poly-disperse granular materials; A dynamical systems approach to mixing by “cutting and shuffling,” particularly as applied to granular materials; Molecular level simulation of transport processes in polymeric nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes.
Vinayak P. Dravid
Complex multicomponent nanostructured materials. Atomic-scale structure-property relationship for internal interfaces, domains, and mosaics. Oleophilic, Hydrophobic, and Magnetic (OHM) sponges and related concepts for the recovery of oil, nutrients, heavy metals, and related contaminants from waterways.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Vidya Venkataramanan
Understanding community perceptions and impacts of “green” stormwater management, understanding perceived value of urban, preserved green spaces to inform education and outreach interventions for urban conservation programs
Alumni
Irene Crisologo
Open-source weather radar processing, ground radar calibration assessment, post-event analysis of rainfall-related natural disasters, polarimetric rainfall retrieval
Colin Phillips
Physical modeling of river networks and transport processes, hydrology, and sustainable landscape and river management