Affiliated Faculty
Faculty members at Northwestern are engaged in a range of academic pursuits with broad applications for sustainability and energy. As an epicenter for research and engagement in these fields, ISEN strives to support interdisciplinary collaboration across the university’s many colleges and programs.
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- Breiter, Hans - Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Research/Expertise: The mathematical psychology related to behavior, big data, and artificial intelligence, as well as reward/aversion neuroscience using brain imaging and genetics, and malfunctions of reward/aversion in psychiatric illness.
- Budinger, GR Scott - Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Cell and Molecular Biology
- Research/Expertise: Asthma; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Pulmonary Fibrosis; Pulmonary Thromboembolism; Sarcoidosis; Environmental Health.
- Daviglus, Martha L. - Preventive Medicine and Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics)
- Research/Expertise: The epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and minority health disparities including the association between both progression of coronary artery calcium and carotid artery thickness and long-term exposure to ambient air pollutant concentrations.
- Funk, William E. - Preventive Medicine (Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention)
- Research/Expertise: Developing and applying biomarker methods to explore environmental risk factors associated with chronic diseases, cancers, and complex disorders. Interests include: Environmental Health; Proteins; Cancer Biology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Endocrinology; Health Disparities; Pediatrics; Systems Biology.
- Finn, Mark - Accounting and International Business
- Research/Expertise: Core financial accounting, financial reporting, international accounting, and sustainability reporting.
- Islegen, Ozge - Operations
- Research/Expertise: Supply chain management, capacity management, environmental sustainability and energy-related operations; specifically, energy supply chains, and capacity investment strategies under environmental regulations.
- Jones, Benjamin F. - Entrepreneurship and Strategy
- Research/Expertise: Global economic development, including the roles of education, climate, and national leadership in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations.
- King, Brayden - Management and Organizations
- Research/Expertise: Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment with a focus on how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility, reputation, organizational change, and legislative policymaking.
- Weber, Klaus - Management and Organizations
- Research/Expertise: The political economy of globalization, the intersection between social movements and the economy, and sustainability and social enterprise.
Biomedical Engineering Department
- Walsh, Joseph - Biomedical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Optical stimulation of nervous tissue; polarization based imaging; surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy (SERS) for quantification of analytes.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
- Blair, Neal - Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: The pathways of organic carbon decomposition and sequestration as mediated by biological and physical processes in soils and sediments.
- Booth, Laurence - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Architecture
- Buscarnera, Giuseppe - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Constitutive modeling of geomaterials; mechanics of unsaturated soils; chemo-mechanics of porous rocks; theory of material stability and its application to geo-engineering problems; fracture and crushing in granular materials; natural hazards; slope stability analyses; landslide forecasting.
- Clark, Mark - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Mechanics of coagulation/flocculation and solid-liquid separation by membrane processes in drinking water treatment.
- Corr, David - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Concrete material science; nanomodification of cement-based materials; structural sensing and diagnostics; structural engineering and mechanics; failure analysis and forensic engineering.
- Cusatis, Gianluca - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/ Expertise: Mechanics of infrastructure materials and constitutive modeling of concrete and cementitious composites.
- Dalrymple, Robert - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Coastal engineering, sea level rise, water wave mechanics, fluid mechanics, littoral processes, and tidal inlets.
- Gaillard, Jean-François - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Biogeochemical processes that affect the fate of metals in aquatic systems, how chemical speciation of metals controls their biouptake/bioavailability focusing on microbial species.
- Gray, Kimberly A. - Civil and Environmental Engineering , Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Environmental catalysis and physicochemical process in natural and engineered environmental systems (with a foxus on energy and urban sustainability projects); synthesis, characterization and performance of photo-active materials, principally TiO2-based nanocomposites for solar fuel production and water/air treatment.
- Hadavi, Ahmad - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Life cycle analysis, productivity improvement, labor motivational techniques, construction cost engineering, infrastructure rehabilitation, construction methods and innovations, international construction.
- Huang, Yonggang - Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Mechanics of stretchable and flexible electronics, and 3D fabrication of complex materials and structures.
- Krizek, Raymond J. - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Mechanical properties of grouted sands; disposal of waste slurries; soil-structure interaction; engineering behavior of dredged materials.
- Mahmassani, Hani - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Multimodal transportation systems analysis; planning and operations; dynamic network modeling and optimization; autonomous vehicles and connected systems; transit network planning and design; user behavior and telematics; telecommunication-transportation interactions; large-scale human infrastructure systems; smart cities; real-time operation of logistics and distribution systems
- Marcelino, Luisa - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Reef-forming corals and their associated algae; light scattering and propagation in coral tissue and skeleton; characterization of microbes at the cell and genetic level; characterization of the symbiotic relationship and of its limitations (i.e., coral bleaching when corals undergo thermal stress).
- Nie, Yu (Marco) - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: to better understand and predict the behavior of transportation networks, and to formulate new design and control strategies to improve mobility, reliability and sustainability of these systems.
- Packman, Aaron - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Water, sediments, and microbiota, with particular emphasis on the basic processes that control interfacial dynamics in aquatic systems and the coupling of physical transport processes with biological and biogeochemical processes.
- Qu, Jianmin - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Micromechanics of composites, interfacial fracture and adhesion, fatigue and creep damage in metallic and polymer materials, fuel cells and batteries, thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic packaging, and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of advanced engineering materials.
- Rao, Harish - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Sustainability, technology, and society; Environmental engineering applications for air and land.
- Rudnicki, John - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Inelastic behavior and failure of materials, particularly deformation instabilities in brittle rocks and granular media, including their interactions with pore fluids, in connection with applications to the mechanics of earthquakes, energy storage and recovery, disposal of toxic wastes and geological sequestration of CO2.
- Schofer, Joseph L. - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: transportation policy, use of data and information, sustainability of key data programs, management of disruptions, management of disruptions due to severe weather and infrastructure failures, improving decisions by systematic learning from experience, and development and application of performance measures for managing and evaluating transportation systems.
- Tilghman, Richard - Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: construction, project management, construction estimating, business development, preconstruction services.
Chemical and Biological Engineering Department
- Broadbelt, Linda - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Complex kinetics modeling, catalysis and biocatalysis, polymerization and depolymerization.
- Kung, Harold - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Catalysis science, energy conversion and storage, catalytic water purification.
- Masanet, Eric - Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Development mathematical models and decision support tools to quantify opportunities for reducing energy and resource use in industrial technology systems.
- Miller, William M. - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Environmental aspects of water, energy, and sustainability. Evaluation of ecosystem services provided by urban nature preserves and green infrastructure including water storage, flood mitigation, urban microclimate regulation, and air pollution mitigation.
- Mirkin, Chad - Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Development of methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 – 100 nm length scale, understanding their fundamental properties, and utilizing such structures to develop novel analytical tools that can be applied in the areas of chemical and biological sensing, gene regulation, immunomodulation, lithography, catalysis, optics, and energy generation, storage, and conversion.
- Notestein, Justin - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Development of novel designs and syntheses of catalysts, adsorbents, and other functional materials especially for the purpose of more sustainable routes to important chemicals and fuels.
- Ottino, Julio M. - Chemical and Biological Engineering, (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Complex systems, dynamics of granular matter, mixing and segregation.
- Snurr, Randall - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Molecular modeling, absorption, separations, catalysis, and energy and sustainability.
- Snyder, Seth W. - Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: New process technologies ranging from sustainable tree growth through bioconversion technologies and separations, improve energy efficiency in production of biofuels and biobased products, CO2 capture, and water treatment.
- Torkelson, John - Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Polymer science and engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, sustainability.
- Tyo, Keith E.J. - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and global health.
- Wang, Mitchell (Muzhou) - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Self-assembly of nanostructured polymers and other soft materials, biomaterials, and biohybrid materials.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
- Aydin, Koray - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Research/Expertise: Interactions of light with nanoscale materials, designing optical metamaterials with novel electromagnetic and photonic properties, and integration of nanoscale photonic materials with devices for applications in energy, health care, defense and communications.
- Grayson, Matthew - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Research/Expertise: The design, fabrication, and electrical characterization of electronic devices and materials. Studies the low energy excitations of such low-dimensional electron systems as quantum wells, one-dimensional wires, electron-beam patterned structures, and both integer and fractional quantum Hall edges.
- Hardavellas, Nikos - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Research/Expertise: Techniques to enable extreme-scale multi-core processors specifically ways to combat "dark silicon" (i.e., our inability to power up a chip in its entirety) and pave the way to energy-efficient computing.
- Nocedal, Jorge - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Research/Expertise: Optimization, machine learning, optimal control, software, scientific computing.
- Wei, Ermin - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Research/Expertise: Smart grid and energy networks with focus of market analysis and mechanism design; large scale distributed optimization algorithms and theory with emphasis on nonlinear convex optimization, network optimization and their applications.
Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics Department
- Chopp, David - Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Research/Expertise: Numerical methods; scientific computing; motion of interfaces. Applications include bacterial biofilms; neurophysiology; crack propagation; and solidification, among others.
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department
- Klabjan, Diego - Industrial Engineering and Management
- Research/Expertise: Machine learning and artificial intelligence - text analytics, deep learning, optimization; transportation, finance, healthcare.
- Marasco, Mike - Industrial Engineering and Management
- Research/Expertise: Disruption, corporate venturing, corporate venture capital.
- Waechter, Andreas - Industrial Engineering and Management
- Research/Expertise: Large-scale nonlinear continuous optimization; mixed-integer nonlinear optimization; open source software implementation; application of optimization algorithms to industrial and scientific problems.
- Werwath, Mark - Industrial Engineering and Management
- Research/Expertise: Product development, technical entrepreneurship, organizational antecedents to innovation.
Mechanical Engineering Department
- Achenbach, Jan - Mechanical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Mechanics of solids; quantitative nondestructive evaluation and fracture mechanics.
- Balogun, Oluwaseyi - Mechanical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Multifunctional (photonic and phononic) structures, Laser based ultrasonic sensors, Interfacial properties of thin film materials, and Phonon transport in electromechanical structures. Research is focused on the design of novel multifunctional materials and structures that enable control of elastic/acoustic and electromagnetic waves in materials.
- Cao, Jian - Mechanical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Innovative manufacturing processes and systems, flexible dieless forming, micro-forming, laser processes for ablation and additive, and composites forming.
- Chung, Yip-Wah - Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Surface science, tribology, design and characterization of lubricant additives, hard coatings and alloys, as well as high throughput synthesis of multi-component systems.
- Daniel, Isaac M. - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: All aspects of experimental mechanics and composite materials including processing, characterization, and modeling of polymer, ceramic and metal matrix composites; nanocomposites and hybrid nano/microcomposites; fracture and damage mechanics; nondestructive evaluation; and life prediction.
- Gerber, Elizabeth - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Collective innovation- an innovation process that harnesses the diverse and untapped human, social, and economic capital from distributed networks to discover, evaluate, and implement new ideas. Scholarship produces theory for collective innovation, design principles, novel sociotechnical systems to support inclusive and continuous innovation in society.
- Huang, Yonggang - Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Mechanics of stretchable and flexible electronics, and 3D fabrication of complex materials and structures.
- Joester, Derk - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: The design (i.e. the structure and functional organization) and integrated synthesis of biominerals. Includes biosynthesis, functional properties, and degradation of biominerals.
- Keten, Sinan - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Computational materials science and mechanics, emphasizing nanostructured polymeric materials and biomolecular and bioinspired materials.
- Krishnaswamy, Sridhar - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Multifunctional materials and systems and intelligent structural health management of safety-critical structures.
- Kulkarni, Manohar - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Energy Optimal Control of Thermal Systems; Thermal Systems Design and Analyses; Energy Management.
- Liu, Wing K. - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Development of multiscale theories, methods, and softwares for the design and analysis of large scale engineering material systems, materials design, manufacturing, and bio-sensing.
- Masanet, Eric - Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Development mathematical models and decision support tools to quantify opportunities for reducing energy and resource use in industrial technology systems.
- Ottino, Julio M. - Chemical and Biological Engineering, (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Complex systems, dynamics of granular matter, mixing and segregation.
- Patankar, Neelesh - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Development of fully resolved computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques, to use theory and CFD to understand the neural control of movement, to design novel underwater vehicles, and to interrogate the evolution of fish form and function, and to establish the foundational science of controlling phase using surface roughness and chemistry.
- Park, Kyoo-Chul (Kenneth) - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Water harvesting, liquid droplet formation, bio-inspired materials science and chemistry.
- Snyder, Seth W. - Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Research/Expertise: New process technologies ranging from sustainable tree growth through bioconversion technologies and separations, improve energy efficiency in production of biofuels and biobased products, CO2 capture, and water treatment.
- Sun, Cheng - Mechanical Engineering
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Research/Expertise: Applications of nano-electronics, nanophotonics, nano-electromechanical systems and nano-biomedical systems necessitate developments of viable nano-manufacturing technologies.
- Wang, Jane Q. - Mechanical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Contact/interfacial mechanics, tribology of advanced materials and novel lubricants, design and engineering of energy-efficient surfaces.
Materials Science and Engineering Department
- Barnett, Scott - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Ceramic thin films and coatings, including hard coatings and transparent conducting oxides. Research is focused on solid oxide fuel cells include novel processing methods including 3D printing and thin electrolyte deposition, electrode reaction mechanisms, intermediate-temperature solid oxide cells, direct utilization of hydrocarbon fuels, 3D imaging of electrode microstructure, and reversible cells for energy storage.
- Carr, Stephen - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: The effects of processing on structure/property relationships in flexible or rod‑like polymers and their alloys, the origins of piezoelectricity in polymers, and fracture toughness in semicrystalline polymers.
- Chung, Yip-Wah - Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Surface science, tribology, design and characterization of lubricant additives, hard coatings and alloys, as well as high throughput synthesis of multi-component systems.
- Dunand, David - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Metallic alloys, composites, and foams, with particular emphasis on measuring and modeling their mechanical properties. Investigates three main families of materials: dispersion-strengthened metals, metallic foams, and foams from shape-memory alloys.
- Haile, Sossina - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: The relationship between structure and electrical behavior in electrochemically active solids, as a key step towards designing materials with exceptional properties and applicability in sustainable energy technologies.
- Hersam, Mark C. - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Nanomaterials for electronics, sensing, and energy.
- Huang, Jiaxing - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Materials chemistry, processing, and manufacturing focusing on graphene based soft materials and other 2D materials, organic nanostructures, metal nanostructures, nanopatterning and additive manufacturing, and conducting polymer nanostructures as a platform for education of materials science and nanoscience.
- Lauhon, Lincoln - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: The design and synthesis of novel low-dimensional materials, the development of proximal probe techniques for nanoscale electrical, optical, and magnetic characterization, and the realization of new device technologies enabled by nanomaterials research.
- Olvera de la Cruz, Monica - Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Development of models to describe the self-assembly of heterogeneous molecules including amphiphiles, copolymers and synthetic and biological polyelectrolytes, as well as the segregation and interface adsorption in multicomponent complex fluids.
- Rogers, John - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: soft materials for conformal electronics, nanophotonic structures, microfluidic devices, and microelectromechanical systems, all lately with an emphasis on bio-inspired and bio-integrated technologies.
- Seidman, David - Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Development of high-temperature cobalt-based superalloys and five-Dimensional correlative studies of the temporal evolution of nickel-aluminum alloys on a nano- to subnanoscale.
- Torkelson, John - Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Polymer science and engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, sustainability.
- Foerstner, Abigail - Health, Environment, and Science Reporting
- Research/Expertise: Co-director of health, environment, and science reporting in Medill's Chicago newsroom. Initiator of Medill's embedded reporting program.
- Leff, Donna - Journalism
- Research/Expertise: Science writing, urban reporting, the analysis of urban issues, culture and business of journalism and media law and ethics and does research on science/policy issues and the role of minorities and race in media coverage and in the profession.
- Barsa, Michael - Law
- Research/Expertise: International environmental claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act, risk perception under environmental warning statutes, the Public Trust Doctrine, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
- Dana, David - Law
- Research/Expertise: Environmental law, property, land use, and professional responsibility. Dana's current scholarly work focuses on a range of topics, including environmental and health risks posed by emerging technologies, climate change adaptation, the foreclosure crisis, and attorney fees and fee alternatives.
- Loeb, Nancy - Law
- Research/Expertise: Energy Law and Policy and Economics and the Environment. Loeb is the Director of the Environmental Advocacy Clinic at Northwestern University Law School’s Bluhm Legal Clinic. She also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Environmental Law & Policy Center (Chair), the National Women’s Law Center, and the Chicago Bar Foundation (Chair, Advocacy Committee).
- Martin, Christopher M. - Law
- Research/Expertise: Contract drafting, environmental law, and commercial litigation.
- Schwoch, James J. - Communication Studies
- Research/Expertise: Global media, media history, international studies, and security issues.
- Horn, Michael - Learning Sciences
- Research/Expertise: Intersection of human-computer interaction and learning with a focus on thoughtful uses of emerging technologies in diverse learning settings.
- Mulroy, Quinn - Human Development and Social Policy
- Research/Expertise: Policymaking and policy implementation; law and courts; regulatory agencies; Congress; civil rights and environmental policy; relationship between state and society/public and private; and American political development.
- Abolt, William - Public Policy and Administration
- Research/Expertise: Energy, sustainability, carbon management, cities, and infrastructure. Has over 30 years of experience managing complex energy, environmental and public issues and programs.
- Madariaga, Bruce - Public Policy and Administration
- Research/Expertise: Environmental policy and economics. Acted as senior economist and manager at the United States Environmental Protection Agency for 15 years.
- Slone, Ricca - Public Policy and Administration
- Research/Expertise: Water and environmental policy in the United States and India. Consultant on regional water supply policy and lobbyist on environmental and sustainability issues for the Environmental Law & Policy Center, a regional nonprofit headquartered in Chicago.
Anthropology Department
- Amato, Katherine - Anthropology
- Research/Expertise: Americas, Africa, Biological Anthropology, Environment, Food, Health & Medicine, Globalization, Development, Evolution.
- Hudson, John C. - Geography
- Research/Expertise: Cultural and physical geography of North America, biogeography, economic geography, cartography and mapping, geographic information systems.
- Young, Sera - Anthropology
- Research/Expertise: Water security, food security, mother and child health.
Biological Sciences Program
- Egerton-Warburton, Louise - Biological Sciences
- Research/Expertise: Fungal diversity, functioning, and ecology with an emphasis on mycorrhizal fungi; Consequences of alterations in climate, land-use, and species invasion cycles on plant-soil interactions; Fungal contributions to soil carbon sequestration and stability; Resilience, complex systems, and network theory.
- Galbreath, Gary - Biological Sciences, Environmental Policy and Culture
- Research/Expertise: Wildlife protection in Southeast Asia and rainforest conservation in Peru.
- Russin, Christina - Biological Sciences
- Research/Expertise: People-plant interactions and plant biology.
- Skogen, Krissa - Biological Sciences
- Research/Expertise: Reproductive and pollination biology, plant-insect interactions, floral trait evolution, demography, population genetics, large-scale anthropogenic threats to biodiversity, understanding the causes and consequences of plant population and species decline, and onagraceae, sphingidae, and microlepidopterans.
- Walsh, Joseph - Biological Sciences
- Research/Expertise: Restoration ecology of tallgrass prairies, bur oak savannas, and oak woodlands.
Chemistry Department
- Carmieli, Raanan - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The instrumentation and methodologies development in magnetic resonance for the study of photoexcited systems.
- Chen, Lin X. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The relationships of energetics, dynamics, and structures in photochemical and photophysical processes on different temporal and spatial scales.
- Co, Dick - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy (Solar Energy Research) and Science Communication and Outreach.
- Dichtel, William R. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Materials for water purification, energy storage, polymers that are tough yet repairable, the detection of explosives, the rational design of two-dimensional polymers, and the interaction of nanostructured materials with biological systems.
- Farha, Omar - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The rational design of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous-organic polymers for sensing, catalysis, storage, separations and light harvesting.
- Freedman, Danna - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The application of approaches and tools of synthetic inorganic chemistry in order to understand and overcome fundamental obstacles in physics and energy research.
- Geiger, Franz - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The application of cutting-edge laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and computational techniques to focus on the special role that surfaces and interfaces play in geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and biophysics.
- Harel, Elad - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The application of light to control biological function, elucidating the role of the environment (e.g. solvent) on the function of proteins, and designing artificial systems that utilize coherent as well as incoherent processes to efficiently harvest and transport energy.
- Harris, T. David - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The application of coordination chemistry, which enables the control of geometric and electronic structure at the atomic level, to develop and study functional molecules and materials. The use of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as solid-state matrices to study the structure, bonding, and reactivity of unusual metal complexes relevant to biology and catalysis.
- Hupp, Joseph T. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The design of molecular materials and supramolecular assemblies. Some are designed to help understand fundamental aspects of molecular recognition, directed assembly, light harvesting and directional energy transport, and electron transfer reactivity. Others are designed to exploit these phenomena to solve problems involving solar energy conversion, chemical fuel storage and release, chemical sensing, molecular transport and chemical separations, or selective catalysis.
- Kalow, Julia - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Interface of organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, and materials science through two distinct approaches: materials-inspired reaction discovery and reactivity-driven materials discovery.
- Kanatzidis, Mercouri - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Inorganic chemistry, solid state, and coordination chemistry of chalcogenide compounds. Design of new materials, exploratory synthesis, thermoelectric materials, nanostructured materials, intermetallics, mesoporous semiconductors, phase-change materials, conducting polymers, intercalation chemistry applications of new materials.
- Marks, Tobin J. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Synthetic organo-f-element and early-transition metal organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, molecule-based photonic materials, superconductivity, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, and biological aspects of transition metal chemistry.
- Mirkin, Chad - Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Research/Expertise: Development of methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 – 100 nm length scale, understanding their fundamental properties, and utilizing such structures to develop novel analytical tools that can be applied in the areas of chemical and biological sensing, gene regulation, immunomodulation, lithography, catalysis, optics, and energy generation, storage, and conversion.
- Nguyen, SonBinh - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Inorganic/organometallic chemistry, organic synthesis, and polymer science. We are also interested in environmental friendly catalysis and biomaterials.
- Odom, Teri W. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The design of structured nanoscale materials with exceptional properties. Applications of the unique materials include nanomedicine, nano-lasing, photovoltaics, wetting, and imaging.
- Olvera de la Cruz, Monica - Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The development of models to describe the self-assembly of heterogeneous molecules including amphiphiles, copolymers and synthetic and biological polyelectrolytes, as well as the segregation and interface adsorption in multicomponent complex fluids.
- Poeppelmeier, Kenneth R. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The connections between the synthesis and structure of new materials, the physical properties of new materials, and the technological advances that result from these discoveries.
- Ratner, Mark A. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The interplay between molecular structure and molecular properties. This includes such aspects as molecular electronics, molecular optoelectronics, molecular systems design and biomolecular behavior, as well quantum and classical methodologies for understanding and predicting molecular structure and response.
- Regan, Thomson J. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The frontiers of organic synthesis, both in terms of new reaction design, and in the synthesis of complex biologically active molecules.
- Schatz, George - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Theory and computation as applies to problems in nanotechnology, properties of materials, macromolecular structures and dynamics, molecular self-assembly, optics, materials physics and biophysics. Also interested in electronic structure methods, in quantum and classical theories of dynamical processes, and in using these methods to study the reactions of molecules at interfaces.
- Shiozaki, Toru - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Excitonic processes in organic semiconductors, prediction of magnetic properties of f-element complexes, and mechanistic insight into photochemical dynamics.
- Siedeman, Tamar - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Coherent control and coherence spectroscopies in isolated molecules and in dissipative media; quantum transport, current-driven dynamics and molecular machines; ultrafast nanoplasmonics and information guidance in the nanoscale; the interaction of matter with intense laser fields; and mathematical method development.
- Stair, Peter C. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The synthesis, characterization, and physical properties of heterogeneous catalysts with emphasis on industrial chemistry and energy technology.
- Stupp, Samuel I. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Development of self-assembling organic materials, focusing on functions relevant to energy and medicine.
- Van Duyne, Richard P. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: All forms of surface-enhanced spectroscopy, the exploitation of the single molecule sensitivity/structure identification properties of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, the ultrafast dynamics capability of surface-enhanced femstosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy, and the nanometer spatial resolution of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
- Wasielewski, Michael R. - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: Light-driven charge transfer and transport in molecules and materials, photosynthesis, nanoscale materials for solar energy conversion, spin dynamics of multi-spin molecules, molecular materials for optoelectronics and spintronics, and time-resolved optical and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Weiss, Emily - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The conversion mechanism of energy from one form to another within organic nanostructures and using organic molecules to control conversion pathways.
- Weitz, Eric - Chemistry
- Research/Expertise: The delineation of critical molecular level reactions involved in the catalytic breakdown of glucose to produce feedstock chemicals that can be used in the production of liquid transportation fuels. Another area of interest is developing an understanding of the critical reactions steps in the photochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to higher energy chemical feedstocks.
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department
- Axford, Yarrow - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: Climate and environmental change through the lens of paleolimnology (the study of lake sediments and past lake environments). Aimed at understanding climate change in Arctic and alpine environments with a focus on the Holocene time period (the last 11,000 years of Earth's history), but studies timescales ranging from the Pliocene to the present.
- Beddows, Patricia - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: Karstified carbonate terrains and caves, their scientific study and socio-economic management. Applied research includes water resource management, remote mapping of hydrological resources, biological interactions at the ecosystem to the bacterial level, geo-archaeology, and water born contaminant and disease vectors.
- Blair, Neal - Earth and Planetary Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research/Expertise: The biogeochemical transformations of carbon with an emphasis on the fate of organic carbon in surface environments such assoils and sediments.
- Horton, Daniel - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: The detection and attribution of recent climatic change, the near-term meteorological, societal, and public health impacts of anthropogenic climate change, and the evolution of Earth’s climate system through geologic time.
- Hurtgen, Matthew - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: How the coupled components of the Earth system—the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and solid Earth—interact to regulate the chemical composition of the ocean-atmosphere system and how this has changed over the past ~1 billion years. Research is driven by the hypothesis that sulfur plays a critical role in regulating the marine carbon cycle.
- Jacobson, Steven - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: The composition, structure, and other properties of minerals and melts to understand geophysical processes, geochemical cycling, and to investigate potentially useful properties of minerals and new materials for societal applications.
- Jacobson, Andrew - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: The utilization of isotopes to probe the compositional evolution of the Earth and of prime interest is isotopically tracking the flow, transformation, and distribution of carbon during natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Of prime interest is isotopically tracking the flow, transformation, and distribution of carbon during natural and anthropogenic environmental change.
- Osburn, Maggie - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: The application of tools from organic geochemistry, microbiology, and stratigraphy to investigate microbial and biogeochemical cycling in both modern and ancient environments.
- Sageman, Brad - Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Research/Expertise: Development of high-resolution time scales for ancient stratigraphic sequences through the application of cyclostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic techniques. Understanding the processes controlling burial of carbon in ancient sediments and the relationships between changes in the global carbon cycle and ocean-climate interactions.
Economics Department
- Braeutigam, Ronald - Economics
- Research/Expertise: The deregulation and restructuring of traditionally regulated industries with particular focus on the fields of microeconomics and industrial organization.
- Jayachandran, Seema - Economics
- Research/Expertise: The environment, health, labor markets, political economy, economic issues in developing countries.
- Kutzman, Daley - Economics
- Research/Expertise: Development and empirical microeconomics. Evaluates the impact of policies in developing countries, particularly how incentive compatibility of the policy and asymmetric information may influence implementation and outcomes.
- Reguant, Mar - Economics
- Research/Expertise: The economics of energy, with an emphasis on electricity and the pollution associated with electricity generation.
- Savage, Ian - Economics
- Research/Expertise: Urban public transportation and transportation safety.
- Witte, Mark - Economics
- Research/Expertise: Consumption theory and topics in taxation with emphasis on applied questions in macroeconomics and public finance.
History Department
- Alder, Ken - History
- Research/Expertise: Environmental History; history of science, technology, and medicine; war and empire in history; and legal and criminal history.
- Barnett, Lydia - History
- Research/Expertise: Environmental history; religious history; early modern Europe; and history of science.
- Bernstein, Shana
- Research/Expertise: Environmental history; urban history; 20th-century US social reform movements; race/ ethnicity; and health.
- Meiton, Frederik - History
- Research/Expertise: Intersection of politics, science, and technology, especially in the context of colonial development.
- Schoenbrun, David - History
- Research/Expertise: Environmental history; African Diaspora and African American history.
- Tilley, Helen - History
- Research/Expertise: Environmental history, history of science, technology, and medicine.
- Woodhouse, Keith - History
- Research/Expertise: Environmental politics in the late-twentieth-century United States, and especially radical environmental thought and activism.
Molecular Biosciences Department
- Loach, Paul - Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
- Research/Expertise: Photosynthetic organisms’ ability to capture light energy.
Physics and Astronomy Department
- Chandrasekhar, Venkat - Physics and Astronomy
- Research/Expertise: The study of small structures and devices not on the atomic scale and the investigation of the interplay between superconductors and other materials in hybrid devices, particularly the correlations induced in the electrons in these materials due to their interaction with the superconductor.
- Dutta, Pulak - Physics and Astronomy
- Research/Expertise: Nanoscale order in soft materials, particularly at surfaces and interfaces and to understand what structures are formed under what conditions, and why. In particular, in-situ X-ray scattering studies on physisorbed (so-called Langmuir) and chemisorbed (so-called self-assembled) molecular monolayers and multilayers, and on interfacial liquids.
- Motter, Adilson - Physics and Astronomy
- Research/Expertise: Complex systems and nonlinear phenomena, primarily in the realm of chaos, fractals, statistical physics, complex networks, and biological physics.
- Nishikawa, Takashi - Physics and Astronomy
- Research/Expertise: Dynamical systems, complex networks, and the intersection between the two; the mathematical analysis of structural and dynamical properties of complex networks; the relationship between the network structure and collective dynamics, such as synchronization, in networks of oscillating units.
- Seth, Kamal - Physics and Astronomy
- Research/Expertise: Nuclear and particle experimental physics; exotic combinations of valence quarks and gluons, glueballs, and charmonium.
- Stern, Nathaniel - Physics and Astronomy
- Research/Expertise: The fundamental quantum interactions of photons with atoms, nano-scale structures, and magnetic materials. To explore the novel optical, spin, and magnetic properties of integrated nano-scale and hybrid photonic systems, focusing on the quantum interactions and collective behavior between photons and low-dimensional electronic structures.
Plant Biology and Conservation Program
- Havens, Kayri - Plant Biology and Conservation
- Research/Expertise: Biology of rarity and invasiveness; Ex situ conservation of plants; Plant responses to climate change.
- Wagenius, Stuart - Plant Biology and Conservation
- Research/Expertise: Conservation biology, pollination ecology, feedbacks between evolutionary and ecological dynamics, spatial scale-dependence in species interactions, biology of Echinacea angustifolia in fragmented habitat, fire ecology, and restoration ecology.
- Zerega, Nyree - Plant Biology and Conservation
- Research/Expertise: Evolution, systematics, biogeography, and reproductive ecology of plants (especially Moraceae); conservation of plant genetic resources (especially underutilized crops and their wild relatives).
Political Science Department
- Druckman, James - Political Science
- Research/Expertise: Political preference formation and communication including how citizens make political, economic, and social decisions in various contexts and also the relationship between citizens' preferences and public policy, and how political elites make decisions under varying institutional conditions.
- Suiseeya, Kimberly Marion - Political Science
- Research/Expertise: Global environmental politics, environmental justice, environmental policy, indigenous rights, international development, ethnography, institutions.
Psychology Department
- Medin, Douglas - Psychology
- Research/Expertise: Categorization and reasoning; decision making; culture and STEM; culture and nature.
- Revelle, William - Psychology
- Research/Expertise: Personality theory including the biological basis of personality and motivation, psychometric theory, the structure of daily mood, and models of attention and memory. The long term research goal is to develop a better understanding of how individual differences interact with situational moderators to affect efficient information processing.
Religious Studies Department
- Taylor, Sarah McFarland - Religious Studies
- Research/Expertise: Religion and American culture; religion and environment; and the relationships among media, popular culture, and religion.
Sociology Department
- Espeland, Wendy - Sociology
- Research/Expertise: Cultural sociology; water politics in the American Southwest.
- Prasad, Monica - Sociology
- Research/Expertise: Comparative historical sociology, economic sociology, political sociology, the rise of neoliberalism, the development of tax systems, and the effects of carbon taxes.
- Thistle, Susan - Sociology
- Research/Expertise: Sociology of the environment, and how different groups are reshaping our relationships to the environment, both in the United States and elsewhere, in the 21st century.
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