Faculty
| Name | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
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Rustom Bhiladvala |
Nanoscale materials, mechanics & transport; fluid and biomedical sensor development; energy and sustainable development | |
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David Bristow |
Resilient infrastructure; building and city systems; sustainable cities | |
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Brad Buckham |
Underwater vehicle dynamics and control; finite element methods | |
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Heather Buckley |
Green chemistry, molecular sensors for water contaminants, safer prevention of fouling |
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Curran Crawford |
Wind and tidal turbine analysis and design; plug-in hybrid vehicles; sustainable energy systems; multidisciplinary design optimization; variable fidelity aerodynamic and structural modelling | |
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Ned Djilali |
Energy systems; fluid dynamics; transport phenomena; fuel cell technology; hydrogen dispersion; integration of renewable energy in smart grids | |
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Zuomin Dong |
Modeling, testing and design optimization of advanced hybrid electric vehicles, hybrid marine vessels and fuel cell systems; real-time optimal control of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles/ships, smart grid, traffic systems | |
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Ralph Evins |
Building energy use simulation; energy system optimization; energy hubs | |
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Robert Gifford |
Theory of behavioural change; psychology of climate change; environmental psychology | |
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David Harrington |
Microfluidic and surface electro-chemistry; fuel cell catalysis; impedance spectroscopy | |
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Mina Hoorfar
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Nanostructured microfluidic artificial olfaction; monitoring and extraction of hydrogen from hydrogen blended natural gas; nanostructured gas sensors; micro/nanoscale mechanics and sensing materials; micro/nano-encapsulation; microfluidic isolation and biosensing |
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Chris Kennedy |
Deep decarbonization; biophysical economics; sustainable cities; industrial ecology |
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Tamara Krawchenko |
Political economy and economic geography; comparitive public policy; land use planning and strategic spatial planning; community and economic development; territorial development policies (regional, rural, urban); transportation and infrastructure policy | |
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Jason Lee
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Electrochemical energy conversion technology, Hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers, operando imaging, multi-phase transport, porous medium, advanced interface manufacturing | |
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Basma Majerbi
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International asset pricing; investments and risk management; financial system diversity for sustainable development and financial stability; impact investing and climate-related financial risks | |
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Madeleine McPherson |
Sustainable energy systems integration | |
| Laura Minet Civil Engineering |
Air quality, population exposure to air pollution, population health, transportation engineering, vehicle emissions, dispersion modeling | |
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Adam Monahan |
Interactions across space and time scales in the climate system; variability and predictability of surface winds; meteorology of renewables |
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Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya |
Energy efficient buildings; high performance thermal insulations; bio-based construction materials; retrofit technologies | |
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Peter Oshkai |
Unsteady fluid flows; flow-acoustic coupling; fluid-structure interactions | |
| Felix Pretis Economics |
Econometrics; climate change; environmental economics | |
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Katya Rhodes |
Climate policy analysis; sustainability transitions; social and political acceptance of policy; economic analysis of policy impacts; energy-economy modeling |
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Andrew Rowe |
Thermodynamics, energy systems, cryogenics, heat transfer | |
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Karena Shaw |
Environmental politics; politics of energy system transformation; energy and sustainability; indigenous and community-led energy initiatives |
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Yang Shi |
Combined cooling, heating and power systems; optimization and control for building automation systems; modeling and control for smart grid; navigation and control of underwater vehicles |
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Henning Struchtrup |
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics; kinetic theory of gases; microscale gas flows; evaporation and condensation; nonequilibrium phase interfaces; transport theory; energy systems; modelling and simulation; microscale heat and mass transfer |
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G. Cornelis van Kooten |
Agricultural and resource economics | |
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Peter Wild |
Mechatronics, mechanical design, sensors and instrumentation | |
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Bosco Yu |
Sustainable composites; architected metamaterials, carbon capture materials; nature inspiration; rapid prototyping & additive manufacturing, solid mechanics, structural mechanics, thermal mechanics, numerical modeling |