Daniel
Attinger: Microscale transport phenomena in the presence of
interfaces, the transport of heat, mass and momentum in the presence of
a single drop, bubble or microsphere, applications in
micromanufacturing, drag reduction, microfluidics and remediation
schemes against global warming.
Nada Marie Assaf-Anid:
Environmental chemistry, environmental microbiology, water quality, PCB
reactions.
Eileen B. Berenyi:
Solid waste management (waste-to-energy, biogas generation from
landfills).
Marco J. Castaldi: Reaction engineering for use of biomass and carbon dioxide to produce
high value products; Catalytic reaction engineering to upgrade low
energy fuels for low carbon energy production; flame chemistry for
novel applications of CO2 usage; non-equilibrium catalytic reactions
applied to highly selective processes, such as oxidative coupling;
coal-biomass reactions; use of CO2 as a diluent in combustion systems.
Siu-Wai Chan:
Nano-particles, grain boundaries, interfaces, and extended defects in
thin films, electronic oxides, fuel cell technology.
Kartik Chandran: Application of nanotechnology, bioinformatics and advanced modeling
based techniques for characterization of complex microbial consortia,
multi-level responses of bacteria to stress and stimuli,
microbial ecology of engineered biological waste and water treatment
reactors, development and application of novel biokinetic estimation
tools, elucidation of microbial biochemical degradation pathways ,
bioprocess modeling and parameter identification for complex
biotransformations.
Patricia J. Culligan:
Geo-environmental engineering with primary focus on the on the
experimental and numerical modeling of flow and contaminant transport
processes in geologic systems.
George Deodatis:
Modeling of uncertain earthquake/wind loads and material/soil
properties; risk assessment and risk management of urban infrastructure
systems.
Nathiel G. Egosi:
Process engineering and equipment design for the recovery of materials
from municipal, electronic, automobile ,and C&D wastes; processing
of waste materials into feedstocks ,including resin separation and
conversion of wastes to fuel.
Guillermo E.
Franco: Environmental hazards, risk analysis &
management, system identification, optimization.
Vasilis Fthenakis:
Air pollution and prevention, chemical risk assessment, atmospheric
dispersion modeling.
Gavin Gong:
Interaction between land-surface hydrologic and atmospheric phenomena,
and their impact on climate variability and predictability. Physical relationships between snow
and climate. Water resources
development and management through applied hydrologic research.
Yuri
Gorokhovich: Geographic information systems (GIS),
environmental modeling/management.
Stephen A. Hammer:
Waste prevention, recycling, urban waste management and energy systems,
renewable energy policy.
Jeffrey L. Harnly: Waste-To-Energy, Best Available Controls Technology/Maximum Available Controls Technology (BACT/MACT).
Floyd Hasselriis: Waste management, emission controls, and environmental impact.
Christopher J. Koroneos:
Process engineering, environmental engineering,
life cycle analysis.
Nikhil Krishnan:
Design for environment, green manufacturing, life cycle assessment and
industrial ecology. Specific research areas include: (i) Design for
environment and global environmental impacts of electronics; (ii) Life
Cycle Assessment of landfills and waste to energy plants and (iii)
Environmental assessments of photovoltaics and other renewable energy
sources.
Klaus Lackner:
Carbon dioxide sequestration and energy resources.
Upmanu
Lall: Statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and
climate systems; planning and management of water resource systems.
Jack
David Lauber: Development and management of effective
technological solutions for air pollution control, waste treatment, and
advanced waste to energy (WTE) technologies.
Arthur Lerner-Lam:
Seismology, natural hazards, geophysical inverse theory.
Christian Meyer:
Structural analysis and design with primary interests in concrete
structures, earthquake engineering, and concrete technology.
Benjamin Miller:
Environmental policy, management of solid wastes, freight
transportation planning, and urban planning.
Nicholas Mitsos: Financial sustainability of WTE projects; use of natural gas CCGT systems in conjunction with MSW-fired power plants; use of bond capital markets for financing large-scale infrastructure projects; infrastructure development in non-OECD countries.
Vijay
Modi: Energy systems, thermodynamics, transport modeling,
windpower.
John W. Norton: Environemtal system design, construction, operation, trobleshooting, and analysis.
Ah-Hyung Alissa Park: Carbon sequestration; Clean fossil energy conversion systems; Alternative energy production; Particle technology; Electrostatic tomography; Multiphase flow systems.
Peter Schlosser: Studies
of water movement and variability in natural systems (oceans, lakes,
groundwater) using natural and anthropogenic trace substances;
ocean/atmosphere gas exchange; anthropogenic impacts on natural
systems.
Samuel
K. Sia: Design of low-cost and portable
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technologies for global health,
diagnostic instrumentation, artificial tissue.
Karl-Heinz Szekielda:
Use of remote sensing for environmental monitoring, coastal zone management
Nickolas J. Themelis:
Industrial ecology, high temperature reactors, thermal plasma spraying,
integrated waste management.
Armelle
Vardelle: Transport phenomena in plasma spraying,
environmental control in plasma spraying applications.
Maria Zannes: Environmental policy and journalism, recovery of energy and metals from solid wastes, sustainable waste management.
Frank
S. Zeman: Carbon management, air capture, sustainable
energy, zero emission cement, clean development mechanism.
Hanwei Zhang:
Plasma spraying processes, CFD Modeling, Waste-to-energy.
