Research Associates
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.
Xi Chen: Research interests: Materials for energy recovery and for increasing energy efficiency; mechanobiology,
nanomechanics, multi-phase and multi-scale computational mechanics.
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.
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.
Maik Eichelbaum: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the framework of the BASF-Columbia University partnership program on environmentally benign technologies using heterogeneous catalysts
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.
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. (Bibliography)
Efstratios Kalogirou: Potable water resources, ozone sterilization technologies, energy recovery from solid wastes.
Avraam Karagiannidis: Energy systems, environmental sciences.
Scott Kaufman: LCA studies, composting.
Christopher J. Koroneos:
Process engineering, environmental engineering, life cycle analysis.
Eilhann Kwon: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Earth and Environmental Engineering.
Jack David Lauber: Development and management of effective technological solutions for air pollution control, waste treatment, and advanced waste to energy (WTE) technologies.
V. Faye McNeill: Atmospheric aerosol chemistry; aerosol science; atmospheric chemistry of environmental interfaces
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.
Masato R. Nakamura: Quantitative analysis and stochastic simulation for waste-to-energy combustion chamber design; flow and mixing analysis (granular flow and size segregation); green IT/computing (sustainable data center management for high energy efficiency); numerical modeling of Brownian motion in financial markets.
Ah-Hyung Alissa Park: Carbon sequestration; Clean fossil energy conversion systems; Alternative energy production; Particle technology; Electrostatic tomography; Multiphase flow systems.
Adam C. Powell, IV: Developing and expanding access to tools for modeling physical phenomena related to materials, and using these tools to improve systems important to society.
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.
Priscilla Ulloa: Earth and Environmental Engineering.
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.
Zhixiao Zhang: Thermochemical treatment and utilization of solid waste (incineration, gasification, pyrolysis etc.); Waste-to-energy technology; Energy related environment issues; Fossil fuel combustion and conversion; Resource recovery and related waste management projects; Environmental pollution control.
Junior Research Associates
Ljupka Arsova: Earth and Environmental Engineering.
Sara Colombini Barone: Modeling of Transport and Combustion Phenomena in Waste-To-Energy (WTE) Combustor Units, Numerical Analysis of Mixing Process of MSW on the Moving Grate of Combustors, Risk Management, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stochastic Simulation, Industrial Ecology, Sustainable Development, Catalysis, Fuels Optimization.
Jawad Bhatti: Analysis of Plastic Recycling and Overview of Plastics Waste Management.
Caroline Ducharme: Earth and Environmental Engineering.
Garrett Fitzgerald: MSW Integrated pre-shredding applications for WTE facilities, Evaluation of infrastructure for regional WTE plants with localized MBT, Sustainable Design, Green Building, Solar Thermal Engineering, LCA.
Rob van Haaren: Sustainable Energy Technologies, Waste Processing, New Propulsion Systems, Infrastructures and Sustainable Transportation.
Jechan Lee: Sustainable or Alternative Energy, Pollutants management, Chemical Reaction, Green Engineering.
Lital Yinon: Chemical and physical aspects of airborne fine and ultrafine particulate matter; Dispersion of air pollutants in the atmosphere.
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