Emily A. Carter
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics
Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Lab Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Founding Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (2010-2016)
Location: D430 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-5391
Email Address: eac@princeton.edu
Research Description:
The development of efficient and accurate quantum mechanics simulation techniques, including embedded correlated wavefunction and orbital-free density functional theories. Applications are focused on enabling discovery and design of materials for producing chemicals, materials, and fuels from renewable energy, with a specific emphasis on carbon dioxide utilization.
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Transportation
Frederick Dryer
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus
Engineering Foundation Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina
Location:
Phone Number: 609-306-1028
Email Address: fldryer@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Petroleum and non-petroleum derived transportation fuels and fuel blends, their production, chemical kinetics, energy security, and net carbon cycle emission impacts; ignition, combustion, and air pollutant emissions generation/abatement; syngas/high-hydrogen content fuels for advanced gas turbine power generation; fire safety related issues on earth and in micro gravity environments
Research Areas: Biofuels, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Yiguang Ju
Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Director, Program in Sustainable Energy
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D330 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5644
Email Address: yju@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Sustainable energy, low carbon fuels, propulsion, and functional nano-materials for energy, plasma assisted combustion and fuel reforming and CO2 utilization; supercritical CO2 cycle; nano-materials synthesis for high energy and low fire propensity lithium-ion batteries and energy storage
Research Areas: Batteries, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Solar
Chung Law
Robert H. Goddard Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D323C Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5271
Email Address: cklaw@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Fundamentals of combustion, with applications in propulsion, energy and environmental issues; combustion of fuel droplets and sprays; incineration of hazardous wastes; chemistry of flame-generated pollutants; formulation of high-performance propulsion fuels
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Pollutant Detection & Remediation
Richard Miles
Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus
TEES Distinguished Research Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
Location:
Phone Number: 979-458-2534
Email Address: miles@princeton.edu
Research Description:
High-sensitivity detection of pollutants and environmental contaminants (CO, NO, etc); combustion and aerodynamic control by lasers and microwaves, and plasma based energy conversion.
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Pollutant Detection & Remediation
Michael Mueller
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Associate Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D332 Engineering Quad, D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5191
Email Address: muellerm@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Predictive computational simulation and modeling of multi-physics turbulent flows. Integration of computational science, data science, and uncertainty quantification. High-performance algorithms for large-scale heterogeneous parallel computing. Application areas of interest include combustion energy conversion for electricity generation and transportation (including pollutant emissions and the environmental impacts of combustion), offshore wind energy, and fusion energy.
Research Areas: Biofuels, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Herschel Rabitz
Charles Phelps Smyth '16 *17 Professor of Chemistry
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: Frick Laboratory, 253
Phone Number: 609-258-3917
Email Address: hrabitz@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Accelerated discovery of new materials and radiation-matter interactions expressed in an optimal control context. Theoretical and experimental analysis of control landscape topology to guide the latter control-based perspectives in the energy sciences
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Systems Analysis, Renewable Energy
Michele L. Sarazen
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A319 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-8331
Email Address: msarazen@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Mechanistic investigations of heterogeneous catalysis, carbon capture, and environmental separations via combined synthetic, kinetic, and theoretical techniques; improving efficiencies for conversions of conventional feedstocks to fuels and chemicals and developing renewable alternatives to fuels and chemicals
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Fuels, Industrial Processes, Renewable Energy
Nan Yao
Professor of the Practice in the Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials
Director, Imaging and Analysis Center
Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Location: 33 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-6394
Email Address: nyao@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Utilizing advanced imaging, diffraction, spectroscopy and in-situ techniques, in tandem with theoretical simulations, to study fundamentals of the structure-composition-processing-property-performance relations in complex materials such as nanostructured materials, biomaterials, organic/inorganic interfaces, block copolymers, catalysts, quasicrystals and functional nanomaterials.
Research Areas: Batteries, Biofuels, Carbon Capture & Storage, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar, Supercapacitors