Adam Burrows
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: Â 105 Peyton Hall
Phone Number: Â 609-258-3590
Email Address: burrows@astro.princeton.edu
Research Description:
General energy studies; fission and fusion; climate change; battery technology; policy
Research Areas: Batteries, Climate Change, Energy Storage, Fission, Fuels, Fusion, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Nuclear Energy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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
Edgar Choueiri
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D432 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5220
Email Address: choueiri@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Plasma physics and dynamics applied to space power and propulsion, plasma gasification for waste disposal, environmental acoustics
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Nathaniel Fisch
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: MS30 C-Site T162 PPL
Phone Number: 609-243-2643
Email Address: fisch@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Plasma physics with applications to nuclear fusion energy: plasma waves, current drive, laser/plasma interaction; atomic radiation in plasmas; petroleum refining; statistical inference and pattern recognition, modified Otto-cycle engines
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Alexander Glaser
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Co-Director, Program in Science and Global Security
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 202 221 Nassau St.
Phone Number: 609-258-5692
Email Address: aglaser@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Nuclear power (fission/fusion); nuclear fuel cycle/nonproliferation; neutronics calculations for new systems (e.g. small modular reactors; safeguards and verification; energy policy)
Research Areas: Fission, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Robert Goldston
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: MS41 C-Site B319 PPL
Phone Number: 609-243-3550
Email Address: rjg@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Experimental plasma physics, plasma heating and transport for fusion energy. Edge power handling. Fusion reactor and power plant designs, including tokamak, spherical torus, and stellarator configurations. Socio-economic aspects of nuclear energy, particularly nuclear proliferation risks
Research Areas: Fission, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Bruce Koel
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A311 Engineering Quad A-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4524
Email Address: bkoel@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Surface and interfacial processes; plasma-materials interactions in fusion reactors; plasma-enhanced catalysis; photoelectrocatalysis for water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction; alloy catalysis; chemistry of the battery solid electrolyte interphase
Research Areas: Fuel Cells, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Pollutant Detection & Remediation, Renewable Energy, Solar
Egemen Kolemen
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Associated Faculty of the Program in Plasma Physics (Department of Astrophysical Sciences)
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: D302D Engineering Quadrangle
Phone Number: 609-258-9209
Email Address: ekolemen@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Control system design for fusion reactors; liquid metal flow physics and control; application of dynamics and control theory to experimental plasma physics; Developing low temperature plasma systems for conversion of chemicals such as methane to methanol
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Stewart C. Prager
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Location: MS37 C-Site PPPL
Phone Number: 609-243-3553
Email Address: sprager@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Experimental plasma physics, including study of stability, turbulence, transport, and self-organization in plasmas, for use in fusion energy
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Clarence Rowley
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D232 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-7321
Email Address: cwrowley@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Control of plasmas in nuclear fusion; modeling of fluid flows from a dynamical systems point of view
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Anatoly Spitkovsky
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Location: 123 Peyton Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2307
Email Address: anatoly@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Modeling and experiments related to inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Howard Stone
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D326 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-9493
Email Address: hastone@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Erosion/corrosion in water flows for cooling in fusion reactors; fluid dynamics of lithium for protecting inner walls of fusion reactors; microfluidic studies relevant to water purification; electrokinetic effects relevant to energy storage devices
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Pollutant Detection & Remediation