Research Description:
Environmental aspects of electrical engineering; solar energy conversion; devices, processes, and materials for large-area electronics; sensor skins for civil infrastructure
Research Description:
Utilization of theory, simulation, and data science to characterize, understand, and guide the design of novel soft materials for health and sustainability applications; interests are motivated by the use of both natural and synthetic polymers in technologies like batteries, fuel cells, water treatment, tissue engineering, and drug-delivery
Elke U. Weber
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Research Description:
Questions at the intersection of psychology, economics, engineering, and policy that address the importance and role of descriptive/behavioral models of judgment and decision-making under risk and uncertainty and for decisions with long time horizons in environmental and energy-related decision making and policy. Psychologically appropriate ways to measure and model individual, group, or cultural differences in risk taking and time discounting across domains.
Research Description:
The Weichman Lab uses fundamental chemical physics and spectroscopy to probe the detailed behavior of complex chemical systems and develop new ways to steer molecular processes using light.
David Wentzlaff
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Research Description:
Energy efficient design of computing architectures and software systems; green computing; minimization of computer systems’ environmental impact; sustainable service and decommissioning of computer components; biodegradable computers.
Claire White
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Associate Director for Research, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Research Description:
Sustainable cements and related engineering systems including alkali-activated materials, blended Portland cements, carbonate-based cements and influence of additives on cement-based materials. Research focus includes thermodynamics and kinetics of cement phases, chemical durability (e.g., carbonation and sulfate), pore structure and permeability, and non-destructive measurements of sub-micron processes, with a focus on combining experiments and simulation techniques.
David Wilcove
Vice Dean, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Henry W. Putnam Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the High Meadows Institute.
Professor of Public Affairs
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Research Description:
Environmental policy; conservation of biodiversity; effects of land-use change and climate change on biodiversity; impact of agriculture on biodiversity
Research Description:
Laser spectroscopic sensing for energy and environmental applications; environmental trace-gas sensor networks; active and passive remote atmospheric sensing
Wei Xiong
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance. Professor of Economics
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Research Description:
Financialization of commodity and energy markets; effects of financial market frictions; behavioral finance
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
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.
Ali Yazdani
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics
Inaugural Co-director, Princeton Quantum Initiative
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Research Description:
Fundamental studies of the origin of superconductivity, particularly in high-temperature cuprate superconductors, to aid search for materials that exhibit superconductivity at higher temperatures; study of topological quantum states in materials  and their use for dissipation-less transport
Xinning Zhang
Assistant Professor of Geosciences and at the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Research Description:
Carbon capture; carbon dioxide absorption by oceans, coastal impact
Research Description:
Atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric measurements of greenhouse gases and air pollutants; emissions of carbon and nitrogen to the atmosphere; compact, laser-based sensor development