Michael Ford
Associate Laboratory Director for Engineering, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Location: PPPL, MS-38, LSB 380
Phone Number: 609-243-2866
Email Address: mjford@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Technology development and engineering risk; assessment of technologies to support decarbonization of the energy system; fission and fusion systems R&D; reactor safeguards, regulatory policy and proliferation risk; process modeling, systems engineering, engineering economics, and quantitative risk and decision analysis.
Research Areas: Behavior, Economics, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Christopher Greig
Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow in Energy and the Environment (2018-2020)
Location: Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-7833
Email Address: cgreig@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Understanding and mitigating social and economic barriers to scaling up clean energy and fuels production, carbon capture and storage (CCS), industrial decarbonization; climate finance; energy infrastructure delivery innovation. Leadership in the Rapid Switch initiative and Net‑Zero America.
Research Areas: Batteries, Behavior, Carbon Capture & Storage, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Energy Systems Analysis, Fuels, Industrial Processes, Nuclear Energy, Policy, Renewable Energy, Social Science of Energy & Environment, Solar, Transmission, Waste Heat Recovery, Wind
Jürgen Hackl
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E322 Engineering Quadrangle
Phone Number: 609-258-5171
Email Address: hackl@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Scalable data analytics (graph & network theory) and machine learning techniques for spatial-temporal networks applied to dynamic processes in complex multiscale civil engineered infrastructure (e.g., water, energy); risk and resilience assessments in socio-technical systems for climate change and future challenges facing cities and society; integrating data-driven approaches with physics-based models to create digital twins of their physical counterparts.
Research Areas: Behavior, Buildings, Economics, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Industrial Processes, Information Technology, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Wei Peng
Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Location: School of Public & Int’l Affairs
Phone Number:
Email Address: weipeng@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Developing integrated energy and environmental systems models to improve representation of institutional and political factors and inform practical climate policies and decarbonization strategies.
Research Areas: Behavior, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Eldar Shafir
Class of 1987 Professor in Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 110 Peretsman-Scully Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-5624
Email Address: shafir@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Behavioral interventions; reasoning, judgment, and decision-making, and issues related to behavioral economics, with an emphasis on descriptive studies of how people make judgments and decisions in situations of conflict and uncertainty
Research Areas: Behavior, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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
Location: 216 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 646-896-9410
Email Address: eweber@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Descriptive/behavioral models of judgment and decision-making under risk and uncertainty informed by psychology, economics, engineering, and policy to address 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 Areas: Behavior, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Social Science of Energy & Environment