Sigrid Adriaenssens
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Program in Mechanics, Materials and Structures
Director of the Keller Center
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E332 Engineering Quadrangle
Phone Number: 609-258-4661
Email Address: sadriaen@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Design of adaptive structural systems for building energy efficiency, design of large span complex curved structures for minimum material use, reclaimed material construction, circular economy
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry
Elie Bou-Zeid
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E414 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5429
Email Address: ebouzeid@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Measurements and simulations of heat and water exchanges between buildings and the atmosphere; urban microclimatology and hydrology; boundary layer meteorology; environmental fluid mechanics and turbulence; wind energy forecasting and wind farm design, urban and agricultural photovoltaic applications.
Research Areas: Buildings, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Hydrology, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Wind
Stephen Chou
Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B412 Engineering Quad, B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4416
Email Address: chou@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Design, fabrication, and characterization of new nanostructured materials and devices for better performances, particularly high efficiency, in solar cells, LEDs, thermal-electric devices, photocathodes, photochemical convertors, chemical/bio sensors, and other energy conversion devices
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry, Waste Heat Recovery
Maria Garlock
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Co-Director, Program in Architecture and Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E307 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-2728
Email Address: mgarlock@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Resilient and sustainable structural design, and efficient structural systems and forms that minimize construction materials.
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry
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:
Dr. Hackl’s research focuses on complex infrastructure systems, intelligent risk and resilience assessments to climate change, as well as integrated solutions to future challenges facing our cities and society. His research interests lie at the interface between formal methods in network sciences and their integration with prevailing simulation methods, such as digital twins. He is particularly interested in developing scalable data analytics and machine learning techniques for spatial-temporal networks applied to dynamic processes in complex multiscale civil engineered systems to open and interconnect new perspectives for, e.g., modeling of usage, behavior, and performance; analysis of system integration; as well as detection of systemic risks in socio-technical systems. Another aspect of his work covers integrating these data-driven approaches with physics-based models to create digital twins that can learn from and update based on multiple data sources, as well as represent and predict the current and future conditions of their physical counterparts.
Research Areas: Behavior, Buildings, Economics, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Industrial Processes, Information Technology, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Niraj K. Jha
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B220 Engineering Quad B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4754
Email Address: jha@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Sensors to reduce electricity and heating costs in buildings; power/thermal analysis and optimization of integrated circuits and systems
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency
Paul Lewis
Professor of Architecture
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: S111B Architecture Building
Phone Number: 609-258-3641
Email Address: plewis1@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Design of new intersections between land and water in urban environments in response to rising sea levels; new building forms and organizations based integrated systems and energy flows.
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Impact of Energy & Land Use
Forrest Meggers
Associate Professor of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Associate Director for Education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 215 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-7831
Email Address: fmeggers@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Building systems design and integration; radiant heating and cooling sensors and systems; desiccant dehumidification, geothermal systems; heat pumps; renewable energy; optimization of energy systems; exergy analysis; building materials; thermodynamics and heat transfer
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Energy Systems Analysis
Warren Powell
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, emeritus
Location: 230 Sherrerd Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-5373
Email Address: powell@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Models for the design and control of a broad range of problems in energy systems, emphasizing problems that involve decisions and uncertainty. A major focus has been the study of high penetrations of renewables, and the design and control of energy storage systems. We are also working on models for driverless fleets of electric vehicles, uncertainty models of wind, solar and electricity prices, and the economics of energy portfolios.
Research Areas: Batteries, Buildings, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Energy Systems Analysis, Industrial Processes, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Social Science of Energy & Environment, Solar, Transmission, Wind
Barry Rand
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: B414 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-7692
Email Address: brand@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Thin film electronics made from emerging semiconductors have the capacity to be pervasive within our daily lives. Notably, some thin film devices have established themselves quite successfully, such as the OLED for flat panel displays.
The goal of my research is to work on emerging device concepts and materials to help to realize the next generation of thin film electronic devices. Specifically, we try to understand and leverage the unique electronic and optical properties of thin film materials, and in particular semiconductors. This includes the use of molecular, perovskite, and chalcogenide (e.g. oxide) semiconductors, as well as nanostructured quantized matter for emerging applications in solar cells, light emitting devices, and transistors.
Studies that we conduct range from those on fundamental optical and electrical characterization to device physics and engineering to processing. Being interdisciplinary in nature, our work resides at the intersection of electrical engineering, materials science, physics, and chemistry, and we work with materials processed either in vacuum or via solution-phase. Our labs therefore consist of infrastructure for the preparation and testing of thin films and devices.
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar
Robert Socolow
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus
Location: 139 Guyot Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-5446
Email Address: socolow@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Global energy system response to global and local environmental and security constraints; carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and storage in geological formations; nuclear power; energy efficiency in buildings; advanced technologies in developing countries
Research Areas: Buildings, Carbon Capture & Storage, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Energy Systems Analysis, Nuclear Energy
Naveen Verma
Ralph H. and Freda I. Augustine Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B226 Engineering Quad B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-1424
Email Address: nverma@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Environmental sensors and computation platforms (low-power circuits and systems)
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Pollutant Detection & Remediation
Sigurd Wagner
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
Location:
Phone Number:
Email Address: wagner@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Environmental aspects of electrical engineering; solar energy conversion; devices, processes, and materials for large-area electronics; sensor skins for civil infrastructure
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar