Rene Carmona
Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 210 Sherrerd Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2310
Email Address: rcarmona@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Commodity and energy markets (e.g. oil, electricity, natural gas, coal); market mechanisms to control greenhouse gas emissions; game theoretic analyses of the energy/emissions markets with emphasis on the policy implications of their designs
Research Areas: Economics, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Jianqing Fan
Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 205 Sherrerd Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-7924
Email Address: jqfan@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Risk modeling, statistics, financial econometrics, analysis of big data, computational biology, machine learning, probabilistic tropical cyclone risk modeling
Research Areas: Economics, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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 complex technologies that may support decarbonization of the energy system. Fission and fusion systems R&D; reactor safeguards, regulatory policy and proliferation risk; Research employs 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:
Chris Greig is the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University. He has a Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland; is an Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland and University of Melbourne; and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is also a member of the Sustainability External Advisory Council at Dow Chemical Company.
Prior to academia, Chris spent almost 3 decades in the energy and resources industries, as a successful company founder, senior executive and non-executive director, across 4 continents. Central to all of his experience, was the development, delivery, and sometimes operations of capital-intensive infrastructure. These included the CEO of ZeroGen (one of the earliest large-scale CCS ventures), the Deputy Chair of Gladstone Ports Corp (owner of one of Australia’s leading energy export hubs), and the Non-Executive Director of several listed engineering firms.
His research is interdisciplinary and deeply collaborative with industry, and focuses on overcoming the challenges to scale-up clean energy and fuels production, carbon capture and storage (CCS), industrial decarbonization, along with climate finance, and energy infrastructure delivery innovation. He co-led Princeton’s influential Net-Zero America study and is leading Princeton’s participation in collaborations on similar studies in Asia-Pacific countries.
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:
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
Simon Levin
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A413 Briger Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-6880
Email Address: slevin@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Ecosystem and biosphere-level maintenance of macroscopic patterns and processes; evolution of diversification; mathematical modeling; evolution and ecology of dispersal; strain structure in influenza; public goods problems and environmental economics
Research Areas: Economics, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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
Ronnie Sircar
Eugene Higgins Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 208 Sherrerd Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2841
Email Address: sircar@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Game-theoretic models of energy and emissions markets, with emphasis on policy implications; economics of exhaustible resources, including modeling of shifts in energy markets toward intermittent alternative sources such as solar and wind technologies; dynamic models to help design incentives for greener fuel production; financialization of energy and commodities markets; risk quantification of electricity grids under increased stochasticity from renewables penetration.
Research Areas: Economics, Policy, 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:
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 Areas: Behavior, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Wei Xiong
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance. Professor of Economics
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 205 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Phone Number: 609-258-0282
Email Address: wxiong@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Financialization of commodity and energy markets; effects of financial market frictions; behavioral finance
Research Areas: Economics, Social Science of Energy & Environment