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
Emily A. Carter
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics
Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Founding Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (2010-2016)
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
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 wave function and orbital-free density functional theories. Applications are focused on enabling discovery and design of materials and processes for producing chemicals, materials, and fuels from renewable energy, with a specific emphasis on carbon dioxide utilization and ammonia/hydrogen conversion.
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Transportation
Minjie Chen
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 217 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-7656
Email Address: minjie@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Design of power conversion and management systems to address technical challenges with large social impacts. High performance power conversion systems for a wide range of applications, including smart grid, renewable generation, energy storage, telecom, data centers, electric vehicles, and robotics.
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Energy Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Solar, Transmission, Transportation, 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
Frederick Dryer
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus
Engineering Foundation Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina
Location:
Phone Number: 609-306-1028
Email Address: fldryer@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Petroleum and non-petroleum derived transportation fuels and fuel blends, their production, chemical kinetics, energy security, and net carbon cycle emission impacts; ignition, combustion, and air pollutant emissions generation/abatement; syngas/high-hydrogen content fuels for advanced gas turbine power generation; fire safety related issues on earth and in micro gravity environments
Research Areas: Biofuels, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Michael Freedman
Professor of Computer Science
Location: 308 Computer Science Building
Phone Number: 609-258-9179
Email Address: mfreed@princeton.edu
Research Description:
IoT platforms and applications; energy-efficient; cloud and mobile systems; distributed systems and geo-replicated applications
Research Areas: Information Technology
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
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
Kelsey Hatzell
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 224 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-2980
Email Address: kelsey.hatzell@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Work on solid ion conductors for advanced energy storage and conversion applications. We are interested in all solid state devices for electrochemical fuel production as well as energy storage systems for electric vehicles. In addition we study low-cost thermal energy storage systems for concentrated solar power integration and production.
Research Areas: Batteries, Carbon Capture & Storage, Climate Change, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar, Supercapacitors, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry, Transportation, Waste Heat Recovery, Water Desalination
Marcus Hultmark
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D222 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5689
Email Address: hultmark@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Wind turbine aerodynamics, turbulent drag reduction, turbulent heat transfer, atmospheric fluid mechanics, and instrumentation
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Wind
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
Ruby B. Lee
Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering, Emeritus
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Emeritus
Location: B218 Engineering Quad, B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-1426
Email Address: rblee@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Deep-learning based anomaly detection. Security of critical infrastructures and cyber-physical systems, including the powergrid. Security of processors, computers, controllers, smartphones, cloud computing, and IOT networks. Side-channel and covert channel attacks.
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology
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
Sharad Malik
George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B224 Engineering Quad B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4625
Email Address: sharad@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Design and programming of low-energy computing systems
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology
Luigi Martinelli
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D302C Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-6652
Email Address: martinel@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Sustainable aviation through advanced multidisciplinary design optimization of airframes and air traffic management systems; design optimization of ship hulls for maximum efficiency; aerodynamic design optimization of wind turbines, propellers, fans, compressors and turbines; computational fluid dynamics of compressible reactive flows
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation, Wind
Margaret Martonosi
Hugh Trumbull Adams '35 Professor of Computer Science
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 204 Computer Science Building
Phone Number: 609-258-1912
Email Address: mrm@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Energy-efficient computer servers, including optimization frameworks for improving green energy usage in multi-data-center internet services and power-performance optimizations for improving energy-proportionality within data centers
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology
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
Michael Mueller
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Associate Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D332 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-5191
Email Address: muellerm@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Predictive computational simulation and modeling of multi-physics turbulent flows. Integration of computational science, data science, and uncertainty quantification. High-performance algorithms for large-scale heterogeneous parallel computing. Application areas of interest include combustion energy conversion for electricity generation and transportation (including pollutant emissions and the environmental impacts of combustion), offshore wind energy, and fusion energy.
Research Areas: Biofuels, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation
H. Vincent Poor
Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B330 Engineering Quad B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-1816
Email Address: poor@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Energy-efficiency in wireless networks; smart grid, Internet of Things, power system resilience
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology, Smart Grid, Transmission
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
Paul R. Pruncal
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B314 Engineering Quadrangle
Phone Number: 609-258-5549
Email Address: prucnal@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Research in my group, the Lightwave Communications Laboratory, is focused on investigating ultrafast optical techniques with application to communication networks and signal processing. My graduate students and I are working on several exciting and innovative research projects, which benefit from close collaborations with government and industrial research laboratories. A few examples of these projects are given below.
Physical (Optical) Layer Network Security:
Security in fiber optic networks is becoming of critical importance due to the nature and volume of the data that is transported. The optical layer of a network is itself vulnerable to attack by eavesdropping or jamming. My group is investigating several approaches using optical signal processing to counter these attacks, including optical steganography, all-optical encryption devices, anti-jamming techniques, and survivable network architectures.
Optical Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA):
Incoherent optical CDMA networks can offer several important system advantages that cannot be achieved with other multiplexing techniques such as TDM and WDM, including asynchronous access, soft blocking, privacy, scalability and variable quality of service. We are developing novel integrated technologies that will enable the realization of practical optical CDMA networks, which will be strong candidates for future broadband access networks.
Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing for Ultrafast Networks:
Based on nonlinear phenomena in semiconductor devices and nonlinear fibers, numerous optical signal processing functions can be achieved which can enhance the performance of ultrafast optical networks. We are studying novel devices and their applications, including optical thresholding, auto-correlation peak extraction, demultiplexing, physical layer security enhancement, and interferometric noise suppression
Optical Cancellation
of RF Interference:
Wireless communications systems often suffer from co-site interference, where the signal from a nearby transmission antenna interferes with simultaneously receiving a weak signal in a nearby frequency band. Multipath effects make this problem especially challenging. We are investigating optical and optoelectronic signal processing techniques to process RF signals from single antennas as well as phased arrays, enhancing their performance and enabling rapid reconfigurability.
The Photonic Neuron:
Using nonlinear optical and photonic materials, we have recently built a hybrid analog/digital signal processing device which performs all the functions of a physiological neuron, but one billion times fast. Our spiking neuron is faster and more efficient than a digital computer, and does not suffer from the noise accumulation of analog electronics. Using the photonic neuron, we are implementing sophisticated, ultrafast signal processing circuits and systems which emulate visual, auditory, and motor functions found in biological organisms.
With a high degree of interaction between government and industrial research laboratories, the Lightwave Communications Laboratory offers students an opportunity to be involved in the creation of technology for the next generation of optical signal processing, computing and communications systems. Please visit my lab website to find out more information about my group and our research, as well as to download a booklet containing some of our recent papers.
Research Areas: Computer Science, Information Technology
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
Jennifer Rexford
Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering
Provost
Location: 222 Computer Science Building
Phone Number: 609-258-5182
Email Address: jrex@cs.princeton.edu
Research Description:
Software-defined networking, including techniques for improving the energy efficiency of information technology infrastructure
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology
Michele L. Sarazen
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A319 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-8331
Email Address: msarazen@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Mechanistic investigations of heterogeneous catalysis, carbon capture, and environmental separations via combined synthetic, kinetic, and theoretical techniques; improving efficiencies for conversions of conventional feedstocks to fuels and chemicals and developing renewable alternatives to fuels and chemicals
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Fuels, Industrial Processes, Renewable Energy
Jaswinder P. Singh
Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Societal Change
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 324 Computer Science Bldg.
Phone Number: 609-258-5329
Email Address: jps@cs.princeton.edu
Research Description:
Energy-efficient software in cloud computing and large-scale computing
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency
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
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
David Wentzlaff
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B228 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-7781
Email Address: wentzlaf@princeton.edu
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.
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Energy Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry