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Craig Arnold

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Vice Dean for Innovation, Office of the Dean for Research

Andlinger Center Executive Committee

Location: D404C Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-0250
Email Address: cbarnold@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Improved batteries, energy storage; materials recycling and sustainability; water purification; catalysis; advanced manufacturing; light-matter interactions

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Jay Benziger

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus

Location: A407 Engineering Quad A-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5416
Email Address: benziger@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Fuel cells ; hydrogen production; electrochemical hydrogen purification; gasification to produce fuels from organic materials

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Andrew Bocarsly

Professor of Chemistry

Andlinger Center Associated Faculty

Location: 388 Frick Chemistry Lab
Phone Number: 609-258-3888
Email Address: bocarsly@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Fuel cells; proton exchange polymer membranes; charge transfer processes and materials chemistry for solar photochemistry and electrochemistry; electrochemical and photoelectrochemical conversion of CO2 to liquid fuels and syngas; water splitting for hydrogen production

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Adam Burrows

Professor of Astrophysical Sciences

Andlinger Center Associated Faculty

Location: 105 Peyton Hall
Phone Number:  609-258-3590
Email Address: burrows@astro.princeton.edu

Research Description:

General energy studies; fission and fusion; climate change; battery technology; policy

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Emily A. Carter

Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment

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)

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics

Andlinger Center Executive Committee

Location: D430 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-5391
Email Address: eac@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Development of efficient and accurate quantum mechanics simulation techniques, including embedded correlated wave function and orbital-free density functional theories; discovery and design of materials and processes for eletrical production of chemicals, materials, and fuels; carbon dioxide utilization; ammonia/hydrogen conversion.

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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; high performance power conversion systems for smart grid, renewable generation, energy storage, telecom, data centers, electric vehicles, and robotics.

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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 and synthesis of earth abundant catalysts (particularly iron & cobalt) for applications in pharmaceutical, fine, commodity and petrochemical industries; Reduction of N2 and CO2 compatible with renewable hydrogen and alternative energy sources.

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David Gates

Managing Research Physicist, Advanced Projects Department Head, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Location: MS40, 357 C01 LSB (PPPL)
Phone Number: 609-243-2837
Email Address: dgates@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Fusion science; stellerator design and construction.

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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.

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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:

Solid ion conductors for advanced energy storage and conversion applications; solid state devices for electrochemical fuel production and energy storage systems for electric vehicles; thermal energy storage systems for concentrated solar power integration and production; carbon capture materials and processes.

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Yiguang Ju

Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Director, Program in Sustainable Energy

Andlinger Center Associated Faculty

Location: D330 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5644
Email Address: yju@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Sustainable energy, green fuels (e.g. H2, NH3, e-fuels), CO2 reduction and utilization, and energy materials; high pressure combustion, plasma assisted combustion and material synthesis, H2/NH3 production, and thermal chemical and electrochemical energy storage materials, in situ laser diagnostics, and machine learning modeling of interfacial plasma catalysis.

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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.

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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

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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

Location:
Phone Number: 609-258-6394
Email Address: nyao@princeton.edu

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.

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