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
Research Areas: Batteries, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Supercapacitors
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
Research Areas: Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Renewable Energy
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
Research Areas: Carbon Capture & Storage, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar
Adam Burrows
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 105 Peyton Hall
Phone Number: Â 609-258-3590
Email Address: burrows@astro.princeton.edu
Research Description:
General energy studies; fission and fusion; climate change; battery technology; policy
Research Areas: Batteries, Climate Change, Energy Storage, Fission, Fuels, Fusion, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Nuclear Energy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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.
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; high performance power conversion systems for 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 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.
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry, Waste Heat Recovery
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.
Research Areas: Plasma Physics, Supercapacitors
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
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.
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
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.
Research Areas: Batteries, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Solar
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
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
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.
Research Areas: Batteries, Biofuels, Carbon Capture & Storage, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar, Supercapacitors