Michael Bender
Professor of Geosciences, Emeritus
Location: M48 Guyot Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2936
Email Address: bender@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Glacial-interglacial climate change, photosynthesis and respiration in phytoplankton and plants
Research Areas: Climate Change
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, wind farm design
Research Areas: Buildings, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Hydrology, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Wind
Ian Bourg
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E416 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-4541
Email Address: bourg@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Research examines the fundamental properties of interfacial water and their impact on geochemistry, mechanics, and mass fluxes in soils and sedimentary environments. Current projects focus on understanding how clay minerals control hydraulic permeability and the fate and transport of organic compounds.
Research Areas: Carbon Capture & Storage, Hydrology, Pollutant Detection & Remediation
M. Christine Boyer
Professor, Urbanism
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urbanism
Director, Undergraduate Urban Studies Certificate Program
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: S116A Architecture Building
Phone Number: 609-258-1446
Email Address: mcboyer@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Urban history; city planning and preservation planning
Research Areas: Impact of Energy & Land Use
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
Research Areas: Batteries, Climate Change, Energy Storage, Fission, Fuels, Fusion, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Nuclear Energy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Michael A. Celia
Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: E409 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5425
Email Address: celia@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Ground-water hydrology; geological sequestration of CO2; simulation methods for multi-phase flow in porous media; ecohydrology; contaminant transport simulation
Research Areas: Carbon Capture & Storage, Hydrology, Impact of Energy & Land Use
Sujit Datta
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A321 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-4586
Email Address: ssdatta@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Multi-phase flow in porous media; applications of complex fluids for water remediation; fluid dynamics of CO2 sequestration; fundamental science guiding effective and environmentally-friendly routes to enhance oil recovery; controlling function of microbial communities in soils and porous rocks for bio-remediation and water filtration.
Research Areas: Carbon Capture & Storage, Energy Efficiency, Hydrology, Pollutant Detection & Remediation
Luc Deike
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D428 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-7920
Email Address: ldeike@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Numerical and experimental studies of turbulent multi-phase flows in environmental systems, air-sea interaction, waves and breaking waves, drops and bubbles
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Renewable Energy, Wind
Leo Donner
Lecturer in Geosciences and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Physical Scientist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Location:
Phone Number:
Email Address: leo.j.donner@noaa.gov
Research Description:
Climate-model development; cloud and convective processes in the atmospheric general circulation; role of clouds in climate and climate change
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use
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
Mario Gandelsonas
Professor of Architecture
Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: S115B Architecture Building
Phone Number: 609-258-8221
Email Address: mgndlsns@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Urban planning and development of sustainable infrastructures for the 21st century
Research Areas: Impact of Energy & Land Use
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)
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location:
Phone Number: 609-258-7833
Email Address: cgreig@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Chris Greig is the Theodora D. and William H. Walton III Senior Research Scientist at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and holds an adjunct professorial appointment at the University of Queensland in Australia.
His ten-year academic career follows almost three decades of international experience in the private sector, firstly as a company founder, and then in senior executive and non-executive director roles in major engineering, energy, and resources companies. These included the CEO of ZeroGen (one of the early CCS ventures), the Deputy Chair of Gladstone Ports Corp, and the Non-Executive Director of several listed engineering firms.
At Princeton, Chris initiated the Rapid Switch Initiative at the Andlinger Center and is an Affiliated Faculty member of Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute. His research combines, engineering, business, and social sciences to explore the challenges of rapid decarbonization for different regions and sectors. He is particularly focused on how to bridge modeled energy scenarios and real-world implementation. He co-led Princeton’s influential Net-Zero America (2020) study which describes five net-zero emissions pathways for the United States at an unprecedented level of detail. Chris is also leading Princeton’s efforts on similar collaborative studies with universities in Australia, and Asia.
Research Areas: Batteries, Carbon Capture & Storage, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Energy Systems Analysis, Fuels, Industrial Processes, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Transmission, Waste Heat Recovery, Wind
Kelsey Hatzell
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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
Lars Hedin
George M. Moffett Professor of Biology
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 222 Guyot Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-7325
Email Address: lhedin@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Seeks to understand the biosphere’s dynamics by developing a new family of theories, and quantitative analyses
Research Areas: Impact of Energy & Land Use
Peter Jaffé
William L. Knapp '47 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: E411 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4653
Email Address: jaffe@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Biogeochemical cycles applied to environmental remediation, especially water quality and soils. Bioremediation of uranium-contaminated groundwater; biogeochemical cycling in wetlands including immobilization of toxic metals; methane emissions from rice paddies; nitrogen transformation in urban streams and hydrological infrastructure; linking water quality models with climate change models; bioremediation of recalcitrant pollutants, including PFAS; energy efficient methods for nitrification and denitrification.
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Pollutant Detection & Remediation
Sonya Legg
Senior Research Oceanographer and Lecturer
Location: 352 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Phone Number: 609-452-6582
Email Address: slegg@Princeton.EDU
Research Description:
Ocean turbulence and mixing; understanding small-scale turbulent mixing processes through high-resolution numerical simulations combined with theoretical analysis; deriving new physically-based parameterizations to help improve climate simulations
Research Areas: Impact of Energy & Land Use
Simon Levin
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 203 Eno 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
Paul Lewis
Professor of Architecture
Associate Dean, School 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
Ning Lin
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E328 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-0266
Email Address: nlin@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Natural hazards and risk assessment, stochastic modeling, wind engineering, coastal engineering, climate change impact and adaptation, and built environment and sustainability; the study of tropical cyclones and associated weather extremes (e.g., strong winds, heavy rainfall, and storm surge), how they change with climate, and how their impact on the natural and built environment can be mitigated
Research Areas: Climate Change, Hydrology, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment, Wind
Denise Mauzerall
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and CEE
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: E412 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-2498
Email Address: mauzeral@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Analysis of air quality and climate impacts of various energy technologies (coal, gas, solar, wind) with the goal of identifying options with maximum co-benefits. Analysis of China’s energy future and options for air quality, health, and climate co-benefits. Effect of nitrogen, ozone, and water on sustainable intensification of crop production. Measurement of methane leakage from older U.S. natural gas infrastructure
Research Areas: Climate Change, Energy Systems Analysis, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Policy, Renewable Energy, Social Science of Energy & Environment, Transmission
Richard Moss
Andlinger Center Non-Resident fellow
Senior scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute, University of Maryland
Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow in Energy and the Environment (2019-2020)
Location: 226 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone Number: 609-258-5158
Email Address: rmoss@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Moss’s research focuses on the role of human agency and decision making in global environmental changes such as climate change. While at the Andlinger Center, Moss is working on coastal adaptation and resilience, focusing on decision support for development of time-dependent adaptation pathways. Moss is also researching the co-evolution of coupled human-natural systems and factors that facilitate or limit interdisciplinary scientific collaboration. He has published on climate scenarios, uncertainty characterization, and adaptation.
Research Areas: Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Guy Nordenson
Professor of Architecture and Structural Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: S113 Architecture Building
Phone Number: 609-258-9569
Email Address: gjpn@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Climate adaptation design and engineering, particularly in coastal urban regions
Research Areas: Impact of Energy & Land Use
Michael Oppenheimer
Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and Environment
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences, International Affairs, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 3-C-13 Green Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2338
Email Address: omichael@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Climate change science and policy, sea-level rise, adaptation, climate-driven migration
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Stephen Pacala
Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 103A Eno Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-6885
Email Address: pacala@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Interactions between the global biosphere and climate; carbon mitigation; effects of global vegetation on climate; large-scale measurement of natural and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
Research Areas: Carbon Capture & Storage, Impact of Energy & Land Use
Anu Ramaswami
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Director, Chadha Center for Global India
Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location:
Phone Number: 609-258-3729
Email Address: anu.ramaswami@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Anu Ramaswami is an interdisciplinary environmental engineer recognized as a pioneer and leader on the topic of sustainable urban infrastructure systems. Her work explores how seven key sectors – that provide water, energy, food, buildings, mobility, connectivity, waste management and green/public spaces – shape human and environmental wellbeing, from local to global scales. Ramaswami’s work integrates environmental science and engineering, industrial ecology, public health and public affairs, with a human-centered and systems focus.
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Geosciences and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Location: 257 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Phone Number: 609-452-6510
Email Address: v.ramaswamy@noaa.gov
Research Description:
Numerical modeling of Earth’s climate system; climate variations and change due to natural and human-influenced factors; past, present and future climates; Earth’s hydrological cycle; satellite remote sensing of climate; climate and air quality
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use
Laure Resplandy
Assistant Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Location: Guyot Hall 418-B
Phone Number: 609-258-9017
Email Address: laurer@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Climate and ocean modeling; carbon cycle; impacts on marine ecosystems; climate-carbon interactions.
Research Areas: Climate Change, Hydrology
Jorge Sarmiento
George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus
Location: 306A Forrestal Campus Sayre Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-6585
Email Address: jls@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Fundamental processes controlling the ocean-atmosphere distribution of climatically important chemicals, particularly carbon dioxide, and how these have changed through time; global carbon cycle, ocean biogeochemical dynamics, the impact of climate change on ocean biology and biogeochemistry, use of chemical tracers to study ocean circulation, paleoceanography
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use
Daniel Sigman
Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
Professor of Geosciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: M52 Guyot Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2194
Email Address: sigman@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Earth’s environmental history; interactions among climate, ocean biogeochemistry, and atmospheric carbon dioxide; the global nitrogen cycle, today and in the past
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use
James Smith
William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E413 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4615
Email Address: jsmith@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Urban environments, hydrology and meteorology; extreme floods, including the impact of urban environments, environmental sensor systems
Research Areas: Hydrology, Impact of Energy & Land Use
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
Robert Vanderbei
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 209 Sherrerd Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2345
Email Address: rvdb@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Statistical modeling to examine evidence for global warming in local weather data
Research Areas: Impact of Energy & Land Use
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Professor of Geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Director, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Deputy Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: Guyot Hall, Room 407
Phone Number: 609-258-7813
Email Address: gvecchi@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Understanding changes to the oceans and atmosphere, including the monsoons, El Niño, and the impact of climate on tropical cyclones, weather extremes, and global patterns of rainfall and drought. Climate modeling. Climate variability, change and predictability.
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use
Elke U. Weber
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Associate Director for Education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 86 Olden Street
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 Wilcove
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 3-C-10 Green Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-7118
Email Address: dwilcove@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Environmental policy; conservation of biodiversity; effects of land-use change and climate change on biodiversity; impact of agriculture on biodiversity
Research Areas: Climate Change, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Xinning Zhang
Assistant Professor of Geosciences and at the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: M47 Guyot Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-7688
Email Address: xinningz@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Carbon capture; carbon dioxide absorption by oceans, coastal impact
Research Areas: Biofuels, Climate Change, Renewable Energy
Mark Zondlo
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: E403 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5037
Email Address: mzondlo@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric measurements of greenhouse gases and air pollutants; emissions of carbon and nitrogen to the atmosphere; compact, laser-based sensor development
Research Areas: Impact of Energy & Land Use, Pollutant Detection & Remediation