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 and wind farm design, urban and agricultural photovoltaic applications.
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: 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
Michael A. Celia
Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies, Emeritus
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
Luc Deike
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D428 Engineering Quadrangle
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)
Location: Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-7833
Email Address: cgreig@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Analyze practical pathways for accelerating the global energy transition. Enabling rapid, large‑scale decarbonization by addressing real‑world bottlenecks in scaling clean energy, advancing carbon capture and storage, and transforming industrial and energy systems for net‑zero transitions. Highly interdisciplinary and industry‑informed. 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
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:
Complex infrastructure systems, intelligent risk and resilience assessments to climate change. Integrated solutions to future challenges facing cities and society. Developing scalable data analytics and machine learning techniques for spatial-temporal networks applied to dynamic processes in complex multiscale civil engineered systems. Detection of systemic risks in socio-technical systems.
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
Lars Hedin
George M. Moffett Professor of Biology
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A409 Briger 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, water quality and soils. PFAS and bioremediation of recalcitrant pollutants. Nitrogen transformation in urban streams and hydrological infrastructure, linking water quality models with climate change models, 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: 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
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
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. Tropical cyclones and weather extremes impact and mitigation.
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 Associated Faculty
Location: E412 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-2498
Email Address: mauzeral@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Analysis on how energy technology choices affect air quality, public health, food security, and greenhouse gas mitigation. Investigation of methane leakage from abandoned oil and gas wells; assessment of air‑quality and climate benefits of renewable energy transitions in China and India. Interdisciplinary research in linking atmospheric science with economics and policy to inform environmental and climate policy development.
Research Areas: Climate Change, Energy Systems Analysis, Impact of Energy & Land Use, Policy, Renewable Energy, Social Science of Energy & Environment, Transmission
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 and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 313 Robertson 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 Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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
Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies
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
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: E232 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-5424
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
Associate Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Location:
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: C358 Briger 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, Emeritus
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: E414 Engineering Quadrangle
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 Emeritus, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
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
Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences
Professor in the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Director, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: B230 Briger Hall
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 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 Wilcove
Vice Dean, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Henry W. Putnam Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the High Meadows Institute.
Professor of Public Affairs
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 312 Robertson 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: B412 Briger Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2489
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
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: E403 Engineering Quad
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