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
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