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
Emily A. Carter
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics
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)
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: D430 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-5391
Email Address: eac@princeton.edu
Research Description:
The development of efficient and accurate quantum mechanics simulation techniques, including embedded correlated wave function and orbital-free density functional theories. Applications are focused on enabling discovery and design of materials and processes for producing chemicals, materials, and fuels from renewable energy, with a specific emphasis on carbon dioxide utilization and ammonia/hydrogen conversion.
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Transportation
Edgar Choueiri
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D432 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5220
Email Address: choueiri@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Plasma physics and dynamics applied to space power and propulsion, plasma gasification for waste disposal, environmental acoustics
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Nathaniel Fisch
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: MS30 C-Site T162 PPL
Phone Number: 609-243-2643
Email Address: fisch@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Plasma physics with applications to nuclear fusion energy: plasma waves, current drive, laser/plasma interaction; atomic radiation in plasmas; petroleum refining; statistical inference and pattern recognition, modified Otto-cycle engines
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
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:
Dr. Gates is the stellarator physics leader at PPPL. In this role he acts as the US Technical Representative for the International Collaboration on Superconducting Stellarators. He is also the Principle Investigator of an ARPA-E project entitled “Stellarator Simplification using Permanent Magnets”. At Andlinger, Dr. Gates is also performing research on the improvement of stellarator designs and has recently submitted a proposal entitled “Using permanent magnets for near perfect quasi-symmetry in a stellarator”. Stellarators are a type of plasma containment device that has great promise for creating fusion energy.
If you’d like to learn more about the stellarator concept see Dr. Gates’ lecture: https://www.pppl.gov/events/2021/science-saturday-renaissance-stellarator-fusion-concept
Research Areas: Plasma Physics, Supercapacitors
Alexander Glaser
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Co-Director, Program in Science and Global Security
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 213 221 Nassau St.
Phone Number: 609-258-5692
Email Address: aglaser@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Nuclear power (fission/fusion); nuclear fuel cycle/nonproliferation; neutronics calculations for new systems (e.g. small modular reactors; safeguards and verification; energy policy)
Research Areas: Fission, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Robert Goldston
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: MS41 C-Site B319 PPL
Phone Number: 609-243-3550
Email Address: rjg@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Experimental plasma physics, plasma heating and transport for fusion energy. Edge power handling. Fusion reactor and power plant designs, including tokamak, spherical torus, and stellarator configurations. Socio-economic aspects of nuclear energy, particularly nuclear proliferation risks
Research Areas: Fission, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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
Igor Kaganovich
Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Location: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Phone Number: (609) 243-3277
Email Address: ikaganovich@pppl.gov
Research Description:
Igor Kaganovich is a Principal Research Physicist, is an expert in theoretical plasma physics. He has an extensive publication record with 200 publications on plasma theory, plasma-surface interactions, plasma-based synthesis and processing of nanomaterials, cross-field discharges, and physics of plasma thrusters. His professional interests include plasma physics with applications to nuclear fusion (heavy ion fusion), gas discharge modeling, plasma processing, nanomaterial synthesis, kinetic theory of plasmas and gases, hydrodynamics, quantum mechanics, nonlinear phenomena and pattern formation. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007. Among many honors, Dr. Kaganovich, along with PPPL physicist Yevgeny Raitses, received PPPL’s Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development in 2019. He is also PPPL Distinguished Research Fellow since 2022. He was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1996.
Research Areas: Fusion, Plasma Physics
Bruce Koel
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus
Location: A311 Engineering Quad A-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4524
Email Address: bkoel@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Surface and interfacial processes; plasma-materials interactions in fusion reactors; plasma-enhanced catalysis; photoelectrocatalysis for water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction; alloy catalysis; chemistry of the battery solid electrolyte interphase
Research Areas: Fuel Cells, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Pollutant Detection & Remediation, Renewable Energy, Solar
Egemen Kolemen
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Director, Program in Sustainable Energy
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: D302 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-9209
Email Address: ekolemen@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Egemen Kolemen is a Professor at Princeton University’s Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering jointly appointed with the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). He is the director of the Program in Sustainable Energy, recipient of the David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award and the American Nuclear Society’s Technical Accomplishment Award, and an ITER Scientist Fellow. His research combines engineering and physics analysis to enable economically feasible fusion reactors. He currently leads research on machine learning, real-time diagnostics and control at KSTAR, NSTX-U, and DIII-D. He directs liquid metal divertor and low temperature diagnostics labs. On the theoretical side, his group develops software for stellarator optimization and economical analysis of fusion reactors.
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Plasma Physics
Stewart C. Prager
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Emeritus
Location:
Phone Number: 609-243-3553
Email Address: sprager@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Experimental plasma physics, including study of stability, turbulence, transport, and self-organization in plasmas, for use in fusion energy
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Yevgeny Raitses
Managing Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Location: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Phone Number:
Email Address: yraitses@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Yevgeny Raitses is an expert in experimental plasma physics. He has an extensive publication record with more than 200 publications on physics of plasma thrusters, plasma-surface interactions, plasma-based synthesis and processing of nanomaterials, cross-field discharges, and plasma diagnostics. Raitses earned a doctoral degree in aerospace from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1997. He was elected an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauts in 2009 and a fellow of the American Physical Society the following year. Among many honors, Raitses, along with PPPL physicist Igor Kaganovich, received PPPL’s Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development in 2019.
Research Areas: Plasma Physics
Clarence Rowley
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sin-I Cheng Professor in Engineering Science
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D232 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-7321
Email Address: cwrowley@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Control of plasmas in nuclear fusion; modeling of fluid flows from a dynamical systems point of view
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
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
Anatoly Spitkovsky
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Location: 123 Peyton Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2307
Email Address: anatoly@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Modeling and experiments related to inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy
Howard Stone
Neil A. Omenn '68 University Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D328 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-9493
Email Address: hastone@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Erosion/corrosion in water flows for cooling in fusion reactors; fluid dynamics of lithium for protecting inner walls of fusion reactors; microfluidic studies relevant to water purification; electrokinetic effects relevant to energy storage devices
Research Areas: Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Pollutant Detection & Remediation