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
Rene Carmona
Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 210 Sherrerd Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2310
Email Address: rcarmona@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Commodity and energy markets (e.g. oil, electricity, natural gas, coal); market mechanisms to control greenhouse gas emissions; game theoretic analyses of the energy/emissions markets with emphasis on the policy implications of their designs
Research Areas: Economics, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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
Michael Ford
Associate Laboratory Director for Engineering, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Location: PPPL, MS-38, LSB 380
Phone Number: 609-243-2866
Email Address: mjford@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Technology development and engineering risk; assessment of complex technologies that may support decarbonization of the energy system. Fission and fusion systems R&D; reactor safeguards, regulatory policy and proliferation risk; Research employs process modeling, systems engineering, engineering economics, and quantitative risk and decision analysis.
Research Areas: Behavior, Economics, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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
Noreen Goldman
Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 243 Wallace Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-5724
Email Address: ngoldman@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Role of environment in human health; social and economic factors on adult health and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate
Research Areas: 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
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
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
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
Douglas Massey
Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Director, Office of Population Research
Director, Program in Population Studies
Location: 239 Wallace Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-4949
Email Address: dmassey@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Issues of international migration caused by environmental change
Research Areas: Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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 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
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
Wei Peng
Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Location: School of Public & Int’l Affairs
Phone Number:
Email Address: weipeng@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Wei Peng is assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. She is a climate policy researcher and integrated assessment modeler of energy, air quality and health. Peng studies ways to better represent institutional and political factors in energy systems models to inform climate policies and decarbonization strategies that are realistically implementable and politically durable. She is also core faculty member of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE).
Research Areas: Behavior, 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
Eldar Shafir
Class of 1987 Professor in Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 110 Peretsman-Scully Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-5624
Email Address: shafir@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Behavioral interventions; reasoning, judgment, and decision-making, and issues related to behavioral economics, with an emphasis on descriptive studies of how people make judgments and decisions in situations of conflict and uncertainty
Research Areas: Behavior, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Ronnie Sircar
Eugene Higgins Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 208 Sherrerd Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2841
Email Address: sircar@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Game-theoretic models of energy and emissions markets, with emphasis on policy implications; economics of exhaustible resources, including modeling of shifts in energy markets toward intermittent alternative sources such as solar and wind technologies; dynamic models to help design incentives for greener fuel production; financialization of energy and commodities markets; risk quantification of electricity grids under increased stochasticity from renewables penetration.
Research Areas: Economics, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
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
Wei Xiong
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance. Professor of Economics
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 205 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Phone Number: 609-258-0282
Email Address: wxiong@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Financialization of commodity and energy markets; effects of financial market frictions; behavioral finance
Research Areas: Economics, Social Science of Energy & Environment