Adam Burrows
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: Â 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
Associate 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: 202 221 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)
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
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
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 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
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
John Pickering
Andlinger Center Non-Resident Fellow
Chief Executive Officer, Evidn.
Location:
Phone Number:
Email Address: jpickering@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Specializes in the design and delivery of population-level behavior change programs
Research Areas: Behavior
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
Inaugural Director, Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 531 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
Chair, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 105 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 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
Wei Xiong
Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbull Adams Professor for the Study of Investment and Financial Markets
Professor of Economics
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 201 26 Prospect Avenue
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