Andrew Bocarsly
Professor of Chemistry
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 388 Frick Chemistry Lab
Phone Number: 609-258-3888
Email Address: bocarsly@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Fuel cells; proton exchange polymer membranes; charge transfer processes and materials chemistry for solar photochemistry and electrochemistry; electrochemical and photoelectrochemical conversion of CO2 to liquid fuels and syngas; water splitting for hydrogen production
Research Areas: Carbon Capture & Storage, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar
Emily A. Carter
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
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)
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: D430 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-5391
Email Address: eac@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Development of efficient and accurate quantum mechanics simulation techniques, including embedded correlated wave function and orbital-free density functional theories; discovery and design of materials and processes for eletrical production of chemicals, materials, and fuels; carbon dioxide utilization; ammonia/hydrogen conversion.
Research Areas: Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Fusion, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Transportation
Minjie Chen
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 217 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-7656
Email Address: minjie@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Design of power conversion and management systems; high performance power conversion systems for smart grid, renewable generation, energy storage, telecom, data centers, electric vehicles, and robotics.
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Energy Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Solar, Transmission, Transportation, Wind
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:
Understanding and mitigating social and economic barriers to scaling up clean energy and fuels production, carbon capture and storage (CCS), industrial decarbonization; climate finance; energy infrastructure delivery innovation. 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
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:
Solid ion conductors for advanced energy storage and conversion applications; solid state devices for electrochemical fuel production and energy storage systems for electric vehicles; thermal energy storage systems for concentrated solar power integration and production; carbon capture materials and processes.
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
Yiguang Ju
Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Director, Program in Sustainable Energy
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: D330 Engineering Quad D-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-5644
Email Address: yju@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Sustainable energy, green fuels (e.g. H2, NH3, e-fuels), CO2 reduction and utilization, and energy materials; high pressure combustion, plasma assisted combustion and material synthesis, H2/NH3 production, and thermal chemical and electrochemical energy storage materials, in situ laser diagnostics, and machine learning modeling of interfacial plasma catalysis.
Research Areas: Batteries, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Solar
Antoine Kahn
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Executive Committee (ex officio)
Location: B420 Engineering Quad B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-4642
Email Address: kahn@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Organic thin films and organic electronics for photovoltaics: organic/organic heterojunctions that constitute the core of organic photovoltaic cells; interfaces between organic films and conducting oxides or polymer-functionalized surfaces that constitute the high and low work function anode and cathode of these solar cells; hybrid organic/inorganic semiconductor solar cells; metal halide perovskites and their two-dimensional analogs; chemical doping that increases carrier mobility for improved charge collection
Research Areas: Renewable Energy, Solar
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
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo
Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Former Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (2016-2021)
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A323 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-9091
Email Address: lloo@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Thin-film photovoltaics, including polymer and molecular solar cells, hybrid perovskite solar cells and transparent solar cells, printable conductive inks, processing-structure-function relationships of electrically-active plastics, macro-scale energy systems analysis of biomass-derived liquid transportation fuels.
Research Areas: Energy Systems Analysis, Renewable Energy, Solar
Iain McCulloch
Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor in Energy and Environment
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 118 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-9340
Email Address: iain@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Design, synthesis and development of semiconducting small molecules and polymers for use as transistors for display, solar cells and biological sensing. Toics include organic photovoltaics, photo- and electrocatalysis for fuel production, carbon capture and conversion, biological sensing and electrochemical devices, solid-state optical semiconducting sensors for ions, and semiconducting polymers for organic electrochemical transistors.
Research Areas: Renewable Energy, Solar, Superconducting Materials, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry
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
Rodney Priestley
Dean of the Graduate School
Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 109 110 Prospect Ave
Phone Number: 609-258-5721
Email Address: rpriestl@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Nanoscale processing and characterization of polymers and soft matter with an emphasis on thin films, colloids, and nanocomposites; glass formation and glassy behavior of polymer thin films and nanocomposites; physical vapor deposition of macromolecules; scalable and sustainable formation, and application of polymer-based colloids.
Research Areas: Solar, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry, Water Desalination
Barry Rand
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: B414 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-7692
Email Address: brand@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Thin film materials for next generation electronic and optoelectronic devices for computing, sensing, and energy applications; optical, electronic, and structural properties of materials and heterogeneous interfaces
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar
Gregory Scholes
William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 125 Frick Chemistry Lab
Phone Number: 609-258-0729
Email Address: gscholes@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Mechanisms of light harvesting and light-induced charge separation; photosynthesis; organic semiconductors; bioinspiration (learning from novelties in nature), chemistry powered by light, quantum effects in molecular-level function
Research Areas: Biofuels, Renewable Energy, Solar
Jeffrey Schwartz
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
Location:
Phone Number: 609-258-3926
Email Address: jschwart@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Interfacial modifiers in organic photovoltaics; interface chemistry; surface modification of polymer or inorganic conductor or semiconductor surfaces as a means to enhance performance of devices as diverse as diodes, organic transistors, or biosensors; strong interfaces between implant or tissue scaffold surfaces and biomolecules in the context of enhancing tissue integration with a prosthetic device
Research Areas: Renewable Energy, Solar
Annabella Selloni
David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry
Location: 155 Frick Chemistry Lab
Phone Number: 609-258-3837
Email Address: aselloni@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Simulations of materials, interfaces, and processes in photo- and electro-catalysis
Research Areas: Renewable Energy, Solar
Sigurd Wagner
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
Location:
Phone Number:
Email Address: wagner@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Environmental aspects of electrical engineering; solar energy conversion; devices, processes, and materials for large-area electronics; sensor skins for civil infrastructure
Research Areas: Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar
Nan Yao
Professor of the Practice in the Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials
Director, Imaging and Analysis Center
Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Location:
Phone Number: 609-258-6394
Email Address: nyao@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Utilizing advanced imaging, diffraction, spectroscopy and in-situ techniques, in tandem with theoretical simulations, to study fundamentals of the structure-composition-processing-property-performance relations in complex materials such as nanostructured materials, biomaterials, organic/inorganic interfaces, block copolymers, catalysts, quasicrystals and functional nanomaterials.
Research Areas: Batteries, Biofuels, Carbon Capture & Storage, Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar, Supercapacitors