Robert Cava
Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: A88 Frick Chemistry Laboratory
Phone Number: 609-258-0016
Email Address: rcava@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Synthesis, discovery and characterization of new superconducting, thermoelectric, and semiconducting materials.
Research Areas: Superconducting Materials, Thermoelectrics, Transmission, Waste Heat Recovery
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 to address technical challenges with large social impacts. High performance power conversion systems for a wide range of applications, including 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:
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
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
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:
Iain McCulloch’s research involves the design, synthesis and development of semiconducting small molecules and polymers for use as transistors for display, solar cells and most recently biological sensing. His efforts have focused on the understanding and control of microstructure and energy levels in conjugated aromatic semiconducting polymers and the subsequent impact on device properties. This has resulted in several commercial products including lithographic formulations and printable semiconducting inks. His research continues to broaden in scope, including making important contributions in organic photovoltaics, where he is exploring new electron acceptor materials, doping effects, and fundamental optical absorption phenomena. In addition, he is developing biological sensing and electrochemical devices, which have resulted in the first demonstration of solid-state optical semiconducting sensors for measurement of cations, as well as fundamental molecular design rules of semiconducting polymers for organic electrochemical transistors. Most recently, he has discovered that organic semiconducting nanoparticle blends are efficient photocatalysts for the production of hydrogen from water and the reduction of carbon dioxide.
Research Areas: Renewable Energy, Solar, Superconducting Materials, Sustainable Manufacturing/Chemistry
Nai Phuan Ong
Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 302 Jadwin Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-4347
Email Address: npo@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Thermoelectrics, fundamental studies of superconductivity, novel superconducting and magnetic materials, topological insulators, Dirac-Weyl metals
Research Areas: Superconducting Materials, Thermoelectrics, Transmission, Waste Heat Recovery
H. Vincent Poor
Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: B330 Engineering Quad B-Wing
Phone Number: 609-258-1816
Email Address: poor@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Energy-efficiency in wireless networks; smart grid, Internet of Things, power system resilience
Research Areas: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology, Smart Grid, Transmission
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
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
Ali Yazdani
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics
Inaugural Co-director, Princeton Quantum Initiative
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 384 Jadwin Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-4390
Email Address: yazdani@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Fundamental studies of the origin of superconductivity, particularly in high-temperature cuprate superconductors, to aid search for materials that exhibit superconductivity at higher temperatures; study of topological quantum states in materials  and their use for dissipation-less transport
Research Areas: Superconducting Materials, Transmission