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| Name | Title | Areas of Concentration | Department | Additional Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marco J. Castaldi | Assistant Professor of Earth and Environ-mental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines) | Enhanced combustion processes; catalytic reactor design; integrated systems for energy materials; fuels optimization, Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Kartik Chandran | Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering | Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Nanotechnology, Environmental Microbiology, Public Health Microbiology, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Bioenergetics (Microbial fuel cells and biofuels), Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Xi Chen | Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering | Nanotechnology, biotechnology, energy/environment, and computation. more detail: Mechanobiology and molecular biomechanics, Novel nanoporous energy absorption and harvesting materials, Nanomechanics of nanostructures, Nanoindentation theory and experiment, Mechanical self-assembly, Multi-phase solid-fluid interactions, Multi-scale computational mechanics, and Mechanics of thin films and small material structures, Civil Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Paul F. Duby | Professor of Mineral Engineering | Electrochemical and hydrometallurgical processes; corrosion of metals; water chemistry; mineral waste treatment and recovery, Mineral Engineering, Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Vasilis M. Fthenakis | Senior Research Scientist | Air pollution, fluid dynamics, two-phase flow modeling, atmospheric dispersion, sustainable energy, life cycle analysis, process safety, recycling, hydrometallurgical separation processes, Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Pierre Gentine | Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering | applied mathematics, land-atmosphere interactions, soil-vegetation-transfer-atmosphere models, applications of stochastic processes to hydrology and atmospheric boundary-layer, stochastic rainfall and soil moisture, data-assimilation (filtering) of remote sensing measurements to estimate land-surface variables, applied mathematics | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Klaus S. Lackner | Department Chair and the Maurice Ewing and T. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics (Earth and Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines) | Carbon management; alternative fuels and energy management; fluid mechanics and transport processes; applied physics; carbon capture, including air capture; sequestration, including mineralization and sub-seabed storage; carbon electrochemistry; zero-emission cement kilns; scale; geophysics, Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Upmanu Lall | Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and Civil Engineering | Hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; natural hazards, water systems, and risk management; water technologies for developing countries; Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Ah-Hyung Alissa Park | Lenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science and Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Engineering | Carbon sequestration; Clean fossil energy conversion systems; Alternative energy production; Particle technology; Electrostatic tomography; Multiphase flow systems; Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Peter Schlosser | Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences) | Water movement and its variability in natural systems; ocean/atmosphere gas exchange; paleotemperature reconstructions; anthropogenic impact on natural systems; Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Ponisseril Somasundaran | LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering | Surface and colloid science; nanoparticles, biosurfaces, and biosensors; enhanced oil and coal recovery; polymer / surfactant / protein interactions; arsenic remediation; Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Nicholas J. Themelis | Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy (Earth and Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines) | Transport phenomena in thermal plasma spraying, energy, and material recovery from solid wastes; cogeneration of electricity and heat; industrial ecology, Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Nicholas J. Turro | William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry | Spectroscopic methods for the elucidation of the structure and dynamics of adsorbed molecules; investigation of nanoparticles for catalysis for pollution control, Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering | |
| Tuncel M. Yegulalp | Professor of Mining | Mineral economics; systems analysis; extreme value statistics applications; zero-emission power plant modeling and design; CO2 sequestration; Earth and Environmental Engineering | Earth and Environmental Engineering |