Arizona State University
Energy Faculty
Datu Buyung Agusdinata
Datu Buyung Agusdinata
Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Agusdinata’s research interests encompass sustainable energy and transportation systems, green supply chain, system analysis of the development and impacts of nanomedicine, and drought adaptation policies.
Websites
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/datu-agusdinata/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fxV4_jYAAAAJ&hl=en
Raja Ayyanar
Raja Ayyanar
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Ayyanar’s area of research interest includes power electronics, DC-DC converters, power management, power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide band gap devices and applications.
Websites
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/raja-ayyanar,
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_gaWJD8AAAAJ&hl=en, https://search.asu.edu/profile/283502
Bertan Bakkaloglu
Bertan Bakkaloglu
Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Bakkalogu’s research interests include integrated power management circuits, RF, and mixed-signal IC.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/749234
Katharine Batten
Katharine Batten
Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Batten’s research interests include policy practitioner, climate-change policy and international development.
Website
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/katharine-batten/
Mariana Bertoni
Mariana Bertoni
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Bertoni’s research interests entails the defect engineering of solar cell materials, transparent conducting oxides, defects in semiconductors, synthesis, growth and deposition of semiconductors, electrical and optical characterization, X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1995163
Christopher Boone
Christopher Boone
Professor, School of Sustainability Faculty
Research Areas of Interest
His research interests include urban environments, sustainability, environmental justice, and vulnerability.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/860292
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/christopher-boone
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aSSRcJkAAAAJ&hl=en
Hanna Breetz
Hanna Breetz
Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Breetz’s area of research interests constitutes energy policy, EVS and alternative energy, renewable energy, and climate change.
Website
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/hanna-breetz/
Harvey Bryan
Harvey Bryan
Architecture, The Design School
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Bryan is active in several professional and technical societies; he has served on the ASHRAE committee responsible for developing the 90.1 Energy Standard, is presently serving on the ASHRAE TC 2.8 and SPC 189 committees which are concerned with Buildings Impact on the Environment, as well as the AIA’s Committee on the Environment. He was on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and is certified in both BREEAM (a rating system widely used in Europe and Canada) as well as LEED. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors on the Green Building Initiative which developed the Green Globes’ rating system.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/231090
Ronald Calhoun
Ronald Calhoun
Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Calhoun’s research interests include wind energy and lidar.
Websites
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/387035
Candace Chan
Candace Chan
Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Chan’s research interests constitutes energy efficiency & energy automation batteries and energy system batteries.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/1761574
Netra Chhetri
Netra Chhetri
Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Chhetri’s research interests include international development and community-based energy solutions.
Website
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/netra-chhetri/
John Cirucci
John Cirucci
Research Professor, ASU Center for Negative Carbon Emissions
Research Areas of Interest
Research Professor Cirucci’s research interests encompass CO2 capture and energy storage technologies.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3146487
Peter Crozier
Peter Crozier
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Crozier has extensive experience in developing and applying advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques to problems related to energy and the environment with special emphasis on electroceramics, catalytic materials and atmospheric aerosols. He has 20 years of experience in developing and applying the technique of advanced transmission electron microscopy to problems in catalytic materials and oxide electrolytes. He is also applying electron energy-loss spectroscopy to determine the optical and vibrational properties of materials.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/26340
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M4rqGggAAAAJ&hl=en
Shuguang Deng
Shuguang Deng
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Deng’s research interests include adsorbents, catalysts and membranes for sustainable energy and clean water applications. Additionally, his research also encompasses adsorption, porous materials, hydrothermal liquefaction, biofuels, and water treatment.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/2704807
https://dreamlab.engineering.asu.edu/dr-shuguang-deng/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9tu8lRcAAAAJ&hl=en
Gary Dirks
Gary Dirks
Senior Director, School of Sustainability Faculty
Research Areas of Interest
Senior Director Dirks’s research interests consists of light absorption and energy transfer in polyene-porphyrin esters and energy transfer from carotenoid polyenes to porphyrins. A light-harvesting antenna, mimicry of antenna and photo-protective carotenoid functions by a synthetic carotenoporphyrin, structure of nitroarginine. Dirks’s nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance study entails:
- Energy transfer from carotenoids to porphyrins
- Stereochemistry of oligomeric proteins
Websites
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/gary-dirks/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary-Dirks https://search.asu.edu/profile/1471405
Ivan Ermanoski
Ivan Ermanoski
Research Professor, School of Sustainability
Research Areas of Interest
Research Professor Ermanoski’s research interests encompass:
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hydrogen
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solar thermochemical fuel production
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iodine sorption characterization.
Website
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/ivan-ermanoski/
Justin Flory
Justin Flory
Associate Director, LightWorks, Center for Negative Carbon Emissions (CNCE)
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Director Flory’s interests encompass engineering systems using or inspired by nature that generate sustainable chemicals, fuels, materials and devices, biofuels, climate-change, artificial photosynthesis, bioenergy, energy and sustainability, and bioenergy markets.
Website
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1349187
Houqiang Fu
Houqiang Fu
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Fu’s research interests consist of wide and ultra wide band gap semiconductors GaN and Ga2O3, power electronics, photonics, and MOCVD.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/2451946
https://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/houqiangfu/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ixFlMokAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Stephen Goodnick
Stephen Goodnick
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Goodnick’s main research contributions include analysis of surface roughness at the Si/SiO2 interface, Monte Carlo simulation of ultrafast carrier relaxation in quantum confined systems, global modeling of high frequency and energy conversion devices, full-band simulation of semiconductor devices, transport in nanostructures, and fabrication and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor devices.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/38907
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/stephen-goodnick/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RArgTMcAAAAJ&hl=en
Danae Hernandez Cortes
Danae Hernandez Cortes
Asst Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Cortes’s research interests encompasses energy economics and data-driven energy policy.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/4014832
Keith Holbert
Keith Holbert
Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Holbert’s research of interest consists of process monitoring and diagnostics, noise analysis, sensor fault detection, and radiation effects.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/41965
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ytooQkQAAAAJ&hl=en
Zachary Holman
Zachary Holman
Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Holman’s area of research interest includes semiconductor nanoparticles and silicon-based solar cell material.
Websites
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/1994239
https://holman.engineering.asu.edu/
Christiana Honsberg
Christiana Honsberg
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Honsberg’s research of interest includes ultra-high efficiency solar cells and silicon solar cells.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1304110
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/research/research-themes/
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/christiana-honsberg
Yoon Hwa
Yoon Hwa
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Hwa’s interest of research encompasses material and device design for energy storage and conversion systems, advanced 3D manufacturing, and laser powder bed fusion.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/3702700
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7BpIySoAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.hwaresearchgroup.com/
Kirk Jalbert
Kirk Jalbert
Senior Global Futures Scientist, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Research Areas of Interest
Jalbert’s research area of interest constitutes energy informatics and data-driven energy decision-making.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3193226
Lauren Keeler
Lauren Keeler
Senior Global Futures Scientist, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Research Areas of Interest
Keeler’s research of interest includes strategic planning and energy futures.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/786523
Jonathan Kelman
Jonathan Kelman
School of Sustainability Faculty
Research Areas of Interest
Kelman’s research interests encompass state-enabled international illicit flows, state nuclear weapons programs, energy subsidies, and energy policy. Especially surrounding utilities and building codes
Website
https://search.asu.edu/profile/2183369
Sayfe Kiaei
Sayfe Kiaei
Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Kiaei’s research of interest consists of integrated power management circuits, RF, and mixed-signal IC.
Website
https://search.asu.edu/profile/324761
Richard King
Richard R. King
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor King’s research expertise includes: high-efficiency silicon and III-V photovoltaics, solid-state device physics, recombination at semiconductor defects and interfaces, multi-junction solar cells, thin-film compound semiconductor growth and characterization.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/2740499
Jennifer Kitchen
Jennifer Kitchen
Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Kitchen’s research interest includes high-performance power management systems for green energy, specifically solar arrays, and wireless communications systems. In addition, her research also involves programmable, broadband, wireless transceivers for future generation (5G) wireless communication systems.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/472735
https://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/kitchen/
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/jennifer-kitchen
Beomjin Kwon
Beomjin Kwon
Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Kwon’s research interest encompasses energy efficiency and energy automation; some of which include efficient energy generation, transmission, and distribution. His research also consists of energy systems such as thermal systems and mechanical energy systems.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/3322893
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/332289
Klaus Lackner
Klaus Lackner
Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Lackner’s research interest consists of carbon dioxide capture, carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, energy and environmental policy, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties, the role of automation, robotics and mass-manufacturing in downscaling infrastructure systems.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2483273
Qin Lei
Qin Lei
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Areas of Interest
Lei’s research areas of interest include
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/1028936
Arunachala Mada Kannan
Arunachala Mada Kannan
Professor, The Polytechnic School
Research Areas of Interest
Websites
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/859781
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WqygSOoAAAAJ&hl=en.
Ryan Milcarek
Ryan Milcarek
Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Websites
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3313988
https://ceps.engineering.asu.edu/
Clark Miller
Clark Miller
Assoc Center Dir & Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Miller’s research interests involves energy transition policy and planning, energy poverty, social and behavioral dimensions of energy systems and energy transitions, and community renewable energy.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/977682
Duong Nguyen
Duong Nguyen
Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Nguyen’s research interest involves cloud and edge computing, power and energy systems, decision-making, market design, network economics, power system economics, operations and planning, applied operations research, and optimization and game theory.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/3714024
http://duongtungnguyen.github.io/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EVWYEMQAAAAJ
Qiong Nian
Qiong Nian
Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Nian’s research interests include nano-manufacturing, additive manufacturing, laser-based material processing, laser matter interaction and physics simulation, inkjet printing of functional materials, and 2D materials fabrication for energy storage and bio-sensors.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1550520
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1550520, https://labs.engineering.asu.edu/mmmp/
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/qiong-nian
Anamitra Pal
Anamitra Pal
Associate Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Pal’s research interests consists of:
- Energy efficiency and energy automation
- Efficient energy generation, transmission, and distribution: energy theft detection using machine learning
- Sensors, communications, efficient generation, transmission and use: detection of reverse power flows, power system equipment health monitoring
- Energy systems monitoring and evaluation: PMU applications, state estimation, parameter estimation, device calibration
- Renewable energy
- Solar, bio, fuel cell, wind, hybrid system, geo; correlated scenario generation for reliability planning
- Energy system
- Energy storage: storage siting and sizing, quantifying stacked value of storage
Website
https://search.asu.edu/profile/3023947
Nathan Parker
Nathan Parker
Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Parker’s research interests comprises of economic viability and environmental implications of alternative transportation fuels and biomass-based system, energy policy, and energy transition.
Website
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/nathan-parker/
Kristen Parrish
Kristen Parrish
Assoc Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Parrish’s research interests entails energy-efficient buildings and construction management.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/1953437
Patrick Phelan
Patrick Phelan
Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs and Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Phelan’s research interests encompasses thermal engineering, sustainable energy systems, and energy policy.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/79040
Mike Ranjram
Mike Ranjram
Asst Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Ranjram’s research interests include: miniaturization of EV power converters-especially the auxiliary power module and on-board charger, wireless power charging, power electronics for clean energy technologies, and electric drives.
Website
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/4008590
Nicholas Rolston
Nicholas Rolston
Research Areas of Interest
Rolston’s research focuses on understanding fundamental mechanical and material properties in thin-film energy devices on length scales from angstroms to meters and developing scalable, open-air deposition methods to produce robust, low-cost solutions toward the goal of manufacturing the next generation of renewable energy technology.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/4008596
Konrad Rykaczewski
Konrad Rykaczewski
Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Rykaczewski’s research interests include: heat transfer in microscopy, conduction during direct skin contact, micro scale fundamentals of human sweat evaporation, human thermal exposure in extreme heat, soft thermal systems, soft thermal materials for TIMs, and cool future fashion for a hot planet.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/2156638
https://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/konrad/research-theme/thermal-materials/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SWeAf4UAAAAJ&hl=en
Sridhar Seetharaman
Sridhar Seetharaman
Vice Dean for Research and Innovation, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Seetharaman’s research and teaching interests lie in metals and ceramics for clean energy processes and materials processing through clean energy. He is also engaged in developing materials for harsh conditions.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/3858630
https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=4OJobxkAAAAJ&hl=en
Ellen Stechel
Ellen Stechel
Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
Research Areas of Interest
Stechel’s research interests include: materials and systems design for solar technologies for producing sustainable liquid hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide, hydrogen from advanced water splitting, clean water, renewable ammonia, and thermochemical and chemical energy storage.
Website
https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/ellen-stechel/
Meng Tao
Meng Tao
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Tao’s research interests consist of sustainable energy infrastructure, photovoltaic chemical vapor deposition and its applications, semiconductors, two-dimensional metal dichalcogenides, alternative and renewable energy, chemicals and the chemical industry, solar energy, and sustainability.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1818236
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/meng-tao
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ppIQtGEAAAAJ&hl=en
Govindasamy Tamizhmani
Govindasamy Tamizhmani
Research Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Tamizhmani’s research interests comprise of solar photovoltaics (PV) and fuel cells and batteries. His studies also include market driven PV applied research addressing technology application issues and real world reliability issues using actual field failure data and accelerated indoor testing data.
Websites
isearch.asu.edu/profile/227373
https://pvreliability.asu.edu/
Mary Laura Lind Thomas
Mary Laura Lind Thomas
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Thomas’s research interests consist of chemical engineering, membranes, desalination, pervaporation, and sensors.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1603688
https://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/lind/
Cesar Torres
Cesar Torres
Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Torres’s lab focuses on collaborations with various research teams to optimize photobioreactor designs and processes. His goal is to create optimal conditions in the reactors so that microoganisms maximize biofuel production.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/833942
https://environmentalbiotechnology.org/torres-lab/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=isi-XBAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Vijay Vittal
Vijay Vittal
Regents Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Professor Vittal’s research interests comprise of: electric power and energy systems, robust control methods applied to power systems, emergency control to prevent catastrophic failures in power systems, direct control of loads to enhance reliability in power systems, sensors and sensor Systems for large scale power systems, use of phasor measurement for on-line transient stability analysis, grid integration of renewable resources, and hybrid simulation.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/755056
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/vijay-vittal
Robert Wang
Robert Wang
Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Associate Professor Wang’s research interests consist of thermal energy conversion, storage, and transport in nanostructured materials; thermoelectric power generation; thermal storage media; heat transfer, and phonon optics, as well as the custom-design of colloidal nanoparticles and chemical precursors.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1762503
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LaUdx9gAAAAJ&hl=en
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/robert-wang
Meng Wu
Meng Wu
Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Research Areas of Interest
Assistant Professor Wu’s research interests include advanced optimization, control, and machine learning for reliability and economically integrating large-scale distributed energy resources (DERs) into power system planning, operations, stability, and electricity markets.
Websites
https://search.asu.edu/profile/3185729
https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/meng-wu
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3SJSA8gAAAAJ&hl=en