Experts on clean energy
Climate change has the ability to affect nearly every aspect of our lives, for generations to come. WPI has a wealth of experts on issues of climate change, including sustainability and clean energy. Our experts are available to lend insight into what must be done to protect the future of our world, lessen the damage already done, and help communities adapt and become more resilient to the Earth’s changes.
Danielle Lynn Cote
- Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Cote is in the Materials Science & Engineering Program with research focused on solid state additive manufacturing (AM) processes, particularly cold spray processing and wire arc AM. Metallic powder alloy design by computational models and
Ravindra Datta
- Adjunct Teaching Professor Chemical Engineering
Professor Datta's work spans decades of applying the principles of kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering to energy challenges. He says while the long-term solution is renewable energy, much can be accomplished in the coming decades simply by
William Connor McCarthy
- Assistant Professor Physics
William McCarthy is an expert on plasma physics, fusion energy, and medical imaging. His research is focused on how to improve fusion reactors, with implications for the development of clean energy and even powering spacecraft. He also studies nuclear
Brajendra Mishra
- Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor, Director, MPI & Donald M. Zwiep Distinguished Fellow Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Mishra focuses on the improvement in resource productivity and environmental stewardship through process and product development of materials using recovery and recycling, introducing advanced alloys and life-extension by corrosion and surfaceThe...
Adam Clayton Powell
- Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Powell focuses his research on validated mathematical modeling of metal process development for clean energy and energy efficiency, including rare earths (rare earth metals, rare earth materials). His research group is developing new projects
Nima Rahbar
- White Family Distinguished Professor & Department Head Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
Professor Rahbar studies the fundamental principles that control the behavior of materials in engineering and biology at multiple scales particularly the bioinspired design of materials and structures. In this field, studying biological materials leads to
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Ali S. Rangwala
- Professor Fire Protection Engineering
Professor Rangwala's research interests include problems related to industrial fire and explosions. He has worked on topics such as deflagration of combustible dust clouds, ignition behavior of combustible dust layers, in-situ burning of oil, spread of an
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Derren Rosbach
- Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Derren Rosbach is an expert in environmental planning, sustainability, emerging energy technologies, transdisciplinary inquiry, and project-based learning. With a background spanning molecular biology, ecology, and environmental planning, Rosbach is
Suzanne Frances Scarlata
- Professor Chemistry & Biochemistry
Professor Scarlata's work seeks to understand how hormones and neurotransmitters lead to changes in the growth, division, and shape of cells such as cardiac myocytes (heart muscle cells). She is particularly interested in how connections between neurons
Andrew R Teixeira
- Associate Professor Chemical Engineering
Professor Teixeira is a chemical engineer with specialties in the fields of chemical reaction engineering and materials science. His primary research focus combines a multidisciplinary approach with classical and new experimental techniques to uncover
Michael T. Timko
- William B. Smith Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering
Professor Timko studies the environmental and engineering aspects of clean energy technologies, with a specific emphasis on liquid transportation fuels. His work involves studying the fundamental chemical engineering science – including transport, phase
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Yan Wang
- Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Wang's research is in the field of fundamental electrochemistry and electrochemistry-based technologies, including battery materials, manufacturing, safety, design and recycling, solid state batteries, and electrolysis. He co-founded AscendFaces ...
Jamal Yagoobi
- George F. Fuller Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Yagoobi conducts theoretical, numerical, and experimental research in the areas of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, liquid/vapor phase change, thermodynamics, and design of thermal systems. He is also the director of the Center for Advanced
Yu Zhong
- Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Dr. Zhong's research is focused on developing new pathways for clean energy, including a project to design devices that will produce a cost-effective, clean hydrogen fuel. Dr. Zhong has more than 59 peer-reviewed journal papers published/accepted,