Experts on renewable energy
The search to find and implement alternate energy sources that don’t use fossil fuels or emit greenhouse gases gets more urgent as the effects of climate change grow. Our experts on renewable energy can discuss some of the main alternatives to oil, gas, and coal, and how these renewable fuels can be manufactured and used in way that keeps costs down while also having a high impact.
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
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...
David J. Olinger
- Professor Aerospace Engineering
Professor Olinger's research focuses on using tethered wings and kites in water or air to extract energy from ocean currents, tidal flows, and wind flows. Experiments, numerical simulations, and control system methods are used to better understand and
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
Sarah Strauss
- Professor The Global School
Professor Strauss offers a wide array of expertise in health-related aspects of human interaction with the environment. She has studied climate change and sustainability issues focusing on perception and behavior related to understandings of environmental
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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 ...
Eric Mosher Young
- Associate Professor-Engineering Chemical Engineering
Prof. Young is an expert in yeast, genetic engineering and synthetic biology. His research uses machine learning, directed evolution, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and genetic circuits to make yeast cell factories for producing medicines, biofuels,
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