Sustainability Research Directory

Joseph Katz, PhD, focuses on experimental fluid mechanics and the development of advanced diagnostics techniques for laboratory and field applications. The Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics, which he directs, has studied laboratory and oceanic turbulent boundary layers, flows, and instabilities in turbomachines, flow-structure interactions, the swimming behavior of marine plankton in the laboratory and in the ocean, as well as cavitation, bubble, and droplet dynamics in different systems.

Margaret Keck, PhD, focuses on activism and organization, in particular how organizers make creative use of unexpected opportunities. Recent work on Brazilian water politics, carried out together with a diverse network of scholars and practitioners in Brazil and the US, focuses on the micro-politics of institutional innovation.

Thomas Kempa, PhD, and his research group develop new methods to prepare and study low-dimensional (low-D) inorganic crystals from nanoparticles (0D) to few-atom thick sheets (2D) whose exceptional properties render them intriguing platforms for optoelectronic, energy conversion, and quantum science studies.

Ryan Kennedy, PhD, is a behavioral scientist who works to advance tobacco control policies in the U.S. and around the world.

Naveeda Khan brings together methods from anthropology and the humanities with insights from the philosophy of nature, climate policy, and environmental science, in order to develop a robust multidisciplinary vantage on complex issues. Such issues include, why do countries of the South remain in the international global climate negotiations despite the lack of progress in combatting climate change? And, how do people live on moving land?

Brent Kim, MSPH, researches issues from farm to fork, with published works on sustainable diets, climate change, industrial food animal production, food and agricultural policy, soil safety, and urban food systems.