Sustainability Research Directory

Fadil Santosa, PhD, focuses on inverse problems, nondestructive testing, wave phenomena, optics, photonics, optimization, optimal design, homogenization methods, and financial mathematics.

Benjamin W. Schafer, PhD, is a structural engineer with a focus on enabling engineers to reliably design resilient civil structures that use minimal material.Schafer is the founding director of the Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, which addresses the development of sustainable energy technologies and their equitable implementation for the betterment of society.

Erica Schoenberger, PhD, is an economic geographer and environmental historian, and the author of Nature, Choice and Social Power, which explores how different forms of social power, including the power of markets, create and sustain pollution problems. Her current research delves into the origins of capitalism.

Kellogg Schwab, PhD, integrates engineering, public health and human behavior in bench and field studies to address water and wastewater challenges around the world.

Brian Schwartz, MD, MS, GME ’90, uses environmental epidemiology to evaluate the drivers of sustainability health impacts, such as energy, agriculture, and built environments