Sustainability Research Directory

Stuart Chaitkin is a retired energy policy analyst. Chaitkin currently offers a course for BSPH graduate students called "Energy, Environment, and Public Health."

Mingwei Chen, PhD, studies the relationship between structure and properties of advanced materials, particularly non-equilibrium and nanostructured materials.

Paulette Clancy is known for her work in computational materials processing. She is the Research Director for Discovery at the Data Science and AI Institute.  Her research is dedicated to finding materials for renewable energy sources (especially solar cells) and other sustainable energy-related technologies.  Her focus is providing atomic- and molecular-level mechanistic insight at the small scale, as well as developing new machine learning tools for materials discovery.

Uzi (Yury) Dvorkin, PhD., is an associate research professor in the departments of Civil and System Engineering and Electrical Computer and Engineering and a member of the Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute. Using multi-disciplinary methods in engineering, operations research, economics, and policy analysis, Dvorkin develops models and algorithms to assist society in accommodating challenges posed by emerging smart grid technologies, such as intermittent power generation, demand response, storage, smart appliances, and cyber-infrastructure.

Jonah Erlebacher, PhD, is expanding our understanding of materials processing, using variations of dealloying to create ultra-high-strength nanocomposite metals that may survive extreme environments, and discovering next-generation fuel cell catalysts.

Marcelo Ariel Fernandez, PhD, interested in mechanism design with applications to matching and political economy.