Sustainability Research Directory

Benjamin F. Hobbs, PhD, uses systems analysis and economics to improve electric utility planning, operations, and policy, as well as management of environmental and water resources systems.

Sung Hoon Kang, PhD, has been investigating solutions to address current challenges in engineering materials, structures and devices with applications including resiliency, sensing, energy, and health care.

Saman Karimi, PhD, seeks to understand the thermal/structural evolution of planetary bodies. Part of his research is geared toward enhancing the efficiency of geothermal systems in producing clean renewable energy.

Howard Katz, PhD, is a pioneer in the fields of organic electronics and photonics, and an expert in polymer design, synthesis, and assembly. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.  Sustainability-related research interests include thermoelectric energy conversion, electrical energy storage,  detection of environmental toxins, and efficient polymer utilization.

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.

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.