Sustainability Research Directory

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.

William Connolly, PhD, focuses on the issues of democratic pluralism, capitalism, inequality, fascism, and bumpy intersections between capitalism and planetary amplifiers in climate change.

Meghan Davis, DVM, PhD '12, MPH '08, studies the interface of bacteria and hosts to reduce microbe-mediated diseases in people and animals.

Peter DeCarlo, PhD, studies atmospheric air pollution with applications to ambient air quality, including atmospheric aerosols and emissions from anthropogenic activities including natural gas development.

Laura Di Bianco, PhD, is currently developing a second book project, Crumbling Beauty; adopting material ecocritical and post-human perspectives, and traces a genealogy of Italian eco-cinema from the silent era to the present. She co-curates "Global Ecologies", a series of lectures, workshops, book talks, and film screenings that brings JHU faculty members and students in dialogue with scholars engaged in the field of environmental humanities and artists whose work explores the interplay of the human and non-human world.

Gregory Diette, MD, focuses on identifying factors that cause or provoke asthma. His team has been interested especially in air pollutants (particulate matter, NO2, secondhand smoke) and allergens (including mouse) that are especially problematic in inner city homes. They are studying the effects of these pollutants and allergens on inflammation and oxidative stress. More recently, they have begun examing how dietary patterns, especially a Western style diet may increase susceptibility to inhalable pollutants and allergens.