Sustainability Research Directory

Somnath Ghosh, PhD, has made pioneering contributions to the multidisciplinary fields of computational engineering and sciences integrating computational mechanics and physics, computational materials science, and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), with emphasis on multiscale modeling, structure-materials modeling and simulations, multiphysics modeling of multifunctional materials, materials characterization, process modeling, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification.

Anand Gnanadesikan, PhD, trained as an oceanographer. His primary expertise is in how the ocean circulates and influences marine life, climate, and atmospheric chemistry.

Maya Gomes, PhD, is primarily interested in the use of sulfur isotope and other geochemical records to reconstruct the coupled biogeochemical cycling of sulfur, carbon, and oxygen across important Earth-life transitions over the course of Earth history.

Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, PhD, is a philosopher and literary scholar currently working on literary ecology and environmental humanities in the context of post-Kantian philosophy, including phenomenology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of imagination, modernist literature and poetics. Author of seven previous books, she is writing a book on ecological insights in literary modernism, and is the founding organizer of the Enviornmental Humanities Research Initiative.

James Guest, PhD, has research interests in topology optimization, additive manufacturing, materials design, structural optimization, and computational mechanics. His published algorithms, particularly those related to design for manufacturability, have been incorporated in multiple commercial software products.

Thomas Haine, PhD, has research interests in ocean circulation and dynamics, and the ocean’s role in climate. He is involved in improving estimates of the geophysical state of the ocean circulation through analysis of field data and circulation model results.