Affordable & Sustainable Energy
The future of sustainable energy is integral to society’s ability to combat the climate crisis. Development and implementation of energy infrastructure and systems that make renewable and efficient energy widely accessible are imperative. Johns Hopkins researchers are exploring the technology, policy, and infrastructure that would allow widespread adoption of just and sustainable energy alternatives.-
Fadil Santosa
Yu Wu and Chaomei Chen Department Head; ProfessorFadil Santosa, PhD, focuses on inverse problems, nondestructive testing, wave phenomena, optics, photonics, optimization, optimal design, homogenization methods, and financial mathematics. -
Benjamin Schafer
Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil and Systems EngineeringBenjamin 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. -
Michael Shields
Associate ProfessorMichael Shields, PhD, focuses on uncertainty quantification for wide-ranging problems in computational mechanics and computational materials science. -
Shilva Shrestha
Assistant ProfessorDr. Shilva Shrestha focuses on developing sustainable anaerobic biotechnologies for waste treatment and resource recovery of biofuels and biochemicals. Dr. Shrestha’s lab also studies microorganisms with industrial and environmental applications. -
Mitra Taheri
ProfessorMitra Taheri, PhD, focuses mainly on electron microscopy and specifically in-situ microscopy. Taheri’s team designs and builds platforms to study materials in different, often extreme, environments including high temperatures, stress, radiation, oxidation, and more. -
Sara V. Thoi
Assistant ProfessorSara V. Thoi, PhD, is focused on the development of porous materials and catalytic systems for energy storage and conversion. Dr. Thoi’s lab is also pioneering interfacial and molecular strategies to promote the catalytic conversion of readily abundant molecules to sustainable chemical feedstock and fuels.
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