Directory

Lead Project PIs

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	Craig Arnold Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Capture Group D410 Engineering Quad 609-258-0250 cbarnold@princeton.edu	Laser processing and transport in materials. Current projects include laser direct-write and non-traditional patterning of small-scale and flexible structures such as microbatteries, nanomaterials, organic molecular electronics, and living cells and organisms.

	Michael Bender Professor of Geosciences Science Group M48 Guyot Hall 609-258-2936 bender@princeton.edu	Biogeochemistry and paleoclimate. Measurement of concentration and isotopic composition of O₂ in air on various timescales, characterization of the fertility of ecosystems.

	Michael Celia Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering Storage Group E205 Engineering Quad 609-258-5425 celia@princeton.edu	Ground-water hydrology, contaminant transport simulation, and multi-phase flow in porous media. Current applications include modeling and analysis of geological storage of carbon dioxide.

	Pablo Debenedetti Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Vice Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science Storage Group A419 Engineering Quad 609-258-0211 pdebene@princeton.edu	Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of metastable liquids and glasses, in particular water and aqueous systems. He is the author of Metastable Liquids.

	Thomas Kreutz Energy Systems Modeler, Energy Group, PEI Capture Group 25 Guyot Hall 609-258-7715 kreutz@princeton.edu	Advanced energy conversion systems modeling: hydrogen, electricity, and CO₂ production from coal; residential scale, natural gas-fired PEM fuel cell cogeneration; gasification of biomass and black liquor for combined cycle generation of electric power, and fuel cells, gas turbines, and hybrid/combined cycles for power generation.

	Eric Larson Research Engineer, Energy Group, PEI Capture Group 26 Guyot Hall 609-258-4966 elarson@princeton.edu	Energy systems analysis relating to advanced clean-energy technologies and processes for carbonaceous fuels conversion, energy-related challenges in developing countries. Technology interests include gas turbines for power generation, gasification of solid fuels, and synthesis of various clean fluid fuels.

	Chung K. Law Robert H. Goddard Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Capture Group D323C Engineering Quad 609-258-5271 cklaw@princeton.edu	Physical and chemical aspects of fundamental combustion phenomena, with applications to propulsion, energy, fuels, and the environment.

	Francois Morel Albert G. Blanke, Jr., Professor of Geosciences Geosciences Science Group 153 Guyot Hall 609-258-2416 morel@princeton.edu	Interactions between chemical and biological processes in the oceans, from the molecular to the global scale, with particular emphasis on trace elements and primary production.

	Michael Oppenheimer Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School Science Group/Integration Group 448 Robertson Hall 609-258-2338 omichael@princeton.edu	He joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with Environmental Defense, a non-governmental, environmental organization, where he served as its Chief Scientist and Manager of the Global and Regional Atmosphere Program.

	Stephen W. Pacala Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Director, PEI, Co-Director, CMI Science Group/Integration Group 103A Eno Hall 609-258-6885 pacala@princeton.edu	Interaction among the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere at global scales, with an emphasis on the carbon cycle.

	Jean-Herve Prevost Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Storage Group E232 Engineering Quad 609-258-5424 prevost@princeton.edu	Areas of computational solid and fluid mechanics, wave propagation and transient effects in porous media, multi-phase flows in porous media, nonlinear constitutive theories, dynamic instabilities and localization of deformations and fracture in solids, thermoelasticity, electro-magneto-solid interaction effects, finite element methods.

	Jorge Sarmiento Professor of Geosciences, Director, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Director of CICS between Princeton University and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Science Group 306A Forrestal Campus Sayre Hall 609-258-6585 jls@princeton.edu	Oceanic cycles of climatically important chemicals such as carbon dioxide, and use of chemical tracers to study ocean circulation.

	George Scherer William L. Knapp '47 Professor of Civil Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials Storage Group E319 Engineering Quad 609-258-5680 scherer@princeton.edu	Materials science research on deterioration mechanisms of concrete, stone, and masonry, fundamental examination of transport of fluids in porous media, nucleation and growth of crystals, swelling of clay inclusions in stone, and initiation and growth of cracks.

	Daniel Sigman Professor of Geosciences Science Group M52 Guyot Hall 609-258-2194 sigman@princeton.edu	Cycling of biologically important elements for observed correlations between climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 700 thousand years and the initiation of extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation 2.7 million years ago. Analytical approach based on the isotopic analysis of N in sedimentary organic matter and microfossils.

	Robert Socolow Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Energy Group, Co-Director, CMI Science Group/Integration Group 139 Guyot Hall 609-258-5446 socolow@princeton.edu	Global energy system responsive to global and local environmental and security constraints. Carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and storage in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the acceleration of deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries.

	Robert Williams Senior Research Scientist Energy Group, PEI Capture Group 140 Guyot Hall 609-258-5448 rwilliam@princeton.edu	Energy technology including fuel cells for transportation and stationary power applications, advanced gas turbine technologies for power generation, advanced technologies for producing hydrogen and other clean synthetic fuels from carbonaceous feedstocks, fuels decarbonization and CO₂ sequestration.