Dr Jim Parker

Reader · Leeds Beckett

Jim Parker specialises in building energy modelling and the urban environment.

Sustainable Architecture Urban Heat Islands Urban Green Space Air Quality Urban Environments

Rahul Tongia

Adjunct Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Rahul Tongia's research focuses on infrastructure and technology for sustainable development.

Smart Grids Sustainable Energy Technology Underserved Populations Economics Policy

Anatoly Zhuplev, Ph.D.

Professor of Management, College of Business Administration · Loyola Marymount University

Russia International Business International Entrepreneurship International Development

John Leshy

Emeritus Harry D. Sunderland Distinguished Professor of Real Property Law · UC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: leshyj@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4726 / Office 382-200

Real Property Law State and Federal Constitutional Law Natural Resources Law Public Land Law Water Law

Patricia Thornley

Director of EBRI, Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute · Aston University

Patricia Thornley works in assessing the environmental, economic and social impacts of renewable energy technologies.

Chemistry Supergen Project Climate Change Bioenergy Environmental Sciences

Zhifang Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · VCU College of Engineering

Dr. Zhifang Wang specializes in electric power grid vulnerability analysis, synthetic grid modeling, and renewable integration.

Cascading Failures in Power Grids Energy System Modeling and Optimization Integration of Renewable Generation Voltage Stability and Controls Smart Grid Communication Architecture

Lee Branstetter

Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Lee Branstetter's research interests include the economics of technological innovation, and economic growth in East Asia.

East Asia and the Global Economy International Economics Business and Economics Economics Technological Innovation

Jack Brouwer

Professor: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Director: National Fuel Cell Research Center, Advanced Power and Energy Program · UC Irvine

Jack Brouwer's research focuses on high-temperature electrochemical dynamics and integrated renewable energy systems.

High-Temperature Electrochemical Dynamics Renewable Hydrogen Renewable Power Dynamics Integrated Renewable Power Systems Hybrid Power and Energy Storage Systems

Jay Whitacre

Trustees Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Jay Whitacre examines the materials science of synthesizing, characterizing, and implementing promising materials for energy storage.

Hybrid Power Systems Electric Vehicles Power Grids Energy Storage Conversion

Ravi Hadimani

Associate Professor and Director of Biomagnetics Laboratory · Virginia Commonwealth University

Professor Hadimani specializes in non-invasive brain stimulation, biomagnetics, magnetocalorics and energy harvesting research.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Tms) Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Magnetic Nanoparticles Magnetocaloric Effect Rare-Earth Magnetic Materials

Jason Sellers

Associate Professor · University of Mary Washington

Jason R. Sellers is a cultural and environmental historian of 17th-and 18th-century North America interested in landscapes and bodies.

Environmental History Native American History Colonial North America

Kristin Arola

Associate Professor · Michigan State University

Kristin Arola’s research and teaching focuses on composing as culturing.

American Indian Studies Multimodal Composition Cultural Rhetorics

Bjoern Hamberger

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry · Michigan State University

Hamberger's research focuses on the discovery of plant pathways for bioactive diterpenoids found in medicinal plant species.

Synthetic Biology Plant Specialized Metabolites Terpenes

Matthew Lackner

Director of Wind Energy Center and Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering · University of Massachusetts Amherst

Matthew Lackner studies offshore wind energy with a focus on the aerodynamics and structural control of floating offshore wind turbines.

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Renewable Energy Systems Wind Turbines Energy, Environment, and Water Offshore wind power

Granger Morgan

University Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Granger Morgan's research addresses problems in science, technology and public policy.

Quantitative Policy Analysis Risk Analysis Environmental Systems Climate Change Adoption of New Technologies

Dr Martin Fletcher

Senior Research Fellow · Leeds Beckett

Martin Fletcher has expertise in building performance evaluation.

Building Performance Renewable Energy

Michael Vandenbergh

Professor of Law · Vanderbilt University

Expert in environmental law and how private industry can help slow climate change.

Environmental Law Corporate Environmental Behavior Carbon Emissions Organizational Culture Climate Change Research

Tom Rand

Managing Director at MaRS Cleantech Fund I, L.P. · MaRS Cleantech

Experienced, bare-knucked approach to cleantech, finance, policy, climate science and associated global economic opportunities and risks.

Carbon and Climate Science: Industrial Endgame? Cleantech Climate Change Clean Energy Economics

Jeffrey Bielicki

Assistant Professor | Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering | John Glenn College of Public Affairs · The Ohio State University

Energy sustainability expert, focusing on the intersection of energy, environment, economics and policy

Consequences of energy development Evolution of Energy Systems Applied Energy Energy Policy

Stefan Bernhard

Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Stefan Bernhard is interested in interconverting radiative and electrochemical energy through the use of transition metal complexes.

Energy Organic Light Emitting Devices Luminescent Materials Solar Fuels Organic Photovoltaics