| Barbara Arnold | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | coal properties and their effect on industrial processes, coal and mineral processing, coal and mineral processing plant flowsheet evaluations | bja4@psu.edu |
| Luis Ayala H. | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Advanced reservoir simulation in natural gas engineering, Multiphase rate and pressure transient analysis (RTA/PTA), Unconventional reservoir analysis: Naturally fractured reservoirs, fractured gas shales, and tight sands, Hydrocarbon thermodynamics | ayala@psu.edu |
| Sekhar Bhattacharyya | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Characterization and health effect of respirable dust in underground mining, Mitigation of noise from auxiliary ventilation in underground mines, Health and Safety Management System, Self-escape from underground mines | sxb1029@psu.edu |
| Seth Blumsack | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Electric power and natural gas industries, Reliability and resilience in network infrastructure,
Organizational decision-making for infrastructure management, Regulation and deregulation in electric power | blumsack@psu.edu |
| Arash Dahi Taleghani | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Injectivity changes and sand production in injector wells, Drill bit and rock interactions, Mechanics and oilfield application of shape memory polymers, Development of loss circulation materials
Wellbore integrity, Generalized finite element methods, Petroleum geomechanics, Hydraulic refracturing materials (diverters), Petroleum geomechanics, Enhanced geothermal systems
Hydraulic fracturing simulation and design, Atomistic modeling of fracture propagation in heterogeneous media | arash.dahi@psu.edu |
| Nelson Dzade | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Materials informatics, Electronic structure theory, Computational materials science, Sustainable energy & chemical processes, Surface reactivity & heterogeneous catalysis, Electrochemical energy storage & fuel production, Materials for solar energy conversion technologies, Surface geochemistry & computational mineralogy | nxd5313@psu.edu |
| Derek Elsworth | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Rock mechanics, Groundwater hydrology, Mathematical modeling, Poromechanics, Coupled processes, Contaminant hydrology, Mining engineering, Petroleum engineering, Fracture hydrology | elsworth@psu.edu |
| Hamid Emami | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Multiphase flow and transport in porous media, Unconventional reservoirs production analysis and hydrocarbon recovery, Carbon dioxide sequestration in geological formations, Mathematical modeling and numerical simulations | emami@psu.edu |
| Semih Eser | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications | Carbon materials from petroleum and coal, Undesirable carbon deposition in engine fuel and lubrication systems and in process units Preparation of activated carbons, Preparation of activated carbons, Upgrading petroleum residua, Catalytic oxidation of solid carbons | seser@psu.edu |
| Jeremy Gernand | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Application of machine learning and data informatics to risk assessment, Environmental health and safety policy analysis, Particulate matter exposure characterization and modeling | jmgernand@psu.edu |
| William Groves | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Sensor systems for occupational exposure assessment, Integrated Wireless Sensing Networks using LORA, Risk assessment
Industrial Hygiene | wag10@psu.edu |
| Derek Hall | Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Electrochemical Energy Storage, Elevated Temperature and Pressure Electrochemical Sensors, Corrosion and Surface Chemistry in Extreme Environments, Thermodynamics of Aqueous Systems and Thermochemical Cycles | dmh5373@psu.edu |
| Russell Johns | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Enhanced oil recovery for conventional and unconventional reservoirs, Miscible gas flooding, Chemical flooding, Low salinity water flooding, Thermodynamics and phase behavior, Well testing, Geothermal energy | rjohns@psu.edu |
| Thanasis Karamalidis | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications | | akk5742@psu.edu |
| Gregory King | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs: Coalbed methane reservoirs, shale reservoirs, tight gas sands, naturally fractured reservoirs, and tight carbonate reservoirs, Numerical Reservoir Simulation: Reservoir simulation theory, computational fluid dynamics, integrated reservoir studies, probabilistic history matching and forecasting, proxy-based methods, and solution of large systems of linear and non-linear equations, Improved Oil and Gas Recovery: Waterflooding, miscible EOR, chemical EOR, and enhanced coalbed methane recovery, Reservoir Surveillance: Data acquisition (open and cased hole logging, pressure transient analysis, production/injection logging, etc.), interpretation, and integration, Single-Well Performance and Optimization: Rate transient analysis, dynamic material balance, nodal analysis, well diagnostics, and well forecasting, Offshore Engineering, Sour Oil and Gas Production Health, Safety, and Environment | grk17@psu.edu |
| Andrew Kleit | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy | Market Manipulation, Electricity Capacity Markets, Markets for Renewable Energy, The Economics of Refracturing | ank1@psu.edu |
| Ashish Kumar | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | | awk5528@psu.edu |
| Joel Landry | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Environmental economics, Energy economics, Public Finance, Political EconomyEnvironmental economics, Energy economics, Public Finance, Political Economy | joelrlandry@psu.edu |
| Zhen Lei | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy | Technology and Science Policy, Economics of Innovation, Intellectual Property Policy and Entrepreneurship, Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy, Big Data and Data Mining, Applied Economics | zlei@psu.edu |
| Shimin Liu | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Reservoir assessment of unconventional gas resources, Reservoir stress evolution with depletion, Gas drainage from coal mine, Geological carbon sequestration, Porous rock imaging (neutron scattering, micro-CT, TEM, SEM) | szl3@psu.edu |
| Chiara Lo Prete | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Applied econometrics, Electricity market design, Energy economics and policy, Modeling of electricity and natural gas systems | chiaraloprete@psu.edu |
| Serguei Lvov | Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Electrochemical energy conversion and storage, Electrochemical thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport, Electrochemical catalysis and corrosion
Thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and surface chemistry in high-temperature systems | lvov@psu.edu |
| Jonathan Mathews | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Coal, Coalbed methane, Molecular modeling of coal/char/soot, Structural representation of complex behavior, Coal to carbon products research
Structural representation of complex behavior, Coal use | jmathews@psu.edu |
| Yashar Mehmani | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Porous materials for energy and environment, Computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, Multiresolution imaging of geomaterials | yzm5192@psu.edu |
| Amin Mehrabian | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Mechanics and Physics of Porous Media, Geomechanics, Drilling and Completions | amin.mehrabian@psu.edu |
| Anne Menefee | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Geochemistry, Carbon sequestration, Climate change mitigation, Sustainable energy systems | ahmenefee@psu.edu |
| Eugene Morgan | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | | eugene.morgan@psu.edu |
| Renee Obringer | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy | Data science/analytics, Urban infrastructure systems, Water-energy nexus | obringer@psu.edu |
| Sarma Pisupati | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications | Numerical modeling of combustion systems for NOx emission reduction, Advanced power generation methods; oxy-fuel combustion Size and density effects on gasification of coal, slagging, and fouling in gasification, Simultaneous reduction of SO2 and NOx reduction using biomass based materials, Coal and biomass co-gasification, Mechanisms of Agglomeration of fluidized bed ash | spisupati@psu.edu |
| Mohammad Rezaee | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | | mzr288@psu.edu |
| Erich Schienke | Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Environmental policy, Ethics of complex systems, Sustainability strategy, Ecological indicators, Multi-scale power analysis | ews11@psu.edu |
| Feifei Shi | Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Electrochemical energy conversion and storage, Catalysis, Surface chemistry, spectroscopy, in-situ diagnostic characterization
Mechanical property of energy storage materials | feifeishi@psu.edu |
| Sanjay Srinivasan | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Petroleum reservoir characterization, Improved management of reservoir recovery processes, Integration of seismic data in reservoir models,
Geostatistical methods and algorithms | szs27@psu.edu |
| Maryam Tabatabaei | | Continuum mechanics, Mechanics of defects at the material scale, Wellbore integrity | smt366@psu.edu |
| Hilal Ezgi Toraman | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Alternative energy resources, Biomass and plastic waste pyrolysis, Shale gas upgrading, Reaction kinetics, Compositional analysis of (bio-)oils,
Data science | hzt5148@psu.edu |
| Randy Vander Wal | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Flame Synthesis of Carbon and Oxide Materials - Formation science - Microscopic structure - Chemical composition, Carbon Nanomaterials - Syntheses - Electron microscopic and spectroscopic characterization - Applications (e.g. catalysts, composites, sensors), Fuel Science - Plasma processing - Catalyst testing - Spectroscopic reaction diagnostics - Product chemical characterization, Advanced Carbon Materials - Carbon-carbon composites - Laser processing, Combustion Produced Particles - Physical-chemical characterization - Measurements - Health effects | ruv12@psu.edu |
| John Wang | Fossil Fuel and Georesource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization | Reservoir Evaluation, Well Stimulation, Tight and Shale gas, CO2 and H2 Storage, Minerals, and Geothermal, Energy and Minerals Investment and Economicseffects | john.wang@psu.edu |
| Meng Wang | Advanced Technology and Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications | Water and Wastewater Treatment, Bioremediation, Resource Recovery, Environmental Sustainability | mxw1118@psu.edu |
| Mort Webster | Energy and Natural Resource Data, Economics, and Policy, Renewable Energy Technologies and Power Systems | Stochastic Multi-Stage Optimization Algorithms, Electric Power Systems Planning and Operations, Coupled Energy-Water-Land Modeling for Resiliency Studies | mdw18@psu.edu |
