Profiles in "Energy and Sustainability" Expertise Area
- I'm changing sustainability from scarcity and limitation to abundance and regenerative growth through biomimicry.
- Vermaas and his team conduct basic and applied research on cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic microbes, using these organisms as a chassis to produce useful compounds (biofuels, green chemicals) from sunlight and CO2.
- Georgescu's interests are on human-environment interactions, with research aimed to improve understanding of phenomena related to urbanization-induced landscape change. He is a member of the Urban Climate Research Center.
- Associate Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences. Prof. Trovitch is working with his students to develop transition metal catalysts for energy- and sustainability-driven initiatives.
- Troy Rule's research focuses on emerging property law and regulatory issues involving wind energy, solar energy, domestic drones and other technologies.
- Sailor’s research integrates urban planning, geography, climate, and engineering to understand the causes, effects, and potential for mitigation of extreme heat and poor air quality in cities.
- Hosman co-directs the SolarSPELL initiative, focused on building information literacy via offline digital libraries. She is faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Polytechnic School.