FACULTY RESEARCHERS
Chair
Michael Timko
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Conversion of renewable feedstocks into liquid fuels; Real-time monitoring of cellulose decomposition; Butanol fermentation; Crude oil upgrading.
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Vice-Chair
Aaron Deskins
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Molecular modeling; Sustainable energy production; Pollution abatement.
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ERG Faculty
Ravi Datta
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director of the WPI Fuel Cell Center; Reaction engineering of fuel cells, hydrogen, and renewable fuels.
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Ron Grimm
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Surface characterization; Photoelectrochemistry; Non-traditional, Earth-abundant materials; Surface passivation; Chemical Modification of semiconductors.
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Jianyu Liang
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
Nanomaterials for batteries and fuel cells; Cold spray of nanostructured metallic materials; Green manufacturing from industrial wastes; Electrochemistry.
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Sneha Narra
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Metal additive manufacturing (AM), alternate feedstocks, reusability of powders, AM for advanced energy system designs.
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John Orr
Director of Sustainability, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
Systems and control aspects of modern power systems; Electronic navigation systems; Engineering education; Sustainability.
Doug Petkie
Department Head & Professor of Physics
Millimeter-wave and terahertz sensing; optics and electromagnetic scattering; photonic integrated circuits
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Adam Powell
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable metal processing for clean energy supply chains; low-cost solar silicon; magnesium for light-weight vehicles
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Pratap Rao
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Nanostructured thin-film solar cells; Earth-abundant elements; Economical synthesis of structured nanomaterials.
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Reeta Rao
Associate Professor of Biology & Biotechnology
Xylose fermentation; Microbial fuel cells.
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Izabela Stroe
Associate Teaching Professor of Physics, Director MPED
MDielectric spectroscopy of energy materials; undergraduate education in renewable energy
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Andrew Teixeira
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Microreaction engineering; heterogeneous catalysis; continuous crystallization
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Lyubov Titova
Assistant Professor of Physics
Terahertz spectroscopy; Ultrafast optical spectroscopy; photoconductivity of materials; dynamics of photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reactions.
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Burt Tilley
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Modeling; Geothermal energy harnessing; Energy and species transport through porous media.
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Yan Wang
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Electrochemistry; Electrolysis; Lithium-ion batteries; Solid electrolytes; Battery recycling.
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Jennifer Wilcox
Professor of Chemical Engineering
CO2 capture; Sorbent design; Trace metal reduction; Clean coal technology.
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Eric Young
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Biomass conversion to valuable chemicals; Metabolic engineering; Synthetic biology.
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Yu (Michael) Zhong
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Defect chemistry; Long-term degradation of fuel cells; Computational Thermodynamics; Ab-initio calculations.
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