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CMI Fourteenth Annual Meeting - April 14-15, 2015 Attendees
Table of Contents
CMI Associates, BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pgs. 2-6
Felipe Bayon
Andrew Cockerill
Mark Hagan
Robert Hermanson
Gardiner Hill
Paul Jefferiss
Nigel Jenvey
Rachel Buckbee Kain
Sarah Lucas
Kathrina Mannion
John Pierce
Liz Rogers
Robert L. Stout
Angela Strank
Amy Trojecki
David van Hoogstraten
CMI Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 7
Sally M. Benson
Dallas Burtraw
David G. Hawkins
Michael A. Levi
Guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pgs. 8-13
Gabriel Chan
Pinar De Neve
Ottmar Edenhofer
Bobbi Kates-Garnick
Christopher Greig
Steve Hamburg
Paul Hanle
David Kanter
Sally Katzen
Thomas Knutson
Robert Kopp
Zheng Li
Christopher A. Smith
Robert Sussman
G. David Tilman
Richard Wiles
Ellen Williams
Princeton Invitees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pgs. 14-19
Ian Bourg
Robin Hauer
Rachel Baker
Qi Li
Maya Buchanan
Syukoro Manabe
Thomas Delworth
Denise Mauzerall
William A. Gleason
Forrest Meggers
Anna Hailey
Wei Peng
Princeton Invitees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . continued
Geeta Persad
Daniel Steingart
Vincent H. Poor
Fabian Wagner
V. “Ram” Ramaswamy
Claire White
Barry P. Rand
Chuck (William) Witt
Joan Ruderman
Joshua Spechler
CMI/PEI Administrators & Communicators . . . . . . . . . . . pgs. 20-21
Rajeshri Chokshi
Kristina Corvin
Caitlin Daley
Katharine Hackett
Axel Haenssen
Holly Welles
CMI Lead Project PIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pgs. 22-26
Craig Arnold
Michael Bender
Michael Celia
Pablo Debenedetti
Alexander Glaser
Lars O. Hedin
Thomas Kreutz
Eric Larson
David Medvigy
François Morel
Michael Oppenheimer
Stephen W. Pacala
Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Jean-Hervé Prévost
M.V. Ramana
Jorge Sarmiento
Elena Shevliakova
Robert H. Socolow
Howard A. Stone
Jeroen Tromp
Robert Williams
CMI Research Staff & Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pgs. 27-31
Ali Ahmad
Alison Gray
Karl Bandilla
Amir Haji Akbari
John Cannarella
Phillip M. Hannam
Anping Chen
Xinwo Huang
Carolina Dufour
Yao Lai
Ryan Edwards
Dan Li
Ivy Frenger
Minnie Liu
Paul Gauthier
Xinning Zhang
Johanna Goldmann
Zhong Zheng
Bo Guo
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BP Associates
Felipe Bayon
Senior Vice President,
BP America and Head of
Global Deepwater Response
BP’s Executive Sponsor for Princeton. Felipe
is a Mechanical Engineer from Universidad
de los Andes (Colombia), with over 23 years
of experience in the Oil and Gas industry in
business leadership and technical
managerial roles. He has a direct reporting
line to the Chairman and President of BP
America. Felipe serves as a Director on the
US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Asia
Society Texas Center Boards. He is also a
member of BP’s US Diversity and Inclusion
Council.
Andrew Cockerill
Director, University
Relations
Andrew is BP’s Director, University Relations,
and has established the framework for strategic
university partnerships. Based at MIT, he leads
efforts to build synergies between research,
recruitment, executive and policy development.
Cockerill holds a Mechanical Engineering degree
from University of Manchester, and has over 30
years experience in the oil and gas industry.
Mark Hagan
Director, Global Upstream
Regulatory
Mark works across BP’s Upstream businesses to
identify and manage regulatory and policy
issues. He has previously held a range of
industry and consulting roles with a focus on
energy economics, markets and business
strategy. Mark began his career as a fuel cell
R&D engineer and has an MBA and MS in
Chemical Engineering from MIT.
Robert Hermanson
Senior Environmental
Advisor
Senior Environmental Advisor for BP’s US
refining operations, responsible for information
and strategy for developing air emissions issues
and regulations. Coordinator of BP’s US Air
Issues internal forum. Chairman of API’s Title I
Group, whose scope includes NAAQS and other
topics. Background in petroleum refinery design,
construction, and operations. Education
chemical engineering and business.
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Gardiner Hill
Director Carbon Solutions,
BP Group Technology
Director of Carbon Solutions in BP Group
Technology and advisor on CO2 Capture and
Storage technology, policy and regulations.
Manager responsible for the BP Princeton
Carbon Mitigation Initiative, as well as ViceChair of the EU Technology Platform for Zero
Emissions Fossil Fuel Power (ZEP). His
background is in Petroleum Engineering.
Paul Jefferiss
Carbon Trust Board Member
and Head of Policy, BP
Dr. Paul Jefferiss is Head of Policy at BP, where
he manages the development of company
positions on energy, climate change and
environment globally. He is also a board
member of the Carbon Trust and a Council
Member of the WBCSD. Previously, he has held
positions as a UK biofuels regulator, Chief
Executive of the Green Alliance, and lecturer on
environmental management for UNEP.
He has written and spoken widely on energy,
climate and the environment, with over a
hundred publications and presentations. He has
given testimony to over twenty UK
Parliamentary Select Committees, and served on
over fifty government, academic and private
sector governance and advisory boards in the
US, UK and EU.
He holds degrees from Cambridge, Harvard and
Tufts. In 2003 he received the Queen’s Pioneer
to the Life of the Nation Award, and is listed in
WHO’s WHO.
Nigel Jenvey
Business Projects Manager,
Carbon Solutions, BP Group
Technology
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Nigel is manager of Carbon Solutions for BP
Businesses, and also Chairman of the CO2
Capture Project, a joint industry project which
BP operates on behalf of a several oil and gas
companies. Nigel has previously worked in other
Upstream technology and operating areas for
Shell, Texaco and Maersk Oil. Nigel received his
MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial
College London.
Rachel Buckbee Kain
GHG Performance Advisor,
BP Safety & Operational Risk
As the GHG Performance Advisor in the Group
S&OR Environmental Team, Rachel provides
expertise and leadership across a range of GHG
performance related activities including data
analysis, technical support to businesses,
development of group reporting standards, and
leads external reporting of GHG performance in
the BP Sustainability Report, Annual Report, and
Carbon Disclosure Project. Her background is in
Environmental Science.
Sarah Lucas
Regulatory Analyst,
Global Deepwater Response
Regulatory Analyst of Global Deepwater
Response team within BP America. Responsible
for coordinating and gaining internal alignment
on Upstream regulatory issues for participation
at key US industry bodies; and coordinating
internal positioning on global offshore
regulatory issues. Previous experience includes
regulatory analyst on USEPA renewable fuels
program.
Kathrina Mannion
Environmental Policy
Manager, Group Policy, BP
Kathrina joined BP in 2012 where she advises on
environmental public policy and issues
management. Prior to that, Kathrina worked for
the UK government in a number of roles at UN,
EU and national levels covering areas such as
sustainability, natural environment, biodiversity
and global food security policy.
John Pierce
Chief Bioscientist, BP
John Pierce joined BP as Chief Bioscientist in
April 2010 after a long career at DuPont where
he had responsibility for DuPont’s biotechnology
efforts in the production of fuels, chemicals, and
materials. He is responsible for developing
strategies to help position the company to gain
maximum benefit from the application of
biosciences to BP's world-wide businesses.
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Liz Rogers
VP Environment, Social
Responsibility and HSSE
Compliance
BP International
Liz is an environmental scientist and worked in
conservation and consultancy before joining BP
in 1991. At BP she has had a variety of technical
and leadership roles in environmental, HSSE and
strategy and planning. Liz has worked in UK
operations, global projects and was the
environmental lead in Azerbaijan delivering our
first oil projects in 1998. She established the BP
environmental technical response supporting
the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010. She is
now head of discipline for operations across BP.
She is a Director and Vice Chair of IPIECA (the
O&G trade association for environmental and
social issues) and a BP lead on the World
Economic Forum Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.
Robert L. (Bob) Stout, Jr.
Vice President & Head of
Regulatory Affairs
Communications & External
Affairs
BP America Inc.
Washington, DC
Bob leads BP America’s regulatory and
international affairs team. Over 23 years at BP,
Bob has held successively senior roles including
Associate General Counsel – HSSE (2006-14),
after serving as a litigation associate/partner at
Latham & Watkins in Chicago. He received his
J.D. from Northwestern and A.B. from Ohio
University.
Angela Strank
Chief Scientist, BP
Angela Strank joined BP in 1982 as an
exploration geologist and progressed into
leadership roles in global stratigraphic services,
new frontiers exploration technology and
international new ventures, working and living
in various countries. She later moved to BP’s
corporate centre in London, and held various
commercial, business and financial roles
becoming Chief of Staff to the Deputy CEO,
Exploration and Production.
In 2000, Angela moved to the USA, as Chief
Financial Officer and Digital Business Manager.
Later, in 2005, she became Technology Vice
President, BP Global Fuels and Lubricants.
In 2012 she was appointed to the role of Vice
President, Head of Group Chief Executive’s
Office. In 2014 Angela was appointed to the role
of BP Chief Scientific Officer.
Angela holds a BSc and a PhD in Geology from
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The University of Manchester and has published
numerous scientific papers.
Amy Trojecki
Senior Director, Industry
Association and Regulatory
Advocacy
Senior Director, Industry Association and
Regulatory Advocacy responsible for developing
and implementing advocacy strategies on
federal regulatory initiatives affecting BP
America, Inc. Prior to working for BP, Amy was
Director of Environmental and Fuels Policy for
Exelon Corporation. Background includes
private practice with Ballard Spahr in
Philadelphia, PA representing clients with
environmental issues in regulatory,
transactional and litigation matters. Amy has a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Earth and
Environmental Sciences from Lehigh University
and a Juris Doctor and Master of Studies in
Environmental Law degree from Vermont Law
School.
David van Hoogstraten
Senior Director,
Environmental Regulatory
Affairs, BP America
Prior to coming to BP, David was Counsel in the
global law firm of Hunton & Williams in its
energy and environment group and Senior
Adviser to Clean Air – Cool Planet. From 1991
until 2005 he served in a number of senior civil
service positions at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of State
and the White House Council on Environmental
Quality.
He holds BA and MA degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of
the Law School of the University of WisconsinMadison.
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CMI Advisory Council
Sally M. Benson
Professor of Energy
Resources Engineering,
Stanford University
Sally M. Benson is the Director of Stanford's
Precourt Institute for Energy and the Global
Climate and Energy Project. A professor in the
Department of Energy Resources Engineering
in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental
Sciences, she studies technologies and
pathways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Dallas Burtraw
Senior Fellow, Resources for
the Future
Dallas Burtraw's research includes the design
of environmental regulation, the costs and
benefits of environmental regulation, and the
regulation of the electricity industry. Burtraw
has recently examined the cost of
implementing greenhouse gas rules under the
Clean Air Act with a focus on the interaction of
state compliance activities. His research shows
how coordination might reduce overall cost
and how that might be accomplished.
David G. Hawkins
Director of Climate
Programs, Natural
Resources Defense Council
In 1990, Mr. Hawkins became Director of
NRDC's Air and Energy Program, and in 2008
he became the Director of NRDC's Climate
Programs. In addition to working with Congress
to design a legislative mechanism that will
slow, stop and reduce the emissions of global
warming pollution, Mr. Hawkins is recognized
as an expert on advanced coal technologies
and carbon dioxide capture and storage. Mr.
Hawkins currently serves on the boards of the
Woods Hole Research Center, the Center for
Clean Air Policy, and Resources for the Future.
Michael A. Levi
David M. Rubenstein Senior
Fellow for Energy and the
Environment, Council on
Foreign Relations
Michael Levi is the David M. Rubenstein Senior
Fellow for energy and the environment at the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Director
of the CFR program on energy security and
climate change. He is a National Intelligence
Council associate and a member of the
Strategic Advisory Board for NewWorld Capital.
Michael holds an M.A. in physics from
Princeton University and a Ph.D. in war studies
from the University of London.
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Guests
Gabriel Chan
Harvard University
Gabe Chan is a PhD Candidate in Public
Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and
Research Fellow in the Energy Technology
Innovation Policy Group at the Harvard
Belfer Center. He will be starting as an
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the
University of Minnesota Humphrey School in
August.
Pinar De Neve
Harvard University
Pinar Akcayoz De Neve is a Research
Assistant with the Environment and Natural
Resources Program at the Harvard Belfer
Center. She has managed investment
projects in the public and private sector. She
holds a master in Public Administration from
the Harvard Kennedy School and a master in
General Management from the Vlerick
Business School in Belgium.
Ottmar Edenhofer
Deputy Director and
Chief Economist,
Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research
Ottmar Edenhofer is Deputy Director and
Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research (PIK), Professor of
the Economics of Climate Change of the
Technical University Berlin and Co-Chair of
Working Group III of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Moreover,
he is director of the Mercator Research
Institute on Global Commons and Climate
Change (MCC).
Bobbi Kates Garnick
Barbara Kates-Garnick Ph.D. is a professor of
practice at the Fletcher School of Tufts
University and interim director of energy
and innovation programs at Center for
International Environment and Resources
Policy (CIERP). Most recently she served as
Undersecretary of Energy for the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where
she also served as Commissioner of Public
Utilities. She also has been Vice President of
Corporate Affairs at KeySpan and as a
consultant to NYU-Poly where she conceived
of and developed the proposal for the New
York City Accelerator for Clean and
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Renewable Energy (NYC ACRE). The Office of
the U.S. Secretary of Energy has appointed
Dr. Kates-Garnick to serve as an ambassador
to 3CE, a global initiative that promotes
women in clean energy.
Christopher Greig
Director, University of
Queensland Energy
Initiative
Leader of the UQ Energy Initiative, a
transdisciplinary initiative encompassing
both traditional fossil energy and renewable
energy systems and linking engineering,
material sciences and mining research, to
social policy, economics, and environment.
A Chemical Engineer having obtained his
degree and PhD at the University of
Queensland, Chris is a Fellow of the
Academy of Technological Sciences and
Engineering. He has held executive roles in
construction, mining and clean energy
industries in Australia and abroad over a
career spanning 25 years, is Deputy
Chairman of Gladstone Ports Corporation
and a Non-Executive Director of Seymour
Whyte Limited.
His main interests lie in Energy Transitions,
Economics and Policy, Energy for
Development, Mega-Project Implementation
and CCS.
Steve Hamburg
Chief Scientist,
Environmental Defense
Fund
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In his role as chief scientist Steve works to
ensure that EDF’s advocacy is based on the
best available science. He is currently
coordinating 16 studies on methane
emissions from along the natural gas supply
chain. Prior to joining EDF he spent 25 years
on the faculty of Brown University and the
University of Kansas, published extensively
on biogeochemistry, climate change impacts
on forests and carbon accounting and served
as a lead author for the IPCC. He currently
co-chairs the Royal Society’s Solar Radiation
Management Governance Initiative, chairs
the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation
and serves on US EPA’s Science Advisory
Board, NRC’s Board on Environmental
Science and Toxicology as well as many
university/government advisory bodies.
Paul Hanle
Climate Central,
President and CEO
Served 11 years as the first president of
the Biotechnology Institute, serviced as CEO
of the Maryland Science Center, president of
the Academy of Natural Sciences in
Philadelphia and 14 years at the National Air
and Space Museum in Washington
D.C., advised the Obama “Educate to
Innovate” initiative. Hanle earned a Ph.D. in
the History of Science and Medicine and an
M.S. in Physics from Yale.
David Kanter
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, The Earth
Institute, Columbia
University
David Kanter is a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at Columbia University’s Earth
Institute. His research examines the
interconnected challenges of nitrogen
pollution, food security and sustainable
development. He received his Ph.D. in
Science, Technology and Environmental
Policy from Princeton University's Woodrow
Wilson School, and will start as an Assistant
Professor in Environmental Policy at NYU's
Department of Environmental Studies in
September.
Sally Katzen
Visiting Professor, NYU
Law School; Podesta
Group, Senior Advisor
Sally Katzen is currently a Visiting Professor at
NYU Law School and a Senior Advisor at the
Podesta Group in Washington. She served in
the Clinton Administration, as Administrator
of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs in the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), then Deputy Assistant to the
President for Economic Policy and Deputy
Director of the National Economic Council in
the White House, and then as the Deputy
Director for Management at OMB. She has
frequently testified before Congress, is a
Member of the National Academy of Public
Administration, has been on multiple panels
for the National Academy of Sciences, and is
on the board of several non-profit
organizations. Before joining the Clinton
Administration, Ms. Katzen was a partner in
the Washington DC law firm of Wilmer, Cutler
& Pickering, specializing in regulatory and
legislative matters.
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Tom Knutson
Head of Climate Impacts
and Extremes Group,
GFDL/NOAA
Tom Knutson is Head of the Climate Impacts
and Extremes Group at GFDL/NOAA and CoChair of the WMO Expert Team on Climate
Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones. He is a
Fellow of the American Meteorological
Society. His research interests include:
hurricanes and climate change, and
detection and attribution of climate change.
Robert Kopp
Rutgers University
Associate Director,
Rutgers Energy Institute
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth &
Planetary Sciences,
Rutgers University
Professor Kopp's scientific research focuses
on employing statistical and process models
to improve understanding of past climate
and test and strengthen models of future
global change. His policy research focuses on
quantifying human impacts on the global
climate and incorporating climate change
impacts into benefit-cost and risk
management analyses.
Zheng Li
Professor of Thermal
Engineering, Tsinghua
University; Director,
Tsinghua BP Clean Energy
Research and Education
Center
Profesor Zheng LI is the Head of the
Department of Thermal Engineering,
Tsinghua University and the director of
Tsinghua BP Clean Energy Research and
Education Center. His research interests are
modeling and analysis of energy systems,
and performance monitoring and
optimization of thermal power plant.
Christopher A. Smith
Assistant Secretary for
Fossil Energy,
Department of Energy,
United States
Christopher Smith is Assistant Secretary for
Fossil Energy with responsibilities for office
operations and managing the oversight of
Fossil Energy's Research and Development
program (encompassing coal, oil and natural
gas) and the U.S. Petroleum Reserves. He
was appointed to the Department of Energy
in 2009 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for
FE's Office of Oil and Natural Gas. Before
Smith served in managerial and analytical
positions of increasing responsibility in the
private sector. He spent 11 years with two
major international oil companies focused
on upstream business and LNG trading.
Smith holds a bachelor's degree in
Engineering Management from the United
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States Military Academy at West Point and
an MBA from Cambridge University.
Robert Sussman
Adjunct Professor,
Georgetown University
Law Center; Principal,
Sussman and Associates
Bob Sussman is the principal in Sussman and
Associates, an energy and environmental
consulting firm, and is an Adjunct Professor
at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Bob recently completed four and a half years
of service in the Obama Administration, first
as Co-Chair of the Transition Team for EPA
and then as Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA
Administrator. He also served in the Clinton
Administration as the EPA Deputy
Administrator during 1993-94. Bob is a
magna cum laude 1969 graduate of Yale
College and a 1973 graduate of Yale Law
School, where he was an editor of the Yale
Law Journal.
G. David Tilman
G. David Tilman is Regents' Professor and
McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the
University of Minnesota, and also holds
appointment as Professor in the Bren School
of Environmental Science and Management
at the University of California Santa Barbara.
He has been awarded numerous awards and
prizes for his contributions to ecology and
has been ranked by the Web of Science as
the world’s most highly cited environmental
scientist for both the 1991-2000 and the
2001-2010 decades.
Richard Wiles
Senior Vice President for
Program Strategy and
Integration, Climate
Central
Richard Wiles is Senior Vice President for
Program Strategy and Integration at Climate
Central. Prior to joining Climate Central,
Wiles was a co-founder and Executive
Director of Environmental Working Group
where he helped create, direct, and manage
EWG's pioneering research and
communications operations. Before cofounding EWG, Wiles served as Senior Staff
at the National Research Council of the
National Academy of Sciences, managing
committees on a range of issues from
pesticides and children's health to organic
agriculture and western water issues.
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Committees managed by Wiles at the NRC
produced a series of landmark reports that
laid the scientific foundation for pathbreaking children's health protections in
federal pesticide law, and the creation of
national standards for organic food. Wiles
has a BA from Colgate University and a MA
from California State University at
Sacramento.
Ellen Williams
Director of the Advanced
Research Projects—
Energy (ARPA-E)
Dr. Ellen Williams is the Director of the
Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy
(ARPA-E), responsible for oversight of the
Agency.
Prior to joining ARPA-E, Dr. Williams served
as the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of
Energy and the Chief Scientist for BP. She is
currently on a leave of absence from the
University of Maryland where she has served
as a Distinguished University Professor in the
Department of Physics and the Institute for
Physical Science and Technology since 2000.
Dr. Williams received a B.S. in Chemistry
from Michigan State University and a Ph.D.
in Chemistry from the California Institute of
Technology.
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Princeton Invitees
Ian Bourg
Assistant Professor, Civil and
Environmental Engineering
Ian Bourg is an Assistant Professor in CEE and PEI
at Princeton University. His research examines
the properties of interfacial water in subsurface
porous media, particularly in clay-rich soils and
sedimentary environments. He is a co-author of
the textbook Introduction to Carbon Capture and
Sequestration (Imperial College Press, 2014) and
co-editor of two volumes: Geochemistry of
Geologic CO2 Sequestration (Mineralogical Society
of America, 2013) and Natural and Engineered
Clay Barriers (Elsevier, 2015).
Rachel Baker
Ph.D. Student, Woodrow
Wilson School
Rachel is a 3rd year PhD student in the Woodrow
Wilson School’s STEP program. Her research
focuses on climate impacts; she uses statistical
methods to investigate how climactic changes
affect livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her
background is in physics and she holds a master’s
degree in applied mathematics from Cambridge
University.
Maya Buchanan
Ph. D. Student, Woodrow
Wilson School
As a Fulbright Fellow, Maya modeled water
scarcity amidst climate change. She later worked
on federal sustainability and Earth science
projects for the Architect of the Capitol,
Department of Energy, and NASA. Most recently,
she worked for the White House Subcommittee
on Global Change Research on developing the
U.S. Government's priorities in advancing climate
science and informing decision makers. Maya’s
research interests lie in optimizing resilience to
climate change impacts, particularly to sea level
rise in the face of multiple economic and social
stressors.
Thomas Delworth
Physical Scientist, GFDL,
Lecturer in Geosciences and
Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences
Dr. Thomas Delworth is a Physical Scientist at
GFDL. His research focuses on climate variability
and change on time scales of decades to
centuries, including the role of the ocean in
climate, and decadal scale changes in regional
hydroclimate, including drought. He has authored
over 100 papers for scientific journals.
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William A. Gleason
Professor of English; Chair,
Department of English
William Gleason is Professor and Chair of English
at Princeton University, where he is also affiliated
with the Princeton Environmental Institute and
the Programs in American Studies, African
American Studies, Urban Studies, and
Environmental Studies. He is the author of Sites
Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American
Literature, runner-up for the 2012 John Hope
Franklin Publication Prize in American Studies,
and co-editor of the multidisciplinary Keywords
for Environmental Studies (forthcoming from New
York University Press).
Anna Hailey
Ph.D. Student, Chemical and
Biological Engineering
Anna analyzes materials properties and process
technologies on multiple length scales to advance
the development of next-generation energy
applications. At a systems-wide level, Anna
investigates liquid fuels production technologies
that utilize domestic natural gas and sustainable
biomass. On a molecular level, she examines how
grain boundaries in polycrystalline organic
semiconductor thin films limit charge transport in
electronic devices.
Robin Hauer
Assistant Director for the
Princeton E-filliates
Partnership, Andlinger Center
for Energy and the
Environment
Robin Hauer is the Assistant Director of the
Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership in the Andlinger
Center for Energy and the Environment where
she manages the program, stewards corporate
members and facilitates opportunities for
sponsored research. Previously, Robin was the
Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Affairs for
Metromedia Fiber Network where she was
responsible for all federal, state, and local
regulatory permitting of fiber optic infrastructure
across the United States.
Qi Li
Graduate Student, Civil and
Environmental Engineering
Qi is interested in issues related to urban micrometeorology and designing more sustainable
cities. Her work uses high-resolution numerical
models to study the turbulent transport of
momentum, heat and mass in the atmospheric
boundary layer, especially boundary layer
characterized by topographically complex
roughness elements, such as the atmospheric
boundary layer in urban environment.
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Understanding the basic mechanisms of turbulent
transport in these complex surfaces will be a
crucial step to better micro-meteorological
models and urban design from a quantitative
perspective.
Syukuro (Suki) Manabe
Senior Meteorologist,
Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences
Since the early 1960’s, Dr. Manabe has been
exploring the mechanism of climate change, using
a hierarchy of climate models with increasing
complexity. During the last 10 years, he has been
writing a book entitled “Understanding Climate
Change: A Scientific Journey.”
Denise Mauzerall
Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
and Public and International
Affairs, Woodrow Wilson
School
Prof. Mauzerall’s research examines linkages
between air pollution origin, transport and
impacts, including impacts on human health, food
security and climate change. Current research is
examining the potential air quality and climate
benefits of increased penetration of
renewable energy and natural gas in China,
evaluating methane leakage from abandoned oil
and gas wells, and examining the impact of global
air quality on climate change. She is a member of
several advisory boards, including the
Environmental Protection Agency chartered
Science Advisory Board.
Forest Meggers
Assistant Professor of School
of Architecture and the
Andlinger Center for Energy
and the Environment
Forrest Meggers investigates integrated design of
low energy systems. He previously taught and led
research in Singapore and in Switzerland, and has
published and presented topics ranging from
building technologies to the 2nd law of
thermodynamics.
Wei Peng
Graduate Student, Woodrow
Wilson School
Wei is broadly interested in the interactions of
policies for renewable energy, air pollution and
climate in country-specific political environment.
Her dissertation focuses on designing China's
wind energy strategy to maximize environmental
benefits, and the domestic policy conditions to
enable such strategy. She is especially interested
in how to facilitate inter-provincial renewable
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electricity transport to help renewable
integration and maximize displaced emissions.
Geeta Persad
Graduate Student, Woodrow
Wilson School
Geeta’s dissertation research is focused on
studying the impact of aerosols on the climate
using the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory's (GFDL) suite of general circulation
models, particularly focused over Asia as the
current and future locus of aerosol emissions. Her
interest in large-scale simulation of
aerosol/climate interactions is strongly driven by
the human implications of aerosol-driven
variability in Asian monsoon precipitation, as well
as the importance for sound climate policy
decisions of reducing uncertainty surrounding
aerosol/climate interactions.
Vincent H. Poor
Dean, School of Engineering
& Applied Science; Michael
Henry Strater University
Professor of Electrical
Engineering
Vince Poor, Dean of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science and the Michael Henry
Strater University Professor of Electrical
Engineering, joined Princeton’s faculty in 1990,
and has served as dean of engineering since 2006.
Vince is responsible for the leadership of the
engineering school, which comprises six academic
departments and multiple research centers. As a
faculty member, Vince’s teaching and research
interests lie primarily in the area of wireless
networking and related fields.
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
Director, Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory;
Lecturer with the rank of
Professor in Geosciences and
Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences
Dr. V. ("Ram") Ramaswamy is Director of NOAA's
GFDL, one of the nation's high-end climate
modeling centers with leadership in the national
and international state-of-the-science climate
research. He is also on the Faculty of the
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program and
Princeton Environmental Institute.
Bary P. Rand
Assistant Professor of
Electrical Engineering &
Andlinger Center for Energy
and the Environment
Barry earned a BE from The Cooper Union in
2001. Then he received MA and PhD degrees
from Princeton University, in 2003 and 2007,
respectively. From 2007 to 2013, he was at imec
in Leuven, Belgium, ultimately as principal
scientist. Since 2013, he is an assistant professor
in the Department of Electrical Engineering and
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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
at Princeton University. Prof. Rand’s research
focuses on electronic and optoelectronic thinfilms and devices, mainly energy devices such as
solar cells and light emitting devices. He has
authored more than 65 refereed journal
publications, has 14 issued US patents, and
recently edited a comprehensive (15 chapter)
book entitled Organic Solar Cells - Fundamentals,
Devices, and Upscaling.
Joan Ruderman
Visiting Faculty, Princeton
Environmental Institute
Ruderman is interested in how environmental
changes affect the biodiversity. She was
previously on the faculty at Harvard and recently
served as Director of the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole. Ruderman is a
member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Joshua Spechler
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
Joshua is a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton
University. Before starting at Princeton Joshua
was an optical engineer at the NASA/CalTech Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Josh has
been a teaching assistant and mentor in the MAE
and MSE departments at Princeton University, as
well as guest lecturing for classes in the MAE,
MSE, and WWS departments. His research aims
to apply inexpensive materials and processing to
solar conversion technologies.
Daniel Steingart
Assistant Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering and the
Andlinger Center for Energy
and the Environment
Dan’s research focusses on low cost, long lifetime
electrochemical energy storage systems, inclusive
of materials production, materials
characterization, to circuit design and balance of
plant considerations.
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Fabian Wagner
Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting
Professor in Energy and the
Environment, Andlinger
Center for Energy and the
Environment
Dr. Wagner is currently interested in co-benefits
of GHG mitigation on air pollution, the integration
of renewable sources into the grid, including the
associated economics, and the impact of
urbanization on energy consumption. His
research typically involves computer models,
including integrated assessment models, as well
as process simulation and optimization tools.
Claire White
Assistant Professor of Civil
and Environmental
Engineering & Andlinger
Center for Energy and the
Environment
Dr. White’s research group centers on
investigating the long-term behavior of low-CO2
concrete and the mineralization processes during
CO2 capture and storage. Key topics of research
include: durability of alkali-activated cements;
atomic and nanoscale morphology of
cementitious materials; reaction kinetics of
cement formation; amorphous carbonate
materials; combined modeling/experimental
methodologies; Monte Carlo methods; ab-initio
calculations; total scattering analysis.
Chuck (William) Witt
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
Chuck is a graduate student in Princeton’s
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering. His concentrations are applied
physics and materials science. Broadly speaking,
his research is focused on quantum mechanicsbased techniques for computing material
properties from first principles.
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CMI/PEI Administrators and Communicators
Rajeshri Chokshi
Technical Support Specialist,
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Princeton
Environmental Institute
Raj manages IT operations and provides technical
support for the Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and Princeton
Environmental Institute.
Kristina Corvin
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology
Kristina assists Stephen W. Pacala, Co-Director,
Carbon Mitigation Initiative.
Caitlin M. Daley
Administrative Assistant,
Princeton Environmental
Institute
Caitlin is Assistant to Robert H. Socolow, CoDirector, Carbon Mitigation Initiative.
Katharine Hackett
Associate Director, Princeton
Environmental Institute
Kathy is the senior administrator for the
Princeton Environmental Institute with oversight
of Center research operations, undergraduate
and graduate educational programs, outreach,
communications and events. She is the Executive
Director for the Grand Challenges Program
including cooperative programs in Climate and
Energy, Development, and Health.
Axel Haenssen
Infrastructure Operations
Analyst/Manager, Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology
Axel manages and oversees the IT group and
operations for the Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Environmental
Institute and research centers in the U.S., Africa
and Central America.
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Holly Welles
Manager, Communication
and Outreach, Princeton
Environmental Institute
Holly is the Manager of Communications and
Outreach for PEI including support for the Carbon
Mitigation Initiative research center. She came to
PEI in 2010 having worked previously in the
Environmental Policy Group at the Pacific Gas and
Electric Company.
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CMI Lead Project PIs
Craig Arnold
Professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering;
Director, Program in
Materials Science and
Engineering; Technology
Group
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,
Emeritus; Lecturer with Rank
of Professor in Geosciences;
Science Group
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; Technology
Group
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 G. Debenedetti
Dean for Research; Class of
1950 Professor in
Engineering and Applied
Science; Professor of
Chemical and Biological
Engineering; Technology
Group
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of
metastable liquids and glasses, in particular water
and aqueous systems. He is the author of
Metastable Liquids.
Alexander Glaser
Assistant Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering and International
Affairs, Woodrow Wilson
School; Integration &
Outreach Group
Nuclear energy and security policy with a
particular emphasis on nuclear nonproliferation
and arms control. Participant in the University’s
Program on Science and Global Security and in
the International Panel on Fissile Materials.
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Lars O. Hedin
Professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and the
Princeton Environmental
Institute; Chair, Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology; Science Group
Role of ecosystems in the earth climate system.
Current interests include the broad controls of
nutrient cycles on the land carbon sink, the
biogeochemical function of land ecosystems,
conceptual and numerical models of land
ecosystems, and the role of managed ecosystems
for biofuel production.
Thomas Kreutz
Energy Systems Modeler,
Energy Systems Analysis
Group, PEI; Technology
Group
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
Senior Research Engineer,
Energy Systems Analysis
Group, PEI; Technology
Group
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 clean
fluid fuels production processes.
David Medvigy
Assistant Professor of
Geosciences; Science Group
Interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and
the atmosphere, from the scale of individual
plants to the global scale. Investigation of tropical
rainforests as carbon sinks.
François Morel
Albert G. Blanke, Jr. Professor
of Geosciences; Director,
Princeton Environmental
Institute; Science Group
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.
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Michael Oppenheimer
Albert G. Milbank Professor
of Geosciences and
International Affairs,
Woodrow Wilson School;
Integration & Outreach
Group
Michael Oppenheimer 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. Co-Director, CMI;
Science Group/ Integration &
Outreach Group
Interaction among the biosphere, atmosphere,
and hydrosphere at global scales, with an
emphasis on the carbon cycle.
Athanassios Z.
Panagiotopoulos
Susan Dod Brown Professor
of Chemical and Biological
Engineering; Technology
Group
Molecular-based computational tools for
predicting fundamental physicochemical
characteristics required for understanding the
rational design of CO2 separation and storage
processes. Development of Monte Carlo methods
for free energies and phase equilibria.
Thermodynamic analysis of processes. Modeling
of nanoscale hybrid materials, electrolytes,
polymers and surfactants.
Jean-Hervé Prévost
Professor, Civil and
Environmental Engineering;
Technology Group
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, electromagneto-solid interaction effects, finite element
methods.
M.V. Ramana
Nuclear Futures Specialist,
Woodrow Wilson School and
the Program on Science and
Global Security; Integration &
Outreach Group
Ramana works on the future of nuclear energy in
the context of climate change and nuclear
disarmament and is the author of The Power of
Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in
India (Penguin Books, 2012).
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Jorge Sarmiento
George J. Magee Professor of
Geoscience and Geological
Engineering, Professor of
Geosciences; Director,
Program in Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences; Science
Group
Oceanic cycles of climatically important chemicals
such as carbon dioxide, and use of chemical
tracers to study ocean circulation.
Elena Shevliakova
Senior Climate Modeler,
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology; Science Group
Modeling biosphere-atmosphere interactions and
applications of such models to the issues of global
environmental change.
Robert H. Socolow
Professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering,
Emeritus; Senior Research
Scholar, Energy Systems
Analysis Group; Co-Director,
CMI; Integration & Outreach
Group
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.
Howard A. Stone
Donald R. Dixon '69 and
Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor
of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering; Chair,
Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering;
Technology Group
Fluid mechanics and soft condensed matter
physics, widely applied to problems in
engineering, physics, chemistry and biology.
Current research interests include flow in porous
media, the influence of flow on bacteria and
biofilms, the influence of surfactants on the
dissolution of CO2 bubbles in water, and problems
coupling flow and elasticity of soft substrates.
Jeroen Tromp
Blair Professor of Geology;
Professor of Geosciences and
Applied and Computational
Mathematics; Associate
Director, Princeton Institute
for Computational Science
and Engineering; Technology
Group
Theoretical & Computational Seismology.
Research topics include: surface waves, free
oscillations, body waves, seismic tomography,
numerical simulations of 3-D wave propagation,
and seismic hazard assessment.
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Robert Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Energy Systems Analysis
Group, PEI; Technology
Group
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.
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CMI Research Staff and Students
Ali Ahmad
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Woodrow Wilson
School; Integration &
Outreach Group
Ali is a research fellow in the Program on Science
and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs, Princeton
University. His work focuses on the assessment of
the technological aspects of small modular
reactors and the potential for their deployment,
and more broadly the introduction of nuclear
power to new markets. A Physics graduate from
The Lebanese University in Beirut, Ali holds a PhD
in Nuclear Engineering from Cambridge
University.
Karl Bandilla
Associate Professional
Specialist, Civil and
Environmental Engineering;
Technology Group
Current research involves numerical modeling of
the movement of CO2 and brine in storage
formations. Specifically working on dynamic
pressure reconstruction and active pressure
management using brine production wells.
John Cannarella
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering; Technology
Group
Development of economical clean energy
technologies; methods of improving the cycle life
of lithium-ion batteries for more cost-effective
energy storage.
Anping Chen
Associate Research Scholar,
Ecology and Environmental
Biology; Science Group
The global carbon cycle and climate change;
understanding the impact of human activity to
global carbon balance, vegetation dynamics;
modelling biodiversity and biogeography.
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Carolina Dufour
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences; Science
Group
Carolina’s research focuses on the Southern
Ocean circulation and carbon cycle, with a
particular interest on how physical and
biogeochemical processes drive their responses
to climate changes. To this purpose, she uses
physical-biogeochemical ocean models either
forced or coupled with the atmosphere at
eddying resolutions. She investigated the
response of natural air-sea CO2 fluxes to the
current positive trend in the Southern Annular
Mode, with a particular focus on the role of
mesoscale eddies and other physical and
biogeochemical processes.
Ryan Edwards
Graduate Student, Civil and
Environmental Engineering;
Technology Group
Ryan is a PhD candidate in Professor Michael
Celia's Subsurface Hydrology Research Group in
the Princeton University Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering. He is investigating
the potential impacts of shale gas development
on water resources and the potential of shale gas
reservoirs as storage sites for carbon dioxide.
Ivy Frenger
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences; Science
Group
Ivy is interested in the climate system and its
response to anthropogenic forcing. Her focus is
the Southern Ocean, a region which is central to
global ocean circulation, ocean biogeochemistry
and air-sea heat and tracer exchange, yet its
dynamics are not fully understood. Ocean
mesoscale eddies are thought to be determinant
in the area. She plans to further explore eddy
properties based on high resolution model
simulations which include biogeochemistry, and
at the same time examine integrated effects of
eddies on the Southern Ocean water mass
structure and their biogeochemical
characteristics.
Paul Gauthier
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Geosciences;
Science Group
Dr. Gauthier joined Prof. Michael Bender’s
research team in December 2012 to apply oxygen
isotopes to measure respiration in the light in
leaves. After receiving a PhD from Paris Sud
University, France, in 2010, he moved to the
Australian National University, Australia to
investigate the impact of drought on plants
carbon balance with a high focus on respiration.
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Johanna Goldman
Graduate Student,
Geosciences; Science Group
Johanna did her undergrad studies in Paris
(France), first at Louis-Le-Grand and then at the
ESPCI (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie
Industrielles) where she received a Master of
Science in Chemistry (major), physics and biology
(minors). She is currently a fifth year Ph.D.
student in the Morel group studying the effect of
climate change on phytoplankton physiology,
particularly photosynthesis and respiration.
Alison Gray
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences; Science Group
Alison’s general research interests include largescale ocean circulation and dynamics, the ocean's
role in climate, and interactions between physical
processes and global biogeochemical cycles. Her
Ph.D. research focuses on using observations
from the Argo array of profiling floats to address
questions regarding global large-scale circulation.
As part of this work she has developed Absolute
Geostrophic Velocities from Argo, a gridded
velocity data set available for download.
Bo Guo
Graduate Student, Civil and
Environmental Engineering;
Technology Group
Bo earned his Bachelor degree of Hydraulic
Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2011. His
research interests lie in multi-scale models for
CO2 storage. Currently, he is developing a
vertically-integrated model which accounts for
vertical dynamics. This type of model will provide
an intermediate choice in model complexity
between full three-dimensional models and
vertical-equilibrium two-dimensional models.
Amir Haji-Akbari
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Chemical and
Biological Engineering,
Technology Group
Amir works on the nucleation of ice and hydrates
and dynamical heterogeneities in thin films of
hyrdrocarbons.
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Phillip M. Hannam
Graduate Student,
Woodrow Wilson School’s
Program in Science,
Technology and
Environmental Policy;
Integration & Outreach
Group
Low-carbon energy transitions in major
developing countries and leapfrogging; China as a
developer of power plants around the world;
Models of international cooperation on climate
change; Climate and global security; Integrated
assessment modeling.
Xinwo Huang
Graduate Student, Civil and
Environmental Engineering;
Technology Group
Xinwo has a general interest in energy and
environmental studies. His current research
interest lies in multi-phase flow in porous media
and large-scale numerical modeling, with
application to geological carbon sequestration.
The ongoing research project takes the Basal
Aquifer of Canada as the test case, in order to
determine the ability of different models varying
in complexity to predict the impact of carbon
dioxide injection. With the planned injection sites
and rates, and the real petro-physical parameters
and geometries of the Basal Aquifer, he compares
a cascade of models ranging from single-phase
semi-analytic solutions to multi-phase numerical
simulators.
Yao Lai
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering; Technology
Group
Tao is interested in the physical understanding of
fluid motion involving interaction with elastic
boundaries. The coupled fluid-elastic solid
problems could be widely found both in nature,
e.g. magma transportation and membrane-fluid
interactions, and in industry. e.g. hydraulic
fracturing. Lai’s group developed an original
experiment model to study the cracking process
of fluid-driven cracks in an elastic reservoir, as
well as the viscous backflow driven by reservoir
elasticity. Her goal is to use elegant experiment
models to capture the significant physics involved
in the real systems.
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Dan Li
Graduate Student, Civil and
Environmental Engineering;
Princeton Energy & Climate
Scholars, PEI-STEP
Environmental Policy Fellow;
Technology Group
Dan’s research is primarily focused on urban
energy and water sustainability, as well as other
urban environmental issues. As a PEI-STEP fellow,
he explores urban mitigation and adaption
strategies in response to climate change.
Minnie Liu
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences; Technology
Group
Minnie’s research interests include material
science and energy storage systems. Her current
work is on mechanical properties of lithium-ion
battery, and characterizing the relationship
between stress and state of charge and state of
health of a lithium-ion battery.
Xinning Zhang
Postdoctoral Research
Scholar, Geosciences; Science
Group
Interplay between microbes and the physical
environment on both short (transcriptional) and
long (evolutionary) timescales. In the Morel lab,
studying the impacts of trace metals on nitrogen
fixation by diverse bacteria.
Zhong Zheng
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering;
Technology Group/
Integration & Outreach
Group
Zhong has broad interests in energy science,
engineering and policy issues. Research includes
dynamics of multi-phase flow displacement
process in porous media, carbon capture and
sequestration source-sink match, carbon capture
and sequestration early demonstration and
international collaboration, energy system
integration, China energy strategy and policy.
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