Energy Research Directory
Research on energy technology and policy takes place across Columbia within a wide range of academic departments and programs. Below is a directory of energy researchers at Columbia.
Faculty, Research Scientists, and Students
Research Centers
Faculty, Research Scientists, and Students
Name | Title | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aucoin, Christian P. | Graduate Research Associate: Chemical Engineering, Columbia University; Chief Operating Officer: United Biofuels Inc. | Biofuels |
| Badrinarayana, Deepa | Visiting Assistant Professor: Chapman School of Law | Energy Policy | Climate |
| Basinger, Matt | Ph.D. candidate: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University | Energy and Rural Development | Biofuels |
| Belova, Anuta G. | Ph.D. candidate: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University | Flue Gas Capture | Incineration | Zero-Emission Power Plant Design |
| Bower, Peter | Senior Lecturer: Environmental Science, Barnard College/ Columbia University | Energy Policy |
| Bressand, Albert | Director: Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy; Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs | Energy Policy | Advanced Fossil Fuels |
| Broecker , Wallace S. | Professor: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Carbon Storage | Sulfur & Carbon Sequestration | Climate |
| Brown, Casey | Associate Research Scientist: International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute of Columbia University | Water Resource Management Using Climate Information | Climate | Economics |
| Castaldi, Marco J. | Assistant Professor: Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Advanced Fossil Fuels | Biomass | Zero-Emission Power Plant Design | Greenhouse Gas Management | Biofuels | Waste to Energy Systems |
| Chandran, Kartik | Assistant Professor: Earth and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Fuel Cell Design |
| Chen, Xi | Associate Professor: Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Sustainability | Nanotechnology |
| Culligan, Patricia | Professor: Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Porous media flow and transport |
| Downie, David L. | Director: Global Roundtable on Climate Change; Associate Director: Graduate Program in Climate and Society Earth Institute, Columbia University | Environmental Policy | Climate |
| Fthenakis, Vasilis | Adjunct Professor: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University; Founder and director: CLCA; Principal Investigator: National PV Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Research Center, Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) | Life Cycle Analysis | Solar Energy | Photovoltaics |
| Goldberg, David S. | Doherty Senior Research Scientist; Director: Borehole Research Group, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Carbon Storage | Basalt Storage | Sub-seabed Storage | Porous media flow and transport |
| Goulding, A.J. | Adjunct Assistant Professor: School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; President: London Economics International LLC; President: Ampersand Energy Partners LLC | Energy Markets | Economics |
| Graves, Christopher | Ph.D. candidate: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University | Advanced Fossil Fuels | Carbon Storage | Carbon Electrochemistry | Life Cycle Analysis | Fuel Cell Design | Solar Energy |
| Halff, Antoine | Adjunct Professor: School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Vice President: Center for Energy; Head of Energy Research: Marine Transportation and Public Policy/FIMAT USA, LLC | Energy Policy | Politics of Energy | Energy Markets | Economics |
| Hammer, Stephen A. | Director: Urban Energy Project, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy | Energy Policy | Urban Energy |
| Hansen, James E. | Director: Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA; | Climate |
| Heal, Geoffrey | Paul Garrett Professor on Public Policy and Business Responsibility: Business School, Columbia University | Economics |
| Heinz, Tony F. | Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Columbia University | Advanced Fossil Fuels | Nanotechnology |
| Hsiang, Solomon | Ph.D. candidate: Sustainable Development, School for International Policy and Affairs, Columbia University | Climate | Economics | Sustainability |
| Kott, Edward | Master of International Affairs, Candidate 2008, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University | Politics of Energy | Energy Markets | Greenhouse Gas Policy |
| Krevor, Sam | Ph.D. candidate: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University; Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Earth Institute, Columbia University | Advanced Fossil Fuels | Carbon Storage | Mineral carbonation | Greenhouse Gas Policy | Sulfur & Carbon Sequestration |
| Krishnan, Nikhil | Assistant Professor: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University | Life Cycle Analysis | Environmental Policy | Sustainability |
| Lackner, Klaus | Director of LCSE and Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Energy Policy | Advanced Fossil Fuels | Carbon Storage | Air Capture | Mineral carbonation |
| Lall, Upmanu | Alan & Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering: Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Senior Research Scientist: International Research Institute for Climate Prediction | Water Resource Management Using Climate Information | Hydro-Climate Modeling |
| Levine, Jonathan | Ph.D. candidate: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University | Sub-seabed Storage | Heat Pumps |
| Li, Xinxin | Ph.D. Candidate: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University | Zero-Emission Power Plant Design |
| Mankoff, Ken | Programmer: Center For Climate Systems Research (CCSR), Columbia University; Analyst: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) | Climate |
| Matter, Juerg | Doherty Associate Research Scientist in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University | Carbon Storage | Basalt Storage | Mineral carbonation | Sub-seabed Storage | Monitoring and Verification of Carbon Storage |
| Mauel, Michael E. | Professor: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering and Applied Science | Energy Policy | Nuclear Energy |
| McCormick, David | Vice President of SIPA Energy Association; Dual Degree in International Affairs and Business Administration, Columbia University; Masters in International Affairs with International Energy Management and Policy Concentration, School of International and Public Affiars, Columbia University; Co-Founder and manager of SIPA Energy Association; Energy Club, Columbia University School of Business | Energy Policy | Energy and Rural Development | Climate | Sustainability |
| Modi, Vijay | Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Energy and Rural Development | Solar Energy | Biofuels |
| Naeem, Shahid | Chair: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | Life Cycle Analysis | Climate |
| Navratil, Gerald A | Interim Dean & Thomas Alva Edison Professir: Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University | Scale | Nuclear Energy |
| Nelson, Richard R. | George Blumenthal Professor Emeritus of Business and Law; Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Global Development | Economics |
| Nissen, David | PhD Professor of Professional Practice Program in International Energy Management and Policy Center for Energy; Director of the Program in International Energy Management and Policy at the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy | Energy Policy |
| Norton, Jack R. | Professor of Chemistry: Chemistry Department, Columbia University | Organometallics |
| Park, Ah-Hyung "Alissa" | Lenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science: Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering; Associate Director: Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy | Carbon Storage | Flue Gas Capture | Zero-Emission Power Plant Design | Sulfur & Carbon Sequestration |
| Plunz, Richard | Professor of Architecture; Director: Urban Design Program, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director: Urban Design Lab, the Earth Institute | Sustainability | Urban Energy |
| Rappold, Tim | Research Fellow: Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Earth Institute, Columbia University | Advanced Fossil Fuels | Sulfur & Carbon Sequestration | Greenhouse Gas Management | Sustainability |
| Shrier, Adam Louis | Adjunct Professor: School of international and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Visiting Professor: School of Business, Xiamen University, China. | Energy Policy | Politics of Energy |
| Socci, Tom | Ph.D. candidate: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University | Scale | Fischer-Tropsch Processes |
| Somasundaran, Ponisseril | Professor: Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University; National Science Foundation Industry; University cooperative research center for advanced studies | Advanced Fossil Fuels | Mineral carbonation | Nuclear Energy |
| Themelis, Nickolas J. | Stanley-Thompson Professor Emeritus Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University; Chair: Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council; Director: Earth Engineering Center | Incineration | Sustainability | Waste to Energy Systems |
| Wade, Jennifer | Ph.D. candidate: Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University | Carbon Electrochemistry | Fuel Cell Design | High-Temperature CO2 Membrane |
| Walker, David | Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University | Mineral carbonation |
| West, Alan C. | Professor, Head of Department: Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University | Carbon Electrochemistry | Fuel Cell Design | High-Temperature CO2 Membrane | Batteries |
| Yardley, James | Managing Director Columbia Nanocenter (Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures) | Photovoltaics | Nanotechnology |
| Yegulalp, Tuncel M. | Professor of Mining: Earth & Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University | Mineral carbonation | Zero-Emission Power Plant Design | Sulfur & Carbon Sequestration |
| Zeman, Frank | Post-doctoral Research Scholar, Earth Institute: Earth and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Columbia University | Carbon Storage | Air Capture | Cement | Waste to Energy Systems |