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Resources : MIT Energy Faculty

LFEE

Steve Connors [+]

Multidisciplinary energy research, finding optimum solutions to complex energy problems

Howard Herzog [+]

Greenhouse gas mitigation technologies

Prof. David Marks [+]

Sustainable development

Prof. Ernie Moniz [+]

Energy policy and analysis, major government energy experience

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Prof. Gerd Ceder [+]

Lithium ion battery cathodes, designing materials using first-principles calculations

Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang [+]

Lithium ion battery materials, ceramic materials development and processing

Prof. Eugene Fitzgerald [+]

High efficiency tandem solar cells on Si, CVD epitaxy of graded SiGe buffer layers on Si

Prof. Lionel Kimerling [+]

Advanced Si-based photovoltaics, light trapping using photonic crystals, thermophotovoltaics

Prof. Anne Mayes [+]

Novel polymer electrolytes for Li ion batteries, self organizing polymer materals development

Prof. Don Sadoway [+]

Lithium ion battery materials, electrochemistry of non-aqueous materials

Prof. Harry Tuller [+]

Ceramics for electrodes and electrolytes in batteries and fuel cells, electroceramics

Prof. John Vander Sande [+]

Superconducting materials development, superconducing oxide synthesis and characterization

Department of Chemical Engineering

Prof. Paula Hammond [+]

Polymers for fuel cell and battery electrolytes, photovoltaics, polyelectrolyte multilayers)

Prof. Greg Stephanopoulos [+]

Metabolically engineered yeast for increased ethanol production efficiency

Prof. Jefferson Tester [+]

Geothermal power

Prof. Bernhard Trout

Catalytic materials and processes

Department of Chemistry

Prof. John Deutch [+]

Critical energy technology and policy analysis

Prof. Daniel Nocera [+]

Catalysts for solar water splitting into hydrogen

Department of Civil Engineering

Prof. David Marks [+]

Sustainable development

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Prof. Mark Baldo [+]

Organic and biological photovoltaics, molecular electronics

Prof. Vladamir Bulovic [+]

Organic photovoltaics, organic optoelectronics

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Gang Chen [+]

 

Prof. Ahmed Ghoniem [+]

Advanced gas turbines and combustion engines, advanced combustion simulation

Prof. John Heywood [+]

Internal combustion engines, auto technology, energy and transportation

Prof. Ely Sachs [+]

Growth of string ribbon Si for solar cells, low cost manufacturing processes

Prof. Yang Shao-Horn [+]

Materials and architecture for Li batteries and SOFC/PEM fuel cells

Paul Sclavounos [+]

Offshore, floating wind turbines

Department of Nuclear Engineering

Prof. Michael Golay [+]

Nuclear power technology innovation, energy policy

Prof. Andrew Kadak [+]

Nuclear power

Prof. Mujid Kazimi [+]

Nuclear power systems safety, nuclear fuel cycle

Prof. Richard K. Lester [+]

Nuclear power fuel cycle and waste disposal, electric power restructuring

Department of Architecture

Prof. Leon Glicksman [+]

Sustainable / energy efficient buildings

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Dr. Miklos Porkolab [+]

Nuclear fusion

Dr. Daniel Cohn [+]

Plasma-enhanced bio-energy conversion

Department of Economics

Prof. Paul Joskow [+]

Energy economics (pollution trading, electric grid)

Department of Biology

Prof. Anthony Sinskey [+]

Metabolically engineered bacteria for industrial energy

Center for Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Shuguang Zhang [+]

Biologically-based photovoltaic devices