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David Allen, Ph.D.
Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0049
E-mail: allen@che.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Atmospheric chemistry; Urban air quality and pollution prevention; Environmental and industrial reaction engineering
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Clean energy, business development, natural resources, entrepreneurship
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Ross Baldick, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5879
E-mail: baldick@ece.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Restructured electricity markets and electric transmission; Electricity system analysis, operations, and planning; Vulnerability of electric grids to terrorist attack; Very large-scale integration circuit analysis
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R. Malcolm Brown, Jr., Ph.D.
Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair In Plant Cell Biology
Section of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
College of Natural Sciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3364
E-mail: rmbrown@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
algae: algal culture, cyanobacteria, role of algae as feedstock providers for biofuels, airborne algae, role of algae in cellulose biosynthesis; biofuels: role of cyanobacteria and algae in production of feedstocks and biofuels; cellulose: cellulose biosynthesis and structure; microscopy: high resolution transmission electron microscopy, atomic and molecular imaging of beam-sensitive materials
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Climate change; HIV/AIDS; international development; energy policy; international organizations; global public health
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Particle theory; laser-plasma physics;physics education, environment & earth science
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Ian Duncan, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1982
Associate Director for Earth and Environmental Systems
Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5117
E-mail: ian.duncan@beg.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Environmental geology; remote sensing (geologic applications of multispectral, radar, and lidar data sets); carbon sequestration, and geoinformatics; clean coal technologies; integrating carbon capture into enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects; energy; environment.
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EXPERTISE
Professional responsibility of lawyers, real property, international energy transactions, and oil and gas taxation.
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David Eaton, Ph.D.
Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Policy Studies
LBJ School of Public Affairs
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8972
E-mail: eaton@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
sustainable development in international river basins; evaluations of energy and water conservation; U.S.-Mexico environmental cooperation; new methods of evaluating and preventing air pollution emissions; water conservation in Texas
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William Fisher, Ph.D., University of Kansas
Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources
Department of Geological Sciences and Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5600
E-mail: wfisher@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Energy resource assessment and energy policy issues; role of technology and ingenuity in expanding the resource base of oil and natural gas; basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, and petroleum geology; Gulf Coast Basin, Brazilian Offshore, and Venezuela.
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Liquified natural gas (LNG), energy markets, energy economics, oil and gas markets, energy prices.
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Advanced Design, environmental controls, solar design
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Astronomy, black holes, globular clusters, elliptical galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark energy, HETDEX, Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
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Plasma physics; fusion energy; environment & earth science.
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Charles Groat, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interim Dean, Jackson School of Geosciences
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1772
E-mail: cgroat@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Energy, mineral, and water resources occurrence and environmental aspects of their development; National energy reserves; Role of science in policy formulation and decisionmaking; Geomorphology and stratigraphy of desert, coastal, and fluvial systems; oil and gas.
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EXPERTISE
Electricity generation and storage; space power; electric energy; standards; technology policy; university-industry-government collaboration in technology; technology and economic development; electric guns; hybrid electric vehicles; electric locomotives; flywheel batteries; electric generators and motors; high voltage; environment & earth science.
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Sustainable design, building system development, optimization of energy performance of buildings
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Materials science and engineering; solid state chemistry; inorganic materials; materials synthesis; metal oxides; electrochemical power sources; lithium-ion batteries; supercapacitors; fuel cells; ionic conductors; magnetic materials; nanomaterials; environment & earth science.
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Alternative fuels; Emissions; Engine modeling
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Sustainable architecture; science and technology studies; politics of technology; philosophy of technology; history of technology
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Tad Patzek, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-8368
E-mail: patzek@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, unconventional gas recovery, alternative energy sources, ecology of biofuel systems, energy policy
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National energy and mineral resources geology, Texas geology, technology transfer, Barnett Shale, natural gas reservoirs.
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EXPERTISE
Politics of Hollywood; American politics (elections Presidency Congress)
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Ehud Ronn, Ph. D.
Jack S. Josey Professorship in Energy Studies
McCombs School of Business
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5853
E-mail: eronn@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Energy finance; derivatives; financial and real options in energy (electricity gas); bond valuation and interest-rates; fixed-Income; business, economics & labor; environment & earth science.
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Graphene and carbon nanotubes; Global environment and energy; Synthesis and physical/chemical properties of nanostructures and composites; Nanorobotics; New tools for biomedical research.
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Electric power; industrial energy conservation; microwave heating; heat and mass transfer; multimedia instruction; environment & earth science.
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Jeffrey Siegel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-2410
E-mail: jasiegel@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Indoor aerosol transport and deposition; Indoor air quality; Energy-efficient building design
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Oil and gas resource assessment; management of organized research; oil and gas reservoir characterization; carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy; energy; hydrocarbons.
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Corporate finance, energy, finance, real estate and investments, business, economics & labor; environment & earth science.
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Michael Webber, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-6867
E-mail: webber@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Energy and environmental policy; alternative and renewable energy; combustion; gas sensors; oil and gas
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