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David Allen, Ph.D.
Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in Chemical Engineering & Professor
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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Analysis of 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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Transport of light; Mass and thermal energy in chemically reacting and biological systems; Thermodynamics of energy conversion systems;
Solar radiation transport and utilization; Algae for carbon dioxide sequestration and biofuel production; Bio-inspired solar cells; Novel hydrogen production and storage technologies; Artificial Photosynthesis
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Chandra Bhat, Ph.D.
Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering & Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4535
E-mail: bhat@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Activity and travel behavior analysis; Travel demand modeling; Application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; Logistics and freight modeling; Transportation energy and transportation air quality analysis; Urban form and spatial data modeling
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Decision making under uncertainty; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy
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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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Renewable energy; Nuclear power; Nonequilbrium pocesses; Physics of complex systems; Dynamics
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International entrepreneurship, global competition, sustainability, energy
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Ian Duncan, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1982
Program Director
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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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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Control system monitoring and diagnosis; Modeling and control of microelectronics manufacturing; Optimization of energy systems
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Nanomaterials design and synthesis; nano-biotechnolgy; nano-manipulation; nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS); energy
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William Fisher, Ph.D., University of Kansas
Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources
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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W. Mack Grady
Associate Department Chair, Jack S. Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources & Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512 471 5231
E-mail: grady@mail.utexas.edu
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Electric power systems; Power quality and harmonics; Renewable energy; Power electronics
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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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Computational chemistry and materials science; Doping and defect engineering in electronic materials; Surface chemsitry and catalysis; Modeling of energy and catalytic materials for fuel cells, supercapacitors, Li ion batteries, thermoelectrics, and photovoltaics
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Power electronics; Distributed generation including integration of alternative energy sources; Electrical energy conversion and storage; Ultra-reliable and fault-tolerant power system architectures; Switching and non-linear controls
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Computer-aided engineering and design; Product and process modeling; Construction management; Building information modeling; Information technology for project management; Life-cycle information integration; Collaboration and coordination technologies; Building energy performance
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Polymer nanofoam and nanocomposites, biomedical micro devices; 3D cell culture and drug discovery; Nanoporous materials; Manufacturing processes for alternate transportation energy
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Engineering design of municipal and industrial wastewater and sludge treatment facilities; Processing biosolids, sludge and solid wastes as sources of renewable energy and recyclable material and minimizing emissions of greenhouse gases; Environmental impact of highway construction and highway runoff
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Clean energy materials; Electrochemical energy conversion and storage; Lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and solar cells; Nanomaterials
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System dynamics; Automatic control; Energy conversion engineering; Electronics manufacturing
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Alternative fuels; Emissions; Engine modeling
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Electrochemical energy systems; Proton-exchange fuel cells; Power generation and storage
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Transport of simple and complex fluids in complex microstructured materials for applications in energy, environment and biotechnology
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Sustainable architecture; science and technology studies; politics of technology; philosophy of technology; history of technology
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Materials Chemistry for Energy studies regarding solar photoelectrocatalysis; Catalysis of nano-structured surfaces; Materials for lithium-ion battery electrodes
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Ventilation and indoor air quality; Computations and measurements of airflows in buildings; Pollutants transport modeling; Building energy analysis
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Tad Patzek, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Lois K. and Richard D. Folger Leadership Chair & Professor
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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Tissue fusion and ablation processes with radio frequency current and lasers; Applications of the complex electrical properties of and admittance measurements in tissues; Industrial applications of radio frequency and microwave energy
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National energy and mineral resources geology, Texas geology, technology transfer, Barnett Shale, natural gas reservoirs.
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Politics of Hollywood; American politics (elections, Presidency, Congress)
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Energy Policy, Energy Water Nexus, Technological change, Environmental Policy, Climate change
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Energy finance, oil prices, prices of natural-gas, hedging energy prices, risk-management in energy
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Graphene and thin graphite; Energy production and storage; Synthesis and physical/chemical properties of nanostructures and composites; Nanomanufacturing.
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Philip Schmidt, Ph.D.
Associate Department Chair for Undergraduate Programs & Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3118
E-mail: pschmidt@mail.utexas.edu
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Industrial electrotechnology applications and economics; Industrial energy management and conservation; Project-based engineering instruction
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Energy and environment; Thermal management; Electronics, photonics, and sensors; Biomedical technologies
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Aerosol transport, deposition, and control; Indoor air quality; Green building; Building energy efficiency
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Environmental law, energy, governmental regulation, public policy, business law
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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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Networks; Wireless systems; System security; Information theory; Resource allocation in systems; Networked control; Energy systems; Bioinformatics
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Energy policy; Energy & Water; Alternative and renewable energy; Biofuels; Energy in Texas
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Harovel Wheat
Associate Department Chair/Academic Affairs & Associate Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512 471 1451
E-mail: hwheat@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Corrosion of Structural Materials; Environmental Degradation of Composite Materials; Corrosion of Steel-reinforced Concrete; Smart coatings; Corrosion Issues associated with Clean Energy Generation;
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Corrosion of Structural Materials; Environmental Degradation of Composite Materials; Corrosion of Steel-reinforced Concrete; Smart coatings; Corrosion Issues associated with Clean Energy Generation
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Photovoltaics and other technologies for energy generation; Scanning probe characterization of advanced electronic materials and devices; III-V nitride heterostructure materials and device physics; Solid-state nanoscience and nanotechnology
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Photovoltaics and other technologies for energy generation; Scanning probe characterization of advanced electronic materials and devices; III-V nitride heterostructure materials and device physics; Solid-state nanoscience and nanotechnology
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Multi-scale heat and fluid flow; Energy efficiency; Renewable energy; Complex thermal systems
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