ELEVATE Faculty

  • Sanjay Arwade

    Professor
    Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Offshore wind energy robustness and resiliency, reliability, sustainable design

  • Michael Ash

    Professor
    Economics, Public Policy & Administration

    Environmental justice, political economy of health, corporate accountability, inequality, quantitative methods

  • Erin Baker

    Professor
    Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

    Modeling macro energy systems, decision theory applied to climate change and energy technology policy, sustainable and equitable energy systems.

  • Dwayne Breger

    Director, Clean Energy Extension
    Environmental Conservation

    Clean energy and climate policy, extension activities to support clean energy markets and state programs

  • Nick Caverly

    Assistant Professor

    Cultural Anthropology

    Science, technology, and society, Environmental racism and justice seeking, urban infrastructural systems

  • Christine Crago

    Associate Professor
    Resource Economics

    Economics of solar power, distributional and equity impacts of energy policy, empirical analysis

  • Rob DeConto

    Professor
    Geosciences

    Climate physics, sea level rise, climate impacts on coastlines and people, intersection of climate change and sustainability

  • Christian Guzman

    Assistant Professor
    Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Sediment transport, hillslope hydrology, stable water isotopes, sociohydrology

  • Krista Harper

    Professor
    Anthropology

    Ethnographic, qualitative, and participatory action research on community mobilizations for environmental and climate justice

  • David Irwin

    Associate Professor
    Computer Science

    Sustainable computing, clean energy systems and informatics, distributed software systems

  • Juniper Katz

    Associate Professor
    School of Public Policy

    Environmental policy, solar siting, nonprofit management

  • Matthew Lackner

    Professor
    Mechanical Engineering

    Offshore wind turbine engineering, resilient renewable energy systems

  • James Manwell

    Professor
    Mechanical Engineering

    Offshore wind turbine design, meteorological and oceanographic design conditions, energy systems, energy storage

  • Ezra Markowitz

    Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation

    Environmental decision-making; effective communication; public engagement with science

  • David Schmidt

    Professor
    Mechanical Engineering

    Offshore wind energy

  • Prashant Shenoy

    Professor
    Computer Science

    AI for sustainability, smart buildings, renewables and energy storage, energy informatics

  • Regine Spector

    Associate Professor
    Political Science

  • Jay Taneja

    Assistant Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    infrastructure systems measurement, international development, embedded and mobile systems, remote sensing

  • Eve Vogel

    Associate Professor
    Geosciences

    human-environmental dynamics, river governance and policy, hydroelectric energy impacts

  • Jon Woodruff

    Professor
    Geosciences

    Sediment and Coastal Dynamics, Flood Hazards, Tidal Wetlands, Post-Glaciated Shorelines, Estuaries

  • Brian Yellen

    Research Assistant Professor
    Geosciences

    Impacts of dams and hydropeaking on rivers; coastal processes, tidal wetlands

  • Golbon Zakeri

    Professor
    Industrial Engineering

    Optimization and economics of power markets, integration of renewables into electricity markets