Faculty & Staff

    • Electrical & Computer Engineering

    Liangbing (Bing) Hu

    Carol and Douglas Melamed Professor of Electrical Engineering
    • Wood nanoscience & nanotechnologies, ultrahigh temperature processes, high entropy catalysts, solid state batteries, etc.
    Director, Center for Materials Innovation
    • Chemical & Environmental Engineering

    Eric Altman

    Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering
    • heterogeneous catalysis, formation & characterization of novel materials
    • School of the Environment

    Paul Anastas

    Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment
    • Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
    Director, Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering
    • School of the Environment

    Mark Ashton

    Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology; Senior Associate Dean of The Forest School
    • Biodiversity and Habitat Carbon Sequestration Ecosystem Restoration, Forest Dynamics Forest Ecology and Silviculture Forest Ecosystems, Tropical Forest Resource Management
    Director, Yale Forests
    • School of Architecture

    Phillip Bernstein

    Deputy Dean and Professor Adjunct
    • School of the Environment

    Craig Brodersen

    Howard and Maryam Newman Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology
    • Ecology Food & Agriculture Forest Ecology and Silviculture Water Scarcity
    • School of Architecture

    Anna Dyson

    Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design and Professor at the School of the Environment
    Director, Center for Ecosystems in Architecture
    • Chemical & Environmental Engineering

    John Fortner

    Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Advanced Materials for Water Treatment, Materials and Processes at the Energy-Water-Food Nexus, Interfacial Behavior and Chemistry of Advanced Materials
    • Chemical & Environmental Engineering

    Shu Hu

    Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Photocatalytic Devices & photoelectrical Interfaces, semiconductor catalysis, reaction engineering
    Associate Director, CMI
    • Chemical & Environmental Engineering

    Jaehong Kim

    Henry P. Becton Sr. Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Advanced Materials-Based Approaches toward Solar Water Disinfection, Photocatalytic and electrochemical Processes for Environmental and Energy Application.
    • Electrical & Computer Engineering

    Mengxia Liu

    Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
    • next-generation optoelectronic materials for applications in energy, sensing, and information technologies.
    • School of Architecture

    Mae-ling Lokko

    Assistant Professor
    • Statistics & Data Science

    Lu Lu

    Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science
    • Scientific machine learning (SciML), artificial intelligence for science (AI4Science), including theory, algorithms, software, & its applications to engineering, physical, & biological problems.
    • Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

    Nikhil Malvankar

    Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    • structure, function & electron transfer mechanism of protein nanowires, Imaging & Control of microbial functions.
    • School of Architecture

    Alan Organschi

    Senior Critic
    Director, Innovation Lab - Bauhaus Earth
    • Applied Physics

    Vidvuds Ozolins

    Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor Professor of Clean Energy Solutions, Deputy Dean for Research, School of Engineering and Applied Science
    • first-principles computational modeling of high-performance materials, including density functional theory (DFT) and beyond, as well as modern statistical simulation methods, such as Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, and path integral molecular dynamics
    • Staff

    Xinqian (Allison) Qiu

    Program Manager, CMI
    • Mechanical Engineering

    Jan Schroers

    Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
    • metallic glasses, high entropy alloys, functional alloys, materials for additive manufacturing, and nanocrystalline metals.
    • Materials Science

    Cong Su

    Assistant Professor of Materials Science and of Applied Physics
    • atomic engineering, 2D materials, metal-semiconductor interfaces.
    • Chemistry

    Hailiang Wang

    Professor of Chemistry
    • Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Conversion, High-Energy Rechargeable Batteries, Transition Metal Phosphosulfides
    • Chemical & Environmental Engineering

    Lea Winter

    Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Electrified processes for sustainable food, energy, water, and climate.
    • School of the Environment

    Yuan Yao

    Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology & Sustainable Systems
    • Industrial decarbonization, forest products, biomass & bioenergy, sustainable materials, emerging technologies, etc.
    • Chemical & Environmental Engineering

    Mingjiang Zhong

    Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and of Chemistry
    • Polymeric and polymer-derived carbon materials for energy, catalysis, and environmental applications, New synthetic methods for the preparation of functional organic materials and organic-inorganic interfaces.
    • Chemical & Environmental Engineering

    Julie Zimmerman

    Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions, Professor of Green Engineering
    • Application of the green chemistry and green engineering principles to innovative design of products, processes, and systems; assessing benign alternative chemicals and materials; policy design and analysis for sustainability.