Energy Systems

Ramesh Agarwal, PhD
William Palm Professor of Engineering
- Email: rka@wustl.edu
- Sustainable Aviation and Ground Transportation
- Green and High Performance Buildings
- HVAC & R Systems
- Climate Modeling
- Global Warming
- Stabilization Wedges to Control Global Warming
- Sustainable Development

Damena Agonafer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Email: agonafer@wustl.edu
- Data Center Cooling
- Thermal Management
- Thermal Desalination
- Hypersonics
- Additive Manufacturing

Richard Axelbaum, PhD
The Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, Energy, Environ. & Chem. Engr.
- Email: axelbaum@wustl.edu
- Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

Peng Bai, PhD
Assistant Professor in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
- Email: pbai@wustl.edu
- Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems

Arpita Bose, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology and Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Email: abose@wustl.edu
- Sustainable bioproduction
- Carbon sequestration

Ray Ehrhard, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
- Email: rehrhard@wustl.edu
- Pollution control
- Energy management

Bret Gustafon, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Email: gustafson@wustl.edu
- Corruption in the fossil fuel industry
- Community resistance to polluting corporations
- Corporate and academic greenwashing
- Fossil fuel industry interference in local and state policy making

Patty Heyda, MArch
Associate Professor, Urban Design and Architecture
- Email: heyda@wustl.edu
- American cities
- Redevelopment, Race and Inequality
- Cities and climate change
- Mapping
- Urban Design
- Architecture
- Planning and Public policy

Rohan Mishra, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Email: rmishra@wustl.edu
- Electrocatalysts
- Solar cells
- Batteries

Bryce Sadtler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Email: sadtler@wustl.edu
- Solar Energy Conversion

Patricia Weisensee, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Email: p.weisensee@wustl.edu
- HVAC-R systems
- Energy efficiency and thermal management of electronics

Michael Wysession, PhD
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: michael@seismo.wustl.edu
- Earth Structure
- Energy Systems
- Geoscience Education
- Geoscience Literacy
- Seismology
- STEM Education