Research Department
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
Tim Bartley, PhD
Professor of Sociology
- Email: bartleyt@wustl.edu
- Forests and climate
- Transnational governance
- Global production networks
- Corporate sustainability
- Environmental justice
Arpita Bose, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology and Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Email: abose@wustl.edu
- Sustainable bioproduction
- Carbon sequestration
Carlos A Botero, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Email: cbotero@wustl.edu
- Evolutionary ecology
Alexander S Bradley, PhD
Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: abradley@levee.wustl.edu
- Environmental and biological parameters that produce chemical compounds stored in the geological record
- Compounds that can be climate proxies
Jeffrey G Catalano, PhD
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: catalano@levee.wustl.edu
- Biogeochemistry in soils and aquatic system
David A Fike, PhD
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: dfike@levee.wustl.edu
- Biogeochemical cycling
- Stable isotope analysis
- Earth's long-term environmental evolution
- Past records of Earth's environmental change
Catalina Freixas, MArch
Associate Professor, Architecture
- Email: Freixas@wustl.edu
- Resilience in natural, built, and social environments
- Social and environmental consequences of urban segregation
Daniel Giammar, PhD
Professor of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
- Email: giammar@wustl.edu
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration
- Biogeochemical Processes Influencing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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
Sophia Hayes, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Email: hayes@wustl.edu
- Carbon capture and sequestration
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
John Hoal, MAUD
Professor, Architecture
- Email: hoal@wustl.edu
- Sustainable Urbanism
- Design and activation of public space
- Climate Resiliency Planning
- Equitable City Redevelopment
- Philosophy of architecture and the city
Derek Hoeferlin, MArch
Associate Professor, Chair of landscape architecture and urban design programs
- Email: hoeferlin@wustl.edu
- Architecture
- Landscape architecture
- Urban design
- Water-based design strategies
- Climate change adaptation
- Comparative watershed research
Lora Iannotti, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health
- Email: liannotti@wustl.edu
- Nutrition
- Sustainable healthy diets
- Food security
Young-Shin Jun, PhD
Professor in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
- Email: ysjun@wustl.edu
- Carbon capture, utilization, and storage
- CO2-material interactions
- Water purification for remote or disaster-struck areas
Bronwen L Konecky, PhD
Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: bkonecky@wustl.edu
- Tropical climate variability and change
- Paleoclimatology
- Global water cycle
- Stable isotope and organic geochemistry
- Paleoclimate modeling and data-model intercomparison
- Natural drivers of climate change
Johnelle Lamarque, PhD
Lecturer, Anthropology
- Email: lamarque@wustl.edu
- Environmental and housing issues
Suzanne Loui, PhD
Lecturer, Environmental Studies
- Email: sloui@wustl.edu
- Environmental humanities
- Environmental modernism
- Public perception of energy technologies
- Science communication
- Environmental History
Frank Lovett, PhD
Professor, Political Science
- Email: flovett@wustl.edu
- Theories of Freedom
- Social Justice
- Rule of Law
Randall Martin, PhD
Professor in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
- Email: rvmartin@wustl.edu
- Atmospheric composition
- Atmospheric aerosols
- Satellite remote sensing
- Atmospheric modeling
- Atmospheric chemistry
Edward McPherson, MFA
Associate Professor of English
- Email: emcpherson@wustl.edu
- Environmental justice
- Climate Change
- Radioactive/nuclear legacy
- Fracking/oil & gas production
Kim Medley, PhD
Director of Tyson Research Center, Tyson Research Center
- Email: kim.medley@wustl.edu
- Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
- Urban ecology and evolution
- Disease vector ecology and evolution
- Human-environment interactions
Rohan Mishra, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Email: rmishra@wustl.edu
- Electrocatalysts
- Solar cells
- Batteries
Jonathan Myers, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology
- Email: jamyers@wustl.edu
- Biodiversity & Environmental Change
- Community Ecology
- Biogeography
- Fire & Disturbance Ecology
- Species Interactions in Changing Environments
- Forest Ecology
- Plant Functional Ecology & Ecophysiology
- Restoration Ecology
- Tropical Ecology
Ryan Ogliore, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physics
- Email: rogliore@wustl.edu
- Paleoproxies of climate change
Rachel Penczykowski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Email: rpenczykowski@wustl.edu
- Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
- Plant pathogen interaction with the environment
- Environmental drivers of disease
- Effects of diseases on ecosystems
William Pickard, PhD
Senior Professor, Electricity and Systems Engineering
- Email: wfp@ese.wustl.edu
- Exploring fossil fuel trajectories
- Preparing for fossil fuel depletion
- Evaluating sustainability of renewable energy sources
- Discerning potential realism of proposed energy storage technologies
Ramesh Raliya, PhD
Research Scientist, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
- Email: rameshraliya@wustl.edu
- Reducing fertilizer runoff
- Sustainable agriculture
- Energy efficient recovery
- Recycling and reuse of nutrients and water
- Integration of data science and artificial intelligence
Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, PhD
Associate Professor, Fashion Design
- Email: mrupper@wustl.edu
- Sustainable fashion
Bryce Sadtler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Email: sadtler@wustl.edu
- Solar Energy Conversion
Linda Samuels, PhD
Associate Professor in Urban Design
- Email: lcsamuels@wustl.edu
- Urban Design
- Sustainable Urbanism
- Next Generation Infrastructure
- Alternative Metrics
Betsy Sinclair, PhD
Professor, Political Science
- Email: bsinclair@wustl.edu
- Changes in attitudes and opinions surrounding climate change
Jennifer R Smith, PhD
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: jensmith@wustl.edu
- Understanding the interaction between humans and their environment as recorded in the archeological record
- Effects of climatic and environmental changes on resources available to people through time
- Effects of changes in population and technology on human environmental impact
Steven S Smith, PhD
Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science, Professor of Political Science
- Email: smith@wustl.edu
- Politics of Climate Change
- Public Attitudes
William H Smith, PhD
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: whsmith@levee.wustl.edu
- Viability and composition of ecological niches
- Identification of species in oceans
- Land and urban environments
Joseph Steensma, EdD
Professor of Practice, Public Health
- Email: jsteensma@wustl.edu
- Sustainable food systems
- Leveraging enterprise to solve environmental problems
- Food/climate/ecology/enterprise nexus
Joan Strassmann, PhD
Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology
- Email: strassmann@wustl.edu
- Response of protists like the social amoeba Dictyostelium to warming soil temperatures
Yinjie Tang, PhD
Associate Professor, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
- Email: yinjie.tang@wustl.edu
- Bioprocess engineering
Jay Turner, PhD
Professor, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Enginnering; Vice Dean for Education
- Email: jrturner@wustl.edu
- Air quality
- Green engineering
Jian Wang, PhD
Professor, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Enginnering
- Email: jian@wustl.edu
- Aerosols
- Effects of aerosols on radiation, clouds, climate, and air quality
Leyao Wang, PhD
Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine
- Email: leyao.wang@wustl.edu
- Impact of extreme climate events on human health
- Disaster exposure in early life and human microbiome
- Chronic diseases
- Human health
- Microbiomes
Edythe Weeks, PhD
Adjunct Faculty and Fulbright Specialist, Political Science
- Email: eweeks@wustl.edu
- Outer Space and Polar Law & Politics
Patricia Weisensee, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
- Email: p.weisensee@wustl.edu
- HVAC-R systems
- Energy efficiency and thermal management of electronics
Katie Westby, PhD
Staff Scientist, Tyson Research Center
- Email: kwestby@wustl.edu
- Mosquito ecology and evolution
- Anthropogenic impacts on mosquitoes
- Disease ecology
- Urban evolutionary ecology
Douglas Wiens, PhD
Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: doug@wustl.edu
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Global sea level rise