Affiliated Researchers: Energy Building

Megan Marshall

Research Assistant, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Pretreatment, Corn Stover, Ensilage, Solarization, Silage

Sibel Irmak

Research Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Aqueous Phase Reforming, Biomass Materials, Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen Gas Production, Hydrolysate

Daniel E. Walters

Assistant Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Administrative Law, Doctrine, Market Reaction, Transnational Law, Supreme Court

Yashar Mehmani

Assistant Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Multiscale, Pore Network Model, Porosity, Porous Media, Pore Level

Mark Klima

Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Coal, Refuse, Bituminous Coal, Slurry, Coal Preparation

Russell T. Johns

Professor and FCMG Chair in Fluid Behavior and Rock Interactions, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Oil Recovery, Phase Behavior, Surfactant, Equation Of State, Equations Of State

Barbara Arnold

Professor Of Practice in Energy and Mineral Engineering, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Froth Flotation, Coal Flotation, Fine Coal, Dewatering, Electric Power Plant

Robert D. Weaver

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Innovation Capacity, Pesticides, Relationship Quality, Markets, Price

Lauren Zarzar

Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Surface Active Agent, Surfactant, Hydrogel, Microscale, Surface (Surface Science)

Fred Cannon

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Activated Carbon, Perchlorate, Coal, Adsorption, Removal

Daniel Cahoy

Department Head and Robert G. and Caroline Schwartz Professor, Risk Management
Top research keywords: Product Information, Human Rights, Business Law, Technology Transfer, Patent Law

Alok Sinha

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Rotors, Bladed Rotor, Mistuning, Mistuned Bladed Disk, Sliding Mode Control

Jose Ventura

Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Supplier Selection, Programming Model, Refuelling Station, Transportation Cost, Price-dependent Demand

Greg Barber

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Photonic Crystals, Surface Plasmons, Photonic Crystal, Solar Cells, Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Saya Lee

Assistant Professor in Nuclear Engineering, Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering
Top research keywords: Steam Generator, Particle Image Velocimetry, Test Section, Rod, Helical Coil Steam Generator

Tak-Sing Wong

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Surface (Surface Science), Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Nanotube, Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs), Brochosomes

Ying Gu

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Cellulose, Synthase, Cellulose Synthase, Arabidopsis, Cellulose Synthesis

Bryan Vogt

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Film, Thin Films, Copolymer, Surface (Surface Science), Polystyrene

Anil Kulkarni

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Spark Plasma Sintering, Tungsten, Field-assisted Sintering Technology, Density, Vertical Wall

Karl Mueller

Top research keywords: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Magic Angle Spinning, Chemical Shift, Metal Spinning, Solid State

John Asbury

Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Ultrafast, Organic Solar Cells, Excited State, Nanocrystalline, Organic Photovoltaics

Xianzeng Niu

Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: United States Of America, Shale Gas, Pennsylvania, Sulfate Concentration, Appalachian Region

Jing Du

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Finite Element Method, X-Ray Computed Tomography, Mechanical Testing, Organic Light-emitting Diodes, Density

Asok Ray

Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Control System, Data Series, Symbolics, Time Series Data, Symbolic Dynamics

Joseph Najem

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Memristor, Droplet Interface Bilayer, Lipid Bilayer, Biomembranes, Actuator

Ayusman Sen

Distinguished Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Palladium, Alkene, Copolymerization, Carbon Dioxide, Micromotors

Benjamin Lear

Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Mixed Valence, Electron Transfer, Electronics, Gold Nanoparticles, Photothermal

Robert Voigt

Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Cast Iron, Foundry, Nodular Iron, Ductile Iron, Oxidation Reaction

Mary Beth Williams

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Nanoparticle, Polyether, Redox, Molten Salt, Magnetic Nanoparticles

Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Flow Distribution, Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Computer Simulation, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), Heat Sink

Kostas Papakonstantinou

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Partially Observable Markov Decision Process, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning (deep RL), Lifecycle, Markov Decision Process

Amir Sheikhi

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Hydrogel, Nanocellulose, Cellulose Nanocrystals, Biomaterial, Gelatin Methacryloyl (GelMA)

Gina Noh

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Hydrogenation, Carbon Dioxide, Methanol, CO2 Hydrogenation, Surface (Surface Science)

Stephanie Law

Associate Professor and Norris B. McFarlane Faculty Career Development Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Film, Topological Insulator, Thin Films, Bismuth Telluride, Surface (Surface Science)

Jon-Paul Maria

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Thin Films, Film, Oxide Compound, Ferroelectric Material, Permittivity

Andrea Argüelles

Associate Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Ultrasonics, Additive Manufacturing, Polycrystal, Ultrasonic Testing, Porosity

Sukwon Choi

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nitride, Ga2O3, Transistor, Gallium Nitride, GaN HEMT

Bert Chandler

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanoparticle, Dendrimer, Titanium Dioxide, Oxidation Reaction, Surface (Surface Science)

James Wang

Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Information Retrieval, Annotation, Image Database, Image Retrieval System, Content-based Image Retrieval

Jennifer Wagner

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: DNA Testing, Ethical Considerations, United States, Genomic Medicine, Direct-to-consumer