Affiliated Researchers: Energy Policy

Daniel Mallinson

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, School of Public Affairs (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Policy Diffusion, Pennsylvania, American States, Narcotic Drugs, Artificial Intelligence

Elizabeth Long

Assistant Research Professor, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (PRC)
Top research keywords: Politicians, Alcohol Use Disorder, Use Of Research Evidence, Substance Use Disorder, Research Use

Joel Landry

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Biofuels, Land Market, Housing Market, Pork, Savings

Rahman Azari

Associate Professor in Architecture, Architecture
Top research keywords: Embodied Carbon, Lifecycle, Building Envelope, Environmental Impact, Life Cycle Assessment

Lisa Iulo

Professor, Architecture
Top research keywords: Ecodesign, Energy Consumption, Integrative Design, Energy Performance, Affordable Housing

Julian Wang

Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Energy Conservation, Thermal Comfort, Thermal Performance, Building Envelope, Energy Performance

Hannah Wiseman

Associate Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Legislation, Energy Law, Law, Federalism, Energy Governance

Trevor Birkenholtz

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: India, Rajasthan, Groundwater, Household, Water Supply

Timothy W. Kelsey

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Marcellus Shale, Agriculture, United States, Rollover Protective Structure

Ryan Thombs

Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Fixed Effects, Carbon Dioxide, Life Cycle, Life Expectancy, United States

Anne Menefee

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Basalt, Shale, Carbonate, Greenhouse Gas

Christine J. Kirchhoff

Associate Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: Climate Information, Climate Change, United States, Decision Making, Boundary Organization

Mehrdad Mahdavi

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Harmony Search, Neural Network, Optimization Problem, Gradient Descent, Approximation (Algorithm)

Mort Webster

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Power Generation, Texas, Air Quality, Electricity Generation, Power Engineering

Olumide Ogunmodimu

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Concentrated Solar Power Technologies, Vibrating Screen, Concentrated Solar Power, Energy Integration, Renewable Energy

Seth Blumsack

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Natural Gas, Power Engineering, United States, Power Grid, Joints (Structural Components)

Casey Helgeson

Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Risk Management, Climate Risk, Climate Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation, Convergence Research

Stephanie Buechler

Top research keywords: Climate Change, Mexico, Feminist Political Ecology, Sonora, Environmental Degradation

Junjun Yin

Assistant Research Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Twitter Data, Spatial Interaction, Mobile Device, Twitter User, Social Media

Kai Schafft

Professor, Education Policy Studies
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Marcellus Shale, Boomtowns, Rural Areas, Shale Gas

Ida Djenontin

Assistant Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Malawi, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Climate Change, Decision Making

Lara Fowler

Teaching Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Stakeholder Engagement, United States, Water Resources Management, Water Management, Health Impact

Mook Bangalore

Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy
Top research keywords: Poverty, Climate Change, Natural Disaster, Poor People, Poverty Reduction

Xun Cao

Professor, Political Science
Top research keywords: China, Democracy, Trade Competition, Environmental Regulation, Chinese

Chiara Lo Prete

Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Microgrid, Electricity Market, Crossed Product, Financial Transmission Rights, Market Design

Kenneth Davis

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Atmospherics, Emissions, Methane, Boundary Layer

Jeremy Gernand

Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Pulmonary Toxicity, Engineering, Dose-response, Occupational Safety And Health, Nanomaterials

Brian Black

Division Head and Distinguished Professor, History, Division of Arts & Humanities (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Energy Landscape, Climate Change, United States, Petroleum, Economic Development

Minghui Zhu

Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Multiple Robot, And-States, Motion Planning, Robot

Nicolas Choquette-Levy

Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Climate Risk, Risk Transfer, Household, Farming Communities, Subsistence Agriculture

Douglas Wrenn

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Subdivision Development, House Prices, Residential Subdivisions, Pennsylvania, Shale Gas Development

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

Zhen Lei

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: China, Patent Citations, Patent Examination, Citation Network, Academic Innovation

Stephen Mainzer

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Chesapeake Bay, USA, Collective Identity, Climate Change Adaptation

Ross Pifer

Clinical Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Cap-and-trade, Greenhouse Gas, India, Coal-fired Power Plant

Christopher Scott

Maurice K. Goddard Chair of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Mexico, India, Water Security, Water Scarcity, Climate Change

Charles Ray

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Lumber, Kilns, Hardwoods, Wood, Drying

Ashkan Negahban

Associate Professor of Engineering Management, Engineering Division (Great Valley)
Top research keywords: Simulated Environment, Simulation-based Learning, Agent-based Simulation, Simulation Model, Problem-Based Learning

Emily Pakhtigian

Assistant Professor in School of Public Policy, School of Public Policy
Top research keywords: Household, Coal-fired Power Plant, Cholera, Plant Closure, Risk Information

Mike Helbing

Adjunct Professor of Law