Affiliated Researchers: Physical Environment

Melissa Bopp

Professor, Kinesiology
Top research keywords: Exercise, Students, Health, Travel, Faith

Cheryl Thompson

Professor, Interim Vice Chair for Education and Endowed Chair in Cancer Population Sciences Research, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: Breast Neoplasms, Colonic Neoplasms, Adenoma, Melanoma, Neoplasms

Ming Xiao

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Soils, Erosion, Soil, Fluids, Sand

Junjun Yin

Assistant Research Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Twitter, Mobile Computing, Activity Pattern, Visibility, Big Data

Melanie Hetzel-Riggin

Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Wounds And Injuries

Yuqing Hu

Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Fault Detection, Time Series, Machine Learning, Robotics, Energy Utilization

Mallika Bose

Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Built Environment, India, Woman, Income, Residential Satisfaction

Xiang Gao

Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Top research keywords: Parkinson Disease, Prospective Studies, Confidence Intervals, Restless Legs Syndrome, Cohort Studies

Sulin Zhang

Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Lithiation, Carbon Nanotubes, Lithium-ion Batteries, Lithium, Electric Batteries

Leann Andrews

Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Dental Caries, Peru, Poverty Areas, Floating, Rainforest

Pengfei Zhang

Assistant Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Anticyclones, Monsoons, Sea Ice, Summer, Anticyclone

Xiaofeng Liu

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Sediment Transport, Sediments, Scour, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Suspended Sediments

Josephine Wee

Assistant Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Aflatoxins, Aspergillus, Aflatoxin, Secondary Metabolism, Oxidative Stress

Guangqing Chi

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: County, Land Use, Amenity, Migration, Twitter

Houtan Jebelli

Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Electroencephalography, Robots, Robotics, Biosensors, Wearable Sensors

Mohammad Rezaee

Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Rare Earth Elements, Mine Dust, Rare Earth Element, Coal, Coal Dust

Wangda Zuo

Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Modelica, Fluid Dynamics, Buildings, Office Buildings, HVAC

Gamini Mendis

Assistant Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Machining, Bauxite, Recovery, Lignin, Energy Utilization

Shujie Wang

Assistant Professor in Geography, Geography
Top research keywords: Ice Shelf, Land Ice, Altimetry, ICESat, Ice

Chaopeng Shen

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Learning, Streamflow, Soil Moisture, Hydrology, Land Surface

Li Li

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Reactive Transport, Mineral, Solute, Watershed, Dissolution

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes

Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Hispanic Americans, Menarche, Genomics, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Genome-Wide Association Study

Stephen Mainzer

Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Chesapeake Bay, Environmental Behavior, Transdisciplinary, Environmental Impact, Watershed

Andrew Mowen

Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Top research keywords: Recreation, Leisure, Services, Public, Participation

Miriam Freedman

Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Aerosol, Aerosols, Phase Separation, Nucleation, Ammonium Sulfate

Susan Sinnott

Department Head and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Molecular Dynamics, Simulation, Many-Body Potential, Density Functional Theory, Computer Simulation

Ezra Clark

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Electrochemical Reduction, Nanowires, Reduction, Nanowire, Positive Ions

Konstantinos Alexopoulos

Assistant Research Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Catalysts, Dehydration, Butenes, Catalyst, Zeolites

Lauren Greenlee

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanoparticles, Iron, Struvite, Magnesium, Wastewater

Michael Janik

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Density Functional Theory, Adsorption, Catalysts, Oxidation, Surface

Xianbiao Hu

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Traffic, Travel Time, Trajectories, Trajectory, Autonomous Vehicles

Lorena Tribe

Professor of Chemistry, Division of Science (Berks)
Top research keywords: Computational Chemistry, Glyphosate, Montmorillonite, Sodium Chloride, Chemistry

Scott A. Showalter

Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Protein, RNA, Statistical Ensemble, MicroRNA

Linghao Zhong

Professor of Chemistry, Penn State Mont Alto
Top research keywords: Cellulose, Soil, Simulation, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Trichoderma

Anne-Marie Chang

Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Sleep, Circadian Clocks, Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders, Light, Melatonin

Tania Slawecki

Research Associate, Materials Research Institute (MRI)
Top research keywords: Microwaves, Microwave, Shear, Shearing, Magnetrons

Amin Mehrabian

Associate Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Fluids, Rocks, Geomechanics, Porosity, Shale

Ismaila Dabo

Corning Faculty Fellow Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Density Functional Theory, Electronic Structure, Transition Metals, Energy, Photocatalysts

Ali Borhan

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Drop, Surface Active Agents, Fluids, Flow, Bubble

Susan Brantley

Dr. Hubert Barnes and Dr. Mary Barnes Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Weathering, Dissolution, Shale, Regolith, Soil