Affiliated Researchers: 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)

Jennifer Baka

Associate Professor and John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Biofuel, Wasteland, USA, Hydraulic Fracturing, India

Rui Shi

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Greenhouse Gas, Feedstock, Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Engineering, Jet Fuel

Julian Wang

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

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

Sohail Anwar

Professor, Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences & Technology (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Engineering Technology, Engineering, Penn State, Baccalaureate Degree, Electromechanical Engineering

Stephanie Buechler

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

Olumide Ogunmodimu

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Concentrated Solar Power Technologies, Vibrating Screen, Rheology, Granular Flow, Element Method

Ryan Thombs

Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, United States, Fixed Effects, US States, Income Inequality

Joseph Ranalli

Professor, Penn State Hazleton
Top research keywords: Transfer Function, Irradiance, Heat Release Rate, Advection, Diffusion Flame

Renee Obringer

Assistant Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Electricity Demand, United States, Climatic Change, Climate Change, Water Demand

Randy L. Vander Wal

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Nanomaterial, Soot, Nanostructures, Laser-induced Incandescence, Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs)

Clare Hinrichs

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Food, Bioenergy, Research Ethics, Farmer, Agriculture

Christine J. Kirchhoff

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

Phillip Savage

Professor and Walter L. Robb Family University Department Head, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Supercritical Water, Hydrothermal Liquefaction, Biocrude, Pyrolysis, Reaction Pathway

Stephen Mainzer

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

Robert D. Weaver

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

Charles Ray

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

Charles Andrew Cole

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Wetlands, United States Of America, Hydrogeomorphic, Flood Plain

Travis Flohr

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Environmental Justice, Methods Courses, Urban Trees, Mean Radiant Temperature, Virtual Field Trips

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

Zuleima Karpyn

Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research; Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Relative Permeability, Well Flooding, Wettability, Oil Recovery, Multiphase Flow

Md Habib Ullah

Assistant Professor, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Energy Management System, Alternating Direction Method Of Multipliers, Microgrid, DC Microgrid, Smart Grid

Somayeh Asadi

Associate Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Energy Utilization, Scheduling, Renewable Energy Resources, Hot Temperature, Asphalt Pavements

Wangda Zuo

Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Fluid Dynamics, Air Flow, Fast Fluid Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Office Buildings

Gregory Pavlak

Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Thermal Comfort, Heat Storage, Energy Use, Thermal Energy Storage, Energy Systems

Yuqing Hu

Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Information Modeling, Building Information Modeling, Construction Robot, Learning System, Construction Industry

Lisa Iulo

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

Arash Dahi Taleghani

Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Hydraulic Fracturing, Wellbore, Hydraulic Fracture, Natural Fracture, Lost Circulation Material

Houtan Jebelli

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

Chiara Lo Prete

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

Mark Miller

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Reynolds' Number, Reynolds Number, Compressed Air Motors, High Reynolds Number, Tunnel

Dassou Nagassou

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Plasmas, Decomposition, Solar Energy, Plasma

Juliana Vasco-Correa

Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Pretreatment, Fungal Pretreatment, Miscanthus, Bioproducts, Feedstock

George Young

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Convection, Weather, Forecast

Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri

Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Power Engineering, Power Grid, Compressed Air Motors, Doubly-Fed Induction Generator, Outages

Susan Stewart

Associate Teaching Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Wind Turbine, Condenser, Condenser Design, Exchanger, Finned-tube Condenser

Bruce Logan

Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Microbial Fuel Cell, Microbial Electrolysis Cell, Power Generation, Reactor, Power Density

Guido Cervone

Professor of Geography and Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Geography
Top research keywords: Atmospherics, Remote Sensing, Analog Ensemble, Machine Learning, Earthquake

Steven Greybush

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Data Assimilation, Atmospherics, Mars, Storm, Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF)