Affiliated Researchers

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment. Currently, 1018 faculty and researchers from across Penn State, including the Commonwealth campuses, are affiliates of IEE.

Luis Ayala


William A. Fustos Family Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Gas Reservoir, Gas Well, Gas Condensate Reservoir, Production Data, Condensate Gas

Rahman Azari


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

Mohamed Badissy


Assistant Professor, Dickinson Law (Carlisle)

William Bahnfleth


Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation, Chilled Water, Storage Tank, Air Quality, Irradiation System

Jennifer Baka


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

Mook Bangalore


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

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

Mary Barbercheck


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Cover Crops, Cover Crop, Entomopathogenic Nematodes, Entomopathogenic Nematode, Tillage

Joshua Trey Barnett


Assistant Professor in Communication Arts & Sciences (College of the Liberal Arts), Communication Arts and Sciences
Top research keywords: Ecological, Authors, Scholars, Anthropocene, Partiality

Adrian Barragan


Assistant Research Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Cow, Dairy Cows, Milk, Lactating Cows, Metritis

Michael Barringer


Associate Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Turbine, Vane, Combustor, High Pressure Turbine, High-Pressure Turbine

Kathryn Bartling


Watershed Project Coordinator

Tom Bartnik


Director, Penn State Center Pittsburgh

Amrita Basak


Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Epitaxy, Scanning Laser Epitaxy, Three Dimensional Printing, Powder Bed Fusion, Additive Manufacturing

Sharmistha Basak


Graduate Student

Rebecca Bascom


Professor, Department of Medicine
Top research keywords: Bronchoscopy, Endobronchial Ultrasonography, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Lung Cancer

Saurabh Basu


Associate Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Surface (Surface Science), Machining, Plastic Deformation, Microstructure Evolution, Additive Manufacturing

Rick Bates


Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Horticulture, Vegetative Buffers, Dust, Christmas Trees, Foliar Nitrogen

Ryan Baxter


Associate Teaching Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Double Crop, Biomass Potential, Winter Crops, United States, Energy Crop

Ekaterina Bazilevskaya


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Regolith, Porosity, Diabase, Borehole, Carbon Dioxide

Gui Becker


Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis, Amphibians, Anura, Chytridiomycosis, Microbiome

Robert Beelman


Professor Emeritus of Food Science; Director, Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health
Top research keywords: Nutritional and medicinal properties of mushrooms, Antioxidants-selenium and ergothioneine, Vitamin D-enrichment of mushrooms

Allison Beese


Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Three Dimensional Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64), Mechanical Properties, Ti-6Al-4V

Deanna Behring



Top research keywords: Modality, Disease Threat, Animal Infectious Diseases, Intercultural Virtual Collaboration, Conference Report

Alfredo Bellon


Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Top research keywords: Schizophrenia, Neuronal Cells, Neurite, Melatonin, Dementia Praecox

Adam Benfield


Graduate Student

Jacob Benfield


Professor of Psychology, Division of Social Sciences (Abington)
Top research keywords: Natural Sounds, Psychology, National Park, Social Interaction, Recreation

Louis Bengyella


Assistant Research Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Cochliobolus Lunatus, Curvularia Lunata, Conidium, Solanum Tuberosum, Lycopersicon

Sheri A. Berenbaum


Professor, Psychology
Top research keywords: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Androgens, Sex Characteristics, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Spatial Navigation

Robert D. Berghage


Associate Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Roofs, Roof, Green Roofs, Stormwater, Runoff

Philip Bevilacqua


Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: RNA, Ribozyme, Mg2+, RNA Structure, Hepatitis Delta Virus

David M. Beyer


Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Mushroom Substrate, Substrate Preparation, Agaricus Bisporus, Hypnum, Spawning

Nita Bharti


Associate Professor And Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Measles, Niger, COVID-19, Hendra Virus, Wintering Habitat

Gopal Bhatt


Assistant Research Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State
Top research keywords: hydrology, open-source, watershed, watershed modeling, geographical information systems

David Bice


Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Stratotype, Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, Oligocene, Eccentricity, Eocene

Dave Biddinger


Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Pollinator, Apoidea, Pennsylvania, Pollinators, Osmia

Trevor Birkenholtz


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

Jordan Bisanz


Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Intestine Flora, Microbiome, Gut Microbiome, Microflora, Microbiota