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, 1020 faculty and researchers from across Penn State, including the Commonwealth campuses, are affiliates of IEE.

Shelby Fleischer


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Chrysomelidae, Beetle, Coleoptera, Acalymma Vittatum, Potato

Travis Flohr


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

Erik Foley


Director of Sustainability, Smeal College of Business

Frederico Fonseca


Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Ontology, Geographic Information, Information Systems, Geographic Information System, Ontology-driven

Majid Foolad


Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Tomato, Lycopersicon, Salt Tolerance, Quantitative Trait Loci, Quantitative Trait Locus

Chris Forest


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Climate Models, Climate System, Earth System Model

Daniel Foster


Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Educators, Communities Of Practice, Discourse, Agriculture, Global Learning

Chris Fowler


Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: USA, Population Censuses, United States, Zones Boundary, Poverty

Lara Fowler


Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Stakeholder Engagement, Water Resources Management, Water Management, Climate Change, Washington

Anthony Foyle


Associate Professor, School of Science (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Lake Erie, United States, United States Of America, Great Lakes

Mary Frecker


Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Compliant Mechanism, Actuation, Actuator, Topology Optimization, Minimally Invasive Surgery

Kelsey Fredericks


Undergraduate Researcher

Miriam Freedman


Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Aerosol Particles, Ammonium Sulfate, Liquid-liquid Phase Separation, Organic Aerosol, Humidity

Katherine Freeman


Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Carbon 14, Carbon Isotopes, Eocene, N-alkanes, Organic Matter

James Freihaut


Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation, Resuspension, Duct, Commercial Building, Lamp

Andris Freivalds


Lucas Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Ergonomics, Tendons, Hand Strength, Rating, Hand Tools

Kirk French


Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Film Production and Media Studies

Sagan Friant


Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Infectious Diseases, Primates, Red-capped Mangabeys, Biodiversity, Bushmeat

Brian Fronk


Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Microchannel, Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, Pressure Drop, Condensation, High Temperature

Zhezhen Fu


Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Sintering, Density, Mechanical Properties, Composite Material, Sintering Property

Jose D. Fuentes


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Emissions, Isoprene, Amazon, Atmospherics

Tanya Furman


Associate Vice President and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, The Pennsylvania State University
Top research keywords: Lava, Lithosphere, Magma, Basalt, Magmatism

Mark Gagnon


Research Associate, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Human Resources, Supervisors, Supervisory Personnel, Personnel, Cellular Agriculture

Michael Gannon


Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Chiroptera, Puerto Rico, Experimental Forests, Hurricanes, Habitat Selection

Xiang Gao


Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Top research keywords: Confidence Interval, Parkinson's Disease, Chinese Adults, All-cause Mortality, Prospective Cohort Study

Raghu Garud


Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Management and Organization
Top research keywords: Entrepreneurs, Cochlear Implant, Entrepreneurship, Tuition Fee, By Design

Vikash Gayah


Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram, Traffic Signal, Safety Performance, Urban Network, Traffic Network

David M. Geiser


Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Fusarium, Cladistics, DNA Sequence, DNA Sequencing, Fusarium Solani Species Complex

Jeremy Gernand


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

Melissa Gervais


Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: North Atlantic, Sea Surface Temperature, Self Organizing Map, Atmospherics, North America

Juan Pablo "JP" Gevaudan


Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Alkali-activated Cement, Sodium, Aluminosilicate, Cementitious Material, Geopolymer

Ali Ghazvinian


Architecture Graduate Student

C. Lee Giles


David Reese Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Digital Libraries, Search Engines, Recurrent Neural Networks, Metadata, Neural Networks

Leland Glenna


Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: USA, Scientists, Genetically Modified Crops, University Research, Agricultural Biotechnology

Adam Glick


Associate Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Keratinocytes, Transforming Growth Factor-β, Keratinocyte, Neoplasm, Mouse

Stephan J. Goetz


Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: USA, U.S. Counties, Economic Growth, Rural Areas, County Level

John Golbeck


Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Photosystem I Protein Complex, Electrons, Sulfur, Iron, Phylloquinone

Ben Goldman


Sally W. Kalin Associate Librarian for Technological Innovations and Digital Records Archivist, University Libraries - University Park
Top research keywords: Climate Change Risk, Digital Archive, Personally Identifiable Information, Born-digital Archives, Climatic Change

Enrique Gomez


Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Block Copolymer, Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), Conjugated Polymer, Organic Solar Cells, Conjugated Polymers