Ajla Aksamija

Professor and Distinguished Chair for Resilient Places
College of Architecture + Planning

Focus Areas

High-Performance Buildings, Advanced Building Technologies, Energy-Efficient Design, Building Science

Zlatan Aksamija

Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Energy materials, Thermoelectrics, Photovoltaics

William Anderegg

Director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy
Associate Professor of Biology
College of Science/School of Biological Sciences

Focus Areas

Climate change, Nature-based Climate Solutions, Carbon markets, Policy

Scott Anderson

Distinguished Professor
Science/Chemistry

Focus Areas

High Temperature Surface Reactions, Catalysis, Electrocatalysis, High Temperature Materials

A.K. Balaji

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Focus Areas

Sustainable design and manufacturing, Recycling, Redesign, and Remanufacturing, Advanced manufacturing, Energy efficiency in advanced manufacturing

Alexander Balk

Professor
Mathematics

Focus Areas

Nuclear fusion, Transport barriers, Magnetic confinement, Drift waves

Michael Barber

Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Focus Areas

Hydropower, Water

Michael Bartl

Research Professor
College of Science/Chemistry

Focus Areas

Geoinspired Materials, Nanoconfined Fluids, Geothermal, Hydrogen

Dmitry Bedrov

Professor
Materials Science & Engineering

Focus Areas

Batteries, Fuel Cells, Modeling

Tabitha Benney

Associate Professor
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences/Political Science

Focus Areas

Energy Transition, Clean Energy, Tribal and Rural Energy, Air Pollution

Lauren Birgenheier

Associate Professor
Geology & Geophysics

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals, Carbon storage, Hydrocarbon, Geothermal

Connor Bischak

Assistant Professor
College of Science/Chemistry

Focus Areas

Ion transport, Electron transport, Thermal energy storage, Solar

Christoph Boehme

Professor
Physics & Astronomy

Focus Areas

Solar

Darryl Butt

Dean of the Graduate School
College of Science/Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

High Temperature Materials, Nuclear Materials, Energy Materials, Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

Marc Calaf

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Focus Areas

Wind Energy, Solar Energy

Aurora Clark

Professor
College of Science/Chemistry

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals, Nuclear, separations, batteries

Lincoln Davies

Professor of Law
S.J. Quinney College of Law

Focus Areas

Energy law and policy, Renewables (solar, wind, etc.), Nuclear, Carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Juan Carlos de Obeso

Assistant Professor
CMES Geology and Geophysics

Focus Areas

Petrology, Geochemistry, Carbon Mineralization

Milind Deo

Director Energy & Geoscience Institute
Professor
Chemical Engineering/Energy & Geoscience Institute

Focus Areas

Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Hydrogen, Reservoir Engineering, Energy Storage

Jessica DiCarlo

Assistant Professor
Geography

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals, China, (Geo)politics, Environment

Todd Easton

Professor (Lecturer)
College of Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Focus Areas

Distribution Network

Eric Eddings

Professor
College of Engineering/Chemical Engineering

Focus Areas

Renewable fuels, Fossil fuels, Carbon products, Carbon capture

Eric Edelman

Postdoc Research Associate
Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI)

Focus Areas

Carbon sequestration, Rock mechanics, Porous media, Reservoir simulations

Danielle Endres

Professor of Communication
Director of Environmental Humanities Program
Communication/EH/College of Humanities

Focus Areas

Energy Democracy & Decision-Making, Energy Humanities, Nuclear Energy and Waste, Energy Justice

Zak Fang

Professor
CoS and CoE/Materials Sci and Engineering/Metallurgy

Focus Areas

Industrial Process Energy Efficiency, Critical Minerals and Materials, Hydrogen, Additive Manufacturing

Matt Fry

Associate Professor
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences/Geography and ENVST

Focus Areas

Energy Governance, Social Science, Policy, Oil and gas

Rajive Ganguli

Professor of Mining Engineering
Mining Engineering/College of Mines and Earth Sciences

Focus Areas

Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Mining Engineering, Critical Minerals

Tao Gao

Professor
Chemical Engineering

Focus Areas

energy storage, critical material, industry decarbonization, sustainability

Tom Georgis

Managing Director Energy Accelerator
Adjunct Lecturer
Eccles

Focus Areas

Clean Tech, Entrepreneurship, Decarbonization, Climate Solutions

Cari Johnson

Professor
COS/CMES/Geology and Geophysics

Focus Areas

CCUS, Geothermal, Hydrogen, Workforce Development

William Johnson

Professor
Geology & Geophysics

Focus Areas

Critical minerals

Karoly (Charles) Kocsis

Professor
CMES/Mining Engineering Department

Focus Areas

Mine Ventilation Optimization, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mine Safety and Health, Critical Minerals

Sarah Lambart

Assistant Professor
CMES-CoS/Geology and Geophysics

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals, Carbon sequestration

Fan-Chi Lin

Associate Professor
College of Science/Geology and Geophysics

Focus Areas

Subsurface imaging, Geothermal

John Lin

Professor
Atmospheric Sciences

Focus Areas

Carbon emissions, Air quality, Greenhouse Gases, Atmospheric modeling

Peter Lippert

Associate Professor
CMES/Geology & Geophysics

Focus Areas

Geothermal, Critical Minerals, Environmental Science

Mingxi Liu

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Focus Areas

Renewable energy, Energy Justice, Control and Optimization, Power systems

Cathy Liu

Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Focus Areas

Transportation, Electrification, Energy, Vulnerable population

Ainsley Lloyd

Associate Director
Energy Accelerator, Technology Licensing Office

Focus Areas

Commercialization

Kate Magargal

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Honors College

Focus Areas

Energy Equity, Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Firewood

John McLennan

Professor
Chemical Engineering

Focus Areas

Geothermal, Sequestration

Brijes Mishra

Associate Professor
Mining Engineering

Focus Areas

Underground Energy Storage, Geothermal Heat Extraction from Dry Rock, Critical Minerals Extraction, Abandoned Mined Land Utilization

Swomitra Mohanty

Assoicate Professor
College of Engineering/Chemical Engineering, Materials Science Engineering

Focus Areas

Sensors, Environment, Critical Materials, Energy

Valeria Molinero

Distinguished Professor; Jack and Peg Simons Endowed Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
College of Science/Department of Chemistry

Focus Areas

Water and Ice (Climate Mitigation), Electrolysis and Fuel Cells (Hydrogen Economy)

Eric Montoya

Assistant Professor
Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas

Energy efficiency, Energy Harvesting, Energy Efficient Computing

Nathan Moodie

Research Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Focus Areas

Geologic Carbon Storage, Carbon Capture and Storage, Reservoir Engineering, Relative Permeability

Pania Newell

Associate Professor
Engineering/Mechanical

Focus Areas

Geological Systems, Hydrogen Storage, Geothermal, Geo-Inspired Materials

Michael Nigra

Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering

Focus Areas

Catalysis, Hydrogen, Nanomaterials Synthesis, Carbon conversion

Alex Novoselov

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Focus Areas

Hydrogen, Ammonia, Clean Combustion, Emissions

Kristine Pankow

Research Professor
Geology and Geophysics

Focus Areas

Seismology, Utah FORGE

Eric Pardyjak

Professor
College of Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Focus Areas

Urban Energy, Mass, and Momentum Exchange, Wind, Wind and Solar Resource Assessment

Keunhan Park

Associate Professor
College of Engineering/Mechanical Engineering

Focus Areas

Solar, Concentrated Solar Power, Nanoscale Energy Conversion, Thermal Management

Masood Parvania

Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Focus Areas

Economics and Resilience of Power and Energy Systems, Machine Learning, Grid Resiliency

Jamie Pleune

Associate Professor of Law (Research)
S.J. Quinney College of Law

Focus Areas

Environmental Law & Policy, Public Lands, Critical Minerals, Permitting

Kody Powell

Associate Professor
College of Engineering

Focus Areas

solar energy, Energy Efficiency, Industrial Decarbonization, Manufacturing

Sameer Rao

Assistant Professor
College of Engineering

Focus Areas

Solar, Carbon Capture, Thermal Storage, Decarbonization of Manufacturing

Bryony Richards

Research Scientist
Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI)

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals, Hyperspectral Imaging, Minerals, Imaging

Carsten Rott

Professor
Science / Physics & Astronomy

Focus Areas

Solar, Antarctica

Prashant Sarswat

Research Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals: Rare Earth Extraction, Rare Earth Metal: Refining, Lithium Separation

Michael Scarpulla

Professor
Materials Science and Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Focus Areas

Thin Film Photovoltaic Materials & Devices, Semiconductors for Efficient Power Handling

Gerard Schuster

Research Professor
College of Science/GG Geophysics

Focus Areas

Oil & Gas Exploration, Education, Seismic Experiments, Machine Learning

Eiichi Setoyama

Research scientist
Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI)

Focus Areas

Natural hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, Hydrogen

Julie Sieving

Co-Director, Intermountain Industrial Assessment Center
College of Engineering

Focus Areas

Underserved STEM Populations, Workforce Development, Olympics

Matthew Sigman

Distinguished Professor
College of Science/Chemistry

Focus Areas

Flow Batteries, Recyclable Polymers

Christopher Simon

Professor
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences/Political Science-Public Affairs

Focus Areas

Renewable Energy–Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility

Michael Simpson

Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Nuclear, Molten Salt, Recycling, Waste

Glenn Sjoden

Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Focus Areas

Nuclear Systems Analysis, Nuclear Energy Data Science, Radiation Transport, Reactor Physics

Misha Skliar

Professor
Chemical Engineering

Focus Areas

Spatially-Resolved Ultrasonic Thermometry, Sensing in Extreme Environments, Structure-Integrated Sensing, State Estimation, Machine Learning, and Control

Hong Yong Sohn

Distinguished Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Hydrogen, Hydrogen Steelmaking

Jessica Swanson

Assistant Professor
Chemistry

Focus Areas

Climate Mitigation, Methane Reductions, Nature-Based Solutions, Methanotrophic Bioreactors

Orest Symko

Professor
College of Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas

Waste Heat Harvesting, Refrigeration, New Materials, Carbon-Free Power

Ming Lee Tang

Associate Professor
Chemistry

Focus Areas

Solar, Photon Upconversion

Joel Thornton

Associate Dean, Collections & Scholarly Communication
J. Willard Marriott Library

Focus Areas

Ashutosh Tiwari

Professor
College of Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals, Mobility Electrification, Carbon-Free Power

Brooke Tucker

Technology Outreach Marketing Manager
Energy & Geoscience Institute

Focus Areas

Energy Policy, Marketing, Outreach

Valy Vardeny

Distinguished Professor
College of Science, Department of Physics & Astronomy

Focus Areas

Solar, Photovoltaics

Rich Walje

CEO
RAW-Energy, Inc.

Focus Areas

Energy Transition, Carbon Sequestration, Hydrogen Production

Xuming Wang

Research Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Mineral Processing, Critical Mineral, Polymer Solid Electrolyte for Battery, Li-S and Na-ion Batteries, Surface Chemistry

Chen Wang

Assistant Professor
College of Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Wind Energy Materials, Polymer Materials from Renewable Resources, Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials

Roseanne Warren

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Focus Areas

Batteries, Energy Storage

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

Associate Professor
Chemistry

Focus Areas

Carbon-free Power, Hydrogen Economy, Critical Minerals, Solar power

Kevin Whitty

Professor
College of Engineering/Chemical Engineering

Focus Areas

Biomass Energy, Hydrogen, Carbon Capture, Gasification

Ling Zang

Professor
College of Engineering/Materials science and Engineering

Focus Areas

Critical Minerals, Solar Cells, Lithium Battery

Qilei Zhu

Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department

Focus Areas

Sustainable Chemical Synthesis, Electrocatalysis, Photochemistry

Qilei Zhu

Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department

Focus Areas

Sustainable Chemical Synthesis, Electrocatalysis, Photochemistry