Energy Experts

From biofuels to batteries, UW–Madison has a wealth of expertise in energy. This resource connects you to UW–Madison faculty conducting research in all areas of energy. If you are a UW–Madison faculty member working in energy and would like to be added to this list, please email communications@energy.wisc.edu

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Name/Email	Title/Department	Research Tags	Research Description
Teresa Adams teresa.adams@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Policy & Regulation Modeling	Infrastructure asset management Geographic information systems in transportation Location referencing systems Spatial/temporal data modeling for transportation Bridge management
Joy Altwies altwies@wisc.edu	Faculty Associate/Program Director College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Building Efficiency Industry	Green and High-Performance Buildings Sustainable Construction Building Commissioning, Commissioning Process HVAC & R Systems Technology Innovation and Adoption
Daniel Amador-Noguez amadornoguez@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion	Metabolomics and metabolic regulation in biofuel producing bacteria Bacterial biofilms Human gut microbiome
Richard Amasino amasino@biochem.wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Plant Genetics & Breeding Education & Outreach	Plant genetics Plant flowering Vernalization Arabidopsis thaliana Brachypodium distachyon
Dan Anderson danderson@bus.wisc.edu	Professor Emeritus School of Business	Economics Industry	Sustainability risks facing businesses and organizations Sustainability risk management strategies
Mark H. Anderson manderson@engr.wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Nuclear Storage Supercritical Fluids	Salts, liquid metals, supercritical water (SCW), supercritical CO2 (SCO2) Supercritical fluids Brayton cycle for nuclear, solar and fossil advanced power generation Fluoride-cooled nuclear reactors Salt chemistry, purification, and materials compatibility.
Jean-Michel Ane jeanmichel.ane@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Sustainable Agriculture	Plant - microbe symbioses Signaling pathways Plant symbiotic genes Techniques to characterize the metabolome, proteome and phosphoproteome Development of tools for metabolite and peptide imaging in plant cells
Rob Anex anex@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Environmental Studies Modeling	Biological systems analysis and assessment Life cycle assessment Techno-economic analysis
Michael Arnold msarnold@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Solar	Carbon nanotubes Atomically thin sheets of graphene Two-dimensional materials Semiconducting molecules and polymers Heterostructures that integrate these components with conventional, macroscopic materials
Jean Bahr jmbahr@geology.wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Environmental Studies Water Modeling	Mass transport in groundwater Groundwater systems operation Groundwater/surface water interactions Naturally occurring and anthropogenic contaminants in shallow and deeper aquifers Groundwater as a resource for both humans and ecosystems
William Banholzer wbanholzer@wisc.edu	Research Professor, Honorary Fellow College of Engineering	Conversion Industry	Commercialization of technology Materials and process development with emphasis on the intersection with business opportunities
Carol Barford carol.barford@wisc.edu	Associate Scientist, Director Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Environmental Studies	Biomass production for heat and electric power Statistical modeling of biomass production Spatial analysis of farm income structure Analysis of the roles of agricultural subsidies and utilities contracts in farm risk
Brad Barham bradford.barham@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Economics Policy & Regulation Sustainable Agriculture	Microeconomics of economic development, technology adoption, agrarian structure, agricultural biotechnology, natural resource industries, and conservation Economics of specialization and diversification Economic viability of alternative agriculture
William Beckman beckman@engr.wisc.edu	Ouweneel-Bascom Professor Emeritus College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Building Efficiency Solar	Solar energy applications Radiation heat transfer Systems analysis Computer simulation-solar processes Energy load calculation
Sebastian Bednarek sybednar@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Plant Genetics & Breeding	Plant cell biology Intracellular protein trafficking Membrane biogenesis Plant cell cytokinesis
Arganthael Berson berson2@wisc.edu	Faculty Associate College of Engineering	Electricity Systems	Multiphase flow and flow at interfaces Evaporation driven self-assembly Advanced flow diagnostic techniques (PIV, hot-wire anemometry, high-speed microscopy) Energy systems (fuel cells, thermoacoustics, waste-heat recovery) Advanced manufacturing processes (inkjet printing of functional materials)
Vicki Bier vicki.bier@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Modeling	Security in the supply chains for food and agricultural products Critical infrastructure protection Security Technology hazards Risk analysis Decision analysis Operations research
James Blanchard blanchard@engr.wisc.edu	Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Nuclear Storage	Thermomechanical design for high heat fluxes Fusion technology Radiation damage Nuclear microbatteries
Paul Block pblock@engr.wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Energy & Society Water Modeling	Methods, models, and tools for managing climate variability and change Hydrologic forecasting and integration into decision models Addressing water quality and quantity extremes Hydro-economics and policy mechanisms Risk, reliability, and uncertainty Sustainable approaches
John Booske jhbooske@wisc.edu	Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems	Plasmas, metamaterials, metasurfaces and media that have a strong interaction with electromagnetic radiation Electromagnetic field effects Microwave vacuum electronics Innovative teaching and learning methods and instructional space design
Dominique Brossard dbrossard@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Policy & Regulation Science Communication	Public opinion, new media, and the perception of risks and benefits surrounding controversial science and technology The role of values in shaping public attitudes Cross-cultural analysis
Alan Carroll carroll@geology.wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Transportation & Fuels	Sedimentary provenance, weathering histories, and age relationships Processes of basin subsidence and fill as they relate to continental tectonics, regional paleoclimatic evolution, and petroleum exploration
Peter Carstensen peter.carstensen@wisc.edu	Professor Emeritus University of Wisconsin Law School	Economics Policy & Regulation	Relation of competition policy and law to regulated industries Relationship between antitrust law and regulation Buyer power issues The operation and regulation of markets for agricultural commodities
Michael Casler mdcasler@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Plant Genetics & Breeding	Genetics and breeding of perennial forage, biofuel, and turf grasses Genetics of plant traits related to nutritional value, cell-wall structure, cell-wall degradation, and bioenergy conversion; pest resistances; stress tolerances Quantitative and molecular genetics Evolution and domestication of perennial grasses
Joshua Coon jcoon@chem.wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion Plant Deconstruction Modeling	Chemical instrumentation including ETD, dissociation, ion/ion reactions. PRM, and theory Informatics including molecular identification, quantitation, and data visualization Proteomic and metabolomic technologies
Michael Corradini corradini@engr.wisc.edu	Professor Emeritus College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Nuclear	Multi-phase fluid mechanics and heat transfer Fission and fusion reactors Nuclear reactor safety Severe accident phenomena Power plant operation and design Energy policy Nuclear fuel cycle
Adrien Couet couet@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Nuclear	Nuclear Materials Irradiation Damage Corrosion of Metals and Alloys Oxidation Model Electrochemistry Synchrotron Radiation Defect Transport in Oxides
Ian Coxhead ian.coxhead@wisc.edu	Professor and Department Chair College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Electricity Systems Economics	Economics of development Effects of globalization and global market shocks on production, employment, wages and household income, and welfare Impacts and incidence of domestic policies on growth, trade and environment Economies of East and Southeast Asia
Cameron Currie currie@bact.wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Plant Deconstruction	Symbiotic associations between animals and microbes Symbiosis in fungus-growing ants Microbe and microbial community deconstruction of plant biomass in nature Identification, characterization, and systems biology analysis of cellulolytic microbes and microbial communities
Natalia DeLeon ndeleongatti@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Plant Genetics & Breeding	Plant breeding and quantitative genetics Population enhancement for biomass increase and cell wall composition Interface of plant breeding and quantitative and molecular genetics Phenotypic, genotypic and expression data Genetic analysis of developmental traits in maize
Steven Deller scdeller@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Economics Policy & Regulation Modeling	Modeling community and small regional economies Economic growth and development patterns Community economic development Public finance
Ankur Desai desai@aos.wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Letters & Sciences, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies	Environmental Studies Water	The influence of spatiotemporal scale, ecology, and micrometeorology on ecosystem-atmosphere interactions Micrometeorological, ecological, and biogeochemical interactions at regional to global scales Carbon and water cycling Climate variability and carbon cycles Terrestrial-aquatic linkages of carbon, water, and energy
Timothy Donohue tdonohue@bact.wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion	The pathways and networks that microbes use to grow, generate biomass or produce alternative fuels from sunlight or other renewable sources of energy Microbial networks and metabolic and regulatory pathways Genome sequencing, microarrays, proteomics and molecular techniques
Sheldon (Xiaodong) Du xdu23@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Economics Policy & Regulation	Economics of energy Commodity markets Economics of agriculture Applied econometrics
James Dumesic jdumesic@wisc.edu	Steenbock and Michel Boudart Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Conversion Plant Deconstruction Spinoffs	Kinetics and catalysis Surface and solid-state chemistry In situ catalyst studies
Tom Eggert tleggert@wisc.edu	Senior Lecturer Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies	Policy & Regulation Industry	Role of Microfinance in the developing world Greening of business, including brand and reputation building Social responsibility of business Environmental leadership programs, including state and federal programs Socially responsible investing
Paul Evans pgevans@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Solar	X-ray diffraction Microscopy, and optics, X-ray probes for ultrafast dynamics Micro-and-nanoscale properties of magnetic materials Magnetism Domains and switching in ferroelectric materials Single-monolayer scale organic electronics
Marianne Fairbanks mfairbanks@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor School of Human Ecology	Electricity Systems Materials Solar	Textile technology Intersection between textiles and alternative energy Geometry and woven structures Sustainability and entrepreneurship Natural and synthetic dyes
Kurt Feigl feigl@wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Electricity Systems Geothermal	Tectonic applications of geodesy Measuring and modeling crustal deformation from earthquake faults, volcano activity, glacier loads, and fluid extraction. Geodetic measurement techniques Numerical modeling approaches
Michael Ferris ferris@cs.wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Modeling	Development of modeling tools and software Problem analysis routines, data manipulations, and solution visualization procedures Theory and applications of optimization
Mark Finster mark.finster@wisc.edu	Professor Emeritus School of Business	Industry	Sustainable strategy, design, and improvement of complex systems in a wide variety of industries and sectors, including for profit, government, education, not-for-profit, large and small organizations
Cary Forest cbforest@wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Electricity Systems Nuclear	Liquid metal dynamos and MHD turbulence MHD instabilities in line-tied plasmas and their stabilization by moving metal walls Heat, current transport, and non-inductive currents in tokamaks and RFPs Flow-dominated plasmas
Dave Foster defoster@wisc.edu	Phil and Jean Myers Professor Emeritus College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Engine Research Modeling	Thermodynamics Heat transfer Fluid mechanics Internal combustion engines Combustion kinetics Emission formation Optical diagnostics in engines
Brian Fox bgfox@biochem.wisc.edu	Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Conversion	Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes Protein engineering The structure and reactivity of carbohydrate active enzymes
Dante Fratta fratta@wisc.edu	Associate Professor of Geological Engineering College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Geothermal	Fundamental physical behavior of soils and rocks Assessment of the near-surface underground using non-invasive tomographic studies (geotomography) On-shore and off-shore near surface geophysics Non-destructive detection of anomalies in civil engineering infrastructure Study of low strain stiffness in rock masses and soils with P- and S-waves Geomaterial process evaluation using elastic and electromagnetic waves
Edward Friedman efriedm1@wisc.edu	Professor Emeritus College of Letters & Sciences	Policy & Regulation	China's energy and environmental policies Democratization, globalization, and the political economy
Greeshma Gadikota gadikota@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Energy & Society	Natural and engineered materials for acid gas storage and CH4 recovery Advanced carbonate and clay chemistry and morphology Recovery of high-value materials from low-value substrates, and Functionalization of materials for sustainable energy and resource recovery coupled with integration with the built environment
Audrey Gasch agasch@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Plant Genetics & Breeding	Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses Computational systems and synthetic biology Evolutionary and population genetics Gene expression, genomics, and proteomics
Jaal Ghandhi jaal.ghandhi@wisc.edu	Grainger Professor of Sustainable Energy College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Engine Research	Combustion and fluid mechanics or internal combustion engines Laser-based diagnostics
Holly Gibbs hkgibbs@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Environmental Studies Sustainable Agriculture	Agricultural expansion in U.S., Brazil, and globally Tropical deforestation Conservation, agriculture, and energy policy Impact evaluation Environmental sustainability
Linda Graham lkgraham@wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Plant Genetics & Breeding	Algal/plant-microbe symbioses Metagenomics & genomics Wastewater remediation
Corbett Grainger corbett.grainger@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Energy & Society Economics Policy & Regulation	Environmental and natural resource economics Distributional effects of environmental policies Property rights in common pool resources
Claudio Gratton cgratton@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Energy & Society Sustainable Agriculture Water Modeling	Landscape ecology of arthropods Sustainable management of bioenergy landscapes Examining the ecological links between lakes and land
Robert Hamers rjhamers@wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Electricity Systems Materials Solar Storage Spinoffs	Next-generation electrolytes for lithium ion batteries Electrochemical and photochemical surface phenomena Electrode reactions Photocatalytic chemical transformations Photochemistry at surfaces
Chris Hegna cchegna@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Nuclear	Theoretical plasma physics Fusion science Magnetic confinement of plasmas Magnetohydrodynamics
Ive Hermans hermans@chem.wisc.edu	John and Dorothy Vozza Professor of Chemistry College of Engineering, College of Letters & Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion	Synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts Immobilization of homogeneous catalysts Catalytic and kinetic studies Unravelling of reaction mechanisms (In situ) spectroscopy (Infrared, Raman, UV-Vis) Reactions in supercritical fluids and expanded liquid phases Use of renewable resources Quantum-chemical and theoretical kinetic calculations Reaction engineering High-pressure reaction technology
Andrea Hicks hicks5@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Modeling	Sustainability Environmental systems analysis and optimization Life cycle assessment Agent-based modeling Rebound effect Environmental implications of technology
Chris Todd Hittinger cthittinger@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Conversion Electricity Systems Energy & Society Education & Outreach Industry Spinoffs Modeling	Yeast genetics, biodiversity, and synthetic biology Evolutionary genomics Carbon metabolism Brewing Isobutanol Fermentation
Tracey Holloway taholloway@wisc.edu	Professor Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies	Environmental Studies Modeling	Air quality research Regional air quality
George Huber gwhuber@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion	Renewable energy Biofuels and biochemicals Heterogeneous catalysis Pyrolysis Zeolites Conceptual process design
Randy Jackson rdjackson@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Plant Deconstruction Plant Genetics & Breeding Sustainable Agriculture	Structure and function of managed, semi-natural, and natural grassland ecosystems Landscape-level nutrient exchange Ecosystem-level carbon and nutrient cycling Plant community responses to disturbances
Tom Jahns jahns@engr.wisc.edu	Grainger Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Electricity Distribution Microgrids Storage Industry	Power electronics Electric machines and actuators Adjustable-speed drives Brushless motor drives and generators Automotive and aerospace electric systems
Thomas Jeffries twjeffri@wisc.edu	Professor Emeritus College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion Spinoffs	Bioconversion of renewable resources Metabolic engineering of pentose fermenting yeasts
Hongrui Jiang hongrui@engr.wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Solar	MicroElectroMechanical System Microsensors and microactuators BioMEMS and micro-optics Microfluidics Lab on chips Biomimetics and bioinspiration
Song Jin jin@chem.wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Conversion Electricity Systems Materials Solar Storage	Solar energy conversion Energy storage Nanoscale and solid state materials Renewable Energy applications
Sarah Johnston sarah.johnston@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Energy & Society Economics Policy & Regulation
Heidi Kaeppler hfkaeppl@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Plant Genetics & Breeding	Genetic engineering and gene-editing of crops for study and enhancement of bioenergy-related traits
Shawn Kaeppler smkaeppl@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Plant Genetics & Breeding	Seed development and composition using genetic and genomic analysis Lignocellulosic biofuel Abiotic stress tolerance Epigenetics
Mikhail Kats mkats@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Solar	Thin film optics Optical metasurfaces Plasmonics Thermal emitters
Jason Kawasaki jkawasaki@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials	Heteroepitaxy of Heusler and intermetallic thin films Thermoelectrics Topological insulators Engineering electronic and magnetic properties via strain and quantum confinement Molecular beam epitaxy Scanning tunneling microscopy Photoemission spectroscopy
Tricia Kiley pjkiley@wisc.edu	Professor and Chair School of Medicine & Public Health	Transportation & Fuels Conversion	Biomolecular folding and interactions Gene expression Metals in biology
Younghyun Kim younghyun.kim@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Storage	Secure and reliable CPS Powering the loT Lower-power embedded systems Energy harvesting and storage
Dan Klingenberg dan.klingenberg@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts	Colloid science Suspension rheology Electromagnetic phenomena in materials
Sage Kokjohn kokjohn@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Engine Research Modeling	High efficiency energy conversion Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics Turbulent combustion modelling
Ananth Krishnamurthy ananth.krishnamurthy@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Modeling	Production inventory systems Assembly operations Product variety and customization Warehouse systems Quick response manufacturing
Chris Kucharik kucharik@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Sustainable Agriculture Modeling	Sustainable Biofuels Agroecosystem modeling Sustainable agriculture Terrestrial carbon sequestration Urban heat islands
Thomas Kuech tfkuech@wisc.edu	Professor and Chair College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Solar	Solid-state materials synthesis and characterization Electronic and semiconductor materials Solar energy and photovoltaics Oxide materials Nanostructure formation
Gerald Kulcinski glkulcin@wisc.edu	Associate Dean for Research; Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering; Director, Fusion Technology Institute College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Nuclear	Magnetic/inertial fusion reactor systems studies Radiation damage and nuclear materials Near term applications of fusion energy Lunar mining of helium-3
James LaGro jalagro@wisc.edu	Professor College of Letters & Sciences	Environmental Studies Policy & Regulation Sustainable Agriculture Water	Sustainable development Water resources Urban design downtown revitalization Land use and landscape ecology Green infrastructure
Robert Landick landick@bact.wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion	Regulatory mechanisms that control gene expression through changes in RNA chain elongation Genetic analysis of RNA polymerase
Rebecca Larson rebecca.larson@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Conversion Sustainable Agriculture	Biological waste Manure management Handling and treatment of agricultural and food processing waste Land application of various waste streams Waste-to-energy technologies
Robert Lasseter rhlasseter@wisc.edu	Professor Emeritus College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Electricity Distribution Microgrids	Distributed resources Restructuring of electrical power system Application of power electronics to utility systems Simulation methods Power electronic circuits and control HVDC, SVC, FACTS and custom power applications
Bernard Lesieutre lesieutre@engr.wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Electricity Distribution Policy & Regulation
Richard Lindroth richard.lindroth@wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Plant Genetics & Breeding Sustainable Agriculture	Genetic and environmental factors influencing poplar production Plant chemistry Sustainable forestry
Steven Loheide loheide@wisc.edu	Associate Professor College of Engineering	Environmental Studies Water Modeling	Hydroecology/ ecohydrology Hydrogeology River restoration Remote sensing Hydrologic consequences of climate change Vegetative water use / vegetation patterning Sustainable land-use practices Stream-aquifer interactions Ecosystem function / services Human interaction with aquatic ecosystems
Robert Lorenz rdlorenz@wisc.edu	Consolidated Papers Professor of Controls Engineering College of Engineering	Electricity Systems	Control of electromagnetic actuators and power electronics Integration of sensing and control in power conversion Physics-based multivariable control design methodologies Design for sensing and control using multi-physics integration
Dan Ludois ludois@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Storage Wind Spinoffs	Power electronics Electric machines Non-contact power transfer Sustainable engineering technologies and practices
Zhenqiang Ma mazq@engr.wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Nuclear Solar	High-speed RF devices and circuits, optoelectronic devices and nanophotonics Semiconductor materials processing and heterogeneous integration Flexible electronics, flexible optoelectronics and flexible photonics Energy conversion semiconductor devices Bioelectronics and biomimetics Semiconductor device physics Power electronics
Christos Maravelias christos.maravelias@wisc.edu	Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Paul A. Elfers Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Biofuels & Bioproducts Economics Modeling	Chemical production planning and scheduling Optimization methods for process synthesis Supply chain management Computational methods for novel material discovery Assessmsent of biomass-to-fuels/chemicals strategies
John Markley markley@biochem.wisc.edu	Professor College of Agricultural & Life Sciences	Transportation & Fuels Conversion Plant Genetics & Breeding Materials Modeling	Metabolomics Macromolecular structure Redox active proteins
Manos Mavrikakis emavrikakis@wisc.edu	Paul A. Elfers Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Storage	Thermodynamics Kinetics and catalysis Surface science Computational chemistry Electronic materials Fuel cells applications Environmental chemical engineering
Luke Mawst ljmawst@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems	Semiconductor lasers Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of semiconductors III/V compound semiconductor materials and devices
Katherine McMahon trina.mcmahon@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Conversion Water	Water quality Freshwater sciences Wastewater treatment Microbiology Nutrient removal Water quality modeling Limnology
Franklin Miller fkmiller@wisc.edu	Assistant Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Solar Supercritical Fluids	Cryogenics Thermodynamics of Superfluid 3He-4He mixtures Sub-Kelvin cooling for space science Energy systems
Dane Morgan ddmorgan@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Materials Modeling	Computational materials science for materials design Ab initio electronic structure methods and multiscale techniques for large time / length scales and thermokinetics Ab initio based modeling of electrochemical systems and processes Application areas: Nuclear materials, Battery and fuel cell electrodes, Earth mantle materials, electronic materials
Gregory Moses gregory.moses@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Nuclear Modeling	Nuclear reactor physics Computational engr. Radiation hydrodynamics Technology enhanced learning Fusion reactor design
Greg Nellis gfnellis@engr.wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Solar Supercritical Fluids	Solar heating and cooling Photovoltaics Desiccant and absorption cooling Air quality
John Nelson jsnelson4@wisc.edu	Adjunct Professor College of Engineering	Electricity Systems Building Efficiency	Energy/fuels: Production, conversion, & consumption Lean facility delivery: Fundamentals and practices Sustainable system analysis & deployment: Economic and physical Organizational value clarity: Leadership & marketplace optimization
Gregory Nemet nemet@wisc.edu	Professor La Follette School of Public Affairs, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies	Energy & Society Policy & Regulation	Analysis of the global energy system Access to energy services Energy systems analysis Policy analysis International environmental policy Technological change
Dan Noguera dnoguera@wisc.edu	Professor College of Engineering	Transportation & Fuels Conversion	Environmental engineering Bioenergy Biotechnology Microbial ecology Biological nutrient removal Bioinformatics Biodegradation pathways

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