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	Ernest Micek Distinguished Chair 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
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	Associate 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

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