Energy

Experts on clean energy

Climate change has the ability to affect nearly every aspect of our lives, for generations to come. WPI has a wealth of experts on issues of climate change, including sustainability and clean energy. Our experts are available to lend insight into what must be done to protect the future of our world, lessen the damage already done, and help communities adapt and become more resilient to the Earth’s changes.

Danielle Lynn Cote
  • Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Cote is in the Materials Science & Engineering Program with research focused on solid state additive manufacturing (AM) processes, particularly cold spray processing and wire arc AM. ... View Profile
Ravindra Datta
  • Affiliate Professor Chemical Engineering
Professor Datta's work spans decades of applying the principles of kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering to energy challenges. ... View Profile
Brajendra Mishra
  • Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor, Director, MPI & Donald M. Zwiep Distinguished Fellow Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Mishra focuses on the improvement in resource productivity and environmental stewardship through process and product development of materials using recovery and recycling, introducing advanced alloys and life-extension by corrosion and surface ... View Profile
Adam Clayton Powell
  • Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Powell focuses his research on validated mathematical modeling of metal process development for clean energy and energy efficiency. ... View Profile
Nima Rahbar
  • White Family Distinguished Professor & Department Head Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
Professor Rahbar studies the fundamental principles that control the behavior of materials in engineering and biology at multiple scales particularly the bioinspired design of materials and structures. ... View Profile
Ali S. Rangwala
  • Professor Fire Protection Engineering
Professor Rangwala's research interests include problems related to industrial fire and explosions. ... View Profile
Suzanne Frances Scarlata
  • Professor Chemistry & Biochemistry
Professor Scarlata's work seeks to understand how hormones and neurotransmitters lead to changes in the growth, division, and shape of cells such as cardiac myocytes (heart muscle cells). ... View Profile
Andrew R Teixeira
  • Associate Professor Chemical Engineering
Professor Teixeira is a chemical engineer with specialties in the fields of chemical reaction engineering and materials science. ... View Profile
Michael T. Timko
  • Professor Chemical Engineering
Professor Timko studies the environmental and engineering aspects of clean energy technologies, with a specific emphasis on liquid transportation fuels. ... View Profile
Yan Wang
Yan Wang
  • Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Wang's research is in the field of fundamental electrochemistry and electrochemistry-based technologies, including battery materials, manufacturing, safety, design and recycling, solid state batteries, and electrolysis. ... View Profile
Jamal Yagoobi
  • George F. Fuller Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Yagoobi conducts theoretical, numerical, and experimental research in the areas of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, liquid/vapor phase change, thermodynamics, and design of thermal systems. ... View Profile
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Yu Zhong
  • Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Dr. Zhong's research is focused on developing new pathways for clean energy, including a project to design devices that will produce a cost-effective, clean hydrogen fuel. Dr. ... View Profile