Join Us

We invite Purdue faculty and collaborators from across the nation and world to help tackle one of the defining challenges of our time: ensuring abundant, reliable, and affordable energy for all.

The Institute for Energy Innovation (IEI) unites researchers across disciplines to advance technologies that strengthen America's energy systems, expand industrial capabilities, and train the next generation of innovators.

More than 130 Purdue faculty members are already contributing to this effort through research spanning materials, catalysis, nuclear systems, battery science, grid modernization, industrial processes, and policy. Their combined expertise drives the creation of technologies that shape the nation's energy and manufacturing future.

IEI provides a collaborative environment that connects engineering, physical sciences, data analytics, and public policy, linking faculty research to industry needs and real-world applications. Whether your interests lie in advanced materials, energy storage, process systems, or new forms of power generation, IEI offers a platform to accelerate discovery, deployment, and impact.

Opportunities for Faculty Engagement

  • Collaborative Research Teams
    Participate in interdisciplinary projects that bridge Purdue's colleges and connect with national laboratories, industry partners, and government agencies.
  • Proposal Development and Seed Funding
    Access strategic support for center-level proposals, multi-investigator initiatives, and emerging energy research areas.
  • Professional and Workforce Education
    Contribute to the development of professional master's and certificate programs, expanding Purdue's leadership in workforce development and continuing education.
  • Leadership in Verticals and Cross-Cutting Initiatives
    Engage as leads or co-leads in IEI's strategic domains: Energy Systems and Infrastructure, Energy Storage and Conversion, and Enabling Materials and Supply Chains or join horizontal efforts such as Heat Pumps and Industrial Efficiency.

Contact and Participation

Interested in joining the Institute for Energy Innovation or learning more about collaboration opportunities? Email IEI@purdue.edu to connect with our leadership team.

Leadership

Executive Director

Fabio H. Ribeiro

Fabio H. Ribeiro

William Nicholas and Elizabeth Holstein Delgass Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering

Director, CISTAR (Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources)

Faculty Directory

Explore the broad expertise of IEI's affiliated faculty members who are advancing innovation across Purdue and partner institutions.

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Rakesh Agrawal

agrawalr@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Alina Alexeenko

alexeenk@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

computational and experimental studies of rarefied gas flow phenomena occurring in both high-altitude flight such as smallsat propulsion, spacecraft contamination, plume interactions, high-altitude aerothermodynamics; and in emerging technologies such as micro-electro-mechanical systems for space communications and micropropulsion and in vacuum manufacturing processes; broadening applications of rarefied gas dynamics; developing fast computational algorithms and solvers for the deterministic, as opposed to the stochastic DSMC, solution of rarefied flow problems

Dionysios Aliprantis

dionysios@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

power systems, electric machines, power electronics, electrified transportation

Brandon Allen

allen352@purdue.edu

School of Engineering Education

Arezoo Ardekani

ardekani@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, biomaterial, multiphase flows, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, microfluidics, complex fluids, soft matter

Shubhra Bansal

bansal91@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

renewable energy materials (physics-based energy yield predictions, sustainable PV and energy storage materials, recycling); electro-optical-thermo-mechanical reliability (in-situ and in-operando accelerated stress tests); heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging; harsh environment electronics integration (high temperature Pb-free solders and nano-thermal interfaces)

Riley Barta

bartar@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

modeling and analysis of thermal systems; heat pumping, air conditioning and refrigeration technologies; high performance buildings; refrigerant and lubricant properties

Thomas Beechem

tbeechem@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

thermal physics, heat moving energy; spectroscopy, "seeing" energy with light; nanophotonics, pushing light to see more; 2D materials, creating functionality by losing dimension

Edward Berger

bergere@purdue.edu

School of Engineering Education

engineering workforce development; student professional formation; curricular and cultural change in engineering education

Peter Bermel

pbermel@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

photovoltaics, thermal physics, switches

David Bernal Neira

dbernaln@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Stephan Biller

sbiller@purdue.edu

School of Industrial Engineering

digital-industrial strategy, business and financial models, resilient and sustainable manufacturing and supply chains, production systems, operations management, enterprise systems, smart manufacturing, industry 4.0, AIoT, digital transformation, digital twins, energy transition and transportation, innovation commercialization and go-to-market @scale

Hitesh Bindra

hbindra@purdue.edu

Nuclear Engineering

nuclear power system, energy storage, advanced reactor technology

Satish Boregowda

sboregow@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

James Braun

jbraun@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

modeling, analysis, and control of thermal systems

Richard Buckius

rbuckius@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Hua Cai

huacai@purdue.edu

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

School of Industrial Engineering

sustainable and equitable infrastructure development, risk-based life cycle assessment, agent-based modeling, prospective environmental assessment of emerging technologies and systems, transformative transportation technologies, sustainable consumption, energy policy

Mike Capano

capano@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electrical devices for power applications (Silicon Carbide)

Luciano Castillo

castil63@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

modeling; experiments and simulations of turbulent boundary layers: role of initial conditions and bio-inspired micro-surfaces on evolution of velocity/thermal fields; importance of turbulence and complex topography on wind energy; integration of renewable with water and thermal storage; translational research focus on renewable energy and society; wall interaction (e.g., bio-inspired micro surfaces) in respiratory flows; big data in turbulence, renewable energy and biomedical engineering; energy and social equality

Stylianos Chatzidakis

schatzid@purdue.edu

Nuclear Engineering

digital I&C, autonomous system, AI/ML, quantum sensing, cyber security

Jun Chen

chen220@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

experimental fluid dynamics, development of flow diagnostic techniques, flow dynamics in stratified environment, turbulent flow measurements and modeling

Yong Chen

chen276@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

quantum physics, quantum behavior in new states of matter, quantum devices in energy

Rebecca Ciez

rciez@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

identify interactions and design spaces at the intersection of energy technologies, economics, and decision-making process to minimize the cost of transitioning to new, decarbonized energy systems

William Crossley

crossley@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

optimization and design methods for aerospace systems; systems of systems; design under uncertainty; environmental impact of aviation

Ran Dai

randai@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

electric vehicles, power management of flight systems

Daniel Delaurentis

ddelaure@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Design Methods: mathematical modeling and decision-support frameworks for the design of system-of systems, especially those for which air vehicles are a main element; approaches for robust design of autonomous systems and collectives/swarms; Aerospace Systems and Flight Vehicles: sizing/synthesis algorithms for design and performance estimation of revolutionary flight vehicles; exploration of advanced aerial mobility (AAM) designs and concept of operations; aircraft flight stability and control, especially as an integral part of conceptual design

Letian Dou

dou10@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Abby Engelberth

aengelbe@purdue.edu

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

sustainable bioproducts, including biofuels

Nadia Gkritza

nadia@pudue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

transportation planning, economics and modeling; transportation energy and sustainability; highway safety; transportation electrification

Christopher Goldenstein

csgoldenstein@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

laser-absorption spectroscopy, laser-induced fluorescence, and IR imaging sensors for gas temperature, pressure, velocity, and chemical species; molecular spectroscopy, photophysics, and energy transfer in gases; energetic materials (e.g., explosives and propellants) detection and combustion; combustion and propulsion systems (small and large scale); biomedical sensing

Jay Gore

gore@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

sustainable energy and environment, combustion and turbulent reacting flows, combustion and heat transfer in materials, biomedical flows and heat transfer, global policy research

Rajamani Gounder

rgounder@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Rao Govindaraju

govind@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

watershed hydrology; stochastic and statistical hydrology; spatial variability; modeling surface and subsurface water movement; fate and transport of contaminants; machine learning applications in hydrology

Jeffrey Greeley

jgreeley@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Eckhard Groll

groll@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

thermal sciences as applied to HVAC&R systems and equipment

Vijay Gupta

gupta869@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

control, control for large scale systems

John Haddock

jhaddock@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

bituminous materials and mixture design, pavement design, non-destructive pavement testing, pavement materials including aggregates and soil, pavement management, pavement failure investigation

Carol Handwerker

handwerker@purdue.edu

Materials Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

John Howarter

howarter@purdue.edu

Materials Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Inez Hua

hua@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

water treatment, fate and transport of chemical contaminants, inorganic and organic environmental chemistry, groundwater and soil remediation, sustainability, and industrial ecology

Enrique Iglesia

iglesia@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Robert Jacko

jacko@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

air pollution management and control, transportation noise problems, environmental occupational safety and health

Neera Jain

neerajain@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

dynamic modeling and optimal control; model predictive control; decentralized control; thermodynamics-based optimization; entropy generation minimization; exergy analysis; integrated energy management and storage in distributed energy systems, building systems

Brent Jesiek

bjesiek@purdue.edu

School of Engineering Education

David Johnson

davidjohnson@purdue.edu

School of Industrial Engineering

David Johnson

davidjoh@purdue.edu

Materials Engineering

Nusrat Jung

nusratj@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

net zero energy buildings, carbon emissions from buildings

Vassilis Kekatos

kekatos@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

statistical learning and optimization with applications in power grids, big data analytics, and wireless communications

Seungjin Kim

seungjin@purdue.edu

Nuclear Engineering

reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety; two-phase flow experiment and modeling; multiphase CFD and systems analysis code

Kevin Kircher

kkirche@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

building electrification, flexibility, and efficiency; integrating flexible loads, energy storage, and distributed solar into power grids; optimization and control under uncertainty; energy policy

Michael Ladisch

ladisch@purdue.edu

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Leifur Leifsson

leifur@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

computational design of aerospace systems; multidisciplinary design optimization; surrogate-based modeling and optimization; uncertainty quantification; machine learning; multifidelity methods

Can Li

canli@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Tian Li

tianli@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

naturally nanostructured materials; energy, water, and wearable technology; manufacturing

Heather Liddell

liddellh@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

sustainable manufacturing, environmental life cycle assessment, mechanics of multilayered systems, adhesion in paints and coatings, lightweighting strategies for transportation, industrial decarbonization

Andrew Liu

liu334@purdue.edu

School of Industrial Engineering

Xiaoyuan Lou

lou49@purdue.edu

Nuclear Engineering

advanced manufacturing for nuclear applications, nuclear materials

Luna Lu

luna@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

thermoelectric and piezoelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting and sensing, crystal growth of oxides for optoelectrical devices, and multifunctional nanocomposites/building materials

Robert Lucht

lucht@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Kazuki Maeda

kmaeda@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

rocket propulsion, hypersonics, cyberphysical integration, complex flow physics, high-performance computing

Ajay Malshe

amalshe@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

bio-inspired designs; surface engineering and multifunctional materials; convergent manufacturing for industry 5.0: hybrid manufacturing processes, heterogeneous materials, and bio-inspired designs; systems integration, productization, and production; heavy-duty machines: machining, lubrication, and corrosion; heterogeneous and hierarchical integration (mechanical-electrical-optical and nano-micro-meso-macro); precision agricultural and food: cellular agriculture, vertical farming, micro-production, and resilience; frugal engineering, social innovations, and social equity; manufacturing in space

Karen Marais

kmarais@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

safety and risk analysis; systems engineering education; financial modeling of engineering systems; environmental impacts of technology

Amy Marconnet

amarconn@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

transport phenomena in multi-scale, heterogeneous materials and systems, fundamentals of nanoscale thermal transport, heat transfer in natural and synthetic fiber systems, thermofluids interactions, multi-physics metrology design, electronics cooling and thermal management

Ernesto Marinero

eemarinero@purdue.edu

Materials Engineering

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cornelius Masuku

cmasuku@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

decarbonization through electrification; process systems engineering; process synthesis and design; process intensification and optimization; renewable and sustainable energy

Ray Mentzer

rmentzer@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Terrence Meyer

trmeyer@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Jeffrey Miller

jeffrey-t-miller@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

John Morgan

jamorgan@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

metabolic engineering of plant phenylpropanoid metabolism, metabolic flux analysis of photosynthetic organisms, metabolic engineering of algae for the production of biodiesel

Dallas Morisette

morisett@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electrical devices for power applications (Silicon Carbide)

Aaron Morris

abmorris@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, multiphase flows, monte carlo methods, kinetic theory of granular flows, heat transfer in granular media, rarefied gas dynamics

Nate Mosier

mosiern@purdue.edu

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

biofuels production from cellulosics and lipids

Issam Mudawar

mudawar@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

boiling, condensation, two-phase flow, high heat flux, thermal management systems, cryogenic systems space vehicles, lunar and martian environments, microgravity, experiments on international space station, electronic cooling

Partha Mukherjee

mukher28@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

energy storage and conversion (batteries, fuel cells), mesoscale physics and stochastics, reactive transport, materials, processing, and microstructure interactions

Sameer Naik

naiks@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

gas turbine combustion, internal combustion engines, laser-based spectroscopy

Jiqin Ni

jiqin@purdue.edu

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

anaerobic digestion and biogas production

Matt Ohland

ohland@purdue.edu

School of Engineering Education

Liang Pan

liangpan@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

scalable micro and nanomanufacturing; thermal management; energy conversion, transfer and storage

Guillermo Paniagua

gpaniagua@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

turbomachinery, turbines, measurement techniques, experimental turbomachinery, air-breathing propulsion

Philip Pare

philpare@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

mathematical modeling of dynamic networked systems, control, stability

Steven Pekarek

spekarek@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electric machines, power electronics, electrified transportation

Joseph Pekny

pekny@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Vilas Pol

vpol@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Timothée Pourpoint

timothee@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

aerospace propulsion systems; rocket engine combustors; liquid propellant injection systems; hypergolic propellants; high pressure and hydrogen storage systems

Monica Prezzi

mprezzi@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

foundation engineering, ground engineering, recyclable materials, soil behavior and durability of materials

Li Qiao

lqiao@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

sustainable aviation; pre-chamber jet ignition for combustion engines; propulsion technology for drones and UAVs; hydrogen and alternative fuels

Junjie Qin

jq@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

control and optimization, statistical learning, market design, and their applications to power systems, transportation systems, and cyber-physical systems

Ming Qu

mqu@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

green building technology innovation, sustainable buildings, and energy efficient building energy systems

Shripad Revankar

shripad@ecn.purdue.edu

Nuclear Engineering

hydrogen generation, nuclear thermal-hydraulics

Fabio Ribeiro

fabio@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

catalysis, energy transition

Xiulin Ruan

ruan@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

simulations of nanoscale thermal transport; machine learning, optimization, and high throughput design; thermal management in electronics, space, and battery applications; transport phenomena in additive manufacturing; nanomaterials and devices for sustainable energy

Rodrigo Salgado

salgado@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

geomechanics, foundation engineering, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling and offshore and energy engineering

Brett Savoie

bsavoie@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Carlo Scalo

scalo@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

large eddy and direct simulations, turbulent combustion, thermoacoustics, non-linear acoustics, heat-and-mass transfer, physical oceanography and limnology, numerical methods for complex geometries

Siva Seetharaman

sseetha@purdue.edu

School of Industrial Engineering

Jie Shan

jshan@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

geomatics, lidar, digital twin, building models

Gregory Shaver

gshaver@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

model-based system and control design of commercial vehicle power trains, connected and automated commercial vehicles, internal combustion engine and after-treatment system design and controls, flexible valve actuation in diesel and natural gas engines

Yung Shin

shin@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

laser additive manufacturing, ultrafast laser matter interaction, laser welding, laser assisted machining, laser shock peening, multi-physics, multi-scale modeling, micro-nano manufacturing

Thomas Siegmund

siegmund@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

solid mechanics, multiscale and multiphysics modeling, design of engineering material systems, fracture and fatigue, microarchitectured materials, biomechanics of soft and hard tissues

Jeffrey Siirola

jsiirola@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Halis Simsek

simsek@purdue.edu

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

waste water treatment, algal production for lipids

Joseph Sinfield

jvs@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

sensing in civil and geoenvironmental engineering; innovation and business management

Shweta Singh

singh294@purdue.edu

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

life cycle assessment for integrated, sustainable manufacturing systems

Carson Slabaugh

cslabau@purdue.edu

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Propulsion: rockets, gas turbines, sc/ramjets, rotating detonation engines; Combustion: detonation, turbulent combustion; Fluid mechanics: turbulence, acoustics, gas dynamics, multiphase flows; Laser diagnostics and data science: methodology development, cross-platform verification and validation

Steven Son

sson@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

multiphase combustion, particularly related to propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics; nanoscale composite energetic materials; advanced energetic materials; microscale combustion

Young-Jun Son

yjson@purdue.edu

School of Industrial Engineering

Scott Sudhoff

sudhoff@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electric machines, power electronics, electrified transportation

Shreyas Sundaram

sundara2@purdue.edu

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

dynamics, control, estimation in distributed systems

John Sutherland

jwsuther@purdue.edu

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Devah Vijayaraju Swathibanu

devahdhanush@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

two-phase flows and heat transfer, high-heat-flux thermal management systems for several applications, e.g., outer space missions, electric vehicles, ultra-fast charging systems, electronics cooling, avionics, nuclear reactors, metal manufacturing, superconductors, data centers, etc., gravitational effects, experiments onboard the International Space Station (ISS), two-phase flow instabilities, fluid-structure interactions and non-Newtonian fluids in biological systems

Brian Tackett

bmtacket@purdue.edu

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Mike Titus

titus9@purdue.edu

Materials Engineering

rapid discovery and development of high temperature structural materials; solute interactions with crystalline defects; thermodynamic modeling and experimental validation of high temperature oxidation

Kevin Trumble

trumble@purdue.edu

Materials Engineering

Thanos Tzempelikos

ttzempel@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

high performance buildings, solar energy applications in buildings, building energy modeling and simulation

Satish Ukkusuri

sukkusur@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

large-scale network modeling of transportation-energy scenarios with high-resolution data

Andrea Vacca

avacca@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

modeling and simulation of hydraulic systems, modeling and testing of pumps and motors for fluid power applications, hydraulic valves modeling and testing, reduction of noise emissions in fluid power systems

Amit Varma

ahvarma@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

seismic and fire behavior, analysis, and design of steel-concrete composite structures; repair and retrofit of deterioration and damaged infrastructure

Mirian Velay-Lizancos

mvelayli@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

sustainable materials; concrete with recycled aggregates, concrete with biomass ashes, geopolymers, photocatalytic concrete

Ziran Wang

ziran@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

digital twin; autonomous driving; human-autonomy teaming

David Warsinger

dwarsing@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

desalination and water treatment, water-food-energy nexus, thermofluids, nanotechnology, membrane science

Tiwei Wei

wei427@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

heat transfer in advanced semiconductor interconnects and packaging, electronic cooling and efficient thermal packaging materials, thermal/mechanical simulation and characterization, materials, processing and architecture development for semiconductor packaging, MEMS fabrication for extreme heat flux microfluidic cooling, advanced semiconductor nanoscale 3D interconnections, novel photonics and quantum packaging technologies, reliability modeling and characterization

Justin Weibel

jaweibel@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

electronics cooling and packaging, phase-change transport phenomena, microscale and nanoscale surface engineering for enhanced thermal transport, energy efficiency in thermal systems, transport in porous materials, microscale diagnostics and sensing

Yi Xie

xie90@purdue.edu

Nuclear Engineering

nuclear materials for advanced reactor concepts, radiation damage/corrosion in reactor applications

Xianfan Xu

xxu@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

heat transfer, particularly nano-scale and ultrafast heat transfer; ultrafast laser materials processing and diagnostics; nano-optics and laser-based nano-lithography

Yunlin Xu

yunlin@purdue.edu

Nuclear Engineering

reactor physics, core design for advanced reactors

Jeff Youngblood

jpyoungb@purdue.edu

Materials Engineering

polymer surface modification; using polymer self-assembly for the construction of nanostructures; design of biocompatible polymeric materials

Fu Zhao

fzhao@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

environment friendly design and life cycle engineering, applications of bio-based materials in manufacturing, fast and low-cost detection of pathogenic microorganisms, biomass thermo-chemical upgrading for liquid and gaseous fuel

Kejie Zhao

kjzhao@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

deformation, stress, plasticity, fracture; multiscale modeling, first-principles, molecular dynamics simulations, and finite element modeling; in-situ experiments; mechanics of redox active materials - Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, all-solid-state batteries; mechanics of polymeric materials - organic electrochromics, superelastic organic semiconductors

Chenn Zhou

czhou@pnw.edu

Purdue University Northwest

Mechanical Engineering

Zhi (George) Zhou

zhizhou@purdue.edu

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

environmental microbiology and the application of biotechnologies in engineering systems

Davide Ziviani

dziviani@purdue.edu

Mechanical Engineering

advanced heat pumping/heat engine technologies and their equipment, positive displacement compressors and expanders, high performance buildings, thermal management systems