Center for the Environment - Harvard University

RESEARCH AREAS

Energy

FACULTY
Graham Allison	U.S. national security and defense policy; security aspects of energy and environmental issues.
Alán Aspuru-Guzik	Theoretical physical chemistry, including quantum computation, quantum information, and chemistry; renewable energy materials; electronic structure theory.
Michael J. Aziz	Electrochemical processes for energy technology and mitigating global climate change; synthesis and properties of novel optoelectronic semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures using energetic beams; nanoporous materials.
Theodore A. Betley	Synthetic inorganic chemistry with emphasis on energy, environment, and biology, including: multinuclear assemblies; organometallics; aerobic oxidation.
Jeremy Bloxham	Planetary magnetism and core dynamics; rotational dynamics; inverse problems; high-performance computing and visualization.
Michael P. Brenner	Theoretical modeling in the physical sciences and engineering; biomechanics and biology.
Matthew Bunn	The future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle.
Federico Capasso	Quantum design and study of new artificial materials and nanostructures with man-made electronic and optical properties.
George M. Church	New genomic and proteomic measurement and modeling methods for biomedical and ecological systems.
William C. Clark	Interactions of environment, development, and security concerns in international affairs, with special emphasis on the role of science and technology.
Richard N. Cooper	Management of international economic system; global energy use, policies, and environmental issues; U.S.-European, U.S.- Japanese economics; China and the world economy.
Majid Ezzati	Energy, air pollution, and health in developing countries; major health risk factors and their role in current and future disease burden globally or in specific countries and regions.
Cynthia Friend	Heterogeneous catalysis, nanostructure growth, environmental chemistry, laser-assisted materials processing, and chemical sensor technology.
Kelly Sims Gallagher	Energy technology innovation; international energy cooperation; energy policy; climate change policy, international environmental policy.
Peter Girguis	Microbially-mediated carbon and nitrogen cycling in hydrocarbon-based and hydrothermal vent ecosystems; microbial fuel cells.
Edward Glaeser	Urban and social economics; microeconomic theory; green cities.
Roy Gordon	Deposition of thin films using chemical vapor and alternating layer deposition.
William Hogan	Major energy industry restructuring, network pricing and access issues, market design, and energy policy in nations worldwide.
John P. Holdren	Energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, global environmental problems, impacts of population growth, and international security and arms control.
Daniel J. Jacob	Air pollution; atmospheric transport; regional and global atmospheric chemistry; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; climate change.
Eric N. Jacobsen	Mechanistic and synthetic chemistry; development of new methods for organic synthesis, with particular emphasis on asymmetric catalysis.
Dale W. Jorgenson	Information technology and economic growth, energy and environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics.
Efthimios Kaxiras	Multiscale methods; biomolecules; nanostructures; mechanochemistry.
Henry Lee	Electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy.
Scot T. Martin	Atmospheric particles, cloud formation, and climate change; energy, pollution, and climate; mineral origins of life; energy technology; biosphere-atmosphere feedback.
Eric Mazur	Experimental ultrafast optics and condensed matter physics.
Michael B. McElroy	Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere; evolution of planetary atmospheres; global carbon cycle.
Erich Muehlegger	Industrial organization, economic regulation, and environmental policy.
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay	Noble gas geochemistry; chemical evolution of the mantle-crust-atmosphere system.
Venkatesh Narayanamurti	Hot electron- and hole- transport in novel semiconductor electronic materials and devices; nanotechnology.
Joseph Nye	International relations and nuclear security.
Ariel Pakes	Industrial organization, the economics of technological change, econometric theory; equilibrium responses to policy and environmental changes.
Shriram Ramanathan	Oxide thin films and nanostructures; potential applications of which include electronic devices, solar and hydrogen energy conversion, and sensors.
Forest L. Reinhardt	Behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources; economics of externalities and public goods; environmental management; energy strategy.
Christoph Reinhart	Daylighting, passive climatization concepts, and the influence of occupant behavior on building energy use.
James R. Rice	Earthquake source processes; fault and crack dynamics; lithospheric stressing and seismicity; hydrologic and surficial processes; pore fluid interaction with earth materials; landslides; episodic glacial motions.
Daniel P. Schrag	Geochemical oceanography, paleoclimatology, stable isotope geochemistry; carbon sequestration; climate change; energy technology.
John H. Shaw	Structure of the Earth's crust, active faulting and folding, earthquake hazards assessment, petroleum exploration methods, and remote sensing.
Pamela Silver	Synthetic biology; genome organization; pathways in disease; biofuels.
Robert N. Stavins	Environmental economics, natural resource economics, and related public policy; innovation and diffusion of technology; market-based strategies for future climate policy; international climate agreements.
Howard A. Stone	Behavior and characterization of particulate and multi-phase flows; microfluidic systems; fluid motion in foams; thin films; coating flows.
Eli Tziperman	El Niño's dynamics; large-scale oceanic circulation; past climate dynamics.
Richard H.K. Vietor	International energy issues, the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes, and strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications, and financial services.
Joost J. Vlassak	Mechanical behavior of thin metal films; the effect of environmental species on the adhesion and delamination of multilayered structures containing low-k dielectrics.
David A. Weitz	Physics of soft condensed matter, including colloids, emulsions, gels, surfactants; microfluidics; biomechanics.
George M. Whitesides	Materials and surface science; microfluidics; micro- and nanotechnology; science for developing economies; origin of life; cell-surface biochemistry.
Richard Wilson	Wise use of nuclear energy; understanding of the carbon cycle for optimum reduction in carbon use; effects on helath of pollutants such as Arsenic; general risk analysis of effects on health.
Steven Wofsy	Sources, sinks, transformations, and transport of atmospheric gases; climate change.
Robert Wood	Microfabrication and microsystem design for search and rescue, hazardous environment exploration, environmental monitoring, and reconnaissance.

Energy-Related Programs at Harvard

Future of Energy at Harvard

Applied Physics Research Groups (SEAS)
Atmospheric Sciences (SEAS)
Bioengineering Research Groups (SEAS)
Center for Nanoscale Systems (FAS)
Center for Technology and the Environment (GSD)
China Project
Energy Technology Innovation Policy (HKS)
Environment and Natural Resources Program (HKS)
Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (HKS)
Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HKS)
Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Harvard Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Microbial Sciences Initiative
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Harvard
Program on Technology and Economic Policy (HKS)
Repsol YPF - Harvard Kennedy School Fellows Program (HKS)
Rowland Institute at Harvard
Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program (HKS)