Sustainability & Climate

Research Areas

  • Atmospheric, Ocean, and Earth Physics
  • Climate Modeling and Prediction
  • Climate Risk Analytics 

Additional information

  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, 2010-
    • Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, 2003–2010
    • Assistant professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, 2000–2003
  • Honors & Awards
    • AMS Louis J. Battan Author’s Award for Storm Surge, 2016
    • AGU (Atmospheric Sciences Section) Ascent Award, 2014
    • Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award (Popular Category) for Storm Surge (see publications), 2014
    • AXA Award from the AXA Research Fund, 2013
    • AMS Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, 2010
    • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2010
    • AMS Editor’s award for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2009
    • NASA New Investigator Award, 2001
    • Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 2000
       
  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Meteorological Society
    • American Geophysical Union

Research Areas

  • Analog Devices
  • Communications
  • Electromagnetics
  • Embedded Systems
  • Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Memory and Storage
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Photonics
  • Bioelectronics
  • Sensor Systems
  • Wearable Electronics (Technology)
  • Robotics and Automation
  • Displays

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University 2020-present
    • Professor of Electrical engineering, Columbia University 2018-2020
    • Associate Professor of Electrical engineering, Columbia University, 2011-2018
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2006–2011
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE
    • Society for Information Display (SID)
    • SPIE
    • Materials Research Society (MRS)
    • Optica
  • Honors & Awards
    • Architizer A+ Award
    • Verizon Powerful Answers
    • Popular Science, Invention of the Year
    • Interdigital Innovation Challenge
    • MIT/USDOE Clean Energy Prize
    • Ocean Optics Blue Ocean Award
    • Kim Award for Undergraduate Involvement
    • Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award
    • NSF CAREER award
    • IVMC Shoulders Gray Spindt award
    • IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award
    • Fellow, Optica
    • Fellow, SID
    • Fellow, IEEE
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, MIT
    • MEng, Electrical Engineering, MIT
    • SB, Electrical Engineering, MIT

Research Areas

  • Power Systems
  • Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids)
  • Quantum Computing
  • Renewable Energy
  • Optimization
  • Risk Management
  • Energy & Power
  • Large-scale Optimization
  • Urban Logistics

Additional information

  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of applied mathematics and applied physics, Columbia University, 2008-
    • Full professor of industrial engineering and operations research, Columbia University, 1995-
    • Associate professor of industrial engineering and operations research, Columbia University, 1989-1990 (tenured 1991)
    • Assistant professor of industrial engineering and operations research, Columbia University, 1989–1990
    • Scientist, combinatorics and optimization research, Bellcore, 1986-1989
    • Assistant professor, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985-1986
  • Professional Affiliations
    • INFORMS
    • SIAM
    • IEEE
       
  • Honors & Awards
    • Khachiyan Prize, 2022
    • INFORMS Fellow, 2013
    • Plenary speaker, 2005 SIAM Optimization Conference, semi-plenary speaker, ISMP 2006
    • Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1990   
  • Education
    • PhD, Operations Research, MIT, 1985
    • BA, Mathematics, Brandeis University, 1982
  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 2018 – 2023
    • NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, US Environmental Protection Agency, NHEERL/AED, Narragansett, RI, 2016 – 2018
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, UC Santa Barbara, 2015 – 2016
  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Chemical Society (ACS)
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    • Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
    • Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO)
  • Honors & Awards
    • Agilent Early Career Professor Award (AECPA), 2024
    • C&EN’s 2022 Talented 12 Award, 2022
    • Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) Emerging Investigator Award, 2022
    • Hellman Fellowship Award, 2021

Research Areas

  • Design and Manufacturing
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Manufacturing & Fabrication
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mechanics
  • Micro/Nanotechnology (MEMS)
  • Robotics and Control Systems
  • 2D materials
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Biological modeling
  • Biomechanics
  • Human-Centered Design
  • Mechanobiology
  • Micro and Nanoscale Engineering

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014–
    • Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Columbia University, 2017–
    • Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2011–2016
    • Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2006–2011
    • Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2001–2005

     

  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
    • Materials Research Society
    • Society of Experimental Mechanics
    • American Chemical Society
    • The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
  • Honors & Awards
    • William E. Hitselberger Memorial Lectureship from The American Neurotology Society, 2015
    • International Journal of Plasticity Young Research Award, 2012
    • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2006
    • Department of Energy Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award, 2006
    • Frontiers of Engineering Program at National Academy of Engineering, 2003
    • National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, 2001

Research Areas

  • Integrated Computational Materials Engineering

Additional Information

  • Honors & Awards
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2022
    • AIAA SciTech ICME Award, 2022
    • 2021 ASC/DEStech Young Composites Researcher Award, 2021
    • UMass Lowell Award for Faculty Mentoring Faculty, 2020
    • AIAA SciTech ICME Award, 2020
    • AFOSR YIP Award, 22020
    • University of Massachusetts Lowell Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
    • Top three “Aldo Muggia Best Thesis Award”, 2012
    • Italian Engineering Licence (Aerospace Engineering, December 2011
    • Student Ambassador at G8 University Summit in Turin, May 2009
  • Research Experience
    • Postdoctoral Research Associate, William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
    • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

     

  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell (MA)
  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Society for Composites Conference Chair, Boston 2023
    • AIAA SciTech 2021-2023 Materials TC Deputy Rep, AIAA SciTech 2023 Materials TC Deputy
    • Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (MAMS), since April 2023
    • Editorial Board Member of the International for Multiscale Compurational Engineering, since September 2017
    • Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Materials Technical Committee, since January 2017

Additional Information

  • Research Experience
    • Postdoctoral fellow, MIT (2011-2013)
    • Postdoctoral fellow, Santa Fe Institute (2014-2015)
  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University (2022 – present)
    • Principal Investigator, ETH Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore (2016-2022)
    • Assistant Professor (adjunct), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2016-2022)
    • Senior Research Associate, University of Bern, Switzerland (2021-2022)

     

  • Honors & Awards
    • Finalist, Science Breakthrough of the Year, Falling Walls Berlin, Germany (2021)
    • Winner, Data for Development (D4D) Challenge, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA (2015)

     

Research Areas

  • Carbon Management, Capture, Storage, Utilization, and Conversion
  • Energy, Mineral, and Materials
  • Water Chemistry
  • Energy Storage
  • Environmental Separations
  • Sustainable Energy Systems
     

Research Areas

  • Energy Storage and Conversion
  • Batteries and Fuel Cells
  • Electronic Structure of Materials
  • Materials Genomics
  • Machine Learning

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2025–
    • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2019–2025
    • Independent Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, 2018
  • Education
    • PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
    • MSc and BSc, Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum
  • Honors & Awards
    • 2024, NSF CAREER Award

Research Areas

  • Electrochemical Engineering
  • Energy Storage and Conversion Technology
  • Sustainability
  • Renewable Energy
  • Professional Experience
    • Chair of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2005-2010; 2016–2019
    • Samuel Ruben–Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry, Columbia University, 2008–
    • Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2002-
    • Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2016-
    • Associate Professor of Chemical Eengineering, Columbia University, 1995–2002
    • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 1992–1995
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Electrochemical Society (ECS)
    • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Honors & Awards
    • Fellow, Electrochemical Society, 2016
    • Electrodeposition Research Award, ECS, 2014