Dr. Clinton Andrews, co-PI
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Green buildings and communities, environmental management, energy and climate policy, and social science aspects of industrial ecology.

Dr. Paul Brunner
Institute for Water Quality, Resources and Waste Management, Vienna University of Technology

Research Interests: Waste and resources management, urban metabolism, material flow analysis, decision support tools, and final sinks.

Dr. Robert Burchell
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Land use policy, housing development strategies, community redevelopment, and economic development.

Dr. Harold Clark
Director, Science Educators & Offsite Education, and Acting Vice-President, Learning & Teaching, Liberty Science Center

Research Interests: Informal STEM education.

Dr. Weilin Huang
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Physicochemical processes in both engineered and natural environmental systems, including sorption of organic pollutants, abiotic transformation of pesticides, and separation and chemical transformation of estrogenic chemicals in typical water treatment processes.

Mr. Gregory Kiss
Kiss + Cathcart, Architects

Research Interests: Art and technology of environmentally responsible architecture, functional and aesthetic improvement of photovoltaics for buildings.

Dr. Uta Krogmann, PI
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Solid waste management and engineering, life-cycle assessment tools, water and energy infrastructure in buildings.

Dr. Gediminas Mainelis
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Integration of bioaerosol sampling tools with advanced microbiological analysis techniques, exposure and health effects of nanoparticles.

Dr. David Mendonça
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research Interests: Cognitive bases of human decision making in complex environments, decision support systems, decision analysis.

Mr. Mahadev Raman
Arup & Partners Consulting Engineers PC, New York

Research Interests: Design of high performance buildings, use of sophisticated analytical techniques to validate the design and optimize the performance of low-energy buildings.

Dr. Peter Strom
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Microbial ecology of the biological treatment of wastes, and surface water pollution issues, including total maximum daily loads.

Dr. Richard Wener
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Research Interests: Post occupancy evaluations of green buildings, with a special focus on how much their performance depends on the action of users (occupants, residents, managers) and how, in turn, building users respond to living and working in these kinds of settings.

Francis Jordán
Graduate Student, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Contaminant availability in soils, water end-use in buildings, environmental impacts of various water end-uses and wastewater treatment processes.

Jennifer Senick
Graduate Student, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and Director of Rutgers Center for Green Buildling, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Green building innovation policy, post-occupancy evaluation, life cycle analysis and valuation.

Youyou Xiong
Graduate Student, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Indoor air quality in green building; impacts of indoor air quality on health, energy and greenhouse gas contributions; exposure measurement and risk assessement of indoor air pollutants.

Daniel Yi
Graduate Student, Edward J. Bloustein School of Urban Planning and Public Policy

Research Interests: Agent-based modeling of green buildings, government/military regulation and policy.

 

 

Mr. William Bobenhausen
Sustainable Design Collaborative, LLC

Research Interests: Environmentally-responsible building design.

Mr. Edward Clerico
Alliance Environmental, LLC

Research Interests: Water reclamation and application of principles of sustainability to water infrastructure and green buildings.

Dr. Leon Glicksman
Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Fluidized beds, heat transfer, energy efficient buildings, sustainable buildings, air circulation in buildings, sustainable buildings for developing countries.

Mr. Jeffrey Holmes
Woods Bagot

Research Interests: Architectural design founded upon the physical performance of buildings as well as their connection to context, culture and climate.

Dr. David Listokin
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

Research Interests: Community and fiscal impact analysis, housing policy, land-use regulation, and historic preservation.

Dr. Catherine Peters
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer, Princeton University

Research Interests: Environmental chemistry and environmental risk assessment including geochemical reactions that are important for geochemical CO2 storage.