Energy Solutions and Mitigation Research

In a world with increasingly finite resources, the security and economic stability of the next fifty years will depend on the steps we take in the next fifteen years to rebuild our country's energy consumption. Researchers at UCLA are at the forefront in the development of new and sustainable energy technology. The work that we do today with fusion, laser, nuclear, and renewable energies will literally power our nation tomorrow.

 

Mohamed A. Abdou Professor, Director
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
abdou@fusion.ucla.edu
(310) 206-0501
Expertise: Fusion, Nuclear, Thermomechanics

Greg Carman Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
carman@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-6030
Expertise: Energy Efficiency, Storage, and Conservation

Jane P. Chang Professor
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
jpchang@ucla.edu
(310) 206-7980
Expertise: Gas Storage and Transport, Energy Production

Francis F. Chen Professor Emeritus
Electrical Engineering
ffchen@ucla.edu
(310) 825-5624
Expertise: Plasma Physics, Magnetic and Laser Fusion

Jason Cong Professor, Director, Co-Director
Computer Science
cong@cs.ucla.edu
(310) 206-2775
Expertise: Green Computing

Vijay K. Dhir Distinguished Professor, Dean
Engineering and Applied Sciences
engrdean@ea.ucla.edu 
(310) 825-5402
Expertise: Energy Efficiency, Production, and Storage; Thermodynamics

Bruce S. Dunn Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
bdunn@ucla.edu
(310) 825-1519
Expertise: Energy Storage, Inorganic Solids, Derived Materials

David Eisenberg Professor, Director
Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
david@mbi.ucla.edu
(310) 825-3754
Expertise: Water and Hydrogen Bonding, Protein Crystallography

Julius Glater
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
glater@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-0851
Expertise: Land Use, Reverse Osmosis, Desalination, Drainage Water

Robert Goldberg Professor
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
bobg@ucla.edu
(310) 825-9093
Expertise: Bio-fuels, Plant Biotechnology

George Gruner Professor
Physics and Astronomy
gruner@physics.ucla.edu
(310) 825-8782
Expertise: Energy Storage, Nanoscale Electronic Devices

Robert Gunsalus Professor
Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics
robg@microbio.ucla.edu
(310) 206-8201
Expertise: Transmission and Distribution, Energy Production, Carbon Pathways

Robert Hicks Professor
Electrical Engineering
rhicks@ucla.edu
(310) 206-6865
Expertise: Energy Storage, Semiconductor Process

Eric Hoek Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
emvhoek@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 206-3735
Expertise: Nanomaterials, Membrane Technology, Water Use

Bahram Jalali Professor
Electrical Engineering
jalali@ee.ucla.edu
(310) 825-9655
Expertise: Silicon Photonics, Energy Storage

Jennifer Jay Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
jjay@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 267-5365
Expertise: Alternative Fuels, Energy Production, Photobiological Hydrogen Fuel

Chandrasekhar Joshi Professor
Electrical Engineering
joshi@ee.ucla.edu
(310) 825-7279
Expertise: Energy Use and Production, Laser Fusion, Laser Acceleration of Particles

Yongho Sungtaek Ju Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
just@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-0985
Expertise: Micro and Nanoscale Thermosciences, Nanofabrication

William Kaiser Professor
Electrical Engineering
kaiser@ee.ucla.edu
(310) 206-3236
Expertise: Transmission and Distribution, Production, Embedded System Technology

Richard Kaner Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
kaner@chem.ucla.edu
(310) 825-5346
Expertise: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Hydrogen Sensors, Conducting Polymers

Ann R. Karagozian Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
ark@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-5653
Expertise: Fluid Mechanics, Combustion, Alternative Fuels

Chang-Jin Kim Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
cjkim@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-0267
Expertise: Micro Fuel Cell Systems

Adrienne Lavine Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
lavine@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-7468
Expertise: Thermomechanics, Heat Transfer

James C. Liao Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
liaoj@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-1656
Expertise: Bio-fuels, Metabolic Engineering

Vasilios Manousiouthakis Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
vasilios@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 206-0300
Expertise: Alternative Fuels, Energy Production, Green Manufacturing, Transport Technology

Murray Milne Research Professor
Architecture and Urban Design
milne@ucla.edu
Expertise: Solar, Building Climatology, Energy Production, Computerized Energy Design Tools

Neil B. Morley Adjunct Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
morley@fusion.ucla.edu
(310) 206-1230
Expertise: Nuclear, Energy Production

Daniel Neuhauser Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physical Chemistry
dxn@chem.ucla.edu
(310) 825-6589
Expertise: Quantum Dynamics, Genetic-Networks, Biofuels, Molecular Electronics

Gerrasimos Orkoulas Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
makis@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 267-0169
Expertise: Energy Storage, Metal Hybrids, Hydrogen Storage

Vidvuds Ozolins Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
vidvuds@ucla.edu
(310) 267-5538
Expertise: Energy Storage, Computational Modeling, Nanoscale Self-Assembly

Tony Peebles Researcher
Physics and Astronomy
peebles@physics.ucla.edu
(310) 206-1896
Expertise: Energy Production, Fusion Plasma Diagnostics

Qibing Pei Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
qpei@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-4217
Expertise: Solar Energy, Electroactive Polymers, Wind-Power Generation

Laurent Pilon Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
pilon@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 206-5598
Expertise: Alternative Fuels, Hydrogen Fuel Cells, CO2 Mitigation, Radiative Forcing

Stephanie Pincetl Director, Researcher
Center for Sustainable Urban Systems
spincetl@ioe.ucla.edu
(310) 825-2434
Expertise: Land Use, Urban Environments, Environmental Transformation

Greg Pottie Professor
Electrical Engineering
pottie@ee.ucla.edu
(310) 206-0555
Expertise: Energy Efficiency, Production, and Conservation, Environmental Sensors

Seth Putterman Professor
Physics and Astronomy
(310) 825-2269
Expertise: Energy Production, Sonofusion, Bubble-fusion

Diego Rosso Postdoctoral Scholar
Civil and Environmental Engineering
bidui@ucla.edu
Expertise: Energy Storage and Efficiency, Wastewater Treatment and Management Control

Jean Savage Administrative Analyst
Center for Tropical Research
jsavage@ucla.edu
(310) 206-6234
Expertise: Conservation

Selim Senkan Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
senkan@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 206-4106
Expertise: Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Catalysis and Combustion

Michael K. Stenstrom Distinguished Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
stenstro@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-1408
Expertise: Water Use, Wastewater, Treatment Systems, Urban Runoff

Irwin Suffet Professor
Environmental Health Sciences, Environmental Science and Engineering
msuffet@ucla.edu
(310) 206-8230
Expertise: Water Use, Containment Transport

Sarah Tolbert Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
tolbert@chem.ucla.edu
(310) 206-4767
Expertise: Energy Storage, Nanoscale Periodicity, Self-reorganization

William D. Van Vorst Professor Emeritus
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
wvanvors@ucla.edu
(310) 825-2816
Expertise: Thermodynamics, Energy Conservation, Alternative Energy Systems

Robert Wayne Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
rwayne@biology.ucla.edu
(310) 206-0334
Expertise: Molecular Genetics

Omar M. Yaghi Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
yaghi@chem.ucla.edu
(310) 206-0398
Expertise: Energy Storage, Hydrogen Fuel-cell Technology

Yang Yang Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
yangy@ucla.edu
(310) 825-4052
Expertise: Solar Energy, Nano Organic Hybrid Electronics

Todd Yeates Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
yeates@mbi.ucla.edu
(310) 825-8901
Expertise: Energy Production, Macromolecular Structure, Computational Genomics

Alice Ying Researcher, Deputy Director
Engineering
ying@fusion.ucla.edu
(310) 206-8815
Expertise: Fusion, Energy Production

Mahmoud Z. Youssef Senior Research Engineer
Fusion Science and Technology Center
youssef@fusion.ucla.edu
(310) 825-2879

Expertise: Nuclear Engineering