Staff and Faculty
Shoibal Chakravarty, Research Associate
Chakravarty is developing a global CO2 emissions attribution profile. The work aims to divide the world's population according to individual emissions based on income and lifestyle instead of per capita national income. The resulting profile will be the basis for proposing alternative approaches to climate change mitigation and to policies for controling CO2 emissions.
Thomas G. Kreutz , Senior Technical Staff Member
Kreutz’s interests are in modeling advanced energy conversion systems, in particular: production of hydrogen, electricity, and CO2 (for sequestration) from coal, residential scale, natural gas-fired PEM fuel cell cogeneration, fuel cell hybrid vehicles: power system design and vehicle performance modeling, reforming liquid fuels to hydrogen for mobile and stationary power applications, gasification of biomass and black liquor for combined cycle generation of electric power, and fuel cells, gas turbines, and hybrid/combined cycles for electric power generation.
Eric D. Larson, Research Engineer
Larson is interested in engineering and economic systems modeling of advanced clean-energy technologies and processes for carbonaceous fuels (biomass, coal, natural gas), especially for addressing energy-related problems in developing countries. His specific technology interests include gas turbines for power generation, gasification of solid fuels, synthesis of various clean fluid fuels, and fuel cells for transportation. He is collaborating with Chinese colleagues on analysis of syngas-based energy technologies and strategies for low pollution and low greenhouse gas emission energy futures for China.
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Guangjian Liu, Research Associate
Liu’s interests include design and simulation of natural gas conversion and gasification-based conversion of coal and biomass to clean liquid fuels and/or electricity and the application of thermo-economic and lifecycle analysis methods to integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and polygeneration system design. Liu is on leave from an assistant professorship at the School of Energy and Power Engineering of the North China Electric Power University (Beijing).
Robert H. Socolow, Professor (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Socolow is interested in the characteristics of a global energy system responsive to global and local environmental and security constraints. His specific areas of interest include carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and storage in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the acceleration of deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries.
Massimo Tavoni, Research Associate
Tavoni's research is about energy and climate change economics. He focuses on the evaluation of international climate mitigation policies, accounting for technological evolution and uncertainty, and the role of tropical deforestation. He is also working on distributional implications of climate agreements.
Robert H. Williams, Senior Research Scientist
Williams’s energy technology interests include fuel cells for transportation and stationary power applications, advanced gas turbine technologies for power generation, advanced technologies for producing hydrogen and other clean synthetic fuels from carbonaceous feedstocks, fuels decarbonization and CO2 sequestration, various renewable energy), and nuclear energy (mainly proliferation and economic aspects).