Research Interests

Areas of Interest

Research at the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute provides a comprehensive balanced energy program, based on the most efficient use of our natural resources while minimizing environmental impacts and our dependence on imported energy, with faculty expertise across a broad spectrum of energy technology and policy. Specific areas of research and faculty associated with that research are listed below.

Energy and Sustainability

  • Catalysis and Membranes
    • ​Faculty: Dongxia Liu, Eric Wachsman, Taylor Woehl
  • Combustion and Gassification
    • ​Faculty: Ashwani Gupta, Peter Sunderland
  • Batteries
    • Faculty: Paul Albertus, Kyo Yong Choi , Reza Ghodssi, Liangbing Hu, Alireza Khaligh, Peter Kofinas, Sangbok Lee, Marina Leite, Dongxia Liu, Yifei Mo, Michael Pecht, Gary Rubloff, Eric Wachsman, Chunsheng Wang, YuHuang Wang, Taylor Woehl
  • Alkaline fuel cells
    • ​Faculty: Chungsheng Wang
  • Microbial fuel cells
    • ​Faculty: Liangbing Hu
  • PEM Fuel Cells
    • ​Faculty: Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Bryan Eichhorn, Jeffrey Klauda, Peter Sunderland, Taylor Woehl
  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
    • ​Faculty: Michael Zacariah, Christopher Cadou, Bryan Eichhorn, Liangbing Hu, Eric Wachman, Chunsheng Wang
  • Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning;  and Combined Heat & Power (HVAC/CHP)
    • ​Faculty: Reza Ghodssi, Ashwani Gupta, Reinhard Radermacher, Bo Yang
  • Lighting and Building Efficiency
    • ​Faculty: Ralph Bennett, Mario Dagenais, Amy Gardner, Gang Qu, Jelena Srebric, YuHuang Wang
  • Thermoelectrics and Waste Heat Recovery
    • ​Faculty: Ashwani Gupta, Oded Rabin, Reinhard Radermacher, Bo Yang
  • Energy Harvesting 
    • ​Faculty: Reza Ghodssi
  • Micropropulsion
    • ​Faculty: Christopher Cadou, Reza Ghodssi, Michael Zacariah
  • Power Electronics
    • ​Faculty: Alireza Khaligh, Gregory Nusinovich, Michael Pecht, Peter Sandborn, Ray Sedwick
  • Biomass
    • ​Faculty: Ashwani Gupta, Jonathan Kays, Richard Kohn, Stephanie Lansing, Ganesh Sriram
  • Hydrogen
    • Faculty: Katrina Groth, Peter Sunderland, Reinhard Radermacher, Eric Wachsman
  • Solar
    • ​Faculty: Raymond Adomatis, Bob Bartolo, Mario Dagenais,  Amy Gardner, Liangbing Hu, Alireza Khaligh, Marina Leite, Luz Martinez-Miranda, Jeremy Munday, Raymond Phaneuf, Lourdes Salamanca-Riba, YuHuang Wang, Victor Yakovenko, Michael Zachariah
  • Water
    • ​Faculty:
  • Wind
    • ​Faculty: Inderjit Chopra, Qingbin Cui, Anya Jones, Alireza Khaligh, Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, Reinhard Radermacher, Peter Sandborn, Ray Sedwick, Ichiro Takeuchi, Chunsheng Wang
  • Capture
    • ​Faculty: Richard Calabrese, Bryan Eichhorn, George Hurtt, Jeffrey Klauda
  • Sequestration
    • ​Faculty: Amir Riaz, Ning Zeng

Policy - Implementation of sustainable energy technologies and resources requires balanced policy decisions based on environmental and economic consideration.

The Center for Global Sustainability in the School of Public Policy is closely affiliated with the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute.

Faculty: Maureen Cropper, Nathan Hultman, Steven Gabriel, Kavita Surana

Safety and Reliability - The Center for Risk and Reliability (CRR) research covers a wide range of subjects involving systems and processes, and include topics on predictive reliability and human reliability analysis methods, advanced probabilistic inference methods, system-level health monitoring and prognostics, risk analysis theory and applications to complex systems such as space missions, civil aviation, nuclear power plants, petro-chemical installations, medical devices, information systems, and civil infrastructures. CRR is also closely affiliated with the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute.

Faculty: Katrina Groth, Mohammad Modarres, Michael Pecht, Peter Sandborn, Peter Sunderland


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