Principal Investigator
Professor Arun Majumdar
Dr. Arun Majumdar is the inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He is the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, a faculty member of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Science and Engineering, a Senior Fellow and former Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy and Senior Fellow (courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. He is also a faculty in Department of Photon Science at SLAC. Prior to joining Stanford, he was the Founding Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) and the Vice President for Energy at Google, where he created several energy technology initiatives and advised the company on its broader energy strategy. He continues to be a consultant to Google on energy.
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Maggie Fazah
Maggie joined Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability as the Executive Assistant to the Dean and Research Lab Administrator in 2023.
Research Scientist
Dr. Gang Wan
► 2018, PhD in Materials Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Argonne National Lab ► Research Interest: Heterogenous catalysis and physical chemistry of solids.
Post-Docs
Dr. Divya Chalise
► 2023, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley ► 2018, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UT Arlington ► Research Interests: Energy Storage, Sustainable Energy Technology ► Co-advisor: Yi Cui
Dr. Marco Gigantino
► 2021, PhD in Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich ► Research Interest: Sustainable hydrogen production and carbon dioxide capture/utilization.
Dr. Kaushal R Parmar
► 2022, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India ► Research Interest: Blue Hydrogen production, Natural gas, polymer pyrolysis to energy and value-added chemicals, Heterogeneous catalysis. ► Co-advisor: Matteo Cargnello
Dr. Zhecheng Wang
► 2022, PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University ► 2016, Bachelor in Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University ► Research Interest: Data-driven study in energy and power systems. ► Co-advisor: Ram Rajagopal
Dr. Yu Wang
► 2022, PhD in Materials Science, University of Southern California ► MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science, University of Southern California ► Research Interest: energy exchange and transport in novel nanoscale materials and devices.
Dr. Kun Xu
► 2022, Phd in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University ► Research Interest: atomic scale characterization, oxide functional materials.
Dr. Xueji Wang
► 2023, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University ► Research Interests: infrared spectral imaging, optical sensing
Graduate Students
Rob Buechler
► 2020, B.S.E in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor ► Research Interest: Machine Learning for energy applications, energy systems control and optimization.
Emmanuel O. Balogun
► 2018, BSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC. ► Research Interest: Controls and optimization/machine learning and its application in distributed energy systems and power. Mechatronics.
Orisa Zarilka Coombs
► 2021, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT ► Research Interests: Water-Energy nexus, solar deployment, sanitation for resource constrained areas. ► Co-advisor: Will Tarpeh
Natalie Diaz
► 2019, BSE in Computer Science, Princeton University ► Research Interests: Data-driven sustainability insights, data accessibility.
Cassandra Raen Borthwick Huff
► 2020, BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin ► Research Interests: Carbon emissions reduction, nanotechnology, and science and tech policy.
Max Kessler
► 2020, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT ► Research Interests: Negative emissions technologies, namely methane removal. Atmospheric modeling. Climate policy.
Henry Moise
► 2021 B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara ► Research interests: Thermochemical processes for advanced fuels and low-carbon energy transformation ► Co-advisor: Matteo Cargnello
Richard Randall
► 2019, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University ► Research interest: Hydrogen production, negative-emission technologies, energy and climate policy.
Shradha Sapru
► 2021, BS-MS in Chemistry, IISER Mohali ► Research Interests: Catalysis for sustainability, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, science policy. ► Co-advisor: Matteo Cargnello
Xintong Xu
► 2020, Bachelor in Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University ► Research interest: Fundamental understanding of energy transport.
Luc Houriez
► 2023, MSc. Energy Engineering, CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, France ► Research interest: Decarbonisation, Climate Resilience, Sustainable Energy
Undergraduate Students
Sebastian Felipe Marin-Quiros
► 2023 (in progress), BS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University ► Research Interest: Thermochemical reactions for energy and environmental applications.
Our Special Lab Members!
Chunky Monkey
► 5th-year PhooD student ► Advisor: Cassandra ► Breed: Cat ► Research Interest: Thermal energy regulation through direct light absorption and dormancy.
Bandit
► 5th-year PhooD student ► Advisor: Cassandra ► Breed: Cat ► Research Interest: Observational study of Corvus brachyrhynchos intraspecific communication with a concentration in auditory modes.