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Environmental economics and policy macroeconomics

Joshua Linn
Assistant Professor, Economics
College of Business Administration

Industrial organization, environmental econometrics

High temperature gas phase chemical kinetics related to combustion processes with special emphasis on environmental impact; combustion synthesis of non-oxide refractory materials

Christophe Darnault
Assistant Professor, Civil & Materials Engineering
College of Engineering

Environmental and water resources engineering

David He
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering

Failure and reliability analysis of manufacturing systems, equipment and process diagnosis and prognosis, statistical process control, agile manufacturing systems, scheduling and control for agile production and manufacturing, environmentally conscious manufacturing

Amid Khoudadoust
Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Environmental separations technologies; remediation of contaminated soils and sediments; biodegradation of PCBs in sediments; arsenic in fly ash

Andreas A. Linninger
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
College of Engineering

System design and analysis, advancing mathematical modeling and computational methods in process design and optimization, integrated design and control and systems biology

G. Ali Mansoori
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
College of Engineering

Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics with applications in chemical engineering process design, heavy oil utilization, asphaltene characterization, sour natural gas purification, supercritical fluid extraction/retrograde condensation, biotechnology, and environmental pollution

Krishna Reddy
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater; waste containment; groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling; beneficial reuse of waste and recycled materials.

Karl Rockne
Associate Professor, Civil & Materials Engineering
College of Engineering

Active capping and contaminated sediment cleanup; biodegradation of hazardous pollutants; ecological and human health threat mapping in the Great Lakes; fate of brominated flame retardants; transport of organic contaminants in soil and sediment; micro-structure characterization of sediment, soil, and soot particles; soot transport to Great Lakes sediments/role of soot as vector for  semi-volatile organic pollutant transport.

Christos G. Takoudis
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
College of Engineering

Microelectronic materials and processing; heterogeneous catalysis and surface chemistry

Thomas L. Theis
Professor, Civil & Materials Engineering, College of Engineering; Director, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy

Mathematical modeling and systems analysis of environmental processes; the environmental chemistry of trace organic and inorganic substances; interfacial reactions; subsurface contaminant transport; hazardous waste management; industrial pollution prevention; industrial ecology

William M. Worek
Professor and Head, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering; Director, Energy Resources Center

Heat and mass transfer processes, thermodynamics, advanced energy systems and solar energy engineering

Christopher Boyer
Assistant Professor, History, LAS

Environmental History, especially in Mexico

Water quality monitoring network design, environmental data analysis, risk assessment and cost benefit analysis

Ananda Chakrabarty
Distinguished Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine

Family of proteins known as cupredoxins and cytochromes that are involved in bacterial electron transport

Lorraine Conroy
Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Characterizing workplace contaminant sources, ventilation system model development and validation, workplace exposure assessment

Samuel Dorevitch
Research Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Environmental epidemiology, incorporating objective measures of health and exposure; health effects of air pollution; inner-city asthma; occupational allergies and asthma; water quality and health

Serap Erdal
Associate Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Environmental and occupational exposure assessment, health risk assessment, development of exposure measurement methods/techniques, multi-media exposure analysis and modeling, aerosol science and technology, validation of size selective particle samplers

Nurtan Esmen
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health;  Joint Faculty, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy

Application of engineering principles and math to occupational and environmental health problems, with special emphases on aerosol physics, exposure estimation and characterization, and the theory of decisionmaking in environmental health sciences.

Asgerally T. Fazleabas
Professor of Physiology; Director, Center for Women's Health and Reproduction
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
College of Medicine

Endocrine disruptors and endometriosis, infertility

Linda Forst
Associate Professor and Physician Surgeon, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Occupational health disparities, farm worker health and safety, occupational injury epidemiology, web-based teaching in environmental health, occupational diseases

David L. Geenen
Research Associate Professor, Section of Cardiology, College of Medicine

Cardiac physiology and cardiac muscle Intracellular Signaling, and hormonal changes in the environment

Daniel O. Hryhorczuk
Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology, School of Public Health; Director, Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health

Health effects of exposure to dioxins, PCBs, heavy metals, and ionizing radiation; global environmental and occupational health; pediatric environmental health; environmental stressors and maternal and child health in eastern Europe

An Li
Associate Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Environmental organic chemistry

Babette J. Neuberger
Clinical Associate Professor, Health Policy & Administration; Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, School of Public Health

Environmental/occupational health law and policy nationally and internationally

Victoria Persky
Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Epidemiology of chronic diseases; epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases

Peter Scheff
Associate Director and Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Air quality management, development of measurement-based receptor models, characterization and control of indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, occupational and environmental exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology

Daniel Swartzman
Associate Professor, Health Policy & Administration, School of Public Health

Social ethics, toxic substance law and policy, government decisionmaking, medical malpractice litigation and policy,  public health advocacy,  environmental health policy

Simon Silver
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine

Molecular genetics and biochemistry of how bacterial cells cope with toxic overload of inorganic cations and anions

Rosemary Sokas
Director and Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Applied, translational occupational safety and health organizational work targeting small businesses and vulnerable populations; problem-based occupational and environmental health/integration of EOHS into public health and primary care.

Leslie Thomas Stayner
Professor, Epidemiology and Director, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Occupational and environmental epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, risk assessment, cancer and other chronic diseases

Dan Tessier
Assistant Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Molecular and cellular toxicology, proteomics, environmental carcinogenesis, cellular signaling, pesticide toxicology, endocrine-disrupting environmental pollutants, environmental fate of pesticides

Scott A. Venners
Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Molecular epidemiology, endocrine disruptors, reproductive health

Sylvia Hood Washington
Research Associate Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Environmental history, environmental justice, environmental health

Green architecture, planning and design

Michael Iversen
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Martin Jaffe
Associate Professor and Director, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Land use control, water resources policy and management, environmental protection

Susan Kaplan
Outreach Activities Coordinator, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy

Brownfields, green building,  environmental health

Rachel Weber
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Local and regional economic development, industrial location, and public finance

Eric Welch
Associate Professor, Public Administration
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Environmental policy; science and technology policy; R&D performance evaluation; electronic government

Curtis R. Winkle
Associate Professor, Urban Planning
And Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Health planning, management skills, program evaluation, statistics

Moira Zellner
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs; Joint Faculty, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy

Environmental planning

Mary V. Ashley
Professor, Biological Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Molecular ecology, landscape genetics, conservation biology

Hormoz BasiriRad
Professor, Biological Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ecophysiology, plant nutrition and global climate change

Peter T. Doran
Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Hydrology, Quaternary, Lacustrine processes, Periglacial environments, Extreme environments, Exobiology

Todd K. Dupont
Assistant Professor Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ice sheets and climate

Martin F. J. Flower
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Petrology, Geochemistry, Geodynamics, Earth evolution

Steven L. Forman
Professor & Undergraduate Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Quaternary environments, Paleoclimatology, Eolian depositional systems, Arctic land-sea interactions, Neotectonics, Geochronology

Miguel Gonzalez-Meler
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Global change biology, plant and ecosystem physiology, isotope ecology, respiration

Stephen J. Guggenheim
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Clay mineralogy, Organo-clays, Phyllosilicates, Thermal analysis, Transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction

Luke Hanley
Professor, Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Fabien Kenig
Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biogeochemistry, Organic geochemistry, Stable isotope geochemistry, Paleoceanography, Life in extreme environments

Kathryn L. Nagy
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Joint Faculty, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy

Environmental geochemistry, Mineral-water interface kinetics and thermodynamics, Clay chemistry

Roy E. Plotnick
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Paleontology, Paleoecology, Landscape ecology, Spatial statistics, Fractals

Carol A. Stein
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Plate tectonics, Marine geophysics, Heat flow

Neil Sturchio
Professor and Department Head, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Geochemistry of rock-water systems, Synchrotron radiation studies of mineral-fluid interfaces, Environmental geochemistry, Stable isotope geochemistry, Actinide decay-series geochronology

David Wise
Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Joint Faculty, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy

Causes and implications of food-web complexity and explores how human-induced impacts, such as global climate change and habitat modification, will affect the functioning of terrestrial food webs.

Joseph DiJohn
Research Professor and Director, Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative, Urban Transportation Center, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Urban transportation issues in Illinois

Kouros Mohammadian
Assistant Professor, Civil & Materials Engineering, College of Engineering

Travel behavior analysis; transportation planning; activity-based travel demand modeling; microsimulation modeling methods of urban activities; integrated land-use and transportation models; applied econometrics and disaggregate choice models; urban travel survey data and data mining; transportation systems analysis; intelligent transportation systems; performance evaluation of transportation systems

Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah
Interim Director, Urban Transportation Center; Associate Professor of Transportation Planning, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Urban transportation systems analysis; regional science; interactions between labor markets, economic development and transportation; Intelligent Transportation Systems