School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Sustainable engineering faculty

Focusing on air, water, earth and energy

Our faculty are sought out experts in sustainable engineering, earth systems engineering and management, industrial ecology, emerging technology – especially military and security technologies, weaponized narrative and identity, air quality, air pollution, energy conservation and energy efficiency technologies.

Our researchers are also known for their work on infrastructure resilience and sustainability, climate change and extreme events, interdependent infrastructure systems, transportation life cycle assessment, infrastructure complexity and adaptation, anticipatory environmental life cycle assessment, team science, sustainable systems and technologies as well as energy analysis.

Other research specialties include water conservation, water resources engineering, human and natural systems, numerical modeling, closing the carbon cycle by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties.

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Braden Allenby

President’s Professor

Lincoln Center Applied Ethics

Allenby’s areas of expertise include tech, geopolitical, and mil/sec implications of emerging technologies, industrial ecology, sustainable engineering, and earth systems engineering and management.

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Mackenzie Boyer

Assistant Teaching Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Boyer’s research interests include Water Conservation.

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Mikhail Chester

Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Chester’s long-term goals are to advance understanding of how urban infrastructure design should balance the life-cycle benefits and costs of integrated systems with sensitivity to social-equity, growth and future climate.

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Matthew Fraser

Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Fraser’s areas of expertise include urban air quality, sustainability analysis of alternative energy systems, sources and control of air pollution and atmospheric monitoring instrumentation.

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Margaret Garcia

Associate Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Garcia investigates factors influencing the sustainability and resilience of urban water supply systems by advancing the theory of coupled systems and translating theory into actionable models to support infrastructure.

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Klaus Lackner

Research Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Lackner developed mineral sequestration, zero emission power plants and direct air capture to balance the carbon budget. He closes the carbon cycle producing fuels and plastics with CO2 from air, water and renewable energy.

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Dwarak Ravikumar

Assistant Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Ravikumar’s research interests are designing and implementing circular economy solutions to address climate change, and guide and improve the sustainability outcomes of large-scale technology transitions.

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Thomas Seager

Associate Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Seager’s research interests are resilient infrastructure, anticipatory environmental life cycle assessment, team science, sustainable systems & technologies and energy analysis.