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BRUCE PITT, chair and professor brucep@pitt.edu, 412-624-8400 Antioxidant and nitric oxide effects on lung function, fracking JOHN SHAFFER, assistant professor john.r.shaffer@pitt.edu, 412-624-3018 Genetic contributors to human disease, heritability, epigenetics DIETRICH STEPHAN, chair and professor dstephan@pitt.edu, 412-648-3353 Genetic testing, population genetics EVELYN TALBOTT, professor eot1@pitt.edu, 412-624-3074 Environmental epidemiology ELIZABETH VAN NOSTRAND, assistant professor schmidte@pitt.edu, 412-383-2231 Public health law and ethics, oil and gas law, emergency preparedness law WILBERT VAN PANHUIS, assistant professor wav10@pitt.edu, 412-624-7693 Weather and spread of infectious disease DANIEL WEEKS, professor weeks@pitt.edu, 412-624-5388 Statistical genetics, methylation and childhood asthma JIAN-MIN YUAN, professor yuanj@upmc.edu, 412-864-7889
JOEL HAIGHT, associate professor and director, Safety Engineering Program jhaight@pitt.edu, 412-624-9830 Safety engineering, human factors engineering, human error and human system performance PAUL LEU, associate professor pleu@pitt.edu, 412-624-9834 Advanced materials for solar technology
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE BRIAN GLEESON, Harry S. Tack Chair Professor and department chair bgleeson@pitt.edu, 412-648-1185 High-temperature degradation of metallic alloys and coatings, thermodynamics and kinetics of gas/solid and solid/solid reactions IAN NETTLESHIP, associate professor and director, Ceramic Filter Project nettles@pitt.edu, 412-624-9735 Development of low-cost ceramic water filters for low-income communities, especially in third-world countries
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY PATRICK IRVIN, research associate professor prist2@pitt.edu, 412-624-2730 Helium recycling
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Cancer epidemiology and prevention
MICHAËL AKLIN, assistant professor aklin@pitt.edu, 412-648-7265
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
International and comparative political economy with applications to environmental issues and financial crises
BOPAYA BIDANDA, Ernest E. Roth Professor, department chair and co-director, The Business of Humanity ® Project bidanda@pitt.edu, 412-624-9830 Cellular manufacturing, computer integrated manufacturing systems, new product development, production systems, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, shared manufacturing
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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, computational materials discovery, energy storage, hypothetical materials, molecular modeling
Fate of chemicals in organisms and ecosystems, bioaccumulation, ecosystem modeling, exposure modeling, green chemistry, risk assessment, sustainability, toxicokinetics
SABINA DEITRICK, associate professor sabinad@pitt.edu, 412-648-7614
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MELISSA BILEC, Roberta A. Luxbacher Faculty Fellow and deputy director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation mbilec@pitt.edu, 412-648-8075 Sustainable health care, energy modeling and efficiency in the built environment, healthy and high-performance buildings, life cycle assessment, sustainable products, water-energy symbiosis, sustainable construction LEONARD CASSON, associate professor casson@pitt.edu, 412-624-9868
ANTHROPOLOGY LOUKAS BARTON, assistant professor loukas@pitt.edu, 412-648-2247 Relationship between environmental change and cultural evolution EMILY WANDERER, assistant professor emily.wanderer@pitt.edu Environmental anthropology
BUSINESS JOHN CAMILLUS, Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management camillus@katz.pitt.edu, 412-648-1599 Wicked problems in strategic management; The Business of Humanity ® Project at Pitt; strategic planning and management control
CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING ERIC BECKMAN, distinguished service professor and co-director, Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation beckman@pitt.edu, 412-624-4828 Green molecular design, design of polymer systems for use in contact with tissue, sustainable design of chemical products
KARL JOHNSON, professor karlj@pitt.edu, 412-624-5644 Carbon dioxide capture, gas adsorption on metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes, catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide, fuel cell technology JOHN KEITH, Richard King Mellon Faculty Fellow in Sustainable Energy jakeith@pitt.edu, 412-624-7016 Catalysis and computational chemistry, sustainable energy and chemical production PRASHANT KUMTA, Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor of Bioengineering and of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering pkumta@pitt.edu, 412-264-8223 Engineering natural polymers and membrane architectures for innovative processing of nanostructured ceramics, metals, semiconductors and biomaterials; structure-property relationships for electronic, electrochemical, bone tissue engineering, and plasmid gene delivery applications; novel nanostructured materials for li-ion batteries, direct methanol fuel cells, hydrogen fuel cells and supercapacitors; energy storage GÖTZ VESER, professor and associate director, Center for Energy gveser@pitt.edu, 412-624-1042 Catalysis, CO2 capture and conversion, fuel processing, natural gas conversion
Wastewater systems, water disinfection LEANNE GILBERTSON, assistant professor lmg110@pitt.edu, 412-624-1683 Environmental engineering, life cycle assessment, sustainable material design, sustainable nanotechnology, persistence of carbon nanomaterials KENT HARRIES, associate professor and Bicentennial Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow (currently on visiting fellowship at the University of Bath through August 2018 ) kharries@pitt.edu, 412-624-9873 Infrastructure, large structural systems, use of nonconventional materials including carbon fiber composite and bamboo for construction VIKAS KHANNA, associate professor khannav@pitt.edu, 412-624-9870 Complex systems, industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, sustainability science and engineering MARK MAGALOTTI, senior lecturer and co-director, Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure mjm25@pitt.edu, 412-624-9870 Traffic and transportation engineering, structural engineering and mechanics, geotechnical and pavements, environmental engineering and water resources, forensic studies, materials and construction
JULIE VANDENBOSSCHE, associate professor jmv7@pitt.edu, 412-624-9879
Economic and community development, regional planning, brownfields revitalization, post-industrial cities
TIFFANY GARY-WEBB, associate professor and epidemiologist tgary@pitt.edu, 412-624-3131 Social and environmental determinants of chronic disease BERNARD GOLDSTEIN, former dean (former assistant administrator for research and development at the EPA) bdgold@pitt.edu, 412-648-9994
Structural engineering and mechanics, geotechnical and pavements, concrete
SHANTI GAMPER-RABINDRAN, associate professor shanti1@pitt.edu, 412-648-8266
ECONOMICS
Environment, health and development economics and policy
AMY HARTMAN, assistant professor hartman2@pitt.edu, 412-648-8765
ILIA MURTAZASHVILI, associate professor imurtaz@pitt.edu, 412-648-7907
Bioterrorism, infectious disease outbreaks
ANDREA LA NAUZE, assistant professor lanauze@pitt.edu, 412-648-1729 Household energy consumption and distributed generation RANDALL WALSH, associate professor walshr@pitt.edu, 412-648-1737 Housing markets and environmental quality, transport of fossil fuels
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING BRANDON GRAINGER, research assistant professor bmg10@pitt.edu, 412-383-8148 Electric power conversion, medium to high voltage power electronics (HVDC and STATCOM), general power electronic converter design (topology, controller design, magnetics) and high power density design, power semiconductor evaluation (SiC and GaN) and reliability assessment, military power systems, DC system design and protection, fault identification techniques, microgrids GREGORY REED, professor and director, Center for Energy and the GRID Institute gfr3@pitt.edu, 412-383-9862 Advanced electric power grid and energy generation, transmission and distribution system technologies; power electronics and control technologies (FACTS, HVDC and MVDC systems); microgrids and DC infrastructure development, renewable energy systems and integration; smart grid technologies and applications; energy storage
The origin and change in property rights institutions and how those institutions relate to energy issues JEREMY WEBER, associate professor jgw99@pitt.edu, 202-694-5584 Policies and economic impacts surrounding energy extraction, especially shale oil and gas extraction
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH JENNIFER ADIBI, assistant professor adibij@pitt.edu, 412-624-1913 Pollution exposure during pregnancy, phthalates AARON BARCHOWSKY, professor aab20@pitt.edu, 412-624-8864
Environmental toxicology, environmental medicine
TINA BATRA HERSHEY, assistant professor tbh16@pitt.edu, 412-383-2229 Public health law, Indian tribe public health emergency preparedness VALERIAN KAGAN, professor kagan@pitt.edu, 412-624-9479 Free radicals, oxidative stress, radiation exposure GEORGE LEIKAUF, professor gleikauf@pitt.edu, 412-383-5305 Air pollution and acute lung injury, asthma, COPD ERNESTO MARQUES, associate professor marques@pitt.edu, 412-648-2052 Zika and dengue epidemiology
Health effects of environmental exposure to metals, arsenic in drinking water
GARY MARSH, professor gmarsh@pitt.edu, 412-624-1294
GERALD BARRON, associate professor gbarron@pitt.edu, 412-383-2501
Long-term health effects of occupational and environmental exposures, environmental epidemiology
Public health practice, community health LISA BODNAR, associate professor bodnar@edc.pitt.edu, 412-624-9032
NOBLE A-W MASERU, director, Center for Health Equity nam137@pitt.edu, 412-624-3506
Nutritional and perinatal epidemiology
Health equity, racial disparities, diversity
BRENDA DIERGAARDE, associate professor diergaardeb@upmc.edu, 412-623-5891
RYAN MINSTER, assistant professor rminster@pitt.edu, 412-624-6928
Environmental factors and cancer genetics
Genetic epidemiology, population isolates and their impact on disease
JAMES FABISIAK, associate professor fabs@pitt.edu, 412-624-7335 Environmental toxicology, air pollution and public health, fracking
PATRICIA OPRESKO, associate professor plo4@pitt.edu, 412-623-7764 DNA damage, telomeres