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Leadership Team + Affiliates

Charles Werth
Principal Investigator

Professor - Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Focuses on the fate and transport of pollutants in the environment, innovative drinking water treatment technologies, and mitigating environmental impacts associated with energy production and generation.

Lina Sela
Co-PI

Assistant Professor - Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Researches intelligent and resilient urban water systems, fault diagnostics/prognostics, resilient networks, and advanced analytics to make more informed decisions from integrated sensing and data collection.

Ali Fares
Co-PI

Endowed Professor, Chair in Water Security, and Water-Energy-Food Nexus - Natural Resources and Environmental Systems, Prairie View A&M University

Expertise in watershed hydrology and management, water allocation, use and security, irrigation management, adaptation and mitigation of climate variability, and solving natural resource use issues.

Benjamin Leibowicz
Co-PI

Assistant Professor, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Primary research interests are energy systems, optimization, energy and climate policy analysis, integrated assessment modeling, sustainable cities, technological change, and innovation.

David Eaton
Co-PI

Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

Current research involves U.S.-Mexico environmental cooperation, new methods for evaluation of air pollution emissions, joint management of Palestinian and Israeli groundwater, and water conservation in Texas.

Bridget Scanlon
Senior Personnel

Senior Research Scientist, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin

Expertise in hydrogeology with an emphasis on groundwater resources, evaluating the interdependence of water and energy for power generation and water use in hydraulic fracturing for shale oil and gas development.

Alex Huang
Senior Personnel

Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Research areas are power semiconductor devices, power management integrated circuits, power electronics and its emerging applications such as those in future electric power delivery and management systems.

Keith Keitz
Senior Personnel

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas Austin

Uses synthetic chemistry and biology, and chemical engineering to design new functional materials for use in catalysis, energy generation, environmental remediation, biological separations, and medicine.

Ripendra Awal
Senior Personnel

Research Scientist, Natural Resources and Environmental Systems, Prairie View A&M University

Focused on watershed modeling, water-related hazards, dam failure, climate change, water resources, agricultural water management, crop modeling and UAS application in agriculture.

Michelle Burd
Senior Personnel

President, Burd's Eye View Research and Evaluation

Educational and research program assessment in STEM-related fields.

Alex Hanson
Affiliate

Assistant Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Research include component- and system-level power electronics with emphasis on high-frequency magnetics and circuits. Also focused on leveraging power and energy in diverse applications like medicine, aerospace, agriculture, etc.

Lynn Katz
Affiliate

Professor - Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Research focused on the fate and transport of contaminants in natural and engineered systems, combined abiotic/biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation, environmental surface chemistry. 

Mary Jo Kirisits
Affiliate

Associate Professor - Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Technical interests include biological water treatment processes; application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; biofilms; quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

Brian Korgel
Affiliate

Professor - Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Research Areas: advanced materials, polymers & nanotechnology and energy

Manish Kumar
Affiliate

Associate Professor - Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Mimicking biological processes and materials at the molecular scale to develop materials and processes that bring the exquisite specificity and functionality of biological molecules and processes to engineering scales.

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