PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Dean, Princeton School for Public and International Affairs
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- Andlinger Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow ( Mohan CV )
Aniruddh Mohan, Andlinger Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow (Mohan CV)
Aniruddh studies the role of emerging technologies in transport, electricity, and carbon removal for achieving deep decarbonization. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and masters and undergraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester respectively. His doctoral dissertation highlighted the trade-offs between automation and electrification for light vehicles and the societal costs and benefits of electrifying ride-hailing services. Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation International Climate Protection Fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in Germany.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Grants and Finance Manager
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Director for External Partnerships / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Communications Specialist
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- Ceres President 's Council
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- Associate Professional Specialist ( Isaac CV )
- GIS Researcher and Analyst
Cecelia is a GIS researcher and analyst. She focuses on critical infrastructure with an emphasis on the electrical grid. Her past projects include research into social segregation as it relates to resident wellbeing in metropolitan areas, political campaign messaging by region, and hurricane recovery in Gulf states. She has a B.A. in English and Chinese from the University at Albany, SUNY and an M.S. in Geographic Information Science from the University of Minnesota. Previously, she worked at U-Spatial as GIS coordinator on hazard mitigation reporting for Minnesota counties. At Princeton, she supports ESAG as well as the Zero carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization (ZERO) Lab.
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- Assistant Director for Research
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Chris Greig, Theodora D. '78 & William H. Walton III '74 Senior Research Scientist (Greig full CV)
Chris commenced a 25-year career in industry in 1986 as the co-founder of a successful process technology and contracting company, which he sold in 1999 to a major European engineering company. From 1999 to 2011, he held senior project and executive roles in the construction and energy resources sectors, including as CEO of ZeroGen, a large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. In 2011 he joined the faculty of the University of Queensland (Australia), where he led both the UQ Energy Initiative and the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation. He also served as Chairman of the Energy Policy Institute of Australia, Deputy Chairman of Gladstone Ports Corporation, and Non-Executive Director of two ASX listed engineering companies. He was a Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow in Energy and Environment at the Andlinger Center from 2018 to 2020 and joined Princeton University as a Senior Research Scientist in August 2020. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at UQ. Chris has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UQ and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. His research interests lie in energy transitions, economics and policy, energy for development, mega-project implementation, and CO 2 capture and storage systems.
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- Chairman
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Interim Director
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- Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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- Communications Specialist
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Dean, School of Architecture
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- Founder and CTO, Electric Hydrogen
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- Senior Research Scholar, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment / Managing Research Physicist, Advanced Projects Department Head, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ( PPPL )
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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- Program Administrator for E - Ffiliates and Events
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- Executive Director for Administration
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Executive Director of Strategic Public Private Partnerships at the Department of Energy 's National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL )
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Politics / Professor of Politics and International Affairs
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
- Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment / Director, Program in Sustainable Energy
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- Professor of Environmental Studies / Founding Director, Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, Dartmouth College
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Director for Education
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
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- Senior Research Engineer / Energy Systems Analysis Group
- Senior Research Engineer, Group Head ( Larson Full CV )
Larson's research intersects engineering, environmental science, economics, and public policy. His energy systems modeling and analyses aim at identifying sustainable, engineering-based solutions to major energy-related problems. His work assesses resource, economic, and environmental implications of prospective technology developments and helps inform public and private decision making in the U.S. and elsewhere. He has published extensively on the design and analysis of advanced biomass and fossil fuel conversion technologies with CO 2 capture and storage. He was part of the Princeton team contributing to the National Research Council report, America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation (2009). He was a Co-Convening Lead Author of the fossil energy chapter of the major international study, The Global Energy Assessment (2012). He co-led Princeton's Net-Zero America project (2021), and he is active in the global Rapid Switch initiative established by the Andlinger Center. Larson is an Affiliated Faculty member with the High Meadows Environmental Institute and the Center for Policy Research on Energy and Environment in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He also holds an appointment as a senior scientist with Climate Central, a non-profit, non-partisan science and media organization that informs diverse audiences about climate change and potential solutions.
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Director, Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials
- Professor of Electrical Engineering / Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor of Electrical Engineering / Head of Whitman College
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate ( Cheng CV )
Fangwei's research interests include energy system modeling, life cycle assessment, and techno-economic assessment of low and negative carbon-emission technologies. She is currently part of both the Zero carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization (ZERO) Lab and the Energy Systems Analysis Group. She obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Wuhan Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia. For her Ph.D. dissertation, she integrated machine learning, life cycle assessment, and techno-economic assessment to evaluate different negative-emission technologies.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
- Associate Professor of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment / Co - Director, Program in Architecture and Engineering
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- Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University / Educational Foundation
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute / Director, High Meadows Environmental Institute / Deputy Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate ( Hegde CV )
Ganesh's research interests include energy system modeling, energy inequality, policy analysis, and understanding technology-development linkages. He is currently working on India's energy pathways for achieving Net-Zero carbon emissions. Ganesh has a master's degree in Power and Energy System Engineering from Bangalore University and a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. His Ph.D. dissertation explores rural electrification policy evolution in India while analyzing electricity consumption inequalities in the country. He is an amateur chess and badminton player, an avid reader, and an outdoor enthusiast.
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- Research Engineer, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
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- President, Energy Transition & Digital at Worley
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- President, GHO Ventures, LLC
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Research Associate, Energy Systems Analysis Group / Assistant Professor, North China Electric Power University, School of Energy & Power Engineering, Beijing, China
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
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- Professor in the Energy and Power
Haiping Chen is a professor in the Energy and Power Engineering Department, North China Electric Power University, Beijing.
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- Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical College of South Carolina
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- Research Associate, Energy Systems Analysis Group
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- Fellow
- Resident
- President, CleanGrid Advisors LLC
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- Chairman in Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate ( Luo CV )
Hongxi's research interests include process modeling, life cycle assessment, and techno-economic assessment of energy systems. He is currently working on the assessments of different thermochemical conversion of biomass coupled with carbon capture and storage to mitigate climate change. Hongxi received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri - Columbia and East China University of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. Previously, Hongxi worked as a R&D manager to optimize the environmental and economic performances of full-scale sludge pyrolysis plants and develop practical applications of sludge-derived biochar in the context of circular economy.
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- Chief Executive Officer, LanzaTech
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- Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Chief Executive Officer, Evidn
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- Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Andlinger Non - Resident Visiting Fellow, 2020 - CTO, NICE - America
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
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- Fellow of the Royal Society / Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate ( De Weerdt CV )
Loïc's research interests include the transition towards a carbon-neutral circular economy, techno-economic evaluations of green microgrids, investments under various types of uncertainty, social welfare maximization, waste management, and sustainable development. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and undergraduate degrees in environmental economics and in European Union law. For his Ph.D. dissertation, he analyzed the market acceptance of circular plastics in Europe. Previously, he was also a member of the Flemish Circular Economy Policy Research Center, a hub of researchers that focus on policy-oriented research questions.
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- Department of Energy, Politecnico Di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering / Ex Officio Members
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- Senior Researcher, Princeton Environmental Institute and Energy Systems Analysis Group
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- Dean and Founding Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Erin is the Hodgson Family Assistant Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College (as of September 2021).
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- Roberto Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering Director, Environmental Engineering Program, Yale University
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- Assistant Professor, Princeton, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
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- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Program Manager, Education and Outreach
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Dean and Professor of Architectural Design
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering / Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
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- Founder
- Managing General Partner
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology and Chief Research Officer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL )
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Assistant Professor, the Energy Department of Politecnico Di Torino ( Italy )
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Fellow
- Resident
- Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 's Joint Global Change Research Institute, University of Maryland
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- Program Administrator for Research
Robert H. Williams founded and led the Energy Systems Analysis Group during a 41-year career at Princeton University that concluded in early 2017. He is currently Senior Research Scientist, Emeritus, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. He is interested in fuel cells for transportation and stationary power applications, advanced gas turbine technologies for power generation, advanced technologies for producing hydrogen and other clean synthetic fuels from carbonaceous feedstocks, fuels decarbonization and CO2 sequestration, various renewable energy technologies, and nuclear energy (mainly proliferation and economic aspects). (Williams full CV)
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- Roberto Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering Director, Environmental Engineering Program, Yale University
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- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering / Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory / Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
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- Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
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- Professor at the Department of Energy, Poli
Stefano Consonni is a professor at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Visitor-in-residence appointments with ESAG in 2002, 2007, and 2018.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Fellow
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- Executive - in - Residence, Princeton E - Ffiliates Partnership
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Tom Kreutz was the senior energy systems modeler with ESAG for two decades prior to his retirement in 2019. Kreutz's interests are in modeling advanced energy conversion systems, in particular: production of hydrogen, electricity, and CO 2 (for sequestration) from coal, residential scale, natural gas-fired PEM fuel cell cogeneration, fuel cell hybrid vehicles: power system design and vehicle performance modeling, reforming liquid fuels to hydrogen for mobile and stationary power applications, gasification of biomass and black liquor for combined cycle generation of electric power, and fuel cells, gas turbines, and hybrid/combined cycles for electric power generation. (Kreutz full CV)
Arya's research includes designing, modeling, optimization, and analysis across a wide range of energy technologies and systems. He is interested in the techno-economic-environmental performances of current and future clean energy supply chains. He obtained a BEng in chemical engineering from the University of Indonesia, an MSc in energy engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the National University of Ireland (Galway). As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, he developed an online decision support tool for deploying renewable hydrogen in large cities across Northwest Europe. He additionally was involved with the modeling of solar-based synthetic liquid fuels production at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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- Visiting Fellow, Princeton Environmental Institute, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy
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- Assistant Director, BioLEC / Andlinger Center for Energy
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- Assistant Director for External Partnerships
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- Navigant Consulting, Inc., Burlington, Massachussetts
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Chemistry / Chair, Department of Chemistry
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- Chief Executive Officer, Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation / Former Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Director for Research / Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
- Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment / Associate Director for Research, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Dean of Department of Thermal Engineering
Zheng Li is the dean of Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
In residence with ESAG in September 2001 and January 2002 (Visiting Scholar).