MIT ENERGY NIGHT - Key Persons


A Nihat Berker

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics
  • Professor Emeritus

Adam Berinsky

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Adam Willard

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Ahmed Ghoniem

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering

Aimé Fournier

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
  • Research Scientist Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Aisling O'Grady

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Education Program Administrator

Alan Berger

Job Titles:
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Alan Edelman

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Mathematics

Alex Pentland

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Alexander Slocum

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering

Alexandra Goodwin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administration Staff
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Alexandra Techet

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Amos Winter

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Amy Glasmeier

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Anantha Chandrakasan Dean

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Engineering and Professor
  • Dean of Engineering and Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Anantha Chandrakasan named dean of School of Engineering

Andy Sun

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor Sloan School of Management

Anette Hosoi

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering

Angela Belcher

Job Titles:
  • Department Head and Professor
  • Department Head and Professor Department of Biological Engineering

Angeliki Diane Rigos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Associate Director, Graduate Programs / Finance / Finance Staff Members

Anne White

Job Titles:
  • Vice Provost and Professor
  • Vice Provost and Professor Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Anthony Sinskey

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Biology

Antje Danielson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Education
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Council for Science
Antje Danielson is the Director of Education at the MIT Energy Initiative, where she directs existing energy programs-such as the MIT Energy Studies Minor and the Energy Fellows Program-conceives and oversees the development of new programs-such as the Future of Energy Systems online MicroMasters-and engages in interdisciplinary research related to transformation systems. She co-teaches energy- and climate-related classes, and leverages her extensive international network of like-minded academic and professional colleagues to accelerate climate change related capacity building. Prior to her position at MIT, she directed the Institute of the Environment at Tufts University, where she was also an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health. From 2005 to 2008, she was the Deputy Director for Sustainability at the Centre for Research into Earth Energy Systems at Durham University in the UK, where she initiated a carbon capture and storage working group. Danielson's approach to finding climate solutions is systemic, interdisciplinary, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. She advances her goals through research, education, and implementation of solutions. In 1999/2000, she co-founded the car-sharing company Zipcar. Danielson is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Council for Science and the Environment and has also served as President of the U.S. Council for Environmental Deans and Directors. She received teaching awards from Harvard University and an Exceptional Contribution Award from Durham University.

Antoine Allanore

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Anuradha Agarwal

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist
  • Principal Research Scientist Materials Research Laboratory

Anuradha Annaswamy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

Ariel Furst

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Chemical
  • Department of Chemical Engineering

Aruna Joglekar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the IT Staff
  • Programs Manager

Arunas A. Chesonis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Managing Partner, Safar Partners

Audun Botterud

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Barry Posen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political Science
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Political Science

Benjamin Olken

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Economics

Benoit Forget

Job Titles:
  • Associate Department Head
  • Associate Department Head Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Bernhardt Trout

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Chemical Engineering

Betar Gallant

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Bilge Yildiz

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Professor Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Borivoje Mikic

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Bradford Hager

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Bradley Olsen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Chemical Engineering

Brian Hodder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the IT Staff
  • Special Projects Manager

Brian Labombard

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist / Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Brian Wardle

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Brian Williams

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor
  • Professor Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Bruno Verdini

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
  • Executive Director of the MIT - Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program, Discusses His Award - Winning Research on Negotiating for Mutual Gains
  • Lecturer Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Bruno Verdini, executive director of the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation program, discusses his award-winning research on negotiating for mutual gains

Bryan Reimer

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer / MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Caitlin Mueller

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Caleb Larson

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Member of the Administration Staff

Carl Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Carlo Ratti

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice

Carlos Batlle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Staff
  • Visiting Scientist

Caroline Ross

Job Titles:
  • Associate Department Head

Catherine Drennan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Cemal Tasan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Charles Cooney

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Charles Fine

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Charles Forsberg

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Charles Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Charlotte Whittle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administration Staff
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Communications and Development Assistant / Development
  • Communications and Development Assistant / Education / Education Staff Members

Chathan Cooke

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Engineer

Chiang Mei

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chintan Vaishnav

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer / Sloan School of Management

Choon Tan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Engineer

Chris Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Christoph Reinhart

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Christopher Cummins

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Christopher Hill

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Christopher Knittel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Team
  • Deputy Director of Policy
  • Deputy Director of Policy and Professor
  • Deputy Director of Policy and Professor MIT Energy Initiative Sloan School of Management
  • Professor Michael Greenstone
Christopher Knittel is the deputy director of policy at MITEI and the George P. Shultz Professor of Energy Economics in the Sloan School of Management MIT. He is also the director of MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, which has served as the hub for social science research on energy and the environmental since the late 1970s. Knittel is also a co-director of The E2e Project, a research initiative between MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, to undertake rigorous evaluation of energy efficiency investments. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2011, having taught previously at UC Davis and Boston University. At MIT, he teaches Energy Economics and Policy to undergraduates, MBA students, and graduate students from outside of the Sloan School of Management.

Christopher Zegras

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Clapperton Mavhunga

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Clark Colton

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Cullen Buie

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Daniel Blankschtein

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Daniel Cohn

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Daniel Frey

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Daniel Yergin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Vice Chairman, S & P Global

Daniela Rus

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Dean of Research, CSAIL Director, Professor / Schwarzman College of Computing

Dara Entekhabi

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

David Darmofal

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

David Gamarnik

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David Hardt

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

David Hsu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning

David Keith

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

David Marks

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

David Parks

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

David Perreault

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

David Simchi-Levi

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

David Trumper

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Debi Kedian

Job Titles:
  • Events Manager
  • Member of the Administration Staff

Dennis Frenchman

Job Titles:
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Professor

Dennis McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dennis Whyte

Job Titles:
  • PSFC Director and Department Head

Dharik Mallapragada

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Dick Yue

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dimitri Bertsekas

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dina Katabi

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Dominic T. Clausi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Vice President of Research, ExxonMobil

Donald Sadoway

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Duane Boning

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Professor

Edith Jaehne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Fiscal Officer

Edward Adelson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Professor

Edward Greitzer

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

Elfatih Eltahir

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ellen Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Department of Physics

Elsa Olivetti

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Emanuel Sachs

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Emilio Baglietto

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Emmanuel Kasseris

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Emre Gençer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Staff
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Eric von Hippel

Job Titles:
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Erik Demaine

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Laurent
  • Professor

Ernest J. Moniz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics & Engineering Systems Emeritus
  • Physics and Special Advisor to the President
Ernest Moniz Professor of Physics and Special Advisor to the President Department of Physics

Esther Duflo

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Economics

Eugene Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Director and CEO of SMART

Eugene Skolnikoff

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political Science
  • Professor Emeritus

Evelyn Wang

Job Titles:
  • Department Head and Professor

Fikile Brushett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Chemical Engineering

Florian Allroggen

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Francesca Zarri

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Director Technology, R & D & Digital, Eni S.P.a

Francis O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer / Sloan School of Management

Frank Dale Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor

Frank Field

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Engineer and Associate Director, Technology and Policy Program / Sociotechnical Systems Research Center

Franz-Josef Ulm

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Frédo Durand

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Gabriela Schlau-Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Gail Monahan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administration Staff
  • Administrative and Operations Coordinator / Communications and Events / Communications Staff Members

Gang Chen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Gareth McKinley

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Geoffrey Beach

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director, Materials Research Laboratory

George Barbastathis

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

George Stephanopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor Emeritus

Georgia Perakis

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Gerald Fink

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Giuseppe Romano

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist / Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

Gordon Kohse

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director for Operations / Nuclear Reactor Laboratory

Gregory Rutledge

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Gregory Stephanopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Güler Sabanci

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Chairman and Managing Director, Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS

Hadley Sikes

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Chemical Engineering

Hae-Seung Lee

Job Titles:
  • Director, Microsystems Technology Laboratories and Professor

Hal Abelson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Harold Hemond

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Harry Tuller

Job Titles:
  • Director, Crystal Physics and Electroceramics Laboratory

Harvey Michaels

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Sloan School of Management

Harvey Sapolsky

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political Science
  • Professor Emeritus

Heather Kulik

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Chemical Engineering

Heather Leet

Job Titles:
  • Development Officer
  • Member of the Development Staff
Heather Leet joined MITEI as the development officer in May of 2023 and has been privileged to spend the last 20 years helping donors fulfill their philanthropic wishes for several education, service, and humanitarian organizations. Prior to joining MITEI, Heather was the Director of Development at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Heather's past fundraising has included a variety of organizations including the Old State House in Boston, Rotary International, and the United of Way of Metro Chicago. Heather has attributed her choice to support organizations that are making an impact on their communities and the world to her service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bulgaria, where she taught English as a second language and supported several student projects, including a Danube River pollutant research project by High School Students for which she raised funds from USAID.

Heidi Nepf

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Henry Jacoby

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Herbert Einstein

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Howard Herzog

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Staff
  • Senior Research Engineer

Ian Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Ian Waitz

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chancellor, Undergraduate and Graduate Education

Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

Job Titles:
  • Research Affiliate / Sloan School of Management

Ivan Celanovic

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Scientist / Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

J. Kim Vandiver

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

J. Phillip Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning

J.J. Laukaitis

Job Titles:
  • Director of Member Services
  • Member of the IT Staff
J.J. Laukaitis is the Director of Member Services at the MIT Energy Initiative, where he manages the growth of impactful collaborations between leading corporations and MIT faculty, researchers, and innovators.

Jacopo Buongiorno

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Jaime Peraire

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

James Irby

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Engineer / Plasma Science and Fusion Center

James Kirtley

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

James Poterba

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Economics

James Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Research Affiliate / Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

James Wescoat

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Janelle Knox-Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Jarrod Goentzel

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Scientist / MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Jasmine Bellitti

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant
  • Member of the Development Staff

Jeffrey Freidberg

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Jeffrey Grossman

Job Titles:
  • Department Head and Professor

Jeffrey Lang

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Jenn Schlick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administration Staff
  • Manager, Digital Projects

Jennifer Morris

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Jennifer Rupp

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Jeremiah Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Jesse Kroll

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jessika Trancik

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jing Kong

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Jing Li

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jinhua Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Cities and Transportation and Founder, MIT Mobility Initiative

Joel Schindall

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

John Brisson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

John Deutch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Institute Professor and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus

John Fernández

Job Titles:
  • Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative

John Fisher III

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

John Hart

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

John Heywood

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

John Joannopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Director and Professor / Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

John Kassakian

Job Titles:
  • Professor

John Lienhard

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

John Parsons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer / Sloan School of Management

John Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer / Sloan School of Management

John S. Reed

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Chairman Emeritus, MIT Corporation

John Sterman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

John Williams

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Joseph Checkelsky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Joseph Ferreira

Job Titles:
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Professor

Joseph Paradiso

Job Titles:
  • Director, Responsive Environments Group

Ju Li

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Julia Ortony

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Jurgen Michel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Kamal Youcef-Toumi

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Karen Gleason

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Karl Berggren

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Karthish Manthiram

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Katelyn Ahern

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Staff
  • Program Manager, Future Energy Systems Center

Keith Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Kelley Travers

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist
  • Member of the Administration Staff

Kelly McGinity

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administration Staff
  • Events Planning Manager

Kenneth Oye

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political Science
  • Professor

Kenneth Smith

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor Emeritus

Kent Larson

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Scientist / Media Lab

Kerry Emanuel

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor

Klavs Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Kord Smith

Job Titles:
  • Practice Emeritus

Koroush Shirvan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Kripa Varanasi

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Kristin Bergmann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Lawrence Sass

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Lawrence Susskind

Job Titles:
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Professor

Leia Amarra

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Fiscal Officer

Leon Glicksman

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Leslie Bromberg

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Leslie Bromberg Research Engineer

Leslie Norford

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Liang Fu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Physics

Lihong (Wendy) Duan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the IT Staff
  • Program Director, Asia Pacific Energy Partnership Program
  • Program Director, MITEI Asia Pacific Program

Lin-Wen Hu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist / Nuclear Reactor Laboratory

Linn Hobbs

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Lionel Kimerling

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Luca Daniel

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

M. Nafi Toksöz

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor Emeritus

Manuel Martinez-Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor Emeritus

Marc Baldo

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Maria Zuber

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Research

Marija Ilic

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist and Senior Staff

Marin Soljacic

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mark Drela

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

Mark Goulthorpe

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Mark Klein

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Associate / MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Markus Buehler

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Martha Broad

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
Martha Broad is MITEI's executive director. As part of the leadership team, she works to link science, innovation and policy to transform the world's energy systems. She has a track record of successfully partnering with business, government and nonprofit stakeholders to support the clean energy transition. At MITEI, she works closely with member companies who collaborate with MIT researchers on a spectrum of topics, including the Future Energy Systems Center. In addition, she spearheads MITEI's collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy to design, manage, and host the annual Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium and serves as a C3E Ambassador. Previously, as part of the senior management team of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), Broad led programs and studies that focused on the commercialization of clean energy technologies. By collaborating with universities and public and private partners, she helped facilitate the state's successful installation of hundreds of megawatts of wind and solar systems.

Martin Bazant

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Martin Greenwald

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Director / Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Martin Polz

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Matteo Bucci

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Matthias Winkenbach

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist / MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Mehran Kardar

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics
  • Professor

Merton Flemings

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Michael Fehler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

Michael Golay

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Michael Howland

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Michael Short

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Michael Siegel

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Scientist / Sloan School of Management

Michael Strano

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Michael Triantafyllou

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Miklos Porkolab

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics
  • Professor

Mircea Dincă

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Moshe Ben-Akiva

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Moungi Bawendi

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Chemistry

Munther Dahleh

Job Titles:
  • Director and Professor

Nadie Trotman-Brathwaite

Job Titles:
  • Fiscal Officer

Nancy Stauffer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administration Staff
  • Editor, Energy Futures

Nazli Choucri

Job Titles:
  • Department of Political Science
  • Professor

Neil Gershenfeld

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Bits and Atoms

Neil Todreas

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus / Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Nicholas Roy

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Nicola Ferralis

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Nigel Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Noelle Selin

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Nori Nakata

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Norm Augustine

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the External Advisory Board

Nuh Gedik

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics
  • Professor

Oliver Jagoutz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Olivier de Weck

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

Oral Buyukozturk

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pablo Duenas Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Staff
  • Research Scientist
MITEI is affiliated with faculty members in a number of MIT centers, departments, and laboratories pursuing interdisciplinary energy and environmental activities. MITEI supports the financial administration of certain projects and collaborates on research and education activities with these organizations.

Patrick Connelly

Job Titles:
  • Member of the IT Staff
  • Systems Administrator / Member Services / Member Services Staff Members

Patrick Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Paul Barton

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Paul Joskow

Job Titles:
  • Department of Economics

Paul Sclavounos

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Paula Hammond

Job Titles:
  • Department Head

Paulo Lozano

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

Peter Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Vice Provost and Professor

Philip Gschwend

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Philip R. Sharp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Retired President, Resources for the Future

Philipp Staudt Postdoctoral

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Piotr Indyk

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Poppy Allonby

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Head of ESG Enablement, T. Rowe Price

Qiqi Wang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

R. Scott Kemp

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Rafael del Pino

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Chairman, Grupo Ferrovial SA

Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Rafael Jaramillo

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Rajeev Ram

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director and Professor

Randall Field

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Staff
  • Executive Director of the MITEI 's Future Energy Systems Center
  • Executive Director, Future Energy Systems Center
Randall Field is executive director of the MITEI's Future Energy Systems Center which examines the accelerating energy transition as emerging technologies, policies, demographics, and economics reshaping the landscape of energy supply and demand. He is also executive director of MIT's Fusion Study examining the global multidecadal dynamics of the energy transition and how fusion energy can contribute to decarbonizing global energy systems. He was previously executive director for MITEI's Mobility Systems Center, assessing the impact of transformations in vehicle and fuel technologies, service and business models, and consumer behavior in the movement of both passengers and goods. He was also executive director for MIT's Mobility of the Future study which produced the Insights in the Future Mobility report covering global projections of alternative fuel vehicle fleets and energy consumption, deployment of charging and fueling infrastructure, attitudes towards mobility, and the impacts of innovative technologies and business models on urban mobility. As executive director for the Conversion Research Program at MIT for 10 years, Field worked with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to explore various conversion technologies for production of alternative fuels. Prior to MIT, Field worked for Aspen Technology for 23 years. Field received a SM in chemical engineering practice from MIT and a BS in chemical engineering from Caltech.

Randolph Kirchain

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Rania Ghosn

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Ratan N. Tata

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Chairman, Tata Sons Limited

Raul Radovitzky

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Richard Braatz

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Richard de Neufville

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Richard Lanza

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Richard Larson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Richard Lester

Job Titles:
  • Vice Provost and Professor

Richard Schmalensee

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Rick Danheiser

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Robert B. Millard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Chairman Emeritus, MIT Corporation

Robert C. Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus, and Former Director
MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong shares perspectives on past successes and ongoing and future energy projects at the Institute.

Robert Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Robert Hansman

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

Robert Jaffe

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics
  • Professor

Robert M. Solow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Institute Professor Emeritus

Robert Pindyck

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robert Redwine

Job Titles:
  • Department of Physics
  • Professor

Robert Stoner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Team
  • Interim Director
Robert Stoner is the interim director of MITEI and founding director of the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design. He was previously MITEI's deputy director for science and technology. Stoner is currently a member of the MIT Energy Council. He also serves on the Board of Directors of, and the Science and Technology Committee of, the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, which oversees the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and as a member and secretary of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty. Stoner is the inventor of numerous computational and ultrafast optical measurement techniques and has built and managed successful technology firms in the semiconductor, IT, and optics industries. From 2007 through 2009, he lived and worked in Africa and India while serving in a variety of senior roles within the Clinton Foundation, including as the CEO of the Clinton Development Initiative, and director of the Clinton Climate Initiative for Africa. His present research at MIT focuses on solutions to energy poverty, and the design and optimization of energy systems and business models in the developing world. He earned his bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Queen's University and Ph.D. from Brown University in condensed matter physics.

Robert Tolu

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Financial Operations
Robert Tolu has worked for 17 years in finance and previously sponsored award administration for Harvard University and Education Development Center. At MITEI, he serves as senior fiscal officer and is responsible for overseeing all financial matters, pre- and post-award, to ensure smooth operations and minimal surprises. Robert's extensive experience includes work with the federal government, industry, and foundation funders.

Robert van der Hilst

Job Titles:
  • Department Head

Roberto Rigobon

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Roger Summons

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor

Ronald Ballinger

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Ronald Prinn

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering

Rowan Elowe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Online Academic Program Coordinator

Ruben Juanes

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

S. P. Kothari

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Sam Nunn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Co - Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Sang-Gook Kim

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Sanjay Sarma

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Open Learning

Sanjoy Mitter

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Sarah Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Administrator

Saurabh Amin

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sergey Paltsev

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

Sheila Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Department of Architecture

Shuguang Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Shuhei Ono

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor

Sidney Yip

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Siqi Zheng

Job Titles:
  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Professor

Srinivas Devadas

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Stefanie Jegelka

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Steven Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Department Head and Professor

Steven Dubowsky

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Steven Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Professor

Steven Leeb

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Stuart Madnick

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Susan Eisenhower

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Chairman Emeritus, Eisenhower Institute

Susan Hockfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • President Emerita and Professor of Neuroscience

Sylvia Ceyer

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Chemistry

T. Alan Hatton

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Tamara Broderick

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Leslie Bromberg Research Engineer

Themistoklis Sapsis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Thomas Herring

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor

Thomas Kochan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Thomas Malone

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Thomas Sheridan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Tian Tian

Job Titles:
  • Principal Research Engineer

Tiffany Greaves

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Staff
  • Senior Financial Assistant

Timothy Grove

Job Titles:
  • Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Professor

Timothy Gutowski

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Timothy Jamison

Job Titles:
  • Associate Provost and Professor

Timothy Swager

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Tom Melville - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Communications Director
  • Director of Communications
  • Member of the Administration Staff
Tom Melville joined MITEI as communications director in April, 2021. Before joining MITEI, he spent nine years at Boston's NPR news station, WBUR, leading the largest public radio station newsroom in the United States. He directed reporting teams covering politics, the environment, healthcare, education, the arts, business/innovation/technology and investigations. He joined WBUR as executive editor of content in 2011, was promoted to news director in 2013 and to executive news director in 2015. Before joining WBUR, he was news director at the nation's largest regional news channel, New England Cable News (NECN). At NECN, Melville rose through the ranks from reporter to executive producer and to assistant news director before being named news director in 2008. He was executive producer and co-writer of an NECN documentary film on hospice care, "Look for Me Here: 299 days in the life of Nora Lenihan," which won more than a dozen regional, national and international awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award. He began reporting the news at a radio station in his native Newton, Massachusetts when he was 16 years old. He covered sports at the Boston Herald-American while an undergraduate at Boston University. He served in the United States Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, teaching vegetable gardening in the public schools in the town of El Valle. He is a graduate of Boston College Law School and holds a law license in Massachusetts. Early in his career, Melville was a news reporter covering small town government at radio stations in New Hampshire. He covered agriculture and was weekend anchor at the ABC television station in Sioux City, Iowa. He was an anchor, reporter, producer and news director at the NBC television station in White River Junction, Vermont. He covered consumer news and the courts for the NBC television station in West Palm Beach, Florida. He then moved home to Boston to become chief political reporter for NECN. Melville was also a consultant with the Boston-area media relations firm eMedia Junction, advising nonprofit and for-profit organizations on communications strategy, media training, content creation, storytelling, and crisis communications.

Tomaso Poggio

Job Titles:
  • Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Professor

Tomasz Wierzbicki

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Tommi Jaakkola

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Tomás Palacios

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

Tonio Buonassisi

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Troy Van Voorhis

Job Titles:
  • Department Head and Professor

Una-May O'Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Research Scientist

Vladimir Bulović

Job Titles:
  • Director, MIT.Nano and Professor

Wai Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Warren Seering

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

William Barletta

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Department of Physics

William Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Professor

William Green

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

William Peters

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director / Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

William Tisdale

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Chemical Engineering

Yang Shao-Horn

Job Titles:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Yet-Ming Chiang

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Yoel Fink

Job Titles:
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Yogesh Surendranath

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Yossi Sheffi

Job Titles:
  • Director

Youssef Marzouk

Job Titles:
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Professor

Yuming Liu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

Yuri Sebregts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Shell Global Solutions International BV

Yuriy Roman

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Professor

Zachary Hartwig

Job Titles:
  • Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Zachary Smith

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Chemical Engineering

Zoltan Spakovszky

Job Titles:
  • Professor