Sustainability Scientists and Scholars

Sustainability Scientists and Scholars accelerate the pace of discovery in the field of sustainability. They integrate practical experience with knowledge and action drawn from the spectrum of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, medicine, engineering, mathematics, humanities and the arts.

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Morteza Abbaszadegan

Morteza Abbaszadegan

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Morteza.Abbaszadegan@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3868

      Expertise

      water resource management; water microbiology; microbial detection methodologies; pathogens inactivation; pathogen removal mechanisms; water treatment processes; water distribution systems

David Abbott

David Abbott

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • David.Abbott@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6452

      Expertise

      archaeology; ceramic technology; cultural ecology; exchange and social networks

Joshua Abbott

Joshua Abbott

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability

    • Joshua.K.Abbott@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5528

      Expertise

      ecosystem services; environmental economics; land use; fisheries management; bioeconomics; econometrics; economic valuation

Kenneth Abbott

Kenneth Abbott

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Sandra O'Connor College of Law
  • Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science and Innovation
  • Center for Law and Global Affairs Advisory Board
  • Professor of Global Studies, School of Politics and Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Ken.Abbott@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5917

      Expertise

      international relations; international law; economic law; cross-border cooperation; emerging technologies; private and public governance

Joni Adamson

Joni Adamson

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, English and Environmental Humanities, School of Letters and Sciences

    • joni.adamson@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1562

      Expertise

      environmental literature; environmental justice; American Southwest cultures; Native American oral and written literatures; ; ecocriticism; ethnobiology; food sovereignty; culture; environmental film; citizen actions; cross-border cooperation; ecological literacy; environmental philosophy

Ambika Adhikari

Ambika Adhikari

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Faculty Research Associate, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

    • Ambika.Adhikari@asu.edu

      (480) 362-7652

      Expertise

      climate change; climate change policy; international environmental policies and programs; urban planning; urban development; economic development; conservation policy; environmental policy; climate change impacts

Rimjhim Aggarwal

Rimjhim Aggarwal

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability

    • Rimjhim.Aggarwal@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6680

      Expertise

      resource economics; water conflicts; poverty; water resource management; agriculture; bioeconomics; climate change impacts; decisionmaking; economic adaptation and climate change; econometrics; economic development; economics of ecosystem services; ecosystem services; environmental policy; urban development; utilities regulation

Soyoung Ahn

Soyoung Ahn

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • sue.ahn@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1052

      Expertise

      traffic operations; intelligent transportation systems; public transportation; transportation

Braden Allenby

Braden Allenby

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Director, Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management

    • Braden.Allenby@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8594

      Expertise

      industrial ecology; earth systems engineering; earth systems management; biotechnology; public affairs; transhumanism; sustainability design; the techno-human condition

Julie Anand

Julie Anand

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

    • Julie.Anand@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5044

      Expertise

      photography; mixed media; art and the environmental movement; environmental issues; ecological literacy; socioecology; urban ecology; ecological ethics; citizen actions; education development

Ariel Anbar

Ariel Anbar

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • anbar@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0767

      Expertise

      atmospheric processes; oceans; paleoenvironments; biogeochemical processes; trace metals; isotopes; climate change; geochemical cycles; geological processes

Kathleen Andereck

Kathleen Andereck

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Director and Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, College of Public Programs

    • kandereck@asu.edu

      (602) 496-1056

      Expertise

      tourism experiences; sustainable tourism; community-based tourism; tourism and quality of life; resident attitudes toward tourism; volunteer tourism; recreation; natural resource management; communities; community development

John Martin Anderies

John Martin Anderies

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change

    • Marty.Anderies@asu.edu

      (480) 965-8712

      (480) 965-6518

      Expertise

      human ecology; mathematical bioeconomics; modeling and simulation; resource governance; agrarian societies; bioeconomics; dynamical systems theory; economic development; natural resource management

James Anderson

James Anderson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Senior Research Scientist, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • james.anderson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7139

      Expertise

      atmospheric chemistry; cloud chemistry; microphysics; aerosols; air quality; atmospheric processes

Jean Andino

Jean Andino

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Jean.Andino@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0199

      Expertise

      atmospheric chemistry; air quality; atmospheric processes; alternative fuels; energy efficiency technologies; nanotechnology

Michael Angilletta

Michael Angilletta

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • angilletta@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3500

      Expertise

      thermal adaptation; climate change; species adaptation

Luc Anselin

Luc Anselin

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Walter Isard Chair and Director, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
  • Regents' Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Luc.Anselin@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6316

      Expertise

      spatial analysis; geographic information science; regional economics; environmental economics; real estate; epidemiology; criminology; political science

Samuel T. Ariaratnam

Samuel T. Ariaratnam

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Del E. Webb School of Construction, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Samuel.Ariartnam@asu.edu

      Expertise

      Infrastructure management and rehabilitation; trenchless construction methods; urban infrastructure

Andrew Askland

Andrew Askland

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Instructor in Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Director, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Innovation

    • Sandy.Askland@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2465

      Expertise

      economic law; privacy; environmental ethics; ecological ethics; emerging technologies; environmental philosophy

Robert Atkinson

Robert Atkinson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Robert.Atkinson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1832

      Expertise

      cognitive science; informatics; instructional design; educational technology; data analysis

Becky Ball

Becky Ball

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

    • Becky.Ball@asu.edu

      (602) 543-2819

      Expertise

      soil biogeochemistry and stoichiometry; soil ecology and biology; terrestrial-aquatic linkages; above- and belowground linkages; global change effects on terrestrial ecosystems; biogeochemical processes; terrestrial ecology;ecosystem ecology

Robert Balling

Robert Balling

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Master of Advanced Study in Geographic Information Systems

Michael Barton

Michael Barton

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity

    • michael.barton@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6262

      Expertise

      agrarian societies; geoarchaeology; geospatial techniques; human ecology; hunter-gatherers; landscape studies; litic technology; paleoanthropology; spatial analysis; archaeology; algorithm development; data-fusion technology; ecological behavior; economic adaptation and climate change; geographic information science; geological processes; informatics; land use change; modeling and simulation; remote sensing; socioecology

Howard H. Bashford

Howard H. Bashford

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Del E. Webb School of Construction, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Director, Graduate Studies, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • howard.bashford@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4513

      Expertise

      design of production systems for construction; residential construction; urban development

George Basile

George Basile

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability

    • george.basile@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4098

      Expertise

      green business practices; sustainability science; biotechnology; strategic leadership; emerging technologies; strategic sustainability; entrepreneurship

Heather Bateman

Heather Bateman

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • heather.l.bateman@asu.edu

      (480)727-1131

      Expertise

      conservation biology; ecology; ornithology; herpetology; riparian ecology; urban ecology

Daniel Bodansky

Daniel Bodansky

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics, and Sustainability, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

    • Daniel.Bodansky@asu.edu

      (480)727-8577

      Expertise

      international climate change law; public international law; foreign affairs; U.S. Constitution; climate change impacts; international relations

Bob Bolin

Bob Bolin

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • bob.bolin@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6421

      Expertise

      environmental hazards; environmental health issues; environmental justice; hazard vulnerability; political ecology; water resource management; urban social-ecological systems

Christopher Boone

Christopher Boone

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Dean for Education, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • christopher.g.boone@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2976

      Expertise

      urban geography; environmental justice; sustainable urbanization; geographic information science; global environmental change; vulnerability; land use change; public health; built environment

Stuart Bowden

Stuart Bowden

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor Research, School of Electrical, Computing and Enery Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • sgbowden@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8164

      Expertise

      photovoltaics; silicon solar cells; solar energy systems; renewable energy; semiconductors

Ward W. Brady

Ward W. Brady

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • ward.brady@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1274

      Expertise

      terrestrial ecology; statistical analysis; cellular biology; biotechnology

Anthony Brazel

Anthony Brazel

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Emeritus Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • abrazel@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7533

      Expertise

      physical geography; climatology; urban systems; climate change; atmospheric processes; climate change impacts; urbanization effects on weather and climate; microclimate

Alexandra Brewis Slade

Alexandra Brewis Slade

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Executive Director, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Alex.Brewis@asu.edu

      (480) 727-9879

      Expertise

      biocultural anthropology; demography; human adaptation; human reproduction; medical anthropology; nutrition; growth and reproduction; human development

Ronald Broglio

Ronald Broglio

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Ronald.Broglio@asu.edu

      Expertise

      animal behavior; technologies of representation; environmental philosophy; aesthetics impacts; humans and the environment; agrarian societies

Eddie Brown

Eddie Brown

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, American Indian Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Executive Director, American Indian Policy Institute

    • efbrown@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8690

      Expertise

      welfare reform; American Indian families; mental health; American Indian youth; diabetes prevention; tribal communities; Title IV estate; tribal agreements; state ICWA compliance issues; tribal governments; communities; public health

Harvey Bryan

Harvey Bryan

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

    • harvey.bryan@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6094

      Expertise

      architecture; renewable energy; building technology; energy conservation; energy efficiency technologies; energy policy; green roofs; microclimate; modeling and simulation; solar energy systems; urbanization effects on weather and climate

James L. Buizer

James L. Buizer

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Director, Climate Adaptation and International Development Institute for the Environment, University of Arizona
  • Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona
  • Research Scientist, Office of Arid Land Studies, University of Arizona

    • buizer@arizona.edu

      (520) 626-4454

      Expertise

      sustainability science; climate change; climate change impacts; climate change adaptation; institutional analysis; institutional transformation; boundary spanning organizations; decisionmaking; international development

Winslow S. Burleson

Winslow S. Burleson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Enginering

    • Winslow.Burleson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9253

      Expertise

      human-computer interaction; creativity; innovation; well-being; design engineering; exploration; gaming; educational technology; biophysics; emerging technologies; informatics; recreation; citizen actions; nanotechnology

Shauna Burn-Silver

Shauna Burn-Silver

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Shauna.Burnsilver@asu.edu

      Expertise

      vulnerability; resilience; subsistence livelihoods; social-ecological systems; common property theory; community-based conservation; community-based management; economic and climate changes; East African pastoral responses; Alaskan Inupiat responses; economic adaptation and climate change; subsistence adaptation; climate change impacts

Ronald Calhoun

Ronald Calhoun

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Ronald.Calhoun@asu.edu

      (480) 727-7032

      Expertise

      fluid mechanics science and engineering; atmospheric processes; air quality; remote sensing; renewable energy; optical devices

Kasim Selcuk Candan

Kasim Selcuk Candan

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • kasim.candan@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2770

      Expertise

      database systems; multimedia and web storage; data analysis; retrieval of data; heterogeneous information integration and retrieval; assistive technologies for information and data access; distributed multimedia systems; multimedia document authoring

Carlos Castillo-Chavez

Carlos Castillo-Chavez

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Regents' and Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change/School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Executive Director, Mathematics and Theoretical Biology Institute

    • ccchavez@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2115

      Expertise

      mathematical biology; theoretical biology; disease evolution; epidemiology

Randall Cerveny

Randall Cerveny

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • President's Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • cerveny@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7533

      Expertise

      climate history; modeling and simulation; physical climatology; dynamic climatology; synoptic climatology; climate change; atmospheric teleconnections; atmospheric processes

Evelyn Cesarotti

Evelyn Cesarotti

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Director, Graduate Education and Advanced Practice Programs
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Nursing and Health Innovation

    • e.cesarotti@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7576

      Expertise

      Alzheimer's disease; community health; evidence-based practice; asthma in school-aged children; public health; socioecology

Mikhail Chester

Mikhail Chester

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • mchester@asu.edu

      Expertise

      air emissions; energy consumption; infrastructure; policy and decision assessment; supply chain analysis; transportation; urban areas; energy and environmental impacts of infrastructure systems; urban infrastructure; environmental policy; energy policy

Deepak Chhabra

Deepak Chhabra

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, College of Public Programs

    • deepak.chhabra@asu.edu

      (602) 496-0172

      Expertise

      tourism social impacts; tourism economic impacts; tourism cultural impacts; marketing; tourism systems model; heritage tourism; gaming tourism; community perception of tourism impacts; cultural and social capital; conservation policy; urban tourism; data analysis; communities; economic development

Nalini Chhetri

Nalini Chhetri

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Climate Change Science Manager, Global Institute of Sustainability

    • Nalini.Chhetri@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3099

      Expertise

      climate change adaptation; science policy; technology and development; social entrepreneurship; comparative and international education; civil society and NGOs; sustainable development; demography of women and children in developing nations; alternate knowledge systems; participatory research; citizen engagement

Netra Chhetri

Netra Chhetri

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Collge of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Assistant Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Netra.Chhetri@asu.edu

      (480) 727 0747

      Expertise

      human-environment interaction; climate variability; climate change; global knowledge production systems; comparative knowledge production systems; science-policy interactions; water resource management; land use change; sustainable sciences

Dan Childers

Dan Childers

  • Director, Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability

    • dan.childers@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2320

      Expertise

      ecosystem ecology; wetland ecology; aquatic ecology; biogeochemical processes; systems science; urban ecology; ecohydrology; water; sustainability science

Philip Christensen

Philip Christensen

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor of Geological Sciences, School of Earth and Space Exploration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Ed and Helen Korrick Professor of Geological Sciences, School of Earth and Space Exploration, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • phil.christensen@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7105

      Expertise

      geology; geological composition; geological processes; planet surface morphology; Mars; moon; geophysics; modeling and simulation

James Collins

James Collins

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • jcollins@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4578

      Expertise

      ecological ethics; evolutionary biology; global decline of amphibians; host-pathogen biology; life history evolution; morphological variation; population biology; predator-prey interactions; ecology; conservation biology; conservation policy; environmental policy; herpetology; species adaptation; urban ecology

Scott Collins

Scott Collins

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Adjunct Faculty, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Scott.L.Collins@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0577

      Expertise

      Sevilleta LTER; plant community dynamics; gradient models; role of disturbance in communities; fire ecology; patch dynamics; grassland ecology; analysis of species distribution; analysis of species abundance; local-regional interactions; productivity-diversity relationships; dynamics of arid land ecosystems; climate change impacts; arid ecosystems

Elizabeth Corley

Elizabeth Corley

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Lincoln Professor of Public Policy, Ethics & Emerging Technologies and Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs

Matthew Croucher

Matthew Croucher

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Research Professor, Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business
  • Senior Economist, L. William Seidman Research Institute

    • Matthew.Croucher@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4198

      Expertise

      Public-Private-Partnerships (P3) emphasis on transportation; carbon pricing mechanisms; economic development; economic modeling; forecasting; infrastructure funding; infrastructure requirements; modeling and simulations; renewable energy efficiency; utilities regulation; economic adaptation and climate change; energy policy; energy conservation; energy economics

Michael Crow

Michael Crow

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • President, Arizona State University
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs
  • Co-Chair, Board of Directors for Sustainability at ASU

    • Michael.Crow@asu.edu

      Expertise

      technology management; science policy; technology policy; science and social outcomes; research and development and social outcomes; organization theory; energy policy

Maria L. Cruz-Torres

Maria L. Cruz-Torres

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • maria.cruz-torres@asu.edu

      (480) 965-8483

      Expertise

      political ecology; globalization; applied anthropology; fisheries management; aquaculture; migration; Mexico; the Caribbean; anthropology; agrarian societies; communities; conservation policy; economic anthropology; ethnobiology; land use change; poverty; natural resource management

Nicole Darnall

Nicole Darnall

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs

    • Nicole.Darnall@asu.edu

      Expertise

      green consumerism; information-based environmental policies; self-regulation strategies; sustainable enterprise; voluntary environmental programs; corporate social responsibility; environmental policy; green business practices

Hasan Davulcu

Hasan Davulcu

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • HasanDavulcu@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6385

      Expertise

      data mining; web and text mining; data cleaning and information extraction; workflows and semantic web services; database systems; data analysis; data-fusion technology; decisionmaking; informatics; information theory

Thomas A. Day

Thomas A. Day

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • tadday@asu.edu

      (480) 965-8165

      Expertise

      plant ecology; photosynthesis; leaf optics; water relations; carbon balance; growth and reproduction; plant productivity; carbon cycling; microclimate; decomposition; photodegradation; UV radiation; thermal acclimation

Pierre Deviche

Pierre Deviche

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • pierre.deviche@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0726

      Expertise

      behavior; neuroendocrinology; species adaptation; extreme environments; reproductive physiology; avian blood parasites; songbird vocal behavior; songbird neuroplasticity; dragonfly biology; ornithology; population biology; growth and reproduction

Rodolfo Diaz

Rodolfo Diaz

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • rudydiaz@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4281

      Expertise

      optical scattering of subwavelength objects; complex environments and nanophotonics; analytic theory of natural and artificial media; measurement of electromagnetic properties of materials; combined computational mechanics and electromagnetics; nanotechnology; optical devices

Gary Dirks

Gary Dirks

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Julie A. Wrigley Chair, Practice of Sustainable Energy Systems, School of Sustainability
  • Director, LightWorks

    • gary.dirks@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2799

      Expertise

      solar energy systems; renewable energy; alternative fuels; alternative vehicles; artificial photosynthesis; biofuels; emerging technologies; energy conservation; energy economics; energy efficiency technologies; energy policy

Kevin Dooley

Kevin Dooley

  • Academic Director, The Sustainability Consortium, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management, W.P. Carey School of Business

    • Kevin.Dooley@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6833

      Expertise

      supply chain management; quality management; management of technology and innovation; complex adaptive systems; text analysis; boundary spanning organizations; data analysis; data mining; decisionmaking; dynamical systems theory; green marketing; green business practices; entrepreneurship; modeling and simulation

Thomas Dowling

Thomas Dowling

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Thomas.Dowling@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1626

      Expertise

      processes responsible for the origin and maintenance of organismal diversity; evolution of cypriniform fishes; speciation and hybridization in evolution; threatened and endangered fishes of the American Southwest; conservation biology

Jeffrey Drucker

Jeffrey Drucker

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Jeff.Drucker@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9658

      Expertise

      crystal growth; materials analysis; materials development; low power electronics

Hallie Eakin

Hallie Eakin

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Sustainability

    • hallie.eakin@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0011

      Expertise

      Latin America; Mexico; agrarian change; climate change; food systems; globalization; vulnerability; adaptation

James Eder

James Eder

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • james.eder@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5530

      Expertise

      natural resource management; agrarian societies; development anthropology; ethnic studies; identity and differentiation; political economics; subsistence adaptation; land use change

James Elser

James Elser

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Associate Dean, Research and Training Initiatives, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • j.elser@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9747

      Expertise

      biological stoichiometry; limnology; community ecology; ecosystem ecology; physiological ecology; life-history evolution; molecular evolution; astrobiology; atmospheric nitrogen deposition; atmospheric processes; agriculture; climate change impacts; marine ecology; plant ecology; species adaptation; terrestrial ecology; biogeochemical processes

Eli P. Fenichel

Eli P. Fenichel

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • eli.fenichel@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4027

      Expertise

      bioeconomics; disease ecology; fisheries management; fisheries policy; modeling and simulation; natural resource management; natural resource policy; populations ecology; risk in natural resource decisionmaking; ecosystem services; decisionmaking; economics of ecosystem services; mathematical and system dynamics modeling; population biology; public health

Lara Ferry

Lara Ferry

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

    • lara.ferry@asu.edu

      (602) 543-2817

      Expertise

      desert fish; functional morphology; comparative vertebrate anatomy; ecophysiology; ichthyology; species adaptation; growth and reproduction

Stuart Fisher

Stuart Fisher

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • s.fisher@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4734

      Expertise

      ecosystem ecology; riparian ecology; desert landscapes

John Fowler

John Fowler

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Computing, Infomatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • AVNET Professorship, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • john.fowler@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3727

      Expertise

      deterministic scheduling; discrete event simulation; modeling and analysis of semiconductor manufacturing; operations research in healthcare; public health; modeling and simulation; decisionmaking; mathematical and system dynamics modeling

Peter Fox

Peter Fox

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • peter.fox@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1734

      Expertise

      biological treatment processes; bioremediation; desalinization; salinity/brine disposal; water reuse; biofilms; biogeochemical processes; wastewater treatment

Janet Franklin

Janet Franklin

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • janet.franklin@asu.edu

      Expertise

      landscape ecology; plant ecology; vegetation science; biogeography; conservation biology; biophysical remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems; geographic information science; terrestrial ecology; ecosystem disturbances; fire ecology; land use change; species distribution modeling

Matthew P. Fraser

Matthew P. Fraser

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Executive Director and Sustainability Director, Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technology Center, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Matthew.Fraser@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3489

      Expertise

      air quality; sources of air pollution; control of air pollution; atmospheric monitoring instrumentation; atmospheric processes; energy conservation; energy efficiency technologies

Cody Friesen

Cody Friesen

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • cfriesen@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3954

      Expertise

      materials analysis; materials development; energy efficiency technologies

Grady Gammage

Grady Gammage

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Senior Research Fellow, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, College of Public Programs
  • Attorney, Gammage & Burnham PLC

    • ggammage@gblaw.com

      Expertise

      land use law; urban development; historic preservation; aesthetic regulation; state trust land; water resource management; decisionmaking; land use change

Tirupalavanam Ganesh

Tirupalavanam Ganesh

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • tganesh@asu.edu

      (480) 727-9375

      Expertise

      engineering education; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields; innovations in formal and informal k-12 engineering education; educational development; data analysis

Matei Georgescu

Matei Georgescu

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Research Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences

    • Matei.Georgescu@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3770

      Expertise

      modeling; climate change; land-atmosphere interactions; environmental impacts of bioenergy expansion; urbanization effects on weather and climate; modeling and simulation; scientific computing; land use change

Leah Gerber

Leah Gerber

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Leah.Gerber@asu.edu

      (480) 727-3109

      Expertise

      adaptive management; conservation; conservation policy; marine ecology; population biology; quantitative approaches to decision-making under scientific uncertainty; conservation biology; ecological behavior; economic adaptation and climate change; ecosystem disturbances; ecosystem services; environmental policy; fisheries management; modeling and simulation; mathematical and system dynamics modeling

Patricia Gober

Patricia Gober

  • Co-Director, Decision Center for a Desert City, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • gober@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8446

      (480) 234-1834

      Expertise

      resource governance; human dimensions of climate change; demography; urban geography; urban systems; water resource management

Peter Goggin

Peter Goggin

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • petergo@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7748

      Expertise

      environmental rhetoric; rhetorics and literacies of sustainability; ecological literacy; written discourse and sustainability; environmental philosophy

Aaron Golub

Aaron Golub

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Aaron.Golub@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2791

      Expertise

      public transportation systems; social equity; environmental impacts of transportation; urban transportation; urban planning; urban infrastructure; transportation; urban development; citizen actions; forecasting transportation demand; smart growth; public participation

Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Deputy Director, LightWorks

    • Stephen.Goodnick@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9572

      Expertise

      semiconductor transport; computational electronics; quantum and nanostructured devices; device technology; high-frequency devices; photovoltaics and optical devices

Douglas M. Green

Douglas M. Green

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Interim Chair, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation
  • Associate Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • DM.green@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1251

      Expertise

      soil ecology; watershed hydrology; riparian ecology; plant ecology; agriculture

Nancy B. Grimm

Nancy B. Grimm

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • nbgrimm@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4735

      (480) 965-7643

      Expertise

      biogeochemical processes; desertification; ecosystem disturbances; ecosystem ecology; ecosystem restoration; ecosystem services; land use change; riparian ecology; socioecology; terrestrial ecology; urban development; urban ecology; air quality; climate change impacts; future and systems thinking; climate change adaptation; urbanization; landscape studies; modeling and simulation; urban infrastructure; urban social-ecological systems; urbanization effects on weather and climate; water distribution systems; water resource management; watershed hydrology

Susanne Grossman-Clarke

Susanne Grossman-Clarke

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Research Professor, Global Institute of Sustainability

    • sg.clarke@asu.edu

      (480) 727-6755

      Expertise

      atmospheric processes; mesoscale meteorological modeling; urbanization effects on weather and climate; crop modeling; modeling and simulation

Sandeep K.S. Gupta

Sandeep K.S. Gupta

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • sandeep.gupta@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3806

      Expertise

      wireless networks; mobile computing; ubiquitous/pervasive computing; embedded sensor networks for biomedical applications, parallel computing; distributed computing; energy efficiency technologies

Kevin Gurney

Kevin Gurney

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • kevin.gurney@asu.edu

      Expertise

      atmospheric processes; atmospheric science; carbon cycle; climate change policy; climate change; biogeochemical processes; deforestation; ecosystem ecology; environmental policy; modeling and simulation; terrestrial ecology; urban ecology

Devens Gust

Devens Gust

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • gust@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4547

      Expertise

      organic chemistry; photochemistry; artificial photosynthesis

David H. Guston

David H. Guston

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Center for Nanotechnology in Society
  • Co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • david.guston@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8829

      Expertise

      policy analysis; governance; nanotechnology; emerging technologies; boundary spanning organizations

Edward Hackett

Edward Hackett

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • ehackett@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6561

      Expertise

      human environment interaction; risk and hazards; social organization; group dynamics; Science technology and society; research organization; science policy

LaDawn Haglund

LaDawn Haglund

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • ladawn.haglund@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7083

      Expertise

      human rights; political economics; urban development; water resource management; water conflicts; poverty

Rolf Halden

Rolf Halden

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Rolf.Halden@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0893

      Expertise

      bioremediation; proteomic mass spectrometry; human exposure assessment; sustainable chemistry; biofuels; wastewater treatment; water reuse; water treatment processes; biotechnology; biological treatment processes; nanotechnology; air quality; agriculture

Sharon J. Hall

Sharon J. Hall

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • sharonjhall@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5650

      Expertise

      biogeochemistry; land use change; agriculture; soil processes; environmental choices; air quality; ecosystem services

Andrew Hamilton

Andrew Hamilton

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • ahamilton@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5145

      Expertise

      evolutionary theory; systematics; science policy; public policy

Michael Hanemann

Michael Hanemann

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Julie A. Wrigley Chair in Sustainability, School of Sustainability and Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences

    • Michael.Hanemann@asu.edu

      Expertise

      modeling and simulation; choice behavior; conservation; environmental regulation; economic valuation; methodology of non-market valuation using techniques of both revealed and stated preference

Sharon L. Harlan

Sharon L. Harlan

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • sharon.harlan@asu.edu

      (480) 727-6780

      Expertise

      environmental justice; climate change; gender; sociology; climate change impacts; poverty

Hilairy Hartnett

Hilairy Hartnett

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • H.Hartnett@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5593

      (480) 727-7041

      Expertise

      biogeochemistry; aquatic chemistry; oceanography; biogeochemical processes; geochemical cycles; geological processes

Lee Hartwell

Lee Hartwell

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Virginia G. Piper Chair, Professor, and Chief Scientist of Personalized Medicine, Center for Sustainable Health, Biodesign Institute
  • Professor, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
  • Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine

    • Lee.Hartwell@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0779

      Expertise

      improving medical diagnostic tools for early disease detection; identifying critical health metrics of a sustainable world; improving science education at the K-12 level; public health

Michelle Hegmon

Michelle Hegmon

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Arjun Heimsath

Arjun Heimsath

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Arjun.Heimsath@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5585

      Expertise

      environmental issues; erosion and sedimentation; climate change; human impacts; landslides; debris flows; glacial processes; deforestation; geochemical cycles; watershed hydrology; land use change; remote sensing; agriculture; biogeochemical processes

Mark Henderson

Mark Henderson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Dean, Barrett Honors College
  • Professor, Department of Engineering, College of Technology and Innovation
  • Director, GlobalResolve

    • Mark.Henderson@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1062

      Expertise

      global product design; social entrepreneurship; biofuels; water quality; strategic product development

Pierre Herckes

Pierre Herckes

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Pierre.Herckes@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4497

      (480) 727-0622

      Expertise

      environmental chemistry; geochemistry; analytical chemistry; air quality; atmospheric processes; biogeochemical processes; climate change impacts; materials analysis; geochemical cycles; nanotechnology; public health; wastewater treatment

James Hershauer

James Hershauer

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor Emeritus, W.P. Carey School of Business

Gerald Heydt

Gerald Heydt

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, Department of Electical Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • heydt@asu.edu

      (480) 965-8307

      Expertise

      power engineering; electric power quality; distribution engineering; transmission engineering; computer applications; power engineering education; power system sensors and instrumentation

Nicholas Hild

Nicholas Hild

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Technology Management, College of Technology and Innovation

    • drnick@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1309

      Expertise

      environmental management; environmental technology; sustainable development

Paul W. Hirt

Paul W. Hirt

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Paul.Hirt@asu.edu

      (480) 727-9084

      Expertise

      environmentalism; history of electric power; land use change; urban development; water resource management; water conflicts; utilities regulation; renewable energy; natural resource management; energy policy; environmental policy; deforestation; cross-border cooperation; conservation policy; citizen actions

James G. Hodge, Jr.

James G. Hodge, Jr.

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Innovation
  • Director, Public Health Law Network - Western Region
  • Director, Public Health Law and Policy Program
  • Affiliate Professor, Global Health, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • James.Hodge.1@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8576

      Expertise

      emergency preparedness; global health; global law, global ethics, global policy; international human rights; model public health legislation; public health; public health information privacy; public health law; vaccination law and policy; health law and policy; informatics; information theory

Glenn Hoetker

Glenn Hoetker

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Dean's Council Distinguished Scholar, Department of Management, W.P. Carey School of Business
  • Associate Professor, Department of Management, W.P. Carey School of Business
  • Affiliate Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

John Hofmeister

John Hofmeister

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Julie A. Wrigley Private Sector Executive-in-Residence for Sustainability, School of Sustainability

    • John.Hofmeister@asu.edu

      Expertise

      sound energy security solutions for the nation; affordable energy supplies; energy economics; efficiency improvements; urban infrastructure; environmental policy; public education on energy issues

Christiana Honsberg

Christiana Honsberg

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Christiana.Honsberg@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2831

      Expertise

      solar energy systems; semiconductors; LEDs; photodetectors; InGaN material systems

Steven P Hooker

Steven P Hooker

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Exercise and Wellness Program, School of Nutrition and Health Promotion

    • Steven.Hooker@asu.edu

      (602) 827-2280

      Expertise

      relationships between physical activity and elements of the built environment; physical activity interventions for midlife and older adults, particularly men; effects of physical activity on risk of developing chronic diseases; community-based participatory research; public health; communities; urban development; smarth growth; recreation; transportation

Kiril Hristovski

Kiril Hristovski

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • Kiril.Hristovski@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1291

      Expertise

      environmental applications and implications of nanotechnology; water quality; water treatment processes; wastewater treatment; solid and hazardous wastes; waste containment

Qiang Hu

Qiang Hu

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics

    • huqiang@asu.edu

      (480)727-1387

      Expertise

      algal mass culture technology; biotechnology; cyanobacteria; cyanobacterial photosystems; growth physiology of high-density algal culture; photobioreactor system design; microalgae; alternative fuels; biofuels; biological treatment processes; bioremediation; wastewater treatment

Huei-Ping Huang

Huei-Ping Huang

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy Engineering

    • Huei-Ping.Huang@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0042

      Expertise

      geophysical fluid dynamics; environmental fluid dynamics; numerical simulation; climate analysis and prediction; remote sensing; atmospheric processes; modeling and simulation; air quality; climate change impacts; algorithm development

Timothy James

Timothy James

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Research Professor, Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business

    • Timothy.James@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2895

      Expertise

      urban infrastructure; energy economics; energy policy; environmental economics; environmental policy; climate change impacts; data mining; data analysis; decisionmaking; econometrics; economic adaptation and climate change; economic valuation

Marco Janssen

Marco Janssen

  • Executive Director
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity

    • Marco.Janssen@asu.edu

      (480) 727-7067

      Expertise

      global environmental change; human-environment interaction; institutional analysis; modeling and simulation; quantitative methods; complex adaptive systems; decisionmaking; bioeconomics; mathematical and system dynamics modeling

Megan Jehn

Megan Jehn

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Megan.Jehn@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5524

      Expertise

      clinical epidemiology; health services; emergency preparedness; public health; decisionmaking; modeling and simulation

J. Chadwick Johnson

J. Chadwick Johnson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor of Behavioral Ecology, Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

    • jchadwick@asu.edu

      (602) 543-6524

      (602) 543-6135

      Expertise

      behavioral ecology; behavioral expression across distinct behavioral-ecological contexts; communities; individuals; populations; animal behavior; ecological behavior; population biology; species adaptation; terrestrial ecology; urban ecology

Paul C. Johnson

Paul C. Johnson

  • Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Vice President for Research & Economics
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Executive Dean, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering

    • paul.c.johnson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9235

      Expertise

      contaminants; contaminate migration; soil remediation; groundwater remediation; risk assessment; environmental engineering

Kamil Kaloush

Kamil Kaloush

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Director, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations

    • Kamil.Kaloush@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5509

      Expertise

      pavement materials design; characterization and thermal properties; advanced laboratory testing; field performance evaluation; maintenance techniques; rehabilitation techniques; pavement management systems; urban heat island; crumb-rubber applications; statistical analysis; modeling and simulation; materials

Subbarao Kambhampati

Subbarao Kambhampati

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Subbarao.Kambhampati@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0113

      Expertise

      artificial intelligence; automated planning; scheduling; speedup learning; CSP; SAT; database systems; data/information integration; query planning; statistical analysis; web services; data cleaning and information extraction; data-fusion technology; data mining; decisionmaking

Edward Kavazanjian

Edward Kavazanjian

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering

    • Edward.Kavazanjian@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8566

      Expertise

      geotechnical earthquake engineering; waste containment; mechanical properties of municipal solid waste; microbiological improvement of soil properties; urban infrastructure; fugitive dust control; erosion and sedimentation; geological processes

Douglas Kenrick

Douglas Kenrick

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • DOUGLAS.KENRICK@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7249

      Expertise

      cognitive science; dynamical systems theory; evolutionary psychology; decisionmaking

Yushim Kim

Yushim Kim

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs

    • ykim@asu.edu

      (602) 496-1157

      Expertise

      policy analysis; informatics; health/welfare policy; public health; data analysis; environmental policy; modeling and simulation

Keith Kintigh

Keith Kintigh

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Director and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • KINTIGH@ASU.edu

      (480) 965-6909

      Expertise

      informatics; information integration; archaeology; socioecology; data analysis; data cleaning and information extraction; agrarian societies; algorithm development; ceramic technology; landscape studies

Ann P. Kinzig

Ann P. Kinzig

  • Chief Research Strategist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Ann.Kinzig@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6838

      (480) 727-7764

      Expertise

      ecology; biodiversity; conservation; ecosystem services; conservation biology; economics of ecosystem services; ecosystem ecology; urban ecology; urban social-ecological systems

Mark Klett

Mark Klett

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

    • mklett@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5367

      Expertise

      repeat photography; landscape studies; photography; land use change

Jeffrey M. Klopatek

Jeffrey M. Klopatek

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • klopatek@ASU.Edu

      (480) 965-4685

      Expertise

      biogeochemistry; ecosystem ecology; landscape ecology; biogeochemical processes; climate change impacts; ecosystem services; fire ecology; food policy; geochemical cycles; agriculture; natural resource management; plant ecology; ecosystem disturbances; deforestation; desertification; landscape studies; land use change; terrestrial ecology; urban ecology

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Dr.Rosy@asu.edu

      (480) 727-7574

      Expertise

      bioremediation; bioremediation of groundwater; bioremediation of sediments; bioremediation of soil; environmental applications of molecular microbial ecology; use of microbial systems for bioenergy production; biotransformation and fate of environmental contaminants; microbiome

Michael Kuby

Michael Kuby

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • mikekuby@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6850

      Expertise

      optimal facility location; network design models; urban infrastructure; urban transportation; alternative fuels; alternative vehicles; fueling/charging stations; carbon capture; carbon storage; light rail; China; clean coal; multiobjective optimization; energy conservation; transportation

Timothy Lant

Timothy Lant

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability

    • lant@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6548

      Expertise

      modeling and simulation; policy analysis; scenario analysis; mathematical and system dynamics modeling; algorithm development; boundary spanning organizations; climate change impacts; data analysis; decisionmaking; health law and policy; informatics; population biology; public health; water resource management

Francisco Lara-Valencia

Francisco Lara-Valencia

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Transborder Studies
  • Southwest Borderlands Scholar

    • fcolara@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9178

      Expertise

      U.S.-Mexico border development; socio-environmental urban vulnerabilities; economic development; urban health disparities; cross-border cooperation

Kelli L. Larson

Kelli L. Larson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

    • kelli.larson@asu.edu

      (480) 727-3603

      Expertise

      human-environment dynamics; water resource geography and governance; risk perceptions, policy attitudes, and sustainable behaviors; social-ecological systems; water resource geography; natural resource management; policy and governance; decisionmaking; risk perceptions, policy attitudes, and ecological behavior; urban ecology; water resource management; resource governance

Elizabeth Larson-Keagy

Elizabeth Larson-Keagy

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Manfred Laubichler

Manfred Laubichler

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Co-Director, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
  • External Faculty, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria
  • Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

    • manfred.laubichler@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5481

      Expertise

      theoretical biology; evolutionary biology; developmental biology; complex adaptive systems; complexity theory; history of science; philosophy of science; mathematical and system dynamics modeling; modeling and simulation; informatics; information theory

Mary Laura Lind

Mary Laura Lind

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • mllind@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8613

      Expertise

      advanced materials synthesis and characterization; environmental nanotechnology; membrane technology; sustainable energy and water production; synthesis and characterization of bulk metallic glasses; materials analysis; materials development

Stuart Lindsay

Stuart Lindsay

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Center for Single Molecule Biophysics

Huan Liu

Huan Liu

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Huan.Liu@asu.edu

      (480) 727-7349

      Expertise

      data mining; machine learning; artificial intelligence; web analytics; social computing

Jose Lobo

Jose Lobo

  • Post Doctoral Associate, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Associate Research Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Faculty Associate, Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business

    • jose.lobo@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3747

      Expertise

      metropolitan economic performance; location-specific economic growth; regions of innovation; social networks; urban size and scaling; machine learning; data mining; spatial statistics methods; socioeconomics; innovation

Jason S. Lueke

Jason S. Lueke

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Del E. Webb School of Construction, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • jason.lueke@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7417

      Expertise

      trenchless construction methods and techniques; rehabilitation of underground infrastructure; sensors and field measurements for construction; sustainable urban infrastructure design and planning; urban infrastructure; decisionmaking; water distribution systems

Julie Luft

Julie Luft

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Human Dimensions of Biology, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Professor, Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

    • Julie.Luft@asu.edu

      (480) 965-8463

      Expertise

      science teacher education; secondary education; education development

Myles V. Lynk

Myles V. Lynk

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and amd the Legal Profession, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation's Program in Public Health Law and Policy
  • Affiliated Faculty in Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Myles.Lynk@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0433

      Expertise

      business law; corporate law; legal ethics; bioethics; economic development; health law and policy

Alex Mahalov

Alex Mahalov

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Dean's Distinguished Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Alex.Mahalov@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0408

      Expertise

      nonlinear partial differential equations; dynamical systems; scientific computing; geophysical fluid dynamics and turbulence; air quality; algorithm development; atmospheric processes; climate change impacts; data mining; decisionmaking; dynamical systems theory; economic adaptation and climate change; environmental policy; informatics; international relations; mathematical and system dynamics modeling; microclimate; modeling and simulation; optical devices; remote sensing; renewable energy; urbanization effects on weather and climate

Jane Maienschein

Jane Maienschein

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, President's Professor, and Parent's Association Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Center for Biology and Society
  • Adjunct Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory

    • maienschein@asu.edu

      480 965-6105

      Expertise

      history of science; embryology; bioethics; biology and society

George N. Maracas

George N. Maracas

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor of Practice, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • George.Maracas@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5540

      Expertise

      photovoltaics; photonics; nanostructures for solar energy conversion; renewable energy; technologies; nanotechnology; solar energy systems; emerging technologies; optical devices

Gary Marchant

Gary Marchant

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Executive Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Innovation

    • gary.marchant@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3246

      Expertise

      biotechnology; legal aspects of personalized medicine; nanotechnology; neuroscience; regulation of emerging technologies; risk and the precautionary principle; use of genetic information in environmental regulation; privacy; health law and policy; food policy; environmental policy; energy efficiency technologies

Chris A. Martin

Chris A. Martin

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • chris.martin@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1247

      Expertise

      green roofs; horticulture; landscape studies; microclimate; plant ecology; urban forestry; ecosystem services; urban ecology; ecosystem physiology; agriculture; urbanization effects on weather and climate

Kristin K. Mayes

Kristin K. Mayes

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor of Practice, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Director, Program on Law and Sustainability, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Martha McCartney

Martha McCartney

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Molly.McCartney@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4558

      Expertise

      electron structure; nanomagnetism; semiconductors; nanotechnology

Joan L. McGregor

Joan L. McGregor

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor of Philosophy, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • joan.mcgregor@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5028

      Expertise

      cultural issues in sustainability; environmental ethics; ethical issues in environmental law; philosophy of sustainability; bioethics; communities; ecological ethics; environmental philosophy; engineering ethics; emerging technologies; privacy; public health

Thomas O. McShane

Thomas O. McShane

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Adjunct Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Visiting Lecturer, Institute for Landscape Management, University of Freiburg, Germany

    • mcshane@bluewin.ch

      Expertise

      conservation; development; social and environmental sustainability assessment; forestry; biodiversity

Deirdre R. Meldrum

Deirdre R. Meldrum

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Director, Center for Biosignatures Discover Automation, Biodesign Institute
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • deirdre.meldrum@asu.edu

      (480) 727-9397

      Expertise

      automation in life sciences; automation; microtechnology; nanotechnology; microscale systems; lab-on-achip; single cell; genomics; robotics; control systems; biotechnology

Rob Melnick

Rob Melnick

  • Executive Dean, Global Institute of Sustainability & School of Sustainability
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Presidential Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability

    • Rob.Melnick@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5233

      Expertise

      public policy; urban development; economic development; scenario analysis; strategic planning; corporate relations; sustainability policy; green building practices

Jose Menendez

Jose Menendez

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Jose.Menendez@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4817

      Expertise

      experimental solid state physics; optical devices; semiconductors

Clark Miller

Clark Miller

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • clark.miller@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1778

      Expertise

      decisionmaking; environmental policy; global environmental change; science policy; technology policy; international governance

Ben Minteer

Ben Minteer

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • ben.minteer@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4632

      Expertise

      ecological ethics; environmental policy; ethical and historical foundations of ecological management; ethical and historical foundations of sustainability; history of conservation/environmentalism; philosophy of conservation/environmentalism; environmental ethics; environmental philosophy; conservation biology; conservation policy

Pitu Mirchandani

Pitu Mirchandani

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • pitu@asu.edu

      Expertise

      algorithm development; alternative fuels; water distribution systems; urban planning; urban infrastructure; urban development; transportation; land use change; forecasting transportation demand; dynamical systems theory; decisionmaking; data-fusion technology; data mining; economic valuation; remote sensing; modeling and simulation; mathematical and system dynamics modeling

Barzin Mobasher

Barzin Mobasher

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering

    • Barzin.Mobasher@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0141

      Expertise

      mechanics of composite materials; development of new construction materials; durability of building materials; building technology; performance based specifications

Ana Moore

Ana Moore

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • amoore@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2953

      Expertise

      artificial photosynthesis; solar energy systems; organic chemistry

Tom Moore

Tom Moore

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Tom.Moore@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3308

      Expertise

      biochemistry; solar energy conversion; photosynthesis; nanotechnology

Mohamed Moustaoui

Mohamed Moustaoui

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Research Scientist, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Mohamed.Moustaoui@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6311

      Expertise

      geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics; applied mathematics; scientific computing; high performance computing of atmospheric flows

Rachata Muneepeerakul

Rachata Muneepeerakul

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability

    • Rachata.Muneepeerakul@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5738

      Expertise

      ecohydrology; theoretical ecology; biodiversity; stochastic processes; modeling and simulation; ecosystem ecology; watershed hydrology; population biology; mathematical and system dynamics modeling

Alan Murray

Alan Murray

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Affiliate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation

    • Alan.T.Murray@asu.edu

      Expertise

      geographic information science; urban planning; regional planning; natural resource planning; applications of quantitative methods; location modeling; spatial decision support systems

Alvin Mushkatel

Alvin Mushkatel

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • Alvin.Mushkatel@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1311

      Expertise

      policy analysis; environmental policy; impact assessment; urban housing policy; emergency management; natural resource management; urban infrastructure

Soe Win Myint

Soe Win Myint

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Affiliate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation

    • soe.myint@asu.edu

      480-965-6514

      Expertise

      land use change; land cover change; prediction of land change; forest mapping; desertification; urban environmental modeling; geospatial techniques; algorithm development; agriculture; data analysis; deforestation; data mining; ecosystem disturbances; ecosystem ecology; erosion and sedimentation; geographic information science; informatics; landscape studies; natural resource management; modeling and simulation; remote sensing; smart growth; urban development; urban ecology; urban planning; urbanization effects on weather and climate; watershed hydrology; water resource management

Narayanan Neithalath

Narayanan Neithalath

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineer

    • Narayanan.Neithalath@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6023

      Expertise

      sustainable contruction materials; pervious concretes; electrical property-based sensing techniques for concrete; energy efficiency technologies; materials development; materials analysis; building technology; durability of building materials; modeling and simulation

Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • bnelson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7983

      Expertise

      archaeology; complex societies; ethnoarchaeology; political economics; land use change; landscape studies; urban social-ecological systems

Margaret Nelson

Margaret Nelson

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Vice Dean, Barrett, the Honors College
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • mnelson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9520

      (480) 727-7764

      Expertise

      archaeology; resilience and vulnerability; transformation; socioecology

Steven Neuberg

Steven Neuberg

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Psychology (Social), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • steven.neuberg@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7845

      Expertise

      evolutionary psychology; motivation and cognition; intergroup conflict; decisionmaking

Susanne Neuer

Susanne Neuer

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • susanne.neuer@asu.edu

      (480) 727-7254

      Expertise

      climate change; oceanography; phytoplankton; carbon flux; biological carbon pump; biogeochemistry; women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Nathan Newman

Nathan Newman

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Lamonte H. Lawrence Chair in Sold State Science, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Nathan.Newman@asu.edu

      (480) 727-6934

      Expertise

      semiconductors; superconductor materials; dielectric materials; thin film materials; materials characterization; electronic structure

Cun-Zheng Ning

Cun-Zheng Ning

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • cning@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7421

      Expertise

      nanolasers; nanomaterials-based detectors; nanotechnology; nanowires; optical devices; physics of many-body effects; physics of nanostructures; solar energy systems; surface plasmons; nanophotonics

Gyan Nyaupane

Gyan Nyaupane

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, College of Public Programs

    • Gyan.Nyaupane@asu.edu

      (602) 496-0166

      Expertise

      tourism as a tool for sustainable development, environmental conservation, heritage preservation livelihood improvement; tourism behavior; political economy of user fees; recreation; urban tourism

Kiona Ogle

Kiona Ogle

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • kiona.ogle@asu.edu

      Expertise

      climate change; plant ecology; ecosystem physiology; species adaptation

Elinor Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Research Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity
  • Nobel Laureate, Economics

    • Elinor.Ostrom@asu.edu

      Expertise

      complex adaptive systems; global exchange; human environmental interaction; institutional analysis; quantitative methods; political economics; policy analysis

Robert Pahle

Robert Pahle

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Research Professor, Decision Theater, Global Institute of Sustainability

    • Robert.Pahle@asu.edu

      Expertise

      database systems; 3D modeling; modeling and simulation; urban planning; solar energy systems; informatics; data-fusion technology; data mining; data cleaning and information extraction; data analysis; building technology; architecture

Sethuraman Panchanathan

Sethuraman Panchanathan

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor and Founding Director, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • University Chief Research Officer, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development

    • Panch@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3699

      Expertise

      ubiquitous computing environments for individuals with disabilities; multimedia computing; communications; analysis and recognition of face, gait, emotions, events and activities; haptic user interfaces; media processor designs; content-based and compressed domain indexing and retrieval of images and video; genomic signal processing; information theory

Martin J. (Mike) Pasqualetti

Martin J. (Mike) Pasqualetti

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciencies
  • Graduate Faculty, Global Technology and Development, School of Letters and Sciences

    • pasqualetti@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4548

      Expertise

      renewable energy; energy-water nexus; energy landscapes; solar energy systems; urban planning; energy policy; emerging technologies; alternative fuels; landscape studies; land use change

David Pearson

David Pearson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Research Professor, School of Life Sciences

    • dpearson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5839

      Expertise

      biogeography; environmental education; species distribution; community ecology; conservation biology; conservation policy; deforestation; ecological behavior; ecological literacy; education development; environmental policy; ornithology; species adaptation; terrestrial ecology

Ram Pendyala

Ram Pendyala

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Ram.Pendyala@asu.edu

      (480) 727-9164

      (480) 965-0557

      Expertise

      modeling and simulation; forecasting transportation demand; transportation system performance; urban planning; urban development; transportation; smart growth; land use change; data analysis; data cleaning and information extraction; mathematical and system dynamics modeling

Charles Perrings

Charles Perrings

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • charles.perrings@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0472

      Expertise

      environmental economics; resource economics; economics of ecosystem services

Darren Petrucci

Darren Petrucci

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Director, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

    • darren.petrucci@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9400

      Expertise

      design collaboration; architecture; urbanism; urban planning; pre-manufacture; urban infrastructure

Patrick Phelan

Patrick Phelan

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • phelan@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1625

      Expertise

      heat transfer; sustainable energy systems; nanoscale energy transport; urban heat island

Rhonda Phillips

Rhonda Phillips

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, College of Public Programs

    • Rhonda.Phillips@asu.edu

      (602) 496-0160

      Expertise

      community development; economic development; community indicator systems; quality of life; community well-being; community regeneration; cultural/arts and tourism development approaches; communities

K. David Pijawka

K. David Pijawka

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • pijawka@asu.edu

      (480) 727-7319

      Expertise

      disaster mitigation; hazards assessment; socioeconomic impact assessment; climate change; sustainable education; urban planning

Fernando Ponce

Fernando Ponce

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • ponce@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5557

      Expertise

      materials for solid state lighting; materials for photovoltaic solar cells; structure of interfaces and defects in crystalline materials; determination of optical and electronic nanoscale properties of materials; materials analysis; x-ray diffraction; microanalysis; TEM; II-V compounds and related epitaxial systems; double heterojunction laser diodes; optical coating for optoelectronic applications; optical devices; solar energy systems; semiconductors; nanotechnology; thin film materials; energy efficiency technologies

Stephen J. Pyne

Stephen J. Pyne

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • stephen.pyne@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4092

      Expertise

      fire management; fire ecology; environmental history; history of exploration; space exploration

T. Agami Reddy

T. Agami Reddy

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • SRP Professor of Energy and Environment, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

    • reddyta@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4460

      Expertise

      building energy conservation; data analysis; energy efficiency technologies; modeling and simulation; solar energy systems; energy conservation; renewable energy

Charles L. Redman

Charles L. Redman

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Founding Director, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Virginia M. Ullman Professor, Natural History and the Environment, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • charles.redman@asu.edu

      (480) 965-8654

      Expertise

      urban development; resilience and vulnerability; human-environment interactions; trade-offs in food and water production; archaeology; complex societies; land use change

Sonya Remington

Sonya Remington

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Lecturer, School of Sustainability

    • Sonya.Remington@asu.edu

      Expertise

      biogeochemical processes; biogeochemistry; terrestrial ecosystems; aquatic ecosystems; anthropogenic impacts; application and integration of physical, chemical and biological processes; impact of pollution; impact of land alteration; impact of climate change; interdisciplinary, project- and research-based curricula; undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)

Bruce E. Rittmann

Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Director, Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute

    • rittmann@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0434

      Expertise

      environment; biotechnology; bioenergy; biofilms; microbial ecology

Helen Rowe

Helen Rowe

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Research Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Ecosystem Restoration Iniatiative, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Benjamin Ruddell

Benjamin Ruddell

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, College of Technology and Innovation

    • bruddell@asu.edu

      (480) 727-5123

      Expertise

      efficient alternative energy and water systems; geographic information systems; informatics; information theory; instrumentation networks; integrated building energy systems and controls; natural resource management; remote sensing; scientific computing; sustainable development; urban infrastructure; water resource management; stochastic hydrology; water distribution systems; water reuse; watershed hydrology; urbanization effects on weather and climate; terrestrial ecology; solar energy systems; smart growth; modeling and simulation; microclimate; economics of ecosystem services; ecosystem services; energy conservation; energy economics; energy efficiency technologies; energy policy; engineering ethics; geographic information science; green roofs; land use change; data mining; database systems; data analysis; climate change impacts; building technology; atmospheric processes

John Sabo

John Sabo

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • John.L.Sabo@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5904

      Expertise

      watershed hydrology; water resource management; dams; environmental flows; energy flow; biodiversity

Osvaldo Sala

Osvaldo Sala

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Julie A. Wrigley Chair in Life Sciences and Sustainability and Foundation Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Osvaldo.Sala@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4120

      Expertise

      scenario analysis; complex relationships; study of social-ecological system; modeling and simulation; ecosystem services; agriculture; biofuels; biogeochemical processes; climate change impacts; desertification; ecosystem ecology; ecosystem physiology; ecosystem restoration; geochemical cycles; microclimate; natural resource management; plant ecology; terrestrial ecology

Marco Saraniti

Marco Saraniti

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Daniel Sarewitz

Daniel Sarewitz

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor of Science and Society, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes

    • Daniel.Sarewitz@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8787

      Expertise

      uncertainty; scientific controversies; governance of technology; social outcomes; science policy; technology policy; decisionmaking; emerging technologies; environmental policy

Dieter Schroder

Dieter Schroder

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Schroder@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6621

      Expertise

      semiconductors; photovoltaics; semiconductor material and device characterization; electrical/lifetime measurements; low power electronics; device modeling; MOS devices

Thomas P. Seager

Thomas P. Seager

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  • Lincoln Fellow of Ethics and Sustainability, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Thomas.Seager@asu.edu

      Expertise

      environmental decision analysis; sustainability theory; engineering ethics; environmental impacts of alternative energy; alternative fuels

Cynthia Selin

Cynthia Selin

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Research Professor, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Cynthia.Selin@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4349

      Expertise

      scenario methodologies; foresight methodologies; temporality; technological culture; new technologies; societal aspects of nanotechnologies; anticipatory governance; organizational theory; innovation; public deliberation

Nancy J. Selover

Nancy J. Selover

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Research Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Arizona State Climatologist, State Climate Office

    • selover@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4349

      (480) 965-0580

      Expertise

      urban climatology; evaporation; drought; micro-climate field research; climate change

R.F. Shangraw, Jr.

R.F. Shangraw, Jr.

  • CEO and President of the ASU Foundation
  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability

    • rick.shangraw@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4087

      Expertise

      informatics; research policy; entrepreneurship; decisionmaking; emerging technologies; environmental policy; modeling and simulation

Everett Shock

Everett Shock

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Arleyn Simon

Arleyn Simon

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Research Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Archaeological Research Institute

    • arleyn.simon@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6957

      Expertise

      archaeology; ceramic technology; quantitative methods; social organization

Andrew T. Smith

Andrew T. Smith

  • Senior Transportation Planner
  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • President's Professor, Parents' Association Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Guest Professor, College of Life Sciences/Center for Landscape Ecology and Sustainability Science, Beijing Normal University

    • a.smith@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4024

      Expertise

      conservation biology; population biology; behavioral ecology; mammalogy; lagomorphs; community-based conservation; plateau pika; great bustards; biodiversity; conservation challenges; Tibet; metapopulation dynamics; American pika

David Smith

David Smith

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor, Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.)

    • David.Smith@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4540

      Expertise

      development of quantitative high-resolution electron microscopy; atomic-resolution electron microscopy; thin film materials; nanotechnology; semiconductors

V. Kerry Smith

V. Kerry Smith

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Regents' Professor and W. P. Carey Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, W. P. Carey School of Business

    • kerry.smith@asu.edu

      (480) 727-9812

      Expertise

      economics of ecosystem services; general equilibrium welfare measurement; economic adaptation and climate change; climate change; economic valuation; energy economics; energy policy; environmental policy; recreation; real estate; natural resource management; water resource management

Milton R. Sommerfeld

Milton R. Sommerfeld

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • Milton.Sommerfeld@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1050

      Expertise

      aquatic ecology; bioremediation; bioremediation of air and water; development of renewable biofuels and bioproducts; water quality; phycology; biofuels; biotechnology; alternative fuels; renewable energy; urban ecology

Katherine Spielmann

Katherine Spielmann

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • kate.spielmann@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7212

      Expertise

      economics; diet; archaeology; socioecology; agrarian societies

Kyle Squires

Kyle Squires

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Director and Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • squires@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3957

      Expertise

      computational science and engineering; fluid mechanics; multiphase flows;modeling and simulation

Kelly Steele

Kelly Steele

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

Juliet C. Stromberg

Juliet C. Stromberg

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciencies

    • jstrom@asu.edu

      (480) 965-0864

      Expertise

      ecosystem restoration; environmental flows; fire ecology; floods, fire, and other ecosystem disturbances; population, community and landscape-level processes; riparian ecology; plant ecology

Jean C. Stutz

Jean C. Stutz

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, College of Technology and Innovation

    • jstutz@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1234

      Expertise

      diversity of mycorrhizal fungi; mycorrhizal fungi in restoration and horticulture; sustainable horticulture; urban ecology; sustainable landscape practices

James Svara

James Svara

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs

    • James.Svara@asu.edu

      Expertise

      citizen actions; environmental ethics; governmental actions; local government; policy making and administrative process; governance

Tod Swanson

Tod Swanson

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • tod.swanson@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4057

      Expertise

      religious traditions of the Amazonian and Andean regions; ethnobiology; religion, nature, and the emotions; environmental philosophy; ecological behavior

Violet Syrotiuk

Violet Syrotiuk

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • syrotiuk@asu.edu

      (480) 965-7034

      Expertise

      mobile wireless ad hoc networks; wireless sensor networks; medium access control protocols; modeling and simulation

Emily Talen

Emily Talen

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • etalen@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2055

      Expertise

      new urbanism; sustainable cities; urban codes; urban development; urban infrastructure; urban form

Nongjian Tao

Nongjian Tao

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Director, The Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors, The Biodesign Institute
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • njtao@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4456

      Expertise

      molecular electronics; nanostructured materials and devices; chemical and biological sensors; interfaces between biological molecules and solid materials; electrochemical nanofabrications; nanotechnology; materials analysis; materials development

Thomas Taylor

Thomas Taylor

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Tom.Taylor@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3778

      (480) 266-8298

      Expertise

      dynamical systems; data-fusion technology; applied stochastic modeling

Dallen J. Timothy

Dallen J. Timothy

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Community Resources and Development

    • dallen.timothy@asu.edu

      Expertise

      biodiversity; climate change; environmental impacts of tourism; global tourism; globalization; heritage and cultural conservation; international security; social impacts of tourism; social, political and economic implications of international borders; sustainable development; tourism

Cesar Torres

Cesar Torres

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • cit@asu.edu

      (480) 727-9689

      Expertise

      biofilms; microbial and biofilm kinetics; microbial electrochemical cells; microscopic techniques to image biofilms; modeling and simulation; bioenergy; bioremediation; biotechnology; wastewater treatment

Kong-Thon Tsen

Kong-Thon Tsen

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • tsen@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5206

      Expertise

      interaction of light with solid state and biological systems; ultrafast laser sources to elucidate novel electron transport phenomena; dynamical properties of lattice vibrations in low-dimensional and nanostructure semiconductor; semiconductors; optical devices; biotechnology; biophysics; water treatment processes

Rebecca Tsosie

Rebecca Tsosie

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor of Law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Executive Director, Indian Legal Program, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
  • Affiliate Professor, American Indian Studies Program. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Faculty Fellow, Center for Law and Global Affairs, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

    • Rebecca.Tsosie@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2714

      Expertise

      tribal sovereignty; environmental policy; cultural resources; Native rights; genetic resources; climate change impacts; ecological ethics

B. L. Turner II

B. L. Turner II

  • Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Billie.L.Turner@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1535

      Expertise

      land use change; deforestation; desertification; sustainable-land architecture; vulnerability; risk assessment; hazards assessment; agrarian societies; agriculture; ecosystem services

Tim Tyrrell

Tim Tyrrell

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Community Resources and Development
  • Director, Center for Sustainable Tourism

    • timt@asu.edu

      (602) 496-0156

      Expertise

      tourism economics; community development; tourism; econometrics; dynamic modeling; modeling and simulation

Sander van der Leeuw

Sander van der Leeuw

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Dean and Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Director and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • vanderle@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6214

      Expertise

      archaeology; emerging technologies; invention; innovation

Mark van Schilfgaarde

Mark van Schilfgaarde

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Galvin Professor of Sciences and Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • mark.vanSchilfgaarde@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4977

      Expertise

      electronic structure; materials analysis; energy efficiency technologies; GW approximation

Dragica Vasileska

Dragica Vasileska

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • vasileska@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6651

      Expertise

      semiconductors; semiconductor transport; 3D modeling; quantum field theory; spin transport; nano-scale devices; GaN HEMTs; innovation; nanotechnology

Willem F. J. Vermaas

Willem F. J. Vermaas

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • wim@asu.edu

      (480) 965-6250

      Expertise

      cyanobacteria; biological hydrogen; biofuels; photosynthesis; Synechocystis sp.; molecular biology; cell physiology; genetic engineering

Vijay Vittal

Vijay Vittal

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computing, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Vijay.Vittal@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1879

      Expertise

      electric power; power system dynamics and controls; nonlinear systems; computer applications; energy efficiency technologies; modeling and simulation;

Enrique Vivoni

Enrique Vivoni

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • vivoni@asu.edu

      (480) 965-5228

      Expertise

      atmospheric processes; geological processes; modeling and simulation; watershed hydrology; informatics; land use change; water resource management; urbanization effects on weather and climate; terrestrial ecology; remote sensing; microclimate; mathematical and system dynamics modeling; ecosystem ecology; geographic information science; landscape studies; desertification; deforestation; data analysis; cross-border cooperation; climate change impacts; biophysics; algorithm development; ecohydrology; hydrometeorology; hydrology

Ning Wang

Ning Wang

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Government, Politics, and Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • ningwang@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0738

      Expertise

      economic development; economics; transition and developing economies; entrepreneurship; agrarian societies; agriculture; economic anthropology

Douglas Webster

Douglas Webster

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Government, Politics and Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Douglas.Webster@asu.edu

      (480) 727-0737

      Expertise

      sustainable development; urban competitiveness; China urbanization; Southeast Asia urbanization; urban development; environmental quality; fiscal sustainability; governance sustainability; livelihood sustainability

Elizabeth A. Wentz

Elizabeth A. Wentz

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Executive Committee, Decision Center for a Desert City, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Affiliate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation

    • wentz@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4144

      (602) 332-2970

      Expertise

      shape and pattern analysis; geographic information science; applications of GIS to urban environment; remote sensing; water resource management

Paul Westerhoff

Paul Westerhoff

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • p.westerhoff@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2885

      Expertise

      contaminants; water treatment processes; water quality

Christopher Wharton

Christopher Wharton

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Nutrition Program, College of Nursing and Health Innovation

    • christopher.wharton@asu.edu

      (480) 727-1821

      Expertise

      agriculture; food systems; local foods programs; obesity; public health; food policy

Quentin D. Wheeler

Quentin D. Wheeler

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, School of Life Sciences
  • Director, International Institute for Species Exploration

    • quentin.wheeler@asu.edu

      Expertise

      beetle morphology; beetle evolution; classification of beetles; fungus-insect associations; systematic biology theory; role of taxonomy; biodiversity; exploration; conservation; species adaptation; conservation biology

Dave D. White

Dave D. White

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Associate Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, College of Public Programs

    • Dave.White@asu.edu

      (602) 496-0154

      (602) 496-0953

      Expertise

      natural resource management; social and ecological impacts; water resource management; urban tourism; recreation; community involvement; boundary spanning organizations; climate change impacts; communities; decisionmaking

Philip White

Philip White

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

    • philip.white.1@asu.edu

      (480) 727-6259

      Expertise

      environmental claims; environmental impact assessment; green marketing; industrial design; modeling and simulation; system and product design; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency technologies; materials analysis; renewable energy

Arnim Wiek

Arnim Wiek

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability

    • arnim.wiek@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2387

      Expertise

      sustainability science; urban development; emerging technologies; scenario analysis; sustainability assessment; anticipatory governance; decisionmaking; participatory research; intervention research; transition research; climate change mitigation

Neal Woodbury

Neal Woodbury

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciencies
  • Chief Scientific Officer, BioDesign Institute

    • nwoodbury@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3294

      Expertise

      biochemistry; physical chemistry; laser spectroscopy; peptide array technology; immunosignaturing

Jianguo Wu

Jianguo Wu

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Jingle.Wu@asu.edu

      (480) 965-1063

      Expertise

      landscape ecology; urban ecology; ecosystem ecology; simulation and modeling

Amber Wutich

Amber Wutich

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Amber.Wutich@asu.edu

      (480) 965-9010

      Expertise

      ecological, economic and biocultural anthropology; resilience and vulnerability; institutions; science-policy interactions; field methods

Abigail York

Abigail York

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    • Abigail.York@asu.edu

      (480) 965-3113

      Expertise

      land use policy; political economics; public policy; natural resource management; conservation policy; cross-border cooperation; environmental policy; land use change; smart growth; urban development; urban social-ecological systems

Hongbin Yu

Hongbin Yu

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • Hongbin.Yu@asu.edu

      (480) 965-4455

      Expertise

      materials analysis; nano device characterization; nanotechnology; quantum size effect in metallic and semiconducting nanostructures; semiconductors; surface and interface physics and chemistry; transport in nanostructures and molecules; nano device fabrication; materials development; energy efficiency technologies; solar energy systems; thin film materials; optical devices; energy conservation

Claudia E. Zapata

Claudia E. Zapata

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

    • czapata@asu.edu

      (480) 727-8514

      Expertise

      geotechnical engineering; environmental effects in pavement design; urban infrastructure; durability of building materials; materials development

Yong Hang Zhang

Yong Hang Zhang

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering

    • yhzhang@asu.edu

      (480) 965-2562

      Expertise

      high efficiency solar cells; optical devices; other optoelectronic materials; solar energy systems; molecular beam epitaxy (MBE); semiconductors; renewable energy


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