Faculty Expertise
Our faculty in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering have a variety of energy-related research interests that span the spectrum of all our academic programs. Below you will find a listing of six main research categories and the EME faculty who conduct research within those areas. For more detailed information about an individual faculty member's specific research interests, click on his/her name to be taken to his/her faculty profile page.
Energy Management and Policy
- Seth Blumsack, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon)
- R.J. Briggs, Ph.D. (Texas)
- Andrew N. Kleit, Ph.D. (Yale)
- Zhen Lei, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley and Peking)
- Anastasia V. Shcherbakova, Ph.D. (Chicago)
Environmental Health and Safety Engineering
Fuel Science
- Caroline Burgess Clifford, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Yongsheng Chen, Ph.D. (Lehigh)
- Semih Eser, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Jonathan P. Mathews, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Sarma V. Pisupati, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Ljubisa Radovic, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Chunshan Song, Ph.D. (Osaka, Japan)
- Randy L. Vander Wal, Ph.D. (Wisconsin)
- Alan W. Scaroni, Ph.D. (Penn State)*
- Harold Schobert, Ph.D. (Iowa State)*
* emeritus
Mining and Mineral Process Engineering
- R. Larry Grayson, Ph.D. (West Virginia)
- M. Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Ph.D. (Western Ontario)
- Mark S. Klima, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Antonio Nieto, Ph.D. (CO School of Mines)
- Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley)
- Jamal Rostami, Ph.D. (CO School of Mines)
- Richard Hogg, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley)*
- Peter T. Luckie, Ph.D. (Penn State)*
- Jan Mutmansky, Ph.D. (Penn State)*
- Raja V. Ramani, Ph.D. (Penn State)*
* emeritus
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
- Michael A. Adewumi, Ph.D. (IIT)
- Luis F. Ayala H., Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Turgay Ertekin, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Russell T. Johns, Ph.D. (Stanford)
- Zuleima T. Karpyn, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Li Li, Ph.D. (Princeton)
- John Yilin Wang, Ph.D. (Texas A&M)
- Phillip M. Halleck, Ph.D. (Chicago)*
- Robert W. Watson, Ph.D. (Penn State)*
* emeritus
Energy Science and Engineering
- Jeffrey R. S. Brownson, Ph.D. (Wisconsin)
- Yongsheng Chen, Ph.D. (Lehigh)
- Derek Elsworth, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley)
- Semih Eser, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Li Li, Ph.D. (Princeton)
- Angela Lueking, Ph.D. (Michigan)
- Serguei N. Lvov, Ph.D. (St. Petersburg)
- Jonathan P. Mathews, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Sarma V. Pisupati, Ph.D. (Penn State)
- Randy L. Vander Wal, Ph.D. (Wisconsin)
- Phillip M. Halleck, Ph.D. (Chicago)*
* emeritus