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Faculty

An important aspect of this interdisciplinary PhD program is the appointment of faculty from diverse research disciplines. Various faculty from the University of Tennessee and research staff from ORNL are appointed as Bredesen Center faculty, providing interdisciplinary leadership in education and research. Members serve as the primary resource for teaching and mentoring students admitted to the program.

Bredesen Center Faculty Handbook

Additive Manufacturing for Energy

Brett Compton
Associate Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Tony Schmitz
Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
Bradley Jared
Associate Professor - Mechanical, Aerospeace & Biomedical Engineering
Chad Duty
Professor - Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

 

Bioenergy and Biofuels

Neal Stewart
Racheff Chair of Excellence and Professor of Plant Science
Abhijeet P. Borole
Research Professor - Chemical and Biomelocular Engineering
Barry Bruce
Professor - Chemical and Biomelocular Engineering
Mark Dadmun
Professor - Department of Chemistry, ORNL-UT Joint Faculty

Brian Davison
Chief Scientist, Systems Biology and Biotechnology, ORNL
Paul Frymier
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Engagement, Professor
Adam Guss
Biosciences Division, ORNL
Dan Jacobson
Biosciences Division, ORNL

Udaya Kalluri
ORNL
Nicole Labbé
Professor and Assistant Director - Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries
Siris Laursen
Associate Profesor - Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Frank Loeffler
Governor's Chair for Microbiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTK

Josh Michener
Biosciences Division, ORNL
Hugh O’Neill
Biology and Soft Matter Division, ORNL
Chris Schadt
Biosciences Division, ORNL
Cong Trinh
Ferguson Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor - Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Tim Tschaplinski
ORNL
Xiaohan Yang
Biosciences Division, ORNL

 

Computational Energy Systems

Debsindhu Bhowmik
Computational Scientist
Stephan Irle
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL
Dan Jacobson
Biosciences Division, ORNL
Thomas Maier
Computational Materials Science Group, ORNL

Ramanan Sankaran
ORNL
John Turner
Computer Science and Mathematics Division, ORNL

 

Cross-Cutting Energy Sciences

Liam Collins
R&D Staff Scientist
Kyle Gluesenkamp
Senior Research and Development Scientist
Olga Ovchinnikova
Group Leader and Senior R&D Scientist
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Nuclear Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

Tomonori Saito
Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL
Craig Barnes
Professor - Department of Chemistry
Hassina Bilheux
ORNL
Subhadeep Chakraborty
Associate Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

Pat Collier
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL
Shaun Gleason
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL
Mike Guidry
Professor - Department of Physics & Astronomy
Bin Hu
Professor - Material Sciences & Engineering

Jian Huang
Professor - Department of Eletrical Engineering & Computer Science
Travis Humble
Computer Science & Mathematics Division, ORNL
Ramakrishnan Kalyanaraman
Materials Science and Engineering, UTK
John Katsaras
ORNL

Nick Lavrik
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL
Ben Lawrie
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL
Steve Nagler
Neutron Scattering Science Division, ORNL
Olga Ovchinnikova
ORNL

Scott Retterer
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Biosciences Division, ORNL
Rupy Sawhney
Heath Faculty Fellow in Business and Engineering - Industrial & Systems Engineering
Rama Vasudevan
ORNL

 

Data Science and Engineering

Blair Christian
Research Scientist
Guojing Cong
Senior Staff
Jacob Hinkle
Research Scientist
Seung-Hwan Lim
Research Scientist

Tim Young
Professor, Center for Renewable Carbon, UTK
Wellington Muchero
Quantitative Geneticist in Plant Systems Biology
Nick Peters
Section Head & Distinguished Research and Development Staff in The Quantum Information Science Section
Bobby Sumpter
Theory and Computation Section Head, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Konstantinos Vogiatzis
Associate Professor - Chemistry
Patrick Biddix
Professor & Higher Education Administration PhD Program
Scott Emrich
Associate Professor - Department of Eletrical Engineering and Computer Science
Anahita Khojandi
Associate Professor and Director of the RME Program - Industrial & Systems Engineering

Tony Skjellum
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of SimCenter, UTC
Li Yang
Guerry Professor & Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, UTC
Oguz Akbilgic
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Budhendra Bhaduri
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL

Jamie Coble
Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Studies and Service
Robert Davis
Governor's Chair, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Vitaly Ganusov
Associate Professor - Department of Microbiology
Shaun Gleason
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL

J. Wesley Hines
Professor and Department Head - Nuclear Engineering
Dan Jacobson
Biosciences Division, ORNL
Mingzhou Jin
Professor and ISSE Director - Industrial & Systems Engineering
Sergei Kalinin
Center for Nanophase Material Sciences, ORNL

Jitendra Kumar
Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL
Mike Langston
Professor - Department of Eletrical Engineering & Computer Science
Thomas Maier
Computational Materials Science Group, ORNL
Vasileios Maroulas
Professor - Department of Mathematics

Audris Mockus
Professor - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Nicholas Nagle
Professor and Department Head - Department of Geography
Jim Ostrowski
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies - Industrial & Systems Engineering
Ramanan Sankaran
ORNL

Mina Sartipi
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Saunak Sen
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Arash Shaban-Nejad
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Arjun Shankar
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL

Gina Tourassi
Health Data Sciences Institute, ORNL
John Turner
Computer Science and Mathematics Division, ORNL
Steven Young
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL
Russell Zaretzki
Associate Professor - Haslam College of Business

 

Distributed Energy and Grid Management

Srijib Mukherjee
Electrical & Electronics Systems Research Division, ORNL
Daniel Costinett
Associate Professor - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fangxing (Fran) Li
Professor - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Yilu Liu
Governor’s Chair for Power Electronics, UTK

Arjun Shankar
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL
Michael Starke
ORNL
Leon Tolbert
Professor - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Kevin Tomsovic
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UTK

Fred Wang
Professor and CURENT Technical Director

 

Energy Conversion and Storage

Ken Kihm
Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Jianlin Li
ORNL
Matthew Mench
Dean of Tickle College of Engineering and Chancellor's Professor
Stephen Paddison
Professor - Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Parans Paranthaman
Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL
Andrew Stack
ORNL
Tom Zawodzinski
Governor's Chair for Electrical Energy Conversion and Storage, UTK

 

Energy Geography

Budhendra Bhaduri
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL

 

Energy Materials

Michael Kesler
R&D Associate
Amit Naskar
Group Leader and Senior R&D Staff
Daykar Penumadu
Fred N. Peebles Professor and JIAM Chair of Excellence
Stephen “Andrew” Salres
James Conklin Fellow and Associate Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering

Alexei Sokolov
ORNL Governors Chair - Chemical Sciences
Ilia Ivanov
Center for Nanophase Materials Science, ORNL
Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL
Sergei Kalinin
Center for Nanophase Material Sciences, ORNL

David Keffer
Professor & Associate Department Head - Material Science & Engineering
Peter Liaw
John Fisher Professor - Material Science & Engineering
Jagjit Nanda
Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL
Bruce Pint
Materials Science & Technology Division, ORNL

Philip Rack
Education Director, UT-ORII
Orlando Rios
Associate Professor - Materials Science and Engineering
Amit Shyam
Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL

 

Energy Policy, Planning, and Administration

Keith Kline
Climate Change Science Institute, ORNL
Tom Rogers
President and CEO, Cherokee Farm Development Corporation

 

Energy Sensors

Peter Fuhr
Electrical & Electronics Systems Division, ORNL
Charles Melcher
Reserach Professor - Department of Nuclear Engineering
Yarom Polsky
ORNL

 

Environmental and Climate Sciences

Salil Mahajan
Staff Scientist
Ed Perfect
Emeritus - Earth and Planetary Sciences
Liem Tran
Professor - Department of Geography
Dali Wang
Environmental Sciences Division

Larry Anovitz
Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL
Moetasim Ashfaq
ORNL
Mark Bevelhimer
Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL
Virginia Dale
Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL

Katherine Evans
Computing and Computational Sciences, ORNL
Steve Fernandez
Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTK
Joshua Fu
John D. Tickle Professor and James G. Gibson Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Graham
Biosciences Division, ORNL

Terry Hazen
Governor's Chair for Environmental Biotechnology, UTK
Bob Hettich
Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL
Henriette Jager
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Sciences, ORNL
Asad Khattak
Beaman Professor and Transportation Program Coordinator - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jitendra Kumar
Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL
Melanie Mayes
Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, ORNL
Rich Norby
Adjunct Professor - Econology & Evolutionary Biology
Stan Wullschleger
Climate Change Science Institute, ORNL

 

Nuclear Energy

Marc Fialkoff
Research Associate
Susan Hogle
Division Director, Radioisotope Science and Technology
Zeke Unterberg
Group Leader, Power Exhaust and Particle Control Group
Vladimir Sobes
Assistant Professor - Department of Nuclear Engineering

Brian Anderson
ORNL
Ted Biewer
Fusion and Materials for Nuclear Systems Division, ORNL
Sandra Davern
ORNL
David Donovan
Associate Professor - Nuclear Engineering

Robert Grzywacz
UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics & Applications - Physics & Astronomy
Howard Hall
Professor - Department of Nuclear Engineering
Jason Hayward
Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies and UCOR Fellow - Nuclear Engineering
Maik Lang
Associate Professor and Pietro F. Pasqua Fellow - Department of Nuclear Engineering

Arnold Lumsdaine
Fusion and Materials for Nuclear Systems Division, ORNL
Art Ruggles
Professor - Department of Nuclear Engineering
Steven Skutnik
Joint Faculty Associate Professor - Department of Nuclear Engineering
Brian D. Wirth
Governor’s Chair of Computational Nuclear Engineering, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UTK

Steve Zinkle
Governor's Chair for Nuclear Materials, UTK

 

Renewable Energy

Brenda Pracheil
Aquatic Ecologist
Kivanc Ekici
Department Head and John W. Fisher Professor
Bamin Khomami
Beaman Professor and Transportation Program Coordinator - Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Professor - Department of Chemistry

Kai Xiao
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL

 

Transportation Sciences

Costas Tsouris
Ilias Belharouak
Energy and Transportation Science Division, ORNL
Charles Finney
ORNL
Burak Ozpineci
Energy and Transportation Science Division, ORNL

Derek Splitter
National Transportation Research Center, ORNL

 

 

Bredesen Center Faculty Handbook

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