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

Faculty

Mitch Doktycz
Bio/Health Sciences

Michael Kirka
Advanced Manufacturing

Pum Kim
Advanced Manufacturing

Yanfei Gao
Interim Energy Science and Engineering Program Director

Xiaohan Yang
Bio/Health Sciences

Zhao Xiaopeng
Bio/Health Sciences

Jay Chen
Bio/Health Sciences

Uday Vaidya
Advanced Manufacturing

Ben Doughty
Research Staff Member, ORNL

Additive Manufacturing for Energy

Tony Schmitz
Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering

Bradley Jared
Associate Professor - Mechanical, Aerospeace & Biomedical Engineering

Brett Compton
Associate Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace, and 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
Biosciences Division, 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
Biosciences Division, 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

Ali Riza Ekti
ORNL

Ben Doughty
Research Staff Member, ORNL

Pradeep Ramuhalli
Nuclear Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

Kyle Gluesenkamp
Senior Research and Development Scientist

Liam Collins
R&D Staff Scientist

Tomonori Saito
Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL

Craig Barnes
Professor - Department of Chemistry

Hassina Bilheux
Senior Neutron Imaging Scientist, 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

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

Sean Oesch
Cybersecurity Researcher

Konstantinos Vogiatzis
Associate Professor - Chemistry

Dmytro Bykov
Computational Scientist, ORNL

Tim Young
Professor, Center for Renewable Carbon, UTK

Guojing Cong
Senior Staff

Jacob Hinkle
Research Scientist

Seung-Hwan Lim
Research Scientist

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

Hong-Jun Yoon
Data Science & Engineering

Feiyi Wang
Data Science & Engineering

Seung-Hwan Lim
Data Science & Engineering

Kris Villez
Data Science & Engineering

Dali Wang
Data Science & Engineering

Bruce Wilson
Data Science & Engineering

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

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

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
Energy Storage Program, 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

Robert Sacci
Enery Storage & Conversion

Som S Shrestha
Senior Research and Development Scientist

Ethan Self
R&D Associate - Materials Electrochemist

Ken Kihm
Professor - Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

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

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

Michael Kesler
R&D Associate

Amit Naskar
Group Leader and Senior R&D Staff

Maxim Ziatdinov
Energy Materials

Mahshid Ahmadi
Assistant Professor

Ilia Ivanov
Center for Nanophase Materials Science, ORNL

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL

David Keffer
Professor & Associate Department Head - Material Science & Engineering

Peter Liaw
John Fisher Professor - Material Science & Engineering

Bruce Pint
Materials Science & Technology Division, ORNL

Philip Rack
Education Director, UT-ORII

Amit Shyam
Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL

Energy Policy, Planning, and Administration

Keith Kline
Distinguished Scientist, Climate Change Science Institute & Center for Bioenergy Sustainability, 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
Section Head, Energy Systems Integration and Controls, ORNL

Environmental and Climate Sciences

Ed Perfect
Emeritus - Earth and Planetary Sciences

Salil Mahajan
Staff Scientist

Liem Tran
Professor - Department of Geography

Dali Wang
Environmental Sciences Division

Larry Anovitz
Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL

Moetasim Ashfaq
Computational Climate Scientist, 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

National Security

Sean Oesch
Cybersecurity Researcher

Robert Stewart
Senior Scientist of GeoAI

Nuclear Energy

Zhang Zhili
Nuclear Engineering

Zeke Unterberg
Group Leader, Power Exhaust and Particle Control Group

Susan Hogle
Division Director, Radioisotope Science and Technology

Marc Fialkoff
Research Associate

Vladimir Sobes
Assistant Professor - Department of Nuclear Engineering

Brian Anderson
Director, Enrichment Science and Engineering Division, ORNL

Ted Biewer
Fusion and Materials for Nuclear Systems Division, ORNL

Sandra Davern
Section Head, Radioisotope Research and Development Section, 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, ORNL

Kivanc Ekici
Department Head and John W. Fisher Professor

Bamin Khomami
Beaman Professor and Transportation Program Coordinator - Civil & Environmental Engineering

Michael Kilbey
Professor - Department of Chemistry

Kai Xiao
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL

Transportation Sciences

Costas Tsouris
Energy and Transportation Science, ORNL

Ilias Belharouak
Energy and Transportation Science Division, ORNL

Charles Finney
Senior R&D Scientist, ORNL

Burak Ozpineci
Energy and Transportation Science Division, ORNL

Derek Splitter
National Transportation Research Center, ORNL

Bredesen Center Faculty Handbook

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