EXPERTS

Professor
Expertise: Urban landscapes and ecologies; disaster studies and climate change; environmental impact of human death practices
sdawdy@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: conceptualizations of nature; culture; technological innovation
mfisch@uchicago.edu

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Expertise: energy and extractivism, climate and crisis, climate extinction; energy infrastructures and economies; small island developing states (SIDS); climate change and international justice
rjobson@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: Planetarity; worldings; futurity; industrial toxicity; existential dangers; technological revolution; justice
jmasco@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professor
Expertise: histories of waste and reuse; long-term landscape transformations and human-animal relationships
senewman@uchicago.edu

Chief Science & Technology Officer; Senior Scientist; Director of the Center for Molecular Engineering
Expertise: water; energy; materials engineering
darling@anl.gov

Associate Director
Expertise: urban history; premodern cities
nsatkinson@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: green catalysis; polymer upcycling; automated synthesis; and biomass conversion
gbdong@uchicago.edu

Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor
Expertise: Quantum chemical methods for sustainable energy
lgagliardi@uchicago.edu

James Franck Professor
Expertise: molecular materials for sustainability and human health
wenbinlin@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: organic materials with novel electronic and optical properties
lupingyu@uchicago.edu

Professor and  Director, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Expertise: Mathematical modeling for Earth; its climate; and its ecosystems
msilber@uchicago.edu

Associate Director of the Urban Theory Lab
Expertise: Geopolitics; empire and environment/climate change; environmental data; geospatial technology and politics; histories of environmental design and infrastructure
aarroyo@uchicago.edu

Assistant Instructional Professor
Expertise: public space; environmental policy and participation; sustainable urban development
ehc@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: built environment; geography; urban organization and change; resource use and management strategies; landscape studies
m-conzen@uchicago.edu

Senior Instructional Professor, Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU)
Director of Academic Programs, Director of Undergraduate Studies, CEGU
Co-Lead, Environmental Frontiers Initiative & Faculty Director, Chicago Studies

Expertise: human relationship to environmental change
sabina@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professor
Expertise: environmental history; archaeology; urbanism and ruralism
cmkearns@uchicago.edu

William Eckhardt Professor and Director,  CERES Center for Unstoppable Computing
Expertise: Sustainable Computing; Renewable Energy; Power Markets Cloud Software; Resource Management aachien@cs.uchicago.edu

Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor; Distinguished Fellow and Senior Scientist at Argonne
Expertise: Climate policy; scientific computing; data management
foster@cs.uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: religion and nature; environmental ethics; sustainable energy; environmental guilt and shame; environmental justice
sfredericks@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: ecological networks; theoretical ecology; food webs; community ecology
salesina@uchicago.edu

Professor and Inaugural Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Expertise: complex systems theory; cities and urbanization; epidemiology; sustainable growth and human development
bettencourt@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: ecology; evolutionary biology
cpfister@uchicago.edu

Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor; Director of the Becker Friedman Institute & the Energy Policy Institute
Expertise: energy; environmental and climate economics; climate impacts and policy; social cost of carbon; air pollution impacts; energy access; development economics
mgreenst@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: Development economics; education; health; water; agriculture in developing countries
kremermr@uchicago.edu

Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor
Expertise: international trade; spatial and urban economics; macroeconomics; environmental and climate economics
rossihansberg@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: Theories of Diaspora and Decolonization; Urban Studies (Africa, after decolonization)
lkruger@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: environmental humanities; extinction; energy cultures and the literary history of climate change
bjmorgan@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: Environmental humanities; waste and discard studies; urban studies; urban nature and constructions of “landscape”; ecopoetics/geopoetics; literary history of environmental disaster; pollution; environmental justice; literary and artistic responses to extractive industries; writing and social activism
jscape@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: planetary science
kite@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: climate change and cloud physics; climate impacts; energy technology
moyer@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professor
Expertise: energy, environmental and resource economics; development economics; water; agriculture; electricity
burlig@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professor
Expertise: conservation policy and economics; impacts of biodiversity losses on human well-being
eyalfrank@uchicago.edu

Professor and and Deputy Dean for Academic Programs
Expertise: economics of energy supply investments; oil and gas leasing; fuel price expectations and volatility; greenhouse gas mitigation policies
kelloggr@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: science and environmental history; political economy; cornucopianism and the anthropocene
fljonsso@uchicago.edu

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor
Expertise: climate change and human history dchakrab@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professor
Expertise: global environmental history; world ecology; political economy
ajakes@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Expertise: Environmental epidemiology; air pollution impacts; built environment
lmcguinn@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: Environmental neuroscience; environmental psychology
bermanm@uchicago.edu

Paul Klapper Professor
Expertise: sustainability and agriculture; energy transitions; global supply chains; political economy; governance
g-herrigel@uchicago.edu

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Expertise: Batteries; Carbon capture and conversion; AI for science; Electrolyte design chibueze@uchicago.edu

Crown Family Professor; Lead Water Strategist At Argonne National Laboratory 
Expertise: Hybrid nanomaterials; 2D nanomaterials; chemical and biological sensors; energy devices; ecomanufacturing
junhongchen@uchicago.edu

Liew Family Professor
Expertise:Theoretical and Computational Modeling of Materials for Renewable Energy Sources and Quantum Information Technologies gagalli@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: Immune Programming Polymers; Carbon Capture Methods aesserkahn@uchicago.edu

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Expertise: Materials Science; Electrochemistry; Water; Energy; Separation
chongliu@uchicago.edu

Professor and Dean of Pritzker School of  Molecular Engineering
Expertise: Biomolecular Engineering; Nanotechnology; Polymer Properties mtirrell@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: Environmental epidemiology; exposure assessment; air quality; health disparities; population and precision health
bakilfoy@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: Batteries; Transport systems; road safety; population health measurement
kavibhalla@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: Genetics; Population; Health Disparity; Outcomes Research; Risk Prediction
dhuo@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professor
Expertise: literature and the environment; environmental criticism; early modern ecologies; waste studies
pgoul@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor
Expertise: ecocriticism; theoretical approaches to the representation of forest and rural areas in Latin America; energy humanities
saramago@uchicago.edu

Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor and Director, Center for Spatial Data Science
Expertise: spatial data science; spatial econometrics
anselin@uchicago.edu

Lucy Flower Professor
Expertise: urban environmental studies; environmental social theory; environmental and energy geography; infrastructure studies; environmental design
neilbrenner@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: decision-making theory; urban politics
t-clark@uchicago.edu

Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of the Social Sciences
Expertise: cities; urban violence
robvargas@uchicago.edu

Associate Dean of Students and Executive Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Expertise: urban ecology; Calumet region; environmental studies; novel ecosystems
Note: Dr. Anastasio does not run a lab or advise student research.
alison.anastasio@gmail.com

Assistant Vice President, Facilities
Expertise: campus planning; sustainability strategy
aliciaberg@uchicago.edu

Manager, Campus Environment Design
Expertise: Landscape design; arboriculture; horticulture; plant biodiversity
kmgolomb@uchicago.edu

Sustainability Manager, Facilities
Expertise: sustainability goals; greenhouse gas emissions inventories; natural resource conservation and energy efficiency; LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and sustainable buildings; waste diversion; partnerships
popenhagen@uchicago.edu

Professor
Expertise: urban design; urbanism; built environment and social equity
talen@uchicago.edu