First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Steven,Puller,Professor and Department Head,"My research focuses on industrial organization, empirical microcroeconomics, energy economics, field experiments, and regulation.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Economics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n01e09c9e
Alan,Palazzolo,Professor,"I have research interests in Rotordynamics, Magnetic Bearings, Active Vibration and Noise Control, Fluid Film Bearings, Vibrations, Finite and Boundary Elements, Seal and Impeller Leakage Flow, Piping Systems, Machine Design, Flywheels, Machinery Couplings, Expert Systems, Microgravity Vibration Isolation, Electromechanical Systems, CFD flow in pumps and compressors, Heart pumps (VAD), drillstring vibration, and RO desalination.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n04155d20
Eric,Petersen,Professor,"My laboratory specializes in the study of combustion, gas dynamics and propulsion. We conduct experiments and analyses on reacting flows, chemical kinetics, and shock waves for applications ranging from advanced propellants and rockets to optical diagnostics and gas turbine engines.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Director,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||The Turbomachinery Laboratory,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n11d4d7de
Stratos,Pistikopoulos,Professor,"The objective of my research programme is to develop fundamental theory and optimization based methodologies and computational tools that enable process engineers to analyze, design and evaluate process manufacturing systems which are economically attractive, energy efficient and environmentally benign, while at the same time exhibit good performance characteristics like flexibility, controllability, robustness, reliability and safety.",Director||Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1aaac28f
Konstantinos,Pappas,Dr.,"Dr. K. Pappas is the Assistant Director for Research of the Texas A&M Energy Institute, overseeing the administration of the Institute's projects and initiatives. Dr. K. Pappas is Agricultural Engineer with an MSc in Agricultural Economics and he holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration. He counts 26 years of professional experience in program and project management, monitoring and evaluation. For a decade he worked for the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium), Directorates General ""Environment"" and ""Health"" being, among other tasks, responsible for projects focusing on rural transformation, circular economy, renewables, food safety, etc. implemented in most of European countries as well as on EU's neighboring countries Turkey, Jordan and Morocco. Dr. Pappas' research interests fall under the societal aspects of the energy transition, rural transformation and migration flows. His research focuses on rural migration, migration patterns, global environmental change, European Union migration policies and political institutions, migration and its relation to economic growth, and impact on water, energy, and food security, especially in the South Mediterranean region.",Assistant Director,Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1ec94449
Ragan,Petrie,Professor,"Ragan Petrie is an applied microeconomist who uses field and lab experiments to study topics in public and labor economics, including motives for charitable giving, gender differences in bargaining and competition, discrimination, and the economic preferences of children.
She is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University and a University Presidential Impact Fellow and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow in Liberal Arts. She holds the Elton Lewis Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts at A&M and is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute at University of Melbourne in Australia.
She received a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Economics, a Master's degree in Public and International Affairs from University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor's degree in French from University of Illinois.",Faculty Affiliate||Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Economics||Energy Institute||Texas A&M Institute of Data Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n238242e1
Robyn,Pearson,Senior Research Development Officer,,Senior Research Development Officer,Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n438b2717
Michael,Pope,Professor and Department Head,"My research interests focus on three main topics: 1) Integrating litho-, chemo- and chronostratigraphy in a regional sequence stratigraphic framework to understand high-frequency and long-term climatic and oceanic processes affecting development of sedimentary successions; towards this end I am currently most interested in the transitions that occur between global icehouse and greenhouse conditions and how these affect reservoir characterization. 2) Using detrital zircon geochronology to understand sediment dispersal and large-scale tectonic processes. 3) Determining the structural deformation (twinning, cataclasis, brecciation, etc.) produced in carbonates by meteorite impacts as a means to establish objective criteria for cratering - similar to shocked quartz.",Professor and Department Head||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n50988f03
Harland,Prechel,Professor,"Professor Prechel's primary areas of research are economic, environmental, organizational, and political sociology. Prechel's research program focuses on corporate-state relations with particular focus on how the balance between state power and corporate power affects the policy formation process. Prechel also conducts research and publishes on corporate change, financialization, financial malfeasance, and income and wealth inequality. His current research examines how political-legal arrangements and organizational characteristics affect environmental pollution.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Energy Institute||Sociology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n55e3c8e3
William,Pace,Executive Professor,"My research interests focus on organizing work, in the form of project management methodologies. Using the lens of complex adaptive systems, I am interested in the elements of methodologies that are deployed in order to deliver consistent project success. These elements include scheduling, risk analysis/management, scope identification and control.",Executive Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n945511e0
Andreas,Polycarpou,Professor and Head,"My research interests include tribology, nanotechnology, microtribology related to miniature systems, magnetic storage, surface characterization, friction/vibration interaction, system dynamics and modeling, and experimental design and instrumentation. Specifically, I study micro/nanotribology of magnetic head disk interfaces and microelectromechanical systems. Recent emphasis has been on the tribology of devices for reduced energy and improved environmental-related impact, such as the use of carbon dioxide as a natural refrigerant and the use of surface treatments towards oil-lees machine operation.",Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9c4dca0b
Matt,Pharr,Associate Professor,"My current areas of interest include mechanics of materials for energy storage and conversion, deformation and fracture of soft materials, mechanics of flexible/wearable electronics, coupled electro-chemo-mechanics, and mass transport in materials.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne059f41f
David,Powers,Professor,"Catalysis lies at the heart of many unmet chemical challenges. Research efforts in our group focus on development of new catalytic chemistry to impact both chemical synthesis as well as chemical storage of solar energy. Projects span organic, organometallic, and inorganic chemistries and rely on the tools of modern synthetic chemistry and spectroscopy, as well as advanced characterization techniques supported at synchrotron X-ray sources. Representative research interests include: shape-selective catalysis, solar energy storage in organic solar-thermal flow batteries, and aerobic oxidation chemistry for C-H functionalization reactions. We are seeking students who wish to gain expertise in synthetic chemistry and reaction mechanism elucidation.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfa6c8878