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Faculty Research

University faculty are continuously breaking new ground in their research. To learn more about the latest updates on their individual research projects, or to view their most current contact information, please visit their page by clicking on their name below.

Colleges and Departments

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Balakotaiah, Vermuri | bala@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems, modeling and analysis of catalytic monoliths
Conrad, Jacinta | jcconrad@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Flow and transport of complex fluids in confinement, near-surface motility of microorganisms
Donnelly, Vincent | vmdonnelly@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Plasma processing, nanopantography
Economu, Demetre | economou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Plasma science, microelectronic device fabrication, nanotechnology
Fleisher, Micky | mfleischer@ uh.edu  Areas of expertise: Investment decision framework, steam-methane reforming hydrogen generation plant
Grabow, Lars | grabow@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise:  Computational catalysis and material design, natural gas upgrade, methane activation, biomass conversion, hydrotreating, environmental catalysis, chemical reactions at interfaces
Harold, Mike | mharold@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conversion of microalgae to liquid fuels, high-purity hydrogen generation for fuel cells, integrated catalytic filtration devices for diesel exhaust abatement, multiphase selective oxidation of hydrocarbons
Jacobson, Allan | ajjacob@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Superconducting, synthesis and properties of transition metal oxide systems with layered or framework structures
Kota, Arun | askota@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Luss, Dan | dlucc@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems
Nikolaou, Michael | nikolaou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas production systems
Palmer, Jeremy | jcpalmer@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Developing detailed molecular models for condensed matter systems ranging from liquids and glasses to proteins and nano-porous materials
Ren, Yongjie | yren@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems
Rimer, Jeff | jrimer@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Crystal engineering through molecular design
Robertson, Megan | mlrobert@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Polymers derived from renewable resources

Research Topics

Upstream

Upstream research at the University of Houston is focused on conventional oil and gas, unconventional including shale based oil and gas, as well as on offshore resources. The expertise at UH focuses on the science, engineering and technology associated with the exploration, drilling and production of oil and gas in each of these different resources.

Upstream Resources

Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts,  regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bissada, Adry | kbissada@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Bjorklund, Tom | tbjorklund@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geology
Borrego, Theodore |  trb@explorationlaw.com  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas law, oil and gas exploration and development, both in the domestic area (offshore and on shore) and in foreign areas
Brgoch, Jakoah |  jbrgoch@Central. UH.EDU  | Areas of expertise: Phosphors for solid state lighting, Superhard materials, advanced Materials
Castagna, John | jpcastagna@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics
Chen, Jiefu | jchen84@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Subsurface wireless communication, rock physics, well logging
Chen, Yi-Chao | chen@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Solid mechanics
Chesnokov, Evgeni | emchesnokov@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Physical parameters (elastic and transport (electric, thermal & permeability) of micro-inhomogeneous, effectively anisotropic (porous, fractured, polycrystalline) media under thermodynamic conditions (stress, temperature)
Christiansen, Jack | jchristi@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Petroleum technology
Conrad, Jacinta | jcconrad@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Flow and transport of complex fluids in confinement, near-surface motility of microorganisms
Ehlig-Economides, Christine | ceconomides@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Production and reservoir engineering in conventional and shale reservoirs
Franchek, Matthew | mfranchek@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Model based methods in subsea machine diagnostics, prognostics and performance monitoring, multi-phase flow and heat transfer modeling in pipelines, multi-phase fluid pumps, optimization and analysis led design of subsea architectures, fluid power (hydraulic) and hydraulic fracturing modeling, subsea systems integration
Ganapathy, Sivakumar | sganapathy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Upstream and downstream process of small molecules, bioinformatics and bioenergy
Glennie, Craig | clglennie@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Remote sensing for rapid response to Gulf oil spills
Han, De- hua | dhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Rock physics
Han, Kye | han@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Pipe design, fabricated tubular members, offshore applications
Han, Zhu | zhan2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Underwater acoustic communication
Hathon, Lori | lahathon@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Routine and special core analysis, clastic petrology, reservoir quality analysis, predictive modeling, applications of image analysis to rock physics, organic petrography and thermal maturity analysis
Hirs, Ed |  ehirs@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy Economics, markets and finance; economics of oil and gas; economics of electricity including primary energy fuels fossil, nuclear, renewables; energy trading; macroeconomic impacts of energy; energy security
Khan, Shuhab | sdkhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Specialty, tectonics, remote sensing, GIS
Kondapi, Phaneedra | pbkondapi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Flow assurance, simulator systems
Kostarelos, Konstantinos | kkostarelos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies, partitioning interwell tracer testing (PITT)
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Li, Aibing | ali2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Synthetic waveform modeling, mountain building process, crust and upper mantle structure of the earth, seismic inversion techniques
Mann, Paul | pmann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Tectonics, petroleum geology, Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, Caribbean oil exploration, Colombian oil exploration, Guyana-Suriname oil exploration, Brazil oil exploration, west Africa oil exploration, Somali basin oil exploration, giant oil and gas fields of the world
Mashburn, Joe | mashburn@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Earthquake seismology and Earth's structures
Metcalfe, Ralph | metcalfe@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Wind, fluid mechanics
Myers, Mike | mtmyers@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Rock and fluid properties, static and dynamic properties of porous media
Nikolaou, Michael | nikolaou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas production systems
Qin, Guan | gqin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum engineering
Ramchand, Latha |  ramchand@ uh.edu  | Dean, C.T. Bauer College of Business | Areas of expertise: Corporate finance, finance and strategy for the energy industry
Rimer, Jeff | jrimer@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Crystal engineering through molecular design
Robinson, Alex | acrobins@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Tectonic evolution
Salgi, Paul |  psalgi@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Gas/liquid flows in porous media
Senouci, Ahmed | asenouci@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Optimization modeling, for the scheduling of construction projects, innovative asset management for onshore and offshore oil and gas pipelines, asset management models for sustainable water infrastructures
Shrestha, Ramesh | rishrestha@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Laser scanning and digital mapping technology
Skogsberg, Lillian | Lillian_skogsberg@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Material selection for deepwater subsea projects in the Gulf of Mexico, materials selection for casing, production tubing, downhole equipment, umbilicals, wellhead, manifolds, jumpers, subsea control modules, high rate gas production erosion modeling, sand detection, design approaches for erosion prevention in subsea production
Snow, Jonathan | jesnow@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Geology, physics and chemistry of the formation of the Earth's lithosphere, early evolution of oceanic rift systems, partial melting in the mantle and the petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basaltic magmas, tectonics of fracture zones, and the petrology and structure of oceanic lower crust and upper mantle exposure
Stewart, Rob | rrstewar@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: 3-D seismic exploration, geophysical data acquisition
Sun, Tao |  tsun9@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geochemistry
Thomas, William | wjthomas2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Analysis and control of sheet metal stamping, machine design and subsea riser design
VanNieuwenhuise, Don | donvann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Stratigraphy, petroleum geology, terrigenous clastic depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
Vipulanandan, Cumaraswamy | cvipulanandan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Geoenvironmental engineering
Wang, Guoquan | gwang@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Coastal hazards, Caribbean neotectonics, GPS seismology, geological hazard risk analysis and mitigation
Wang, Su Su |  sswang@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Deepwater offshore E&P systems; offshore wind energy production systems
Weglein, Art | aweglein@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Hydrocarbons, research and development of new seismic technology that enables the exploration and production of hydrocarbons
Wellner, Julia |  jwellner@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Reservoir analogs, stratigraphic geometries, climate change (specifically ice sheet change), sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Willson, Richard | willson@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Biomolecular recognition and its applications in separations and molecular diagnostics
Zhou, Hua-Wei | hzhou3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics, earthquake seismology, geodynamics, seismic tomography

Conventional Oil and Gas

Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts, regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bissada, Adry |  kbissada@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Ali, S. M. Farouq | sfarouqa@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Production
Bjorklund, Tom | tbjorklund@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geology
Borrego, Theodore | trb@explorationlaw.com  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas law, oil and gas exploration and development, both in the domestic area (offshore and on shore) and in foreign areas
Castagna, John | jpcastagna@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics
Chen, Jiefu | jchen84@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Subsurface wireless communication, rock physics, well logging
Chesnokov, Evgeni | emchesnokov@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Physical parameters (elastic and transport (electric, thermal & permeability) of micro-inhomogeneous, effectively anisotropic (porous, fractured, polycrystalline) media under thermodynamic conditions (stress, temperature)
Christiansen, Jack | jchristi@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Petroleum technology
Conrad, Jacinta | jcconrad@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Flow and transport of complex fluids in confinement, near-surface motility of microorganisms
Ehlig-Economides, Christine | ceconomides@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Production and reservoir engineering in conventional and shale reservoirs
Franchek, Matthew | mfranchek@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Model based methods in subsea machine diagnostics, prognostics and performance monitoring, multi-phase flow and heat transfer modeling in pipelines, multi-phase fluid pumps, optimization and analysis led design of subsea architectures, fluid power (hydraulic) and hydraulic fracturing modeling, subsea systems integration
Han, De- hua | dhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Rock physics
Han, Zhu | zhan2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Underwater acoustic communication
Hathon, Lori | lahathon@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Routine and special core analysis, clastic petrology, reservoir quality analysis, predictive modeling, applications of image analysis to rock physics, organic petrography and thermal maturity analysis
Hatzignatiou, Dimitrios Georgios | dghatzignatiou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Hirs, Ed | ehirs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy economics, Texas economics, Texas power grid
Khan, Shuhab | sdkhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Specialty, tectonics, remote sensing, GIS
Kostarelos, Konstantinos | kkostarelos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies, partitioning interwell tracer testing (PITT)
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Lee, Kyung Jae | kjlee6@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production, Exploration
Li, Aibing | ali2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Synthetic waveform modeling, mountain building process, crust and upper mantle structure of the earth, seismic inversion techniques
Mann, Paul | pmann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Tectonics, petroleum geology, Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, Caribbean oil exploration, Colombian oil exploration, Guyana-Suriname oil exploration, Brazil oil exploration, west Africa oil exploration, Somali basin oil exploration, giant oil and gas fields of the world
Metcalfe, Ralph | metcalfe@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Wind, fluid mechanics
Myers, Mike | mtmyers@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Rock and fluid properties, static and dynamic properties of porous media
Nikolaou, Michael | nikolaou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas production systems
Qin, Guan | gqin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum engineering
Robinson, Alex | acrobins@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Tectonic evolution
Sakhaee-Pour, Ahmad | asakhaee@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Snow, Jonathan | jesnow@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Geology, physics and chemistry of the formation of the Earth's lithosphere, early evolution of oceanic rift systems, partial melting in the mantle and the petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basaltic magmas, tectonics of fracture zones, and the petrology and structure of oceanic lower crust and upper mantle exposure
Soliman, Mohamed | mysoliman@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Stewart, Rob | rrstewar@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: 3-D seismic exploration, geophysical data acquisition
Sun, Li | lsun4@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Size effects on thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of materials, nanomagnetics and spin transport in thin films, multilayers, nanowires
Thakur, Ganesh | gcthakur@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
VanNieuwenhuise, Don | donvann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Stratigraphy, petroleum geology, terrigenous clastic depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
Vipulanandan, Cumaraswamy | cvipulanandan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Geoenvironmental engineering
Wang, Guoquan | gwang@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Coastal hazards, Caribbean neotectonics, GPS seismology, geological hazard risk analysis and mitigation
Weglein, Art | aweglein@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Hydrocarbons, research and development of new seismic technology that enables the exploration and production of hydrocarbons
Wong, George | gwong3@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Zhou, Hua-Wei | hzhou3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics, earthquake seismology, geodynamics, seismic tomography

Unconventional Including Shale Based Oil and Gas

Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts, regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bissada, Adry |  kbissada@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Castagna, John | jpcastagna@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics
Chen, Jiefu | jchen84@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Subsurface wireless communication, rock physics, well logging
Chesnokov, Evgeni | emchesnokov@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Physical parameters (elastic and transport (electric, thermal & permeability) of micro-inhomogeneous, effectively anisotropic (porous, fractured, polycrystalline) media under thermodynamic conditions (stress, temperature)
Conrad, Jacinta | jcconrad@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Flow and transport of complex fluids in confinement, near-surface motility of microorganisms
Ehlig-Economides, Christine | ceconomides@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Production and reservoir engineering in conventional and shale reservoirs
Han, De- hua | dhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Rock physics
Hathon, Lori | lahathon@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Routine and special core analysis, clastic petrology, reservoir quality analysis, predictive modeling, applications of image analysis to rock physics, organic petrography and thermal maturity analysis
Hatzignatiou, Dimitrios Georgios | dghatzignatiou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Hirs, Ed | ehirs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy economics, Texas economics, Texas power grid
Kostarelos, Konstantinos | kkostarelos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies, partitioning interwell tracer testing (PITT)
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Lee, Kyung Jae | kjlee6@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production, Exploration
Mann, Paul | pmann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Tectonics, petroleum geology, Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, Caribbean oil exploration, Colombian oil exploration, Guyana-Suriname oil exploration, Brazil oil exploration, west Africa oil exploration, Somali basin oil exploration, giant oil and gas fields of the world
Myers, Mike | mtmyers@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Rock and fluid properties, static and dynamic properties of porous media
Nikolaou, Michael | nikolaou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas production systems
Qin, Guan | gqin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum engineering
Sakhaee-Pour, Ahmad | asakhaee@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Soliman, Mohamed | mysoliman@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Stewart, Rob | rrstewar@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: 3-D seismic exploration, geophysical data acquisition
Thakur, Ganesh | gcthakur@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
VanNieuwenhuise, Don | donvann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Stratigraphy, petroleum geology, terrigenous clastic depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
Vipulanandan, Cumaraswamy | cvipulanandan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Geoenvironmental engineering
Weglein, Art | aweglein@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Hydrocarbons, research and development of new seismic technology that enables the exploration and production of hydrocarbons
Wong, George | gwong3@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Zhou, Hua-Wei | hzhou3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics, earthquake seismology, geodynamics, seismic tomography

Offshore Resources

Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts, regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bissada, Adry |  kbissada@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Bjorklund, Tom | tbjorklund@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geology
Borrego, Theodore | trb@explorationlaw.com  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas law, oil and gas exploration and development, both in the domestic area (offshore and on shore) and in foreign areas
Castagna, John | jpcastagna@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics
Christiansen, Jack | jchristi@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Petroleum technology
Conrad, Jacinta | jcconrad@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Flow and transport of complex fluids in confinement, near-surface motility of microorganisms
Franchek, Matthew | mfranchek@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Model based methods in subsea machine diagnostics, prognostics and performance monitoring, multi-phase flow and heat transfer modeling in pipelines, multi-phase fluid pumps, optimization and analysis led design of subsea architectures, fluid power (hydraulic) and hydraulic fracturing modeling, subsea systems integration
Glennie, Craig | clglennie@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Remote sensing for rapid response to Gulf oil spills
Han, De- hua | dhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Rock physics
Han, Kye | han@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Pipe design, fabricated tubular members, offshore applications
Han, Zhu | zhan2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Underwater acoustic communication
Hatzignatiou, Dimitrios Georgios | dghatzignatiou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Hirs, Ed | ehirs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy economics, Texas economics, Texas power grid
Kondapi, Phaneedra | pbkondapi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Flow assurance, simulator systems
Kostarelos, Konstantinos | kkostarelos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies, partitioning interwell tracer testing (PITT)
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Lee, Kyung Jae | kjlee6@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production, Exploration
Mann, Paul | pmann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Tectonics, petroleum geology, Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, Caribbean oil exploration, Colombian oil exploration, Guyana-Suriname oil exploration, Brazil oil exploration, west Africa oil exploration, Somali basin oil exploration, giant oil and gas fields of the world
Nikolaou, Michael | nikolaou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas production systems
Qin, Guan | gqin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum engineering
Sakhaee-Pour, Ahmad | asakhaee@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Skogsberg, Lillian | Lillian_skogsberg@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Material selection for deepwater subsea projects in the Gulf of Mexico, materials selection for casing, production tubing, downhole equipment, umbilicals, wellhead, manifolds, jumpers, subsea control modules, high rate gas production erosion modeling, sand detection, design approaches for erosion prevention in subsea production
Snow, Jonathan | jesnow@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Geology, physics and chemistry of the formation of the Earth's lithosphere, early evolution of oceanic rift systems, partial melting in the mantle and the petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basaltic magmas, tectonics of fracture zones, and the petrology and structure of oceanic lower crust and upper mantle exposure
Soliman, Mohamed | mysoliman@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Stewart, Rob | rrstewar@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: 3-D seismic exploration, geophysical data acquisition
Thakur, Ganesh | gcthakur@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Vipulanandan, Cumaraswamy | cvipulanandan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Geoenvironmental engineering
Wang, Guoquan | gwang@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Coastal hazards, Caribbean neotectonics, GPS seismology, geological hazard risk analysis and mitigation
Weglein, Art | aweglein@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Hydrocarbons, research and development of new seismic technology that enables the exploration and production of hydrocarbons
Wong, George | gwong3@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Wellner, Julia |  jwellner@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Reservoir analogs, stratigraphic geometries, climate change (specifically ice sheet change), sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Zhou, Hua-Wei | hzhou3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics, earthquake seismology, geodynamics, seismic tomography

Exploration

Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts, regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bissada, Adry |  kbissada@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Bjorklund, Tom | tbjorklund@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geology
Borrego, Theodore | trb@explorationlaw.com  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas law, oil and gas exploration and development, both in the domestic area (offshore and on shore) and in foreign areas
Castagna, John | jpcastagna@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics
Chen, Jiefu | jchen84@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Subsurface wireless communication, rock physics, well logging
Chesnokov, Evgeni | emchesnokov@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Physical parameters (elastic and transport (electric, thermal & permeability) of micro-inhomogeneous, effectively anisotropic (porous, fractured, polycrystalline) media under thermodynamic conditions (stress, temperature)
Han, De- hua | dhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Rock physics
Hathon, Lori | lahathon@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Routine and special core analysis, clastic petrology, reservoir quality analysis, predictive modeling, applications of image analysis to rock physics, organic petrography and thermal maturity analysis
Khan, Shuhab | sdkhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Specialty, tectonics, remote sensing, GIS
Lee, Kyung Jae | kjlee6@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production, Exploration
Li, Aibing | ali2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Synthetic waveform modeling, mountain building process, crust and upper mantle structure of the earth, seismic inversion techniques
Mann, Paul | pmann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Tectonics, petroleum geology, Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, Caribbean oil exploration, Colombian oil exploration, Guyana-Suriname oil exploration, Brazil oil exploration, west Africa oil exploration, Somali basin oil exploration, giant oil and gas fields of the world
Myers, Mike | mtmyers@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Rock and fluid properties, static and dynamic properties of porous media
Robinson, Alex | acrobins@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Tectonic evolution
Skogsberg, Lillian | Lillian_skogsberg@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Material selection for deepwater subsea projects in the Gulf of Mexico, materials selection for casing, production tubing, downhole equipment, umbilicals, wellhead, manifolds, jumpers, subsea control modules, high rate gas production erosion modeling, sand detection, design approaches for erosion prevention in subsea production
Snow, Jonathan | jesnow@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Geology, physics and chemistry of the formation of the Earth's lithosphere, early evolution of oceanic rift systems, partial melting in the mantle and the petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basaltic magmas, tectonics of fracture zones, and the petrology and structure of oceanic lower crust and upper mantle exposure
Stewart, Rob | rrstewar@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: 3-D seismic exploration, geophysical data acquisition
Sun, Tao |  tsun9@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geochemistry
VanNieuwenhuise, Don | donvann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Stratigraphy, petroleum geology, terrigenous clastic depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
Wang, Guoquan | gwang@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Coastal hazards, Caribbean neotectonics, GPS seismology, geological hazard risk analysis and mitigation
Weglein, Art | aweglein@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Hydrocarbons, research and development of new seismic technology that enables the exploration and production of hydrocarbons
Wellner, Julia |  jwellner@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Reservoir analogs, stratigraphic geometries, climate change (specifically ice sheet change), sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Zhou, Hua-Wei | hzhou3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics, earthquake seismology, geodynamics, seismic tomography

Drilling

Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts, regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Borrego, Theodore | trb@explorationlaw.com  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas law, oil and gas exploration and development, both in the domestic area (offshore and on shore) and in foreign areas
Franchek, Matthew | mfranchek@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Model based methods in subsea machine diagnostics, prognostics and performance monitoring, multi-phase flow and heat transfer modeling in pipelines, multi-phase fluid pumps, optimization and analysis led design of subsea architectures, fluid power (hydraulic) and hydraulic fracturing modeling, subsea systems integration
Glennie, Craig | clglennie@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Remote sensing for rapid response to Gulf oil spills
Han, Kye | han@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Pipe design, fabricated tubular members, offshore applications
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Vipulanandan, Cumaraswamy | cvipulanandan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Geoenvironmental engineering

Production

Ali, S. M. Farouq | sfarouqa@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Production
Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts, regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bissada, Adry |  kbissada@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Chen, Jiefu | jchen84@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Subsurface wireless communication, rock physics, well logging
Christiansen, Jack | jchristi@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Petroleum technology
Conrad, Jacinta | jcconrad@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Flow and transport of complex fluids in confinement, near-surface motility of microorganisms
Ehlig-Economides, Christine | ceconomides@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Production and reservoir engineering in conventional and shale reservoirs
Franchek, Matthew | mfranchek@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Model based methods in subsea machine diagnostics, prognostics and performance monitoring, multi-phase flow and heat transfer modeling in pipelines, multi-phase fluid pumps, optimization and analysis led design of subsea architectures, fluid power (hydraulic) and hydraulic fracturing modeling, subsea systems integration
Glennie, Craig | clglennie@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Remote sensing for rapid response to Gulf oil spills
Han, Kye | han@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Pipe design, fabricated tubular members, offshore applications
Han, Zhu | zhan2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Underwater acoustic communication
Hathon, Lori | lahathon@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Routine and special core analysis, clastic petrology, reservoir quality analysis, predictive modeling, applications of image analysis to rock physics, organic petrography and thermal maturity analysis
Hatzignatiou, Dimitrios Georgios | dghatzignatiou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Hirs, Ed | ehirs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy economics, Texas economics, Texas power grid
Kondapi, Phaneedra | pbkondapi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Flow assurance, simulator systems
Kostarelos, Konstantinos | kkostarelos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies, partitioning interwell tracer testing (PITT)
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Lee, Kyung Jae | kjlee6@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production, Exploration
Metcalfe, Ralph | metcalfe@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Wind, fluid mechanics
Myers, Mike | mtmyers@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Rock and fluid properties, static and dynamic properties of porous media
Nikolaou, Michael | nikolaou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas production systems
Qin, Guan | gqin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum engineering
Sakhaee-Pour, Ahmad | asakhaee@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Skogsberg, Lillian | Lillian_skogsberg@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Material selection for deepwater subsea projects in the Gulf of Mexico, materials selection for casing, production tubing, downhole equipment, umbilicals, wellhead, manifolds, jumpers, subsea control modules, high rate gas production erosion modeling, sand detection, design approaches for erosion prevention in subsea production
Soliman, Mohamed | mysoliman@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Stewart, Rob | rrstewar@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: 3-D seismic exploration, geophysical data acquisition
Thakur, Ganesh | gcthakur@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production
Vipulanandan, Cumaraswamy | cvipulanandan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Geoenvironmental engineering
Wong, George | gwong3@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conventional Oil and Gas, Unconventional Oil and Gas, Offshore, Production

Midstream & Downstream

Midstream & Downstream Resources

Agrawal, Ashutosh | ashutosh@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Biophysics, mechanics of surfaces and interfaces
Alba, Kamran | kalba@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Experimental, computational & analytical fluid dynamics, complex non-newtonian fluid flows, suspensions, multiphase, displacements & buoyant flows, thin-film flow modelling & stability analysis, coating & co-extrusion flows
Arbogast, Stephen | svarbogast@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Future of the U.S. Gulf Coast refining and petrochemical industries, project financing & political risk mitigation, preferred paths for commercializing pyrolysis oil at conventional refineries
Attia, Farouk | fgattia@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Industrial work measurement, quality control technology
Baldelli, Steven | sbaldell@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, surface chemistry, surface electrochemistry, laser spectroscopy
Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts,  regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Basaran, Burak | bbasaran@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Smart materials (shape memory alloys & polymers), composite materials, superalloys, synthesis & development of innovative materials in green energy applications (wind & solar)
Bissada, Adry |  kbissada@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Brgoch, Jakoah |  jbrgoch@Central. UH.EDU  | Areas of expertise: Phosphors for solid state lighting, Superhard materials, advanced Materials
Briggs, James | jbriggs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Computer-aided molecular design
Bronk, Chris | rcbronk@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: IT sector energy consumption, computer security in the energy industry
Burns, Maria | mburns2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Maritime operations
Cai, Chengzhi | ccai@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Organic synthesis, organic thin films, surface functionalization and nanochemistry
Cao, Wenhua | wcao2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Large-scale optimization, integer and linear programming, optimization under uncertainty
Cardenas, Julian | jcardena@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Transnational petroleum law, diplomacy and geopolitics of oil and gas, transnational investment law and arbitration
Cason, William |  bcason@apxww.com | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas exploration law
Cassler, Dan | dcassler@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Supply chain & logistics technology
Chen, Yi-Chao | chen@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Solid mechanics
Chung, Christopher | cchung@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Discrete event simulation; management, operations, and equipment training simulators; engineering management
Conklin, Art | waconklin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Information security in industrial control systems, systems engineering perspectives of computer security, secure software engineering, information assurance curriculum and instruction
Dimitroff, Sashe | Sashe_dimitroff@haynesboone.com | Areas of expertise: Commercial litigation and intellectual property, technology disputes, breach of contract & commercial fraud matters, international dispute resolution, oil & gas litigation, environmental disputes, and mass toxic tort
Do, Loi | lhdo@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Biosynthetic chemistry
El Nahas, Medhat | melnahas@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Numerical simulation with LES modeling of combined wavy and steady flows past a vertical circular cylinder
Feng, May | qmfeng@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Quality and reliability engineering, economic optimization in manufacturing, applied probability and statistics
Fitzgibbon, Bill | fitz@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Partial and ordinary differential equations, applied mathematics, mathematical biology
Ganapathy, Sivakumar | sganapathy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Upstream and downstream process of small molecules, bioinformatics and bioenergy
Gao, Lu | lgao5@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Transportation and economic impact of Texas shortline railroads
Ghasemi, Hadi | hghasemi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Thermodynamics, heat transfer, nanotechnology
Grabow, Lars |  grabow@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Computational catalysis and material design, natural gas upgrade, methane activation, biomass conversion, hydrotreating, environmental catalysis, chemical reactions at interfaces
Grigoriadis, Karolos | karolos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Combustion engines, dynamic systems and controls, filtering
Guloy, Arnold |  aguloy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Syntheses and characterization of crystalline solid materials with novel structures and unique properties, crystalline organic-inorganic hybrid compounds, polar intermetallics and Zintl phases, soluble Zintl anions
Han, Kye | han@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Pipe design, fabricated tubular members, offshore applications
Herman, Reagan | rherman@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Bridge design
Hester, Tracy | tohester@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental compliance policies and enforcement, climate change compliance and liability, application of environmental laws to emerging technologies such as nanotechnology and renewable energy
Hirs, Ed |  ehirs@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy Economics, markets and finance; economics of oil and gas; economics of electricity including primary energy fuels fossil, nuclear, renewables; energy trading; macroeconomic impacts of energy; energy security
Hoffman, David | chemce@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Metal-organic compounds
Irvine, Charles | charles@blackburncarter.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental law
Iyer, Rupa | riyer@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental biotechnology, bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds, intergradation of interdisciplinary education and research
Kamrani, Ali | akamrani@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Systems engineering, factory automation and robotics
Khator, Suresh | skhator@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Modeling of energy, facilities design
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Kulkarni, Yashashree | ykulkarni@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Computational mechanics, materials science
Lake, Kathleen | Areas of expertise: State and federal utility law and energy regulation, energy transactions
Lee, Randy | trlee@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Selectively fluorinated organic thin films, complex organic interfaces with controlled local composition, structure, and function, nanoparticle growth and manipulation, biopolymers and conducting polymers, and polymerization catalyst development
Liu, Dong | dongliu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Microscale thermal transport phenomena
Lubchenko, Vassiliy | vlubchen@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, biophysics, molecular electronics
Mavrokefalos, Anastassios | amavrokefalos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Micro/nanoscale energy transport, solid state energy conversion
May, Elebeoba | eemay@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Coupled networks, host-pathogen coupled networks
May, Henry | Areas of expertise: Regulatory, policy and transactional aspects of the natural gas and electric industries
Miljanic, Ognjen | omiljani@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Supramolecular chemistry
Moges, Mequanint | mmoges@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Design and optimization of wireless sensor networks, performance evaluation and optimization of computer and communication systems
Palmer, Jeremy | jcpalmer@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Developing detailed molecular models for condensed matter systems ranging from liquids and glasses to proteins and nano-porous materials
Ramchand, Latha |  ramchand@ uh.edu  | Dean, C.T. Bauer College of Business | Areas of expertise: Corporate finance, finance and strategy for the energy industry
Rifai, Hanadi | rifai@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Ground water flow and transport modeling, geographical information systems
Rimer, Jeff | jrimer@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Crystal engineering through molecular design
Rixey, Bill | wrixey@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Physicochemical processes, chemical fate and transport, environmental risk assessment
Schulze, Lawrence | ljhs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Ergonomics and human factors, safety engineering, system design and evaluation and rehabilitation/biomechanics
Senouci, Ahmed | asenouci@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Optimization modeling, for the scheduling of construction projects, innovative asset management for onshore and offshore oil and gas pipelines, asset management models for sustainable water infrastructures
Sharma, Pradeep | psharma@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy storage
Song, Gangbing | gsong@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Smart materials, adaptive control, robotics
Song, Lingguang | lsong5@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: How to better plan construction process prior to actual construction and how to further improve project control practices and labor productivity during the construction stage, simulation, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and information technologies
Sun, Li | lsun4@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Size effects on thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of materials, nanomagnetics and spin transport in thin films, multilayers, nanowires
Wang, Su Su |  sswang@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Deepwater offshore E&P systems; offshore wind energy production systems
Wells, Bret | BWells@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: International taxation
Willson, Richard | willson@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Biomolecular recognition and its applications in separations and molecular diagnostics
Xu, Shoujun | sxu7@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Developing various magnetic-based techniques for molecular and cellular imaging and magnetic resonance imaging

Alternatives & Enablers

Alternatives & Enablers Resources

Agrawal, Ashutosh | ashutosh@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Biophysics, mechanics of surfaces and interfaces
Ardebili, Haleh | hardebil@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Lithium ion batteries, materials for energy storage, electronics materials
Attia, Farouk | fgattia@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Industrial work measurement, quality control technology
Bachman, Leonard |  lbachman@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy Use in Buildings, Lighting, Acoustics, LEED Reviews, Systems
Balakotaiah, Vermuri | bala@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems, modeling and analysis of catalytic monoliths
Baldelli, Steven | sbaldell@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, surface chemistry, surface electrochemistry, laser spectroscopy
Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts,  regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bao, Jiming | jbao@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Semiconductor nanowire optoelectronics, silicon photonics and metallic nanostructures for plasmonics, solar water-splitting, fiber optic sensors
Basaran, Burak | bbasaran@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Smart materials (shape memory alloys & polymers), composite materials, superalloys, synthesis & development of innovative materials in green energy applications (wind & solar)
Bassler, Kevin | bassler@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Fundamental principles that govern the dynamics of complex systems, processes of growth, adaptation, self-organization, self-assembly, and evolution
Becker, Aaron | atbecker@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Swarm robotics: distributed robotics, human-swarm interaction, medical robotics, and motion planning
Belarbi, Abdeldjelil | belarbi@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research, smart censors
Bell, Larry |  lbell@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy design for (outer) space/harsh environments
Bellwied, Rene | bellwied@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: High energy physics, selected problems in relativistic heavy ion physcis in ALICE at the LHC
Benhaddou, Driss |  dbenhadd ou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Electricity delivery, energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainability, ARRA - smart grid energy training coalition - development of training, energy workforce
Bollinger, Elizabeth |  ebollinger@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Computing in design
Bose, Anima | abbose@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Vehicle, multi-hybrid power vehicles with cost effective and durable polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell and Li-ion battery
Brankovic, Stanko | srbranko@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Electrocatalysis, nanofabrication
Brgoch, Jakoah |  jbrgoch@Central. UH.EDU  | Areas of expertise: Phosphors for solid state lighting, Superhard materials, advanced Materials
Briggs, James | jbriggs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Computer-aided molecular design
Bronk, Chris | rcbronk@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: IT sector energy consumption, computer security in the energy industry
Brune, Geoffrey |  gjbrune@swbell.net | Areas of expertise: Design process in programming, conceptualization, articulation, and assemblage
Bush, Darren | dbush@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Antitrust law & economics, regulated and deregulating industries with particular focus on electricity markets
Cai, Chengzhi | ccai@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Organic synthesis, organic thin films, surface functionalization and nanochemistry
Chen, Jinghong | jinghong@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Design of analog, mixed-signal and RF/ mmwave integrated circuits and systems for a variety of applications including high-speed and energy-efficient wireless and wireline communications, energy harvesting, circuits and systems for extreme and harsh environment
Chen, Shuo | schen39@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials
Chen, Yuhua | ychen34@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Optical networks; quantum cryptography; FPGA systems; heterogeneous networks; high performance routers; system prototyping
Cheung, Margaret | mscheung@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Protein folding theory, protein folding in vivo, protein-protein interaction, solar energy conversion, multiscale simulations and modeling, coarse-grained molecular simulation, soft condensed matter, clean energy
Choi, Yunsoo | ychoi6@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Air quality forecasting, regional chemical transport modeling, remoste sensing
Chu, Paul | cwchu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Experimental solid state physics: superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics
Chu, Wei-Kan | wkchu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Ion beam characterization, and ion beam modification of materials
Ciniro, Patrick | pccirino@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Protein engineering/molecular recognition, metabolic engineering, cost-effective "green" chemistry, renewable fuels and chemicals, bioremediation, "next-generation" therapeutics
Colaco, Joseph |  jcolacotxx@yahoo.com | Areas of expertise: Building structure, design of tall buildings, hurricane and seismic
Crawford, Kerri | kmcrawf3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Plant community ecology, plant-microbe interactions
Curran, Shay | sacurran@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Nanotechnology, sensor technology, nanotechnology in the fields of sensor technology, thin film coatings and photovoltaics
Dawood, Mina | mmdawood@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research
Diehl, Tom | Tom.diehl@sbcglobal.net | Areas of expertise: Residential architecture
Do, Loi | lhdo@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Biosynthetic chemistry
Donnelly, Vincent | vmdonnelly@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Plasma processing, nanopantography
Economu, Demetre | economou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Plasma science, microelectronic device fabrication, nanotechnology
El Nahas, Medhat | melnahas@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Numerical simulation with LES modeling of combined wavy and steady flows past a vertical circular cylinder
Feng, Jeff | ffeng@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Product development
Fitzgibbon, Bill | fitz@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Partial and ordinary differential equations, applied mathematics, mathematical biology
Fleisher, Micky | mfleischer@ uh.edu  Areas of expertise: Investment decision framework, steam-methane reforming hydrogen generation plant
Fleshman, Duke |  duke@fleshmanarchitects.com | Areas of expertise: Residential design, commercial exteriors
Fox, George | fox@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Molecular evolution, environmental monitoring, molecular biology
Francis, David | dfrancis@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Multi-level and mixture modeling, psychometrics, developmental disability, latent variable models
Froehlich, Dietmar |  Dietmar.Froehlich@mail. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Architecture and film, Austrian architecture
Gemunu, Gunaratne | gemunu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, quantitative finance
Genturk, Bora | bgencturk@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research, sustainable construction
Gonzales, Michael |  magonz25@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Grabow, Lars |  grabow@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Computational catalysis and material design, natural gas upgrade, methane activation, biomass conversion, hydrotreating, environmental catalysis, chemical reactions at interfaces
Grigoriadis, Karolos | karolos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Combustion engines, dynamic systems and controls, filtering
Guloy, Arnold |  aguloy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Syntheses and characterization of crystalline solid materials with novel structures and unique properties, crystalline organic-inorganic hybrid compounds, polar intermetallics and Zintl phases, soluble Zintl anions
Gurkan, Deniz | dgurkan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Electricity delivery, ARRA - smart grid energy training coalition - development of training, energy workforce
Halasyamani, P. Shiv |  psh@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: crystal growth, nonlinear optics, functional materials, piezoelectricity
Harold, Mike | mharold@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conversion of microalgae to liquid fuels, high-purity hydrogen generation for fuel cells, integrated catalytic filtration devices for diesel exhaust abatement, multiphase selective oxidation of hydrocarbons
Herman, Reagan | rherman@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Bridge design
Hirs, Ed |  ehirs@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy Economics, markets and finance; economics of oil and gas; economics of electricity including primary energy fuels fossil, nuclear, renewables; energy trading; macroeconomic impacts of energy; energy security
Hoffman, David | chemce@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Metal-organic compounds
Hor, Pei | phor@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: High temperature superconductivity, bio/medical imaging
Hsu, Thomas | thsu@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, infrastructure for nuclear energy
Huynh, Chan |  chuynh@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Residential design, commercial design, LEED accredited
Iyer, Rupa | riyer@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental biotechnology, bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds, intergradation of interdisciplinary education and research
Jacobson, Allan | ajjacob@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Superconducting, synthesis and properties of transition metal oxide systems with layered or framework structures
Johnson, Matthew |  mwjohnso@central. uh.edu   |  matt@loganandjohnson.com | Areas of expertise: Infrastructure, networks, ecological design
Kacmar, Donna |  dkacmar@Central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Residential architecture, materials, technology integration

Kakadiaris, Ioannis | ioannisk@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Biomedical image analysis, computational biomedicine biometrics, computer vision, pattern recognition

Kota, Arun | askota@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems

Kwon, Eunsook |  ekwon@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Industrial Design, product development strategy
Lau, Kwong | lau@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: High energy physics, particle physics
Le, Han | hgle@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Semiconductor optoelectronics, lasers, photonics, multispectral optical sensing and imaging
Lee, Hyongki | hlee@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Spaceborne and airborne geodetic instruments including satellite altimetry, SAR/ inSAR, and GRACE to better understand earth system sciences
Leland, Alison | awleland@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy and sustainability
Lim, Gino |  ginolim@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Operations research applications in healthcare, power systems, UAVs, and homeland security, optimization, large-scale computational algorithm design
Long, Stuart | long@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Applied electromagnetics, reduced surface wave microstrip antennas
Longoria, Rafael |  longoria@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Contextual design, Latin-American architecture
Lubchenko, Vassiliy | vlubchen@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, biophysics, molecular electronics
Luss, Dan | dlucc@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems
Maddocks, Rosalie | rmaddocks@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Paleontology general marine micropaleontology taxonomy of ostracoda
Madget, James | jmadget@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy efficiency
Malki, Heidar | malki@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Neuro-fuzzy controllers, smart grid optimization and control, well log analysis using neural networks, determinations of rock properties using neuro-fuzzy networks
Masson, Philippe | pjmasson@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: high performance, low cost superconducting wires and coils for high power wind generators
Melosi, Marty | mmelosi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental history, environmental politics, energy history, environmental racism
Metcalfe, Ralph | metcalfe@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Wind, fluid mechanics
Miljanic, Ognjen | omiljani@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Supramolecular chemistry
Miller, John | jhmiller@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Condensed matter physics, quantum phenomena, electron transport, superconductivity, charge density waves, biophysics, biosensors
Miyase, Akira | amiyase@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: wind
Mizelle, Rick | rmmizelle@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Historical borders and overlap between questions of race, environment, technology, and health in modern America
Mo, Yi-Lung | ymo@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, ultra-high-performance concrete and advanced manufacturing methods for modular construction
Moges, Mequanint | mmoges@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Design and optimization of wireless sensor networks, performance evaluation and optimization of computer and communication systems
Nakshatrala, Kalyana | knakshatrala@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research, biological and environmental energy
Ng, ZuiLig |  zui_66@hotmail.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Noldt, Peter | pnoldt@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Computing in design
Northup, Temple | ctnorthu@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Psychological effects of the media, implicit attitudes and memory, attitude change, role of media consumption on nutritional knowledge
Pan, Miao | mpan2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Underwater communications and networks, renewable energy integration in smart grids, secure and sustainable designs for data centers
Pan, Shuheng | span@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Superconducting
Pattison, Donna | dpattiso@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Development of biomaterials from drosophila ultrabithorax (Ubx) protein
Penland, Charles | cpenland@sbcglobal.net | Areas of expertise: Highly collaborative integrated design between disciplines, sustainable design
Pennings, Steven | scpennin@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Plant community ecology and plant-herbivore interactions
Peters, Patrick | ppeters@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Design/build pedagogy and practice, sustainable design
Race, Bruce | br@racestudio.com | Areas of expertise: Urban design and planning, low-carbon cities, community engagement
Ratti, Claudia | cratti@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics on the lattice, Relativistic Heavy Ion physics, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Field theoretical models
Reed, John | jgreed@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Community organizing that promotes sustainability

Ren, Yongjie | yren@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems

Ren, Zhifeng | zren@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Solar, deformation and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and other nanowires by high resolution transmission electron microscope
Richardson, James | jtr@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Experimental heterogeneous catalysis as related to industrial catalytic processes, heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic processes, reactor engineering, catalyst preparation and characterization, catalyst design; solar energy, solar receiver design, solar-related chemical processes, high temperature superconductivity and processing of ceramic superconductors
Rifaat, Shafik | srifaat@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Sustainable design, design research
Rifai, Hanadi | rifai@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Ground water flow and transport modeling, geographical information systems
Robertson, Megan | mlrobert@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Polymers derived from renewable resources
Rodrigues, Debora | dfrigiro@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Water quality, sustainability
Rogers, Susan | srogers@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Community development
Roysam, Badri | broysam@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Biological image analysis, high-performance computing, subsurface sensing and imaging systems
Ruchhoeft, Paul | pruchhoe@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, nanolithography
Ryou, Jae-Hyun | jryou@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: high efficiency, inexpensive thin film III-V photovoltaics using single-crystalline-like, flexible substrates

Salgi, Paul | psalgi@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems

Self, Ronnie | rself@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Architectural design, architectural theory
Selvamanickam, Venkat | selva@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: high performance, low cost superconducting wires and coils for high power wind generators
Shih, Wei-Chuan | wshih@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Environmental sensing
Shireen, Wajiha | wshireen@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Electricity delivery, ARRA - smart grid energy training coalition - development of training, energy workforce
Sirrieh, Rita | resirrie@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Energy and sustainability
Storey, Rebecca | anth2c@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Bioarchaeology, mesoamerica, paleodemography
Story, Kevin | Kevin@storyarchitects.net | Areas of expertise: Healthcare design, commercial design, interior architecture, industrial design
Su, Wu-Pei | wpsu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Superconducting, theory of high-temperature superconductivity
Subhlok, Jaspal | jaspal@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Compiler and runtime support for parallel and distributed systems, network based computing, scientific and stream processing applications
Talbot, Robert | rtalbot@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Air quality, inter-continental transport of air pollutants
Taylor, Rives |  rivestaylor60@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Technology including structures, envelope design, materials, professional practice, continuing education, sustainable design
Ting, Chin-Sen | ting@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Condensed matter theories related to semiconductors, magnetism, superconductivity, and strongly correlated electron systems
Truitt, Bill |  williamtruitt@gmail.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Tsai, John |  jtsai@jtarcstudio.com | Areas of expertise: Architectural design, sustainable design, design research, urban design
Turner, Drexel |  drexelturner@comcast.net | Areas of expertise: Planning and urbanism, theory and criticism
Varghese, Oomman | okvarghe@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, nanostructured materials, excitonic solar cells, solar fuel generation, environmental sensing
Vinegar, Aron |  avinegar@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Design and the built environment, theories and habit of habitation
Wang, Keh-Han | khwang@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Coastal, estuary and lake hydrodynamics, hydraulic engineering
Wang, Su Su |  sswang@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Deepwater offshore E&P systems; offshore wind energy production systems
Wellner, Julia |  jwellner@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Reservoir analogs, stratigraphic geometries, climate change (specifically ice sheet change), sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Whitehead, Lisa | lawhitehead@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: High energy physics, precision measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance in the Daya Bay Experiment
Willam, Kaspar | kwilliam@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research
Wolfe, John | wolfe@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, microfabrication
Xu, Shoujun | sxu7@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Developing various magnetic-based techniques for molecular and cellular imaging and magnetic resonance imaging
Yao, Yan | yyao4@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Superconducting, high performance, low cost superconducting wires and coils for high power wind generators
Zagozdzon-Wosik, Wanda | wwosik@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Microelectronics: semiconductor integrated circuit processing technology and electron devices, micro- and nonoelectromechnical systems (MEMS/NEMS), and BioMEMS for biological samples at cellular/subcellular levels and nanoparticles
Zhang, Yunpeng | yzhang119@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Cyber security

Policy & Management

Policy & Management Resources

Arbogast, Stephen | svarbogast@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Future of the U.S. Gulf Coast
Bachman, Leonard |  lbachman@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy Use in Buildings, Lighting, Acoustics, LEED Reviews, Systems
Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts,  regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Barrett, Beverly | bbarrett@bauer. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: International political economy, trade and economic development, international relations, regional integration
Beckett, Cheryl | cbeckett@minordesign.com | Areas of expertise: Graphic design
Bellman, Don | dbellman@comcast.net | Areas of expertise: Acquisitions, investments
Bhagat, Ratan | rdbhagat@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas
Breaux, James William | jwbreaux@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Futures of energy and environment, public transportation, climate change
Bronk, Chris | rcbronk@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: IT sector energy consumption, computer security in the energy industry
Burns, Maria | mburns2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy Data Science, Energy Management, Operations & Security, Energy Geopolitics, National Energy Mix, Energy Trade & Transport, specialized in Maritime
Bush, Darren | dbush@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Antitrust law & economics, regulated and deregulating industries with particular focus on electricity markets
Cardenas, Julian | jcardena@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Transnational petroleum law, diplomacy and geopolitics of oil and gas, transnational investment law and arbitration
Cason, William |  bcason@apxww.com | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas exploration law
Chin, Wynne | wchin@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Individual IT adoption-implementation process, IT project management success, cross-cultural analysis, survey item sale construction
Chin, Wynne | wchin@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Individual IT adoption-implementation process, IT project management success, cross-cultural analysis, survey item sale construction
Church, Jeffrey | jchurch@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Modern political thought, philosophy, liberal and democratic theory
Conklin, Art | waconklin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Information security in industrial control systems, systems engineering perspectives of computer security, secure software engineering, information assurance curriculum and instruction
Crawford, Steven | scrawford3@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas accounting
Currie, Dan | dcurrie@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: International business, business ethics, business law and ethics
DeGregori, Thomas | trdegreg@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Economic development, science in economic change, African, Asian and Caribbean economic development
Dimitroff, Sashe | Sashe_dimitroff@haynesboone.com | Areas of expertise: Commercial litigation and intellectual property, technology disputes, breach of contract & commercial fraud matters, international dispute resolution, oil & gas litigation, environmental disputes, and mass toxic tort
Dominey, Wallace | wdominey@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Programs of systemic change in science education
Domjan, Heather | hndomjan@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: STEM education
El Badawi, Emran | eel-badawi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Arab liberalism, development and sustainability, Arab-Middle East studies, oil & religion
Evans, Jerry | jsevans2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Approaches to stress management
Friedman, Willa | whfriedman@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Economic development, health, political economy, and behavioral economics
Gabriel, Edgar | egabriel@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Advanced scientific computing, an exascale programming environment and system software (XPRESS)
Gao, Lu | lgao5@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Transportation and economic impact of Texas shortline railroads
Gelb, Betsy | gelb@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, patent suits; to determine the proportion of a purchase decision that is based on a patent-dependent feature
Gonzales, Michael |  magonz25@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Gordon, Andrew | ajgordon@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Medical and applied anthropology, urban economics, international development, globalization and alcohol/drug studies
Granato, Jim | jgranato@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Public policy, political economy, macroeconomic policy, social interactions and social norms
Gregory, Paul | pgregory@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy economics, Soviet economics, transition economics, comparative economics
Harris, Kathleen | kharris13@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas accounting
Hester, Tracy | tohester@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental compliance policies and enforcement, climate change compliance and liability, application of environmental laws to emerging technologies such as nanotechnology and renewable energy
Hines, Andrew | ahines@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Organizational futurist, the role of an organizational futurist in integrating foresight into organizations
Hirs, Ed |  ehirs@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy Economics, markets and finance; economics of oil and gas; economics of electricity including primary energy fuels fossil, nuclear, renewables; energy trading; macroeconomic impacts of energy; energy security
Horn, Catherine | clhorn2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Research use, quantitative methods
Irvine, Charles | charles@blackburncarter.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental law
Jones, Dan | djones@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Insurance, risk management
Johnson, Matthew |  mwjohnso@central. uh.edu   |  matt@loganandjohnson.com | Areas of expertise: Infrastructure, networks, ecological design
Johnson, Norman | normanjohnson@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: structured and unstructured data analysis in oil and gas, psychometric analysis focused on validating measures
Kennedy, Ryan | rkennedy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Democracy and democratization, computational social science, deliberation, energy and environment, post-communist economics
Klieman, Kairn | kklieman@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Oil history/energy history, African history, environmental history, African diaporic communities
Kovach, Jami | jvkovach@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Analyzing data rich environments - planning data collection efforts and statistically analyzing data sets, understanding factors that impact organizational problem solving, identifying how continuous improvement methods affect performance/decision making
Kumar, Praveen | pkumar@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Industrial organization, corporate financial policies and governance, incentives and strategy design in organizations
Kuznetsov, Yuri | ykuznetsov@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Advanced scientific computing, coarsening and homogenzation algorithms for mimetic discretizations of the diffusion equations
Lake, Kathleen | Areas of expertise: State and federal utility law and energy regulation, energy transactions
Leland, Alison | awleland@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy and sustainability
Lim, Gino |  ginolim@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Operations research applications in healthcare, power systems, UAVs, and homeland security, optimization, large-scale computational algorithm design
May, Henry | Areas of expertise: Regulatory, policy and transactional aspects of the natural gas and electric industries
McNeal, Keith | kemcneal@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Sociocultural anthropology, comparative religion, globalization, African and South Asian diaspora studies
Melosi, Marty | mmelosi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental history, environmental politics, energy history, environmental racism
Mizelle, Rick | rmmizelle@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Historical borders and overlap between questions of race, environment, technology, and health in modern America
Murray, Richard | rmurray@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Political parties and elections, political interest groups, urban politics, state and local electoral politics
Newberry, Kaye | kjnewberry@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effects of taxation on business, worldwide reporting, corporate acquisitions
Ng, ZuiLig |  zui_66@hotmail.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Northup, Temple | ctnorthu@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Psychological effects of the media, implicit attitudes and memory, attitude change, role of media consumption on nutritional knowledge
Peña, Frank | jfpena@bauer. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Decision and information science
Papell, David | dpapell@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: International economics, macroeconomics, time series economics
Pirrong, Craig | cpirrong@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Power markets, economics of commodity markets
Prodan, Ruxandra | rprodan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: International finance, time series econometrics
Qureshi, Ziad | zqureshi@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Post-industrial environments, spatial adaptive reuse, history and theory of transnational geographies
Ramchand, Latha |  ramchand@ uh.edu  | Dean, C.T. Bauer College of Business | Areas of expertise: Corporate finance, finance and strategy for the energy industry
Rabinovitch, Ramon | ramon@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Investments, international finance, derivatives
Race, Bruce | br@racestudio.com | Areas of expertise: Urban design and planning, low-carbon cities, community engagement
Rainbow, David |  drainbow@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Modern Europe and Russia, Russian and Soviet imperial power in Siberia from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century
Reed, John | jgreed@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Community organizing that promotes sustainability
Richardson, Gary | grichardson@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Use of earned value in the organization, evaluation of earned schedule metrics as a completion predictor, adapting the critical chain project management model
Rixey, Bill | wrixey@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Physicochemical processes, chemical fate and transport, environmental risk assessment
Rizvanoghlu, Islam | irizvanoghlu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Macroeconomics, energy economics
Robinson, Powell | eprobinson@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Decision and information science
Scarrow, Susan | sscarrow@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: European politics, comaparative politics, comparative parties, elections
Senouci, Ahmed | asenouci@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Optimization modeling, for the scheduling of construction projects, innovative asset management for onshore and offshore oil and gas pipelines, asset management models for sustainable water infrastructures
Sirrieh, Rita | resirrie@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Energy and sustainability
Smith, Gordon | gdsmith@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Operational excellence, global supply chain management, quality performance, lean management
Song, Lingguang | lsong5@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: How to better plan construction process prior to actual construction and how to further improve project control practices and labor productivity during the construction stage, simulation, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and information technologies
Storey, Rebecca | anth2c@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Bioarchaeology, mesoamerica, paleodemography
Taylor, Rives |  rivestaylor60@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Technology including structures, envelope design, materials, professional practice, continuing education, sustainable design
Truitt, Bill |  williamtruitt@gmail.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Turner, Drexel |  drexelturner@comcast.net | Areas of expertise: Planning and urbanism, theory and criticism
Vera, Dusya | dvera@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Strategic leadership, improvisation, organizational learning, innovation
Vinegar, Aron |  avinegar@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Design and the built environment, theories and habit of habitation
Wells, Bret | BWells@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: International taxation
Yuan, Xiaojing | xyuan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Developing future leaders

Energy Faculty

Last Name: A - C

Last Name: Alba - Currie

Alba, Kamran | kalba@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Experimental, computational & analytical fluid dynamics, complex non-newtonian fluid flows, suspensions, multiphase, displacements & buoyant flows, thin-film flow modelling & stability analysis, coating & co-extrusion flows
Arbogast, Stephen | svarbogast@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Future of the U.S. Gulf Coast refining and petrochemical industries, project financing & political risk mitigation, preferred paths for commercializing pyrolysis oil at conventional refineries
Ardebili, Haleh | hardebil@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Lithium ion batteries, materials for energy storage, electronics materials
Bachman, Leonard |  lbachman@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Energy Use in Buildings, Lighting, Acoustics, LEED Reviews, Systems
Balakotaiah, Vermuri | bala@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems, modeling and analysis of catalytic monoliths
Baldelli, Steven | sbaldell@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, surface chemistry, surface electrochemistry, laser spectroscopy
Ballentine, Robert | Areas of expertise: Upstream and midstream energy contracts, regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries
Bao, Jiming | jbao@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Semiconductor nanowire optoelectronics, silicon photonics and metallic nanostructures for plasmonics, solar water-splitting, fiber optic sensors
Basaran, Burak | bbasaran@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Smart materials (shape memory alloys & polymers), composite materials, superalloys, synthesis & development of innovative materials in green energy applications (wind & solar)
Belarbi, Abdeldjelil | belarbi@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research, smart censors
Bellman, Don | dbellman@comcast.net | Areas of expertise: Acquisitions, investments
Benhaddou, Driss |  dbenhadd ou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Electricity delivery, energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainability, ARRA - smart grid energy training coalition - development of training, energy workforce
Bissada, Adry |  kbissada@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Technologies and tools for optimizing appraisal and exploitation of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including Shale-gas and liquid-rich shale reservoirs, hydrocarbon generation and migration analysis - Factors that control hydrocarbon generation, expulsion, retention, migration, accumulation and preservation of petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum system studies and basin modeling, Forecasting reservoir-souring associated with IOR and EOR operations, characterization of heavy and extra-heavy oil resources, and forecasting petroleum phase-behavior in upstream and midstream operations
Bjorklund, Tom | tbjorklund@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geology
Borrego, Theodore | trb@explorationlaw.com  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas law, oil and gas exploration and development, both in the domestic area (offshore and on shore) and in foreign areas
Bose, Anima | abbose@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Vehicle, multi-hybrid power vehicles with cost effective and durable polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell and Li-ion battery
Brankovic, Stanko | srbranko@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Electrocatalysis, nanofabrication
Brgoch, Jakoah |  jbrgoch@Central. UH.EDU  | Areas of expertise: Phosphors for solid state lighting, Superhard materials, advanced Materials
Bronk, Chris | rcbronk@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: IT sector energy consumption, computer security in the energy industry
Brune, Geoffrey |  gjbrune@swbell.net | Areas of expertise: Design process in programming, conceptualization, articulation, and assemblage
Burns, Maria | mburns2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy Data Science, Energy Management, Operations & Security, Energy Geopolitics, National Energy Mix, Energy Trade & Transport, specialized in Maritime
Bush, Darren | dbush@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Antitrust law & economics, regulated and deregulating industries with particular focus on electricity markets
Cardenas, Julian | jcardena@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Transnational petroleum law, diplomacy and geopolitics of oil and gas, transnational investment law and arbitration
Cason, William |  bcason@apxww.com | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas exploration
Castagna, John | jpcastagna@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics
Chen, Jiefu | jchen84@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Subsurface wireless communication, rock physics, well logging
Chen, Jinghong | jinghong@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Design of analog, mixed-signal and RF/ mmwave integrated circuits and systems for a variety of applications including high-speed and energy-efficient wireless and wireline communications, energy harvesting, circuits and systems for extreme and harsh environment
Chen, Shuo | schen39@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials
Chen, Yuhua | ychen34@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Optical networks; quantum cryptography; FPGA systems; heterogeneous networks; high performance routers; system prototyping
Chesnokov, Evgeni | emchesnokov@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Physical parameters (elastic and transport (electric, thermal & permeability) of micro-inhomogeneous, effectively anisotropic (porous, fractured, polycrystalline) media under thermodynamic conditions (stress, temperature)
Cheung, Margaret | mscheung@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Protein folding theory, protein folding in vivo, protein-protein interaction, solar energy conversion, multiscale simulations and modeling, coarse-grained molecular simulation, soft condensed matter, clean energy
Choi, Yunsoo | ychoi6@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Air quality forecasting, regional chemical transport modeling, remoste sensing
Christiansen, Jack | jchristi@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Petroleum technology
Chu, Paul | cwchu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Experimental solid state physics: superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics
Chu, Wei-Kan | wkchu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Ion beam characterization, and ion beam modification of materials
Chung, Christopher | cchung@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Discrete event simulation; management, operations, and equipment training simulators; engineering management
Colaco, Joseph |  jcolacotxx@yahoo.com | Areas of expertise: Building structure, design of tall buildings, hurricane and seismic
Conklin, Art | waconklin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Information security in industrial control systems, systems engineering perspectives of computer security, secure software engineering, information assurance curriculum and instruction
Conrad, Jacinta | jcconrad@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Flow and transport of complex fluids in confinement, near-surface motility of microorganisms
Crawford, Kerri | kmcrawf3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Plant community ecology, plant-microbe interactions
Crawford, Steven | scrawford3@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas accounting
Curran, Shay | sacurran@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Nanotechnology, sensor technology, nanotechnology in the fields of sensor technology, thin film coatings and photovoltaics
Currie, Dan | dcurrie@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: International business, business ethics, business law and ethics

Last Name: D - J

Last Name: Diehl - Johnson

Diehl, Tom | Tom.diehl@sbcglobal.net | Areas of expertise: Residential architecture
Dimitroff, Sashe | Sashe_dimitroff@haynesboone.com | Areas of expertise: Commercial litigation and intellectual property, technology disputes, breach of contract & commercial fraud matters, international dispute resolution, oil & gas litigation, environmental disputes, and mass toxic tort
Do, Loi | lhdo@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Biosynthetic chemistry
Dominey, Wallace | wdominey@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Programs of systemic change in science education
Donnelly, Vincent | vmdonnelly@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Plasma processing, nanopantography
Economu, Demetre | economou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Plasma science, microelectronic device fabrication, nanotechnology
Ehlig-Economides, Christine | ceconomides@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Production and reservoir engineering in conventional and shale reservoirs
El Badawi, Emran | eel-badawi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Arab liberalism, development and sustainability, Arab-Middle East studies, oil & religion
Feng, Jeff | ffeng@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Product development
Feng, May | qmfeng@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Quality and reliability engineering, economic optimization in manufacturing, applied probability and statistics
Fitzgibbon, Bill | fitz@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Partial and ordinary differential equations, applied mathematics, mathematical biology
Fleisher, Micky | mfleischer@ uh.edu  Areas of expertise: Investment decision framework, steam-methane reforming hydrogen generation plant
Fleshman, Duke |  duke@fleshmanarchitects.com | Areas of expertise: Residential design, commercial exteriors
Franchek, Matthew | mfranchek@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Model based methods in subsea machine diagnostics, prognostics and performance monitoring, multi-phase flow and heat transfer modeling in pipelines, multi-phase fluid pumps, optimization and analysis led design of subsea architectures, fluid power (hydraulic) and hydraulic fracturing modeling, subsea systems integration
Ganapathy, Sivakumar | sganapathy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Upstream and downstream process of small molecules, bioinformatics and bioenergy
Gao, Lu | lgao5@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Transportation and economic impact of Texas shortline railroads
Gemunu, Gunaratne | gemunu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, quantitative finance
Ghasemi, Hadi | hghasemi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Thermodynamics, heat transfer, nanotechnology
Glennie, Craig | clglennie@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Remote sensing for rapid response to Gulf oil spills
Gonzales, Michael |  magonz25@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Gordon, Andrew | ajgordon@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Medical and applied anthropology, urban economics, international development, globalization and alcohol/drug studies
Grabow, Lars | grabow@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) catalysis, zeolites for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx, catalyst and reactor design
Granato, Jim | jgranato@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Public policy, political economy, macroeconomic policy, social interactions and social norms
Gregory, Paul | pgregory@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy economics, Soviet economics, transition economics, comparative economics
Grigoriadis, Karolos | karolos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Combustion engines, dynamic systems and controls, filtering
Guloy, Arnold |  aguloy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Syntheses and characterization of crystalline solid materials with novel structures and unique properties, crystalline organic-inorganic hybrid compounds, polar intermetallics and Zintl phases, soluble Zintl anions
Gurkan, Deniz | dgurkan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Electricity delivery, ARRA - smart grid energy training coalition - development of training, energy workforce
Halasyamani, P. Shiv |  psh@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: crystal growth, nonlinear optics, functional materials, piezoelectricity
Han, De- hua | dhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Rock physics
Han, Kye | han@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Pipe design, fabricated tubular members, offshore applications
Han, Zhu | zhan2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Underwater acoustic communication
Harold, Mike | mharold@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Conversion of microalgae to liquid fuels, high-purity hydrogen generation for fuel cells, integrated catalytic filtration devices for diesel exhaust abatement, multiphase selective oxidation of hydrocarbons
Harris, Kathleen | kharris13@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas accounting
Hathon, Lori | lahathon@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Routine and special core analysis, clastic petrology, reservoir quality analysis, predictive modeling, applications of image analysis to rock physics, organic petrography and thermal maturity analysis
Hester, Tracy | tohester@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental compliance policies and enforcement, climate change compliance and liability, application of environmental laws to emerging technologies such as nanotechnology and renewable energy
Hirs, Ed | ehirs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy economics, Texas economics, Texas power grid
Hoffman, David | chemce@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Metal-organic compounds
Hor, Pei | phor@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: High temperature superconductivity, bio/medical imaging
Horn, Catherine | clhorn2@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Research use, quantitative methods
Hsu, Thomas | thsu@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, infrastructure for nuclear energy
Irvine, Charles | charles@blackburncarter.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental law
Iyer, Rupa | riyer@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental biotechnology, bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds, intergradation of interdisciplinary education and research
Jacobson, Allan | ajjacob@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Superconducting, synthesis and properties of transition metal oxide systems with layered or framework structures
Johnson, Norman | normanjohnson@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: structured and unstructured data analysis in oil and gas, psychometric analysis focused on validating measures

Last Name: K - P

Last Name: Kacmar - Peters

Kacmar, Donna |  dkacmar@Central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Residential architecture, materials, technology integration
Kamrani, Ali | akamrani@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Systems engineering, factory automation and robotics
Kennedy, Ryan | rkennedy@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Democracy and democratization, computational social science, deliberation, energy and environment, post-communist economics
Khan, Shuhab | sdkhan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Specialty, tectonics, remote sensing, GIS
Khator, Suresh | skhator@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Modeling of energy, facilities design
Klieman, Kairn | kklieman@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Oil history/energy history, African history, environmental history, African diaporic communities
Kondapi, Phaneedra | pbkondapi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Flow assurance, simulator systems
Kostarelos, Konstantinos | kkostarelos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies, partitioning interwell tracer testing (PITT)
Kota, Arun | askota@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems
Krishnamoorti, Ramanan | ramanan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Effect of pressure on the phase behavior on polyolefin blends, polymer crystallinity in bulk and thin films, phase transitions in block copolymer-based-balanced microemulsions, structure and viscoelasticity of macro- and nano-composites, structure and transport in biopolymers
Kulkarni, Yashashree | ykulkarni@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Computational mechanics, materials science
Kumar, Praveen | pkumar@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Industrial organization, corporate financial policies and governance, incentives and strategy design in organizations
Kwon, Eunsook |  ekwon@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Industrial Design, product development strategy
Lake, Kathleen | Areas of expertise: State and federal utility law and energy regulation, energy transactions
Le, Han | hgle@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Semiconductor optoelectronics, lasers, photonics, multispectral optical sensing and imaging
Lee, Hyongki | hlee@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Spaceborne and airborne geodetic instruments including satellite altimetry, SAR/ inSAR, and GRACE to better understand earth system sciences
Lee, Randy | trlee@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Selectively fluorinated organic thin films, complex organic interfaces with controlled local composition, structure, and function, nanoparticle growth and manipulation, biopolymers and conducting polymers, and polymerization catalyst development
Li, Aibing | ali2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Synthetic waveform modeling, mountain building process, crust and upper mantle structure of the earth, seismic inversion techniques
Lim, Gino | ginolim@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise:  Operations research applications in healthcare, power systems, UAVs, and homeland security,  optimization, large-scale computational algorithm design
Liu, Dong | dongliu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Microscale thermal transport phenomena
Long, Stuart | long@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Applied electromagnetics, reduced surface wave microstrip antennas
Longoria, Rafael |  longoria@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Contextual design, Latin-American architecture
Lubchenko, Vassiliy | vlubchen@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, biophysics, molecular electronics
Luss, Dan | dlucc@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems
Malki, Heidar | malki@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Neuro-fuzzy controllers, smart grid optimization and control, well log analysis using neural networks, determinations of rock properties using neuro-fuzzy networks
Mann, Paul | pmann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Tectonics, petroleum geology, Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, Caribbean oil exploration, Colombian oil exploration, Guyana-Suriname oil exploration, Brazil oil exploration, west Africa oil exploration, Somali basin oil exploration, giant oil and gas fields of the world
Mashburn, Joe | mashburn@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Earthquake seismology and Earth's structures
Masson, Philippe | pjmasson@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: high performance, low cost superconducting wires and coils for high power wind generators
Mavrokefalos, Anastassios | amavrokefalos@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Micro/nanoscale energy transport, solid state energy conversion
May, Henry | Areas of expertise: Regulatory, policy and transactional aspects of the natural gas and electric industries
Melosi, Marty | mmelosi@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Environmental history, environmental politics, energy history, environmental racism
Metcalfe, Ralph | metcalfe@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Wind, fluid mechanics
Miljanic, Ognjen | omiljani@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Supramolecular chemistry
Miller, John | jhmiller@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Condensed matter physics, quantum phenomena, electron transport, superconductivity, charge density waves, biophysics, biosensors
Miyase, Akira | amiyase@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: wind
Mizelle, Rick | rmmizelle@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Historical borders and overlap between questions of race, environment, technology, and health in modern America
Mo, Yi-Lung | ymo@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, ultra-high-performance concrete and advanced manufacturing methods for modular construction
Myers, Mike | mtmyers@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Rock and fluid properties, static and dynamic properties of porous media
Nakshatrala, Kalyana | knakshatrala@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research, biological and environmental energy
Ng, ZuiLig |  zui_66@hotmail.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Nikolaou, Michael | nikolaou@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Oil and gas production systems
Northup, Temple | ctnorthu@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Psychological effects of the media, implicit attitudes and memory, attitude change, role of media consumption on nutritional knowledge
Palmer, Jeremy | jcpalmer@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Developing detailed molecular models for condensed matter systems ranging from liquids and glasses to proteins and nano-porous materials
Pan, Shuheng | span@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Superconducting
Pennings, Steven | scpennin@central. uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Plant community ecology and plant-herbivore interactions
Peters, Patrick | ppeters@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Design/build pedagogy and practice, sustainable design

Last Name: Q - Z

Last Name: Qin - Zhou

Qin, Guan | gqin@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum engineering
Qureshi, Ziad | zqureshi@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Post-industrial environments, spatial adaptive reuse, history and theory of transnational geographies
Race, Bruce | br@racestudio.com | Areas of expertise: Urban design and planning, low-carbon cities, community engagement
Ren, Yongjie | yren@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Hydrogen and fuel cells, development of optimal catalyst designs and operating strategies for lean NOx reduction in coupled LNT-SCR systems
Ren, Zhifeng | zren@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Solar, deformation and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and other nanowires by high resolution transmission electron microscope
Rifaat, Shafik | srifaat@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Sustainable design, design research
Rifai, Hanadi | rifai@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Ground water flow and transport modeling, geographical information systems
Rimer, Jeff | jrimer@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Crystal engineering through molecular design
Rixey, Bill | wrixey@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Physicochemical processes, chemical fate and transport, environmental risk assessment
Rizvanoghlu, Islam | irizvanoghlu@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Macroeconomics, energy economics
Robertson, Megan | mlrobert@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Polymers derived from renewable resources
Robinson, Alex | acrobins@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Tectonic evolution
Rodrigues, Debora | dfrigiro@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Water quality, sustainability
Rogers, Susan | srogers@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Community development
Roysam, Badri | broysam@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Biological image analysis, high-performance computing, subsurface sensing and imaging systems
Ruchhoeft, Paul | pruchhoe@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, nanolithography
Ryou, Jae-Hyun | jryou@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: high efficiency, inexpensive thin film III-V photovoltaics using single-crystalline-like, flexible substrates
Schulze, Lawrence | ljhs@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Ergonomics and human factors, safety engineering, system design and evaluation and rehabilitation/biomechanics
Selvamanickam, Venkat | selva@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: high performance, low cost superconducting wires and coils for high power wind generators
Senouci, Ahmed | asenouci@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Optimization modeling, for the scheduling of construction projects, innovative asset management for onshore and offshore oil and gas pipelines, asset management models for sustainable water infrastructures
Sharma, Pradeep | psharma@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Energy storage
Shih, Wei-Chuan | wshih@central. uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Environmental sensing
Shireen, Wajiha | wshireen@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Electricity delivery, ARRA - smart grid energy training coalition - development of training, energy workforce
Shrestha, Ramesh | rishrestha@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Laser scanning and digital mapping technology
Skogsberg, Lillian | Lillian_skogsberg@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Material selection for deepwater subsea projects in the Gulf of Mexico, materials selection for casing, production tubing, downhole equipment, umbilicals, wellhead, manifolds, jumpers, subsea control modules, high rate gas production erosion modeling, sand detection, design approaches for erosion prevention in subsea production
Smith, Gordon | gdsmith@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Operational excellence, global supply chain management, quality performance, lean management
Snow, Jonathan | jesnow@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Geology, physics and chemistry of the formation of the Earth's lithosphere, early evolution of oceanic rift systems, partial melting in the mantle and the petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basaltic magmas, tectonics of fracture zones, and the petrology and structure of oceanic lower crust and upper mantle exposure
Song, Gangbing | gsong@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Smart materials, adaptive control, robotics
Song, Lingguang | lsong5@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: How to better plan construction process prior to actual construction and how to further improve project control practices and labor productivity during the construction stage, simulation, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and information technologies
Stewart, Rob | rrstewar@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: 3-D seismic exploration, geophysical data acquisition
Sun, Li | lsun4@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Size effects on thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of materials, nanomagnetics and spin transport in thin films, multilayers, nanowires
Sun, Tao |  tsun9@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Petroleum geochemistry
Talbot, Robert | rtalbot@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Air quality, inter-continental transport of air pollutants
Taylor, Rives |  rivestaylor60@earthlink.net | Areas of expertise: Technology including structures, envelope design, materials, professional practice, continuing education, sustainable design
Thomas, William | wjthomas2@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Analysis and control of sheet metal stamping, machine design and subsea riser design
Ting, Chin-Sen | ting@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Condensed matter theories related to semiconductors, magnetism, superconductivity, and strongly correlated electron systems
Truitt, Bill |  williamtruitt@gmail.com | Areas of expertise: Environmental design
Tsai, John |  jtsai@jtarcstudio.com | Areas of expertise: Architectural design, sustainable design, design research, urban design
Turner, Drexel |  drexelturner@comcast.net | Areas of expertise: Planning and urbanism, theory and criticism
VanNieuwenhuise, Don | donvann@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Stratigraphy, petroleum geology, terrigenous clastic depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
Varghese, Oomman | okvarghe@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, nanostructured materials, excitonic solar cells, solar fuel generation, environmental sensing
Vipulanandan, Cumaraswamy | cvipulanandan@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Geoenvironmental engineering
Wang, Guoquan | gwang@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Coastal hazards, Caribbean neotectonics, GPS seismology, geological hazard risk analysis and mitigation
Wang, Keh-Han | khwang@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Coastal, estuary and lake hydrodynamics, hydraulic engineering
Wang, Su Su | sswang@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Wind
Weglein, Art | aweglein@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Hydrocarbons, research and development of new seismic technology that enables the exploration and production of hydrocarbons
Wellner, Julia |  jwellner@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Reservoir analogs, stratigraphic geometries, climate change (specifically ice sheet change), sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Wells, Bret | BWells@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: International taxation
Widmer, Randolph | rwidmer@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Mesoamerican archaeology, cultural ecology, sociopolitical complexity, craft specialization
Willam, Kaspar | kwilliam@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Nuclear energy, upgrade of universal element tester for nuclear energy infrastructure research
Wolfe, John | wolfe@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Advanced materials, microfabrication
Yao, Yan | yyao4@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Superconducting, high performance, low cost superconducting wires and coils for high power wind generators
Yuan, Xiaojing | xyuan@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Developing future leaders
Zagozdzon-Wosik, Wanda | wwosik@ uh.edu  | Areas of expertise: Microelectronics: semiconductor integrated circuit processing technology and electron devices, micro- and nonoelectromechnical systems (MEMS/NEMS), and BioMEMS for biological samples at cellular/subcellular levels and nanoparticles
Zhang, Yunpeng | yzhang119@ uh.edu | Areas of expertise: Cyber security
Zhou, Hua-Wei | hzhou3@Central. UH.EDU | Areas of expertise: Exploration geophysics, earthquake seismology, geodynamics, seismic tomography

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