Anju Toor

Portrait of Anju Toor, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech

Anju Toor

Assistant Professor

Anju Toor is a researcher in nanomaterials for energy systems. She was a Bakar Innovation Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked on printed on-chip integrated micro batteries. She earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.

Her research focuses on advanced energy materials, printed electronics, energy storage systems, and nanoparticle self-assembly. She has led research on flexible and stretchable batteries for next-generation Augmented/Virtual Reality applications at Meta Reality Labs. She was named EECS Rising Star and selected for The Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop in Asia.

As an expert in self-assembly and energy materials, she has published over 20 research publications in the most reputed platforms in the field.

anju.toor@mse.gatech.edu

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Research Areas: Composites, Fibers, Nanostructures, Polymers

Research Challenges: Electronics and Communications, Energy, Environment

Research Activity: Measurements, Processing, Fabrication, & Manufacturing, Synthesis


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Erin L. Ratcliff

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Erin Ratcliff

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Erin L. Ratcliff is a Full Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  Prof. Ratliff is also the Associate Director of Scientific Continuity for Director of the currently funded Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) entitled “Center for Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems (SPECS)”, a center which she directed at her prior appointment at University of Arizona.  

Her group “Laboratory for Interface Science for Printable Electronic Materials” uses a combination of applications and devices with electrochemistry, spectroscopies, microscopies, and synchrotron-based techniques to understand fundamental structure-property relationships of next-generation materials for energy conversion and storage and biosensing. Materials of interest include metal halide perovskites, π-conjugated materials, colloidal quantum dots, and metal oxides. Current research is focused on mechanisms of electron transfer and transport across interfaces, including semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces and durability of printable electronic materials.

Her research program has been funded by the Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, the Solar Energy Technology Office, Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, and the Nano Bio Materials Consortium.

eratcliff8@gatech.edu

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    Ching-Hua Huang, Ph.D.

    Ching-Hua Huang, Ph.D.

    Ching-Hua Huang

    Turnipseed Family Chair and Professor

    Ching-Hua Huang, Ph.D., is the Turnipseed Family Chair and Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Huang received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Huang’s expertise includes environmental chemistry, advanced water/wastewater treatment technology, contaminants of emerging concern, sustainable water reuse, waste remediation and resource recovery. Huang has supervised many research projects sponsored by various agencies, and has published more than 170 peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters and conference proceeding papers. She is the Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology Water and the Editorial Advisory Board member of Environmental Science & Technology. 

    ching-hua.huang@ce.gatech.edu

    404.893.7694

    Office Location:
    School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Catalysis
    • Clean Water
    • Energy & Water
    • Energy Generation, Storage, and Distribution
    • Environmental Processes
    • FEWS
    • Food-Energy-Water-Transportation-Systems (FEWTS)
    • Fuels & Chemical Processing
    • Separation Technologies
    • Water

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    Victor Fung

    Victor Fung

    Victor Fung

    Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering

    Victor Fung is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. Prior to this position, he was a Wigner Fellow and a member of the Nanomaterials Theory Insitute in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A physical chemist by training, Fung now works at the intersection of scientific artificial intelligence, computing, and materials science/chemistry.

    victorfung@gatech.edu

    Office Location:
    E1354B | CODA Building, 756 W Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Advanced Materials
    • Big Data
    • Computational Materials Science
    • Machine Learning
    Additional Research:

    Quantum chemistrySurrogate models for quantum chemistryData-driven inverse designChemically-informed machine learningHigh-throughput computational simulations


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    Dylan Brewer

    Dylan Brewer

    Dylan Brewer

    Assistant Professor

    Dylan Brewer joined the faculty at the School of Economics in 2019. He received his PhD in Economics with a dual major in Environmental Science and Policy from Michigan State University in May 2019 as well as a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the same institution in 2016. Prior to his graduate studies, Dylan completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Economics and International Relations at the University of Virginia in 2014. Dylan's research uses the tools of applied econometrics and machine learning to answer questions in energy and environmental economics. He has published research on household energy consumption, the economics of thermostat settings, recycling, electricity demand, machine learning methodology, and air quality among other topics. He teaches courses on environmental economics at the graduate and undergraduate level, and his Principles of Microeconomics course has won awards at Georgia Tech.

    brewer@gatech.edu

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Energy
    • Environmental Processes
    • Policy & Economics

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    Laura Taylor

    Laura Taylor

    Laura Taylor

    Director, EPIcenter
    Professor
    Director, EPIcenter

    Dr. Laura Taylor is Chair of the School of Economics at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on policy evaluation and the valuation of natural resources and the environment. Recent applications include improving benefits estimation for policies designed to reduce human mortality; examining household responses to water conservation policies; evaluating the benefits of hazardous waste site cleanup for neighboring communities, and evaluating the impact of offshore wind energy on coastal tourism. Her research has received funding from a variety of sources including the US EPA, USDA, US Department of Interior and the National Science Foundation.  She is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and has held numerous advisory board positions.  Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2018, Dr. Taylor was Director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University (2007-2018), and Associate Director of the Environmental Policy Program at Georgia State University (2001-2015). 

    laura.taylor@gatech.edu

    Website

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  • Research Focus Areas:
    • Environmental Processes
    • Policy & Economics
    Additional Research:

    Environmental Economics Policy Analysis


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    Guoxiang (Emma) Hu

    Guoxiang (Emma) Hu

    Guoxiang (Emma) Hu

    Assistant Professor

    Emma Hu joins the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor. Her group will use quantum mechanical modelling combined with materials informatics to understand the underlying mechanisms of energy harvesting and utilization at the atomic level, and reveal structure-property-performance relationships for knowledge/data-driven materials design.

    Her research seeks to accelerate the discovery of materials with complex properties to solve time-sensitive problems involving green energy production and climate remediation.

    Emma obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 2018 from the University of California, Riverside, and her B.S. in Chemistry in 2013 from University of Science and Technology of China. She then spent two years as a postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2018-2020. Before joining Georgia Tech, Emma was an Assistant Professor at City University of New York from 2020-2023.

    emma.hu@mse.gatech.edu

    Office Location:
    RBI 275

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    David Flaherty

    David Flaherty

    David Flaherty

    Thomas C. DeLoach Jr. Endowed Professorship
    Professor

    David Flaherty, PhD is a Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech since June 2023 (starting Summer 2023, previously at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). His research focuses on developing the science and application of catalysis in the pursuit of sustainability. In recent years, his group’s contributions have been featured in Science, Nature Catalysis, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Catalysis, Journal of Catalysis and other prestigious journals. Dr. Flaherty has received several recognitions for excellence and innovation in catalysis including the Eastman Foundation Distinguished Lecturer in Catalysis, Department of Energy Early Career Award, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Dr. Flaherty engages frequently with industry to translate the groups scientific achievements from the lab into practice. Through university-industry partnerships, the group has filed multiple patents disclosing synthesis of catalytic materials and development of processes. Beyond his research activities, Dr. Flaherty enjoys teaching topics in chemical engineering in the classroom (kinetics, separations, transport, reaction engineering) and mentoring the next generation of research leaders and educators.

    Prof. Flaherty received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Prof. C. Buddie Mullins. He conducted postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Enrique Iglesia.

    dflaherty3@gatech.edu

    404-894-5922

    Office Location:
    Ford ES&T 2204

    Website

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  • Research Focus Areas:
    • Energy
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    • Sustainable Engineering

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    Elizabeth Qian

    Elizabeth Qian

    Elizabeth Qian

    Assistant Professor

    Elizabeth Qian joined the Daniel Guggenheim School in November 2022. She holds a joint appointment at Georgia Tech as Assistant Professor in the Schools of Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science and Engineering. Her interdisciplinary research develops new computational methods to enable engineering design and decision-making for complex systems. Her specialties are in developing efficient surrogate models through model reduction and scientific machine learning, and in developing multifidelity approaches to accelerate expensive computations in uncertainty quantification, optimization, and control. 

    Elizabeth previously held a postdoctoral appointment as von Karman Instructor at Caltech in the Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences. She has been the recipient of many awards, including a Caltech-wide award for teaching bestowed by the undergraduate student body, the 2020 SIAM Student Paper Prize, the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She is also an alumna of the U.S. Fulbright student program. She earned her PhD, SM, and SB degrees from the MIT Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics.

    elizabeth.qian@aerospace.gatech.edu

    Website

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    Additional Research:
    Flight Mechanics & Controls Propulsion & Combustion Systems Design & OptimizationLarge-Scale Computations, Data, and Analytics

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    Joe F. Bozeman III

    Joe F. Bozeman III

    Joe Bozeman

    Assistant Professor
    SEI Lead: Ethics in Energy Transition

    joe.bozeman@ce.gatech.edu

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Energy & Water
    • Energy Utilization and Conservation
    • FEWS
    • Food-Energy-Water-Transportation-Systems (FEWTS)
    • Infrastructure Ecology
    • Policy & Economics
    Additional Research:

    industrial ecology; climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies; sociodemographic impacts of the food-energy-water nexus; ethical applications in energy and environmental systems; urban carbon management strategies; life cycle assessment; scenario analysis; and survey administration; addressing the complex and ‘wicked’ challenges of our time


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