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Leadership

Anantha Chandrakasan

Chair

Dean, MIT School of Engineering; Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Elsa Olivetti

Co-Director

Associate Dean, MIT School of Engineering; Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering; Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Desirée Plata

Co-Director

Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Professor in Civil Engineering Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; MIT School of Engineering

Jeremy Gregory

Executive Director

Jeffrey Grossman

Strategic Advisor

Morton and Claire Goulder and Family Professor in Environmental Systems, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Staff

Elise Chambers

Program Manager for Student, Postdoctoral, and MIT Engagement

Molly Chase

Communications Manager

Katrin Daehn

Research Scientist

Laura Frye-Levine

Research Scientist

Jay Lamour

Program Coordinator

Sydney Sroka

Research Scientist

Melissa Zgola

Program Manager for Member Engagement

Industry Advisory Board Members

Jim Andrew

Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.

Lina Azuero

Chief Sustainability Officer, RWCB, a Kraft Group Company

Juan Bernabe-Moreno

Director, IBM Research Europa / Ireland and UK

Sarah Chandler

Vice President of Environment and Supply Chain Innovation, Apple

Greg Downing

Director of Sustainability, Cargill

Nollaig Forrest

Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim

James Gowen

Sr. Vice President, Global Supply Chain & Chief Sustainability Officer, Verizon

Francis Hyatt

Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Alisha Johnson Wilder

Director, Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives/Racial Equity & Justice Initiative, Apple

Abel Leites

Vice President, Verizon Global Supply Chain, Verizon

Javier Losada

Chief Sustainability Officer, Inditex

A.N. Sreeram

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Dow

Katie Rowen

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer, Vontier

Nate Streed

Senior Global Director of Sustainability & ESG, Vontier

Susan Uthayakumar

Chief Sustainability and Energy Officer, Prologis, Inc.

Vikrant (Vik) Viniak

Senior Managing Director, Accenture - NA Sustainability Services & Strategy Lead and CXO/ Board Advisor

Luis Coloma Yepes

Head of Infrastructure and Sustainability, Inditex

Faculty Steering Committee

The MCSC Faculty Steering Committee (FSC) is a group of interdisciplinary MIT faculty working together to help shape the MCSC’s vision and work, while also helping the MCSC remain deeply connected to MIT’s broader faculty community. The committee’s diverse perspectives, paired with each faculty member’s expertise and passion for climate and sustainability, are what make it so unique and valuable.

Steven Barrett

Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; MIT School of Engineering

Megan A. Black

Associate Professor of History; MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Stefanie Jegelka

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; MIT School of Engineering

Jeremiah Johnson

Professor, Chemistry; MIT School of Science

David Hsu

Associate Professor, Urban and Environmental Planning; MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Heather J. Kulik

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; MIT School of Engineering

Chakanetsa Mavhunga

Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and Society; MIT School of Humanities and Social Sciences

David McGee

Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; MIT School of Science

David Perreault

Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical Engineering; MIT School of Engineering

Roberto Rigobon

Society of Sloan Fellows Professor Professor, Applied Economics; MIT Sloan School of Management

Maria Yang

Associate Dean, MIT School of Engineering Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor Professor, Mechanical Engineering MacVicar Faculty Fellow; MIT School of Engineering

Siqi Zheng

Samuel Tak Lee Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability; MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: The costs and benefits of circularity in building construction

Yanchong (Karen) Zheng

George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management Associate Professor, Operations Management; MIT Sloan School of Management

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Carbon sequestration through sustainable practices by smallholder farmers

Affiliated Faculty & Researchers

These interdisciplinary MIT faculty and researchers are currently working with the MCSC through the consortium’s 2022 Seed Awards program and directed studies funding.

Iwnetim Abate

Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Antoine Allanore

Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Colorimetric sulfidation for aluminum recycling

Florian Allroggen

Research Scientist

Marcela Angel

Supporting Researcher

Research Program Director at MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Carolina Bastidas

Supporting Researcher; Research Scientist in the Sea Grant College Program

Florian Berg

Research Scientist

Manduhai Buyandelger

Professor in the Anthropology Section

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Anthro-engineering decarbonization at the million-person scale

Wai K. Cheng

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Powertrain and system design for LOHC-powered long-haul trucking

Jungwoo Chun

Lecturer of Climate, Sustainability, and Negotiation

Otto Cordero

Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Engineering of a microbial consortium to degrade and valorize plastic waste

Mert Demirer

Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Emissions reductions and productivity in U.S. manufacturing

Fabio Duarte

Principle Research Scientist

Sebastian Eastham

Principal Research Scientist and Associate Director at the MIT Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment

John Fernández

Professor of Building Technology in the Department of Architecture and director of MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: ECO-LENS: Mainstreaming biodiversity data through AI

Evan Fricke

Research Scientist

Ariel Furst

The Raymond A. (1921) And Helen E. St. Laurent Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Coatings to protect and enhance diverse microbes for improved soil health and crop yields

Mary Gehring

Associate Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Graduate Officer

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Coatings to protect and enhance diverse microbes for improved soil health and crop yields

William Green

The Hoyt Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Postdoctoral Officer

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Powertrain and system design for LOHC-powered long-haul trucking

Aristide Gumyusenge

Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Director of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Associate Director of the Center for Exascale Simulation of Materials in Extreme Environments, and Graduate Officer

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Sustainable separations and purification of biochemicals and biofuels using membranes

Charles Harvey

Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Growing season length, productivity, and carbon balance of global ecosystems under climate change

Chris Hill

Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: CP4All: Fast and local climate projections with scientific machine learning

Michael Howland

Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Toolkit for assessing the vulnerability of industry infrastructure siting to climate change

Alexandre Jacquillat

The 1942 Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics in the MIT Sloan School of Management

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Logistics electrification through scalable and inter-operable charging infrastructure: operations, planning, and policy

Milena Janjevic

Supporting Researcher

Research Scientist in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and Lead Researcher for the MIT CTL Supply Chain Design Initiative

Janelle Knox-Hayes

Associate Professor and Director of the Resilient Communities Lab, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation: weaving traditional ecological knowledge and STEAM

Randolph Kirchain

Principal Research Scientist

Jing Li

Assistant Professor and William Barton Rogers Career Development Chair of Energy Economics in the MIT Sloan School of Management

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Emissions reductions and productivity in U.S. manufacturing

John Lienhard

The Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab, and Director of the Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Sustainable separations and purification of biochemicals and biofuels using membranes

Miho Mazereeuw

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism in the Department of Architecture; Director of the Urban Risk Lab; Research Lead on Climate Grand Challenges flagship project

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Collaborative community mapping toolkit for resilience planning; Sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation: weaving traditional ecological knowledge and STEAM

Nicholas de Monchaux

Professor and Department Head in the Department of Architecture

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Collaborative community mapping toolkit for resilience planning

Heidi Nepf

Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dava Newman

Director of the MIT Media Lab and the Apollo Program Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: CP4All: Fast and local climate projections with scientific machine learning

Brad Olsen

The Alexander and I. Michael Kasser (1960) Professor and Graduate Admissions Co-Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Double loop circularity in materials design demonstrated on polyurethanes; High throughput screening of sustainable polyesters for fibers

Desirée Plata

Co-Director

Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Professor in Civil Engineering Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; MIT School of Engineering

Kristala Prather

The Arthur Dehon Little Professor and Department Executive Officer in the Department of Chemical Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Double loop circularity in materials design demonstrated on polyurethanes

Gregory Rutledge

The Lammot du Pont Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: High throughput screening of sustainable polyesters for fibers

Noelle Eckley Selin

Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Director of MIT's Technology and Policy Program

Yossi Sheffi

The Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Short-term and long-term efficiency gains in reverse supply chains

Michael Short

The Class of ’42 Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Anthro-engineering decarbonization at the million-person scale

César Terrer

Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Growing season length, productivity, and carbon balance of global ecosystems under climate change

Matthias Winkenbach

Supporting Researcher

Research Scientist in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab, and Director of MIT CAVE Lab

Kripa Varanasi

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Fruit-peel-inspired, biodegradable packaging platform with multifunctional barrier properties

Mark Veillette

Supporting Researcher on the Senior Technical Staff in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Joann de Zegher

The Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the MIT Sloan School of Management

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Carbon sequestration through sustainable practices by smallholder farmers

Siqi Zheng

Samuel Tak Lee Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability; MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: The costs and benefits of circularity in building construction

Yanchong (Karen) Zheng

George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management Associate Professor, Operations Management; MIT Sloan School of Management

Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Carbon sequestration through sustainable practices by smallholder farmers

Impact Fellows

Noman Bashir

MCSC Impact Fellow

Amanda Bischoff

MCSC Impact Fellow

Evan Coleman

MCSC Impact Fellow

Danika MacDonell

MCSC Impact Fellow

Akachukwu (AC) Obi

MCSC Impact Fellow

Aneil Tripathy

MCSC Impact Fellow

Bram van der Kroft

MCSC Impact Fellow

Postdocs and Research Assistants

These postdoctoral researchers and research assistants are currently working with the MCSC through the consortium’s 2022 Seed Awards program and directed studies funding.

Sarah Av-Ron

Ph.D. Candidate

Norhan Bayomi

Supporting Researcher

Post-Doctoral Associate, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Sayandeep Biswas

Supporting Student Researcher

Lauren Bonilla

Supporting Researcher

Postdoctoral Fellow and Social Geographer, MIT Anthropology

Juliana Berglund-Brown

Master’s of Science in Building Technology Student

Akshay Deshmukh

Postdoctoral Associate

Katharina Fransen

Ph.D. Candidate

Wenhao Gao

Ph.D. Candidate

Florian Heeb

Postdoctoral Associate

Eakapob Huangthanapan

Research Associate

Ruofei Jia

Graduate Student

Wenzhe Jiao

Postdoctoral Associate

Esther Kohler

Postdoctoral Associate

Fang-Yu Kuo

Graduate Student Researcher

Jonas Lehmann

Ph.D. Candidate

Björn Lütjens

Supporting Researcher, Ph.D. Candidate

Maria Macfarlane

Ph.D. Candidate

Natalie Mamrol

Ph.D. Candidate

Kariana Moreno

Supporting Student Researcher

Mayank Ojha

Research Associate

Carlos Olascoaga

Postdoctoral Associate

Liying Qiu

Postdoctoral Associate

Priyanka Raghavan

Ph.D. Candidate

Austin Saragih

Ph.D. Candidate

Yuan Shi

Ph.D. Candidate

Avni Singhal

Ph.D. Candidate

Leela Velautham

Postdoctoral Researcher

Anthony Wong

Postdoctoral Associate

Oscar Wu

Graduate Student

Past Affiliates

Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao

Schmidt Science Fellow, MIT

Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas

CEO of Atacama Biomaterials; MIT Research Affiliate; Dassault Systemes Accelerator Startup

Glen Junor

Program Manager, Public Sector, Sublime Systems

Poushali Maji

Program Scientist - Climate, Schmidt Sciences

Sam Raymond

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer @ Databricks; Lecturer @ Dartmouth College; Research Affiliate @ MIT

Augustine Zvinavashe

CEO, Ivu Biologics

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