Research Interests

My research mission is to:

evaluate the effectiveness of technology policy options for

their ability to facilitate sustainable societal energy transitions

using holistic (engineering) systems analysis.

Sustainable transportation

• • Commercial aviation sustainability

  • Personal Rapid Transit systems

  • Biofuel deployment and assessment

    • Integrated Seawater Agriculture systems

Energy consumption and generation patterns

• • Ecological footprint of economic sectors (electricity/water/cooling for residential and commercial

  • developments)

  • Behavioral incentives for consumption changes

  • Energy as a complementary currency

  • Techno-economic assessment and optimization of renewable energy generation technologies (e.g. solar cooling, post-combustion carbon capture and storage)

  • Bioduels

  • Aviation biofuels potential

    • Integrated Seawater Agriculture Systems development for arid coastal environments

    • Feedstock / biofuel slate pathway optimization

    • Lifecycle assessment of ISAS production

Sustainable Energy Transitions

• • Business cycle impacts and optimal policy responses

  • Carbon market expansion and economic impacts in conjunction with rates of renewable energy penetration and fossil fuel depletion

Engineering Systems Analysis Methods

• • Simulation modeling

    • system dynamics,

    • agent-based modeling,

    • discrete event

    • multi-objective optimization

    • lifecycle assessment

  • CLIOS systems analysis