U-M Faculty Affiliates

College of Engineering

Peter Adriaens
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Relevant Research Interests: Biodegradation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), applied bioremediation systems for groundwater and sediments, environmental analysis for pollutants and metabolic products, microbial sensing and control

Arvind Atreya
Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Relevant Research Interests: Combustion generated pollutants, energy and environment, industrial energy conservation and pollution prevention, and management for sustainable manufacturing

Mary Anne Carroll
Professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences
Professor, Chemistry
Relevant Research Interests: Instrument development and field measurements focusing on the impacts of global change on atmospheric oxidant photochemistry and atmosphere-biosphere interactions

Victor Li
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Relevant Research Interests: Sustainable infrastructure development, hazard mitigation and environmental improvement through materials technology

Phillip Savage
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Relevant Research Interests: Green chemistry and engineering, elucidation and analysis of reaction pathways, kinetics, and mechanisms in environmentally significant systems

Johannes Schwank
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Relevant Research Interests: Fundamental and applied research in heterogeneous catalysis, thin films, and chemical sensors

Steven Skerlos
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Relevant Research Interests: Environmental and Sustainable Technology (EAST) systems; life cycle product and process optimization; and pollution prevention in manufacturing

Levi Thompson
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Relevant Research Interests: Fuel processing catalysts, fuel cells, and nanostructured films

Henry Wang
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Relevant Research Interests: Ecologically compatible bio-manufacturing processes

College of Literature, Science and the Arts

Stephen Kesler
Professor, Geological Sciences
Relevant Research Interests: Environmental geochemistry related to the recovery and use of minerals

Marc Ross
Professor Emeritus, Physics
Relevant Research Interests: Societal energy efficiency and the associated emissions and costs; simulations of automobiles, engines and driving to explore the potential for fuel economy improvement and reduced pollution through new technology

Ross School of Business

Thomas Gladwin
Professor, Corporate Strategy and International Business
Professor, Natural Resources
Relevant Research Interests: Environmentalism and globalism in relation to the behavior of industrial corporations

Andy Hoffman
Associate Professor, Management & Organizations
Associate Professor, Natural Resources
Relevant Research Interests: Corporate environmental strategies; organizational behavior; sustainability strategies

William Lanen
Professor, Accounting
Relevant Research Interests: Performance measurement, management control systems in firms in transitional economies, environmental accounting

Tom Lyon
Professor, Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce
Professor, Business Ecomonomics
Professor Natural Resources
Relevant Research Interests: Corporate environmental strategy, government regulation of business, industrial organization, energy and the environment

Lynda Oswald
Professor, Business Law
Relevant Research Interests: Property and environmental law issues, particularly issues relating to land use law, regulatory takings, and environmental liability

School of Natural Resources and Environment

Rosina Bierbaum
Professor, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy and Management
Relevant Research Interests: Global change, air and water quality, endangered species, biodiversity, ecosystem management, endocrine disruptors, environmental monitoring, natural hazards, and energy research and development

Dan Brown
Associate Professor, Natural Resources & Environment
Relevant Research Interests: Landscape patterns and cover change; spatial analysis; GIS

Raymond DeYoung
Associate Professor, Environmental Psychology and Conservation Behavior
Relevant Research Interests: Psychology of environmental stewardship; and the relationship among the concepts of self-interest, competence and psychological well-being

Gloria Helfand
Associate Professor, Environmental Economics
Relevant Research Interests: The incentives associated with pollution policies in a variety of contexts, the distributional effects of environmental programs, policy analysis, and a range of environmental issues

Michael Moore
Associate Professor, Environmental Economics
Relevant Research Interests: Economic analysis of environmental and natural resource policies; economic aspects of biodiversity and species conservation; and consumption of environmentally-friendly products

Thomas Princen
Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Policy
Relevant Research Interests: Ecological and social sustainability, over consumption, sufficiency, ecological economy, institutional design, business and environment, and transnational relations

Barry Rabe
Professor, Environmental Policy
Relevant Research Interests: Political feasibility of pollution prevention and subnational governmental capacity to anticipate policy challenges posed by global warming

Michaela Zint
Assistant Professor, Environmental Education
Relevant Research Interests: Environmental and sustainability education, and risk communication

School of Public Health

Stuart Batterman
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Relevant Research Interests: Exposure assessment, human health risk and environmental impact assessment, and innovative measurement techniques for air pollutants

Olivier Jolliet
Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Relevant Research Interests: Life cycle impact assessment, risk assessment of chemicals, prediction of the intake fraction for indoor air emissions, and new material and technological solutions for sustainability

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Harry Giles
Professor, Architecture
Relevant Research Interests: Building and environmental technology, sustainable materials

Douglas Kelbaugh
Professor, Architecture and Urban Planning
Relevant Research Interests: Urban design, architecture, community planning, and sustainability

Jong-Jin Kim
Associate Professor, Architecture
Relevant Research Interests: Environmental technology, green buildings, and sustainable building materials

Jonathan Levine
Associate Professor, Urban Planning
Relevant Research Interests: Transportation and land use planning, public transit planning and evaluation, public economics

Mojitaba (Moji) Navvab
Associate Professor, Architecture
Relevant Research Interests: Daylight, electric light, architectural technology, building energy efficiency, energy modeling and simulation, environmental control systems, and PV systems

Transportation Research Institute

Walter McManus