College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources
School of Business
School of Engineering
MARISA CHRYSOCHOOU
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Email: maria.chrysochoou@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Grid Resilience;
Research Interests: Environmental Geochemistry; Environmental Surface Chemistry; Treatment and reuse of industrial waste, contaminated soil and sediments; Brownfield Redevelopment and Environmental Justice; Engineering Education - Neurodiversity, Service Learning
PETER GUNTHER
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Email: peter.gunther@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Climate Change;
ANITA MORZILLO
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES & THE ENVIRONMENT HUMAN DIMENSIONS
Email: anita.morzillo@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Outage Management;
PI on potential project(s)
Incorporating dynamic vegetation structure and tree biomechanics into outage prediction and resilience investment modeling
ROBERT FAHEY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Email: robert.fahey@uconn.edu
Phone: 860-486-4169
Research Areas: Outage Management; Grid Resilience;
In my research I am interested in understanding linkages between the composition, structure, and functioning of forest ecosystems and designing and testing management strategies focused on manipulating these aspects of forests to increase their resilience to a variety of stressors. I work across the spectrum of anthropogenic impacts in forests from urban to rural, and am particularly interested in adapting ecological and silvicultural knowledge to human-dominated landscapes.
PI on potential project(s)
Incorporating dynamic vegetation structure and tree biomechanics into outage prediction and resilience investment modeling
Integrating System Resilience with Dynamic Economic Analysis
ZHE ZHU
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Email: zhe.zhu@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Outage Management;
PI on potential project(s)
Incorporating dynamic vegetation structure and tree biomechanics into outage prediction and resilience investment modeling
MARCELLO GRAZIANO
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MANAGEMENT
Email: marcello.graziano@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Climate Change;
Dr. Marcello Graziano, FeRSA is an economic geographer whose research specializes on energy, sustainable transitions, regional economic modelling, and higher edcuation and human capital formaiton. A native of Italy, Marcello also holds a courtesy appointment as Research Fellow of the CCEA at the University of Connecticut. In 2019, Marcello received the title of 'Fellow of the Regional Studies Association'.
PI on potential project(s)
Integrating System Resilience with Dynamic Economic Analysis
CYNNAMON DOBBS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY
Email: cynnamon.dobbs@uconn.edu
PI on potential project(s)
Integrated Planning for Grid, Climate, and Community Resiliency
CHANDI WITHARANA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Email: chandi.witharana@uconn.edu
Phone: (860) 486-2840
Research Areas: Climate Change; Renewable Energy;
Research Interests: methodological developments; adaptations; unmanned aerial systems (UASMy research efforts broadly capture the methodological developments and adaptations to unseal faster, deeper, and more accurate analysis of large volumes of high-resolution remote sensing data. Object-based image analysis, poin; Object-based image analysis; machine learning;
My research efforts broadly capture the methodological developments and adaptations to unseal faster, deeper, and more accurate analysis of large volumes of high-resolution remote sensing data. Object-based image analysis, point cloud analytics, machine learning, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) stand out as some of the key pitches in my agenda. I conduct interdisciplinary remote sensing research with high international visibility, speaking equally to the transformational uses of remote sensing in environmental, industrial, agricultural, and humanitarian applications. My scope is global. Diversity is an integral part of myself, as well as my research. Some of my work includes mapping ice-wedge polygonal Arctic tundra from sub-meter satellite imagery, on-demand censusing of Antarctic wildlife from space, 3D infrastructure analytics for electric utility industry, unmanned aerial spectroscopy for integrated pest management applications, and on-demand censusing of refugees in armed-conflicted areas in South Asia. Thinking beyond its research and industrial merits, I always value the strengths of remote sensing to address the requirements of the Next Generation Science Standards via the key elements from physics and engineering. I am actively seeking creative ways, such as imagery-enabled lesson plans to harness remote sensing in K-12 STEM education
PI on potential project(s)
Incorporating dynamic vegetation structure and tree biomechanics into outage prediction and resilience investment modeling
FRED CARSTENSEN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Email: fred.carstensen@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Grid Resilience; Outage Management;
Prof. Carstensen graduated with Honors from the University of Wisconsin in 1966 and completed his doctorate at Yale University in 1976. After teaching at the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, he came to the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut in 1982; in 2012 he moved to the Department of Finance in the School of Business. He served three times as visiting Shelby Cullum Davis Professor of American Institutions and Values at Trinity College. He served as the Senior Editor for biographies of leading American business leaders for the Dictionary of American Biography. His primary research has focused on transnational enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the political economy of capitalism; his scholarship has contributed to work on Russian, British, Mexican, and American economic and business history
WEI ZHANG
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Email: wei.zhang@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Outage Management;
PI on potential project(s)
Integrating System Resilience with Dynamic Economic Analysis
MALAQUÍAS PEÑA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Email: mpena@uconn.edu
Phone: 860-486-2450
Research Areas: Climate Change; Renewable Energy;
Research Interests: Predictability and Ensemble Modeling; Data Assimilation; Observing Networks; Numerical Prediction Systems;
Dr. Peña's primary research focus areas include: predictability and ensemble modeling, numerical prediction systems, data assimilation, and observing networks.
PI on potential project(s)
Power System Optimization Designs to Spur Renewable Energy Sources Adoption in a Changing Climate
FANGNI LEI
ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Email: fangni.lei@uconn.edu
PI on potential project(s)
Data-Driven Wildfire Risk Assessment and Mitigation via Optimal De-energization and Power Shut-off
FEI MIAO
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Email: fei.miao@uconn.edu
PI on potential project(s)
Multi-Fidelity Sensor Data Fusion and Analytics for Granular Distribution System Outage Visibility and Mitigation
KINGSLEY UDEH
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Email: kingsley.udeh@uconn.edu
PI on potential project(s)
A New Machine Learning Framework for Storm Events Severity Classification and Probabilistic Predictions
MARINA ASTITHA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Email: marina.astitha@uconn.edu
Phone: (860) 486-3941
Research Areas: Renewable Energy; Outage Management;
Research Interests: Predictability of extreme weather events; Anthropogenic activities on climate;
Dr. Astitha has earned a B.Sc. in Physics and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2013. Dr. Astitha is leading the Atmospheric Modeling and Air Quality Group and conducts research on the predictability of extreme weather events and impacts in the power network, anthropogenic activities that alter the climate and uncertainties associated with numerical modeling of atmospheric processes (weather and air quality). Dr. Astitha has 12 years of experience in atmospheric and air quality modeling systems from regional to global scales. She serves at the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association.
PI on potential project(s)
Weather and Impact Modelling for outage Prediction, Management and Restoration
AMVROSSIOS BAGTZOGLOU
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Email: amvrossios.bagtzoglou@uconn.edu
Phone: (860) 486-4017
Research Areas: Climate Change; Renewable Energy;
Research Interests: Time Inversion and Reconstruction of Past Hydrologic Conditions; Hydrologic Modeling; Geostatistical Simulation and Probabilistic Analyses; Fractured Rock Hydrology; Chaotic Advection and Enhanced Mixing; Estuarine and River Water Quality Management;
PI on potential project(s)
Integrating System Resilience with Dynamic Economic Analysis
SUNG-YEUL PARK
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Email: supark@engr.uconn.edu
PI on potential project(s)
Resilience-oriented Networked Microgrids Formulation and Optimization for Extreme Weather
THI HA NGUYEN
ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR.
EVERSOURCE ENERGY CENTER
Email: HA.T.NGUYEN@UCONN.EDU
Research Areas: Outage Management; Renewable Energy; Grid Resilience;
ZONGJIE WANG
PH.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
EVERSOURCE ENERGY CENTER
Email: zongjie.wang@uconn.edu
Research Interests: Modern power systems planning and operation; Renewable energy integration; Electricity market; Non-linear optimization; Coordinated transmission and distribution systems;
Integration of renewable Energy Sources in the power grid
PI on potential project(s)
Power System Optimization Designs to Spur Renewable Energy Sources Adoption in a Changing Climate
JUNBO ZHAO
PH.D., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
GRID MODERNIZATION LEAD, EVERSOURCE ENERGY CENTER
Email: junbo@uconn.edu
Research Areas: Outage Management
GEORGE MATHEOU
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Email: georgios.matheou@uconn.edu
PI on potential project(s)
High-resolution WRF-UConn LES offshore wind energy prediction system: assessment of extreme wind (high and low) scenarios.