Meet the Team

Leadership

Portrait of Marina Astitha

Interim Director
Marina Astitha, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eversource Energy Professor in Environmental and Sustainability Education, College of Engineering
Email: marina.astitha@uconn.edu

Associate Director
Robert Fahey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
860-486-2840
robert.fahey@uconn.edu
Di Shi

Associate Director
Di Shi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University
dshi@nmsu.edu

Founding Director
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou, Ph.D.
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
860-486-6806
manos@uconn.edu
Tasnim Zaman Center Manager
Tasnim Zaman, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center
tasnim.zaman@uconn.edu

Staff

Financials
Natalka Tuczkewycz
Eversource Energy Center
natalka.tuczkewycz@uconn.edu

For general inquiries, please contact us at EversourceEnergyCenter@uconn.edu.

Affiliated Faculty

Yang Cao, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
860-486-0915
yang.cao@uconn.edu
Fred Carstensen
Professor, Finance; Director, Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis
860-486-0614
fred.carstensen@uconn.edu
Zhe Zhu
Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
860-486-6885
zhe@uconn.edu
Amir Herzberg
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Comcast Chair for Security Innovation
860-486-4825
amir.herzberg@uconn.edu
Georgios “George” Matheou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
860-486-8729
matheou@uconn.edu
Wei Zhang, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
860-486-5642
wzhang@uconn.edu
Thomas H. Meyer, Ph.D.
Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
860-486-0145
thomas.meyer@uconn.edu
Cory Merow, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center
cory.merow@gmail.com
Fei Miao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
860-486-3471
fei.miao@uconn.edu
Anita Morzillo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
860-486-3660
anita.morzillo@uconn.edu
Thomas Worthley
Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
860-345-4511
thomas.worthley@uconn.edu
Suining He, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Engineering
suining.he@uconn.edu
David Wanik, Ph.D.
Business School affiliation
Assistant Professor in Residence, Business School
dave.wanik@uconn.edu
Malaquias Peña, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
860-486-2450
mpena@uconn.edu
Lyle Scruggs Lyle Scruggs, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Political Science
lyle.scruggs@uconn.edu
Giulia Sofia
Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center
860-486-1799
giulia.sofia@uconn.edu
Chandi Witharana, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
860-486-2840
chandi.witharana@uconn.edu
Guiling Wang, Ph.D.
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
860-486-5648
guiling.wang@uconn.edu
Ali Bazzi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
860-486-5377
bazzi@uconn.edu
Mark Urban holding a lake trout near one of the labs research lakes on the North Slope of Alaska. Mark Urban, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
mark.urban@uconn.edu
Xinxuan Zhang
Assistant Research Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Shan Zuo
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
shan.zuo@uconn.edu
Zhi Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
(860) 486-2450
zhi.2.li@uconn.edu
Fangni Lei, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center
fangni.lei@uconn.edu
Kaleel Mahmood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence, Computer Science and Engineering
kaleel.mahmood@uconn.edu
Wei Ren, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
wei.ren@uconn.edu
Eleanor (“Elle”) Shoreman-Ouimet, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Human & Environment Interactions
Department of Anthropology
eleanor.ouimet@uconn.edu

Kimberly Rollins, Ph.D.
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
kimberly.rollins@uconn.edu
Portrait of Diego Cerrai Diego Cerrai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
diego.cerrai@uconn.edu
Amvrossios Bagtzoglou, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
860-486-4017
amvrossios.bagtzoglou@uconn.edu
Jeffery Cohen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Finance
jeffrey.cohen@uconn.edu
   

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