Working Groups
Sustainability Working Groups
The Rice Sustainability Institute requests proposals for working groups, with the goal of seeding faculty-led research teams in the sustainability scholarship space. The intent of this call is to support research teams' pursuit of funding from philanthropic, industrial, international, state, or federal research funds.
For more on the Working Groups and How to Apply →Active Working Groups
Faculty-led teams pursuing sustainability research across materials, ecosystems, energy, and the built environment.
Advancing Nanostructured Materials for Catalysis
Lead: Yimo Han
Members: Guha Balakrishnan, Matt Jones
Biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Lead: Scott Egan
Members: Kory Evans, Lacy Johnson, Tom Miller, Ted Loch-Temzelides
Critical Materials Recovery and Recycling
Lead: Rafael Verduzco
Members: Menachem Elimelech, Raul Hernandez Sanchez, Emily Rabe
Fiber Futures Working Group
Lead: Jesus Vassallo
Members: Brett Schneider, Richard Johnson, George Ristow, Dominic Boyer, Chris Humphrey
Modeling Agricultural Risk and Resilience: From the US Corn Belt to the Lake Chad Basin
Lead: Frederi Viens
Members: Sylvia Dee, Mark Torres, Noemi Vergopolan
SBMTech Working Group: Sustainable Building Materials & Technologies for Resilient Cities
Lead: Juan Jose Castellon
Members: Kai Gong, Qilin LI, Larissa Novelino, Jun Lou, Laura Schaefer
Solar Communities Working Group
Lead: Laura Schaefer
Members: Dominic Boyer, James Elliott, Caroline Masiello, Aditya Mohite
SMART Carbon Working Group
Lead: Geoff Wehmeyer
Members: Matteo Pasquali, Karen Lozano, Michelle Foss, Vanessa Sanchez, Larissa Novelino, Juan Jose Castellon, Daniel Preston
The Rice Geothermal Energy Working Group
Lead: Jonathan Ajo-Franklin
Members: Brandon Schmandt, Melodie French, Julia Morgan, Mark Torres, Helge Gonnermann, Sahar Bakhshian, Abbas Firoozabadi, Qilin LI, Daniel Cohan, Richard Johnson
AI for Ecology: Biodiversity, Climate Resilience, and Sustainable Futures
Lead: César A. Uribe
Members: Sylvia Dee, Frederi Viens, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Amy Dunham, Matthew McCary
Expanding the Scope of Applied Stable Isotope Ecology at Rice University
Lead: Mark Torres
Members: Kory Evans, Lauren Hennelly, Sven Kranz, Matthew McCary, Mary Prendergast, Andrea Rummel, Tao Sun