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 →
⚗️ 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