Charalambos Konstantinou
Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. During the 2026-2027 academic year, he is a Harrington Faculty Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). He received the M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New York University (NYU), NY, USA. Before joining KAUST, he was an Assistant Professor with the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), Florida State University (FSU). His research focuses on the security and resilience of critical infrastructures, with an emphasis on smart grid technologies, inverter-based resources, the grid integration of large flexible loads such as AI data centers, and real-time simulation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Eleftheria Kontou
Dr. Kontou is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on planning sustainable transportation systems and modeling their interdependencies with energy systems and the environment. She earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, focusing on transportation systems, from University of Florida, and holds a M.Sc. from Virginia Tech, and a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens in the same field. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the National Renewable Energy Lab and the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Kontou is an NSF CAREER awardee, a Council of University Transportation Centers-Cambridge Systematics New Faculty Award recipient, an Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Faculty Scholar, a US-Africa Frontiers and a US Frontiers of Engineering Invited Participant, and a Levenick Sustainability Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois. She is an Associate Editor of the Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment journal and a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation Energy Data and Technology.
Heather Liddell
Heather Liddell is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University with joint appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Sustainability Engineering & Environmental Engineering. She studies energy and environmental impacts in manufacturing, integrating economy-level and technology-level modeling approaches. Before joining Purdue in 2023, Dr. Liddell was a group leader at the energy consulting firm Energetics, where she worked closely with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop strategies for resource-efficient and decarbonized manufacturing in the United States. She holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and a PhD in materials science from the University of Rochester and completed postdoctoral training at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. As a Harrington Fellow, she looks forward to collaborating with colleagues at the Energy Institute and across UT to advance new energy systems modeling approaches for a rapidly evolving industrial economy.
Aashutosh Mistry
Aashutosh Mistry is an experimental theorist. Since Aug ‘23, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty fellow of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. His work is about developing next-generation energy technologies (e.g., batteries), cultivating the workforce supporting these futuristic technologies (through research, teaching, mentoring and service), and engaging the public for science advocacy. The development of next-generation energy technologies is intrinsically sluggish, given an incomplete understanding of how materials-scale behavior translates to the device-scale performance. Aashutosh’ group synergistically combines controlled experiments, physics-based theory, and machine learning to elucidate the mechanisms describing the predictable materials-to-devices connection. Some of the mechanisms they have uncovered are extended mixed conduction in intercalation hosts, physics of unexpected bulk motion of neutral species in polarized electrolytes, the relative importance of various molecular motions in defining electrolyte transport, deleterious effects of non-energy-storing phases in battery electrodes, and viscous effects opposing dewetting of pendant liquid drops.
Nicholas Vreugdenhil
Nicholas Vreugdenhil is an energy economist and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. His research combines economic theory and data to design efficient policies in settings including offshore oil and gas, electricity markets, and regulatory enforcement. His current work examines a question at the intersection of energy markets, consumer behavior, and environmental policy: as renewable energy reshapes electricity costs, how should we design menus of electricity price plans to maximize the welfare of consumers, utilities, and the environment?
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