Affiliated Researchers

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment. Currently, 996 faculty and researchers from across Penn State, including the Commonwealth campuses, are affiliates of IEE.

Dylan Davis


Ph.D. Student

Felecia Davis


Associate Professor, Architecture
Top research keywords: Textiles, Electronics, Emotion, Communication, Mirrors

Kenneth Davis


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Troposphere, Net Ecosystem Exchange

Marcia Maria de Oliveira Buanafina


Research Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Feruloyl Esterase, Cell Wall, Festuca, Festuca Arundinacea, Arabinoxylan

Andrew Deans


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Hymenoptera, Wasps, Wasp, Evaniidae, Megaspilidae

Dennis Decoteau


Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Ozone, Far-red Light, Watermelons, Tomatoes, Petioles

Ali Demirci


Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Fermentation, Biofilms, Ultraviolet Rays, Ultraviolet Radiation, Inactivation

Melik Demirel


Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Proteins, Protein, Liquid Film, Thin Films, Polymers

Claude dePamphilis


Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Magnoliopsida, Genes, Genome, Gene, Plastids

Satadru Dey


Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Lithium-ion Batteries, Hot Temperature, Failure Analysis, Ions, Battery Management Systems

Suvrat Dhanorkar


Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems
Top research keywords: Supply Chains, Manufacturing, Buyers, Empirical Investigation, Electronic Waste

Francesco Di Gioia


Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Disinfestation, Microgreens, Tomatoes, Soil, Lycopersicon Esculentum

Roman Dibiase


Associate Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Bedrock, Hillslope, Erosion Rate, Sediments, Erosion

Anthony C. Didlake Jr.


Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Rainband, Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone, Updraft, Radar

Duane Diefenbach


Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology
Top research keywords: Deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, Harvest, Lynx Rufus, Hunters

Min Ding


Bard Professor, Marketing
Top research keywords: Incentives, Conjoint Analysis, Willingness-to-pay, New Product Development, Consumer Preferences

Francisco Dini-Andreote


Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Soil, Microbiota, Rhizosphere, Ecosystem, Microbiome

Ida Djenontin


Assistant Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Malawi, Restoration, Sustainable Agricultural Intensification, Forest Restoration, Burkina Faso

Alejandra Domic


Post Doctoral Scholar in Paleoethnobotany

Michael Donovan



Top research keywords: Child Welfare, Opioid Analgesics, Psychologist, Research Personnel, Costs And Cost Analysis

Frank Dorman


Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Nutifafa Yao Doumon


Assistant Professor and Virginia S. & Philip L. Walker Jr. Faculty Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Organic Solar Cells, Solar Cells, Fullerenes, Perovskite Solar Cells, Solar Cell

Lorraine Dowler


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Geopolitics, Gender, Woman, Nationalism, Politics

Patrick Drew


Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Neurovascular Coupling, Brain, Hemodynamics, Vibrissae, Arterioles

William Driscoll



Top research keywords: Altruism, Allelopathy, Sociobiology, Eutrophication, Haptophyta

Patrick Drohan


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Soil, Appalachian Region, Shale Gas, Charcoal, Hydric Soils

Jing Du


Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Bone, Implant, Strain, Tooth, Bone And Bones

José Duarte


Professor and Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Grammar, 3D Printers, Concretes, Fabrication, Urban Planning

Edward Dudley


Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Serogroup, Escherichia Coli O157, Escherichia Coli, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, Virulence

Sjoerd W. Duiker


Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: No-tillage, Cover Crops, Tillage, Corn, Soil

Jonathan Duncan


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Watershed, Catchment, Nitrate, Hillslope, Nitrogen

Dorukalp Durmus


Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Light Sources, Color, Lighting, Light Emitting Diodes, Energy Efficiency

Nelson Yaw Dzade


Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Density Functional Theory, Adsorption, Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, Surface, Nanorods

William Easterling III


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Crop, Climate, Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator, Maize

Daniel Eaton


Assistant Teaching Professor, Nursing

Tracy Eaton


College Health Nurse, Health and Wellness

Aida Ebrahimi


Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Top research keywords: Silicon, Sensors, Hydrogenation, Graphene, Substrates

Stuart Patton Echols


Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Stormwater Management, Stormwater, Rainwater, Runoff, Water

Deborah Ehrenthal


Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Mothers, Pregnancy, Medicaid, Parturition, Pregnancy Outcome

Herschel Elliott


Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Biosolids, Biosolid, Phosphorus, Soils, Manures