Hojun Choi, PhD Hojun Choi, PhD Economics & Business Assistant Professor hojun.choi@mines.edu Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Energy | Environment | Foundations Research Focus Areas: Advanced Energy Systems & Integration | Critical Materials & Supply Chains | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Energy in Global Context | Environment Climate & Society | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance | Natural Resource Geopolitics & Economics Keywords: Conflict & Resource Management | Critical Materials / Minerals / Metals | Energy Policy | Environmental Policy | Global Supply Chains | Regulatory Policy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Supply Chain Resilience | Sustainable Resource Management
Rod Eggert, PhD Rod Eggert, PhD Economics & Business Research Professor reggert@mines.edu Website Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Foundations Research Focus Areas: Critical Materials & Supply Chains | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Entrepreneurship & Innovation | International Relations & Global Studies | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance | Natural Resource Geopolitics & Economics Keywords: Critical Materials / Minerals / Metals | Economic Modeling | Global Supply Chains | Mineral Economics | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Strategic Mineral Supply Chains | Supply Chain Resilience
Ben Gilbert, PhD Ben Gilbert, PhD Economics & Business Associate Professor bgilbert@mines.edu Website Affiliated Pillar(s): Energy | Environment | Foundations Research Focus Areas: Advanced Energy Systems & Integration | Carbon Management & Air Quality | Communication & Public Engagement | Decarbonizing Energy across Industries | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Energy in Global Context | Engineering Global Sustainability | Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future | Environment Climate & Society | Environmental & Climate Data Science | Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance Keywords: Economic Modeling | Energy Economics | Energy Policy | Environmental Policy | Innovation Adoption Barriers | International Trade & Energy Markets | Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy | Policy Analysis | Reducing Emissions | Resource Economics
Mohamed Khaled, PhD, PE Mohamed Khaled, PhD, PE Petroleum Engineering Assistant Professor mohamed.khaled@mines.edu Website Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Energy Research Focus Areas: Advanced Resource Extraction Production & Processing | Decarbonizing Energy across Industries | Earth & Planetary Processes | Engineering Solutions for a Safer Planet | Exploring the Subsurface through Modeling & Mapping | Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources | Natural Resource Geopolitics & Economics | Optimizing Fossil Fuels | Underground Infrastructure Development Keywords: 3D Geological Models | Borehole Data Interpretation | Critical Materials / Minerals / Metals | Decarbonizing Cement & Concrete | Economic Modeling | Energy Conversion | Energy Efficiency | Energy Systems Optimization | Energy Transition | Environmental Impacts of Energy | Geomechanics & Geomaterials | Geophysical Data Acquisition | Geotechnical Engineering | Geothermal Exploration & Energy Technologies | Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy | Mineral Economics | Mineral Exploration & Mapping | Modeling & Simulation | Natural Gas Exploration | Remote Sensing | Renewable & Alternative Energy Integration | Renewable Energy | Reservoir Characterization & Engineering | Reservoir Modeling | Resource Economics | Risk Assessment & Management | Rock & Soil Mechanics | Subsurface Fluid Dynamics | Subsurface Imaging & Mapping | Unconventional Reservoirs | Underground Construction & Tunnel Engineering | Underground Safety
Patrick Leach Patrick Leach Economics & Business Professor of Practice peleach@mines.edu Affiliated Pillar(s): Foundations Research Focus Areas: Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Engineering Global Sustainability | Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future | Ethics & Values | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance Keywords: Circular Economy | Climate Resilience | Corporate Social Responsibility | Data Ethics | Decarbonization Strategies | Economic Modeling | Energy & Society | Energy Economics | Environmental Justice | Environmental Policy | Ethics in STEM | Policy Analysis | Public Trust in Science & Technology | Regulatory Policy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Social Impacts of Science & Technology | Sustainable Resource Management | Systems Thinking | Techno-Economic Analysis
Hugh Miller, PhD, QP Hugh Miller, PhD, QP Mining Engineering Associate Professor hbmiller@mines.edu Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Foundations Research Focus Areas: Advanced Resource Extraction Production & Processing | Critical Materials & Supply Chains | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Entrepreneurship & Innovation Keywords: Autonomous / Robotic Mining Systems | Enhanced Mineral Extraction | Environmental Policy | In-Situ Recovery | Innovation in Engineering | Mineral Resource Assessment | Product & Business Development | Project-Based Learning | Regulatory Policy | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Responsible Innovation | Socially Responsible Engineering | Sustainable Resource Management | Techno-Economic Analysis | Technology Transfer
Jennifer Miskimins, PhD, PE Jennifer Miskimins, PhD, PE Petroleum Engineering Department Head & Professor jmiskimi@mines.edu Website Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Energy Research Focus Areas: Advanced Resource Extraction Production & Processing | Energy in Global Context | Exploring the Subsurface through Modeling & Mapping | Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources | Optimizing Fossil Fuels Keywords: 3D Geological Models | Advanced Resource Recovery | Decarbonization Strategies | Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing | Energy Economics | Energy Justice | Energy Systems Optimization | Energy-Water Nexus | Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery | Geothermal Exploration & Energy Technologies | In-Situ Recovery | International Trade & Energy Markets | Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy | Methane Emission Reduction | Modeling & Simulation | Natural Gas Exploration | Reducing Emissions | Regulatory Policy | Renewable & Alternative Energy Integration | Resource Economics | Subsurface Imaging & Mapping | Sustainable Resource Management
Steven Smith, PhD Steven Smith, PhD Economics & Business Associate Professor ssmith1@mines.edu Website Affiliated Pillar(s): Earth | Environment | Foundations Research Focus Areas: Clean & Sustainable Water Systems | Economic Feasibility & Social Acceptance | Intersections of Science Policy & Governance | Managing Earth's Water Resources Keywords: Energy-Water Nexus | Environmental Policy | Integrated Water Resource Management | Policy Analysis | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Sustainable Resource Management
Yunyang Ye, PhD Yunyang Ye, PhD Civil & Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor yunyang.ye@mines.edu Website Affiliated Pillar(s): Energy | Environment Research Focus Areas: Advanced Energy Systems & Integration | Carbon Management & Air Quality | Decarbonizing Energy across Industries | Energy in Global Context | Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Future | Environment Climate & Society | Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources Keywords: Advanced Resource Recovery | Carbon Neutral & Negative Construction Materials | Clean Technology Innovation | Climate Resilience | Community Engagement | Community-Based Research | Convergent Research | Data-Driven Energy Solutions | Decarbonization Strategies | Distributed Energy Resources | Electrical Grid Resilience | Energy & Society | Energy Conversion | Energy Economics | Energy Efficiency | Energy Policy | Energy Storage | Energy Systems Modeling | Energy Systems Optimization | Engineering & Social Justice | Environmental Impacts of Energy | Geothermal Exploration & Energy Technologies | Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy | Low- and Zero-Emission Vehicles | Onsite Energy Solutions | Process Optimization | Product Lifecycle & Sustainable Design | Reducing Emissions | Renewable & Alternative Energy Integration | Renewable Energy | Resilient Building Design | Resilient Infrastructure | Resource & Sustainability Policy | Resource Economics | Smart Buildings | Smart Cities | Socially Responsible Engineering | Sustainable Resource Management | Systems for Extreme Environments | Waste Heat Recovery | Waste to Resource