The Conn Center facilitates the exchange of expertise and interest for Kentucky institutions and industries focused on renewable energy and energy conservation to develop clean, reliable, affordable energy sources that improve our energy security, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and provide economic prosperity. The Center partners with core faculty at the University of Louisville and associated faculty at the University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, Western Kentucky University, Northern Kentucky University, and Kentucky State University to address our research themes. Find out more below about these outstanding researchers.

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University of Louisville

• Suraj Alexander - Professor, Chair, Industrial Engineering

• Bruce Alphenaar - Professor, Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• Delaina Amos - Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Sundar Atre - Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Lihui Bai - Professor, Industrial Engineering

• Richard Baldwin - Professor, Analytical Chemistry

• Thomas Berfield - Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Eric Berson - Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Robert Buchanan - Professor, Chemistry, Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts & Sciences

• Adel Elmaghraby - Professor and Chair, Computer Engineering & Computer Science; Director, Innovative & Emerging Technologies Lab

• Sarah Emory - Associate Professor, Biology

• Mark French - Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Hichem Frigui - Professor, Computer Engineering & Computer Science

• Xiao-An "Sean" Fu - Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Craig Grapperhaus - Professor and Chair, Chemistry

• Gautum Gupta - Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Gerald B."GB" Hammond - Professor, Chemistry

• Sachin Handa - Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Cindy Harnett - Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• Paul Himes - Assistant Professor, Biology

• Chakram Jayanthi - Professor and Chairperson, Physics & Astronomy

• Kunal Kate - Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Yongsheng Lian - Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Jinjun Liu - Associate Professor, Chemistry

• W. Mark McGinley - Professor & Endowed Chair for Infrastructure Research, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Michael McIntyre - Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• Sergio Mendes - Professor, Physics & Astronomy

• John Naber - Professor, Associate Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• Olfa Nasraoui - Professor, Computer Engineering & Computer Science

• Sam Park - Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Glen Prater - Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, NSF I/UCRC for Electric Vehicles/Sustainable Transportation Systems

• Farshid Ramezanipour - Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Thomas Rockaway - Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Mark P. Running - Associate Professor, Biology

• Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh - Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

• David Schultz - Associate Professor, Biology

• Keith Sharp - Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Renewable Energy Applications Laboratory (REAL)

• Tom Starr - Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Gamini Sumanasekera - Associate Professor, Physics; Theme Leader, Conn Center

• Zhihui Sun - Professor and Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Mahendra Sunkara - Professor, Chemical Engineering; Director, Conn Center

• Michael Tseng - Professor, School of Medicine​

• Kevin Walsh - Samuel T. Fife Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Associate Dean for Research, JB Speed School of Engineering

• Hui Wang - Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Gerold Willing - Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Li Yang, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

• Frank Zamborini - Professor, Analytical Chemistry

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University of Kentucky

• Rodney Andrews - Professor, Chemical Engineering; Director, Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER)

• John Anthony - Hubbard Professor of Chemistry

• Joe Chappell - Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences

• Yang-Tse Cheng - Professor, Materials Engineering

• Don Colliver - Professor, Controlled Environment Systems

• Mark Crocker - Associate Director, Biofuels & Environmental Catalysts; Senior Scientist, CAER

• Czarena Crofcheck - Associate Professor, Food & Bioprocess Engineering

• Seth Debolt - Assistant Professor, Horticulture

• Uschi Graham - Scientist, Clean Fuels & Chemicals, CAER

• Eric Grulke - Professor, Chemical Engineering; Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies; Director, Electron Microscope Center

• David Hildebrand - Professor, Plant Biochemistry & Genetics

• Bruce Hinds - Associate Professor & William Bryan Professor, Materials Engineering

• Gerald Huffman - Professor, Chemical & Materials Engineering

• Barbara Knutson - Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Steve Lipka - Associate Director, Electrochemical Power Sources, CAER

• Mark Meier - Professor, Chemistry

• Pinar Menguc - Engineering Alumni Association Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Madhu Menon - Associate Professor, Physics

• Luke Moe - Assistant Professor, Environmental Genomics & Biochemistry

• Michael Montross - Associate Professor, Food & Bioprocess Engineering

• Sue Nokes - Professor, Food & Bioprocess Engineering

• Steve Rankin - Associate Professor and a Gill Professor, Chemical Engineering

• Scott Shearer - Professor and Department Chair, Machine Systems Automation Engineering

• Vijay Singh - Earl Parker Robinson Chair in Engineering Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Director, Center for Nanoscale Science & Engineering

• Ray Smith - Extension Professor, Plant & Soil Sciences

• Darrell Taulbee - Scientist, Power Generation & Utility Fuels, CAER

• Ling Yuan - Associate Professor, Plant & Soil Sciences

• Xuguo "Joe" Zhou - Assisstant Professor, Insect Integrative Genomics

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Eastern Kentucky University

• Martin Brock - Associate Professor, Chemistry

• Alice Jones - Professor, Geography & Geology; Director, Environmental Research Institute

• Don Llewellyn - Assistant Professor, Agriculture

• Laurel Morton - Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Frank O'Connor - Professor, Economics

• Bruce Pratt - Professor, Agriculture; Director, Center for Renewable and Alternative Fuel Technologies (CRAFT)

• Buchang Shi - Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Darrin Smith - Associate Professor, Chemistry

• Nathan Tice - Assistant Professor, Chemistry

• Rebekah Waikel - Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

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Western Kentucky University

• Blaine Ferrell - Professor, Biology; Dean, Ogden College of Science & Engineering

• Sanju Gupta, - Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy

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Northern Kentucky University

• Keith Walters - Associate Professor, Chemistry

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Northern Kentucky University

• Kazi Javed - Professor, Chemistry; Director, KSU Center for Environmental Education