People Type: Affiliate Faculty and Staff

McAndrews, Carey

Biography Carolyn (Carey) McAndrews is a professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her fields of research are transportation planning, policy, and design. Her research seeks to understand how emerging health, safety, and environmental goals become part of mainstream transportation decision making. Equity is central to these goals, and …

Pfefferkorn, Frank

Biography Doctor Pfefferkorn is a professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering program at UW–Madison. He earned his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (2002). His research goal is to build a scientific understanding of advanced manufacturing processes, …

Reinemann, Douglas

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Roald, Line

Biography Line Roald’s research focuses on modeling and optimization of energy systems to ensure reliable grid operations as renewable sources such as solar and wind replace traditional forms of generation such as coal and nuclear. Her group is developing mathematical tools and software implementations to model and optimize system operation and energy markets, while taking into account the impact of uncertain …

Schmitz, Oliver

Biography Passionate scientist and technologist, eager to drive innovation in the technical domains of multi-disciplinary, complex research environments and their support in an equitable, diverse and inclusive fashion.

Timmins, Christopher

Biography Christopher Timmins is the Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. Professor Timmins specializes in urban and environmental economics, but he also has interests in industrial organization, development, public and regional economics. He works on developing new methods for non-market …

Turner, Matt

Vimont, Dan

Biography I have a broad set of research interests that generally focus on understanding mechanisms of climate variability and climate change, interactions between weather and climate, and global and regional impacts of climate change. In support of these research interests I use observational analyses, designed experiments using models of varying complexity, simple and advanced statistical …

Wang, Bu

Biography Bu leads the Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab in the CEE department (SMIL-CEE). The lab’s mission is to develop innovative and interdisciplinary technological solutions to address the urgent need for sustainable civil engineering materials.

Zahasky, Christopher

Biography Dr. Christopher Zahasky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geoscience and the Principle Investigator of the Subsurface Hydrophysics Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also has affiliate faculty appointments Geological Engineering and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Chris completed his undergraduate degree in Geology at the University of Minnesota and …