Faculty Contacts
NPS Defense Energy Programs are interdisciplinary, shared by organizational units throughout the campus. A wide range of NPS faculty are affiliated with the Energy program, actively participating in Energy graduate education, Energy executive education and Energy research.
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Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (GSEAS)
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
- Bob Ashton, Associate Professor
Power Electronics
View Faculty Page - Roberto Cristi, Professor
Signal Processing and Control for electronic power
View Faculty Page - Alex Julian, Associate Professor
Power Electronics, Electronic Machines, Controls, EMI
View Faculty Page - Sherif Michael, Professor
Analog VLSI, Electronics, Radiation Effects, Space Photovoltaics
View Faculty Page - Giovanna Oriti, Associate Professor
Electric ship systems, power electronics, Energy Management Systems
View Faculty Page - Clark Robertson, Professor
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MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
- Luke Brewer, Associate Professor
High temperature materials
View Faculty Page - Christopher Brophy, Associate Professor
Biofuels, combustion, advanced cycles
View Faculty Page - Joe Farmer, Visiting professor
Batteries - Anthony Gannon, Research Assistant Professor
Renewable Energy (Wind/Solar), gas/steam turbines, engines, HVAC, turbomachinery, advanced cycles - Garth Hobson, Professor
Turbomachinery
View Faculty Page - Jack Lloyd, Distinguished Visiting Professor
Energy and the environment, heat transfer
View Faculty Page - Claudia Luhrs, Associate Professor
Nano-MEMS energy materials Researcher and Advisor - Knox Millsaps, Professor & Chair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Biofuels, gas/steam turbines, diesels, engines, HVAC, turbomachinery, advanced cycles - Max Platzer, Emeritus Professor
Aerodynamics and structures in energy systems
View Faculty Page - Sanjeev Sathe, Associate Professor
Heat Transfer, Energy Systems, Advanced Cycles, Thermodynamics
PHYSICS
- Andres Larraza, Professor
MEMS-based energy harvesting devices
View Faculty Page - Sebastian Osswald, Assistant Professor
Nano-MEMS energy materials
View Faculty Page - Peter Crooker, Senior Lecturer
Instructor - Fundamentals of Energy
View Faculty Page - Dragoslav Grbovic, Research Assistant
MEMs systems for energy conversion
View Faculty Page - Joseph Hooper, Assistant Professor
Energetic/New materials
View Faculty Page - Jonathan Phillips, Research Professor
High dielectric constant, energy storage materials
View Faculty Page - Nancy Haegel, Professor
Transport imaging in solar cell materials
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SPACE SYSTEMS ACADEMIC GROUP
- Jennifer L. Rhatigan, NASA Chair, Visiting Professor
Spacecraft Thermal Control, Energy Systems, Combustion, Heat Transfer
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
- Cliff Whitcomb, Professor & Chair, Systems
Engineering - Fernand Marquis, Research Professor (Meyer Institute)
Instructor, Energy Courses
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Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences (GSOIS)
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
- Jim Eagle, Professor
Military Modeling
View Faculty Page - Daniel Nussbaum, Professor
Energy: Return on Investment; Cost Benefit Analysis, Cost Estimating
View Faculty Page - Steven Pilnick, Associate Professor
View Faculty Page - Emily Craparo, Research Assistant Professor
Instructor - Operations Research for Energy Systems Analysis
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MODELING, VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SIMULATION INSTITUTE (MOVES)
School of International Graduate Studies (SIGS)
NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
- Nazneen Barma, Assistant Professor
Political economy of natural resource management; pathways to resource conflict
View Faculty Page - Dan Moran, Professor
Energy politics and security, resource conflict, climate and environmental politics
View Faculty Page - Harold Trinkunas, Associate Professor
Instructor - EN4XX1
View Faculty Page - Maiah Jaskoski, Assistant Professor
Security contracting for mining & hydrocarbon interests; social protest, private sector & state institutions in mining conflicts, Latin America - Feroz Khan, Visiting Faculty
Nuclear energy, safety, security, and non-proliferation; energy corridors and resource politics - Bob Looney, Professor
International economic implication of oil and resources
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DEFENSE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
- Robert (Wythe) Davis, Lecturer
- David Henderson, Associate Professor (Instructor, Energy Economics)
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Campus
- Ann Jacobson, Supervisory Librarian
Consolidating and adding energy-related resources in library to support energy mission - Jeffrey Rothal, Librarian
MMOWGLI Energy game; Library's webpage of energy information resources - Doug Moses, Vice Provost
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Chair, Energy Core Group
View Faculty Page - Mary Sims, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
Energy Programs Manager

