Research Staff
Mingzhou Jin
John D. Tickle Professor, Professor and Associate Head of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and ISSE Director
jin@utk.edu
865-974-1843
modeling and analysis for environment, sustainability and climate change; logistics, transportation, and supply chain management (LTS lab director); operations research and data analytics; advanced manufacturing
Websites: https://ise.utk.edu/people/mingzhou-jin/ and https://ise.utk.edu/lab-center/logistics-transportation-and-supply-chain-engineering-lts-lab/
Jason Brown
Research Associate II
jrbrown@utk.edu
environmental monitoring technology, stream restoration, water quality modeling, watershed management and environmental chemistry
Chien-fei Chen
Research Associate Professor
Director of Energy and Environmental Justice
cchen26@utk.edu
environmental sociology, pro-environmental behavior, renewable energy adoption, energy justice
https://chien-fei-chen.wixsite.com/chien-fei-chen
Tim Ezzell
Assistant Research Professor
tezzell@utk.edu
865-974-9036
Appalachian development, rural sustainability, historic preservation, participatory planning, sustainable tourism
Tim Gangaware
Research Director, Tennessee Water Resources Research Center
gangwrrc@utk.edu
865-974-4777
water resources, erosion prevention and sediment control, stormwater management, hydrologic determination
Terry Hazen
Governor’s Chair and Methane Center Director
Methane Center
tchazen@utk.edu
865-974-7709
bioremediation, microbial ecology, climate change, systems engineering
Website: http://hazenlab.utk.edu
Steven Hoagland
Research Associate II
hoagland@utk.edu
Appalachian Community Technical Assistance and Training Program, water distribution systems analysis, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
Nawei Liu
Research Associate
nliu13@vols.utk.edu
alternative fuel refueling infrastructure modeling, electric vehicle research, and transportation modeling
Jiafu Mao
ORNL Joint Faculty Professor
jmao@utk.edu
understanding hydrology, carbon cycling, and vegetation dynamics in the Earth terrestrial ecosystems using field measurements, satellite data, process-oriented land surface and Earth system models
Jonathan Overly
Director, East Tennessee Clean Fuels
jgoverly@utk.edu
865-974-3625
alternative fuel vehicle technology adoption, fleet, outreach, education, grant assistance, program management, natural gas, electric, propane, biodiesel, ethanol, EV, electric vehicles
John Schwartz
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and
Director of Tennessee Water Resources Research Center
jschwart.utk.edu
865-974-8920
watershed management, water quality analysis, river mechanics, fluvial geomorphology, stream restoration, ecological engineering, ecological assessment
Danniel Siksay
Chief of Staff, East Tennessee Clean Fuels
dsiksay@utk.edu
865-309-6657/974-9665
alternative fuel vehicle technology adoption
Ian Simpson
Research Associate III
isimpson@utk.edu
stormwater management, water resources, hydrology, nonpoint source pollution, green infrastructure, ecological engineering
Catherine Wilt
Research Associate
catwilt@utk.edu
865-974-1915
sustainable development, social justice, sustainable regional systems
Yulong Zhang
Assistant Research Professor
ylzhang@utk.edu
wildfire modeling, remote sensing of vegetation dynamics, carbon and water coupling, earth system modeling
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/planetlab/home
Support Staff
Kellie Caughorn
Administrative Assistant, Tennessee Water Resources Research Center
kcaughor@utk.edu
865-974-2151
Savannah Robertson
DriveElectricTN Coordinator, East TN Clean Fuels
savannah@driveelectrictn.org
865-974-5293
