Research Areas
Our interdisciplinary research spans six key areas, each addressing critical challenges in building resilient, equitable, and sustainable communities through innovative social-psychological and technological approaches.
View Google Scholar Profile →This direction aims to advance energy transitions and environmental protections by informing policy frameworks that address energy affordability, extreme weather exposure, and environmental impacts. Ensuring that the public have access to resources, participation, and benefits within environmental governance.
This direction aims to build holistic resilience across social systems, climate risk, and critical infrastructure by enhancing community adaptability, strengthening grid reliability, and improving disaster readiness through integrated planning and innovation.
This direction seeks to bridge society, infrastructure, and technology to strengthen urban and regional responses to social, environmental, and energy stressors, translating convergent insights into adaptive and effective designs and governance.
This direction explores how motivations, perceptions, norms, and lived experiences shape energy use and technology adoption, informing policies and interventions that foster durable, user-centered, and pro-environmental behaviors.
This direction promotes ethical, transparent, and equitable use of data and AI to advance socially responsible research, reducing data bias and expanding public access to trustworthy, decision-relevant insights.
This direction develops participatory models and behavioral strategies that strengthen social cohesion, empower communities in decision-making, and catalyze long-term engagement and transformative change.