Who We Are
We are a group of enthusiastic researchers, who are motivated by grand challenges in energy and environmental science. We contribute to the global effort of building a better and sustainable future with the assistance of our best helper: computer. We are passionate team players, whose success will contribute to the growth of the lab and revive the loudest cheers from the rest of the team. If you share our values, please stop by and have a coffee with us.
What We Do
We focus on developing theoretical frameworks and computational methods to accelerate the discovery of materials. In particular, we are interested in catalytic materials and other functional materials that enable efficient chemical transformation and energy storage. Instead of doing wet chemistry, we run virtual experiments on High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, where chemical reactions and materials are simulated at the atomic scale.
Find Us
Phone: | +1(860) 486-2756 |
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E-mail: | liang.zhang-cbe@uconn.edu |
Address: | Engineering II, Room 282 191 Auditorium Road, Unit 3222 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3222 |
News
- Welcome, Henry Sokol!Henry, Welcome to CCML! You are about to begin a challenging, yet engaging and fruitful journey.
- CCML Website Launched.It is official now.
- 08/23/2018 Dr. Liang Zhang joined CBE@UCONNUConn Engineering Welcomes Twelve New Faculty, Increases Focus on Faculty Diversity
Upcoming CCM Lab and CBE Events
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Apr
6
CBE Seminar - Dr. Oksan Bayulgen, University of Connecticut - "What's politics got to do with it? Interests, Institutions, and Power in Energy Transitions"9:30am
CBE Seminar - Dr. Oksan Bayulgen, University of Connecticut - "What's politics got to do with it? Interests, Institutions, and Power in Energy Transitions"
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Storrs Campus GN (IMS) 20
Abstract: The urgency of climate change necessitates asking why a clean energy transition in the world is not happening fast enough and at a scale that effectively erodes the dominance of fossil fuels. In academic and policy circles, there is a tendency to explain the reasons for stalled or tepid clean energy transitions by citing the technological and market barriers to renewable energy deployment. Yet technology and market determinacy crowds out alternative explanations and leads only to technocratic solutions that do not take into account the complex socioeconomic and political landscape where energy decisions are made. In this talk, Dr. Bayulgen will bring politics into focus for understanding clean energy transitions. With examples from her own research, teaching and advocacy work, she will highlight the importance of political variables and theories in explaining why certain energy pathways are prioritized over others and how energy reforms are enacted, implemented, and sustained over time. She will argue that energy transitions are neither inevitable nor linear and that interests, and the institutional context that shape power dynamics determine the nature, direction, and pace of energy transitions.
Speaker biography: Dr. Oksan Bayulgen is a political scientist with specialization on energy transitions, environmental politics, democratization and development. She has conducted extensive field work in Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Norway, and Turkey with the help of numerous external and university grants. Her first book (Cambridge University Press 2010) was on the relationship between regime types and foreign investments in the oil industry. She has numerous articles in leading journals such as Environmental Politics, Energy Research and Social Science, Journal of Human Rights, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and International Studies Review. She teaches courses on politics in developing countries, politics of oil, introduction to comparative politics, politics and foreign policies of Russia, democratization, and sustainable energy. Her most recent book (Michigan University Press, 2022) is on the politics of clean energy development in developing countries. She is currently the department head of Political Science and director of Environmental Studies at UConn.
Livestream link: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/lqwurContact Information: Katie O'Keefe, katie.okeefe@uconn.edu, (860) 486-6096
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