Dr. Bryan Norton is a Professor of Philosophy in the School of Public Policy. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1970, specializing in the philosophy of science and conceptual change in, and across, scientific disciplines. He writes on inter-generational equity, sustainability theory, bio-diversity policy and on valuation methods. His specialty is the integration of spatio-temporal scaling considerations into sustainability criteria. He is currently working to develop a flexible notion of sustainability that recognizes the challenges of rapidly changing climate.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, Philosophy, 1970
• BA, University of Michigan, Political Science, 1966

Awards and
Distinctions:

• Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.
• Gilbert White Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1985-56 (one-year Research Fellowship in residence at Resources, for the Future, Washington, D.C.)
• Graduated with Distinction, and Honors in Political Science, U. of Mich.,1966

Areas of
Expertise:

• Biodiversity Policy
• Conservation History
• Ecological Economics
• Environmental Decision Making
• Philosophy Of Conservation Biology
• Sustainability Theory
• Thought Of Aldo Leopold

Research Interests

• Creating, understanding, and engineering nanoporous materials and membranes through innovative processing strategies.
• Basic and applied problems in advanced separations, process intensification, energy production and storage, petro- and bio-based chemicals and materials, and critical materials.

Teaching Interests

Professor Nair’s teaching interests encompass core chemical engineering principles at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including separations, process safety engineering, and advanced materials. His instruction emphasizes foundational concepts and their practical applications, aiming to develop strong analytical and problem-solving skills. He actively engages students in learning processes that integrate theoretical knowledge with experimental understanding, supporting development across chemical engineering disciplines.

Education

B.Tech ChE 1997, Indian Institute of Technology DelhiM.S. Physics 2002, Univ. of Massachusetts AmherstPh.D. ChE 2002, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst

Recent Publications

VD Brandão, O Long, S Zhong, R Fushio, A Venkataraman, H Song, ..., Local pH Effects on the Temperature Dependence of Product Formation in CO2 Electrolyzers, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026

M Realff, Q Fu, Y Chiang, S Nair, Adsorption System and Process for Biofuel Precursor and Adsorbent Material for the Same, US Patent App. 19/068,859, 2025

N Yutthasaksunthorn, KSK Zaw, SA Sinquefield, S Nair, Pillared and Reduced Graphene Oxide Membranes for Organic Solvent Nanofiltration, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 64 (38), 18817-18825, 2025

OA Ojelade, S Nair, CW Jones, Thermodynamic Analysis of the Hydrodeoxygenation of Hydroxy Acid Mixtures, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 64 (47), 22552-22562, 2025

N Yutthasaksunthorn, Y Chang, VS Nguyen, KSK Zaw, SA Sinquefield, ..., Graphene Oxide Membranes for Sustainable Recycling: Poly (styrene) Fractionation by Organic Solvent Nanofiltration, ACS Engineering Au, 2025

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Jim Mulholland is a Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell in 1979, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 1981, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1992. Between M.S. and Ph.D., he worked for an energy R&D firm and as a research engineer at EPA's air research center. He has been on the faculty in the Environmental Engineering Program at Georgia Tech since 1993. His research includes study of the formation and control of air pollutants, in particular organic combustion byproducts, and air quality data analysis for use in epidemiologic studies.

Research

Combustion byproduct formation and control, Incineration, Thermochemistry of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and chlorinated aromatic species, Molecular modeling, Spatio-temporal analysis of ambient air pollutants

Martin Mourigal received the B.S in Materials from Ecole des Mines de Nancy in 2004. He later received his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL) located in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow in John Hopkins University from 2011 until 2014. He joined Georgia Tech in 2015 and is currently an assistant professor in the School of Physics. Mourigal's lab focuses on the study of collective electronic and magnetic phenomena in quantum materials. His research exploits the unique strengths of neutron and X-ray scattering to probe the organization and the dynamics of matter at the nanoscale.In addition to his own lab research, Mourigal is the co-director of the Georgia Tech Quantum Alliance, a university wide program that will work towards solving problems in optimization, cryptography, and artificial intelligence. Mourigal was awarded the Cullen Peck Faculty Scholar Award from Georgia Tech in 2019. He was also awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for excellence as a young educator and researcher in 2018.

Benoit Montreuil is the Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He also serves as Director of the Physical Internet Center and Executive Director of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute. 

Dr. Montreuil is leading the International Physical Internet Initiative, engaging academic, industry and government leaders worldwide into research and innovation projects on smart, hyperconnected and sustainable logistics, supply chains, transportation, businesses and regions. 

His main research interests generically lie in developing concepts, methodologies and technologies for creating, optimizing, transforming and enabling businesses, supply chains and value creation networks to thrive in a fast evolving hyperconnected world. 

He stands at the crossroads of industrial and systems engineering; operations research; computer sciences; operations, logistics, supply chain, strategic management; and sustainability science. His research builds mostly on a synthesis of optimization modeling and mathematical programming, discrete & agent-based simulation modeling, systems science & design theory. 

Dr. Montreuil is a world-renowned scientist who has introduced in collaboration with students and colleagues an imposing set of paradigm-challenging leading edge contributions through nearly four decades of research, shared through 250 scientific publications, 250 scientific communications and numerous keynote speeches at international scientific and professional conferences. He has extensive advisory, entrepreneurial and collaborative research experience with industry and government. 

Through his career, he has received numerous awards, recently including DC Velocity’s Rainmaker of the Year and The Physical Internet Pioneer Award for his outstanding and inspiring vision. 

From 2000 to 2014, Dr. Montreuil has held the Canada Research Chair in Business Engineering. He is a founding member of the CIRRELT Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation. He is also past president of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education and its Liaison to the Board of Governors of MHI, the North American industry association of material handling, logistics and supply chain solutions and technology providers. 

Dr. Montreuil graduated in 1978 from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1980 and 1982 respectively. After serving on the industrial engineering faculty of UQTR and Purdue University, from 1988 to 2014, he was a Professor of operations and decisions systems in the faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

Patricia Mokhtarian is a Regents Professor and the Clifford and William Greene, Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2013, she served 23 years on the CEE faculty at the University of California, Davis, after spending several years in regional transportation planning and consulting in Southern California.  Prof. Mokhtarian has specialized in the study of attitudinal influences on travel behavior for more than 45 years, and has authored or co-authored nearly 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as numerous book chapters and research reports.  She is among the most highly-cited scholars in travel behavior research, with more than 41,000 citations and an h-index of 98 (Google Scholar). She is a past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from that society in 2021.  Prof. Mokhtarian was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2024, and serves on the editorial boards of ten transportation journals.

Research

A key research interest has been the impact of telecommunications technology on travel behavior (particularly teleworking adoption and impacts). Additional interests include the influence of the built environment on travel behavior, accounting for self-selection biases in modeling behavior, attitudes toward travel itself, time use and multitasking, incorporating attitudes into practice-oriented travel demand forecasting models, impacts of autonomous vehicles, congestion-response behavior, and subjective well-being.

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1981

M.S., Northwestern University, 1977

B.A., Florida State University, 1975

Teaching

At the undergraduate level, Prof. Mokhtarian teaches upper-division probability and statistics, and at the graduate level she teaches statistical analysis, survey (questionnaire) design and analysis, and discrete choice modeling.

Distinctions & Awards

• Invited speaker, endowed lecture series: “How Much Do Attitudinal Variables Improve Travel Demand Models?  Evaluation Using an Overlap Sample from an Attitude-rich Survey and the 2017 National Household Travel Survey”. University of Michigan, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Richart-Woods Lecture, February 13, 2025.
• Appointed Regents’ Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024.
• Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2024.
• In 2024, my student Dr. Xinyi Wang received the prestigious and competitive Eric I. Pas Dissertation Prize of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, given to the best doctoral thesis in travel behavior in the world, among those completed in calendar year 2023.
• Best PhD Thesis Award to my student Dr. Xinyi Wang, Sigma Xi, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024.
• Best PhD Thesis Award to my student Dr. Xinyi Wang, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023.
• “Latent class model with an error structure: Investigating potential unobserved associations between latent segmentation and behavior generation” (by Sung Hoo Kim and Patricia L. Mokhtarian) selected for the Outstanding Paper Award of Committee AEP 35 (The Effects of Information and Communication Technologies on Transportation Choices) of the Transportation Research Board, 2024 Annual Meeting.
• One of six members (and the only woman) of the inaugural class of Northwestern University Transportation Center Fellows, recognizing “impactful contributions to the transportation profession in research, policy, practice or education, and special connections to the Transportation Center and Northwestern University”, November 17, 2023.
• My students won the (U.S.) Council of University Transportation Centers Wootan Awards for Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Policy & Planning (F. Atiyya Shaw) and Outstanding MS Thesis in Policy & Planning (Xinyi Wang), in 2021.
• International Association for Travel Behaviour Research 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award, given to someone who has “made fundamental and sustained contributions to travel behaviour research for a substantial period (typically at least 25 years) up to the present time”; is “widely known, at the very least among the IATBR community”; and has “influenced the field through her/his writings, teaching, service, and nurturing of younger professionals”, June 2, 2021 online, and December 14, 2022 in person.
• Outstanding Industry Contributor Award, “given to an individual who in embodying the Zephyr Principles, has selflessly contributed to the good of the industry through the body of their work”, bestowed by the Zephyr Foundation (https://zephyrtransport.org/), a non-profit dedicated to “advancing rigorous transportation and land use decision-making for the public good by advocating for and supporting improved travel analysis, and facilitating its implementation”, March 24, 2021.
• Clifford and William Greene, Jr. Professorship, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021 – present.
• Named a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, February 5, 2020.

Johannes Milz is an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His research focuses on optimization under uncertainty and optimal control of uncertain systems, with a strong emphasis on sustainability applications. By addressing large-scale optimization challenges in physics-based models under uncertainty, he aims to contribute to the development of sustainable energy systems, such as renewable tidal energy farms. Dr. Milz is also dedicated to open science; he develops reproducible numerical simulations and shares them publicly, making his results accessible to a broad group of researchers and practitioners. Prior to joining ISyE, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, where he earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 2021.