Consortium Leadership

  • Themis Sapsis

    Themis Sapsis

    William Koch Professor of Marine Technology, Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering

  • Fotini Christia

    Fotini Christia

    Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences, Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Faculty Steering Committee

  • Elsa Olivetti

    Elsa Olivetti

    Jerry McAfee Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of Decarbonization Mission at the MIT Climate Project

  • Gioele Zardini

    Gioele Zardini

    Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Jacopo Buongiorno

    Jacopo Buongiorno

    Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering; Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems; Director, Science and Technology, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory

  • John Hart

    John Hart

    Class of 1922 Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity

  • Michael Triantafyllou 

    Michael Triantafyllou 

    Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering; Director, MIT Sea Grant

Affiliated Faculty

  • CAPT Andrew Gillespy

    CAPT Andrew Gillespy

    Professor of the Practice, Naval Construction and Engineering Program

  • CDR Christopher MacLean

    CDR Christopher MacLean

    Associate Professor of the Practice, Naval Construction and Engineering Program

  • Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis

    Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis

    Emeritus Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering

  • Dick Yue

    Dick Yue

    Philip J. Solondz (1948) Professor

  • Elenna Dugundji

    Elenna Dugundji

    Research Scientist, Center for Transportation and Logistics

  • Faez Ahmed

    Faez Ahmed

    Doherty Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization

  • Julie Chalfant

    Julie Chalfant

    Research Scientist

  • Koroush Shirvan

    Koroush Shirvan

    Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professor in Energy Studies

  • Kripa Varanasi

    Kripa Varanasi

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the MIT Deshpande Center

  • Michael Benjamin

    Michael Benjamin

    Senior Research Scientist

  • Navid Azizan

    Navid Azizan

    Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor

  • Noelle Selin

    Noelle Selin

    Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and IDSS Director of the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy.

  • Saurabh Amin

    Saurabh Amin

    Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering

  • Sherrie Wang

    Sherrie Wang

    Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & IDSS

  • Wim Van Rees

    Wim Van Rees

    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

  • Yuming Liu

    Yuming Liu

    Senior Research Scientist