Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

  • Andrews, Clinton

    • Title: Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Director
    • Department / Research Program: Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy/ Urban Planning and Policy Development
    • Email: CJA1@RUTGERS.EDU
    • Phone: 848-932-2808
    • Detailed Profile: http://bloustein.rutgers.edu/andrews/
    • Research Areas: Policy, Building efficiency, Simulation modeling, Human behavior, Green buildings, Electric utilities
    • Energy Research Focus: Behavioral, policy and planning aspects of energy use in the built environment

  • Herb, Jeanne

    • Title: Executive Director
    • Department / Research Program: Environmental Analysis and Communications Group; Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
    • Email: jherb@ejb.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-2725
    • Detailed Profile: http://eac.rutgers.edu/jeanne-herb-associate-director/
    • Research Areas: Climate Change, public policy, participatory decision-making, science communication, environmental justice, community engagement, vulnerable populations.
    • Energy Research Focus: Framing science informed clean energy and climate change public policy. Engaging a variety of decision-makers and stakeholders in science-informed policy development.

  • Kopp, Robert

    • Title: Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Director,Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences
    • Department / Research Program: Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Email: robert.kopp@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 732-200-2705
    • Detailed Profile: http://www.bobkopp.net/
    • Research Areas: Policy, Economics, Integrated Assessment
    • Energy Research Focus: Climate and energy decision-making under uncertainty

  • Noland, Robert B.

    • Title: Distinguished Professor, Director of Voorhees Transportation Center, Director of PhD Program in Planning and Public Policy
    • Department / Research Program: Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Voorhees Transportation Center, PhD Program in Planning and Public Policy
    • Email: rnolard@ejb.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-2859
    • Detailed Profile: http://bloustein.rutgers.edu/noland/
    • Research Areas: Impacts of transport planning and policy on environmental outcomes, micro-simulation of pedestrian-vehicle interactions, non-motorized transportation, safety analyses.
    • Energy Research Focus: Impacts of transportation planning and policy on both economic and environmental outcomes, economic effects of behavioral reactions to changes in reliability, associations with the built environment, and trip chaining behavior, impacts on safety, climate, health, and other factors associated with overall quality of life, evaluation of traffic safety data and how safety modeling is used in economic assessment and planning of infrastructure, analysis of the costs and benefits of road diet conversions, analysis of walking behavior and links to other travel behavior and the built environment, analysis of climate change impacts on accessibility, evaluation of bike-sharing systems

  • Rodgers, Mark

    • Title: Assistant Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Rutgers Business School – Department of Supply Chain Management
    • Email: mrodgers@business.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 973-353-1287 (office) | 732-570-1653 (cell)
    • Detailed Profile: https://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty/mark-rodgers
    • Research Areas: Energy Policy and Economics, Energy Resource Management, Risk and portfolio Analysis, Power systems planning, Generation expansion planning, Human health externalities, Intermittency of renewables, Power grid disruption and resilience
    • Energy Research Focus: Applying operations research models to determine the best investment strategy to expand the electric power grid that minimizes total societal costs including market cost and health damages. I also apply similar models to study how to expand capacity to mitigate disruption and intermittency of renewable sources.

  • Senick, Jennifer

    • Title: Executive Director
    • Department / Research Program: Rutgers Center for Green Building
    • Email: jsenick@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-2904
    • Detailed Profile: http://rcgb.rutgers.edu/jennifer-senick/
    • Research Areas: Sustainability, Conservation, Environment, Behavior Field Research, Building Performance, Evaluation, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy
    • Energy Research Focus: Why energy conservation measures fail; how to design/operate more human-focused usable buildings; intersection of green building and health/well-being, community resilience and built and natural environments.

  • Zhang, Wenwen

    • Title: Assistant Professor in Informatics
    • Department / Research Program: Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
    • Email: wenwen.zhang@ejb.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-2802
    • Detailed Profile: https://bloustein.rutgers.edu/zhang/
    • Research Areas: Urban land use and transportation interaction, innovative/disruptive transportation technology, urban modeling/simulation, sustainable development, and data analytics and visualization in planning.
    • Energy Research Focus: Residential and commercial building energy consumptions and interaction with urban built environment; the impact of emerging transportation technologies, especially automated vehicles, ride-hailing services, and micromobility, on transportation energy consumptions, stemming from technology adoption, travel behavior adaptation, and vehicle technology advancement.