EcoComplex

  • Brennan-Tonetta, Peggy

    • Title: Director, Office of Administration and Strategic Development; Senior Associate Director, NJAES; Executive Director, Economic Development and Innovation
    • Department / Research Program: Rutgers Office of Research and Economic Development and NJAES Office of Cooperative Research
    • Email: mbrennan@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-3776
    • Detailed Profile: https://oedi.rutgers.edu/about/our-team/
    • Research Areas: Bioenergy, policy, economics, clean energy, and business development
    • Energy Research Focus: Assessing bioenergy potential, analyzing the economics of bioenergy, and supporting clean energy business development

  • Guran, Serpil

    • Title: Director
    • Department / Research Program: School of Environmental and Biological Sciences EcoComplex
    • Email: guran@aesop.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 609-499-3600 ext.4225
    • Detailed Profile: http://ecocomplex.rutgers.edu/
    • Research Areas: Advanced biofuels, Low-carbon drop-in fuels, Thermochemical Catalytic Conversion of sustainable biomass and waste in to low-carbon energy forms, Carbon foot print of fuels. LCA.
    • Energy Research Focus: Catalytic Pyrolysis of unrecycled plastic waste and waste biomass into drop-in diesel and other fuels; Assessment of Biomass Energy Potential in New Jersey; Assessment of food-waste to low-carbon distributed energy generation potential of New Jersey’s hurricane prone counties for sustainability and resiliency.

  • Lyons, Kevin

    • Title: Associate Professor of Professional Practice
    • Department / Research Program: Associate Director Rutgers Energy Institute, Rutgers Business School/Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Archaeology Lab
    • Email: klyons@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 973-353-3347
    • Detailed Profile: http://business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/lyons-kevin
    • Research Areas: Supply Chain, Supply Chain Archaeology, Energy Supply Chains, Waste Management, Recycling, Waste Archaeology
    • Energy Research Focus: Understanding embedded and embodied energy, GHG and other environmental, social and economic impacts of producing products and services in global supply chains using supply chain archaeology field research.

  • Specca, David

    • Title: Assistant Director
    • Department / Research Program: Rutgers EcoComplex
    • Email: specca@njaes.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 609-360-0107
    • Research Areas: Bioenergy, Biopower, Bioheat, Biofuels, Biomass Feedstocks, Biomass Assessment, Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Controlled Environment Agriculture, Solid Waste to Energy, Landfill Gas to Energy (LFGTE), Anaerobic Digestion, Business Incubation
    • Energy Research Focus: Applied Research, Demonstration, and Deployment of Clean - Waste to Energy and Biomass to Energy Technologies. Sustainable Agriculture through maximizing energy efficiency including combined heat and power technology for controlled environment agriculture.