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indoor environment, thermal comfort, occupant surveys, building environmental control, ventilation, wind, architectural aerodynamics

mechanical engineering, statistical thermodynamics, near-interface micro- and nanoscale thermophysics and transport in liquid-vapor systems, computational modeling and simulation of energy conversion and transport processes at scales ranging from the molecular level to the device and system level, use of machine learning to enhance energy technology research and the efficiency of energy conversion and transport in applications, and use of machine learning to create next-generation energy technologies that autonomously adapt to maximize their performance and reduce their environmental impact .

drinking water, fuel-efficient stoves, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, developing countries, buildings energy efficiency

heat and mass transfer, micro scale transport, fuel cells, cooling at the chip level, semiconductor wafers, materials processing, laser surface interactions, nuclear reactor safety, phase change, buoyancy transport, bio heat transfer, reacting flows

Ultrafast atomic, molecular, and solid-state dynamics, attosecond physics and chemistry, soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet sources, high harmonic generation, ultrafast lasers and optical physics, extreme ultraviolet four wave mixing and multidimensional spectroscopy, ultrafast processes in quantum matter, including electron and spin dynamics and phase transitions, semiconductor electronic and structural physics, carrier transport in junctions, coherent electronic, vibrational and phonon superpositions, nonadiabatic dynamics at curve crossings and conical intersections, charge switching and charge migration, photophysics of nanoparticles, nanostructures, and materials with energy applications.

energy, architecture, sustainability, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, building energy efficiency, indoor environment quality, productivity, wellbeing, sustainable building design, simulation and verification, personal environmental control system, energy simulation, underfloor air distribution, radiant, post-occupancy evaluation, mechanical systems, heating, building ventilation, climate and architecture, cooling, heat stress

physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments