Research Areas and Publications

Energy

Keyword: CCS

Designing multi-phased CO2 capture and storage infrastructure deployments.

•  Authors : Jones, E. C., Yaw, S., Bennett, J. A., Ogland-Hand, J. D., Strahan, C., & Middleton, R. S. (2022). 
•  Journal : Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2, 100023.
• https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RSET.2022.100023

Keyword: Biofuels

• Authors : Alavi S., Attebi, O.S., Evans, T., Jones, E.C. (2024).
• Conference Proceedings : Multi-Source Biofuel Supply Chain Network Optimization. Proceedings of the 2024 IISE Annual Conference.

Keyword: Grid Resilience and Reliability

• Authors : Jeffers, R., Kushner, D., Ntakou, E., Paaso, A., Chalamala, B., Jourdier, B., Rahmatian, F., Fotuhu-Firuzabad, F., Jones, E.C., Jr., Tapia, J., Abbas, A., Price, T.,
• Journal : Enabling Climate Adaptation and Mitigation through Grid Modernization, TR-124, IEEE PES, 2024, October, 
• https://dx.doi.org/10.17023/02vn-4d23

Keyword: Environment and Energy Justice (EJ)

• Authors : Harmon, D., Jones, E., Moss, J., & Wolfe, E. (2020).
• Journal : Pathways for Reducing Energy Burdens in Harris County. Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 13.
• https://www.txenergypoverty.org/2021/03/pathways-for-ders-to-reduce-energy-burdens-in-low-income-households-harris-county-full-report/

• Authors : T. Kemabonta, E. Jones, D. Harmon and J. Pittman,
• Conference Proceedings : “A New Approach to Developing Community Solar Projects for LMI Communities in ERCOT’s Competitive Electricity Markets,” 2021 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Seattle, WA, USA, 2021, pp. 86-93, doi: 10.1109/GHTC53159.2021.9612482.

• Authors : Jones, E.C., Jr.; Reyes, A.
• Journal : Identifying Themes in Energy Poverty Research: Energy Justice Implications for Policy, Programs, and the Clean Energy Transition. Energies 2023, 16, 6698.
• https://doi.org/10.3390/en16186698

• Authors : Dana Harmon, Tam Kemabonta, Jacquie Moss, Erick Jones, and Andrew Robison,
• Journal : “When the Lone Star Froze Over – Winter Storm Uri and the lived experiences of Texas low income communities”, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute, 2021.
• https://www.txenergypoverty.org/2021/07/when-the-lone-star-froze-over-winter-storm-uri-report/

• Authors : Erick Jones, Jacquie Moss, and Tam Kemabonta,
• Journal : “Lived Experiences of Winter Storm Uri”, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute, 2021,
• https://www.txenergypoverty.org/2021/07/when-the-lone-star-froze-over-winter-storm-uri-report/

• Authors : Erick Jones,
• Journal : “Racial Disparities in Energy”, Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative, 2021.
• https://smartenergycc.org/racialdisparities-among-lower-income-energy-consumers-white-paper/

• Authors : Erick Jones, Dana Harmon, and Tam Kemabonta,
• Journal : “Energy and Emissions Savings Potential of Renewable Thermal Technologies in Houston, Texas”, Renewable Thermal Alliance CBEY Yale, 2021.
• https://cbey.yale.edu/research/energy-andemissions-savings-potential-of-renewable-thermal-technologies-in-houston-texas

Keyword: Food, Energy Water Systems

Co-optimization and community: Maximizing the benefits of distributed electricity and water technologies. 

• Authors : Jones, E. C., & Leibowicz, B. D. (2021). 
• Journal : Sustainable Cities and Society, 64, 102515.
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102515

Climate risk management in agriculture using alternative electricity and water resources: a stochastic programming framework.

• Authors : Jones, E. C., & Leibowicz, B. D. (2021).
• Journal : Environment Systems and Decisions. 
• https://doi.org/10.1007/S10669-021-09838-8

Working Papers

• Authors : Freese, Lyssa; Spandagos, Constantine; Andrews, Abigail; Jones, E.C., Jr.; Dowling, Jackie; Rising, James; Crozier, Constance; Mirkouei, Amin; Luo, Qian; Gong, Weila; Schenuit, Felix; Bednar, Dominic,
• Journal : Bridging Research and Policy to Achieve a Clean Energy Future, Nature Energy, 2025, Under Review

• Authors : Munjurpet Sridharan, C., Aghapour, R.; Jones, E.C., Jr.
• Journal : Evaluating Geothermal Potential in a Oil and Tribal Land Dense United States Region, Sustainability, 2025, Under Review

• Authors : Aghapour, R.; Jones, E.C., Jr.
• Journal : Examining the Role of Transmission Planning in Addressing Curtailment Challenges in ERCOT, IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, 2025, Working

• Authors : Aghapour, R.; Jones, E.C., Jr.
• Journal : The Future of Texas Energy Under Two Different Modeling Approaches: GCAM vs. REEDS, Computers and Operations Research, 2025, Working

Infrastructure: Buildings, Transportation, and Public Works

Keyword: Transportation and Energy

Contributions of shared autonomous vehicles to climate change mitigation. (2019). 

• Authors : Erick C. Jones Jr. and Benjamin Leibowicz 
• Journal : Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 72, 279–298.
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.05.005

Keyword: Buildings and Energy

• Authors : Aghapour, R., Jones, E.C., Alavi, S. (2024).
• Conference Proceedings : Green Building Design Surrogate Optimization: Exploring Off the Shelf Machine Learning and Mixed Integer Programming Integrations. Proceedings of the 9^th North American Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.
• https://doi.org/10.46254/NA09.20240139

Other Keywords: Telecommunications, Micromobility

Supply Chains

Keyword: Critical Minerals Supply Chains

• Authors : Jones, E.C., Jr.
• Journal : Lithium Supply Chain Optimization: A Global Analysis of Critical Minerals for Batteries. Energies 2024, 17, 2685.
• https://doi.org/10.3390/en17112685

Working Papers

• Authors : Alavi, S.; Jones, E.C., Jr.
• Journal : Lithium Supply Chain Competition: A Two-Player Game Analysis, Supply Chain Analytics, Policy and Regulation, 2025, Working

• Authors : Attebi, O.; Jones, E.C., Jr.
• Journal : Examining the Reverse Lithium Supply Chain with Decentralized Preprocessing Centers, Sustainability, 2025, Working

Keyword: Semiconductor Supply Chains

• Authors : Biney, J., Jones Jr., E. C. and Jones, E. C.
• Journal : “Understanding the EV Semiconductor Chip Sustainable Supply Chain Chip Shortage” International Supply Chain Technology Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 2024,
• https://doi.org/10.20545/isctj.v10i2.336

Keyword: Climate and Trade

Working Papers

• Authors : Erick C. Jones, Jr.
• Journal : Climate Trade Policies: Novel Decarbonization and Climate/Weather Risk Mitigation Strategy or Tactic to Secure Critical Mineral and Clean Energy Technology Supply Chains, Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, 2025, Under Review

Prototyping and Technology Development

Keyword: Critical Mineral Extraction and Recycling

• Authors : Atitebi, O.S.; Dumre, K.; Jones, E.C., Jr.
• Journal : Supporting a Lithium Circular Economy via Reverse Logistics: Improving the Preprocessing Stage of the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Supply Chain. Energies 2025, 18, 651.
• https://doi.org/10.3390/en18030651

Keyword: Carbon Nanotubes

Effect of the Metal−Substrate Interaction Strength on the Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. 

•  Authors : Burgos, J. C., Jones, E., & Balbuena, P. B. (2011).
• Journal : The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115(15), 7668–7675.
• https://doi.org/10.1021/jp200919j

Dynamics of Topological Defects in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes during Catalytic Growth. 

• Authors : Burgos, J. C., Jones, E., & Balbuena, P. B. (2014).
• Journal : The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(9), 4808–4817.
• https://doi.org/10.1021/jp412708h 

Analytics

Keyword: Optimization

Decomposing Systems: Illustrating the Utility of Distributed Energy Resources with Decomposition Techniques.

• Authors : Jones, E. (2020). 
• Journal : Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference.
• https://www.proceedings.com/content/076/076356webtoc.pdf

Keyword: GIS

• Authors : Varekar, S., Srinivasan, S., Shah, N. Gopalakrishnan, N. N., Jones Jr., E. C.,
• Journal : “Analyzing the Connectivity of Combined Statistical Areas in Different Census Regions Using ArcGIS” International Supply Chain Technology Journal, vol. 9, no. 10, 2023,
• https://doi.org/10.20545/isctj.v9i10.319

Health

Keyword: Communicable Diseases Spread

• Authors : Reeves, J., Griner, S., Johnson, K., Jones, E.C., Jr., Shangani, S.,
• Journal : “Exploring Relationships Between Dating App Use and Sexual Activity among Young Adult College Students”. Frontiers in Reproductive Health, Vol. 6., November 2024.
• doi.org/10.3389/frph.2024.1453423

Keyword: Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Keyword: COVID

• Authors : Jones, E. C., Azeem, Gohar, Jones, Erick C., and Jefferson, F.,
• Journal : “Impacting at Risk Communities using AI to optimize the COVID-19 Pandemic Therapeutics Supply Chain”, International Supply Chain Technology Journal (ISCTJ), Vol. 6, No. 9 September 2020. DOI:  doi.org/10.20545/isctj.v06.i09.02 

• Authors : Jones, E. C., Azeem, G., Jones, E. C. Jr., Jefferson, F., Henry, M., Abolmaali, S., & Sparks, J. (2021).
• Journal : Understanding the Last Mile Transportation Concept Impacting Underserved Global Communities to Save Lives During COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Future Transportation, 0, 25.
• https://doi.org/10.3389/FFUTR.2021.732331

Education and Workforce Development

Training Teachers to integrate a Sustainability Assessment for Green Building and Retrofitting Project into a K-12 Classroom. 

• Authors : Jones, E.C., Jr., Chen, V.C., Sharma, V., Gudikandula, S., Smalls, R., Sigler, J. (2023). 
• Conference Proceedins : Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference. 
• https://engineering.unt.edu/sites/default/files/03142023_Training%20teachers%20to%20integrate%20a%20sustainability%20assessm_0.pdf

• Authors : Thompson, L., J. Hovey, J. Sigler, R. Smalls, S. Rahman Mohammadpour, V. Sharma, J. Sood, E. C. Jones, Jr., J. M. Rosenberger, and V. C. P. Chen (2024). 
• Conference Proceedings : Training Teachers to Employ Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments for Research on Sustainable Building Design.  In Proceedings of the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, OR, June.

• Authors : Zagozda, K., R. Wheelock, R. Aghapour, S. Rahman Mohammadpour, J. Sood, V. C. P. Chen, and E. C. Jones, Jr. (2025).
• Conference Proceedings : “Bringing College Level Engineering Research Experiences into the K-12 Classroom.”  In Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Arlington, TX. (refereed)