Explore the engines of our research enterprise

Designated by the Department of Energy with additional support from the states of Maryland and Massachusetts, ARROW is a first-of-its-kind center of excellence on offshore wind.

Andrew T. Myers / Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Civil and Environmental Engineering Industry Lead, ARROW Center

Designated by the National Science Foundation as an NSF AI Institute, AI-EDGE leverages the synergies between networking and AI to design future generations of wireless edge networks.

Tommaso Melodia / William Lincoln Smith Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The center translates basic discoveries into novel antimicrobial therapies to help resolve antimicrobial resistance, amid the rise of multidrug resistant pathogens and the threat of genetically engineered bioweapons.

Kim Lewis / University Distinguished Professor of Biology

The center was established to help manufacturers and industry experts navigate the operational hazards of cybersecurity implementation and prepare them for future challenges of FDA requirements.

Kevin Fu / Professor, jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Designated as a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, ALERT conducts transformational research focused on characterizing, detecting, mitigating, and responding to explosives-related threats.

Michael Silevitch / Robert D. Black Professor and College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

An internationally recognized center for advanced interdisciplinary research and training in analytical chemistry and biotechnology, the institute is a center of excellence in the development and application of technologies for biopharmaceutical characterization and proteomics and systems biology.

Olga Vitek / Raymond Bradford Bradstreet Professor of Computer Science

Designated as a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, Gordon-CenSSIS focuses on revolutionizing the detection of biomedical and environmental objects or conditions that are underground, underwater, or embedded within cells or inside the human body.

Michael Silevitch / Robert D. Black Professor and College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-Being designs interactive experiences for diverse populations to transform how we think about mental fitness and well-being. Our team conducts groundbreaking research, rigorous testing, and widespread distribution of scientifically refined software to help numerous people address their cognitive needs and reach their cognitive goals.

Aaron Seitz / Professor of Psychology, Game Design, and Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Services and Susanne Jaeggi, Professor of Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Music

Aims to understand the sources of inter-group tension and develop practical interventions to reduce violence and conflict.

Gordana Rabrenovic / Associate Professor of Sociology 

Northeastern’s Burnes Center for Social Change centers equity in policy, partnering with governments, nonprofits, and communities on health equity, civic tech, and climate. Link Health connects ER patients to social services. Policy Lab and Pi-Squared co-create solutions exploring AI ethics and sustainability through collaborative leadership.

Beth Simone Noveck / Professor

As a consortium of research institutions, healthcare systems and private companies, Epistorm develops innovative methodologies to integrate high-resolution mobility, airline travel, genomic and wastewater surveillance data—with mechanistic, statistical, and deep learning forecasting models to increase the accuracy of predictive analytics to help the US make more informed decisions during future outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Alessandro Vespignani / Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Science, and Health Science

The Center for Atypical Language Interpretation addresses the growing demand for interpreters with specialized skills to serve Deaf and DeafBlind persons with atypical language. The center focuses on interpreting with elder Deaf people whose language may be atypical due to aging and neurodegeneration, and individuals whose first language is neither ASL nor English.

Diana Doucette / Director, Center for Atypical Language Interpreting

Lori Whynot / Director of the American Sign Language & Interpreting Education Program

The Center for Bioinnovation combines AI-driven analytics with industry partnerships to advance biotechnology education and research, creating pathways from middle school through graduate study that keep pace with rapid developments in the field.

Jared Auclair / Dean of the College of Professional Studies

Promotes academic-community health partnerships to improve education, healthcare delivery, and eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.

Donna Bright

Studies how networks emerge, evolve, and impact our understanding of complex systems.

Albert-László Barabási / Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Computer Science

The Center for Complex Particle Systems makes, measures, and models complex materials from molecular, nano, and microscale components combining order and disorder to establish simple chemical pathways to resource-conscious, multifunctional and intelligent materials for a sustainable and healthy future.

Albert-László Barabási / Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Computer Science

The Center for Design is Northeastern’s platform for interdisciplinary design research. It is a space for collaborative research activities and a hub for connecting the actors of the design ecosystem. It aims to share knowledge and practices, shape common tools and methods, and strengthen a unified disciplinary ground.

Paolo Ciuccarelli / Professor of Design

Northeastern’s Center for Drug Discovery advances therapeutic innovation integrating medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, biology, and computational science. Recent breakthrough: non-addictive analgesic for chronic pain. Partnering with researchers, clinicians, and industry, CDD accelerates compounds to clinical application.

Alexandros Makriyannis / George D. Behrakis Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

CEM advances research, education, and collaboration on the opportunities and challenges of doing business in rapidly developing economies. It brings together faculty, students, and global leaders to explore innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth in emerging markets—driving impact across industries and communities worldwide.

Ravi Ramamurti / Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy

The Center for Global Law and Justice promotes human rights, humanitarianism and democracy through interdisciplinary reserach and advocacy.

Martha Davis / University Distinguished Professor of Law

Zinaida Miller / Professor of Law and International Affairs

Funded by the National Science Foundation as an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, CHEST will coordinate university-based research with the needs of industry and government partners to advance knowledge of security, assurance, and trust for electronic hardware and embedded systems.

Yunsi Fei / Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Northeastern Site Lead, CHEST

The center promotes interdisciplinary research and education on health policy and healthcare delivery. It frequently collaborates with health plans, hospitals, physician organizations, and other provider organizations within private industry to conduct innovative research studies that can promote the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of healthcare services.

Gary Young / Professor of Strategic Management and Healthcare Systems

The center supports students and researchers interested in public health law, health and human rights, health governance, healthcare financing, drug law, intellectual property, bioethics, healthcare delivery law, and the regulation of our healthcare systems.

Wendy Parmet / Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law 

The center develops tools and processes that will make it possible for businesses to quickly and efficiently manufacture products.

Ahmed Busnaina / William Lincoln Smith Chair of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

The center’s mission is to substantially increase the representation of women majoring in computing across the United States.

Carla Brodley / Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing

The center’s researchers work on complex biological and material science problems. Its research includes designing computer models for use in the treatment of cardiac dynamics; finding ways to prevent the HIV virus from replicating in cells; developing new technology to analyze nucleic acids and proteins; studying the self-organized mitotic spindle formation in animal cells; and devising computational neuroscience models of memory and attention in the brain.

Alain Karma / Professor of Physics

The center draws on Northeastern’s strengths in the study of international institutions and processes to enhance knowledge of world societies, politics, and cultures. Its work advances interdisciplinary scholarship, programs of study, and transnational linkages, and it coordinates the activities of area studies programs devoted to multiple geographic regions, while emphasizing four thematic concerns that span the globe.

Mai’a Cross / Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy

The Center for Law, Equity and Race brings together the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the Criminal Justice Task Force to address racial injuries of the past through the use of law, teaching, techniques of restorative justice and community partnerships.

Margaret Burnham / Univeristy Distinguished Professor of Law

Deborah Ramirez / Professor of Law Emerita

Through its faculty, the center creates academic research and events that engage with the state of the art of innovation and intellectual property policy. The center studies everything from the legal impact of the latest technology gadgets and their consumer protection concerns to the state of the art in the humanities, sociology, and psychology of creativity and the arts.

Alexandra Roberts / Professor of Law and Media

The center combines multidisciplinary expertise to develop novel microwave magnetic materials and device solutions for use in microwave electronics and multifunctional integrated circuits. Its goal is to develop leading-edge technologies that operate well beyond current operational limits, especially in the area of radar and other high frequency electromagnetic devices.

Vincent G. Harris / University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Designated by the National Science Foundation as an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, CMC developed state-of-the-art cleaning techniques for computer microchips and creating micro-sensors that detect impurities in gases used in building semiconductors.

Ahmed Busnaina / William Lincoln Smith Chair of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Designated by the National Science Foundation as a Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Center, CPI aims to harness new technologies and develop sensing to detect, investigate, and ultimately prevent pandemics at their source.

Nian X. Sun / COE Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Northeastern Site Lead, CPI

The center works at the intersection of biotechnology and nanomedicine. It conducts intensive research in areas like intracellular drug delivery, experimental cancer immunotherapy, combination therapy of cancer, and novel imaging agents.

Vladimir P. Torchilin / University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The center infuses the law school’s public interest mission into all facets of the student experience, and pilots programs and initiatives that address broader justice issues.

Sharmila Murthy / Professor of Law and Public Policy

Lucy Williams / Professor of Law

Designated by the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institutes of Health as a Children’s Environmental Health Center, CRECE studies how mixtures of environmental exposures and other factors affect the health and development of infants and children living in the heavily-contaminated island of Puerto Rico.

Akram Alshawabkeh / George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Conducts fundamental and interdisciplinary applied research in the areas of computational modeling, computer vision, distributed computing, image analysis, machine learning, optimization, and signal processing.

Pau Closas / Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sarah Ostadabbas / Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Designated by the National Science Foundation as an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, CEPS is advancing critical solid-state energy systems research and battery supply chain challenges for portable and medical applications, the automotive industry, centralized and decentralized electric grids, military applications, and energy security.

Sanjeev Mukerjee / Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Associate Dean

Through innovative courses, creative workshops, and rigorous degree programs in the most vital areas of business and technology, the Center for Technology Management and Digital Leadership creates agile leaders ready to make impact.

Art Langer / Associate Vice Provost and Professor of Practice

The center is a generative hub for interdisciplinary research, exhibitions, and programming in and through the arts. It promotes interdisciplinary research and community with the arts as a catalyst, through an annual faculty fellowship as well as related programs and symposia.

Juliana Barton / Curator of Gallery 360

The Center for the Future of Higher Education and Work (CHEW) is an applied research center that builds on Northeastern University’s heritage of more than a century of leadership in experiential learning and its network of more than 3,300 employer partners.

Connie Yowell / Professor of the Practice and Executive Director

The Center for Sport in Society educates and supports emerging leaders and organizations within sport with the awareness, knowledge and skills to implement innovative and impactful solutions for social change.

Dan Lebowitz / Executive Director

The Center for Transformative Media is an interdisciplinary research network dedicated to investigating the potential of emerging media technologies for creativity and social change.

Adriana de Souza e Silva / Professor of Communication Studies

Designated by the National Science Foundation as an Engineering Research Center TANMS works to engineer a revolution in miniature electromagnetic electronics through development of a new class of nanoscale multiferroic materials.

Nian X. Sun / COE Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The center provides services to the academic community interested in animal modeling and drug testing to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system diseases. Researchers develop proprietary technology and applications in the fields of magnetic resonance imaging, single photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and x-ray computed tomography to enhance preclinical research programs.

Craig Ferris / Professor of Psychology and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Designated by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation as an Engineering Research Center, CURENT’s research focuses on building a more reliable, secure and efficient electric grid transmission system that uses renewable energy sources.

Ali Abur / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The center supports multidisciplinary research in several strategic focus areas across the university and its Global Resilience Institute. It collaborates with the city of Boston to understand and address persistent public safety problems.

Anthony Braga / Elmer V.H. and Eileen M. Brooks Professor and Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

The center’s mission is to make the criminal justice system more equitable and just for all. Its work aims to provide evidence-based reforms to address these disparities in the system.

Carlos Cuevas / Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Natasha Frost / Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

The institute is creating cleaner, safer, smarter coastal communities, using environmental sensing, predictive analytics, and other technology tools to reduce threats at the land-sea interface, including sea-level rise, collapsing fisheries, coastal pollution, and gaps in port security. The institute is based at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center on the Nahant, Massachusetts, coastline.

Geoffrey C. Trussell / Chair and Doherty Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences

The Cross-College Magnetics Center will advance the frontiers of magnetic science and technology while fostering an interdisciplinary environment for collaboration and provide educational training for students at all levels. As a global hub for magnetics research, the Magnetics Center at Northeastern aims to accelerate scientific discovery and technological innovation in the field.

Mingzhong Wu / Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Safeguarding critical technology is the mission of Northeastern’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Forging partnerships with experts in industry, government, and academia worldwide, the Institute’s faculty and students develop, protect, and enhance technologies on which the world relies—from mobile devices and “smart” IoT applications to tomorrow’s self-driving cars and delivery drones.

David Choffnes / Associate Professor of Computer Sciences

Northeastern’s Defense Industrial Base Institute revitalizes America’s maritime and defense manufacturing through workforce expansion, supply chains, and public-private partnerships. Partnering with higher education, government, and industry, recent Navy collaboration expands Gulf Coast and Great Lakes shipbuilding capacity.

Stephen Flynn / Professor of Political Science

Working closely with long-standing collaborator University College Dublin, Northeastern’s Dublin Innovation Institute accelerates Horizon Europe’s ambitious cross-sector, partner-driven goals.

Scott Wildman / Executive Principal and Dean of Northeastern University London

The center conducts interdisciplinary research, in collaboration with civic leaders and scholars both within and beyond Northeastern, to identify and implement real solutions to the critical challenges facing urban areas throughout Greater Boston, the state of Massachusetts, and the nation. One particular research focus area is on various aspects of smart growth, including sustainable and equitable public transportation.

Alicia Sasser Modestino / Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics

The institute conducts original research in applied ethics, religious ethics, ethical theory, social and political philosophy, and formal methods in ethics and epistemology. It brings ethical analysis and evaluation to bear on social and environmental issues, as well as to promoting ethical reflection on decisions and challenges in contemporary life.

Ronald Sandler / Professor of Philosophy and Religion

The mission of the Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security is to advance resilience in the face of 21st century risks. The institute fosters collaborative, use-inspired research aimed at expanding the capacity of communities, critical systems, and infrastructure to withstand, respond to, and recover from manmade and natural catastrophes.

Vincent Harris / William Lincoln Smith Professor & University Distinguished Professor

The Global Resilience Institute is committed to informing and advancing societal resilience around the world. Individuals, communities, nations, and the systems they depend upon, can thrive only if they have the means to better withstand, recover from, and adapt to the inevitable shocks and disruptive events of the 21st century.

Stephen Flynn / Professor of Political Science

Daniel Aldrich / Dean’s Professor of Resilience

Designated by the Department of Health and Human Services, HSyE embeds proven evidence-based industrial and systems engineering improvement methods into local healthcare organizations, similar to as used in other complex industries.

James Benneyan / Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Northeastern University’s Humanities Center, spanning our global campus network, promotes collaborative, innovative, and publicly-engaged humanities research and programming. The Humanities Center pairs deep reflective inquiry with experience to attend to the past, foster meaningful conversations in the present, and pursue more just futures.

Simon Rabinovitch / Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies

Kirsten Saxton / Professor of English

Researchers at the institute are pioneering new imaging technologies to reveal, in real time, chemical processes in the brain and body, leading to a deeper understand of how diseases unfold and faster, more precise diagnoses and treatments

James Monaghan / Professor of Biology

The Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health investigates lifestyle impacts on brain and mental health across the lifespan. Using neuroimaging, computational models, and behavioral paradigms, the institute develops evidence-based interventions empowering communities and policymakers with mental health solutions globally.

Charles Hillman / Manganaro Distinguished Professor of Pyschology

The Institute for Experiential AI creates transparent, trustworthy AI for real-world use. Blending ML research with ethics and policy, IEAI partners with industry, government, and communities on climate, healthcare, and policy. Its Solutions Hub empowers students and researchers to build responsible technologies for global challenges.

Alan Mislove / Professor of Computer Science

The Institute for Experiential AI creates transparent, trustworthy AI for real-world use. Blending ML research with ethics and policy, IEAI partners with industry, government, and communities on climate, healthcare, and policy. Its Solutions Hub empowers students and researchers to build responsible technologies for global challenges.

Hanumant Singh / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering , and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

The institute is devoted to research that improves the health and well-being of the residents of Boston and other urban communities. Researchers focus on exploring social determinants of health in urban settings, promoting health equality, and eliminating health disparities.

Alisa Lincoln / Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology

An interdisciplinary effort between the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering, the institute develops new methodologies to provide robust and reliable transmission of physically distributed information.

Engin Kirda, / Professor of Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering

IIID conducts high-impact, responsive research that keeps pace with rapidly evolving technology while addressing its profound implications for users and society. We don’t just study technology’s effects on democracy—we actively work to understand, evaluate, and improve how these powerful tools can better serve democratic values and institutions.

Laura Edelson, Khoury; David Lazer, CSSH & Khoury,

Rebekah Tromble, COS; John Wihbey, CAMD /

Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (formerly WIoT) advances smart, secure networked systems through interdisciplinary research in communications, computing, hardware, and security. Partnering with government, industry, and communities, INS pioneers Spectrum Science to address the spectrum crunch for IoT and wireless systems.

Tommaso Melodia / William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Institute for Mechanobiology studies how physical forces influence biological systems from cells to tissues. Pioneering mechanomemory research shows cells retain force effects. Interdisciplinary work in bone regeneration, cardiovascular function, cancer, and immunotherapy combines foundational science with translational innovation.

Ning Wang / Director

Professor of Bioengineering /

The Institute for NanoSystems Innovation advances semiconductors, sensors, and microscale systems across Boston and Oakland campuses. Accelerating discovery-to-device through nanomanufacturing and AI-integrated hardware, NanoSI develops next-gen sensors for environmental monitoring and precision health via industry partnerships and experiential training.

Matteo Rinaldi / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Horsley / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The mission of the Institute for Plant-Human Interface is to deepen our understanding of plant biology and the plant-human interactions that significantly influence human health and sustainability on Earth. IPHI is committed to devising sustainable strategies that benefit both plants and humans, and to fostering the development of future scientists and engineers in this critical field.

Jing-Ke Weng / Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Bioengineering

The institute develops a deeper understanding of the security threats that face America and other countries in the 21st century.

Glenn Pierce / Principal Research Scientist

Nikos Passas / Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

The center is located on Northeastern’s campus in Nahant, Massachusetts, a vibrant center of coastal sustainability research and innovation. Researchers focus on topics related to understanding how the projected impacts of climate change will affect marine habitats, and how urban communities along the coast can best prepare for these impacts.

Geoffrey Trussell / Chair and Doherty Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences

The institute advances equity through transformative research, advocacy, and learning that opens doors to educational opportunities and leadership advancement. The institute’s research areas include: age as a factor of intersectional analysis, arts and social transformation, embracing technology, global cultures, queer histories, and reproductive justice.

Christie Chung / Professor of Psychology

The institute’s research is focused on developing new materials and devices for nanotechnology, information technology, and biotechnology.

Srinivas Sridhar / University Distinguished Professor of Physics

Powerful large-scale artificial intelligence systems such as large language models herald a new era of AI that is poised to reshape society, but scientists cannot explain their predictions. The NSF National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF) is a research computing project that will enable researchers and students to crack open the mysteries inside these enormous neural networks.

David Bau / Assistant Professor of Computer Science

The Network Science Institute (NetSI) hosts the only U.S. PhD in Network Science and a Master’s in Complex Networks Analysis. Spanning six colleges and campuses in Boston, London, Portland, Charlotte, and Dublin, NetSI researches brain connectivity, disease modeling, infrastructure resilience, team performance, and information dynamics.

Alessandro Vespignani / Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Science, and Health Science

The Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, a recognized EDA University Center, supports small and micro businesses by providing education, assistance, research, networking, and growth opportunities to scale and grow.

Francesca Grippa / Teaching Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research

The center is at the frontier of science and technology of clean energy conversion and storage. Researchers focus on materials science, advanced in situ spectroscopy, micro-fabrication methods, and manufacturing technology.

Sanjeev Mukerjee / Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The center is Northeastern’s hub for digital humanities and computational social science.

Elizabeth Dillon / Distinguished Professor of English

David Lazer / University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center is a non-profit research organization and biological specimen repository dedicated to exploring and preserving the wealth of information contained in the genomes of endangered, rare, unusual, and ecologically critical marine organisms. Its mission is to acquire, authenticate, study, preserve, develop, and distribute genetic materials, biological specimens, and information to the research community.

Dan Distel / Research Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences

The Plastics Center promotes responsible and sustainable plastic use through innovative research and collaboration to address global needs. It will drive solutions through research, policy, and education, connecting science, engineering, arts, and policy. The center aims to develop safer practices, reduce pollution, and empower communities, collaborating with academia, business, and government to create sustainable solutions and advance health.

Aron Stubbins / Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Civil and Environmental Engineering

Maria Ivanova / Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Professor of Public Policy

The Institute seeks to increase the legal field’s understanding of public health and help ensure that legal decisions take into account public health goals.

Richard Daynard / University Distinguished Professor of Law

Designated by the National Institutes of Health as a Superfund Research Center, PROTECT studies exposure to environmental contamination in Puerto Rico and its contribution to preterm birth. PROTECT also seeks to better understand the phenomena affecting fate and transport of hazardous substances in aquifers and to develop green remediation strategies.

Akram Alshawabkeh / George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Quantum Materials and Sensing Institute (QMSI), led by Arun Bansil, advances quantum technologies for computing, health, security, and sustainability. Research includes AI-powered smart labs, dark matter detection materials, and hybrid quantum platforms. Burlington is a quantum innovation hub through Quantum Massachusetts.

Arun Bansil / University Distinguished Professor of Physics

Swastik Kar / Professor of Physics

Northeastern’s Roux Institute is designed to spur innovation, build talent, and drive economic growth in Portland, the state of Maine, and the Northeast. Partnerships—with industry, academia, and government—set its research and education model apart.

Michael Pollastri / Senior Vice Provost for Portland and Academic Lead

Chris Mallet / Chief Administrative Officer

The institute conceptualizes, studies, and addresses environmental health problems such as toxic chemicals, climate change, air pollution, biodiversity, and environmental justice, requiring creative collaborations across disciplines.

Phil Brown / University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

Designated a Center of Excellence by the Department of Homeland Security, SENTRY (Soft-target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat RealitY) addresses the many challenges of protecting soft targets and crowded places in our homeland.

Michael Silevitch / Robert D. Black Professor and College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Plastics Center is a global leader in the fight against plastic pollution. By collaborating with partners from across Northeastern’s global network and institutions in the Global South, we work to drive research, contribute to global policy-making, and enhance sustainability worldwide.

Aron Stubbins / Professor, jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Civil and Environmental Engineering