Joshua Atkinson

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute

Research interests: Using approaches from synthetic biology, protein engineering, biophysics and electrochemistry to understand and control how microbes and proteins transport electrons.

Josh Atkinson, Jürgen Hackl, Hantao Ji and Egemen Kolemen. Photos of Atkinson, Hackl and Kolemen by David Kelly Crow; photo of Ji by Michael Livingston

Princeton researchers awarded Genesis Mission grants from Department of Energy to accelerate AI use for scientific discovery

A woman in a lab coat and safety goggles prepares to place a test tube into a machine for analysis. — As part of her research on lunar cement, Ph.D. student Sophia Bergen uses an optical emission spectrometer to measure the concentrations of different ions in a sample. Photo by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Innovation grants could help build a moon base, block food-borne illness, and map the brain

Innovation funds support advances in artificial intelligence, bioengineering, materials science and more

Three students look closely at a model of an architectural structure.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fundamental insights into the built and natural environments, and interactions between the two

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Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute

Building a vibrant community of faculty, students, postdocs, staff and partners; research focusing on cellular, hardware and computational bioengineering – all under one roof.