Christina L. Archer

Professor
Unidel Howard Cosgrove Career Development Chair in Environment

Education

PhD | Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2004
MS | Meteorology, San Jose State University, 1998
MS | Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Italy), 1995

Executive Summary

Dr. Cristina L. Archer is the Unidel Howard Cosgrove Career Development Chair in the Environment and a Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences and in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Delaware. Dr. Archer is the Director of the Center for Research in Wind (CReW), which focuses on wind energy, in particular offshore, and its integration in the electric grid. She earned a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in 1995, an M.S. in Meteorology from San Jose State University in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University in 2004. She was a Postdoc there in 2004-2005 and then worked as an Atmospheric Modeler in the air quality district of San Francisco in 2005-2007. Dr. Archer joined the Carnegie Institution for Science in 2007 as a Research Associate. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences of the California State University Chico during 2008-2011. She joined the University of Delaware in 2011. Dr. Archer’s research interests include wind power, meteorology, air quality, climate change, numerical modeling, and computational fluid dynamics.

RESEARCH AREAS 

• Clean Energy & Environment

FACULTY EXPERTISE

• Renewable energy
• Wind power
• Meteorology
• Climate change
• Air quality
• Numerical modeling of atmospheric processes