Claire White

Claire White is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. Her research interests include Water, Climate and Energy, Mechanics, Materials and Structures. She is affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. White's work focuses on understanding and optimizing engineering and environmental materials, particularly sustainable cements and carbon dioxide capture technologies. She utilizes advanced experimental and simulation techniques to study material behavior across multiple scales.

Claire E White is a researcher in Materials Science at Princeton University, focusing on the structural and chemical properties of materials through advanced characterization techniques. Her work explores the local structure of geopolymer and alkali-activated materials using methods such as X-ray microtomography, neutron pair distribution function (PDF), and density functional theory (DFT). She investigates the effects of temperature, chemical composition, and activation chemistry on the formation and evolution of calcium–silicate–hydrate (C-S-H) gels and other metastable materials. Her research also addresses the role of amorphous calcium carbonate in mitigating carbonation and the mechanisms of zinc oxide retardation in alkali-activated systems. These studies contribute to the development of low-CO2 cement and concrete technologies.