Position
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Office Phone
609-258-6263

Email
whitece@princeton.edu

Office
E326 Engineering Quad

Website
http://white.princeton.edu

CV
white_cv.pdf

Degrees
B.Eng. (Civil Eng., Hons.) / B.Sci. (Physics), University of Melbourne, 2006
Ph.D. (Chem. Eng.), University of Melbourne, 2010

Advisee(s):
Eric McCaslin




Bio/Description

Honors and Awards

Gustavo Colonetti Medalist (RILEM), 2019
Howard B. Wentz Jr. Junior Faculty Award, Princeton University, 2017
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2016
Discovery Early Career Research Award, Australian Research Council, 2013
Outstanding Student Research Prize, Neutron Scattering Society of America, 2012
Australian Postgraduate Award, Australian Research Council, 2007-2010

Affiliations

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering?
Associate Professor, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Associated Faculty, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associated Faculty, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Associated Faculty, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Associated Faculty, Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering
Associated Faculty, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials

Research Interests

Dr. White’s research focuses on understanding and optimizing engineering and environmental materials, with an emphasis on controlling the chemical mechanisms responsible for formation and long-term degradation of low-CO₂ cements. This research spans multiple length and time scales, utilizing advanced synchrotron and neutron-based experimental techniques, and simulation methodologies.

Selected Publications
White CE, Provis JL, Proffen T, Riley DP, van Deventer JSJ, Combining density functional theory (DFT) and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis to solve the structure of metastable materials: The case of metakaolin., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12 (13) 3239-3245
White CE, Henson NJ, Daemen, LL, Hartl M, Page K, Uncovering the true atomic structure of disordered materials: The structure of a hydrated amorphous magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃·3D₂O), Chem. Mater., 2014 26 (8) 2693-2702
Morandeau AE, White CE, The role of magnesium-stabilized amorphous calcium carbonate in mitigating the extent of carbonation in alkali-activated slag, Chem. Mater., 2015 27 (19) 6625-6634
??z?elik VO, White CE, Nanoscale charge-balancing mechanism in alkali-substituted calcium–silicate–hydrate gels, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2016 7 (24) 5266-5272
?Yang K, ?z?elik VO, Garg N, Gong K, White CE, Drying-induced atomic structural rearrangements in sodium-based calcium-alumino-silicate-hydrate gel and the mitigating effects of ZrO₂ nanoparticles, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018 20 8593-8606

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Research Areas
Complex Materials and Processing
Energy and Environment
Theory and Computation