Nathan Post
Associate Research Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Research Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- n.post@northeastern.edu
- The Roux Institute
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Research Focus
optimization of structures and components for a circular economy and climate resilience with a focus on composite materials, advanced manufacturing, uncertainty analysis, and applied AI; applications include the wind industry, energy-efficient construction, managing extreme weather events, orthopedic implants.
About
Prior to joining Northeastern in March 2022, Nathan was at WindESCo, Inc., where he was most recently the Senior Director of Research and Development. Prior to that he was an Engineer at the Wind Technology Testing Center as part of the National Renewable Energy Center. He has also been a Project Engineer for Fraunhofer IWES in Germany.
Nathan’s expertise is in experimental mechanics, data acquisition and analytics, machine learning, and uncertainty estimation. At the Roux Institute of where he is located at Northeastern, Nathan is focusing his research efforts on the intersection of mechanics of materials and machine learning with applications in advanced additive manufacturing, renewable energy, and energy efficiency materials and structures.
Research Overview
optimization of structures and components for a circular economy and climate resilience with a focus on composite materials, advanced manufacturing, uncertainty analysis, and applied AI; applications include the wind industry, energy-efficient construction, managing extreme weather events, orthopedic implants.
Selected Research Projects
- Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW)
- – co-Principal Investigator, DOE
Feb 09, 2024
First-Ever National Offshore Wind Research Center
CEE Professor Andrew Myers, CEE/MIE Associate Research Professor Nathan Post, and CEE CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a consortium of forty partners, were selected to join a first-of-its-kind $11.9 million DOE research center, Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), dedicated to accelerate reliable and equitable offshore wind energy deployment across the nation. It will focus on workforce development, targeted research, and partnerships and strategies to embed equity in offshore wind development.
Apr 27, 2023
FY24 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Twelve COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY24 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects.
Feb 08, 2023
Building a Carbon Negative Future with Steel and Cross Laminated Timber
In a new $3.1M grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), Northeastern Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar will lead a multi-institution team of researchers developing a new carbon sequestration technique using cross-laminated timber composite floor systems in bolted steel construction for building structures.