Andrew Pfluger

About

Dr. Andrew Pfluger is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution; an active-duty colonel in the US Army; an associate professor at the US Military Academy at West Point; a visiting researcher at the Construction Engineering Research Lab of the Engineering Research Development Center for the US Army Corps of Engineers; and a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at its Prairie Research Institute.

Pfluger is a licensed professional engineer and board-certified environmental engineer with research interests in sustainable and resilient systems, resource recovery, renewable energy, and clean water and sanitation. His current research explores resilient water and energy infrastructure for Department of Defense (DoD) installations and forward-deployed contingency bases. He has several ongoing projects exploring water treatment with simultaneous conversion to electrical energy of chemical energy in organic wastes found in wastewaters.

His work while a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution centers on exploring the implementation of DoD sustainability, energy, and climate policy on military installations, with a focus on understanding barriers and gaps to meeting desired goals on published timelines. Pfluger’s previous publications are available through Google Scholar.

Pfluger previously served as the program director for environmental engineering and science at West Point. He will return there to serve as the director for the Center for Environmental and Geographic Studies upon completion of his fellowship. He holds a BS in civil engineering from the US Military Academy; an MS and engineer degree in environmental engineering and science from Stanford University; and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. As a US Army officer, Pfluger has primarily served in armor and cavalry units, where he deployed to the Nineveh and Anbar provinces of Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.