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Dept of Mechanical Engineering

cardiovascular biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, thrombosis, medical image processing, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, Lagrangian coherent structures, mathematical modeling

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Oliver O'Reilly

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

continuum mechanics, vibrations, dynamics

Alexis Kaminski in outdoor setting

Alexis Kaminski

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, stratified flows, upper-ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, mixing, internal waves, shear instabilities

William H. Miller

William H. Miller

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Michael Zuerch in front of vacuum chamber.

Michael W. Zuerch

Dept of Chemistry

collective phenomena in material, chemical material dynamics in surfaces and interfaces, symmetry-broken states and their emergence in condensed-phase systems, dynamical properties in artificial and correlated superlattices, ultrafast spectroscopy from THz to X-rays

Dorian Liepmann

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

bioengineering, mechanical engineering, bioMEMS, biosensors, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows

Michael Gollner smiles at a Fire Whirl

Michael Gollner

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

combustion, fire dynamics, wildland fire, fluid mechanics

Daniel M. Neumark

Daniel M. Neumark

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, molecular structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and dynamics of transition states, radicals, clusters, frequency and time-domain techniques, state-resolved photodissociation, photodetachment of negative ion beams

John Chiang

Dept of Geography

climate change, climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, paleoclimate

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

atmospheric science, climate dynamics, monsoons, Earth's hydrological cycle

David Romps

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, atmosphere, atmospheric science, weather, clouds, fluid dynamics

Dept of Integrative Biology

freshwater ecology, food webs, trophic dynamics, northern California rivers, watersheds

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary science, theoretical astrophysics, dynamics, planet formation, circumstellar disks

Michael Hutchings

Michael Hutchings

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, symplectic geometry, contact geometry, low dimensional topology, dynamics

Oskar Hallatschek

Oskar Hallatschek

Dept of Physics

biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments

Eva Nogales in lab

Eva Nogales

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics

Okamoto diving in sea urchin barrens

Dept of Integrative Biology

population dynamics of exploited species, marine biology, community ecology, ecological modeling, biostatistics

Simo Mäkiharju in lab setting

Simo Mäkiharju

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport

Michael Botchan

Michael Botchan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic gene expression, drosophila chromosomes, papilloma viral DNA, chromosomal dynamics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development

Dr. Chris Schell sets a wildlife camera trap in the East Bay, CA. His lab uses these devices and other techniques (e.g., GPS collars, roadkill collections) to monitor how wildlife populations adapt to life in cities.

Christopher Schell

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

behavioral ecology, urban ecology, One Health, social-ecological dynamics, environmental justice

Ayesha S. Mahmud

Ayesha S. Mahmud

Dept of Demography

Infectious disease dynamics, disease ecology, mathematical models, Asia, Africa, Central America, climate change

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems