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biomechanics, insects, invertebrate functional morphology, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, marine animals, filtration, gliding vertebrates

Shafi Goldwasser

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

cryptography, computational number theory, complexity theory, fault tolerant distributed computing, probabilistic proof systems, approximation algorithms, theory(THY)

Timothy T. Brown

School of Public Health

Health insurance benefit design, chronic pain, public health services and systems, mental health economics, dental economics, social capital, econometrics

Marta Gonzalez

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

human mobility, network science, complex systems, urban science, spending behavior, urban vulnerability and resilience, climate change

Mark Stacey

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

coastal climate change and adaptation, interaction between environmental processes and built infrastructure and social systems, local/regional interdependence

Hiroshi Nikaido

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall

Weiqiang Zhu

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earthquake physics, geophysical signal discovery

Michael Botchan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration

Ahmad Nabhan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

decoding stem-niche communication

Omar M. Yaghi

Dept of Chemistry

Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air

Gül Dölen

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

behavioral and systems neuroscience, psychedelics, critical periods, octopus, social behavior, evolution, synaptic plasticity, extracellular matrix, oxytocin and stroke, Fragile X, autism, PTSD, addiction

Professor Lewis: A young smiling woman wearing glasses in a blue, collared shirt.

Samantha Lewis

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles

Ramón Grosfoguel

Dept of Ethnic Studies

global cities, international migration, ethnic studies, race/ethnicity, latino studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, international comparative development, political-economy of the world-systems, urban sociology

Jere Lipps

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, paleontology, molecular phylogenetics, evolution of marine biotas, paleoenvironments, coral reef, Antarctic habitats, seismic histories, astrobiology, Charles Darwin

Ronald C. Cohen

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, greenhouse gases, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, ozone, nitrogen oxides, CO2, clouds, Atmospheric Aerosol

Priya Moorjani

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Human evolutionary genetics, human genetics, ancient DNA, population genetics, statistical genetics

David E. Wemmer

Dept of Chemistry

nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, biophysical chemistry: proteins, NMR spectroscopy, magnetic resonance methods, structure of proteins and DNA, conformational fluctuations, biopolymers

James A. Sethian

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods

Streets in his Stanley Hall Laboratory. Photo credit: Michelle Tran

Aaron Streets

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, computational biology, biophysics, data science, microfluidics, microscopy, genomics

Stephanie L Canizales

Dept of Sociology

international migration, immigrant integration, inequality and mobility, qualitative methods, children-youth-and families

Noah Whiteman

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

adaptation, evolutionary biology, genomics, genetics, toxicology, insect biology, plant biology, microbiology, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

person with dark glasses standing with water in background

Peter Sudmant

Dept of Integrative Biology

genomics, genetics, computational biology, structural variation, RNA, diversity, aging, population genetics

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

Ali Niknejad

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

analog integrated circuits, RF microwave circuits, biomedical CMOS sensors, communication systems, scientific computing, applied electromagnetics, mm-waves, THz, radar, mm-wave and microwave imaging

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