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Phillip Messersmith Phillip Messersmith
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
adhesion, polymers, regenerative medicine, sustainable polymers, biomimetics, medical devices
Gerbrand Ceder Gerbrand Ceder
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
energy storage, computational modeling, machine learning, autonomous laboratories
Minoo Moallem Minoo Moallem
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies
Panayiotis Papadopoulos Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, contact mechanics, computational plasticity, materials modeling, solid mechanics, applied mathematics, dynamics of pseudo-rigid bodies
Tracy Becker Tracy Becker
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
advanced structural systems, structural dynamics, structural design, earthquake engineering, isolation and other high performance systems, use of novel materials in design
James Sethian 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
Harsha Ram speaking at the Parajanov Anniversary Symposium at BAMPFA, Berkeley, November 2024. Harsha Ram
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Russian and European Enlightenment, Russian and European romanticism and modernism, Russian and European avant-gardes, Russian, European, Italian literature, Georgian history and literature, theories of world literature, literary theory, comparative poetics, genre theory, literary history, comparative modernisms and modernities, vernacular and high culture, cultural and political history of Russia-Eurasia and the Caucasus, postcolonial studies, theories of nationalism, imperialism and cosmopolitanism, urban studies, the city and literature
Mel Y Chen headshot Mel Y Chen
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Headshot of Daarcy Grimaldo Grigsby Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Dept of History of Art
18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture
Lauren Kroiz Lauren Kroiz
Dept of History of Art
art history, Modern Art, Art of the United States, American art, visual culture, material culture studies, photography, Race and Visuality, regionalism, Art Education, creativity, Amateurism
Nicholas Mathew Nicholas Mathew
Dept of Music
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music in Europe and its colonies, music and politics, the political economy of sound media, pianos and pianism, music and materialism, Beethoven, Haydn, music in Vienna, London, aesthetics, piano performance, historical performance practices
headshot of Enrique Iglesia Enrique Iglesia
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites
Burkhard Militzer Burkhard Militzer
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method
Michael Manga Michael Manga
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
hydrogeology, fluid mechanics, geomorphology, earth & planetary science, geological processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, dynamics of suspensions, flow & transport in porous materials, percolation theory
Professor Ahmad Omar sitting in front of a glass whiteboard marked with equations related to his research. Ahmad Omar
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
statistical mechanics, active matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, polymer science, directed self-assembly
Neyran Turan thumbnail photo facing the camera with a white wall background. Neyran Turan
Dept of Architecture
architectural design and climate change, planetary imagination and architectural design, climate futures, architecture and the Anthropocene, architectural construction and climate change, low-carbon architectural construction, hempcrete construction, bio-materials and design
headshot of Jiyun Kang Jiyun Kang
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
physical metallurgy, manufacturing, autonomous metal processing, correlative microscopy
Ronald Rael at the U.S. - Mexico Boundary Ronald Rael
Dept of Architecture
Dept of Art Practice
3D printed buildings, additive manufacturing, earth architecture, mud, artificial intelligence, U.S.-Mexico border wall, arid landscapes, ranching, acequias, alipne deserts, ceramics, rural architecture, ruralism, animation, digital modeling, furry buildings, unnatural materials, rasquachetecture
Stephen R. Leone in lab Stephen R. Leone
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Physics
attosecond physics, attosecond chemistry, ultrafast spectroscopy, ultrafast laser, atomic and molecular dynamics, semiconductors, quantum materials, high harmonic generation, soft x-ray, charge transfer, charge migration, nonadiabatic dynamics, conical intersection, carrier dynamics, phonon dynamics, spin dynamics, core exciton dynamics
Penny Edwards in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2016 Penny Edwards
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
political and cultural history of Southeast Asia, French colonialism, British imperialism, French India, British India, comparative colonialism, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora, cinema and theatre, Material and Visual Culture, travel and translation, gender, nationalism, Buddhism, economic history, global history
Image courtesy of Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Stephanie Syjuco
Dept of Art Practice
art, sculpture, photography, archives, social practice, craft, activism, material culture, ceramics, digital culture, zines, alternative publishing, libraries, museums, museum display, postcolonial studies, Asian American studies, empire, textiles, ethnography, 1904 World's Fair, Filipino and Filipino American studies, whiteness studies, camouflage, DIY culture
Jun Sunseri conducting ground penetrating radar survey at the request of his Community Mentors (photo courtesy of Zach Emerson of the InterTribal Ecological Restoration Crew) Jun Sunseri
Dept of Anthropology
community-accountable archaeology, historical archaeology, zooarchaeology, ceramic material science, GIS, landscape archaeology, experimental archaeology, community-engaged research/scholarship, outreach, foodways, actualistic research, exploration geophysics, ground penetrating radar, remote sensing, photogrammetry, magnetometry, thermodynamics, adobe construction, food sovereignty
Tsu-Jae Liu with multi-color background Tsu-Jae Liu
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
integrated-circuit devices and technology
Ali Javey sitting in lab with equipment in background Ali Javey
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter
Lisa Pruitt Lisa A. Pruitt
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage
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