Robert S. Zucker Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Neuroscience synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator
Sean Gailmard Dept of Political Science American political institutions, bureaucratic organizations, executive branch, public administration, political economy, statistical modeling
Hillel Soifer Dept of Political Science comparative politics, methodology & formal theory, Latin America
Tina Sacks School of Social Welfare racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality
Lisa Garcia Bedolla School of Education Dept of Political Science politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Daniel Klein Division of Computer Science (EECS) unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction
Laura J Enriquez Dept of Sociology development in Latin America, Latin American emigration to Europe, rural sociology, political sociology, social movements
Lawrence Hall Dept of Physics physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
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
Patricia Lang Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant climate change adaptation, historical functional genomics, plant development
Mara Loveman Dept of Sociology comparative and historical sociology, political sociology, ethnoracial politics, development, demography, Latin America
Alastair Iles Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management chemicals policy and politics, sustainable food systems, environmental STS, sustainability transitions, sustainability learning and societal change
Darlene D. Francis School of Public Health biological basis of health disparities, developmental programming, stress, environment x gene interactions, animal models, biopsychosocial approach to health and well-being
M. Reza Alam 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
Andrew Garrett Dept of Linguistics linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization
Timothy Bowles Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management agroecology, soil ecology, biogeochemistry, plan-soil-microbe interactions
Courtney Desiree Morris Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics
Cihan Tugal Dept of Sociology political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography
You-tien Hsing Dept of Geography China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks
Peter S. Menell School of Law intellectual property, property law, environmental law & policy, entertainment law, law and economics, federal courts
Debarati Sanyal Dept of French Border studies, race, postcolonialism, politics of aesthetic form, nineteenth-century French studies, memory studies, World War Two, Holocaust studies, critical refugee studies, contemporary fiction and film
Carolyn Smith Dept of Anthropology sociocultural anthropology, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research