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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Tarek Zohdi

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, biophysics, Structural Biology

Petr Horava

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity

William Lester, Jr.

William A. Lester, Jr.

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation

Francesco Borrelli

Francesco Borrelli

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control

Dept of Political Science

American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods

Frederic Theunissen

Frederic Theunissen

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience

Dept of Political Science

School of Information

political science, international security, international political economy, information science

Laurent Coscoy sitting in outdoor setting

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, viruses, viral infection, immune responses, immune evasion

medieval and renaissance music, history of music theory, history of religion, manuscript studies, obscenity

Daniel A. Rodríguez

Daniel A. Rodríguez

Dept of City & Regional Planning

transportation planning, transportation policy, environmental planning, healthy cities

Dept of Comparative Literature

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature

Omar Yaghi in lab

Dept of Chemistry

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

Michael DeWeese

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

machine learning, computation, systems neuroscience, auditory cortex, neural coding, statistical mechanics

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

Stuart Bale

Dept of Physics

experimental space physics, plasma astrophysics, solar physics, low frequency radio astronomy

Mathias Kondolf wearing hat and holding notebook at the Bill Williams River in Arizona

G. Mathias Kondolf

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

environmental planning, fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, flood risk management, river restoration, urban rivers, environmental impact assessment, river corridor management, sediment management, hydropower, strategic dam planning, integrating energy planning and river management

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Patrick Hsu in the lab

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Dept of Physics

Atomic-scale synthesis of complex oxide heterostructures, 2D materials, spin-charge coupling, polar and magnetic topologies, electron microscopy, piezoforce microscopy, NV magnetometry, materials processing for devices, energy efficient electronics(12634)

Renee in dean's office

Dept of Architecture

urban design, architectural design

C. Greig Crysler

C. Greig Crysler

Dept of Architecture

architecture, geopolitics of architectural discourse, globalization and social production of the built environment, architecture and identity

Marvin L. Cohen

Marvin L. Cohen

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities