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Qiang Zhou

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy

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

Robert L. Taylor

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, finite element software

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

Hidetaka Hirota

Hidetaka Hirota

Dept of History

US immigration history, American immigration law and policy, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 19th century United States, Asian American history, U.S. and the world, Global Migration, Transnational History

Arthur Reingold

Arthur Reingold

School of Public Health

public health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, COVID-19

Ndola Prata

School of Public Health

community-base access to care, maternal mortality, population and family planning, safe abortion, adolescent reproductive health in developing countries, postpartum hemorrhage

Raffaella Margutti

Raffaella Margutti

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, compact object mergers, core-collapse supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, Neutron Stars, radio astronomy, space astrophysics, stellar evolution, supernova shockwaves, supernovae, tidal disruption events

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Dept of Ethnic Studies

comparative Latino studies, United States history, social movement history, historical methods

Lining Yao

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

sustainable design, morphing material mechanisms, ecology, sustainability

Nicholas Mathew

Nicholas Mathew

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

Mary K. Firestone

Mary K. Firestone

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

soils, miicrobial biology, environmental science

John Flannery photo

John G. Flannery

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

School of Optometry

neurobiology, optometry, vision science, cell and molecular biology of the retina in normal and diseased states

Image of Courtney Dressing (Photo by Ben Ailes)

Courtney Dressing

Dept of Astronomy

exoplanets, stars, habitability, astrobiology

Ronald Amundson

Ronald Amundson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

soils, environmental science, isotope biogeochemistry, pedology, environmental history & ethics, soilsbiogeochemistry, ecosystems

Somayeh Sojoudi

Somayeh Sojoudi

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

large-scale complex systems

Dylan Penningroth

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

agroecology, soil ecology, biogeochemistry, plan-soil-microbe interactions

Bernadette Pérez

Bernadette Pérez

Dept of History

history, United States, Latinx, American West, indigenous history, migration, labor, agriculture, Borderlands, the Americas, colonialism, environment

Joshua Goldstein

Joshua Goldstein

Dept of Demography

mortality, fertility, aging, social inequality, mathematical demography, economic demography, quantitative methods, United States, Europe

School of Public Health

maternal and child health

Timothy McQuade

Timothy McQuade

Haas School of Business

design of optimal mortgage debt instruments, real estate economics, Affordable housing, household finance, rent control

Dept of Anthropology

citizenship, Brazil, architecture, law, planning, the United States, cities, democracy, political and social anthropology, urban ethnography, the Americas