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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Dept of Sociology

sociology

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

magnetic fusion, collisionless shock waves, electromagnetic methods

Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background

Mario Telò

Dept of Rhetoric

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching

Dept of Economics

international trade, economic geography

Photo of Steve Conolly circa 2018

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

instrumentation, medical imaging reconstruction, contrast, MRI, Magnetic Particle Imaging

Jill Banfield working at the East River watershed field site in Colorado

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

genomics, geomicrobiology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, minerology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

theoretical ecology, stochastic processes, optimal control, decision theory, ecoinformatics, data science, tipping points

Haas School of Business

marketing, consumer behavior and decision making

Neil Tsutsui standing in Woo Fai Han Hall with net draped over his back

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks

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

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, phylogenetic methods, plant evolutionary biology

Cybelle Fox

Dept of Sociology

historical sociology, American welfare state, race and ethnic relations, immigration policy

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, comparative welfare state analysis, child welfare, evaluation research, family policy, social security

Nadia Ellis seated on an easy chair looking at the camera

Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

Neil K. Razdan in outdoor setting

Neil Razdan

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

catalysis, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics

Joelle Frechette

Joelle Frechette

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

soft materials, interfacial science, adhesion

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

Woman with blond hair standing in an art gallery next to books, a video monitor, and wall text.

Jill Miller

Dept of Art Practice

visual arts

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Dept of History

Africa

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants

Steven E. Brenner

Steven E. Brenner

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics

Costas Grigoropoulos

Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

heat transfer, laser materials processing, nano-manufacturing, energy systems and technology

Liwei Lin in lab

Liwei Lin

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), design and manufacturing of microsensors, microactuators, development of micromachining processes, silicon surface/bulk micromachining, micromolding process