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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Dept of Physics

particle physics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

Ashok Ajoy

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, nanoscale NMR spectroscopy

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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

Vernadette Gonzalez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American literacy and cultural studies, culture of U.S. Imperialism, gender and sexuality, Philippine and Filipino American studies, transnational American studies

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Onja Razafindratsima

Dept of Integrative Biology

tropical ecology, community ecology, plant-animal interactions, primatology, biodiversity

Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Joel Fajans

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, plasma processing, physics, basic plasma physics, non-neutral plasmas, basic plasma physics experiments, pure electron plasma traps, cyrogenic plasmas, plasma bifurcations, basic non-linear dynamics, autoresonance

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Islam (social and intellectual history)

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

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

interactions between bacteria and their viral predators

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

poverty, inequality, economic policy, Social Safety Net, labor economics, public economics, Food Insecurity, COVID-19

Federico Echenique

Federico Echenique

Dept of Economics

economic theory, economics and computation, mathematical economics, discrete allocation problems

Dept of Ethnic Studies

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

Eric Stover

human rights, war, International Criminal Law, Forensic Sciences, International Criminal Justice

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills

School of Social Welfare

poverty and inequality, Social Safety Net Programs, Unemployment and Labor Studies, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, social justice research

Dept of Psychology

developmental psychology, comparative psychology, cross-cultural psychology

School of Social Welfare

adolescent violence and victimization, polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents, bullying involvement roles and mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions, impact of family-level microaggressions and microaffirmations on mental health, disability, anti-ableism

Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion

Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies

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Jill Miller

Dept of Art Practice

visual arts

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Timothy Tangherlini

Timothy Tangherlini

Dept of Scandinavian

School of Information

folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

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Justin Davidson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish linguistics, romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods