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Research Expertise and Interest

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Albert Ruhi, UC Berkeley

Albert Ruhi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

freshwater ecology, biodiversity conservation, global change biology, Drought

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Ianna Hawkins Owen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies

Yumi Kim

Dept of History

Japan, Korea, women's studies, gender studies, medicine, religion, colonialism, Asian diaspora

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

igneous petrology, geochemistry, volcanology

Marika Landau-Wells

Marika Landau-Wells

Dept of Political Science

political psychology, conflict, national security, public opinion, foreign policy

Dept of Political Science

School of Information

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

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Danica Chen

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging

photo of Amitai Shenhav

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, motivation, decision-making, executive functions, computational modeling

Dept of Architecture

architecture, high-performance buildings, energy use, indoor environmental quality, post-occupancy evaluation, comfort and adaptation in buildings, natural ventilation and mixed mode

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

cosmology, formation of structure in the universe, dark energy, expansion of the universe, cosmic microwave background, quasars, redshift surveys

Margaret Crawford

Dept of Architecture

history of architecture, architecture and urban design, urban history and theory, US built environment studies, urbanism in China

Déborah A. Blocker

Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies

Receiving the ASA's 2022 Distinguished Book Award

Armando Lara-Millan

Dept of Sociology

economy & society, law, Healthcare, political economy, prisons

Ronald Dahl

School of Public Health

adolescence, brain development, behavioral and emotional health, pubertal maturation, affective neuroscience, social neuroscience

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

lipid droplet, lipotoxicity, ferroptosis, ubiquitin, proteasome, ER protein quality control, metabolism, cancer, drug resistance, metabolic disease

Dr. Ünal in the lab

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, cell culture, biocatalyst engineering, microsystems, extremozymes, genomics of extremophiles, metabolic flux analysis, enzyme technology, bioactive materials

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

endocrinology, genetics of aging

Cati V. de los Ríos

Cati V. de los Ríos

School of Education

literacy, bi/multilingual education

Professor Ahmad Omar sitting in front of a glass whiteboard marked with equations related to his research.

Ahmad Omar

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

statistical mechanics, active matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, polymer science, directed self-assembly

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution

HEARTs Research Group

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

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Dept of Integrative Biology

genomics, genetics, computational biology, structural variation, RNA, diversity, aging, population genetics

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