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Research Expertise and Interest

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Elizabeth Purdom

Elizabeth Purdom

Dept of Statistics

computational biology, bioinformatics, statistics, data analysis, sequencing, cancer genomics

Professor Lewis: A young smiling woman wearing glasses in a blue, collared shirt.

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles

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

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

Perry de Valpine

Perry de Valpine

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

population ecology, mathematical modeling and statistics

Dept of Chemistry

computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity

Ayduk while giving a colloquium at Clark Kerr campus.

Ozlem Ayduk

Dept of Psychology

emotion regulation, social-cognition in interpersonal relationships, self-control, violence, developmental psychology, psychology, depression

Professor Fleming in Photosynthesis Lab

Graham R. Fleming

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, electronic energy transfer, electron transfer, regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

Michael B. Eisen

Michael B. Eisen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genomics, genome sequencing, bioinformatics, animal development

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Miryam Sas in outdoor environment

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies

Michael Crommie

Michael Crommie

Dept of Physics

physics, electronic properties of atomic-scale structures at surfaces, atomic-scale structures, morphology and dynamics of mesoscopic systems, atomic manipulation, visualizing low dimensional electronic behavior

Christopher Walters

Christopher Walters

Dept of Economics

labor economics, applied econometrics, economics of education

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, heterogeneous catalysts, spectroscopic techniques, chemical reaction engineering

Steven P. Segal

School of Social Welfare

psychiatry, methodology, social welfare, mental health and social policy

Heather Haveman

Heather Haveman

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, economic sociology, entrepreneurship, China, careers and social mobility, gender, social history

Denis Titov

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, aging, systems biology, computational biology

Steven Kahn

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, optical astrophysics

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory, Materials Physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion

person with short gray hair and black rim glasses holding chin

Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

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

Robert Dudley in the Panamanian rain forest

Dept of Integrative Biology

metabolism, biomechanics, butterflies, energetics, flight, gliding, hummingbirds, insects, paleophysiology

Molly Van Houweling

Molly Van Houweling

intellectual property, technology policy

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Bin Yu

Dept of Statistics

machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, climate science