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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Geography

continuum mechanics, climate, geomorphology, glaciers, glaciology, climate history, stable isotopes, geographical thought

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

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

diversity, culture, inclusion

Amy E. Herr in foreground with microfluidic data in background

Amy Herr

Dept of Bioengineering

microfluidics, bioanalytical separations, diagnostics, electrokinetic transport, engineering design

francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, literature and psychoanalysis, twentieth-century continental philosophy

Dean Toste

Dept of Chemistry

organometallic chemistry, organic, development of new synthetic methods, enantioselective catalysts, strategies for the synthesis of natural products, synthesis of complex molecules, formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, olefins, Supramolecular Chemistry, redox flow batteries, medicinal chemistry, bioconjugation, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, biomass, fluorination

Hedy Kober

Dept of Psychology

craving, regulation of craving, alcohol and substance use disorder, treatments for substance use and eating disorders, neural and psychological mechanisms of treatment, emotion regulation, mindfulness, meditation

Dept of Bioengineering

microbial metabolism

Dept of Political Science

American political institutions, bureaucratic organizations, executive branch, public administration, political economy, statistical modeling

School of Public Health

Precision Medicine, causal inference, adaptive experiment, machine learning and artificial intelligence

School of Public Health

mechanisms of pathogenesis and immune subversion in tuberculosis, protective immunity to tuberculosis, metabolic interactions between hosts and pathogens, development of novel therapeutics for tuberculosis, scientific capacity building, tuberculosis

Dept of Architecture

virtual and augmented reality for building design and simulation, net zero energy and sustainable design, parametric and generative design systems for sustainable architecture, daylighting, daylighting in buildings, housing solutions for the developing world and refugee camps

Dept of Architecture

indoor environment, thermal comfort, occupant surveys, building environmental control, ventilation, wind, architectural aerodynamics

Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Photo of Professor Marti Hearst in her office on the UC Berkeley campus

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Information

information visualization, web search, search user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, empirical computational linguistics, natural language processing, online education

Qing Zhou in outside environment

Qing Zhou

Dept of Psychology

culture, family, child development, developmental psychopathology, immigrants, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory

Daniela Kaufer standing with part of a human skull nearby

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, aging, dementia, stress, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, blood brain barrier, resilience, trauma, psychedelics, glia, myelin

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

Dept of Integrative Biology

california biodiversity, climate change, adaptation, community-engaged research/scholarship

Timmia Hearn DeRoy standing in outdoor setting

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

anti-colonial theatre practice, Caribbean theatre, social justice, disability justice, practice as research

Robert Levenson at Davos

Robert W. Levenson

Dept of Psychology

aging, gender, culture, brain, psychology, emotion, psychophysiology, marriage, clinical science, interpersonal interactions, dementia, relationships, neurodegenerative disease

Professor David C. Wilson on stage

David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

political psychology, politics, race and public policy, race, racial justice, public opinion research, survey research methods