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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

Paul Renne

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

geochemistry, geochronology, paleomagnetism

Christine Hastorf

Christine Hastorf

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

gene expression, microRNAs, Mammalian Cell Metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies

Giovanni R. F. (John) Ferrari

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, ancient philosophy, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric

Joseph J. Campos

Dept of Psychology

social-emotional development in infancy, emotional communication, perception of emotion, relation of motor development to cognitive and social and emotional development

Fenyong Liu

School of Public Health

public health, infectious diseases

Don Moore

Haas School of Business

negotiation, judgment and decision making, Overconfidence, biases, forecasting

Masayoshi Tomizuka with two industrial robot arms.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

robotics, mechatronics, control systems theory, digital control, dynamic systems, mechanical vibrations, adaptive and optimal control, motion control

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

hydrogeology, fluid mechanics, geomorphology, earth & planetary science, geological processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, dynamics of suspensions, flow & transport in porous materials, percolation theory

Prof. David Bilder

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, cancer, Drosophila, cell biology, cell polarity, tumor suppressor, epithelial architecture, polarity, proliferation control, tumor-host interaction, morphogenesis

Brandi Catanese

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture

John Harte

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, ecology, sustainability, energy policy, theoretical ecology, biodiversityl

David Bates

Dept of Rhetoric

artificial intelligence, enlightenment, early Modern European intellectual history, 20th century European and American intellectual history, history and theory of media and technology, history of political thought

Austin Roorda standing with an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

Austin John Roorda

School of Optometry

adaptive optics, eye, vision, ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscope, ophthalmology

Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

Dept of Scandinavian

Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, literary history, gender and literature, word and image, archaeology in literature and visual art, death and the arts, ecology and ice art

School of Public Health

public health, bioethics, patient autonomy

Mark Stacey

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

coastal climate change and adaptation, interaction between environmental processes and built infrastructure and social systems, local/regional interdependence

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

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

crystallography, earth & planetary science, structural geology & rock deformation, seismic anisotropy

David Romer

Dept of Economics

financial crises, fiscal policy, monetary policy, new Keynesian economics

Dept of History

modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, Late Modern Europe