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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Integrative Biology

freshwater ecology, food webs, trophic dynamics, northern California rivers, watersheds

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers

Paolo D'Odorico wearing a blue shirt, with unfocused greenery in background

Paolo D'Odorico

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, Drylands, Desertification

Gabriel Gann presenting with hands raise in front of her

Gabriel Orebi Gann

Dept of Physics

particle physics

Ori Ganor

Dept of Physics

string (and M-) theory, quantum field theory, mathematical physics

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors

Dept of Physics

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

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

Eva Nogales in lab

Eva Nogales

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics

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 Linguistics

morphology, phonology, reduplication, child phonology

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Eliza Brown

Dept of Sociology

economic sociology, gender and sexualities, medicine, reproduction, Science and Technology studies

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Dept of History of Art

ancient art, Modern Art, art theory

Stuart Russell in outdoor environment

Stuart J. Russell

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning

Daniel A. Portnoy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, bacteriology, infectious diseases, intracellular pathogens, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, vaccines, cell biology

Nasser Meerkhan in outside environment.

Nasser Meerkhan

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Medieval Iberia, transcultural text, transtermporal text, translinguistic text

Dept of Psychology

learning, decision making, computational modeling, executive functions

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, intelligent systems and robotics, computer vision

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Steven Piantadosi

Steven Piantadosi

Dept of Psychology

language acquisition, language processing

School of Education

knowledge representation, adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, Recommender Systems, higher education, data science, Digital Learning Environments, cognitive modeling, Big Data in Education, Knowledge Tracing, Formative Assessment, intelligent tutoring systems, Online Learning, psychometrics, Educational Data Mining

Dept of Linguistics

morphology, syntax, semantics, California languages, Germanic languages, Inuit languages

Priya Moorjani standing in front of map of the world

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Human evolutionary genetics, human genetics, ancient DNA, population genetics, statistical genetics