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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Philip Tidwell working on a construction project

Dept of Architecture

architectural form, constructive technique, agency of matter, architecture, timber supply

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

power electronic circuits, components, control

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

Xi Wu

Haas School of Business

securities regulation, corporate governance, capital markets, FinTech

J. Bradford DeLong

Dept of Economics

economics, globalization, economic growth, convergence, economics of post WWII Europe

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

Saul Perlmutter sitting at a desk with figures drawn on a white board behind him.

Saul Perlmutter

Dept of Physics

cosmology, dark energy, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, supernovae, accelerating universe

Kevin J. O'Brien

Dept of Political Science

social movements, Chinese politics, peasant politics

jonathan kolstad

Jonathan Kolstad

Haas School of Business

health economics, industrial organization, public economics

A photograph of a handsome professor of Architecture

Dept of Architecture

design computation, architectural representation, design methods, Generative AI, artificial intelligence, creativity, ideation and creativity

Charles Weisselberg

Charles D. Weisselberg

law reform, criminal procedure, police interrogation, federal prisons

Vasugi Kailasam

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture

Erwin Chemerinsky standing outside Berkeley Law

Erwin Chemerinsky

constitutional law, criminal procedure, federal jurisdiction

Meng C. Lin

School of Optometry

contact lenses, vision, clinical trials (phase I - Phase IV), clinical trial designs, tear film, biomedical devices, ocular surface

Cailin Slattery

Haas School of Business

public finance, political economy, industrial organization, state and local government

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary science, theoretical astrophysics, dynamics, planet formation, circumstellar disks

Photo of Joshua Gang

Joshua Gang

Dept of English

20th century Irish and British literature, literature and philosophy, 20th century literature, history of literary theory, the novel, literature and the sciences of mind, close reading, philosophy of literature, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy

An image of Dr. Lofgren standing outdoors

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Sunil Dutta

Haas School of Business

accrual accounting information, managerial performance measures, firms' disclosure policies, disclosure policies' valuation in capital markets

Joan Walker

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

behavioral modeling, discrete choice analysis, travel behavior

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching

Blumenstock speaking at a conference

Joshua Blumenstock

School of Information

machine learning, development economics, poverty and public policy, inequality and crisis

Andreas Schaab in outdoor setting

Dept of Economics

monetary policy, business cycle fluctuations, inequality, policy design

A person with long wavy black hair sits facing forward

Dept of Art Practice

performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance