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Enrique Iglesia

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites

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Paola Bacchetta

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil

Dept of Sociology

sociology

Fotini Chow

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental fluid mechanics, wind energy applications, clouds, large-eddy simulation, turbulence modeling, atmospheric boundary layer flow, flow over complex terrain, wildfire smoke transport, methane emissions, urban dispersion modeling, urban air quality

Thomas M. Devine

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

corrosion resistance of materials, additive manufacturing of metals

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School

Dan Stamper-Kurn in laboratory

Dan Stamper-Kurn

Dept of Physics

atomic physics, the use of ultra-cold neutral atoms, studies of microscopic and macroscopic quantum phenomena, cavity quantum electrodynamics, Bose-Einstein condensation, precision and quantum measurement

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

rhetoric, classics, Greek literature, Latin Literature, ancient Greek, Latin, historiography, ancient Rome, ancient Greece

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills

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

Robert Dudley in the Panamanian rain forest

Dept of Integrative Biology

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

Zaijun Chen

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

physical electronics, artificial intelligence, computer architecture & engineering, information / data / network / communication science, integrated circuits

Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

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Eric Naiman

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel

Ming at a research conference

Ming Gu

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, convex optimization

Constantin Teleman

Constantin Teleman

Dept of Mathematics

algebraic geometry, Lie groups, topology, topological quantum field theory

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

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

Brian A. Barsky

Brian A. Barsky

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Optometry

computer science, geometric design and modeling, computer graphics, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation

Dept of Architecture

disaster recovery, housing impacts in disasters, loss modeling, performance based design

AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian

School of Information

innovation, information management, entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, regional economic development, high skilled immigration, Asian development

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, representation theory, integrable systems, mathematical physics

Petr Horava

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

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