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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Nitash Balsara in his lab

Nitash P. Balsara

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

electrochemical energy conversion, polymer properties, small angle scattering, nanoscale and microscale sciences

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Ashley Wolf

School of Public Health

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions

Marta Gonzalez with phone held to her head standing with city scape as background.

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

human mobility, network science, complex systems, urban science, spending behavior, urban vulnerability and resilience, climate change

School of Social Welfare

family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services

John Battles pointing out changes in forest composition during a field trip at Blodgett Forest Research Station.

John J. Battles

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

forest ecology, sustainability, ecosystem dynamics, disturbance ecology, tree demography, carbon ecology and storage, Sierra Nevada, northern forest

Don Tilley in his office

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic, organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry, transition metal compounds, catalysis, new chemical transformations, advanced solid state materials, renewable energy, solar fuels

Michael Shapira, Integrative Biology

Michael Shapira

Dept of Integrative Biology

aging, host-microbe interactions, Microbiome, C. elegans

Dept of English

18th century and Romantic British literature, Milton, literature and the history of science, especially medicine

Cortez in front of installation

Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

Gerard Marriott

Dept of Bioengineering

Sensors and biosensors, drug delivery systems, optical spectroscopy and microscopy, high-contrast imaging, biomaterials

Sona Kang

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, epigenetics

Joelle Frechette

Joelle Frechette

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

soft materials, interfacial science, adhesion

Marianne Constable

Marianne Constable

Dept of Rhetoric

law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society

Daniel A. Rodríguez

Daniel A. Rodríguez

Dept of City & Regional Planning

transportation planning, transportation policy, environmental planning, healthy cities

School of Education

language, culture, society, literacy, literacy learning of urban youth, African American students in schools, writing development, effective teaching, learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities, studies of race - class - and gender, Leaders for Equity and Democracy EdD - LEAD

Edmund Campion sitting at a piano

music, composition, musical application of computer technologies

Portrait on campus, 2023

Ksenia Krasileva

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genome evolution, innate immunity, plant health, fungi

William Holzpfel

William Holzapfel

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, measurement and interpretation of anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, the universe, density of energy, baryonic matter in the universe, the degree angular scale interferometer, the arcminute cosmology bolometer array

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

Dirk Hockemeyer

Dirk Hockemeyer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, cell biology

civil procedure, conflict of laws, legal remedies

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Seismology, earthquakes, earthquake hazard mitigation, deep earth structure & dynamics, tomography, natural hazards