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Department

Claudia Ostertag

Claudia P. Ostertag

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

energy, environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, structural engineering, mechanics and materials

Khalid M. Mosalam

Khalid M. Mosalam

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

bridges, concrete and masonry structures, damage mechanics, earthquake engineering, fracture mechanics, machine learning

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, heterogeneous catalysts, spectroscopic techniques, chemical reaction engineering

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

earthquake engineering, structural engineering, reinforced concrete, performance-based earthquake engineering, high-rise buildings, lifeline systems, rehabilitation (retrofitting), laboratory testing

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

Dept of Geography

climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation

Kevin Edward Healy

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

bioengineering, biomaterials engineering, bioinspired materials, regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering, microphysiological systems, organs on a chip, drug screening and discovery

Ziqi Wang

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

structural engineering, mechanics and materials, structural reliability, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification

Stuart Bale

Dept of Physics

experimental space physics, plasma astrophysics, solar physics, low frequency radio astronomy

O'Connell on UC Berkeley's campus

Grace D O'Connell

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

biomechanics, tissue engineering, intervertebral disc, cartilage

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, infrastructure, soil/structure interaction, monitoring, heritage conservation, masonry structures

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

nanoscience, electrical engineering, nanoelectronics

Jay D. Keasling

Jay D. Keasling

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products

Per F. Peterson

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear engineering, heat and mass transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design, radioactive waste, nuclear materials management

Claire Tomlin standing in front of a project of an aerial device

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

electrical engineering, computer sciences, control, biosystems, control theory, intelligent systems, robotics, hybrid and embedded systems, biological cell networks

Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos standing on a damaged levee in Grand Isle, LA, following Hurricane Ida.

Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

civil infrastructure systems, geosystems, geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, bioinformatics, engineering justice

John Dueber, smiling, in lab

John Dueber

Dept of Bioengineering

synthetic biology, Metabolic Engineering

Dimitrios Konstantinidis

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, nonstructural components, seismic isolation, passive control, engineering mechanics

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

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, electrical engineering, vision science, computer vision, robotics

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

surface and interfacial science and engineering, nanotechnology, harsh-environment sensors, silicon carbide, green construction, biologically-inspired materials synthesis

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

David Schaffer in lab

David V. Schaffer

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, neuroscience, stem cell biology, gene therapy

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants