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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Claudio U Hail in outdoor setting

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanophotonics, nanoengineered optical materials, micro/nano manufacturing

John G. Flanagan

John G. Flanagan

School of Optometry

glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, neuroscience, neurobiology

Dept of Integrative Biology

glial function, cell biology

Dept of Anthropology

decolonization, indigenization, indigenous methodologies, tribal sovereignty-driven research, Indigenous Archaeologies, Southwest U.S.

Dr. Chris Schell sets a wildlife camera trap in the East Bay, CA. His lab uses these devices and other techniques (e.g., GPS collars, roadkill collections) to monitor how wildlife populations adapt to life in cities.

Christopher Schell

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

behavioral ecology, urban ecology, One Health, social-ecological dynamics, environmental justice

Dept of Sociology

genocide, Ethnic Conflict, religion

Peter Bosselmann

Peter C. Bosselmann

Dept of Architecture

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design, architecture, city and regional planning, landscape architecture

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning

Laura E. Pérez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities

Raúl Briceño in outdoor setting

Dept of Physics

nuclear physics, particle physics

Dept of History

enlightenment, Russian intellectual history, sentimentalism, eighteenth and nineteenth century, anti-religious thought, romanticism, history of friendship

Prof. J. D. Bray

Jonathan D. Bray

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

earthquake engineering, geotechnical engineering, physical and numerical modeling, environmental geotechnics

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

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

Ashok Ajoy

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, nanoscale NMR spectroscopy

Ajay Pillarisetti setting at desk with computer monitor and microphone in background

Ajay Pillarisetti

School of Public Health

energy use, health effects of air pollution, climate change, exposure assessment, global health, health impacts of energy use, heat and health, air pollution measurement, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

A photo of the faculty in the paramo in Ecuador

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

ecohydrology, remote sensing, satellite experiments, stable isotopes, plant biology, surface hydrology, wetlands, methane

Ehud Altman

Dept of Physics

atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and materials science

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, cancer, tumor immunity, immune responses, chronic inflammation and cancer, tumor biology, epigenetics

Dan Weisz

Dept of Astronomy

observational astrophysics, galaxies, stars, cosmology, early Universe, dark matter

Chris Hoofnagle

Chris Jay Hoofnagle

consumer protection, internet law, privacy, computer crime, criminal procedure, law and technology, public choice theory, federal trade commission, federal communications commission, class action litigation, cyber security, cybersecurity, quantum information, national security

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

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

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

Teresa Head-Gordon standing with hands crossed in front

Teresa Head-Gordon

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

Computational chemistry, machine learning, chemical physics, biophysics, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science

Jun Hu

Dept of History of Art

Chinese art and architecture