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Matthew Shutzer in outdoor setting

Matthew Shutzer

Dept of History

environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history, historical sociology, social theory

Kristie Boering in her UC Berkeley laboratory with graduate student Katie Mar

Kristie Boering

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

Robert Levenson at Davos

Robert W. Levenson

Dept of Psychology

aging, gender, culture, brain, psychology, emotion, psychophysiology, marriage, clinical science, interpersonal interactions, dementia, relationships, neurodegenerative disease

Dept of Psychology

sleep, insomnia, circadian rhythms, mental illness, comorbidity, implementation science, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-academic partnership

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Barbara Romanowicz

Barbara Romanowicz

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science, deep earth structure & dynamics, earthquake processes & scaling laws, real time estimation of earthquake parameters, development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories, planetary seismology

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Dept of Physics

Atomic-scale synthesis of complex oxide heterostructures, 2D materials, spin-charge coupling, polar and magnetic topologies, electron microscopy, piezoforce microscopy, NV magnetometry, materials processing for devices, energy efficient electronics(12634)

Juan David Rubio Restrepo

ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American Studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies

Sandrine Dudoit

Sandrine Dudoit

Dept of Statistics

School of Public Health

statistics, machine learning, data science, applied statistics, statistical computing, computational biology, computational genomics, Precision Medicine, precision health

John Coates in lab with equipment in background

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

Precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research

Austin Roorda standing with an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

Austin John Roorda

School of Optometry

adaptive optics, eye, vision, ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscope, ophthalmology

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization

Park Sinchaisri

Park Sinchaisri

Haas School of Business

operations management, operations research, machine learning, human-computer interaction, decision-making, behavioral science, behavioral economics, service operations, applied econometrics

Denise Herd

School of Public Health

public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

Iris Mauss

Dept of Psychology

social psychology, personality psychology, affective science, psychophysiology, individual differences, emotion, emotion regulation, health psychology, happiness, well-being, psychological health

Rauri C.K. Bowie

Dept of Integrative Biology

ornithology, Africa, evolutionary biology

Qiang Zhou

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

microscopy, nanomaterials, Nuclear materials, material science, radiation damage, corrosion in liquid metals, materials development, materials under extremes, nuclear applications, ion beam microscopy, nanoscale mechanical testing

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

cell fate determination, chromosome architecture, developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Dept of Anthropology

social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society