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ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Stephanie Zonszein

Dept of Political Science

immigrant integration, intergroup relations, causal inference, race and ethnic politics, political behavior

Faculty Photo, Clayton R. Critcher, 09/27/23

Clayton Critcher

Haas School of Business

moral psychology, consumer behavior and decision making, self and social judgment

David Sraer

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

finance economics, macro-finance, behavioral finance, economics of organization, entrepreneurship

Robert Van Houweling

Robert Van Houweling

Dept of Political Science

Congress, political parties, voting behavior, spatial models of candidate competition, experimental methods

Dept of Political Science

American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods

Photo of Professor Rachel Gershon at Haas

Haas School of Business

consumer judgements and choice, impression management, incentives, prosocial behavior, word of mouth, social consumption, corporate social responsibility

Photo of Professor Marti Hearst in her office on the UC Berkeley campus

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Information

information visualization, web search, search user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, empirical computational linguistics, natural language processing, online education

Adrian Aguilera standing in an office

Adrian Aguilera

Computational Precision Health Program

School of Social Welfare

digital health, depression interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy, health equity, machine learning, implementation science

Scott L. Stephens

Scott L. Stephens

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

fire, forestry, fire ecology, fire behavior, environmental biology/ecology, forest policy

person with short gray hair and black rim glasses holding chin

Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

Haas School of Business

information dissemination, information cascades on social media, retail investor behavior, decentralized finance

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

Robert O. Ritchie

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

structural materials, mechanical behavior in biomaterials, creep, fatigue and fracture of advanced metals, intermetallics, ceramics

Neil Tsutsui standing in Woo Fai Han Hall with net draped over his back

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks

Michael Crommie

Michael Crommie

Dept of Physics

physics, electronic properties of atomic-scale structures at surfaces, atomic-scale structures, morphology and dynamics of mesoscopic systems, atomic manipulation, visualizing low dimensional electronic behavior

Sylvia Guendelman

Sylvia Guendelman

School of Public Health

public health, maternal & child health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, specialty area in multicultural health

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dept of Economics

behavioral economics, tax policy, soda taxes, payday loans, household consumption and portfolio choice, energy policy, health, gambling, state-run lotteries, inflation expectations, nudges

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems

A photo of Keltner teaching

Dept of Psychology

culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality

School of Education

knowledge representation, adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, Recommender Systems, higher education, data science, Digital Learning Environments, cognitive modeling, Big Data in Education, Knowledge Tracing, Formative Assessment, intelligent tutoring systems, Online Learning, psychometrics, Educational Data Mining

Emily Ozer

School of Public Health

participatory research, community-engaged research/scholarship, mental health, public health, health and social behavior, clinical and community psychology, adolescent development, school-based health promotion

Photo of Jennifer Ahern

School of Public Health

mental health, epidemiology, social epidemiology, population health, neighborhood characteristics and health, methodological issues and novel methodological applications in social, traumatic events, substance use, behavioral health, birth outcomes and maternal health