Van P. Carey 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
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
Henrike C. Lange Dept of History of Art art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity
Jeffrey R. Long Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Chemistry inorganic and materials chemistry, synthesis of inorganic molecules and higher dimensional solids, precise tailoring of chemical and physical properties, gas storage, molecular separations and catalysis in porous materials, magnetic and conductive materials
Sabeeha Merchant Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella
Michael A. Marletta Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases
Frederic Theunissen Dept of Integrative Biology Dept of Neuroscience behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience
Donald Rio Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host
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
Franco Zunino Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials
Steven E. Brenner Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
Gary Karpen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases
Philip Gotanda Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies theater, Playwriting, Indie Film, New Music Opera, Asian American, Japanese American
Alexander Katz Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, nanoengineering, catalytic imprinted silicas, catalysts in biological systems, catalysis, chemical sensing
Dacher Keltner 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
Sung-Hou Kim Dept of Chemistry computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity
Eva Nogales Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics
Pradeep Chhibber Dept of Political Science political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
Markita del Carpio Landry Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Neuroscience nanomaterials, fluorescence microscopy, sensors, imaging, neuroscience, plant engineering
Sofia Villas-Boas Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making
Alexander von Rospatt Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies ritual studies, Nepalese studies, Buddhist traditions of South Asia, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism, art
Steven Weber Dept of Political Science School of Information political science, international security, international political economy, information science
Matthew Welch Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens