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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

John Clarke

Dept of Physics

nuclear magnetic resonance, physics, noise limitations, applications of superconducting quantum interference devices, low-transition temperature, axion detectors, sensing of magnetically-tagged biomolecules, nondestructive evaluation

Alex Zettl

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earthquake physics, geophysical signal discovery

Bethany L. Goldblum

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

applied nuclear physics, neutron detection, scintillation physics, machine learning applications, nuclear weapon policy

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

Junqiao Wu holding a wafer with his reflection

Junqiao Wu

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

semiconductors, nanotechnology, energy materials, condensed matter physics and materials science

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 Nuclear Engineering

nuclear astrophysics, experimental nuclear physics, homeland security, neutrinos

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

Ezra Rubenstein

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, metaphysics

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

George F. Smoot

George F. Smoot

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background

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

Alan D. Weinstein

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, mathematical physics, symplectic geometry

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, nuclear magnetic resonance, semiconductors, metals, physics, fullerenes, nanotubes, condensed matter theory, surfaces, defects, nanostructure materials, clusters, many-electron effects in solids

Alessandra Lanzara

Dept of Physics

materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter

Photograph of Karl van Bibber in 2019

Karl van Bibber

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

Particle Astrophysics, experimental nuclear physics, Accelerator Technology and Neutron Sources

Nasser Zakariya

Dept of Rhetoric

science and narrative and documentary, history and philosophy of mathematics and physics

Raymond Jenaloz

Raymond Jeanloz

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary geophysics, high-pressure physics, national and international security, science-based policy

Alexander Givental

Alexander Givental

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, mathematical physics, symplectic geometry, singularities, mirror symmetry

Steven Kahn

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, optical astrophysics

Aditi Krishnapriyan

Aditi Krishnapriyan

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

machine learning, geometric deep learning, differentiable physics, dynamical systems, numerical methods, computational geometry, optimization

Geoff Penington

Dept of Physics

Christian H. Borgs

Christian Borgs

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, probability theory, combinatorics, complex networks, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences