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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology

Jennifer Chayes

Jennifer Chayes

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graphons, machine learning, ethical decision making, climate change

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

Marc Hellerstein

Marc Hellerstein

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

plant biology, health and nutrition

Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Chris Martin with water in background

Christopher Martin

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, speciation, genomics, adaptation, craniofacial development

Britt Koskella in the greenhouse

Dept of Integrative Biology

Bacteriophage, Microbiome, plant-pathogen interactions, disease ecology, agricultural sustainability, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, plant microbiome, evolutionary ecology

Caroline Williams

Caroline Williams

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolution, physiology, ecophysiology, metabolism, insect, winter, adaptation, thermal biology

Rodrigo Almeida

Rodrigo Almeida

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

disease ecology, plant disease, vector-borne, Xylella fastidiosa, emerging diseases

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Geography

continuum mechanics, climate, geomorphology, glaciers, glaciology, climate history, stable isotopes, geographical thought

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, phylogenetic methods, plant evolutionary biology

Sugata Ray

Dept of History of Art

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

Richard S. Dodd

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental policy, environmental science, forestry, wildlife, plant biology

School of Public Health

urban health, gun violence, informal settlements, global public health, urban climate change, environmental impact assessment, mediation, environmental justice, urban and regional planning

Dept of Geography

climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation

markita landry in the lab

Markita del Carpio Landry

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Neuroscience

nanomaterials, fluorescence microscopy, sensors, imaging, neuroscience, plant engineering

School of Optometry

optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity

Dennis Baldocchi

Dennis Baldocchi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental health, environmental justice, climate change and health, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Onja Razafindratsima surrounded by trees

Onja Razafindratsima

Dept of Integrative Biology

tropical ecology, community ecology, plant-animal interactions, primatology, biodiversity

Shawn Kim in outside setting

Shawn Kim

Haas School of Business

determinants and consequences of voluntary disclosure, corporate governance, insider trading, accounting information and capital markets, capital markets, incentives, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, climate change

Joshua Apte in back of vehicle looking at laptop

Joshua Apte

School of Public Health

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

air pollution, Atmospheric Aerosol, exposure assessment, risk assessment, environmental justice, environmental engineering, environmental sensors, climate change mitigation, environmental issues in developing countries

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

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