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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Joel Fajans

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, plasma processing, physics, basic plasma physics, non-neutral plasmas, basic plasma physics experiments, pure electron plasma traps, cyrogenic plasmas, plasma bifurcations, basic non-linear dynamics, autoresonance

Dept of Integrative Biology

community ecology, estuarine host-parasite interactions, canopy gaps, Caribbean coast of Panama

Dept of Architecture

architecture, high-performance buildings, energy use, indoor environmental quality, post-occupancy evaluation, comfort and adaptation in buildings, natural ventilation and mixed mode

Dept of Physics

physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory

Michael Shapira, Integrative Biology

Michael Shapira

Dept of Integrative Biology

aging, host-microbe interactions, Microbiome, C. elegans

William Lester, Jr.

William A. Lester, Jr.

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation

David H. Raulet

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cancer immunology, natural killer (NK) cells, T-cell development and function, pathogens, viruses, lymphocyte receptors, microorganisms, cancer cells, tumor immunity, immunotherapy of cancer

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

Lester Hu

Europe, East Asia, Inner Asia, music, history of music theory

Louise Fortmann

Louise P. Fortmann

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

natural resource sociology, political ecology, rural development, gender

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

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

A photo of Trevor Keenan

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, natural climate solutions, Dynamic Vegetation, carbon cycle, ecophysiology, land-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemistry, micrometeorology, remote sensing, mathematics and data science

Maria Paz Gutierrez

Maria Paz Gutierrez

Dept of Architecture

natural waste composites and additive manufacturing, flood resilience, multifunctional building systems, biologically inspired technologies, robotics and additive manufacturing

Cindy Cox

composition, music analysis and theory, post-tonal music, piano, music and live electronics, text-setting

Jonathan Wurtele

Jonathan Wurtele

Dept of Physics

physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery

Nicole King

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

choanoflagellates, multicellularity, evolution of animals, host-microbe interactions, bacterial cues

Alane Suhr

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, computational linguistics

Ellen Robey

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage, T cell development in the mouse, thymic development, cellular maturation, parasitic infection, chronic infection, host-pathogen interactions, Toxoplasma gondii

Jack Gallant in outdoor setting

Jack L. Gallant

Dept of Neuroscience

computational neuroscience, vision science, attention, fMRI, language, natural scene perception, brain encoding, brain decoding

Eric Biber

environmental law, natural resources law, energy law, land-use law, federal Indian law, administrative law, property

Ashley Wolf

School of Public Health

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions

Sharon Jacobs standing in lighted area with orchid plan in background.

administrative law, environmental law, natural resources law, energy law

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Seismology, earthquakes, earthquake hazard mitigation, deep earth structure & dynamics, tomography, natural hazards