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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Demography

Haas School of Business

School of Public Health

health economics, public health, health care financing, economic development, industrial organizaition

School of Social Welfare

poverty and inequality, Social Safety Net Programs, Unemployment and Labor Studies, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, social justice research

Margaret Crawford

Dept of Architecture

history of architecture, architecture and urban design, urban history and theory, US built environment studies, urbanism in China

Gül Dölen

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

behavioral and systems neuroscience, psychedelics, critical periods, octopus, social behavior, evolution, synaptic plasticity, extracellular matrix, oxytocin and stroke, Fragile X, autism, PTSD, addiction

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

marine ecology, land-sea connectivity, coastal resilience, geospatial data, ocean policy and governance, social-ecological dynamics, coral reef, California current system

Dana Miller-Cotto

School of Education

educational equity, early childhood education, cognitive processes, early math learning, social contexts of education

Robert S. Zucker

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator

Brian Staskawicz in lab holding wheat stem

Brian Staskawicz

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

biotechnology, plant and microbial biology

Anastasios Melis

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D

Dept of Political Science

international relations, international security, religion and conflict, Israel, military intelligence, torture, interrogation

Eileen A. Lacey

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, population, mammals, behavioral ecology, vertebrates, molecular genetics, subterranean rodents, Argentina, Chile

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

optoelectronics, quantum optics, optimization, Antennas, Biophysics and Sensing

Picture of Justin Davidson

Justin Davidson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish linguistics, romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods

Nilah Ioannidis

Nilah Ioannidis

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computational biology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, genomics, personal genome interpretation, precision health, rare diseases, statistical genetics, molecular biology, biophysics

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

transportation, wireless communications, inertial navigation for vehicle systems

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape ecology, remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, urban geography, ecosystem change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, wetlands, urban regions, landscape dynamics

Ashley Wolf

School of Public Health

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Systematic Entomology

Haas School of Business

nonverbal behavior, prejudice and discrimination, power and status, social perception, automaticity, social behavior and market outcomes

John Battles pointing out changes in forest composition during a field trip at Blodgett Forest Research Station.

John J. Battles

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

forest ecology, sustainability, ecosystem dynamics, disturbance ecology, tree demography, carbon ecology and storage, Sierra Nevada, northern forest

Photo of Jovan Scott Lewis

Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations

Professor Fleming in Photosynthesis Lab

Graham R. Fleming

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, electronic energy transfer, electron transfer, regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy