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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dana Miller-Cotto

School of Education

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

Nikki Jones Head Shot

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions

Anna Livia Brand

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban planning, urban design, community development, environmental planning, racial geographies, race and urban development, citizen participation

Professor Ahmad Omar sitting in front of a glass whiteboard marked with equations related to his research.

Ahmad Omar

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

statistical mechanics, active matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, polymer science, directed self-assembly

Joelle Frechette

Joelle Frechette

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

soft materials, interfacial science, adhesion

Professor David C. Wilson on stage

David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

political psychology, politics, race and public policy, race, racial justice, public opinion research, survey research methods

Waldo E. Martin

Dept of History

African American history, modern American culture

Peter S. Menell

intellectual property, property law, environmental law & policy, entertainment law, law and economics, federal courts

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

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)

Brooks Abel

Dept of Chemistry

Polymer Chemistry, organic chemistry, stereoselective catalysis, polymer recycling

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

Grace Gu

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Composites, additive manufacturing, in-situ monitoring and process control, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioinspired materials

Photo of Steve Conolly circa 2018

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

instrumentation, medical imaging reconstruction, contrast, MRI, Magnetic Particle Imaging

Matthew Evan Taylor

music composition

Daniel McKinsey

Daniel McKinsey

Dept of Physics

dark matter, noble gases, cryogenics, high voltages, particle physics, astrophysics, low temperature physics, detector physics, neutrinos

Dept of History

Claudia Ostertag

Claudia P. Ostertag

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

energy, environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, structural engineering, mechanics and materials

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, Optogenetics, dopamine, motivation, reward, electrophysiological techniques

Emmeline Chuang

Emmeline Chuang

School of Social Welfare

inter-organizational relationships, frontline health and human service workers, implementation science, coordination of health and social services

Associate Professor Desiree Fields, smiling, wearing a colorfully patterned blouse in front of grey concrete background.

Dept of Geography

economic geography, urban theory, financialization, digital platforms, property, geographical political economy, housing justice, digital capitalism

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

cosmology, formation of structure in the universe, dark energy, expansion of the universe, cosmic microwave background, quasars, redshift surveys

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

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earthquake physics, geophysical signal discovery

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Dept of History of Art

18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture