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Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

Robert P. Merges

antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, nuclear engineering, energy, resources, risk analysis as applied to global warming, methodological studies of forecasting, hazard assessment, renewable energy technologies, environmental resource management

John W. Morris, Jr

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics

Haas School of Business

housing price indices, real estate price dynamics, mortgage valuation models: prepayment and default, mortgage contract design, mortgage backed security trading and valuation, executive stock option valuation, energy efficient mortgage underwriting, climate risk

Richard H. Kramer

Dept of Neuroscience

Neurons, synaptic transmission, photopharmacology, ion channels, action potentials, optical imaging, vision, learning and memory, retina, neurodegenrative disease(1551)

Carlos F. Noreña

Dept of History

Roman history

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

medical imaging, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, low temperature biology, micro and nano bionic technologies, electrical impedance tomography, bio-electronics, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, bio-heat and mass transfer, electroporation light imaging

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

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

Thomas Courtade

Thomas Courtade

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

information theory, probability, data compression, communications, computer science

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Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Dept of City & Regional Planning

political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning

Donald Rio

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

David Sedlak standing in pool with sculpture to his right.

David L. Sedlak

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fate and transport of and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, water reuse and water recycling, urban water infrastructure, engineered treatment wetlands

Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background

Mario Telò

Dept of Rhetoric

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy

Teresa Head-Gordon standing with hands crossed in front

Teresa Head-Gordon

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

Computational chemistry, machine learning, chemical physics, biophysics, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Leif Nelson

Haas School of Business

consumer well being, consumer preferences and choices, human judgement, decision-making, consumption experience

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

Pradeep Chhibber

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India