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Robert Taylor Robert L. Taylor
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, finite element software
Donald Rio 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
Rebecca Abergel in interior setting Rebecca Abergel
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Nuclear Engineering
Heavy element coordination and biological chemistry for new decontamination, separation, radiotherapeutic strategies
Sanjay Govindjee Sanjay Govindjee
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics, polymer mechanics, elastomer modeling, battery modeling, thermomechanics, continuum mechanics, failure analysis
Tony M. Keaveny Tony M. Keaveny
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
biomechanics of bone, orthopaedic biomechanics, design of artificial joints, osteoporosis, finite element modeling, clinical biomechanics
Filip Filippou Filip C. Filippou
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
nonlinear analysis of structures, finite element analysis, seismic response simulation, seismic evaluation of structures by computer analysis
Person placeholder image 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
Simon Schleicher Simon Schleicher
Dept of Architecture
biomimetics, structural engineering, architectural design, 3D printing, 3D scanning, digital fabrication, fabrication, composite structures, finite element analysis, parametric design, bio-inspired structures, robotics manufacturing, robotics
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
James F. O'Brien James O'Brien
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
School of Optometry
computer graphics, fluid dynamics, computer simulation, physically based animation, finite element simulation, human perception, image forensics, video forensics, computer animation, special effects for film, video game technology, motion capture, machine learning, facial animation, artificial intelligence, geometric algorithms, geometric design and modeling
SHAOFAN LI Shaofan Li
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences, structural mechanics, computational mechanics, computational materials, computational mechanics and computational physics, finite element methods and meshfree particle methods, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, atomistic simulation and multiscale simulations, nonlinear continuum mechanics, soft matter mechanics, wave propagations, modeling and simulation of fracture, dislocations, modeling and simulation of material failures, nano-mechanics, bio-mechanics and bio-physics, cellular mechanics, micromechanics & composite materials, mechanics and physics of amorphous materials
Kathleen Collins posing in a laboratory. Kathleen Collins
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
retrotransposon, reverse transcriptase, genome engineering, RNA sequencing
William Collins William Collins
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
climate change, uncertainty of extremes, climate modeling, coupled models of the climate system, global climate models, solar and terrestrial radiation
Anne Collins Anne Collins
Dept of Psychology
learning, decision making, computational modeling, executive functions
John Arnold John Arnold
Dept of Chemistry
organometallic chemistry, organometallic catalysis, materials chemistry, coordination chemistry
Lin He Lin He
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
comparative genomics, developmental biology, cell biology, cancer biology
Nicole King Nicole King
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
choanoflagellates, multicellularity, evolution of animals, host-microbe interactions, bacterial cues
Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos standing on a damaged levee in Grand Isle, LA, following Hurricane Ida. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
civil infrastructure systems, geosystems, geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, bioinformatics, engineering justice
Barbara Meyer Barbara Meyer
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
cell fate determination, chromosome architecture, developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome
Polly L Arnold Polly Arnold
Dept of Chemistry
synthetic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, actinide, rare earth catalysis
Headshot Michaela Mattes
Dept of Political Science
International Conflict and Cooperation, Conflict Management, Domestic Politics and International Relations
Asta Mønsted standing in outside setting Asta Mønsted
Dept of Scandinavian
Greenlandic Inuit, archaeology, oral history, Arctic, indigenous knowledge, colonialism and globalization
Picture of Professor Merchant Sabeeha Merchant
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella
William Holzpfel William Holzapfel
Dept of Physics
cosmology, physics, measurement and interpretation of anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, the universe, density of energy, baryonic matter in the universe, the degree angular scale interferometer, the arcminute cosmology bolometer array
Michael Botchan Michael Botchan
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
eukaryotic gene expression, drosophila chromosomes, papilloma viral DNA, chromosomal dynamics
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