Alexander von Rospatt Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies ritual studies, Nepalese studies, Buddhist traditions of South Asia, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism, art
Steven Weber Dept of Political Science School of Information political science, international security, international political economy, information science
Jose Eos Trinidad School of Education education policy, institutional change, organizational theory, civil society, sociology of education
Xandra Ibarra Dept of Art Practice performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance
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
Stephen Collier Dept of City & Regional Planning urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States
Karen Trapenberg Frick Dept of City & Regional Planning political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning
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
Elçin Ünal Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development
Patrick Hsu Dept of Bioengineering generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science
Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng Dept of Materials Science and Engineering additive manufacturing, metamaterials, robotics, antenna, artificial intelligence
Michael W. Zuerch Dept of Chemistry collective phenomena in material, chemical material dynamics in surfaces and interfaces, symmetry-broken states and their emergence in condensed-phase systems, dynamical properties in artificial and correlated superlattices, ultrafast spectroscopy from THz to X-rays
Kristofer Pister Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) micro robotics, synthetic insects, smart dust
Peter Hosemann Dept of Nuclear Engineering microscopy, nanomaterials, Nuclear materials, material science, radiation damage, corrosion in liquid metals, materials development, materials under extremes, nuclear applications, ion beam microscopy, nanoscale mechanical testing
Ting Xu Dept of Chemistry Dept of Materials Science and Engineering polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles
Gerbrand Ceder Dept of Materials Science and Engineering energy storage, computational modeling, machine learning, autonomous laboratories
Robert J. Full Dept of Integrative Biology energetics, comparative biomechanics, arthropod, adhesion, comparative physiology, locomotion, neuromechanics, biomimicry, biological inspiration, reptile, gecko, amphibian, robots, artificial muscles
Thomas Maimone Dept of Chemistry organic synthesis, total synthesis, natural products chemistry, catalysis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, drug discovery
Karine Gibbs Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors
Seung-Wuk Lee Dept of Bioengineering nanotechnology, bio-inspired nanomaterials, synthetic viruses, regenerative tissue engineering materials, drug delivery vehicles