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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Raffaella Margutti

Raffaella Margutti

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, compact object mergers, core-collapse supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, Neutron Stars, radio astronomy, space astrophysics, stellar evolution, supernova shockwaves, supernovae, tidal disruption events

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Clifton M. Schor

School of Optometry

stereopsis, optometry, vision science, binocular vision, ocular motility, strabismus, accommodation, presbyopia

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Paul Renne

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

geochemistry, geochronology, paleomagnetism

Neil Tsutsui standing in Woo Fai Han Hall with net draped over his back

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear science data, nuclear engineering, experimental nuclear physics, isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear science, nuclear weapons

Gregory W. Aponte

Gregory W. Aponte

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors

Lexin Li

School of Public Health

neuroimaging data analysis, deep brain stimulation, brain-computer-interface, statistical machine learning, Deep Learning, reinforcement learning, networks data analysis, functional data analysis, tensor analysis, ordinary differential equations, dimension reduction, high dimensional inference

Maura Nolan

Dept of English

drama, Middle English literature, Renaissance and Early Modern literature

Frederic Theunissen

Frederic Theunissen

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience

Perry de Valpine

Perry de Valpine

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

population ecology, mathematical modeling and statistics

John Huelsenbeck

Dept of Integrative Biology

computational biology, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics

Stuart Bale

Dept of Physics

experimental space physics, plasma astrophysics, solar physics, low frequency radio astronomy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis

Jill Banfield working at the East River watershed field site in Colorado

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

genomics, geomicrobiology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, minerology

Oskar Hallatschek

Oskar Hallatschek

Dept of Physics

biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments

An image of Dr. Lofgren standing outdoors

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

Cortez in front of installation

Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

Charles Hirschkind

Charles Hirschkind

Dept of Anthropology

Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe

Dept of Philosophy

theory of meaning, philosophy of mind, causation in psychology

Field work in on Oahu

George Roderick

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, environmental science, sustainability, biodiversity, invasive species, population genomics

Burkhard Militzer

Burkhard Militzer

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method