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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

Allen Goldstein

Allen Goldstein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, air pollution, environmental science, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, indoor air quality

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis

James Bartolome

James W. Bartolome

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

plant ecology, grazing, biodiversity, grasslands, environmental science, rangelands, fire, mediterranean ecosystems

Daniel M. Neumark

Daniel M. Neumark

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, molecular structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and dynamics of transition states, radicals, clusters, frequency and time-domain techniques, state-resolved photodissociation, photodetachment of negative ion beams

Kwabena Bediako in lab

Kwabena Bediako

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, quantum transport, optoelectronics, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

Ken Light

School of Journalism

journalism, photojournalism, documentary photography

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

Pheng Cheah

Dept of Rhetoric

world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought

Mel Y Chen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee reviewing bio-inspired materials in a library

Dept of Bioengineering

nanotechnology, bio-inspired nanomaterials, synthetic viruses, regenerative tissue engineering materials, drug delivery vehicles

William Lester, Jr.

William A. Lester, Jr.

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation

Field work in on Oahu

George Roderick

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

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

Ren Ng

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

imaging systems, computational photography, graphics, optics, computer vision, human vision, signal processing, artificial intelligence

Jason Spingarn-Koff

School of Journalism

climate change, journalism, documentary filmmaking

Timmia Hearn DeRoy standing in outdoor setting

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

anti-colonial theatre practice, Caribbean theatre, social justice, disability justice, practice as research

Elena A. Schneider

Elena A. Schneider

Dept of History

Latin America, Caribbean, Atlantic World, cuba, comparative colonialism and slavery

Utqiagvik Alaska tundra sampling

Robert Rhew

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Geography

trace gases, biogeochemistry, stratospheric ozone depletion, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric chemistry and composition, biogenic VOCs, terrestrial ecosystems, halocarbons, methyl halides, greenhouse gases

Ke Xu in lab with instrumentation in foreground.

Ke Xu

Dept of Chemistry

biophysical chemistry, cell biology at the nanoscale, super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule spectroscopy

Michael Rape in Woo Fai Han Hall

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cancer, protein degradation, siRNA, Berkeley Screening Center