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Photo of Professor Marti Hearst in her office on the UC Berkeley campus Marti Hearst
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
Jay D. Keasling Jay D. Keasling
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products
A photo of Trevor Keenan Trevor Keenan
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
global change, natural climate solutions, Dynamic Vegetation, carbon cycle, ecophysiology, land-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemistry, micrometeorology, remote sensing, mathematics and data science
Philip B. Stark Philip B. Stark
Dept of Statistics
elections, astrophysics, law, statistics, litigation, causal inference, inverse problems, geophysics, uncertainty quantification, educational technology, soil science, race and gender bias and discrimination, nonparametrics, climate, natural disasters, sustainable food systems, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research, research in the public interest, active transportation, earthquake hazard mitigation, natural hazards
Luba Golburt Luba Golburt
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel
Burgmann teaching EPS116 field trip at Moss Beach Roland Bürgmann
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
active tectonics, geophysics, geology, earth and planetary science, geomechanics, tectonics, Seismology, structural geology, fault zone processes, crustal deformation, space geodesy, natural hazards, landslides
Matthew Potts Matthew Potts
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships
wdt William (Bill) D. Thompson
Dept of Psychology
cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks
headshot of Reinhard Genzel Reinhard Genzel
Dept of Physics
physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies
Paolo D'Odorico wearing a blue shirt, with unfocused greenery in background Paolo D'Odorico
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, Drylands, Desertification
F. Dean Toste Dean Toste
Dept of Chemistry
organometallic chemistry, organic, development of new synthetic methods, enantioselective catalysts, strategies for the synthesis of natural products, synthesis of complex molecules, formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, olefins, Supramolecular Chemistry, redox flow batteries, medicinal chemistry, bioconjugation, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, biomass, fluorination
Rebecca Tarvin in the field holding a snake Rebecca Tarvin
Dept of Integrative Biology
natural history, molecular genomics, phylogenetics, amphibians, chemical ecology, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary biology, adaptation, evolution, molecular evolution, physiology, molecular phylogenetics, educational equity, biodiversity, diversity of team members, equity and inclusion in academia, decolonization, collaboration, reptiles, Drosophila, genomes, evolution of novelty, conservation, nudibranchs
Seth M. Holmes Seth M. Holmes
Dept of Anthropology
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health
Rauri Bowie Rauri C.K. Bowie
Dept of Integrative Biology
ornithology, Africa, evolutionary biology
Edgar Knobloch Edgar Knobloch
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems
Gloria Brar Gloria Brar
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses
Dahl.2023.headshot Ronald Dahl
School of Public Health
adolescence, brain development, behavioral and emotional health, pubertal maturation, affective neuroscience, social neuroscience
Steven E. Brenner Steven E. Brenner
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
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
Gary Karpen Gary Karpen
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases
A photo of Keltner teaching Dacher Keltner
Dept of Psychology
culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality
Carlos F. Noreña Carlos Norena
Dept of History
Roman history
Lange faculty portrait 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
Alexander Katz Alexander Katz
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
chemical engineering, nanoengineering, catalytic imprinted silicas, catalysts in biological systems, catalysis, chemical sensing
Arash Komeili Arash Komeili
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, Magnetic Nanoparticles
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