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Sharon Jacobs standing in lighted area with orchid plan in background.

administrative law, environmental law, natural resources law, energy law

Richmond Sarpong

Richmond Sarpong

Dept of Chemistry

organic and organometallic chemistry

Alane Suhr

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, computational linguistics

John Coates in lab with equipment in background

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

Precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry

David Bamman in office setting with bookcase in background

School of Information

natural language processing, machine learning, digital humanities, computational social science, data science

Prof. Echeverri Ochoa birdwatching in Caribbean mangroves

Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

conservation science, neotropical biodiversity, conservation psychology, community ecology, cultural values of nature, women/Latinx in STEM

Manuela Girotto's photo

Manuela Girotto

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrologic response, natural and human driven processes, remote sensing, sea level change, snow hydrology

Working with cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

David Zilberman

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

marketing, biotechnology, water, risk management, biofuels, natural resources, agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation

Eric Biber

environmental law, natural resources law, energy law, land-use law, federal Indian law, administrative law, property

Dept of Physics

physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory

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

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills

Dept of English

English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship

Maria Paz Gutierrez

Maria Paz Gutierrez

Dept of Architecture

natural waste composites and additive manufacturing, flood resilience, multifunctional building systems, biologically inspired technologies, robotics and additive manufacturing

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall

Iris D. Tommelein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC

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

Dept of Chemistry

synthetic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, actinide, rare earth catalysis

environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights

Fotini Chow

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental fluid mechanics, wind energy applications, clouds, large-eddy simulation, turbulence modeling, atmospheric boundary layer flow, flow over complex terrain, wildfire smoke transport, methane emissions, urban dispersion modeling, urban air quality

Dept of Architecture

architecture, high-performance buildings, energy use, indoor environmental quality, post-occupancy evaluation, comfort and adaptation in buildings, natural ventilation and mixed mode

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

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, nanoengineering, catalytic imprinted silicas, catalysts in biological systems, catalysis, chemical sensing

Photo of Professor Marti Hearst in her office on the UC Berkeley campus

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