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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Goldman School of Public Policy

climate change regulation, public policy, economic organization, environmental markets, school finance, utility regulation, criminal justice

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

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

J. Theodore Peña

J. Theodore Peña

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Roman archaeology, Roman and pre-Roman Italy, city of Rome, Pompeii, ancient economy, ceramic analysis, material culture studies

Ajay Pillarisetti setting at desk with computer monitor and microphone in background

Ajay Pillarisetti

School of Public Health

energy use, health effects of air pollution, climate change, exposure assessment, global health, health impacts of energy use, heat and health, air pollution measurement, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

David Auslander

David M. Auslander

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

control systems, simulation, mechatronics, real time software, energy management, satellite attitude control, demand response, machine control

Faculty Photo, Clayton R. Critcher, 09/27/23

Clayton Critcher

Haas School of Business

moral psychology, consumer behavior and decision making, self and social judgment

Katherine A. Yelick

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology

Dr. Chris Schell sets a wildlife camera trap in the East Bay, CA. His lab uses these devices and other techniques (e.g., GPS collars, roadkill collections) to monitor how wildlife populations adapt to life in cities.

Christopher Schell

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

behavioral ecology, urban ecology, One Health, social-ecological dynamics, environmental justice

Daniela Kaufer standing with part of a human skull nearby

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, aging, dementia, stress, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, blood brain barrier, resilience, trauma, psychedelics, glia, myelin

School of Education

knowledge representation, adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, Recommender Systems, higher education, data science, Digital Learning Environments, cognitive modeling, Big Data in Education, Knowledge Tracing, Formative Assessment, intelligent tutoring systems, Online Learning, psychometrics, Educational Data Mining

Abe smiling while standing by an oak tree near the music department building.

Marié Abe

sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology

Dept of Psychology

alcohol and substance use disorder, externalizing, electroencephalogram (EEG), event-related potentials, ecological momentary assessment, behavioral economics, behavioral genetics

Costas J. Spanos

Costas J. Spanos

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

integrated circuits, solid-state devices, sensors, semiconductor manufacturing, energy efficiency, smart buildings

Robert Levenson at Davos

Robert W. Levenson

Dept of Psychology

aging, gender, culture, brain, psychology, emotion, psychophysiology, marriage, clinical science, interpersonal interactions, dementia, relationships, neurodegenerative disease

Joshua Goldstein

Joshua Goldstein

Dept of Demography

mortality, fertility, aging, social inequality, mathematical demography, economic demography, quantitative methods, United States, Europe

Dept of Chemistry

computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity

Professor Blackman in the field with sunflowers

Benjamin Blackman

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Debarati Sanyal

Border studies, race, postcolonialism, politics of aesthetic form, nineteenth-century French studies, memory studies, World War Two, Holocaust studies, critical refugee studies, contemporary fiction and film

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Dept of Political Science

political economy, ethnic politics, comparative clientelism in developing countries, research design, causal inference, statistical methods, multi-method research

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water