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Department

Ronald Amundson

Ronald Amundson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

soils, environmental science, isotope biogeochemistry, pedology, environmental history & ethics, soilsbiogeochemistry, ecosystems

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

Dept of Economics

international trade, economic geography

Maya L. Petersen

School of Public Health

Computational Precision Health Program

causal inference, precision health, targeted learning, HIV, global health, pandemics

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

Elisabeth Semel

Elisabeth Semel

capital punishment, criminal law, criminal procedure

Raveevarn Choksombatchai

Raveevarn Choksombatchai

Dept of Architecture

architecture, landscape design, space design, media and its effect upon design through filmic techniques and video investigations

Ann Kring

Dept of Psychology

schizophrenia, emotion, mental illness, psychology

Raluca standing in front of computer graphics

Raluca Ada Popa

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer security, applied cryptography

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading

Rauri C.K. Bowie

Dept of Integrative Biology

ornithology, Africa, evolutionary biology

Photo Berkeley Library

Dept of Linguistics

computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics

Nitash Balsara in his lab

Nitash P. Balsara

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

electrochemical energy conversion, polymer properties, small angle scattering, nanoscale and microscale sciences

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

Dept of Psychology

A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512

James Grantham Turner

Dept of English

gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art

Charles Marshall sitting between skulls of T. rex and a giant extinct marine Mesozoic monster

Charles Marshall

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleontology

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

gene expression, microRNAs, Mammalian Cell Metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies

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

Dept of History

Late Modern Europe, Soviet History, Central Asian History

Ashley Wolf

School of Public Health

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions

Michael Botchan

Michael Botchan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic gene expression, drosophila chromosomes, papilloma viral DNA, chromosomal dynamics

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

data mining, integer programming, discrete optimization, network flow techniques, clustering, image segmentation, machine vision, pattern recognition

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, intelligent systems and robotics, computer vision