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Department

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants

Susanna Elm

Dept of History

history of the Later Roman Empire, pagan - Christian interactions, ancient medicine, slavery and the evolution of Christianity, leadership and empire, gender and imperial rule, reception of antiquity

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Michael Zaletel

Michael Zaletel

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory

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

Dept of Physics

experimental condensed matter physics

Frances Hellman

Frances Hellman

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics and materials science

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Junqiao Wu holding a wafer with his reflection

Junqiao Wu

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

semiconductors, nanotechnology, energy materials, condensed matter physics and materials science

The Hydra mm-Wave (140 GHz) Testbed

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

analog integrated circuits, RF microwave circuits, biomedical CMOS sensors, communication systems, scientific computing, applied electromagnetics, mm-waves, THz, radar, mm-wave and microwave imaging

Feng Wang

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics, photonics, nanoscience

Robert Birgeneau

Dept of Physics

Goldman School of Public Policy

physics, phase transition behavior of novel states of matter

Marvin L. Cohen

Marvin L. Cohen

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

magnetic fusion, collisionless shock waves, electromagnetic methods

Rui Wang

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

theoretical polymer, soft materials, electrostatic double layer

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, partial differential equations, nonlinear waves

Professor Ahmad Omar sitting in front of a glass whiteboard marked with equations related to his research.

Ahmad Omar

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

statistical mechanics, active matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, polymer science, directed self-assembly

Costas Grigoropoulos

Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

heat transfer, laser materials processing, nano-manufacturing, energy systems and technology

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wastes and the circular economy, global environmental governance, climate change politics, globalization, environmental politics and policy, environmental movements

Eric Yue Ma

Dept of Physics

atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and materials science

Jill Banfield working at the East River watershed field site in Colorado

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

genomics, geomicrobiology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, minerology

Philip Tidwell working on a construction project

Dept of Architecture

architectural form, constructive technique, agency of matter, architecture, timber supply

David Romps

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, atmosphere, atmospheric science, weather, clouds, fluid dynamics