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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Chunlei Liu inside Stanley Hall

Chunlei Liu

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

brain imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, remote neural modulation, biosystems and computational biology, signal processing

Michel Maharbiz

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

neural interfaces, bioMEMS, microsystems, MEMS, microsystems for the life sciences

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

Jose M. Carmena

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

brain-machine interfaces, neural ensemble computation, neuroprosthetics, sensorimotor learning and control

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

Ion channel function, synaptic plasticity, neural excitability, synaptic transmission, the synapse

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

neural crest gene regulatory network, vertebrate embryonic development, regeneration of tissue

Nina Maggi Kelly

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

remote sensing, drones, ecosystem sciences, forests, geoinformatics, participatory web, GIS

Jeffrey Q. Chambers

Dept of Geography

forests, climate change, trees, tropical forests, remote sensing, Drought, hurricanes, fires

Michael DeWeese

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

machine learning, computation, systems neuroscience, auditory cortex, neural coding, statistical mechanics

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

environmental and resource economics, remote sensing, climate change, water resources, health effects of air pollution

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

Hedy Kober

Dept of Psychology

craving, regulation of craving, alcohol and substance use disorder, treatments for substance use and eating disorders, neural and psychological mechanisms of treatment, emotion regulation, mindfulness, meditation

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

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Geography

global change ecology, biogeography, spectral ecology, remote sensing, climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecological functioning

Robert S. Zucker

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator

Robert Thomas Knight

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection

A photo of the faculty in the paramo in Ecuador

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

ecohydrology, remote sensing, satellite experiments, stable isotopes, plant biology, surface hydrology, wetlands, methane

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape ecology, remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, urban geography, ecosystem change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, wetlands, urban regions, landscape dynamics

A photo of 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

Richard H. Kramer

Dept of Neuroscience

Neurons, synaptic transmission, photopharmacology, ion channels, action potentials, optical imaging, vision, learning and memory, retina, neurodegenrative disease(1551)

James K. B. Bishop

James K. B. Bishop

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

ocean carbon cycle dynamics, remote sensing, aquatic chemistry, marine biogeochemistry, land - ocean biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography, ocean sensors and autonomous observing systems, Carbon Explorer, Carbon Flux Explorer

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks

Alex Zettl

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)