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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Daniel Siefman in outside setting

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

neutronics, criticality safety, nuclear data validation, machine learning, neutron noise, reactor dosimetry

Massimiliano Fratoni

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear reactor design, fuel cycle analysis, fusion reactors, nuclear power, nuclear engineering, nuclear reactor physics, nuclear reactor safety

Per F. Peterson

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear engineering, heat and mass transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design, radioactive waste, nuclear materials management

Julianna Deardorff

Julianna Deardorff

School of Public Health

adolescent health, puberty, sexual development, cultural factors, contextual factors, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, heterogeneous catalysts, spectroscopic techniques, chemical reaction engineering

Robert G. Bergman

Dept of Chemistry

organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis

Gary Firestone holding a model

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cancer, steroid hormones, molecular endocrinology, tumor biology, growth factors, dietary compounds, tumor cells, glucocorticoids

Rodrigo Almeida

Rodrigo Almeida

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

disease ecology, plant disease, vector-borne, Xylella fastidiosa, emerging diseases

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design and planning, design history, social and cultural factors in landscape design

William H. Miller

William H. Miller

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

Dept of Psychology

couple relationships, family factors in children's development, parenting, fatherhood, preventive intervention with families

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Richard A. Mathies

Richard A. Mathies

Dept of Chemistry

genomics, biophysical, bioanalytical, physical chemistry, laser spectroscopy, resonance Raman, excited-state reaction dynamics photoactive proteins, rhodopsins, microfabricated chemical biochemical analysis devices, forensics, infectious disease detection

Donald Rio

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host

Enrique Iglesia

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira in her office

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

School of Public Health

molecular parasitology, mosquito vector biology in malaria infection, host-parasite interactions, host circadian rhythms, immunology, metabolism

James W. Rector

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geoarchaeology, geophysics, acoustics, Seismology, machine learning, energy, carbon capture and storage, oil and gas

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dept of Geography

hydroecology, geomorphology, complex systems, restoration ecology, environmental modeling, wetlands, sediment transport, environmental fluid mechanics

Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

Judith P. Klinman

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

catalytic & regulatory mechanisms in enzyme-catalyzed reactions, kinetic, spectroscopic, stereochemical biological techniques, peptide- derived cofactors, nuclear tunneling & role of protein dynamics in catalysis, enzymatic activation of molecular oxygen

J. W. Evans

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

production of materials, particularly fluid flow, reaction kinetics, mass transport, electrochemical, electromagnetic phenomena governing processes for producing materials, metals, storing energy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems

Sean Darling-Hammond

School of Public Health

K-12, education policy, exclusionary discipline, school policing, restorative practices, social and emotional learning, student mental health, health equity, implicit bias, intergroup contact