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Dept of Mechanical Engineering
sustainable design, morphing material mechanisms, ecology, sustainability
John W. Morris John W. Morris, Jr
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics
Mary Scott Mary Scott
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
structural materials, electronic materials, magnetic materials, optical materials, chemical and electrochemical material
SHAOFAN LI Shaofan Li
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences, structural mechanics, computational mechanics, computational materials, computational mechanics and computational physics, finite element methods and meshfree particle methods, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, atomistic simulation and multiscale simulations, nonlinear continuum mechanics, soft matter mechanics, wave propagations, modeling and simulation of fracture, dislocations, modeling and simulation of material failures, nano-mechanics, bio-mechanics and bio-physics, cellular mechanics, micromechanics & composite materials, mechanics and physics of amorphous materials
headshot of Peter Hosemann Peter Hosemann
Dept of Nuclear Engineering
microscopy, nanomaterials, Nuclear materials, material science, radiation damage, corrosion in liquid metals, materials development, materials under extremes, nuclear applications, ion beam microscopy, nanoscale mechanical testing
Mark Tanouye Mark Tanouye
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants
headshot of Robert G. Bergman Robert G. Bergman
Dept of Chemistry
organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis
James Sethian James A. Sethian
Dept of Mathematics
mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods
Michael Zuerch in front of vacuum chamber. Michael W. Zuerch
Dept of Chemistry
collective phenomena in material, chemical material dynamics in surfaces and interfaces, symmetry-broken states and their emergence in condensed-phase systems, dynamical properties in artificial and correlated superlattices, ultrafast spectroscopy from THz to X-rays
Naomi Ginsberg Naomi Ginsberg
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Physics
atomic molecular and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics and material science
Jay Groves Jay T. Groves
Dept of Chemistry
physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes
headshot of Kunxin Luo Kunxin Luo
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis
Panayiotis Papadopoulos Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, contact mechanics, computational plasticity, materials modeling, solid mechanics, applied mathematics, dynamics of pseudo-rigid bodies
Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting. Sophie Volpp
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists
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
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
James Casey James Casey
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
continuum mechanics, finite elasticity, continuum thermodynamics, plasticity, theories of elastic-plastic materials, history of mechanics, dynamics
headshot of Hedy Kober 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
headshot of Mariane Ferme Mariane C. Ferme
Dept of Anthropology
Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies
Sarah Stanley Sarah Stanley
School of Public Health
mechanisms of pathogenesis and immune subversion in tuberculosis, protective immunity to tuberculosis, metabolic interactions between hosts and pathogens, development of novel therapeutics for tuberculosis, scientific capacity building, tuberculosis
Claudia Ostertag Claudia P. Ostertag
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
energy, environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, structural engineering, mechanics and materials
headshot of Robert T. Knight 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
Michael Nylan Michael Nylan
Dept of History
gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief
Minoo Moallem Minoo Moallem
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies
headshot of Mark Asta Mark Asta
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
computational materials science
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