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Lindy Elkins-Tanton is director of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and lead of the NASA Psyche mission.

Lindy Elkins‑Tanton

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary formation, magma oceans, planetary differentiation

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary science, theoretical astrophysics, dynamics, planet formation, circumstellar disks

Burkhard Militzer

Burkhard Militzer

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

crystallography, earth & planetary science, structural geology & rock deformation, seismic anisotropy

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

radio, planetary science, infrared, observations

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

mantle convection, plate techtonics, planetary dynamos

Barbara Romanowicz

Barbara Romanowicz

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science, deep earth structure & dynamics, earthquake processes & scaling laws, real time estimation of earthquake parameters, development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories, planetary seismology

Raymond Jenaloz

Raymond Jeanloz

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary geophysics, high-pressure physics, national and international security, science-based policy

Burgmann teaching EPS116 field trip at Moss Beach

Roland Bürgmann

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

active tectonics, geophysics, geology, earth and planetary science, geomechanics, tectonics, Seismology, structural geology, fault zone processes, crustal deformation, space geodesy, natural hazards, landslides

Academic Research Unit

Mars atmosphere, planetary magnetism, MAVEN, solar wind, atmospheric escape

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

hydrogeology, fluid mechanics, geomorphology, earth & planetary science, geological processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, dynamics of suspensions, flow & transport in porous materials, percolation theory

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Michael Frenklach

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

cosmology, formation of structure in the universe, dark energy, expansion of the universe, cosmic microwave background, quasars, redshift surveys

Kristie Boering in her UC Berkeley laboratory with graduate student Katie Mar

Kristie Boering

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

Prof. Jessica Lu and the Keck Observatory Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics System.

Jessica Lu

Dept of Astronomy

black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnational migration, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, ethnography, Chinese diaspora, hemispheric Asian American studies

Neyran Turan thumbnail photo facing the camera with a white wall background.

Dept of Architecture

architectural design and climate change, planetary imagination and architectural design, climate futures, architecture and the Anthropocene, architectural construction and climate change, low-carbon architectural construction, hempcrete construction, bio-materials and design

Reinhard Genzel

Dept of Physics

physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, fueling of active galactic nuclei, properties evolution of starburst galaxies

Dept of Physics

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

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids