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Research Expertise and Interest

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Ali Kakhbod

Haas School of Business

financial economics, liquidity, market microstructure, big data, contracts

Professor Fleming in Photosynthesis Lab

Graham R. Fleming

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, electronic energy transfer, electron transfer, regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

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

Maurice Obstfeld

Maurice Obstfeld

Dept of Economics

economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history

Carlos Fernandez-Pello

Carlos Fernandez-Pello

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fire, combustion, flammability of materials, wildland fire spotting, wildland fire propagation, ignition and fire spread, smoldering and flaming, self heating and ignition, small scale energy generation

Rui Wang

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

theoretical polymer, soft materials, electrostatic double layer

Daniel M. Neumark

Daniel M. Neumark

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, molecular structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and dynamics of transition states, radicals, clusters, frequency and time-domain techniques, state-resolved photodissociation, photodetachment of negative ion beams

Keith Johnson at lectern

Dept of Linguistics

phonetics

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

Joelle Frechette

Joelle Frechette

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

soft materials, interfacial science, adhesion

Terry E. Machen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

physiology pathophysiology secretory epithelial cells, airway, ion transport, cell regulationm, imaging microscopy, calcium pH redox, electrophysiology, green fluorescent protein, genetic targeting, innate immune defense

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

Sanjay Govindjee

Sanjay Govindjee

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics, polymer mechanics, elastomer modeling, battery modeling, thermomechanics, continuum mechanics, failure analysis

Eran Rabani

Dept of Chemistry

Theory of nanomaterials

Ali Javey sitting in lab with equipment in background

Ali Javey

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter

Terrence Hendershott

Terrence Hendershott

Haas School of Business

management of information systems, role of information technology in financial markets, after-hours stock trading, electronic communications networks (ECNs), electronic markets

Neil K. Razdan in outdoor setting

Neil Razdan

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

catalysis, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics

Per F. Peterson

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

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

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

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

Massimiliano Fratoni

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

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

Shannon Boettcher

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

electrochemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, hydrogen generation, electrolysis, batteries, membrane science

Eric Yue Ma

Dept of Physics

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

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

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