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William Holzpfel

William Holzapfel

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, measurement and interpretation of anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, the universe, density of energy, baryonic matter in the universe, the degree angular scale interferometer, the arcminute cosmology bolometer array

Prof. Liang Dai

Liang Dai

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, physical cosmology

Petr Horava

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity

Uros Seljak in 2023

Uros Seljak

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, machine learning, Bayesian statistics

Steven Kahn

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, optical astrophysics

Yasunori Nomura

Dept of Physics

quantum gravity, cosmology, Theoretical Particle Physics, quantum information

Dan Weisz

Dept of Astronomy

observational astrophysics, galaxies, stars, cosmology, early Universe, dark matter

Aaron Parsons in front of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array in South Africa

Dept of Astronomy

cosmic reionization, experimental cosmology, radio interferometry, digital signal processing, observational astrophysics

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

Saul Perlmutter sitting at a desk with figures drawn on a white board behind him.

Saul Perlmutter

Dept of Physics

cosmology, dark energy, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, supernovae, accelerating universe

George F. Smoot

George F. Smoot

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

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

head shot of James Hurley

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Structural Biology, reconstitution, membrane biology, autophagy, HIV, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy

Adrian Lee

Dept of Physics

physics

Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Simo Mäkiharju in lab setting

Simo Mäkiharju

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport

Lange faculty portrait

Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

Sukanya Banerjee

Sukanya Banerjee

Dept of English

19th century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel

Dept of History

Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East

Dept of English

critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis