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Nitash P. Balsara

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

electrochemical energy conversion, polymer properties, small angle scattering, nanoscale and microscale sciences

Ali Javey

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

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

Robert Rhew

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Geography

trace gases, biogeochemistry, stratospheric ozone depletion, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric chemistry and composition, biogenic VOCs, terrestrial ecosystems, halocarbons, methyl halides, greenhouse gases

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

Jeffrey Neaton

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory, materials physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion

Daniel McKinsey

Dept of Physics

dark matter, noble gases, cryogenics, high voltages, particle physics, astrophysics, low temperature physics, detector physics, neutrinos

Van P. Carey

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

Whendee Silver

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change, global change, greenhouse gases, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, grasslands, tropical forests, carbon sequestration, environmental sensing

Ronald C. Cohen

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, greenhouse gases, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, ozone, nitrogen oxides, CO2, clouds, Atmospheric Aerosol

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

Philip Marcus

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks

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

Catherine Flynn

Dept of English

modernism, Irish, British, comparative literature, critical theory, Avant-Gardes, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien

Juliana Schroeder

Haas School of Business

social cognition, judgment and decision making, interpersonal and intergroup processes, social psychology, organizational performance, negotiations, morality, decision-making, conversation/communication

Tesha Sengupta-Irving

School of Education

STEM education, learning sciences, inequality & resistance, politics of learning, case study & design-based research

Greg Niemeyer

Dept of Art Practice

art, digital media installations, photography, data science, new technology, video games

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Hillel Adesnik

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

Xin Guo

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

stochastic control and games, theory of machine learning and applications to medical and financial data analysis, applied probability and stochastic models

Daniel Tataru

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, partial differential equations, nonlinear waves

Ellie Tubman

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

magnetic fusion, collisionless shock waves, electromagnetic methods

Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

heat transfer, laser materials processing, nano-manufacturing, energy systems and technology

Franco Zunino

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials

Don Moore

Haas School of Business

negotiation, judgment and decision making, Overconfidence, biases, forecasting

James Nuñez

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, epigenetics, CRISPR-based genome and epigenome editing

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