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Department

intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values

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

photographed in front of the blackboard in his office

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Dept of Mathematics

operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory

John W. Morris, Jr

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

structural materials, computational materials, limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

wave propagation, Inverse theory, geophysics, Earthquake strong ground motion, Seismic source modeling, Seismic forensics, nuclear explosion monitoring, Induced seismicity, Volcanic seismicity

Stanley Klein with book cases behind him.

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, spatial vision modeling, psychophysical methods and vision test design, corneal topography and contact lens design, source localization of evoked potentials, fMRI, amblyopia

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

Dan Fletcher holding equipment

Daniel Fletcher

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, optical and force microscopy, microfabrication, biophysics, mechanical properties of cells

Dept of Geography

forests, climate change, trees, tropical forests, remote sensing, Drought, hurricanes, fires

Portrait of Jack Tseng kneeling next to a large fossil skull of an extinct rhino, with rows of specimen cabinets in the background at the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Jack Tseng

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleontology, jaws, bite force, macroevolutionary trends and patterns, mammals, vertebrates, evolution, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, mammalian systematics, evolution of form and function

Dept of Chemistry

computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity

Nikolaos Papazarkadas

Nikolaos Papazarkadas

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Greek epigraphy, Greek history, classics, archaeology, history of modern scholarship

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Dept of Comparative Literature

classics, Greek literature and culture, archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus, Aesop, Ancient Greek popular culture

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Scott L. Stephens

Scott L. Stephens

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

fire, forestry, fire ecology, fire behavior, environmental biology/ecology, forest policy

Photograph of Karl van Bibber in 2019

Karl van Bibber

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

Particle Astrophysics, dark matter, Axions, experimental nuclear physics, Accelerator Technology and Neutron Sources

Michael Gollner smiles at a Fire Whirl

Michael Gollner

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

combustion, fire dynamics, wildland fire, fluid mechanics

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

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

marine ecology, land-sea connectivity, coastal resilience, geospatial data, ocean policy and governance, social-ecological dynamics, coral reef, California current system

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Africa, disease ecology, wildlife conservation, resource management

Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting.

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

Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background

Mario Telò

Dept of Rhetoric

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy

Louise Fortmann

Louise P. Fortmann

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

natural resource sociology, political ecology, rural development, gender

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

rhetoric, classics, Greek literature, Latin literature, ancient Greek, Latin, historiography, ancient Rome, ancient Greece