Austria

Ricardo Ainslie

Educational Psychology, Medicine, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Ricardo Ainslie’s research focuses on communities in the U.S. and Mexico distressed by violence, ethnic/racial tension, and social transformation. Ainslie also explores the relationship between social fabric and community resilience, and the psychology of immigration both at an individual and at a collective level.

Deji Akinwande

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Deji Akinwande's research focuses on 2D materials and nanotechnology, pioneering device innovations from lab towards applications. This manifests as translational nanotechnology from materials to devices to circuits, blurring the boundaries between chemistry, electronics, physics, materials science and mechanics.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Donnie Ray Albert

Music Performance

Donnie Ray Albert is a regular guest of opera companies and symphony orchestras globally.

Katherine Arens

Germanic Studies

Katherine Arens' research crosses methodological and disciplinary boundaries on the intellectual and cultural histories of germanophone regions in transnational contexts. Her primary areas of concentration include the period of history since the Enlightenment, theory and methodology in the humanities, and the cultural implications of science. Her work focuses on the transcultural connections between U.S. and Europe.

Thomas Bay

Plan II Honors Program

Thomas Bay is an author and syndicated columnist, professor, developmental aid advocate, radio commentator, retired reserve soldier, war game designer, consultant in organizational planning and training simulations.

Amit Bhasin

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Amit Bhasin’s research focuses on developing models that relate material properties to performance of asphalt binders and mixtures, including evaluating the impact of chemical modifiers, additives, and other agents, developing comprehensive models for undamaged behavior and damage evolution in asphalt binders and mixtures, and characterizing physical and chemical properties of asphalt binders and aggregates.

Hans Boas

Germanic Studies, Linguistics, Linguistics Research Center

Hans C. Boas' main research revolves around the relationship between syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and the structure of the lexicon, which he approaches from a contrastive perspective (English/German). The theoretical frameworks he works with are primarily Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics with a strong bias towards corpus-based research methods.

Pascale Bos

Germanic Studies

Pascale Bos' research focuses on Holocaust and Genocide Studies with a special emphasis on gender and memory, sexual violence and war, and the after effects of trauma and wartime violence. Bos is also interested in the study of autobiography as well as modern Dutch and Jewish literature & culture.

Nathaniel Brickens

Music Performance, Music Education

Nathaniel Brickens is an internationally acclaimed trombone player and educator. He has traveled and performed both national and internationally as a free-lance trombonist, as conductor of the UT Trombone Choir, and as a music educator.

Mark Budolfson

Geography and the Environment, Philosophy

Mark Budolfson integrates data and methods from multi-disciplines including population-level bioethics, public health, welfare economics, and empirical sciences. This work often involves quantitative policy analyses that represent socioeconomic and health inequalities, weigh competing values and objectives for society, and assess synergies and tradeoffs between goals related to health, equity, and sustainable development.

Daniele Cuneo

Asian Studies

Daniele Cuneo's research interests include Sanskrit intellectual and literary cultures, with a particular focus on poetry and aesthetics, although he branches out into epistemology, linguistic philosophy, debates among Brahmins, Buddhists and Jains, and conversation between traditions and (post-)modernity. Further research topics are the history of Indian Philosophy as a whole, the classical juridical tradition and the tantric studies.

John Doggett

Management

John Doggett's work focuses on global competition, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and energy.

Peter Eichhubl

Bureau of Economic Geology

Peter Eichhubl's research combines the fields of fault and fracture mechanics and low-temperature geochemistry addressing deformation mechanisms of the upper crust, structural control of mass and heat transfer in sedimentary basins, effects of chemical mass transfer on the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of fractures and faults, and the chemical interaction between fluids and minerals.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.

Benjamin Gregg

Government

Benjamin Gregg's research focuses on social and political theory, bioethics of human genetic engineering, politics of artificial intelligence, and human rights.

Derek Haas

Mechanical Engineering

Derek Haas' research interests focus on radiation detection for nuclear arms control, non-proliferation, and advanced reactor design and licensing. This includes the fundamental physics of radioactive decay processes, fission yields, environmental transport of radionuclides, and detection techniques.

Andreana Haley

Psychology

Andreana Haley’s research seeks to define early indicators of brain vulnerability, uncover the underlying mechanisms, and test the efficacy of interventions to enhance cognitive function before clinically significant impairment develops.

Steven Hoelscher

Geography and the Environment, American Studies

Steven Hoelscher's research spans the history of photography, American race and racism, North American and European urbanism, social constructions of space and place, and cultural memory. Hoelscher is especially interested in the ways in which cultural memory has shaped, and continues to shape, urban life in Vienna, Austria.

Noah Isenberg

Radio-Television-Film

Noah Isenberg's areas of expertise include media studies, criticism and history of the film industry, identity and representation in film, classical Hollywood film, independent cinema, Weimar cinema (German cinema), and émigrés in Hollywood.

Prakash Jayakumar

Surgery and Perioperative Care

Prakash Jayakumar is charged with accelerating health systems research, digital health innovations, and policy and practice innovations at the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care. His work involves the utilization of patient generated health data, real time tracking technology, and artificial intelligence for enabling decision support, shared decision making, care redesign, and performance measurement.

Jerry Junkin

Music Conducting

Jerry Junkin is an enthusiastic advocate of public-school music education, having conducted All-State bands and festivals in 48 states and on five continents. Junkin spends his summers in residence at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan and appearing at music festivals around the world.

Daniel Koehler

Architecture

Daniel Koehler's research focuses on the urban implications of distributive technologies, which are being designed by means of sets, data, interfaces and their architecture.

Manish Kumar

Chemical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Manish Kumar's research group is interested in mimicking biological processes and materials at the molecular scale, particularly cell membrane components, to develop materials and processes that bring the specificity and functionality of biological molecules and processes to engineering scales.

Keji Lai

Physics

Keji Lai's group actively studies quantum materials with novel electrical, magnetic, and optical properties.

Sheldon Landsberger

Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering

Sheldon Landsberger's research focuses on nuclear analytical measurements and their applications in nuclear forensics, natural radioactivity and environmental monitoring of trace and heavy metals. He is also interested in further distant learning education at the graduate level.

Yuliya Lanina

Design

Yuliya Lanina is a multimedia artist whose works exist at the intersection of visual, performing arts, and technological innovation, and explore social issues like gender perception, sexuality, loss, and motherhood. Her work has been exhibited and performed around the world.

Benjamin Leibowicz

Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Benjamin Leibowicz’s research interests are energy systems, energy and climate policy analysis, integrated assessment modeling, sustainable cities, technological change, and innovation. He approaches these topics from an interdisciplinary perspective and develops modeling frameworks that combine methods from optimization, economics, game theory, stochastic control, and general equilibrium.

William Lewis

Music Performance

William Lewis enjoys a highly regarded reputation as a tenor whose versatility spans the operatic repertoire from Mozart to Schoenberg. He has performed one hundred thirty major operatic roles in ten languages around the world.

Christopher Long

Architecture

Christopher Long's research interests center on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on Central Europe between 1880 and the present. His approach borrows from cultural and intellectual history, as well as political and economic history. Long's interests also include modern design in Austria, the Czech lands, and the U.S.

Claudia Lucchinetti

Medicine

Claudia Lucchinetti is a neurologist with specialization in neuroimmunology and experimental neuropathy. She is an internationally recognized expert in the clinical and neuropathological underpinnings of the broad spectrum of inflammatory demyelinating diseases, including multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica and MOG antibody associated disease.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Deirdre Mendez

Business, Government and Society

Deirdre Mendez’s research interests lie in intercultural management, adaptation, and team building.

Sofian Merabet

Anthropology, French and Italian, Latin American Studies, European Studies, Middle Eastern Studies

Sofian Merabet is a socio-cultural anthropologist with expertise in the Middle East and the wider Muslim world, including Muslim immigrant communities in Europe and the Arab Diaspora in South America. His interdisciplinary research analyzes the human geography of queer identity formations and the social production of queer space as constitutive features of wider class, religious, and gender relations.

Michael Mosser

Government

Michael Mosser’s research focuses on conceptualizing the European Union as a catalyst in European security. He has written in the fields of military art and science and military sociology, and he teaches courses in European and international security, European environmental policy, comparative and European politics, international organizations, and foreign policy analysis.

Peter Mueller

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Sciences

Peter Mueller's research interests are broadly in nonparametric Bayesian inference (BNP), Bayesian adaptive clinical trial design, Bayesian bioinformatics, optimal design and decision problems, and computational methods for Bayesian inference.

Rasa Navasaityte

Architecture

Rasa Navasaityte is an architect, researcher and the co-founder of the design practise lab-eds. She is an expert on research by design, architecture composition, and the implications of computation on housing and the city’s ecologies.

Jeannette Okur

Middle Eastern Studies

Jeannette Okur's research interests lie in the fields of comparative literature, literary translation, and film studies. Her research explores the relationships between perpetrators and victims of political violence in transnational novels by Turkish and Iraqi-Kurdish writers in exile.

Guido Olivieri

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Guido Olivieri's research is focused on the developments of string sonata in the 18th-century, investigating aspects of performance practice, musical patronage, and reconstructing the cultural relationships between Naples and other European capitals. His research - conducted mainly on unknown archival sources and overlooked repertory - has significantly contributed to the revival of interest on Neapolitan instrumental music and musicians.

Thomas Palaima

Classics

Thomas Palaima has written and taught extensively on the subjects of ancient writing systems, the reconstruction of ancient culture, decipherment theory, Greek language, war and violence, ancient religion and rituals, song as a means of communicating social criticism, and intertextuality.

Robert Peroni

Law

Robert Peroni specializes in corporate tax, federal income taxation, international tax, natural resource taxation, and professional responsibility/legal ethics. He is an expert in international taxation and in energy taxation.

Ian Proops

Philosophy

Ian Proops studies and writes on Kant's theoretical philosophy, especially, The Critique of Pure Reason, and on the history of analytic philosophy , focusing on the works of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein).

Stephen Reese

Journalism and Media

Stephen Reese's research focuses on questions relating to press performance, including the sociology of news, media framing of public issues, and the globalization of journalism.

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

English

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza writes on Oscar Wilde, theatre, the gothic, detective stories, and literary theory. She teaches strategic thinking, team building, and diversity/inclusivity through literature and the fine arts and works actively in eight world languages.

Jeffrey Smith

Art and Art History

Jeffrey Smith specializes in the art and architecture of Northern Europe, especially Germany and the Netherlands, between 1400-1700. He has written on Albrecht Dürer, German sculpture, goldsmith work, Jesuits, Northern Renaissance art and issues of historiography, among other topics.

Jürgen Streeck

Communication Studies

Jürgen Streeck conducts video-based research on human interaction in everyday life. Streeck is particularly interested in language and the body as media of interaction and cognition, and in the cultural and experiential foundations of language and meaning.

Katharine Tillman

Psychology

Katharine Tillman’s research explores how we acquire abstract concepts that go beyond what we can directly perceive in the world. She is particularly interested in how young children think about time, and how language and other forms of cultural learning shape time concepts during cognitive development.

Haris Vikalo

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Haris Vikalo's research interests include signal processing, machine learning, bioinformatics and communications.

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