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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.

Dean Almy

Architecture

Dean Almy's research is focused upon the relationship between cities, landscapes, and the integration of urban systems in response to climate change.

Jean Barrera

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Jean Barrera is a working musician who also teaches the music and history of Conjunto music. He has performed around the world and is the innovator of the first National Reso-phonic Bajo Sexto.

John Bartholomew

Kinesiology and Health Education

John Bartholomew researches the effect of exercise on mental health to improve mood and reduce stress.

Saroj Bhattarai

Economics

Saroj Bhattarai's research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, international macroeconomics and finance, and time series econometrics.

Andrew Blumberg

Mathematics

Andrew Blumberg's research interests include algebraic topology, geometric data analysis (with focus on cancer genomics and evolutionary biology), and outsourced verifiable computation.

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.

Jessica Ciarla

Textiles and Apparel, Human Ecology

Jessica Ciarla's research focuses on the function of textiles and apparel in the fashion industry.

Penelope Davies

Art and Art History

Penelope Davies specializes in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She has published numerous articles and essays in scholarly publications about Roman art and architecture.

William Fagelson

Electrical and Computer Engineering

William Fagelson's teaching interests focus on engineering communication and senior design projects. Fagelson has worked as a consultant in industry, delivering workshops for engineers in technical communication, and as a copyeditor in electrical engineering, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. His research interests in American Studies include film and media history and World War II veteran readjustment.

John Fremgen

Jazz Studies, Music Performance

John Fremgen's is a trained bassist in both classical and jazz styles. He has performed, taught, and conducted around the world.

Luisa Gil Fandino

Textiles and Apparel, Human Ecology

Luisa Gil Fandino's design practice is grounded in creative approaches to material construction. Her research centers around incorporating geometry and algorithms to produce highly textural fabrics in Jacquard looms and embroidery. Her focus is on fabric construction, digital fabrication, smart fabrics and sustainable materials.

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.

Vernita Gordon

Physics

Vernita Gordon's research areas include experimental biological physics, multicellular systems, and the role of physics and spacial structure in developmental and evolutionary systems.

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.

Frank Hasen

Germanic Studies

Frank Hasen is interested in Danish language and culture, Scandinavian culture, photography, French and German philosophy, and modern American literature.

Patrick Heimbach

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Patrick Heimbach is a computational oceanographer, climate scientist, and hobby glaciologist. His main research interest is understanding the general circulation of the ocean, the dynamics of the marine (and marine-terminating) cryosphere, and their role in the global climate system.

John Hoberman

Germanic Studies

John Hoberman’s research explores the fields of sports studies, race studies, human enhancements, medical history, and globalization studies. Hoberman’s interests in medical history include the social and medical impacts of androgenic drugs and the history of medical racism in the U.S.

Thomas Hunt

Kinesiology and Health Education

Thomas Hunt's research interests include sport law, history, and international relations.

Richard Huntley

Music Performance

Richard Huntley is a professor of percussion whose research includes Afro-Cuban folkloric and Lucumi music and batá drumming.

Moriba Jah

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Moriba Jah's research interests are in non-gravitational astrodynamics and advanced/non-linear multi-sensor/object tracking, prediction, and information fusion. His expertise is in space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization, as well as spacecraft navigation.

Farkhad Khudyev

Music Conducting

Farkhad Khudyev is an international award-winning conductor and has worked with orchestras around the world.

Brian Korgel

Chemical Engineering, Energy Institute

Brian Korgel's research centers on the development of new methods for synthesizing nanostructured materials, fabricating devices based upon these materials, and studying their properties. The lab group focuses on investigating size-tunable material properties, and the rational self-assembly and fabrication of nanostructures with atomic detail. This research finds applications in microelectronics and photonics, spintronics, coatings, sensors and

Nathaniel Lynd

Chemical Engineering

Nathaniel Lynd focuses on fundamental and applied research in polymer science guided by the principles of simplicity, sustainability, and relevance to key technological challenges in chemical engineering for the 21st-century in energy, environment, security, and materials for healthcare. His work is built on a foundation of novel techniques for advanced copolymer structure determination and detailed mechanistic understanding.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

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

Lance Manuel

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Lance Manuel's research is related to uncertainty quantification associated with the safety of civil engineering, energy-generation and ocean systems. His work is being used to improve the design of wind turbines for complex inflow turbulence conditions and in enhanced the long-term reliability of deepwater floating structures. His work is also examining climate impacts on infrastructure systems and related hazard, risk, and resilience studies.

Zoltan Nagy

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Zoltan Nagy's research interests are in smart buildings and cities, renewable energy systems, control systems for zero emission building operation, machine learning and artificial intelligence for the built environment, complex fenestration systems, and the influence of building occupants on energy performance.

Nicholas Peppas

Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Modern Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Pediatrics, Surgery, Medicine

Nikolaos Peppas' research blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering to generate next-generation systems and devices, including bio-microelectromechanical systems with enhanced applicability, reliability, functionality and longevity.

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.

Lynn Wilkinson

Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature

Lynn Wilkinson specializes in Scandinavian and comparative literature along with Scandinavian drama and film, focusing on themes of modernism, narrative traditions, gender, and literary and cultural theory.

Christine Williams

Sociology

Christine Williams' research focuses on gender, race, and class inequality in the workplace, including men and women in nontraditional occupations, persistent gender discrimination at work, sexuality and sexual harassment in a wide variety of workplace settings, and inequality in low wage retail work.

Christopher Wlezien

Government

Christopher Wlezien's research looks at the "thermostatic" model of public opinion and policy and examines the dynamic relationships between preferences for spending and budgetary policy in various domains. Other research considers the broader relationship between news and the public. He also investigates the evolution of voter preferences expressed in pre-election polls over the course of an election cycle.

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