Israel

Donnie Ray Albert

Music Performance

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

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.

James Austin

Institute for Geophysics

James Austin is a seismic stratigrapher and has worked on sedimented continental margins (both passive and convergent) around the world since the late 1970s. He has over the past 20 years taken surveys off the shores of Israel, the Antarctic, Mexico (Gulf of Mexico) and off the east coast of the U.S.

Ronen Avraham

Law

Ronen Avraham's research interests are in economic analysis of torts and healthcare law. He is also focused on insurance discrimination and third party litigation funding. Additional research and teaching interests include contracts, medical malpractice, law and economics, and theories of justice.

Aaron Baker

Biomedical Engineering

Aaron Baker's research is focused on application of the tools of engineering, glycobiology, and molecular biology to increasing the understanding vascular disease. Baker's goals are to improve design of implanted vascular devices, develop technology to enable high-throughput study and drug discovery in the cardiovascular field, and to enhance cellular and protein therapies for ischemic disease.

Jonathan Bard

Mechanical Engineering

Jonathan Bard is an expert on bilevel programming and postal operations. His research focuses on the development of efficient algorithms for problems related to airline operations, vehicle routing, and machine scheduling; the design and analysis of manufacturing systems; the use of decomposition techniques to solve large-scale hierarchical planning problems; and multi-criteria decision making applied to socio-economic systems.

Adela Ben-Yakar

Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Adela Ben-Yakar investigates femtosecond laser interaction with biological tissues to develop novel laser surgery techniques, nonlinear imaging modalities, and endoscopes for image-guided treatment of diseases. Her group also develops high-throughput microfluidics and novel optical methods to study nerve regeneration and degeneration, and stem cells.

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.

Oren Bracha

Law

Oren Bracha is a legal historian and an intellectual property law scholar. His fields of interest include intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory.

Davida Charney

Rhetoric and Writing

Davida Charney's research spans rhetorical theory and analysis; Jewish studies and the Hebrew Bible; skill learning processes and lifelong learning; public policy argument; and writing in the disciplines.

James Chelikowsky

Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering

James Chelikowsky's research is focused on the optical and dielectric properties of semiconductors, surface and interfacial phenomena in solids, point and extended defects in electronic materials, pressure induced amorphization in silicates and disordered systems, clusters and nano-regime systems, diffusion and microstructure of liquids, and the development of high performance algorithms to predict to predict the properties of materials.

Ashwini Deo

Linguistics

Ashwini Deo's works on systematic semantic change phenomena, such as the ways in which functional morphemes like tense-aspect, negation, and possession markers change over time. Within semantics-pragmatics, she works on synchronic phenomena in the domains of aspect, temporal reference, lexical semantics of verbs, and discourse particles. She also has an interest in case and agreement patterns, like in split-ergative and split-oblique systems.

Yoav Di-Capua

History

Yoav Di-Capua is an intellectual historian of the modern Arab world. His work examines the question of how to find an authentic, safe and productive space in the a modern world shaped by others and he takes into consideration various lens, including decolonization studies, trauma studies, political theory and other related fields.

John Doggett

Management

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

David Eaton

Public Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Geography and the Environment, Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, South Asia Institute, Jewish Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, IC2 Institute

David Eaton's research focuses on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution.

Mattan Erez

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mattan Erez’s research focuses on improving the performance, efficiency, and scalability of computing systems through advances in memory systems, hardware architecture, software systems, and programming models. His focus areas include architectures for machine learning, large-scale and high-performance computing, and memory systems, with the aim to improve cooperation across system layers and develop mechanisms for proportional resource usage.

William Forbath

History, Law

William Forbath's research concerns the role of law in the creation of the modern American state, social and economic rights in the courts, and social movements of South Africa. His interests also include constitutional law, civil procedure, the intersection of social and constitutional theory, the history of the American labor law and of the New Deal, populist movements in American history, and legal and constitutional history.

Steven Friesen

Religious Studies

Steven Friesen's specializes in early Christianity, with particular interests in the book of Revelation, poverty in the Roman Empire, and archaeology of religion in the eastern Mediterranean.

Marci Gleason

Human Development and Family Sciences, Human Ecology

Marci Gleason's research focuses on dyadic support processes and aging and personality. She explores how reciprocal support transactions influence individuals mood and relationship functioning using intensive longitudinal designs. She also examines how personality disorders present across the lifespan and how life transitions may interact with individuals' personality to impact well-being.

Karen Grumberg

Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies

Karen Grumberg's research interests include comparative literature and modern Hebrew literature in addition to the intersections of literary modernism in Norwegian and Hebrew; "juxtapositional" comparative methodologies; Hebrew translation culture; and and a regional, comparatively grounded conceptualization of Hebrew within the Middle East region and in the context of multiple histories.

Ronny Hadani

Mathematics

Ronny Hadani's research interests include representation theory, theory of algebraic D-modules, and applications to harmonic analysis, signal processing, three dimensional cryo-electron microscopy and mathematical physics.

Arbel Harpak

Integrative Biology, Medicine

Arbel Harpak's research combines modeling and large-scale statistical inference to understand the mechanisms that generate and shape genetic variation and translating this mechanistic understanding into better genotype-to-phenotype maps.

Tanya Hutter

Mechanical Engineering

Tanya Hutter's research interests lie in the fields of emerging molecular sensing technologies, nanomaterials, microfabrication and nanophotonics with applications in environmental and industrial sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics.

Tanya Hutter

Mechanical Engineering

Tanya Hutter's research interests lie in the fields of emerging molecular sensing technologies, nanomaterials, microfabrication and nanophotonics with applications in environmental and industrial sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics.

Gary Jacobsohn

College of Liberal Arts, Government

Gary Jacobsohn's interests and work lies at the intersection of constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism. His work is also focused on the question of constitutional change.

Vadim Kaplunovsky

Physics

Vadim Kaplunovsky's research interests are field theory, supersymmetry, string theory and string dualities, and holographic quantum chromodynamics.

Tony Keddie

Religious Studies

Tony Keddie is a social historian whose interdisciplinary research focuses broadly on the literary and material remains of Jews and Christians from the Hellenistic period through late antiquity as well as the modern politics of biblical interpretation.

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.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

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

Dana Hadar Moshkovitz Aaronson

Computer Science

Dana Moshkovitz has a broad interest in theoretical computer science, with a focus on probabilistically checkable proofs, pseudo-randomness, coding theory, and algorithms.

Aaron Nielson

School of Law

Dr. Aaron Nielson researches administrative law, federal litigation, and separation of powers. He served as Solicitor General of Texas, arguing five U.S. Supreme Court cases. Internationally, he lectured in Jordan (University of Jordan), Israel (Hebrew University), and created a legal program in Dubai, UAE. He is a three-term public member of the Administrative Conference of the U.S.

Avigail Noy

Middle Eastern Studies

Avigail Noy is a scholar and teacher of classical Arabic literature and Islamic civilization. Her research focuses on the pre-modern Arabic literary and linguistic traditions, including poetics, rhetoric, literary criticism, grammar, Islamic hermeneutics, and adab.

Na'ama Pat-El

Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics

Na'ama Pat-El is a linguist primarily working with classical Semitic languages. Her interests are historical linguistics, and language change, especially syntax, language contact, and dialectology.

Steven Pedigo

Public Affairs

Steven Pedigo is an expert in urban economic development, regional cooperation and placemaking. Pedigo has developed strategies for more than 50 cities and regions in the United States and other countries.

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.

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.

Carolyn Phillips

Nursing

Carolyn Phillips' research examines the impact of storytelling through music with family and professional caregivers. She is specifically interested in its effect on brain connectivity, the alignment between neuro-affective and cognitive states, and the long-term effect on prolonged grief, post-traumatic growth, and psychosocial well-being.

Mark Raizen

Physics, Medicine

Mark Raizen is an expert in experimental atomic physics. His research has focused on controlling atomic motion through novel methods of cooling and trapping atoms; he has also focused on the study of short-time Brownian motion of glass microspheres. In medicine, he developed new methods for enriching isotopes which has many applications, including the prevention of mineral deficiency and treatment of cancer.

Esther Raizen

Middle Eastern Studies

Esther Raizen's interests include modern and classical Hebrew language, linguistics and literature; teaching Hebrew as a foreign language; Jewish history and culture; Holocaust studies; Israeli children's literature; and women and war.

Cory Reed

Spanish & Portuguese

Cory Reed's research focuses on early modern theatrical performance, including the representation of identity in 16th- and 17th-century literature, literary and cultural responses to the emergence of scientific discourse in early modern Spain, and cognitive cultural studies. His teaching includes studying historical moments of cultural contact in Spain, Mexico, and the American southwest.

Josafath Reynoso Calvillo

Theatre and Dance

Josafath Reynoso is an award winning scenic designer. He has designed new productions for various theater companies nationally and internationally.

Ehud Ronn

Finance

Ehud Ronn's research and teaching interests focus on the valuation of energy commodity-contingent securities.

Rebecca Rossen

Theatre and Dance, American Studies, Jewish Studies

Rebecca Rossen is a dance historian and performance scholar whose research focuses on the aesthetic, cultural, historical and political meanings and impacts of dance and physical performance, as well as the interrelationships between performance, embodiment, site, memory and history. Her research also touches upon American studies, ethnic studies, feminist studies, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies and memory and trauma studies.

Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Maytal Saar-Tsechansky's research interests include machine learning and data mining methods for data-driven intelligence and decision making. Her work addresses the challenges that arise when data-driven learning is used to inform decisions.

Lorenzo Sadun

Mathematics

Lorenzo Sadun's research spans a number of areas: the topology and dynamics of aperiodic tilings, focusing on how the topology of tiling spaces is related to geometric and combinatorial properties of individual tilings; statistical mechanics and phase structure of ensembles of large, dense random graphs; mathematical questions related to Covid-19 modeling; and mathematical questions in neurobiology, especially how "grid cells" work.

Anat Schechtman

Philosophy

Anat Schechtman's research focuses on 17th-century philosophy and is concerned primarily with questions at the intersection of metaphysics, mathematics, and theology. She is particularly interested in theories of substance, dependence, infinity, and being in the early modern period, focusing on Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, and Leibniz.

Jonathan Schofer

Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies

Jonathan Schofer's primary area of research is classical rabbinic Judaism. He has published on the connections between law, theology, and ethics in canonical Jewish sources of late antiquity. He is preparing manuscripts relating on the topic of Mishnaic purity law, the body, and domestic space, and on canonical homiletic midrash to biblical law.

William Schwartz

Medicine

William Schwartz has conducted research on biological clocks and especially on the "master" brain clock in the mammalian hypothalamus. At the Dell Medical School, he is working on the development of interdisciplinary courses at the intersection of biology and medicine for UT Austin undergraduates and the approach to patients with neurological disease for Dell Med students and residents.

Lina Sela

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Lina Sela's research interests are centered on intelligent urban water systems involving optimal design and operation, fault diagnostic and prediction, resilient networks, and advanced analytics to make more informed decisions from integrated sensing and data collection.

Suzanne Seriff

Anthropology

Suzanne Seriff's interests center on issues of museum representation, public folklore and folklife, Jewish museums and material multure, folk arts and social change, public culture and global folk arts.

Jonathan Sessler

Chemistry

Jonathan Sessler's research expertise is focused on organic chemistry, texaphyrin, expanded porphyrins, anion recognition, drug development, anti cancer agents, and the technical analyses of patents.

Hovav Shacham

Computer Science

Hovav Shacham's research focuses on applied cryptography, systems security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and technology policy.

Keith Simon

Architecture

Keith Simon is an expert in building enclosure technology. His work addresses the critical and often unmet need for ensuring and improving building performance, resilience, and durability by guiding design teams, educating future architects, and facilitating interdisciplinary exchange.

Jasper Smits

Psychology

Jasper Smits's research objective is to improve the treatment of anxiety disorders and related problems. He aims to identify targets for intervention, develop and pilot test novel therapeutic strategies, and examine the efficacy of promising behavioral and integrative treatments in clinical trials.

Peter Stone

Computer Science

Peter Stone's research focuses on artificial intelligence with the goal to create autonomous agents that can learn to interact with other agents in a wide range of environments. His research contributions are in the areas of machine learning, autonomous agents and multiagent systems, and robotics. Application domains include robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, smart traffic management, general-purpose service robots, and autonomous vehicles.

Sharon Strover

Radio-Television-Film, Journalism and Media

Sharon Strover's research examines local and statewide networks and broadband services, such as the relationship between economic outcomes and investments in digital media programs in higher education and with social media. She also investigates the digital divide in terms of rural broadband and telecommunications infrastructure deployment related to economic development in these regions. She also works on issues with artificial intelligence.

William Swann

Psychology, Management

William Swann's research examines the relationship between social-cognitive processes and relationships, including both dyadic and group relationships. Much of his research explores the nature and consequences of identity fusion, which occurs when group members experience a sense of union with a group.

Jon Tamir

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jon Tamir's research interests include computational magnetic resonance imaging, machine learning for inverse problems, and clinical translation.

Devarajan Thirumalai

Chemistry, Physics

Devarajan Thirumalai’s group focuses on various problems in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, including investigating various aspects of the transition from liquid to amorphous state. Another area of research involves the theoretical study of polymer-colloid interactions. Research is also being carried out to understand the dynamics of protein folding.

Guihua Yu

Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Guihua Yu's researches design and synthesis of functional nano-architectured materials, like organic and hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, understanding of their chemical and physical properties, and development of large-scale assembly and integration methodologies to enable important applications in energy, environment and sustainability, e.g. fast-charging batteries, electrocatalysis, solar water purification, critical mineral recovery.

Janet Zoldan

Biomedical Engineering

Janet Zoldan focuses on human induced pluripotent stem cells as a model system to explore key principles underlying tissue formation processes by integrating and applying materials and stem cell bioengineering.

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