Norway

Paul Adams

Geography and the Environment, American Studies

Paul Adams' research focuses on physical and virtual aspects of sense of place, attention-capture and surveillance by digital media, people’s responses to attention-capture and surveillance, discourses on environmental risk and change, representations of climate adaptation and mitigation, and critical cartography.

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.

Owen Anderson

Law

Owen Anderson is a scholar whose expertise is in oil and gas, particularly with regards to international petroleum law, transactions, and taxation. He has written extensively on water law and domestic and global petroleum law.

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.

Daniel Brinks

Government, Law

Daniel Brinks' research is on the role of the law and courts in supporting democratic rights. Over the years, he has addressed the use of courts and law to enforce social and economic rights in the developing world, the development of the rule of law and new constitutional orders in Latin America, the judicial response to police violence in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, judicial independence, and the role of informal norms in the legal order.

John Daly

Management, Communication Studies

John Daly's interests focus on practical ways of improving the communication and relationship skills of individuals. He examines topics such as influencing skills, interpersonal relations, leadership and network, change management, and has a burgeoning interest in the politics of standardization.

Ian Dalziel

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Ian Dalziel's research is focused on understanding global tectonic processes and to mapping out the geography of ancient times on a dynamic Earth. His 60 years of field experience have been devoted to work in the British Caledonides, the Canadian Shield, the Andes, and Antarctica.

Michele Deitch

Public Affairs, Law

Michele Deitch specializes in independent oversight of correctional facilities, prison and jail conditions, managing youth in custody and juveniles in the adult criminal justice system.

Deana Erdner

Marine Science

Deana Erdner's lab focuses on the genetics of bloom-forming algae, particularly toxic dinoflagellates.

Sergey Fomel

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sergey Fomel's research interests include computational and exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, wave propagation, seismic data analysis, inverse problems, and geophysical estimation.

Oliver Freiberger

Asian Studies, Religious Studies

Oliver Freiberger's research interests include the history of Buddhism in South Asia, asceticism, religious boundary-making, and comparison in the study of religion.

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.

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.

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.

Kathleen Higgins

Philosophy

Kathleen Higgins's main areas of research are continental philosophy, philosophy of the emotions, aesthetics, and philosophy of music.

Patricia Johansson

Germanic Studies

Patricia Johansson’s research interests lie within language and culture, Scandinavian Studies, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition. Johansson is especially interested in mind, brain and education research and how it translates into instructional design, as well as the intersection of language instruction, autonomous learning and technology.

Smyth Johansson

Germanic Studies

Smyth Johansson's research interests lie within language and culture, Scandinavian Studies, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition. Johansson is especially interested in mind, brain and education research and how it translates into instructional design, as well as the intersection of language instruction, autonomous learning and technology.

Jon Litland

Philosophy

Jon Litland works mainly in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of mathematics. This has focused on the notion of ground, specifically issues concerning paradoxes in the logic of ground. He has has been working on mathematical structuralism and the possibility of defining indiscernible objects.

Beili Liu

Art and Art History

Beili Liu is a visual artist who creates material-and-process driven, site-responsive installations. Liu’s sculptural environments resonate with the experience of migration and cultural memory and negotiate personal, cultural, and environmental concerns.

Victoria Marone

Economics

Victoria Marone's research focuses on industrial organization and market design in health insurance and healthcare markets.

Matthew McGlone

Communication Studies

Matthew McGlone studies social influence, persuasion, and deception, focusing on language’s key role in these processes. His current research projects explore strategic word choice in messages promoting wellness, patience, disaster preparedness, and prosocial behavior; stereotyping and prejudice in interpersonal communication; (in)civility in social media discourse; and the language people use to describe pain, illness, and addiction.

José del R. Millán

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Neurology

José del R. Millán is an expert in the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI), especially based on electroencephalogram signals. In addition to his work on the fundamentals of BMI and design of neuroprosthetics, Millán is prioritizing the translation of BMI to end-users who live with motor and cognitive disabilities. In parallel, he is designing BMI technology to offer new interaction modalities for people without disabilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kyle Spikes

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Kyle Spikes’ interests involve the integration of geologic information with quantitative tools for seismic reservoir characterization. This area of research includes both forward and inverse problems, which combine rock physics, stochastic geologic modeling, seismic inversion, and wave-propagation modeling.

Keri Stephens

Communication Studies

Keri Stephens' research program examines the role of technology in organizational practices and organizing processes, especially in contexts of crisis, disaster, and health.

Daniel Stockli

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Daniel Stockli's research focuses on the application of thermochronology and geochronology to tectonic and geological problems to better understand the temporal and thermal aspects of tectonic, petrologic, stratigraphic, and geomorphologic processes. In addition, he investigates geo- and thermochronometry technique development, calibration, and bench marking, with special emphasis on development of new thermochronmeters and novel applications.

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.

Sharon Vaughn

Special Education

Sharon Vaughn investigates effective interventions for students with reading difficulties and students who are English language learners.

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