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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.
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.
Kathryn Dawson
Theatre and Dance
Kathryn Dawson uses the arts to increase equity and access in educational contexts. Dawson's interests focus on arts-based educational research, community-engagement, teaching artist pedagogy and practice, qualitative research methods, curriculum design, and program evaluation.
Leszek Demkowicz
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Mathematics
Leszek Demkowicz's research combines applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, and computational methods for partial differential equations with emphasis on finite element and boundary element methods.
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.
Bertram Gawronski
Psychology
Bertram Gawronski’s research aims to understand social judgments and social behavior by identifying their underlying mental processes. His interests include moral judgment and decision-making, attitude formation and change, and effects of misinformation. In addition to these major themes, he is interested in basic questions of psychological measurement and meta-theoretical issues in the construction and evaluation of psychological theories.
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.
Jacek Gwizdka
Information
Jacek Gwizdka studies human information interaction and retrieval and applies cognitive psychology and neuro-physiological methods to understand information searchers and improve the search experience. He is interested in creating models that describe and predict cognitive and affective phenomena in human information interaction.
Can Kilic
Physics
Can Kilic's research is focused on extensions of the standard model of particle physics with an emphasis on experimental signatures; more specifically, he works on model-building, collider physics, and dark matter searches.
Karol Lang
Physics
Karol Lang is an experimental particle physicist, whose research focuses on studies of neutrinos. Lang typically conducts research and development on particle detectors, such as those for large water Cherenkov detectors.
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.
Oksana Lutsyshyna
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Oksana Lutsyshyna's research interests revolve around the issue of metropolitan modernity and Central and Eastern European identity in literature.
Allan MacDonald
Physics
Allan MacDonald’s research interests center on the influence of electron-electron interactions on the electronic properties of metals and semiconductors.
Pawel Misztal
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Pawel Mitsztal's laboratory group is leading novel air quality measurements outdoors, indoors, and from individual sources. The group is interested in quantified understanding of the factors affecting human health. The specific research questions include sources and sink apportionments, fate and exposure risk of volatile organic compounds.
Marie Monfils
Psychology
Marie Monfils' research focuses on investigating post-consolidation manipulations that can persistently attenuate fear memories, isolating the factors that underlie social transmission of information, and assessing individual differences and their impact on fear attenuation.
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.
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.
Steven Seegel
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Steven Seegel is a historian focused on the critical geography and cartography of Eastern Europe, with a focus on Ukraine.