Switzerland

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.

Daniel Allcock

Mathematics

Daniel Allcock's research areas include algebra, algebraic geometry, geometric topology, geometry, and topology.

Timothy Andeen

Physics

Timothy Andeen is a particle physicist. In Geneva he uses the ATLAS detector at the world’s highest energy particle collider. Perhaps the biggest question in particle physics today is “Where are all the new particles?” Discovering these minuscule motes of matter could have a tremendous impact on our understanding of the universe. Andeen searches for new particles and improves the apparatus that observes the ephemeral particles of our universe.

Stephen Anderson

Marketing

Stephen Anderson is a quantitative researcher who studies management and policy questions at the intersection of marketing and development economics. His research program focuses on stimulating more inclusive, equitable growth in disadvantaged communities through marketing and entrepreneurship.

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.

Benjamin Baird

Psychology

Benjamin Baird's research spans several areas in human cognition, including metacognition, sleep and public health. He uses a range of methods, including behavioral testing and multimodal neuroimaging techniques to study the brain basis of human cognitive processes.

Edoardo Baldini

Physics

Edoardo Baldini's research interest is the study of emergent phenomena in quantum materials. His research group develops sensitive spectroscopic techniques to uncover new quantum phases of matter in and out of equilibrium. They also engineer tailored laser pulses in a wide spectral range to control materials properties on ultrashort timescales and achieve exotic functionalities for future quantum technology.

John Bartholomew

Kinesiology and Health Education

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

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.

Bayani Cardenas

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Bayani Cardenas' research group studies fundamental and applied hydrologic flow and transport phenomena. The group pursues basic knowledge on the role of water in many earth-surface processes, including conventional hydrologic and water quality monitoring, geophysical surveys, remote-sensing, analogue experiments, and mathematical modeling, to design solutions to environmental issues and society's water problems.

Swarat Chaudhuri

Computer Science

Swarat Chaudhuri's research vision is to build a new generation of AI systems that are designed from the ground up with the goals of reliability, transparency, and security. He seeks to realize this vision through a synthesis of ideas from programming languages, formal methods, and machine learning.

Thomas Chen

Mathematics

Thomas Chen's research interests include spectral and dynamical problems in quantum field theory, renormalization group methods, scaling limits of quantum dynamics, nonlinear PDEs, and Hamiltonian dynamics.

John Chisholm

Astronomy

John Chisholm observes how galaxies grow and influence their surroundings over time. Chisholm is interested in the first galaxies in the universe and how they shaped the universe by reionizing the entire cosmos. To do this, he studies the gas and stars of closer galaxies to develop a roadmap to interpret the first galaxies.

Ulrich Dangel

Architecture

Ulrich Dangel’s research focuses on the use of wood in construction, its influence on building culture and craft, and how it contributes to the advancement of sustainable practices at the scale of local and global economies. Due to his expertise in the field, he has established an ongoing dialogue with architects, engineers, foresters, material scientists, and professional organizations around the world.

Diane Davis

Rhetoric and Writing

Diane Davis' work is situated at the intersection of rhetorical theory and continental philosophy. Her research and teaching interests include rhetorical theory, critical theory, digital culture, and continental philosophy.

Maria De-Arteaga

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Maria De-Arteaga's research is focused on algorithmic fairness and human-artificial intelligence complementarity. As part of her work, she characterizes how societal biases encoded in historical data may be reproduced and amplified by machine learning models, and develops algorithms to mitigate these risks.

Daniel Dickinson

Molecular Biosciences

Daniel Dickinson’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of cell polarization, which is a basic property of animal cells that is often disrupted in human diseases (especially cancer).

Alex Dimakis

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alex Dimakis' research interests include information theory, coding theory, signal processing, and networking, with a current focus on distributed storage, network coding, distributed inference and message passing algorithms.

Janet Ellzey

Mechanical Engineering

Janet Ellzey's research focuses on combustion of biomass and on the development of environmental technologies such as low emissions combustors. Her interests also focuses on using additive manufacturing to design novel reactors. Ellzey leads efforts for engineering students to apply their skills to solve challenges in low-income or marginalized communities.

Juliana Felkner

Architecture

Juliana Felkner's research interests include the role of the built environment in addressing some of society's greatest challenges through the efficient use of land, construction materials and energy. The tall building serves as an application for her research on integrating design and technology to improve urban conditions, building performance, and human comfort.

Lauren Fielder

Law

Lauren Fielder is an expert on international and constitutional law, including the internationalization of constitutional law and transnational law and human rights. She has written on African law and policy, gender and customary law, restitution of art and cultural property, and religion as empowerment, among other topics.

Kevin Folliard

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Kevin Folliard’s research interests include portland cement concrete, high-performance concrete, and controlled low-strength materials. His group examines concrete durability, especially in internal forms of attack, such as alkali-silica reaction and delayed ettringite formation, and external sulfate attack.

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.

Irene Gamba

Mathematics, Oden Institute

Irene Gamba's research group focuses on modeling of non-linear, coupled systems arising in the physical and biological sciences, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. Using classical and statistical analysis, the group addresses model formulation, interpretation, approximation, and assessment along with multiple dimensional spatial and temporal scales, direct and inverse problems, and accurate and efficient approximation algorithms.

Lauren Gaydosh

Sociology

Lauren Gaydosh's research focuses on better understanding the role of early life environments in shaping health across the life course. This work integrates social, contextual, and biological data from population-based longitudinal studies to examine how inequalities in the social environment get under the skin to create health disparities.

Feliciano Giustino

Physics

Feliciano Giustino's research group is interested in electronic structure theory, high-performance computing, and the atomic-scale design of advanced materials using quantum mechanics. The research sits at the intersection of computational condensed matter theory and materials science.

Milos Gligoric

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milos Gligoric's research interests are in software engineering and formal methods, especially in designing techniques and tools that improve software quality and developers' productivity.

Oscar Gonzalez

Mathematics

Oscar Gonzalez's research interests include modeling, numerical analysis, differential equations, integral equations, geometry of curves and surfaces.

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.

Wayne Hoyer

Marketing

Wayne Hoyer's research interests include consumer information processing and decision making, customer relationship management and new product development, and advertising information processing (including miscomprehension, humor, and brand personality).

Thomas Hunt

Kinesiology and Health Education

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

Sirkka Jarvenpaa

Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Business, Technology, and Law

Sirkka Jarvenpaa's research and teaching interests include global innovation management, inter-organizational and inter-personal collaborations and innovations in fast-paced and technologically advanced data and knowledge environments with regulatory and policy implications.

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.

Shardha Jogee

Astronomy

Shardha Jogee's research seeks to address central questions on the evolution of galaxies as a function of cosmic epoch, mass, and environment. These include how galaxies grow their stars, black holes, and dark matter halos across cosmic time and vastly different environments, the role played by theoretically predicted growth modes, and how galaxy clusters, some of the largest bound structures in the Universe, form.

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.

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.

Hans Koch

Mathematics

Hans Koch's research areas include analysis, dynamical systems and ergodic theory, and mathematical physics.

Philipp Krähenbühl

Computer Science

Philipp Krähenbühl's research interests lie in computer vision, machine learning and computer graphics. Krähenbühl is particularly interested in deep learning, as well as image segmentation and understanding.

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.

Allan MacDonald

Physics

Allan MacDonald’s research interests center on the influence of electron-electron interactions on the electronic properties of metals and semiconductors.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

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

Filippo Mangolini

Mechanical Engineering

Filippo Mangolini's overarching research goal is to develop a physically-based understanding of the structural transformations and chemical reactions occurring on material surfaces and at solid/solid, solid/liquid interfaces under extreme environments and conditions far from equilibrium.

Michela Marinelli

Neuroscience, Medicine

Michela Marinelli's main research focuses on understanding the biological bases of addiction. Marinelli uses a combination of models that are associated with increased addiction liability, such as that associated with age (i.e. adolescence), naturally-occurring within outbred populations (i.e. inter-individual differences), or induced by exposure to drugs and to stress.

Christina Markert

Physics

Christina Markert's research focuses on the properties of nuclear matter at high densities and temperatures, including the study of a new state of matter termed Quark Gluon Plasma. Her research group tries to reach the necessary conditions for a phase transition from a gas of protons and neutrons to this plasma type by using heavy ion collisions in particle accelerators.

Alberto Martínez

History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Alberto Martínez's research interests include the history of physics (especially Einstein's special theory of relativity), the history of mathematics, and historical myths in science. He also researches the history of notions of race, myths in political news media, and episodes in the history of money and corruption.

Risto Miikkulainen

Computer Science, Neuroscience

Risto Miikkulainen’s research focuses on biologically-inspired computation such as neural networks and evolutionary computation. His goal is to understand biological information processing and to develop intelligent artificial systems that learn and adapt by observing and interacting with the environment.

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.

Andreas Mueller

Economics

Andreas Mueller's research interests include issues in macroeconomics, labor economics, and monetary economics.

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.

Luisa Nardini

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Luisa Nardini specializes in digital humanities, pre- and early-modern women, global studies, and sacred music. Her studies on medieval and early-modern women are focused on women's access to music education, spaces of music creativity, and interactions with male counterparts. She also writes on global early musics.

Peter Onyisi

Physics

Peter Onyisi is interested in experimental investigations of electroweak symmetry breaking and searches for new particles and interactions. He also is involved with computing with large data sets of structured data.

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.

Simon Peter

Computer Science

Simon Peter's research interests are in Operating Systems and Networks. Peter's research projects focus on low latency data center networking and storage design.

Manuel Rausch

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering

Manuel Rausch's research interests are focused on soft tissue biomechanics. He uses experimental as well as computational tools to characterize and understand the mechanical behavior of biological soft tissues, such as myocardium, vascular soft tissue, heart valve tissue, and skin, to improve diagnostic and therapeutic methods, and medical device design.

Samantha Santacruz

Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Samantha Santacruz focuses on the engineering advancement of neuroprosthetics and their therapeutic application to a growing range of neurological disorders. The lab investigates neuroscientific questions related to understanding how neural patterns or states are learned, as well as how to manipulate these processes.

Jason Shumake

Psychology

Jason Shumake’s primary research interest is building models from longitudinal data sets to classify and predict behavior and responses to interventions. He is particularly interested in using statistical and machine learning algorithms to search for novel combinations of genetic, neural, and behavioral features that predict treatment response.

Clemens Sialm

Finance

Clemens Sialm's research interests are in the areas of investments, retirement savings, and taxation.

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.

Calvin Streeter

Social Work

Calvin Streeter's social work practice experience includes rural community development, program planning and implementation, and program evaluation. In addition to his interest in rural social work, his research has focused on school-based services, homelessness, disability services, employment policy.

James Sulzer

Mechanical Engineering

James Sulzer's lab is motivated by the large gaps of knowledge that are preventing full recovery of patients following stroke. His research focuses on finding the minimum amount of assistance, if any, that will restore healthy gait in people after stroke and development of novel, neurally-based rehabilitation strategies.

Deepa Thomas

Physics

Deepa Thomas studies quantum chromodynamics, which is the theory of interactions in particle physics. Unlike in ordinary matter, quarks and gluons are not confined within short distances but can roam freely over distances larger than the hadronic scale in the state of quork-gluon plasma. Understanding this novel state of matter offers a new way to learn how quarks and gluons bind to form stable particles like the proton.

Kevin Thomas

African and African Diaspora Studies, Sociology

Kevin Thomas' research focuses on international migration, global health, racial and ethnic inequality, children and families, as well as development and social change in Africa.

Nicola Tisato

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Nicola Tisato researches the determination of anelasticity of rocks and attenuation of seismic waves at low frequencies in rocks and fluids, fluid pressure transients generated by stress, properties of geo-materials, and digital rock physics. He attempts to understand how fluids modify the physical properties of rocks and has also been studying friction coefficient during seismic slip and the genesis of caves and speleothems.

Carly Toepke

Law

Carly Toepke's specialties include education law, legal writing, and international human rights law.

Maxim Tsoi

Physics

Maxim Tsoi's research is focused on the field of "spintronics," which refers to studying the role played by an electron spin in solid state physics and aims at developing a revolutionary new class of electronic devices based on the spin degree of freedom of the electron. The focus of his research is on experimental investigations of various spintronic phenomena (e.g. spin-transfer torque) in magnetic nanostructures.

Mauricio Viroli

Government

Maurizio Viroli's works examine the history of political thought, looking at the relationship between religion and politics, classical republicanism vs. neo-republicanism, political communication, and citizenship and civic education.

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