Member Research Groups

Name	Department	Research Area
Rebekah Dawson	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Formation and evolution of planetary systems.
Abraham Falcone	Astronomy and Astrophysics	High Energy Astrophysics, with specialization in space instrumentation, active galactic nuclei, and gamma ray bursts.
Suvrath Mahadevan	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Discovering strange new worlds.
Randall McEntaffer	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Specializes in space-borne spectrographs for high-energy astrophysical observations.
Robert Morehead	Astronomy and Astrophysics	General astronomy education and public engagement with science. Academic advising for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
James Tutt	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Specializes in space-borne spectrographs for high-energy astrophysical observations.
Jason Wright	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Exoplanets, stellar astrophysics, search for life in the universe.
Wendy Hanna-Rose	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Metabolism and developmental biology.
Cheryl Keller	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Genomics and gene regulation.
Scott Lindner	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Investigates the transmission of malaria parasites to and from mosquitoes.
Melissa Rolls	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Neuronal cell biology.
Emily Weinert	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Investigates the molecular pathways by which bacteria sense and respond to the environment.
Charles Anderson	Biology	Studies the dynamics of plant cell walls in the context of sustainability.
Sarah Assmann	Biology	Plant biology.
Nikki Crowley	Biology	Investigates the signaling molecules and neuro circuits underlying substance misuse.
Emily Davenport	Biology	Host - microbiome interactions.
Christian Huber	Biology	Population genetics and analysis of ancient DNA.
Janine Kwapis	Biology	Studies the neurobiology of learning and memory
Lauren McCarthy	Biology	Coordinates and teaches undergraduate introductory biology courses, teaches a diversity in STEMM course, and supervises teaching assistants in biology labs.
Elizabeth McGraw	Biology	Studies mosquito:virus:symbiont interactions with potential applications in vector borne disease control.
Moriah Szpara	Biology	Utilizes comparative genomics in combination with clinical & lab-based studies, to investigate how viral genetic diversity impacts the outcomes of chronic infection.
Zachary Szpiech	Biology	Population genetics.
Claire Thomas	Biology	Cell and Developmental Biology: The role of the actin cytoskeleton in epithelial polarity.
John Waters	Biology	Coordinates and teaches anatomy & physiology undergraduate courses, and supervises graduate assistants assigned to teach in laboratory classrooms.
Mary Ann Smith	Biology	We seek to explore environmental Microbiomes to discover and identify new microbes and their biological products for potential medicinal properties.
Grayson Sipe	Biology	Study the interactions between neurons and glia ('non-neuronal cells') in sensory processing, brain state shifts, stress, and addiction.
Philip Bevilacqua	Chemistry	RNA chemistry and biology.
David Boehr	Chemistry	Studies the biochemistry and biophysics of enzymes important for bacteria and viruses.
Julie Fenton	Chemistry	Synthetic materials chemistry.
Chris Keating	Chemistry	Colloid and interface science.
Jonathan Kuo	Chemistry	Organometallic chemistry.
Benjamin Lear	Chemistry	Physical inorganic/materials chemistry.
Stewart Mallory	Chemistry	Uses computer simulation and theory to establish design principles for the next generation of soft active materials.
Eric Nacsa	Chemistry	Organic chemistry.
Scott Showalter	Chemistry	Structural biology applied to eukaryotic gene regulation.
Susan Sinnott	Chemistry	Computational materials science.
Ruobo Zhou	Chemistry	Develops and applies physical, chemical, and engineering approaches to study living systems and biological processes involved in basic cell functions as well as in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Nate Brown	Math	Equity in STEM education.
Kirsten Eisentraeger	Math	Number theory and arithmetic geometry with applications to cryptography.
Diane Henderson	Math	Mathematics applied to experiments and observations of water waves or other fluid mechanics systems.
John Lesieutre	Math	Studies algebraic geometry, the study of solutions of systems of polynomial equations.
Carmen Carmona Benitez	Physics	Experimental Particle Astrophysics; Dark Matter; Neutrino Physics.
Zhen Bi	Physics	Theoretical condensed matter physics.
Jacob Bourjaily	Physics	Quantum field theory.
Doug Cowen	Physics	Experimental Particle Astrophysics; Neutrino Physics.
Eric Hudson	Physics	Experimental condensed matter physics.
Louis Leblond	Physics	Coordinates and teaches physics courses and focuses on physics research.
Nitin Samarth	Physics	Quantum materials and quantum information.
Sarah Shandera	Physics	Theorist studying questions in high energy physics, gravity, and cosmology.
Jorge Sofo	Physics	Theoretical and computational studies of condensed matter systems.
Luiz de Viveiros	Physics	Neurtrinos, Dark Matter and Particle Astrophysics
Helen Greatrex	Statistics	Geography and spatial statistics, weather hazards and risk.
Neil Hatfield	Statistics	Studies how people think about and develop their understandings of foundational ideas in statistics and mathematic (Statistics/Mathematics Education).