College of Science
and Mathematics
p: (617) 287-5777
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Faculty Research Interests

BIOLOGY
Steven Ackerman Molecular biology
Kamaljit Bawa Forest ecology and genetics
Gregory Beck Immunology; evolution
Solange Brault Population dynamics; conservation
Kenneth Campbell Endocrinology; reproductive biology; biomarker analysis
Adan Colon-Carmona Physiology and molecular biology of plants; expression of cyclins in Arabidopsis thaliana
Alan Christian Freshwater mollusk ecology
John Ebersole Marine ecology; icthyology
Ron Etter Population dynamics; population genetics
Robert Guimond Physiology
Katherine Gibson Plant-Microbe Interactions, Cell Signaling, Cell Cycle Regulation
William Hagar Photosynthesis; environmental monitoring
Linda Huang Cell Biology: Signal Transduction and Regulation of Cell Morphology
Richard Kesseli Population genetics; molecular evolution; evolution and genetic bases of host-pathogen interactions; evolution and genetic bases of sex determination; conservation genetics.
Kenneth Kleene Developmental molecular biology
Alexia Pollack Neuropharmacology and immunocytochemistry: role of dopamine in regulating motor behavior of rats
Michael Rex Marine ecology; biodiversity
Michael Shiaris Microbial ecology; biodegradation of organic pollutants
Rachel Skvirsky Molecular genetics; microbiology; membrane mechanisms for protein transport
Robert Stevenson Comparative animal physiology
Manickham Sugumaran Protein chemistry; enzymology; insect biochemistry
Ying Tan Molecular systematics; the evolution of color vision in primates; bioinformatics
Alexey Veraksa Cell signaling and gene regulation in development
Brian White Science education; investigation of students' changing conceptions of science (especially biology); development and evaluation of teaching materials including computer software.
H. Garrison Wilkes Plant genetics and evolution
CHEMISTRY
Robert Carter Structural studies of inorganic solids by infrared and raman spectroscopy
Kenneth Cerny Reaction mechanisms involving anti-aromatic intermediates.
Timothy Dransfield Physical chemisrty, green chemistry, general chemistry
Jason Evans Biological mass spectrometry; characterization of proteins from biological samples
Michelle Foster Atmospheric chemistry
Deyang Qu Physical chemistry, electrochemistry(graduate) analytical chemistry, green chemistry
Jonathan Rochford

The design and synthesis of inorganic/organometallic catalysts for small molecule activation. Photophysical and electrochemical characterization of new materials.

Marietta Schwartz Chemical education and instructional technology
Bela Torok Organic chemistry, green chemistry, general chemistry
Marianna Torok Biochemistry
Wei Zhang Organic chemistry, green chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and general chemistry
ENGINEERING
Greg Sun Semiconductor devices; opto-electronics
Tomas Materdey Quantum statistical physics; Wigner function; numerical electromagnetics; dielectric waveguides; and active-learning in science and engineering.
ENVIRONMENTAL, EARTH AND OCEAN SCIENCES
Robert Bowen Environmental policy and management
Robert Chen Organic geochemistry; marine organic chemistry
Ellen Douglas

Hydrology; hydromorphology; water resource management

John Duff Natural resources, law and policy
Anamarija Frankic Coastal Ecosystem Management; applications in aquaculture, marine protected areas, and tourism/ecotourism
Eugene Gallagher Benthic ecology; polychaete biology; succession, serology and predator-prey relationships
Allen Gontz

Coastal geology and stratigraphy; shallow marine geophysics

Robyn Hannigan Analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and geochemistry
Deborah Metzel

Social geography, specializing in the geography of human services and people with disabilities

Curtis Olsen Dispersal and fate of contaminants in linked watershed and coastal environments; biogeochemical and environmental tracers (radionuclides and stable isotopes); environmental remediation and management.
William Robinson Functional mechanisms in aquatic toxicology, particularly those processes involved in metal uptake, depuration, sequestration and internal transport.
Steven Rudnick Development of electrodes for sediment/water interface studies.
Ninian Stein

Environmental history

David Tenenbaum

Geographic information science; hydrology

David Terkla

Environmental economics

Yong Quian Tian GIS based modeling of groundwater and surface water, agricultural applications
Juanita Urban-Rich Zooplankton processes in environments ranging from coastal waters to the open ocean and from tropical to polar regions
Gordon Wallace Aquatic and atmospheric chemistry
Meng Zhou Small and mesoscale physical processes and their effects on spatiotemporal variability of chemical and biological processes in aquatic ecosystems by using observation tools, numerical models and mathematical theories
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Ethan Bolker Combinatorial analysis; queuing theory; performance modeling
William Campbell Programming languages and their implementation; compilers
Wei Ding Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and with applications to astronomy, geosciences, and environmental sciences
Peter Fejer Logic; theoretical computer science
Nurit Haspel Structural Bioinformatics, application of Robotics and Graph theory methods to protein structure and function, Molecular Dynamics simulations of proteins and complexes, Multi-scale computational methods applied to molecular motion, Computational Geometry.
Elizabeth O'Neil Database systems
Patrick O'Neil Database systems
Marc Pomplun Combining psychophysical investigations such as eye-movement studies with modeling and simulating components of human vision; developing advanced active computer vision systems
Dan Simovici Database systems; theoretical computer science; data mining
Jun Suzuki Autonomous and adaptive distributed systems; Cognitive middleware for autonomic network systems; Reflective and reconfigurable network systems; Self-organizing overlay networks; Biologically-inspired designs for software adaptation; Object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming languages; Model-driven software development;Object-oriented modeling languages, software patterns and frameworks
Duc Tran Networks and distributed systems
Bob Wilson Embedded system, network product, and communication protocol software development and testing.
The Internet, TCP/IP protocol software, and object-oriented programming using either Java or C++.
MATHEMATICS
Ethan Bolker Combinatorics, geometry. Performance modeling of computer systems. Mathematics for lay audiences
Eduardo Gonzalez Symplectic Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, Gauge theory and Mathematical Physics
Hans Herda Mathematical Geology
Steven Jackson Combinatorics, commutative algebra, invariant theory, representation theory
Timothy Killingback Mathematical biology, evolutionary dynamics, dynamical Systems, and game theory
Maura Mast Differential geometry; spectral geometry
Alfred Noel Representation of Lie groups
Karen Ricciardi Combinatorial optimization; optimal groundwater remediation design subject to uncertainty; optimal algorithms for solving differential equations numerically
Dennis Wortman Functional analysis
Catalin Zara Differential geometry; symplectic manifolds with Hamiltonian group actions; combinatorial aspects of equivariant cohomology and K-theory
 
PHYSICS
Stephen Arnason The interface between the disciplines of materials science, condensed matter physics, and electrical engineering
Edward Ginsberg Theoretical elementary particle physics
Kurt Jacobs Quantum feedback control, the quantum-to-classical transition and quantum information theory
Benjamin Mollow Theoretical quantum optics
Maxim Olchanyi Theoretical Many-Body Physics: cold atomic gases; quantum non-equilibrium dynamics; integrable systems; chaos in classical fields; scattering in restricted geometries
D. V. G. L. N. Rao Experimental laser research; nonlinear optics
Greg Sun

Semiconductor devices; opto-electronics

Bala Sundaram Quantum and classical chaos, the quantum-to-classical transition and applications of nonlinear dynamics in biology and cognitive science
Chandra Yelleswarapu  
Biomedical Imaging and Sensing applications of fiber Bragg gratings for optical biosensing and biomedical imaging, development of advanced optical microscopes/nanoscopes for investigating live cell dynamics