Professors Hiring PhD Students (2026)
2434 professors at 80 universities currently have hiring signals for PhD students. These are pulled from live faculty pages — reach out if you match their research.
Princeton University 27 hiring
Adji Bousso Dieng
Professor · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ If you are interested in joining Vertaix as a PhD student, please apply to Princeton's PhD program in Computer Science. We're also accepting students from Princeton's MSE program. If you are interested in joining us as a postdoc or want to collaborate, please directly email Professor Dieng.
artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences, statistical machine learning, deep learning
Branko Glisic
Professor · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ For prospective graduate students and postoctoral researchers
Structural health monitoring (SHM), heritage structures, strain-based SHM, fiber optic sensors, holistic analysis of heritage structures
Brenden M. Lake
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Interested in joining the lab? Please submit this form rather than sending an email.
Our lab aims to understand the ingredients of intelligence. We use advances in machine intelligence to better understand human intelligence, and use insights from human intelligence to develop more fruitful kinds of mach…
David A. Bell
Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of History · Humanities Council (and affiliated departments)
⭐ In 2025-26 I will potentially be accepting new prospective graduate advisees, and welcome applications from prospective students interested in working on topics related to the history of France and its empire from 1600 to 1815.
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Dhruv Shah
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I will be recruiting PhD students for the upcoming admissions cycle. If you are interested in joining my lab, please consider applying to Princeton!
I am interested in building intelligent and useful robotic systems that can be deployed reliably in challenging environments. My research group broadly focuses on the intersection of machine learning and robotics, with a…
Frederik J. Simons
Professor of Geosciences · Natural Sciences Divisional Departments
⭐ I advise and mentor (under)graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who share, extend, and challenge my interests. If you are a prospective graduate student, please peruse my research pages to find out what I've been up to. See if anything appeals to you, and mention my name as a potential ad…
I am a geologically inspired, geophysically educated, computationally motivated and mathematically minded geoscientist interested in the seismic, mechanical, thermal and magnetic properties of the Earth's lithosphere—and…
Jeroen Tromp
Blair Professor of Geology. Professor of Geosciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics. Director, PICSciE · Natural Sciences Divisional Departments
⭐ We always welcome applications from potential graduate students and postdocs.
Imaging Earth's interior, acoustic, (an)elastic and poroelastic wave propagation, exploration geophysics, regional and global seismology, helioseismology, forward and inverse problems in seismology
Jesse D. Jenkins
Professor · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Prof. Jenkins admits ~2 graduate students each year to pursue a doctoral degree in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Applications are due December 1st and all candidates are evaluated through a competitive central pool. He also co-supervises students admitted to the School of P…
Optimization-based macro-energy systems models to evaluate low-carbon energy technologies, guide investment and research in innovative decarbonization solutions, and generate insights to improve energy and climate policy…
Jonathan Marc Gribetz
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies · Humanities Council (and affiliated departments)
⭐ Gribetz advises PhD candidates in the history of modern Palestine and Israel and welcomes applications from those who seek to study any aspect of the encounter between the various communities of the Holy Land since the late 19th century.
History of Palestine and Israel
Jewish-Arab Encounter
Race and Religion in the Modern Middle East
Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism
Jonathan Marc Gribetz
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies · Humanities Council (and affiliated departments)
⭐ Gribetz advises PhD candidates in the history of modern Palestine and Israel and welcomes applications from those who seek to study any aspect of the encounter between the various communities of the Holy Land since the late 19th century.
History of Palestine and Israel
Jewish-Arab Encounter
Race and Religion in the Modern Middle East
Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism
Jose Roque
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Natural Sciences Divisional Departments
⭐ The Roque group is actively recruiting graduate students. Prospective Ph.D. Students should apply to the graduate program. Email Jose if you intend on applying to the graduate program.
Our research interests lie at the interface of organic and organometallic chemistry, with an emphasis on the development of new reactivity modes to address unsolved problems in catalysis and expand the reactivity of tran…
Matthew L. Jones
Smith Family Professor of History · Humanities Council (and affiliated departments)
⭐ Anna Speyart
Professor Jones is completing a book on state surveillance of communications from the 1970s until the present, including the explosion of state-sanctioned hacking, focused on signals intelligence agencies of the US and i…
Matthew Salganik
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Sociology · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Come do a postdoc with Arvind Narayanan and me. We are searching for a joint postdoc interested in machine learning in social settings. Topics include but are not limited to: identifying and measuring limits to predictability; distribution shift; strengthening reproducibility, reliability, and robus…
about AI, especially its impact on science, the economy, and society. You can read more about the project and its early findings in this article from the Economist and this working paper. (November 2025) I've been promot…
Olga Russakovsky
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Princeton University; Associate Director, Princeton AI Lab; Chair of the Board of Directors, AI4ALL nonprofit · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Here's how to get involved in research with us.
I work on developing artificially intelligent systems that are able to reason about the visual world. My primary research is in computer vision, touching on human-computer interaction, on fairness/ accountability/ transp…
Ryan Kingsbury
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Prospective group members: please click here for information about joining the group
Dr. Kingsbury's research aims to accelerate the development of electrochemical technologies for clean water and clean energy production by advancing fundamental understanding of ion-selective materials such as membranes …
Saien Xie
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute · Princeton Materials Institute
⭐ We are actively seeking motivated graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and undergraduate students to join our research group. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in engineering, materials science, physics, chemistry or optics. Prior experience in nanomaterials growth, optical spectrosc…
Applied Physics
Energy and Environment
Materials and Devices
Photonics
Quantum Engineering
Sharad Malik
George Van Ness Lothrop Professor of Engineering · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Currently I have an open position for a post-doc in the areas of system verification and security architectures. Please send me an email with your CV if you are interested in this.
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Thomas Gregor
Professor of Physics and Biophysics · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are looking for Ph.D. and postdoc candidates with interests in the broader fields of biophysics and/or cell and developmental biology.
Physics of cellular processes, biological pattern formation, gene regulatory networks, precision measurements in multicellular organisms, optics, imaging and image analysis, and machine learning.
Wei Peng 彭暐
Assistant Professor · Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
⭐ We are recruiting multiple postdocs and students! Click "Opportunities" for more!
Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Associated Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engine…
Wendy Laura Belcher
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Department for African American Studies. · Humanities Council (and affiliated departments)
⭐ Prof. Belcher is interested in working with graduate students whose research interests overlap with her own, including African language literature (especially that in Gəˁəz). Those interested in working on Gəˁəz literature, such as the Täˀammərä Maryam or Kəbrä Nägäśt, are especially welcome, but a…
early African literature, African language literature, African literature in English; African discourse and Western literature; postcolonial criticism
Xinning Zhang
Associate Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute · Natural Sciences Divisional Departments
⭐ Opportunities for microbe lovers at both graduate and post-doc levels are available – please contact the PI for additional information. Update: The Zhang lab has an opening for one postdoctoral researcher in the area of terrestrial microbial biogeochemistry focusing on the global carbon, nitrogen, a…
Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; mechanisms by which microbes shape and are shaped by the changing environment; ecophysiological mechanisms constraining microbially-catalyzed biogeochemical transformations; methods…
Dhruv Shah
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I will be recruiting PhD students for the upcoming admissions cycle. If you are interested in joining my lab, please consider applying to Princeton!
I am interested in building intelligent and useful robotic systems that can be deployed reliably in challenging environments. My research group broadly focuses on the intersection of machine learning and robotics, with a…
Dane W. deQuilettes
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ My group is currently recruiting new graduate students as well as postdocs, so please reach out if you are interested in working together!
Applied Physics, Energy & Environment, Materials & Devices, Quantum Engineering
Eszter Posfai
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology · Natural Sciences Divisional Departments
⭐ Prospective graduate students and postdocs with interest in mechanobiology, biophysics, developmental and stem cell biology and/or imaging are encouraged to apply. Applicants with experience in light sheet imaging and data analysis are particularly welcome!
Quantitative approaches for understanding mammalian preimplantation embryo formation
Mohamed S. Donia
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology · Natural Sciences Divisional Departments
⭐ No hiring information available
FocusSmall-molecule-mediated interactions in complex microbial communitiesResearchMuch like human beings, microbes often live in diverse communities interacting with both collaborators and competitors. Small molecule nat…
Samuel Holzman
Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology · Humanities Council (and affiliated departments)
⭐ Princeton students interested in participating in archaeological/architectural fieldwork on Samothrace should contact Professor Holzman about participating.
Holzman’s research interests include ancient aesthetic theories of architecture in the works of Vitruvius and Hermogenes, architectural polychromy, and the reception of ancient architecture in the modern world. One stran…
Yair Mintzker
Professor of History · Humanities Council (and affiliated departments)
⭐ He welcomes applications from prospective graduate students interested in working on topics related to central European history from 1648 to the mid-twentieth century.
Early Modern Europe, Modern Europe, German History, Jewish History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15 hiring
Alexander Amini
Research Affilliate · MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
⭐ If you're interested in a UROP or SuperUROP position, please send a resume and brief cover note explaining your interest n the project to amini@mit.edu
develop the science and engineering of autonomy and its applications to safe decision making for autonomous agents; learning end-to-end control of autonomous systems; formulating confidence of neural networks; mathematic…
Brian L. Wardle
Apollo Program Professor · School of Engineering
⭐ <strong>Note:</strong>
<br/>Please do not contact me regarding summer internship or visiting student positions. We currently have no open positions. We also cannot respond to inquiries regarding student, postdoc, or visiting professor positions due to the volume of unsolicited requests.
Nano-engineered composites, composite and layered materials; hybrid nanocomposite systems; MEMS power devices and energy harvesting; structural health monitoring systems; active materials and devices; finite-element mode…
Chris A. Kaiser
Amgen Professor of Biology · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ Chris Kaiser is no longer accepting students.
protein folding and trafficking in cells, protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), quality control mechanisms in the ER, and membrane protein sorting in Golgi compartments
Haoning Tang
Assistant Professor (Starting July 2026) · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ The Reconfigurable Photonics Lab welcomes postdocs, PhD students, visiting scholars, and interns with backgrounds in optics, EE, ME, physics, and related fields. Please contact: haoning at mit.edu
Nanophotonics: photonic metamaterials, photonic crystal, 2D materials
Optical spectroscopy: nonlinear optics, quantum optics
Micro(nano)-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Josh Tenenbaum
Professor · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ If you are an undergraduate at MIT interested in research with our group, please send a short email about your interests and background (as specific as possible), with resume/CV and any previous research papers, to cocosci-urop@mit.edu. Thanks!
If you are applying to work with our group via an MIT …
My colleagues and I in the Computational Cognitive Science group want to understand that most elusive aspect of human intelligence: our ability to learn so much about the world, so rapidly and flexibly. I like to ask, "H…
Linlin Fan
Assistant Professor · Brain and Cognitive Sciences
⭐ currently recruiting for her lab
Luca Carlone
Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ if you are an undergraduate student at MIT and you want to join SPARK: please consider taking 6.141 / 16.405 (Robotics: Science and Systems), 16.485 (Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles), or UROPing in the group. if you are outside MIT: please consider applying to the MIT graduate program. Due…
Certifiable Perception: robust perception algorithms and systems for high-integrity autonomous systems; High-level Perception: super-human geometric, semantic, and physical scene understanding; Efficient and Task-driven …
Mert Demirer
Professor · MIT Sloan School of Management
⭐ [PhD] Postdoc Position in Industrial Organization, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2024. [Postdoc] Professional Staffing role, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2024.
Industrial Organization, Technology Strategy, Management Processes, Professional Development, Organizational Behavior, Marketing
Mohsen Ghaffari
Associate Professor · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ PhD positions: If you're interested in working with me and my team and have a strong algorithmic background, please submit an application to our PhD program and mention my name. Unfortunately, I am not able to answer individual emails.
Theoretical computer science, with a focus on distributed and parallel algorithms.
Monty Krieger
Whitehead Professor of Molecular Genetics · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ No longer accepting new students.
cell surface receptors and cholesterol and their impact on normal physiology and diseases, such as heart disease and infertility; cell surface receptor structure and function; lipoprotein receptors — in particular, the H…
Sara Beery
Assistant Professor · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ If you are interested in any position with the group (Postdoc, PhD, MEng, UROP, Visitor), instead of emailing me please fill out the interest survey below so I can better organize my responses. I am unlikely to respond to individual emails. Interested in a PhD? I consider students primarily via MIT …
Computer vision methods for global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitoring across data modalities, tackling real-world challenges including strong spatiotemporal correlations that lead to domain shift, imperfect …
Sherrie Wang
Assistant Professor · MIT
⭐ We are hiring PhD students and postdocs to start in 2024-25! Please visit our lab website for more details.
novel data and computational algorithms to monitor our planet and enable sustainable development; improving agricultural management and mitigating climate change; satellite imagery, crowdsourced data, LiDAR, and other sp…
Stefanie Mueller
Associate Professor · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ Stefanie directs the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL and is actively recruiting Postdocs, PhD students, and interns interested in helping to kickstart this new lab. Interested Postdocs can email her directly. For a PhD position please apply through MIT's PhD admission page.
Human-Computer Interaction
Tania A. Baker
E. C. Whitehead Professor of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ No longer accepting students.
mechanisms and regulation of enzyme-catalyzed protein unfolding, ATP-dependent protein degradation, and remodeling of the proteome during cellular stress responses.
William Quinn
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Science/Biology · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
⭐ Professor Quinn's lab is no longer active and he is not accepting students.
Genetic and Molecular Studies of Learning and Memory in Drosophila
Harvard University 40 hiring
Andrew Ho
Charles William Eliot Professor of Education · Harvard Graduate School of Education
⭐ If you are a prospective Ph.D. student interested in working with Professor Ho, please read his Advice to PhD Applicants.
psychometrician whose research aims to improve the design, use, and interpretation of test scores in educational policy and practice; methods for measuring educational progress and educational inequality; developer of a …
Chirag Patel
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics · Harvard Medical School
⭐ No current openings
Developing computational and bioinformatics methods to address problems in human health and disease, including dissecting inter-individual differences in human phenomes through integration of electronic medical records, …
David Glovsky
Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ He welcomes inquiries from scholars, current/potential graduate students, and others interested in related questions/geographies, and is currently accepting graduate students.
David (Dave) Glovsky is a historian of 19th and 20th century West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and the Gambia. His research and teaching interests include histories of mobility and migration, b…
David M. Knipe
Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics · Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School
⭐ Individuals who are interested in graduate study in my lab or the Harvard Virology Program are encouraged to consult the Program website for information.
We study the molecular and cellular biology of herpes simplex virus productive and latent infection and the mechanism of the host immune response to HSV. We also have been studying a candidate genital herpes vaccine that…
Efthimios Kaxiras
Professor · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ For availability of graduate positions please contact Prof. Kaxiras [kaxiras at physics dot harvard dot edu]. Qualified persons should send their CV and names of references. Harvard University is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from under-represented groups such as women an…
Computational physics / theory of materials. Structure and properties of different phases of matter, practical device applications, theoretical models and computational tools spanning multiple scales from atomistic to co…
Hopi Hoekstra
Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences; C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts and Sciences; Xiaomeng Tong and Yu Chen Professor of Life Sciences in the Departments of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Molecular & Cellular Biology; Curator of Mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ (Currently not accepting students)
Our research focuses on understanding how variation is generated and maintained in natural populations. In particular, we are interested in understanding both the proximate (i.e., molecular, genetic, developmental and ne…
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD
Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School; Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital · Harvard Medical School
⭐ Current Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities: Large Language Models (LLM), AI to automate patient diagnosis, Cancer treatment response
Develops and applies computational techniques to address disease at multiple scales: from whole healthcare systems as 'living laboratories' to the functional genomics of neurodevelopment with a focus on autism. Research …
Karestan C. Koenen
Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
⭐ For students who are interested in working within the Koenen lab, please use the following link to express interest. https://forms.gle/MQpU3nuS75k98kfP7
Kazuki Nagashima
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are recruiting at all levels and are looking for ambitious, curiosity-driven individuals.
The human intestine encounters a vast array of molecules from the microbiome, diet, and pathogens. However, the mechanisms by which the intestinal immune system permits beneficial microbes and nutrients while mounting an…
Kun-Hsing Yu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School · Harvard Medical School
⭐ Current Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities: Machine learning-enabled pathology
Integration of quantitative histopathology image patterns with multi-omics (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) profiles to advance cancer research and clinical practice. Fully-automated algorithms to…
Livia Alfonsi
Assistant Professor · Harvard Business School
⭐ 📢 CURRENTLY HIRING
1) Harvard based pre-doc. Position filled.
2) Delhi based pre-doc. Position filled.
3) PhD student collaborations. Always excited to work with grad students; if there’s a strong fit, email me!
I study labor markets in low-income settings.
Luke O'Connor
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics · Harvard Medical School
⭐ No current openings
Genetic architecture of common disease, statistical methods development, translating genetic associations into biological insight
Malika Zeghal
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ She is welcoming PhD applicants in a broad array of topics.
Her research focuses on the interaction between Islam and politics in the modern Middle East. She is particularly interested in studying modern Muslim states and their religious institutions, as well as the intellectual …
Marinka Zitnik, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School · Harvard Medical School
⭐ Current Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities:
- Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Drug Discovery
- Representation learning and embeddings for biomedical networks and knowledge graphs
AI for Medicine: The state of a person is described with increasing precision incorporating modalities like genetic code, cellular atlases, molecular datasets, and therapeutics—the challenge is how to reason over these d…
Naama Kanarek
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology · Boston Children's Hospital
⭐ May next be taking rotation students in 2024-2025 year.
In my lab, we apply mass-spectrometry to address biological questions in cancer metabolism, and a major part of our work focuses on technology and method development. Cancer metabolism is a rapidly growing field within t…
Suyang Xu
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Electronic and optical properties in quantum matters, topological and broken symmetry states, nonlinear electronic responses in topological materials
Ang Cui
Assistant Professor of Medicine · Harvard Medical School
⭐ We are always looking for motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to join our team. Please visit https://sites.harvard.edu/angcui-lab/join/ for more information.
We use big data to decode the complexity of our immune system, and empower our immune system to fight diseases.
Beth Blum
Professor of English · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently accepting graduate student advisees
Modern and contemporary literature; self-help and therapeutic culture; the history of reading; sociology; medical humanities; the conduct of life; temporality.
Brian D. Farrell
Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, Professor of Biology, Curator of Entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
My lab and I work on the evolution of interactions between different kinds of tiny consumers, especially beetles and other arthropods, and their much larger hosts, such as plants or large animals. We use phylogenetics to…
Colleen Cavanaugh
Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
microbial symbiosis and evolution with emphasis on bacteria-animal associations including diversity, transmission strategies, and coevolution
Daniel L. Hartl
Higgins Professor of Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
My laboratory focuses on the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics. The main goal is to understand the processes by which organisms evolve, integrated systems change through time, and new species come into …
David A. Haig
George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27
Because I am theorist, my research is wide and varied. I work on everything from maternal-fetal conflict in human pregnancy to the evolution of plant life cycles. I have a particular interest in genetic conflicts within …
David E. Golan
George R. Minot Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School · Harvard Medical School
⭐ Graduate student rotation projects are available in each of these areas.
Our goals are to understand the molecular interactions controlling protein and lipid mobility and distribution in cell membranes, the roles these mechanisms play in interactions between cells, and the relationships betwe…
David Glovsky
Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
His research and teaching interests include histories of mobility and migration, borderlands, spatial history, Islam, citizenship, and histories of popular culture/sport.
Emily Balskus
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students
Bioorganic, Chemical Biology, Organic
George V. Lauder
Henry Bryant Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
Biorobotics and structure, function, and evolution of vertebrates, particularly fishes. Current studies include (1) research on a variety of fish robotic models, and (2) investigation of the biomechanics of aquatic locom…
Gerhard Wagner
Elkan Rogers Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School · Harvard Medical School
⭐ Note: Not accepting rotation students at this time.
Our research is focused on protein structure, dynamics and stability, and on the relation of these to protein function using NMR and computational techniques as the main tools used to address these problems. We are inter…
Gonzalo Giribet
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
My primary research focuses on the evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals and in the use of museum specimens for genomic research. In the lab we use genomic and morphological data from living and extinct anim…
Hopi E. Hoekstra
Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts and Sciences; Xiaomeng Tong and Yu Chen Professor of Life Sciences; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, ex officio · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students
Our research focuses on understanding how variation is generated and maintained in natural populations. In particular, we are interested in understanding both the proximate (i.e., molecular, genetic and developmental mec…
James Mallet
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in Residence · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
We study evolution, hybridization, and speciation - mainly in butterflies. Methods range from collecting trips in dugouts, field experiments in the Amazon rainforest, population genetic inferences about selection and gen…
John Wakeley
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
Population samples of DNA sequences contain information about both contemporary and ancient processes and events. I use mathematical models to describe how these current and historical factors conspire to produce the pat…
Joshua Ehrlich 夜華
Associate Professor of History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau
⭐ Ehrlich welcomes applications from prospective PhD students who share any of the research interests listed.
Global History; Indian Ocean World; South and Southeast Asia; British Empire; European Empires; East India Companies; Intellectual History; Enlightenment; History of Political Thought; History of Knowledge; Book History;…
Julia Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School · Harvard Medical School
⭐ We are seeking to recruit fellows, students, and technicians who share our passion in repeat DNA, genomic instability, and viruses.
Our mission is to uncover the missing link between repeat DNA, genome stability, and viral infection that underlies the etiology of virus-associated cancer and genetic diseases.
Mark S. Chen
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Starting July 1, 2026) · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Chen may be interested in reviewing graduate applications.
depression and anxiety, emotion and emotion regulation, stress and adversity, cultural contexts, flexibility
Nancy Kleckner
Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Undergraduates, graduate rotation students and post-doctoral fellows are welcome, particularly those who wish to study chromosome dynamics using analytical methods from physics and engineering (in combination with genetics).
Chromosome Mechanics and Dynamics
We are interested in complex chromosomal behaviors that lack satisfactory explanations. We emphasize new approaches, quantitative analysis and hypotheses that are orthogonal to general…
Oliver Lazarus
PhD Candidate · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ In Fall 2026, he will join the faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor of 20th-Century American Environmental History.
Environmental history; history of capitalism; history of U.S. empire; animal history; history of technology; economic history; urban history; STS; the Anthropocene
Rifat Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems · Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
⭐ https://hsph.harvard.edu/rifat-atun/opportunities/
Health systems innovation, global health policy, health financing, digital health, health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries
Robin Hopkins
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the process of speciation. Of particular interest is evaluating the role of natural selection in causing diverging populations to become species. Addressing these goa…
Stephanie E. Pierce
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Interim Curator of Mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Director of Graduate Studies · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
My scholarly interests are focused on assessing the link between form and function of the vertebrate musculoskeletal system – especially with respect to muscle-skeletal interactions during feeding and locomotor behaviour…
William (Ned) Friedman
Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
My research focuses on the organismic interfaces between developmental, phylogenetic and evolutionary biology. Armed with hypotheses of relationships among clades, I seek to explore how patterns of morphology, anatomy an…
Stanford University 25 hiring
Alfred Zong
Assistant Professor of Physics and Applied Physics · School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ We are seeking motivated undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs to join the group. Please email me directly to discuss opportunities.
I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Physics and of Applied Physics, and my group focuses on the study of light-induced non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum materials. To capture the ultrafast dynamics on th…
Ayfer Özgür
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering · School of Engineering
⭐ I am looking for students and postdocs with strong mathematical background and interest in theoretical work to join my research group. If you are an admitted Stanford PhD student, please send me an email with your CV. I apologize I am unable to respond to all inquiries from prospective students and …
My current research interests are in information theory, wireless communication and networks, distributed estimation and learning.
Caroline Trippel
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering · Stanford University
⭐ I am currently looking for motivated graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and undergraduate researchers. Once admitted to Stanford, if you are interested in working with me, please send me an email with your CV to start a conversation.
Caroline Trippel is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University, where she leads the High Assurance Computer Architectures Lab. Following her PhD, prior to…
Caroline Winterer
Courtesy Professor · Stanford University
⭐ She is currently accepting graduate students. For more information on the PhD program in the Department of History, visit: https://history.stanford.edu/academics/graduate-degree-programs.
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering · Stanford University
⭐ Prospective students and post-docs, please see this page.
Chelsea Finn is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and the William George and Ida Mary Hoover Faculty Fellow. Professor Finn's research interests lie in the abil…
Dawson Engler
Associate Professor · Stanford University
⭐ I am currently looking a few additional students. If you know how to hack, we should meet.
Effective, automatic methods for finding lots of bugs in real code. Three main approaches: system-specific static analysis, implementation-level model checking, and using symbolic execution to automatically generate high…
Eric Pop
Professor · Stanford University
⭐ Want to join our team? Read this first
Energy-efficient transistors, data storage (memory), and thermoelectrics; 2D materials (graphene, h-BN, MoS2, WSe2,...) and phase-change materials (GST, VO2); Fundamental physical limits of current and heat flow, e.g. ba…
Howard A. Zebker
Professor · Stanford University
⭐ Students interested in pursuing research in these areas are encouraged to apply through either of these departments.
InSAR imaging, Earth exploration from space, satellite remote sensing, planetary science, digital signal processing for geoscience applications, EM scattering and propagation
Joonhee Choi
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering · Stanford University
⭐ Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor: Shraddha Anand
Doctoral (Program): Timothy Chang, Chou-Wei Kiang, Yang Xu
Joonhee Choi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Joonhee received his Ph.D. and master’s from Harvard University, as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Korea Advanced Ins…
Oliver Philcox
Assistant Professor of Physics · Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford (LITP)
⭐ Please send me an email if you're interested in working with me!
Theoretical cosmology, statistical cosmology, observational cosmology, galaxy surveys, Cosmic Microwave Background, inflation, Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure
Paul Bollyky
Stanford Medicine Professor of Infectious Disease and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology · Stanford Medicine
⭐ We are actively recruiting bioengineers, molecular biologists, immunologists, and microbiologists for post-doctoral positions in the lab. If interested, please contact Dr. Bollyky at pbollyky@stanford.edu
For Stanford Undergraduates interested in joining the lab, we require a minimum commitment of …
The Bollyky Lab studies bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, with the goal of developing innovative strategies to improve human health.
Key areas of active research involve: 1. Bacteriophages and bacterial path…
Philip Schuster
Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics · Stanford University
⭐ Prospective graduate students interested in research rotations should contact Professor Schuster directly.
Identifying dark matter and its properties, developing concepts for new experimental tests of physics beyond the Standard Model, studying novel theories of long-range forces, new ideas to detect axions, milli-charge dark…
Ronald Hanson
Clarence J. and Patricia R. Woodard Professor of Mechanical Engineering · School of Engineering
⭐ He is currently supervising approximately 30 M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students.
Laser-based diagnostic methods for combustion and propulsion, modern shock tube methods for accurate determination of chemical reaction rate parameters needed for modeling combustion and propulsion systems
Shambhu Ghimire
Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory · Stanford University
⭐ Post-doc positions available: https://careers.slac.stanford.edu/sites/careers.slac.stanford.edu/files/Job_Listing_postdoc_HHG2020.pdf
My research interests are in ultrafast condensed matter, atomic, molecular and optical physics. Currently, we are studying extremely non-linear optical response of quantum materials such as two-dimensional crystals, topo…
Srabanti Chowdhury
Professor · Stanford University
⭐ To all students seeking Ph.D. in our research areas which includes semiconductor research for energy efficient, thermally managed, environmentally sustainable electronics, please apply to Stanford PhD programs.
Wide-Bandgap and Ultra-Wide Bandgap technology, semiconductor research for energy efficient, thermally managed, environmentally sustainable electronics, power density, frequency and power
Themistocles (Tim) Assimes
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) · Stanford University School of Medicine
⭐ Prospective Postdocs: We welcome inquiries for 1–2 year positions. To apply generally, email tassimes@stanford.edu with: 1) A summary of your training and experience. 2) A statement on why you are a good fit for the team. 3) Your CV/resume with at least two references. Please also check for specific…
I am a board-certified clinical cardiologist with a doctorate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. I have over 30 years of medical practice and more than 25 years of research experience. I was born and raised in Montreal, …
Tsachy (Itschak) Weissman
Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering · Stanford University
⭐ Please note: Regretfully, I cannot respond to most inquiries regarding openings for graduate and postdoctoral positions in my group.
Anne Twitty
Associate Professor of History · School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ Professor Twitty is accepting graduate students to the Ph.D. program in History who are interested in working on all aspects of nineteenth-century American history, the history of slavery, and American legal history, including students interested in Stanford's J.D./Ph.D. program in law and history.
Legal History, Slavery, Social History, United States (19th century), Law and legal culture, History of the South and Midwest, Public history, Slavery and its legacy at institutions of higher learning, Confederate memory…
Héctor Hoyos
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures · School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ Professor Hoyos welcomes graduate applicants in all fields of modern Latin American literature and culture, from the 19th century to the present. Dialogues across national traditions are preferred. Primary subfields are the Southern Cone and Colombia; secondary include Cuba and Brazil. Current topic…
Héctor Hoyos works at the intersection of literary criticism and continental philosophy. His scholarly publications include two monographs with Columbia University Press: Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (2…
Jennifer Burns
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History · Stanford University
⭐ I will not be accepting advisees for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. I am able to serve as a primary advisor, and will also work with all admitted graduate students in a supportive capacity. Generally, I can advise a range of twentieth century topics, but my expertise is intellectual, political, and…
Intellectual history, political history, cultural history, history of American politics, economic thought, religion, capitalism, history of conservatism, libertarianism, liberalism
Joel Cabrita
Professor of History · School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ She welcomes applications from graduate students interested in working on any aspect of African history.
Africa; African history; religious history; CIA operations in apartheid South Africa; Southern African religious movements; Black feminist intellectual traditions
Jonathan Gienapp
Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of Law · Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ Gienapp is accepting graduate students to the Ph.D. program in History who are interested in working on all aspects of early American history and U.S. constitutional and legal history, including those students interested in Stanford's J.D./Ph.D. program in law and history.
Constitutional, political, legal, and intellectual history of the early United States; origins and development of the U.S. Constitution; Founding-era constitutionalism; constitutional originalism; popular sovereignty; na…
Kathryn Olivarius
Associate Professor of History · School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ I am accepting graduate students who are interested in all aspects of early/nineteenth-century United States history.
Antebellum South, Greater Caribbean, slavery, capitalism, and disease; historical notions of consent (sexual or otherwise); syphilis and shame in the American Civil War and Gilded Age; slave revolts in the United States …
Michael Penn
Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Classics, by courtesy · School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ Professor Penn is currently accepting new Ph.D. students. Applicants interested in Syriac Christianity, ancient systems of gender & sexuality, manuscript culture, or digital approaches to pre-modernity have the clearest fit with his current research. But given the breadth of intra- and interdepartme…
Language and Literature
Mikael Wolfe
Associate Professor of History · School of Humanities and Sciences
⭐ I am accepting graduate students for fall 2026
Modern Latin America and the Caribbean, social, political, environmental, and technological change, water control, agrarian reform, climate and weather effects on social revolution
Yale University 60 hiring
Alan Rooney
Assistant Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Note: I am not taking graduate students for the 2025-2026 year.
I am interested in understanding the interactions between tectonics, climatic processes and geochemical cycles on a range of time scales. I use radiogenic isotope geochemistry, in particular rhenium-osmium (Re-Os) geoche…
Alexey Fedorov
Professor of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Every year we accept new Ph.D. students in Atmospheric, Ocean and Climate Dynamics (AOCD). The deadline for applications is typically around January 2 - please check the website of Yale Graduate School.
If you are interested in climaet dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, pa…
Ocean, atmospheric and climate dynamics; El Niño; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC); tropical cyclones; global warming; paleoclimate; geophysical fluid dynamics; numerical modeling.
Allison Caplan
Assistant Professor of History of Art · Yale University
⭐ She is currently accepting graduate students in the areas of ancient and colonial Latin American art and is particularly excited to advise those interest in working at the intersection of art history and the study of Indigenous languages.
Nahua art theory and aesthetics, issues of materiality and value, animal-human relations, and the relationship between visual expression and the Nahuatl language.
Andrew Johnston
Associate Professor of Classics and (by courtesy) of History · Yale University
⭐ Students interested in participating in the field school should feel free to contact him.
Roman cultural history; Epigraphy; Greek and Latin historiography and ethnography; Roman archaeology
Andrew Xiao, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics · Yale University School of Medicine
⭐ positions available
Cellular Reprogramming; Chromatin; DNA Damage; Genetics; Histones; Stem Cells
Anthony Leiserowitz
JoshAni-TomKat Professor of Climate Communication · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
I am a geographer trained in the cognitive and social psychology of risk perception and decision making. My research is strongly interdisciplinary and seeks to understand the psychological, cultural, political, and geogr…
Arianna Salazar Miranda
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Data Science, School of the Environment · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Data and the Urban Environment; Sustainable Development; Urbanization and Cities
Brisa Palikuqi, PhD
Assistant Professor · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ We have openings available for postdoctoral fellows with research interests in models of intestinal regeneration and disease, as well as nutrient absorption in the intestine. Candidates with backgrounds in computational biology, immunology, engineering, and metabolomics are strongly encouraged to ap…
Carbohydrates; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular System; Digestive System; Digestive System Diseases; Endothelial Cells; Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Lipids; Metabolism; Nutritional an…
Craig Brodersen
Howard and Maryam Newman Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Craig Brodersen's research focuses on the structure and function of plants, with a particular interest in how plants efficiently utilize two of the most limiting resources on Earth: water and light. His research also hig…
Darryl Z. Seligman
assistant professor · Michigan State University
⭐ If you are interested in research opportunities, please contact me.
theoretical and computational planetary science and astrophysics, fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, plasma physics and neuroscience
David Keiser
Professor of Water Policy and Management · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Business and the Environment, Environmental Economics, Environmental Resources and Systems, Freshwater Ecosystems, Natural Capital, Pollution Control, Water Supply, Quality, and Scarcity, Water Resource Management and Po…
Destin Jenkins
Associate Professor of Black Studies & History · Yale University
⭐ Professor Jenkins welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate and undergraduate students interested in the history of capitalism, racial inequality, and urban democracy.
political economy of capitalism, inequality of life chances, efforts of Black people to thrive and survive, history of capitalism, racial inequality, urban democracy
Dorceta Taylor
Wangari Maathai Professor of Environmental Sociology · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ I will not be accepting any additional doctoral students for the Fall 2026 semester.
Energy; Energy Poverty; Environmental Analysis; Environmental Contamination Data; Human Health Data; Environmental Justice; Environmental Governance and Leadership; Food Systems and Food Insecurity; Human Health and Well…
Eduardo Groisman, PhD
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ Postdoctoral position available in the Groisman lab, Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale University
Biological Evolution; Ecology; Genetics; Infectious Disease Medicine; Microbiota; Signal Transduction
Eli Fenichel
Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ I will be recruiting approximately 1 PhD and 1 MESc student for fall 2026. I will begin thinking about this in October 2025.
Environmental Economics
Elizabeth Rehwinkel
· Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are hiring a Preceptor for organic and general chemistry lecture and lab instruction and a Staff Scientist for the Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center.
Gerald Torres
Professor of Environmental Justice and Professor of Law · Yale Law School
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Energy, Clean Energy, Environmental Analysis, Environmental Contamination Data, Exposure Assessment Models, Environmental Justice, Climate Migration, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Governance and Leadership, Food Sy…
Hang Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ Currently, we are looking for postdocs and students to join the lab!
Computational Biology; Data Science; Exome Sequencing; Genetic Risk Score; Genome-Wide Association Study; Human Genetics; Medical Informatics; Substance-Related Disorders; Whole Genome Sequencing
Indy Burke
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean; Professor of Ecosystem Ecology · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ I am not accepting new PhD students at this time.
I study carbon and nitrogen cycling in dryland ecosystems, with a focus on how land use management and climate variability alter those dynamics.
Jacob Musser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Looking to join our group? We seek fun and motivated students at all levels of experience that are excited to explore animal cell diversity. Check out our lab page for more information and contact Jacob to apply.
Our lab investigates one of the great mysteries of animal evolution, how animals evolved to make specialized cells and orchestrate complex multicellular behavior. This required a suite of new inventions: genomic mechani…
Joel Baden
Professor of Divinity and Religious Studies · Yale University
⭐ N/A
Prof. Joel Baden works widely in the field of Hebrew Bible, with special attention to the literary history of the Pentateuch. Current projects include editing The Routledge Handbook of the Marginalization in the Bible an…
John P. Wargo
Tweedy-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Politics · Yale University
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Professor Wargo’s research explores threats to human health posed by environmental hazards, including exposures to pesticides, vehicle emissions, toxins in foods, plastics, flame-retardants, metals, and chemicals release…
Juan M. Lora
Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Please contact me directly if you are interested in joining my research group. If you are a prospective graduate student, please also visit the Yale Graduate School admissions page and our department’s Graduate Program page for relevant information.
My research group investigates planetary climates, with a focus on hydrologic cycles such as those of Earth and Titan. This research encompasses atmospheric dynamics, paleoclimate studies, radiative transfer, atmosphere-…
Julie Zimmerman
Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions; Liliane and Christian Haub Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and the Environment; Deputy Director for Research at Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Business and the Environment, Circular Economy, Corporate Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Climate Science and Policy, Climate/Environmental Policy, Energy, Clean Energy, Environmental Analysis, Carbon Fo…
Jun Korenaga
Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ For Yale undergraduates
I have an array of research project ideas that are suitable for undergraduate research, so if you have a strong background in math and physics and like to work on the theoretical or computational side of earth and planetary sciences, please feel free to contact me. For exampl…
My research interest has been centered on the evolution of Earth as a platform for the emergence of life and its subsequent evolution in the solar system. I place a particular emphasis on the dynamics of Earth’s mantle, …
Karen Seto
Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science · Yale University
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Climate Science and Policy; Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation; Land Cover and Land Use Change; Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity; Biodiversity Loss; Habitat Conservation; Environmental Analysis; Carbon Footprint; …
Karl M. Aspelund
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Environmental and natural resource regulation, market-based policy instruments, mechanism design, public economics, equity objectives, climate-induced uncertainty, asymmetric information, environmental restoration, susta…
Kenneth Gillingham
Assistant Professor School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and School of Management · Yale University
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Environmental & Energy Economics, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Transportation Economics
Liza Comita
Davis-Denkmann Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Climate Science and Policy, Deforestation, Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity, Biodiversity Loss, Carbon Sequestration, Ecosystem Conservation and Resilience, Habitat Conservation, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Tropical Ecosy…
Luke Sanford
Assistant Professor · Yale University
⭐ Not currently accepting PhD students
Political institutions and environmental policy; Remote sensing and machine learning; Economic development and environmental protection; Causal inference and econometrics
Mark S. Ashton
Senior Associate Dean of The Forest School; Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology; Director of Yale Forests · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Business and the Environment, International Negotiations, Climate Science and Policy, Deforestation, Land Cover and Land Use Change, Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, Ecosystem Restoration, Terre…
Marynel Vázquez
Assistant Professor · Yale University
⭐ If you are interested in joining my lab, please read this note about open positions at Yale IMG before contacting me.
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Artificial Social Intelligence, social group phenomena in HRI, spatial patterns of behavior, group social influence, autonomous social robot behavior, perception and decision making, learni…
Matthew Girgenti, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ https://postdocs.yale.edu/applicants/open-positions
Anxiety Disorders; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Genetics; Genomics; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Proteomics; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Transcriptome
Matthew Kotchen
Professor at the School of the Environment, of Management, and of Economics · Yale University
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Climate Policy, Environmental & Energy Economics, Public Economics
Maureen Long
Bruce D. Alexander '65 Professor · Yale University
⭐ For prospective graduate students: In general, there are ongoing opportunities for graduate students in my group and the geophysics group at Yale is always looking for talented and motivated students. If you are interested in graduate study in observational seismology and solid earth geophysics at Y…
I am an observational seismologist who works on problems related to mantle dynamics, with a focus on subduction zone processes, the structure and evolution of continental lithosphere, and the dynamics of the deep mantle.…
Michael Dove
Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology & Professor of Anthropology · Yale University
⭐ The Dove Lab is currently accepting PhD and MESc students. PhD applicants: if you do not already hold a Master’s degree, you should apply to work with me as an MESc student, no exceptions. If you do hold a prior Master’s degree, in your initial e-mail to me you should include a copy of your c.v. and…
anthropology of climate change and the cultural and political aspects of natural hazards and disasters; political dimensions of resource degradation; indigenous environmental knowledge; contemporary and historical enviro…
Michelle L. Bell
Senior Associate Dean of Research and Director of Doctoral Studies; Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Climate Science and Policy, Extreme Weather and Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Environmental Ethics, Human Health and Well-Being, Environmental Resources and Systems, Air Pollution, Urban, Urban Heat
Milette Gaifman
Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art · Yale University
⭐ Professor Gaifman advises graduate students interested in exploring any aspect of art, architecture, and material culture in Greek antiquity; Greek and Greco-Roman religious art; intercultural exchanges in the ancient world; the reception of ancient art in post-antique periods; art and religion; and…
ancient art and archaeology, with a focus on Greek art architecture of the Archaic and Classical periods. Her research interests include the interaction between visual culture and religion, the variety of forms in the ar…
Narasimha Rao
Professor of Energy Systems · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ I will not be accepting new PhD students till Fall 2027
Climate Science and Policy, Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation, Climate/Environmental Policy, Energy, Clean Energy, Energy Policy, Energy Poverty, Energy Systems, Environmental Analysis, Carbon Footprint, Environment…
Nishant Kumar Mishra
Assistant Professor of Neurology · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ For funded clinical research opportunities at the VA Medical Center, email nishant.mishra@va.gov. Only US citizens/ permanent residents are eligible.
Biomarkers; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Clinical Protocols; Cognitive Reserve; Epilepsy; Global Health; Ischemic Stroke; Mechanical Thrombolysis; Neuroimaging; Neurology; Perfusion Imaging; Postoperative Cognitive Complic…
Noah Planavsky
Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Please contact me if you are interested in joining the research group.
I am an isotope geochemist that works on environmental change in Earth’s past, present, and future. My work combines field studies, analytical chemistry, novel isotope systems, and geochemical modeling. I have worked ex…
Nyeema Harris
Knobloch Family Associate Professor of Wildlife and Land Conservation · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity, Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Conservation and Resilience, Habitat Conservation, Human-Wildlife Interaction, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Tropical Ecosystems, Wildlife Ecology, Environmenta…
Oswald J. Schmitz
Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Climate Science and Policy; Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation; Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity; Biodiversity Loss; Carbon Sequestration; Ecosystem Conservation and Resilience; Ecosystem Restoration; Habitat Cons…
Pamela Lee
Carnegie Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art · Yale University
⭐ Lee will be reviewing applications for PhD study in modern and contemporary art history for the entering fall 2026 cohort.
the history, theory and criticism of late modernism and contemporary art with research interests in the relationship between aesthetics, politics, war, time, technology and system. Her courses include lectures and semina…
Paul Anastas
Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment · Yale School of Management
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Business and the Environment, Circular Economy, Corporate Sustainability, Environmental Markets and Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Climate Science and Policy, Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation, Climate Ch…
Paulo Brando
Associate Professor of Ecosystem Carbon Capture · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Identifying ecological thresholds beyond which global changes cause abrupt, prolonged degradation of terrestrial ecosystems by stressing, disturbing, and killing forests
Quantifying ecological & climatological boundaries…
Peter A. Raymond
Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry; Co-Director, Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Pete Raymond’s research focuses on the chemistry and ecology of inland waters. This includes research on the exchange of greenhouse gases between inland waters and the atmosphere, controls on the transport of terrestrial…
Qingyu Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ We have open positions and welcome inquiries from talented and motivated students, postdocs, and collaborators. Please read this page before emailing me so that we can quickly determine whether there may be a good fit.
Our research focuses on the development, evaluation, and trustworthy use of AI in medicine. We work across language, imaging, and multimodal health data, with particular interests in biomedical NLP, medical LLMs, multimo…
Sai Zhang
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ We are hiring at all levels (postdocs, graduate students, research assistants). Please feel free to reach out if you are interested!
Artificial Intelligence; Computational Biology; Genetics; Genomics; Machine Learning; Precision Medicine
Shaoning Jiang, PhD
Assistant Professor in Pathology · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ Positions for postdoc and/or graduate students are currently available.
My main research interest has been studying epigenetic mechanisms linking inflammation and energy metabolism in the pathogenesis of diabetes and obesity and related metabolic disorders. Specifically, my research has focu…
Stacy Malaker
Associate Professor Tenure · Yale University
⭐ Petar Pajic joined the Malaker Lab as a postdoctoral researcher under an NSF Fellowship. The lab also advertises PhD and postdoc opportunities on their website.
Chemical Biology, Biophysical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry
Stavroula Hatzios, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and of Chemistry with Tenure · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are hiring a Preceptor for organic and general chemistry lecture and lab instruction and a Staff Scientist for the Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center.
My laboratory studies host–microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract by using chemical tools to discover proteins, post-translational modifications, and metabolites that shape cell signaling at the molecular lev…
William Lauenroth
Joseph F. Cullman 3rd ’35 Professor · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This faculty is no longer accepting doctoral students.
Professor Lauenroth studies ecosystems in dry areas. His past work has focused on grasslands and his current research concentrates on questions associated with mixtures of grasses and shrubs or on ecosystems dominated by…
Xiaoyong Yang, PhD
Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology · Yale University School of Medicine
⭐ Positions are available in my lab for highly motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in exploring the frontier of research on metabolic physiology.
Biochemistry; Circadian Rhythm; Diabetes Mellitus; Genetics; Genomics; Molecular Biology; Neoplasms; Physiology; Proteomics; Signal Transduction; Systems Biology
Xinshou Ouyang
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) · Yale School of Medicine
⭐ Positions are available in my lab for motivated graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars interested in investigating the RNA epigenetics to protein translation machinery in metabolic diseases. Individual career development plans are provided to lab staff members to assist them …
Identify molecular pathways and the key metabolic regulators integrating stress and inflammatory responses with liver steatosis and fibrosis. The development of sterile inflammation after cell death is a ubiquitous respo…
Xuhui Lee
Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Climate Science · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Professor Lee’s research and teaching concern the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere, the atmosphere and anthropogenic drivers. His areas of interest include boundary-layer meteorology, micrometeorological in…
Yuan Yao
Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems; Director of the Center for Industrial Ecology · Yale School of the Environment
⭐ This professor is accepting doctoral students
Business and the Environment; Circular Economy; Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity; Carbon Sequestration; Energy; Clean Energy; Energy Systems; Environmental Analysis; Carbon Footprint; Life Cycle Assessment; Material F…
Kathryn Tanner
Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology · Yale Divinity School
⭐ In the academic year 2010-11, she had a Luce Fellowship to research financial markets and the critical perspectives that Christian theology can bring to bear on them. In 2015-16, she delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Professor Tanner's research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory.
Tianyu Zhu
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences
⭐ The Zhu Group is currently seeking exceptional postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to join our team working at the interface of quantum chemistry, materials, and artificial intelligence.
Theoretical Chemistry
Timothy Newhouse
Professor of Chemistry · Yale University
⭐ The faculty member may have open positions for PhD students or postdocs, but no specific information is provided on the page.
Organic Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Synthetic Chemistry
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Francois Tissot
Professor of Geochemistry; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute · California Institute of Technology
⭐ I am always looking for motivated researchers at all levels (undergraduates, graduates students and postdoctoral scholars) with a strong background in basic science to work with and go after exciting geo- and cosmochemical questions. If you are interested in a position in my group, don't hesitate to…
My current research focuses on three broad problematics: (1) the formation and evolution of the Solar System, (2) the reconstruction of paleo-redox conditions in the ocean/atmosphere system, and (3) the potential of non-…
Isaac Fianu
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry · California Institute of Technology
⭐ We are currently seeking new team members at all levels. If you are interested in a postdoctoral position, please email Isaac directly. For graduate student opportunities, kindly apply through one of our graduate programs.
Gene regulation and genome stability
Michael C. Gurnis
John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics · California Institute of Technology
⭐ If you have specific questions about graduate studies or post-doctoral research in the area of geodynamics at Caltech, you may wish to send Mike Gurnis an e-mail message.
Global geodynamics: mantle convection, plate tectonics and the dynamic coupling between mantle processes and continental and sea floor geology; chemical and thermal evolution of the mantle and crust; Marine geophysics; c…
Sergei Gukov
John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics · California Institute of Technology
⭐ we are hiring!
Mathematics and Machine Learning (we are hiring!)
Future of AI in Mathematics and Automated Theorem Proving
Quantum Topology (see Quantum Topol. 12, 2021, 1 for a published version)
geometric Langlands program (see Curre…
Azita Emami
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Director, Center for Sensing to Intelligence · Division of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ https://mede.divisions.caltech.edu/about/positions-available
high-performance integrated circuits and systems
Babak Hassibi
Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences · California Institute of Technology
⭐ No specific hiring information provided.
communications theory, information theory, adaptive and statistical signal processing, robust and distributed control, machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, convex optimization, DNA microarrays, random matrices,…
Changhuei Yang
Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering · Division of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Positions Available
biophotonics, microscopy, imaging, optical phase conjugation, wavefront shaping
Elizabeth J. Hong
Professor of Neuroscience; Chen Scholar; Interim Director, T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience · California Institute of Technology
⭐ The Hong lab is a good fit for trainees with an interest in synapse biology, neural circuits, the genetic basis of behavior, and/or comparative neuroscience.
Synapses are a fundamental unit of computation in the brain and vary widely in their structural and functional properties. Each synapse is a biochemically complex machine, comprised of hundreds of different proteins that…
Eric V. Mazumdar
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Economics · California Institute of Technology
⭐ Not provided
Eric Mazumdar's research lies at the intersection of machine learning and economics. He is broadly interested in developing the tools and understanding necessary to confidently deploy machine learning algorithms into soc…
José E. Andrade
George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering · California Institute of Technology
⭐ No current hiring information available.
energy, infrastructure, defense, and space
Julia R. Greer
Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering; Executive Officer for Applied Physics and Materials Science · Division of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Not mentioned
nano-scale phenomena, mechanical properties, in-situ deformation, nano-fabrication
Katherine L. (Katie) Bouman
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute · Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
⭐ No specific hiring information provided on the profile page.
Astronomy
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science · California Institute of Technology
⭐ Positions Available
mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics, active materials, shape-memory alloys, heterogeneous materials, density functional theory, neural operators, inverse problems of experimental inference
Lihong Wang
Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering; Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair; Executive Officer for Medical Engineering · Division of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Positions Available at the Division of Engineering and Applied Science: https://mede.divisions.caltech.edu/about/positions-available
photoacoustic tomography (microscopy and computed tomography), thermoacoustic tomography, light-speed compressed ultrafast photography, time-reversal optics/wavefront shaping, quantum imaging and physics
Morteza (Mory) Gharib
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering · California Institute of Technology
⭐ https://mede.divisions.caltech.edu/about/positions-available
conventional fluid dynamics and aeronautics including vortex dynamics, active and passive flow control, nano/micro fluid dynamics, autonomous flight and underwater systems, as well as advanced flow-imaging diagnostics
Oscar P. Bruno
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics · California Institute of Technology
⭐ Not actively hiring at this time.
Partial differential equations including the theory and numerical methods. Computational science (Computational Electromagnetics, CFD, Computational Solid Mechanics). Numerical analysis. Multiphysics modeling and simulat…
Paul E. Dimotakis
John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics · California Institute of Technology
⭐ No hiring information available.
fluid physics, dynamics of turbulence, chemically reacting flows, and combustion, measurement technologies and diagnostics development, descending melt-probe planetary exploration of icy worlds
Tapio Schneider
Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering · Division of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Positions Available
climate modeling; large-scale atmosphere dynamics of Earth and other planets, dynamics of climate changes, turbulence in atmosphere and oceans
Tim Colonius
Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Cecil and Sally Drinkward Leadership Chair, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering · Division of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Positions Available
Fluid dynamics: global instabilities, cavitation and bubble dynamics, aerodynamic sound. Control: closed-loop flow control and reduced-order modeling. Biomedical fluid dynamics: shock-waves, lithotripsy and ultrasound. N…
Wei Gao
Professor of Medical Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar; Graduate Option Representative for Medical Engineering · California Institute of Technology
⭐ https://mede.divisions.caltech.edu/about/positions-available
wearable devices, biosensors, flexible electronics, micro/nanorobotics, nanomedicine
Yisong Yue
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences · Division of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ No hiring information extracted.
Yisong Yue's research interests lie primarily in the theory and application of statistical machine learning. He is particularly interested in developing novel methods for interactive machine learning and structured machi…
Yu-Chong Tai
Anna L. Rosen Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering · California Institute of Technology
⭐ Visiting positions are available for researchers interested in joining the group. Interested candidates should contact the administrative assistant Christine C. Garske at 626-395-4820.
medical devices, MEMS, Bio-MEMS, micromachining, lab-on-a-chip, microfluidics, drug delivery, micro implants, circulating tumor cell, parylene, bio-med
Duke University 6 hiring
Jacob Levine
Scholar In Residence in the Department of Biology · Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I will be joining Duke Biology as an assistant professor in July 2026, and am actively recruiting postdocs and students to join my lab as early as August 2026. If you are interested in working with me, please get in touch via email.
I am a plant community ecologist interested in two key themes: (1) What are the mechanisms that maintain plant biodiversity in nature, and how will rapid climate change disrupt them? and (2) What are the primary drivers …
Justin Leroy
Assistant Professor of History · Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am currently accepting graduate students, and prospective students should feel free to contact me.
I specialize in nineteenth-century African American history, with particular expertise in intellectual history and Black political thought, slavery and emancipation, and racial capitalism. My book The Lowest Freedom reco…
Nathaniel Chaney
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · Duke Pratt School of Engineering
⭐ I am currently looking for highly motivated Ph.D. and postdocs. If the research themes of my group are of interest to you, please don't hesitate to email me.
Hydrology, Earth system science, soil science, ecology, geomorphology, numerical modeling, high performance computing, machine learning, environmental data delivery and data assimilation.
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Associate Professor of History · Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am sorry to say that I am no longer accepting new PhD students for the time being. I will update this website once I am accepting students again.
As a historian of medicine and public health in twentieth-century China, I use insights from gender and feminist studies, history of emotions, and history of the senses to ask questions about my core obsession: the relat…
Sara Galletti
Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies · Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I welcome applications to the Ph.D. program from any student with an interest in early modern architecture in Europe and/or the Mediterranean.
<p>I hold an M.Arch from the Università IUAV di Venezia (1999) and a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from the Sorbonne Université-Paris IV and IUAV (joint program, 2004). I have held postdoctoral and re…
Jennifer M. Groh
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Duke University
⭐ Research Professor Jennifer Groh does not mention any specific hiring information for PhD or postdoc positions.
Eye movement-related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs) and their role in visual-auditory processing, Neural fluctuations and their role in permitting the brain to do more than one thing at a time (Neural time division multip…
Johns Hopkins University 21 hiring
Alexandra DeLucia
· Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI)
⭐ Update 03/2026: I am currently on the job market for a full-time research position starting late 2026. Please reach out if you are interested in discussing opportunities!
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Social Media, Large Language Models, Public Health, Computational Social Science, Text Generation, Controllable Generation, Decoding, Information Extraction, Summarization, …
Danfeng Cai
Assistant Professor · Bloomberg School of Public Health
⭐ We are now actively recruiting. The Cai Lab member are trained in cutting edge microscopy technique, including super-resolution, and single-molecule imaging, combined with advanced proteomics, and work on many interesting problems related to biomolecular condensates.
The Cai lab focuses on understanding how the transcription process is regulated in normal and cancer cells. We are intrigued by the discoveries in our lab that many transcription factors involved in cancers can form smal…
Erin Jimenez
Assistant Professor · Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ The Jimenez Lab is accepting graduate students.
Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate inner ear regeneration
Jiou Wang
Walder Foundation Distinguished Professor, Professor · Bloomberg School of Public Health
⭐ Positions for graduate students/postdoctoral fellows/visiting scholars are available. Please send a CV to jiouw@jhu.edu.
Protein; RNA; neurodegeneration
Leonardo Collado Torres
Assistant Professor · Bloomberg School of Public Health
⭐ If you are interested in joining the R/Bioconductor-powered Team Data Science group, please check our open positions at the LIBD career opportunities website. If we don't have any open positions, please reach out to Leonardo with your CV, GitHub/GitLab/etc profile with open-source software, and a sh…
At the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), our group works on understanding the roots and signatures of disease (particularly psychiatric disorders) by zooming in across dimensions of gene activity. We achieve…
Michael McCloskey
Professor, Homewood IRB Chair · Johns Hopkins University
⭐ Not recruiting PhD students as primary mentor for Academic Year 2026-27.
Reading and writing, visual perception, cognitive neuropsychology, foundations of cognitive science
Roy Adams
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences · Johns Hopkins University
⭐ Graduating PhD students interested in a potential postdoc in my group should email me their CV with the subject line Psych ML Postdoc. Aspiring PhD students interested in working with me should apply to the Computer Science department and list me in their application materials. Current JHU students …
Machine learning for healthcare, Psychiatry and mental health, Causal inference, Measurement error in EHR data
Tyrel M. McQueen
Professor · Johns Hopkins University
⭐ Always looking for interested and talented graduate/undergraduate students
superconductivity, quantum materials, quantum computing, quantum magnetism, materials
Craig Townsend
Alsoph H. Corwin Professor of Chemistry · Johns Hopkins University
⭐ To undertake the interdisciplinary research we seek to accomplish requires skilled and committed scientists operating individually and in small teams. Applications for postdoctoral study are encouraged from disciplines ranging from natural product synthesis and biosynthesis to molecular biology, pro…
Organic and bioorganic chemistry
H. Yumi Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor, History
⭐ I welcome applications from potential graduate students in modern Japanese history, and from those with interests in transnational histories of gender, medicine, psychiatry, religion, and empire.
Histories of medicine, psychiatry, gender, family, colonialism, and religion in East Asia and Pacific Empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Steven Claypool
Professor with Secondary Appointment in Genetic Medicine; Director of Cellular and Molecular Physiology Graduate Program · Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
⭐ Graduate Students: Motivated rotons are always welcome. We seek to integrate 1-2 new graduate students into our group.
Postdoctoral Fellows: We currently are recruiting one postdoctoral fellow. A suitable candidate will have an established expertise in biochemistry, cell biology, or biophysics; fami…
Phospholipids are the building blocks of biological membranes which enable cells to separate biochemical pathways, establish specialized functions that can respond when appropriate, and adapt to constantly fluctuating me…
Cyrus David Mintz
Principal Investigator · School of Medicine
⭐ None
['anesthesia', 'brain development', 'neurology']
Ilya Monosov
Professor · Johns Hopkins University
⭐ Our team hopes to recruit new team members interested in both basic neuroscience and in making an impact on human health and machine intelligence.
Specialization: Neuroscience, Intelligence, Circuits Mental breakpoints
Mostafa Borahay
Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics · School of Medicine
⭐ None
['Uterine fibroids', 'Gynecologic disorders', 'Cellular and molecular mechanisms of fibroid growth', 'Therapeutic development for fibroids']
Sharon Levy
Assistant Professor at Rutgers University Computer Science · Rutgers University
⭐ I will not be recruiting new PhD students during the 2025-2026 academic year.
natural language processing, with an emphasis on Responsible AI. I work on problems relating to fairness, trustworthiness, and safety. In addition to these topics, I am also interested in model reasoning and human-AI col…
Colin Wilson
Professor · Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting graduate students as primary mentor for Academic Year 2026-27.
Theoretical phonology - phonotactics, constraint learning and interaction
Experimental phonology/phonetics - cross-language perception and production, artificial grammar, naturalness
Computational cognitive science - pro…
Annemarie Kocab
Assistant Professor · Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting graduate students as primary mentor for Academic Year 2026-27.
Language emergence, language acquisition, language processing, signed languages, psycholinguistics
Barbara Landau
Dick and Lydia Todd Professor · Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not recruiting graduate students as primary mentor for Academic Year 2026-27.
Human knowledge of language and space, typical and atypical development
Colin Wilson
Professor · Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting graduate students as primary mentor for Academic Year 2026-27.
Theoretical phonology - phonotactics, constraint learning and interaction
Experimental phonology/phonetics - cross-language perception and production, artificial grammar, naturalness
Computational cognitive science - pro…
Jennifer Hu
Assistant Professor, Interim Colloquium Chair · Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting graduate students as primary mentor for Academic Year 2026-27.
Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, pragmatics, language processing, social cognition
Mick Bonner
Assistant Professor · Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not recruiting PhD students as primary mentor for Academic Year 2026-27.
Computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, vision, neural networks, deep learning, advanced statistical methods for neuroscience
Northwestern University 12 hiring
Barnor Hesse
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Black Studies, Political Science, and Sociology · Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ He welcomes PhD enquiries from students interested in:
1.Black Political Thought and Blackness within and across the Black Diaspora.
2.Histories and formations of contemporary conceptions of race, racism and anti-racism.
3.Colonialisms and Decolonialisms in Western Modernity.
4.Black Critical Th…
Black Political Thought
Political Theory
Black Critical Theory
Critical Race Studies
Black Affect Studies
Decolonial Studies
Black Conceptual Methodologies
Xi Chen
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering
⭐ Our lab is actively recruiting students and postdocs. NIH-funded positions are available. Please check the lab website for more information.
Our group focuses on developing AI-enhanced optical imaging techniques for quantitative measurement and analysis of complex living systems, ranging from cellular cultures, organoids, deep tissues, to live animals. We des…
Aaron Shaw
Associate Professor · School of Communication
⭐ Prospective graduate students should contact Professor Shaw via email.
Data Science, Digital Media, Human-Machine Interaction, Organizational Behavior
Amanda Logan
Associate Professor, 2022 Carnegie Fellow · Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Logan is currently accepting graduate students with similar interests in African archaeology, archaeobotany, and the archaeology of food.
Archaeology, Inequality, Foodways, Food Security, Climate Change, Sustainability, Paleoethnobotany, Food Studies, Africa
Ertuğrul Özbudak
Robert Laughlin Rea Professor of Anatomy; Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology · Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
⭐ The Özbudak Lab is actively recruiting graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research technicians. Graduate students from Northwestern DGP and MSTP programs are welcome; rotation students accepted starting August 2024. Postdoc applicants should email CV and research interests.
Systems-level understanding of embryonic development and pattern formation; somite segmentation; vertebrate segmentation clock; Delta/Notch signaling; Fgf/pErk signaling; robust spatiotemporal patterning; single-cell con…
Jesús Escobar
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities; Director of Undergraduate Studies · Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Escobar welcomes applications from prospective graduate students interested in architecture, urbanism, and cartography in the early modern, transatlantic Spanish Empire. He also welcomes proposals to study artistic exchange across the Spanish Habsburg world.
Architecture and urbanism in the early modern Spanish Empire; Baroque art and visual culture; early modern cartography; art and empire
Kennetta Hammond Perry
Associate Professor of Black Studies (On Leave 2025-26 Academic Year) · Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Perry welcomes inquiries from students with similar research interests who are exploring the pursuit of graduate work in African American Studies or History.
Black British History
Europe and the African Diaspora
Transnational Race Politics
State-crafted Racial Violence
Black Women’s History
Black Migrations
Archival Methodologies
The Political Uses of History
Lisandra Vila Ellis
Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology · Feinberg School of Medicine
⭐ The Vila Ellis lab welcomes students from different programs at Northwestern including DGP and MSTP. Please reach out to Lisandra with your research interests and CV. Lisandra will be happy to set up a time to talk about possible projects and lab culture. Interested postdocs can email Lisandra with …
Gas diffusion in the mammalian lung takes place in the alveoli, where a thin epithelium is surrounded by a capillary network. Traditionally, these alveolar capillaries were considered homogeneous until Lisandra's postdoc…
Matthew H. Johnson
Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Anthropology · Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students for 2026-2027, will serve on committees
Archaeology of the British Isles, Northern Atlantic and European context, castles, traditional houses, landscape, archaeology of capitalism, archaeological theory, interdisciplinary and interpretive approaches, medieval …
Saba Parvez
Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology · Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
⭐ Graduate Students: We welcome graduate students from different programs at Northwestern University including the DGP and the MSTP programs. Students interested in developmental genetics, genomics, and chemical biology, please reach out to Saba with your research interests and a copy of your CV. We w…
Developmental biology, functional genomics of noncoding genome, high-throughput CRISPR screening (MIC-Drop), zebrafish models of congenital disorders, chemical screening for therapeutics
Vipul Shukla
Assistant Professor · Feinberg School of Medicine
⭐ Shukla lab is actively recruiting postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and research technicians. Graduate students: lab rotations starting February 2022 for both “wet-lab” and computational research projects; students from all departments and programs at Northwestern welcome. Postdoctoral fellows…
Roles of cytosine modifications and alternative structural conformations in DNA during normal cellular differentiation and malignant transformation; G-quadruplexes; R-loops; immune cell differentiation; metabolic pathway…
Wilton Snead, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology · Feinberg School of Medicine
⭐ Graduate Students: We welcome graduate students from different programs at Northwestern University including the DGP. Please contact Wilton with your CV and a brief description of your research interests. We will begin accepting rotation students in early fall 2025. Postdoctoral Fellows: We are seek…
Biomolecular condensates, RNA biology, membrane biophysics, phase transitions, mRNA export and transport, cancer and neurodegeneration
University of Chicago 22 hiring
Thomas Talhelm
Associate Professor of Behavioral Science · The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
⭐ Professor Talhelm reviews PhD student applications every year. Students interested in culture, politics, or social ecology should apply.
Culture, rice and wheat agriculture, collectivism, individualism, social ecology
Amie Wilkinson
Professor · The University of Chicago
⭐ I have funds available to support exploration into this topic on undergraduate through postdoctoral level.
My research lies in the area of smooth dynamical systems and is concerned with the interplay between dynamics and other structures in pure mathematics – geometric, statistical, topological and algebraic.
Andrew Childs
Professor · Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
⭐ <a href="students/prospective.html">Information for prospective students and postdocs</a>
My research aims to better understand the power of quantum systems to process information. I am especially interested in quantum algorithms, including topics such as quantum simulation, quantum query complexity, quantum …
Carl Veller, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution · The University of Chicago
⭐ Our lab is actively growing—if you're interested in joining as a graduate student or postdoc, or doing undergraduate research, get in touch!
evolutionary theory and population genetics, introgression and speciation, selfish genetic elements, the evolution of recombination, the impact of selection and demography on the genetic architecture of complex traits
Chenhao Tan
Associate Professor · UChicago Data Science Institute
⭐ For all students who are interested in working with me, please check out this page. For official positions, as of fall 2025, you can apply to work with me through the UChicago Computer Science PhD program, the UChicago Data Science PhD program, the Data Science Institute Postdoctoral program (If you…
language and social dynamics, human-centered machine learning, multi-community engagement, computational social science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence
Chibueze Amanchukwu
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering · The University of Chicago
⭐ The Amanchukwu Lab is actively recruiting graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and undergraduates to join us on the quest for designing and understanding next generation electrolytes for batteries and catalysis. You can expect to push boundaries in chemical synthesis, in-situ characterization t…
Energy, Electrochemistry, Batteries, Polymers, Electrolytes
Edwin Kite
Associate Professor · College of Physical Sciences
⭐ I am not recruiting graduate students for the current cycle (Fall 2026 start).
Mars' near future. I lead a collaboration working on methods for warming Mars using engineered aerosol, in collaboration with the Mohseni nanophotonics group at Northwestern, the Ramirez planetary habitability group at U…
Haifeng Xu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science · University of Chicago
⭐ Interested in joining our research lab? Please read this.
computational economics, machine learning, multi-agent systems, algorithms
Karen Livescu
Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago · University of Chicago
⭐ TTIC is recruiting students to our PhD program, as well as additional faculty, including in speech and language-related areas
speech and language processing, as well as related aspects of machine learning
Lin Chen
Professor of Biostatistics · The University of Chicago
⭐ We have several postdoctoral openings. Please email me if interested.
Statistical genomics
'Big' omics data analysis
Multivariate analysis
Missing Data analysis
Mixed-effects models
Luca Grandi
Professor · Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the College
⭐ If you are a graduate or undergraduate student check with the PI if we have an open position.
Dark matter search with noble liquid technology, XENON1T, XENONnT, DarkSide-50, noble liquid R&D
Mark Mimee
Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and in the Department of Microbiology · University of Chicago
⭐ Positions are available for graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting scholars.
Synthetic Biology, Microbiome, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Antimicrobials, Biosensors
Matthew Stephens
Professor of Human Genetics · The University of Chicago
⭐ If you think you might be interested in joining us, send me an email to enquire about opportunities.
My lab works on a wide variety of problems at the interface of Statistics and Genetics. We often tackle problems where novel statistical methods are required, or can learn something new compared with existing approaches.…
Nipam Patel, PhD
Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology · The University of Chicago
⭐ If you are interested in joining (we highly value our undergraduates), check out our opportunities page.
Pedram Hassanzadeh
Associate Professor · University of Chicago
⭐ Postdoctoral Scholar/Research Scientist - AI Weather Forecasting Across Scales
extreme weather, scientific ML, climate change, fluid dynamics
Pedro Lopes
Associate Professor of Computer Science · University of Chicago
⭐ submit your interest here to apply for Pedro’s lab (any level, e.g., Postdoc, PhD, Master/Predoc, Undergraduate, Intern/Highschool, Visiting students)
Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Augmented + Reality (AR/VR), Wearable Computing, Haptics, Neuroscience, Ecological Computing, Robotics
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
Professor · University of Chicago
⭐ Postdoc position available: June 2026 start date. Contact pgs@uchicago.edu. Qualifications: The candidate must have a recent PhD in experimental Physics, Physical Chemistry, or Materials, and a strong interest in the development of mid-infrared detector and light sources using colloidal quantum dots…
Physics and chemistry share tremendous potential at the nanoscale. This is where chemistry excels and where physics predicts that many properties can be tuned. For example, quantum states, charging, spin, phonons, and pl…
Tian Zhong
Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering · The University of Chicago
⭐ Positions are available for students and postdocs.
Quantum Photonics, Quantum Information, Quantum Networking, Solid-State Quantum Technologies
Tobin Sosnick
Professor · The University of Chicago
⭐ Join! - http://sosnick.uchicago.edu/applynow.html
The Sosnick Group strives to characterize the general principles that guide protein folding and dynamics. We combine multiple experimental and computational approaches to characterize the behavior of proteins in diverse …
Woowon Kang
Professor · University of Chicago
⭐ We have an opening for postdoc position in our group. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply.
fractional quantum Hall effect, topological quantum computation, non-Abelian anyons, quantum interferometers
Zewdi Tsegai, PhD
Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy · The University of Chicago
⭐ Please email me if you are interested in working in my lab, applications are welcome from potential undergraduate interns, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
I am a palaeoanthropologist, and my research is primarily focused on understanding the evolution of bipedalism and reconstructing locomotion among early fossil human relatives (hominins). My lab uses analysis of skeletal…
James Evans
Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology; Director, Knowledge Lab · University of Chicago
⭐ Knowledge Lab has collaborative, granting and employment opportunities, as well as ongoing seminars.
My research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas and shared habits of reasoning to processes of agreement (and dispute), …
University of Pennsylvania 72 hiring
Ada Maria Kuskowski
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ She is currently seeking graduate advisees. She encourages those interested in pursuing their PhD at Penn History to reach out with a note of introduction to ensure the work they wish to pursue is a good fit.
Her intellectual interests include legal history and culture, law and literature, vernacular writing and translation, court culture, social histories of knowledge, history of the book, conquest and colonial culture.
Adrian Raine
Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Dr. Adrian Raine is not presently taking on PhD students.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Neurobiology of antisocial behavior in children and adults
Research Synopsis
I study antisocial behavior from neuroscience, developmental, and social perspectives. My laboratory focus on…
Alan Stocker
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Alan Stocker will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas
Models of visual perception and decision making; linking theory to psychophysical and physiological data
Research synopsis
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Alison M. Buttenheim
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Term Endowed Professorship in Global Women's Health; Professor of Nursing and Health Policy, Penn Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine · Penn Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? Yes; Accepting Fellows? Yes
How can we use behavioral science to prevent infectious disease? Using insights from behavioral economics and related disciplines, Dr. Buttenheim designs and trials interventions to change behaviors that are central to i…
Amanda Bettencourt
Assistant Professor · Penn Nursing (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing)
⭐ Principal Investigator: "The ACTUATE-CBC Study," a mixed methods type II hybrid implementation and effectiveness multi-year research study funded by the Department of Defense. Partnered Research Opportunity: "A health system-partnered implementation research project to improve the sustainability of …
Pediatric acute care, burn care, implementation science, nursing outcomes research, health services research, disaster medicine, evidence-based practice implementation in pediatric hospital settings
Andrew Head
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Prospective Ph.D. applicants: I will not be taking on incoming Ph.D. students in fall 2026.
Penn master's and bachelor's students: If you want to do research with our group, take Penn's class in human-computer interaction—CIS 4120/5120—and then apply to do research with our group here. You may also …
Human-computer interaction · Programming · Reading.
Angela Duckworth
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Angela Duckworth will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Developmental Psychology; Individual Differences; Positive Psychology; Behavior Change
Specific Research Areas
Grit; Self-Control
Professor Angela Duckworth will not be considering new graduate students for admission f…
Ann Marie Hoyt-Brennan
Director of Simulation · Penn Nursing (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing)
⭐ Accepting Mentees? Yes; Accepting Fellows? No
Simulation in nursing education, experiential learning, virtual reality (VR) in healthcare education, opioid overdose training, interdisciplinary simulation, LGBTQ youth health education
Anna Schapiro
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Anna Schapiro will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Memory; Learning; Neural network modeling; Sleep; Consolidation; Hippocampal-cortical interactions
Research Synopsis
Some moments in our lives provide information that is useful in itself, but other information is most …
Antonio Loquercio
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am recruiting! Please follow the instructions on this page to apply for a PhD. In your application, please make sure to mention my name under faculty you are interested in working with. If you're already at UPenn, please fill this form. We're going to get back to you if we have a project that fits…
Physical intelligence, simulation-to-real-world transfer, end-to-end learning-based methods, agile flight, locomotion, learning from videos, machine learning
Arthur Dunham
Professor of Biology · University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Currently not accepting new graduate students
My research interests are in understanding and predicting the behavior of complex ecological systems. These interests span the interfaces among physiological ecology, evolutionary ecology, and population biology. Current…
Ayelet Meron Ruscio
Professor & Director of Clinical Training · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Ayelet Meron Ruscio will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Specific Research Areas
Anxiety and mood disorders–their nature, classification, and comorbidity
Research Synopsis
My research is broadly concerned with the nature, classification, and…
Ben Z. Stanger
Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Please contact Dr. Stanger directly to discuss potential projects. We currently have NO open postdoctoral positions.
Cellular Plasticity
Pancreatic Cancer
Tumor Immunology
Metastasis
Key words: Pancreatic Cancer, Tumor Immunology, Cell Plasticity
Description of Research
Pancreas Cancer
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is poise…
Benjamin Franklin Voight, Ph.D.
Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ For the 2024-2025 academic year, my lab has openings for computational post-doctoral positions. Please see the following site for further details on how to apply.
The lab also has a number of potential graduate student rotation projects available for the 2024-2025 academic year. Ideal students will …
Our lab develops and utilizes statistical genetics, computational biology, and population genetics-based approaches to understand the biological underpinnings and evolutionary history of human traits and complex disease.…
Brenda Casper
Professor of Biology · University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Currently not accepting new graduate students
Research in my plant ecology lab is wide-ranging, with recent projects focusing, broadly, on the responses of plants and soil microbes to various stresses: including climate change, soil contaminants, and the inhospitabl…
Brent Cebul
Associate Professor of History · Penn Arts & Sciences
⭐ Cebul welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in U.S. political history, urban history, political economy, and histories of inequality.
Twentieth-century U.S.; political; urban; business and political economy; race and inequality
Brian C Capell
Assistant Professor of Dermatology · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ If you would be interested in joining our team, please contact us!
Epigenetics at the Nexus of Environment, Cellular Memory, and Epithelial Disease
The Capell Lab studies how epigenetic regulation shapes epithelial tissue responses to the environment. We investigate how environmental e…
Charlene W. Compher
Professor of Nutrition Science · Penn Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? No; Accepting Fellows? No
An enhanced understanding of the role of diet in health and disease is a compelling challenge of the 21st century. Through her research and clinical practice, Charlene W. Compher works to meet this challenge while enhanc…
Chenshu Zhou
Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies · School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Dr. Zhou will not be admitting new grad students for the 2022-2023 application cycle.
With broad training in film and media studies and Chinese art and cultural history, Dr. Zhou’s research explores a variety of questions related to the moving images, in particular spectatorship, exhibition, and temporali…
Constantinos Koumenis, PhD
Richard H. Chamberlain Professor of Radiation Oncology · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Currently the lab is accepting 2 new rotation students.
KEYWORDS:
Tumor Microenvironment, Tumor Metabolism, Integrated Stress Response, drug screens, radiosensitizers.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Develop novel, more physiologically relevant animal models of incidental radiation dam…
Daniel Janzen
Professor of Biology; Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Term Chair · University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Currently not accepting new graduate students
Ecology and Biodiversity, Evolution
Daniel Moriarity
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Daniel Moriarity will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Precision psychopathology
Psychoneuroimmunology
Methodological reform
Research Synopsis
Dr. Daniel P. Moriarity directs the The Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry (PPDI) Lab at UPenn. This lab conduct…
Daria V Babushok
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ We are always looking for talented individuals who are passionate about science. There are opportunities to contribute at every level, and we welcome inquiries from undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scientists, and medical students, residents, and fellows. Please contact Daria.Babush…
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The Babushok Lab conducts basic and translational research to understand the fundamental mechanisms by which bone marrow can fail, how bone marrow failure can lead to pre-malignant genetic changes and…
David Hsu
Richard A. Sapp Professor; Professor of Management · Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Short stay opportunity at Wharton for advanced doctoral or post-doctoral students:
David Hsu recruits year-round for short stay visiting scholars whose research interests are in the domain of entrepreneurship and innovation. The ideal candidate would be self-funded and propose a specific topic of s…
intellectual property rights, start-up innovation, strategies for commercializing technological innovation, venture capital
David Mandell
Professor of Psychiatry · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor David Mandell will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; Developmental Psychology
Research Synopsis
Current projects include:
Autism intervention research network for behavioral health
This proposal will identify barriers and to advance s…
Deborah Becker
Practice Professor of Nursing · Penn Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees?: Yes
Accepting Fellows?: No
Dinesh Jayaraman
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ For prospective PhD students: Formal admissions are processed through the university's various programs. You may send me email too, but please note that I might not be able to respond.
Douglas Durian
Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are looking for motivated graduate students and postdocs to join our highly-collaborative interdisciplinary research team – please see the following papers/press and contact me for further information.
I’m an experimentalist working on the statistical and nonlinear physics of widely-varied forms of soft matter. Until recently my focus was on particulate systems composed of densely packed colloids, grains, or bubbles. …
Eiichiro Azuma
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History · Penn Arts & Sciences Department of History
⭐ Professor Azuma is not going to accept new graduate students.
Asian American, Japanese American, Modern Japan, Immigration and Race/Ethnic Relations, Colonial Taiwan and Imperial Pacific
Emily Falk, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication, Psychology, Marketing, and OID (Operations, Information, and Decisions) · University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Emily Falk will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Attitudes & Persuasion, Behavior Change, Climate Communication, Networks, Neuroscience, Public Health, Race & Ethnicity, Social Media, Tobacco & Substance Abuse
Geoffrey Goodwin
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Geoffrey Goodwin will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Decision Processes; Social and Cultural Psychology
Specific Research Areas
Social cognition, moral psychology, and reasoning
Professor Geoffrey Goodwin will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fa…
George M Burslem, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Currently seeking rotation students and post docs – contact George for details.
Our research is focused on the development of novel chemical approaches to modulate lysine post-translational modifications. This includes both synthetic and protein engineering approaches to understand lysine modificati…
Hydar Ali, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Mentorship · University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Projects are available for interested undergraduate, dental and graduate students to study mast cell MRGPRX2 and Fc-epsilonRI
Mast cells in host defense and chronic inflammatory diseases. Mast cells are granulated cells of hematopoietic lineage that reside close to blood vessels primarily at sites exposed to the external environment, such as th…
Jiatao Gu
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am actively recruiting self-motivated PhD students, visiting students, and research interns. Please fill out this interest form.
My research goal is to advance AI agents' ability to interact with the physical world — leveraging generative ML for world modeling, iterative reasoning, and decision-making. I build multi-modal generative models spannin…
Jing (Jane) Li
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ For Prospective Postdoctoral Researchers (2024-2025, NEW): For the 2024-2025 period, we are specifically interested in postdoctoral candidates with a background in system security and a strong publication record at leading security conferences such as S&P (Oakland), CCS, Security, and NDSS, or at co…
Computer Architecture, Compiler, Distributed Systems, VLSI, Machine Learning, Security
John Trueswell
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor John Trueswell will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Developmental Psychology
Language and Communication
Memory and Learning
Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas
Word learning, grammar learning, and real-time language comprehension
Research Synopsis
I'm interes…
Julia Ticona, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication, Assistant Professor of Sociology, by Courtesy · Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Not Accepting Students
Big Data, Data Privacy, Digital Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Gig Economy
Kathryn H. Bowles
Professor of Nursing and van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence · Penn Nursing (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing)
⭐ Accepting Mentees? No; Accepting Fellows? Yes
Throughout her career, Dr. Bowles' research has focused on the use of information technology and health informatics to improve healthcare for at-risk older adults and support healthcare providers' efforts to improve plan…
Kristen Beamer Shure
· School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ I am on the 2024-2025 Academic Job Market
Empirical Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Labor Economics
Lei Gu
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students to join in Fall 2026. If you’re interested, please apply directly to Penn ESE PhD program. I expect to take on new graduate students in the near future. If you’re interested in working with me at Penn, please apply to the Penn Engineering graduate progr…
Power electronics, energy conversion, and medical devices. Our focus is on creating efficient, compact systems that power exciting technologies, including renewable energy platforms, AI hardware, Magnetic Resonance Imagi…
Li Shen
Professor · University of Pennsylvania
⭐ We may have opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, and for postdoctoral researchers, subject to funding availability. If you are interested, please email li.shen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu for additional information.
machine learning, medical image computing, biomedical and health informatics, trustworthy AI, NLP/LLMs, network science, imaging genomics, and multi-omics and systems biology, with applications to Alzheimer’s disease and…
Lingjie Liu
Aravind K. Joshi Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ There are multiple open research positions in my Lab. Topics of interest include: 1. Neural Representations and Rendering for 3D/4D Reconstruction 2. Physics-Grounded 3D/4D Reconstruction 3. 3D/Video World Simulator 4. Physics-based Human Motion Generation 5. Humanoid Robots and Dexterous Hands 6. O…
Neural Scene Representations, Neural Rendering, Human Performance Modeling and Capture, 3D Reconstruction
Loretta Flanagan-Cato
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Loretta Flanagan-Cato will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Community engagement and education outcomes
Specific Research Areas
Neuroscience outreach; social connection and achievement
Professor Loretta Flanagan-Cato will not be considering new graduate students for admission …
Lorin M. Hitt
Zhang Jindong Professor; Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions · Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ I am not currently taking on post-docs, research assistants or students who are not already in the Wharton program and do not respond to such requests (sorry). If you are interested in becoming a Wharton Ph.D student please apply through the Ph.D. Program.
applied econometrics, economics of electronic commerce, information systems and organization, information technology and productivity, intangible assets
Maria Geffen
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Neuroscience and Neurology · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Dr. Maria Geffen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.
Professor Maria Geffen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Dr. Maria Geffen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.
Dr. Geffen is a leader in the field of auditory neuroscience. She is interested in the way the brain encodes information about the …
Martin Seligman
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Martin Seligman will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Positive Psychology; Prospection; Imagination; Big Data; Well Being; Agency; Coaching
Specific Research Areas
Positive Psychology, optimism, learned helplessness, depression, creativity, and agency
Research Synopsis
Po…
Matthew D. Nelson
Professor of Biology, John J. Meehan, M.D., Pathways to Medical Professions Director and Health Professions Advising Committee Co-Director
⭐ The Nelson lab is looking for students who are excited about studying the genetics and neurobiology of sleep. Students are encouraged to directly contact Dr. Nelson for more information.
Every animal on earth sleeps or displays quiescent behaviors that resemble sleep. Humans spend greater than a third of their lives asleep but, amazingly, fundamental questions about sleep remain unanswered including: Wha…
Matthew R. Hayes
Albert J. Stunkard Professor in Psychiatry, Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Neuroscience Research, Director, Molecular and Neural Basis of Psychiatric Disease Section, Dept. of Psychiatry, Director of the Obesity Unit, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism (IDOM), University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Matthew R. Hayes will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Neuroendocrine systems that regulate energy balance; neural, behavioral, cellular, molecular, and physiological mechanisms by which hormones such as GLP-1, amylin, GIP, PYY, and leptin regulate food intake and body weigh…
Meena Jagadeesan
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Prospective PhD students: please apply to the Penn CIS PhD program and list my name there. Unfortunately, I don't have the capacity to respond to individual inquiries outside of the formal application process.
Prospective postdocs: if you are interested in working with me, please email me with a br…
I study machine learning ecosystems where ML models (such as LLMs) interact with other ML models, humans, and model-providers. I aim to steer how multi-agent interactions shape safety, performance, and society. For examp…
Michael Arcaro
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Michael Arcaro will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Sensation and Perception; Developmental Neuroscience; Cognitive Neuroscience
Specific Research Areas
Mammalian vision, development of sensory systems
Research Synopsis
The mammalian brain is composed of a rich mosaic o…
Michael C. Abt
Assistant Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ The Abt lab is actively recruiting graduate students to join the lab. If you are interested in discussing rotation projects, visit https://abtlab.med.upenn.edu/ or send an email to michael.abt@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Investigating Immune-Microbiome Interactions
The goals of the Abt lab are to examine interactions between the microbiota and the immune system in the context of infectious disease. The microbiome, consisting of bacteri…
Michela Locci
Associate Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ We are accepting applications for highly motivated undergraduate/graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Individuals with a strong background in cellular/molecular immunology or bioinformatics are encouraged to apply by submitting a CV and a cover letter by email (michela.locci@pennmedicine.upen…
The production of antibodies (Abs) with high affinity and pathogen neutralization potential is crucial for preventing and fighting pathogen infection. To produce such Abs, naïve B cells are activated in response to cogna…
Monica Calkins
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ ***Professor Monica Calkins will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.***
Dr. Calkins is Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Her research program focuses on the clinical characterization and treatment of psychopathology, especial…
Nacho Sanguinetti
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Nacho Sanguinetti will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Cognitive Neuroethology Lab
Play Behavior
Wild Cognition
Cognitive Neuroethology Lab
We are interested in uncovering new biology underlying “adaptive cognitive processes”, as in adaptive, species-typical cognitive proc…
Nat Trask
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are looking for creative and mathematically-inclined PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings)!
Machine learning methods grounded in the structure of physics and geometry; combining tools from geometric mechanics, exterior calculus, and variational modeling with modern AI architectures to create interpretable and r…
P. Jeremy Wang
Professor of Developmental Biology · University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine
⭐ For rotation projects and postdoctoral positions, please contact Jeremy Wang.
Epigenetics in reproduction, spermatogonial stem cell self-renewal, silencing of transposable elements, piRNA biogenesis, m6A RNA modification, regulation of meiosis, DNA recombination, chromosome segregation, DNA double…
Pamela Z. Cacchione
Professor of Geropsychiatric Nursing · Penn Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? Yes; Accepting Fellows? Yes
Geropsychiatric Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Vision and hearing interventions for older adults, Sensory enhancement, Mental health of older adults, Ageism and stigma, Health policy for dual eligible population, Progr…
Peter Holquist
Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History · Penn Arts & Sciences
⭐ Holquist works with graduate students in the fields of Russian history, Soviet history, and the history of modern Europe. Applicants to the graduate program in any of these sub-fields are encouraged to contact Prof. Holquist via email (see above) before the application deadline. If you are having a…
Russian and European History
Philip Gehrman
Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Philip Gehrman will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Dr. Gehrman's research is focused on insomnia, and other sleep disorders, in the context of mental health conditions. He uses a variety of research approaches to understand how sleep and mental health are intertwined inc…
Rebecca Waller
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Dr. Waller will likely be recruiting for the 2025/2026 academic year.
For prospective PhD students applying Fall 2024 for admission in 2025/2026: Dr. Waller is waiting on the outcomes of several pending grant submissions. Please check back in mid-October for an update. Either way, we are prioritizi…
Developmental Psychology; Developmental Psychopathology; Clinical Psychology; Developmental Neuroscience
Specific Research Areas
Antisocial behavior; Callous-unemotional traits; Empathy and conscience; Parent-child inte…
Robert DeRubeis
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Robert DeRubeis is no longer accepting new graduate students.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Specific Research Areas
Causes and treatments of mood disorders
Research Synopsis
In my lab we focus on the processes and outcomes of treatments for depression with the goal of underst…
Robert M. Radway
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am actively recruiting Ph.D. students to join my lab at UPenn for the 2025-2026 academic year. Please submit a formal application to the doctoral program, listing me as a potential supervisor. In additon, feel free to contact me via email with your CV, transcript, and a brief description of your r…
My research interests are in scaling system architectures via multiple multiplicative improvements:
- Technology-optimized architectures for artificial inteligence / machine learning, augmented & virtual reality, and th…
Robert Schultz
RAC Professor of Psychiatry · University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Robert Schultz will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Psychopathology
Research Synopsis
I am the R.A.C. Endowed Professor of Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. I work with students in Psychology and…
Russell Epstein
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Russell Epstein will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Behavioral Neuroscience; Cognitive Neuroscience; Memory and Learning; Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas
Neural mechanisms underlying high-level vision and spatial navigation.
Research Synopsis
My lab stu…
Scott Hensley
Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Enthusiastic undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral fellows should email hensley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu if you are interested in joining the lab.
Research Interests
-influenza virus
-H5N1
-SARS-CoV-2
-antibodies
-antigenic drift
Key words: Influenza virus, H5N1, SARS-CoV-2, antigenic drift, viral pathogenesis, viral receptors, antibody specificity, vaccines
Desc…
Sudeep Bhatia
Associate Professor of Psychology and Marketing · Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Sudeep Bhatia will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Judgment and Decision Making, Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Cognition
Sunny Shin
Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Prospective students and postdocs are encouraged to contact Dr. Shin to learn more about our research.
My lab is interested in uncovering innate immune mechanisms used by the host to defend itself against bacterial pathogens and how bacterial pathogens evade host immunity to cause disease.
We study innate immunity and h…
Tyler Bonnen
Assistant Professor with July 1, 2026 Start · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Asssistant Professor Tyler Bonnen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Memory and Learning; Sensation and Perception; Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Specific Research Areas
Computational models of perception and memory; Neuro-AI
Research Synopsis
Perception and memory are interloc…
Vincent Liu
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am actively looking for motivated, passionate PhD students! If you are interested, please apply here.
distributed systems and networking, including orchestrating increasingly complex ML systems, making serverless computing correct and efficient, scalable simulation for large-scale AI clusters, exploiting programmability …
Walter R. Witschey, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Dr. Witschey is recruiting postdoctoral fellows, PhD and MS candidates in Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science to work on cutting-edge AI and imaging research.
Dr. Walter Witschey is Associate Professor of Radiology, Associate Vice Chair of Research IT, and Director of the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. His core research focus is cardiac …
William Sturkey
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Associate Professor of American History · Penn Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Sturkey is currently seeking graduate advisees in African American and Southern History. While he cannot interview all prospective applicants before they submit their applications, Dr. Sturkey encourages those interested in pursuing their PhD at Penn History to e-mail with a note of introduction…
history of race in the American South since 1865; social, economic, diplomatic, and narrative history; experiences of working-class racial minorities; Modern American History; African American History; Southern History; …
Yuxin Chen
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I'm looking for highly motivated postdocs and Ph. D. students with strong mathematical background and interest in machine learning theory (particularly diffusion models, LLM, and RL), statistics, and optimization.
machine learning theory (particularly diffusion models, LLM, and RL), statistics, and optimization
Cornell University 67 hiring
Adam J. Bogdanove
Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available in plant-pathogen interactions and genome editing. Postdoc opportunities in TAL effector biology and crop improvement.
Bacterial blight and bacterial leaf streak of rice
Transcription activator-like (TAL) effector proteins
Genome editing and custom gene regulation
Anna Y.Q. Ho
Richards Family Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ See here for opportunities to join my group!
Anna Ho's research uses telescopes located all over the world and in space to study the lives and deaths of stars and the physics of those phenomena and other energetic cosmic events. She uses wide-field surveys along wi…
Beatriz Willink
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ I am interested in advising graduate students who are enthusiastic about working with damselflies, have research experience, and aim to integrate evolution, development, phylogenetics, and genomics, or subset of these fields in their future research. For 2025, I'm looking to recruit a graduate stude…
I'm an evolutionary biologist interested in understanding the causes, mechanisms, and emerging patterns in the evolution of discrete phenotypic polymorphisms in insects. Phenotypic polymorphisms are a remarkable, yet com…
Bharath Hariharan
Associate Professor of Computer Science · Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
⭐ Note to prospective PhD students: Admissions at Cornell are done through a committee. If you are interested in working with me, please directly apply through the application website and mention my name
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Vision
Caitie Barrett
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ She welcomes applications from prospective graduate students in Classics, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Near Eastern Studies.
Mediterranean archaeology, Greek and Roman archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, Egypt under Ptolemaic and Roman rule, archaeology of religion and ritual, household archaeology, domestic archaeology, dwelling, household rel…
Corrie Moreau
Senior Associate Dean, Moser Endowed Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Professor, Department of Entomology, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director and Head Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ Graduate students interested in joining the Moreau Lab are encouraged to contact me and apply to the Department of Entomology or the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Postdoctoral researchers interested in joining the Moreau Lab are encouraged to contact me to discu…
As an organismal evolutionary biologist, who focuses on social insects and their gut-associated microbes, Dr. Moreau is interested in the role of diversification, biogeography, and symbiosis in shaping macroevolutionary …
David Mimno
Professor of Information Science · Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
⭐ I supervise PhD students in Information Science and Computer Science.
Data Science, Human Centered Natural Language Processing, Human-AI interaction, Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics, Computational Social Sciences, Natural Language Processing
Erik Enbody
Susan E. Lynch Assistant Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ The Enbody lab is recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Interested applicants should contact Erik directly with a CV and statement of interest.
Biodiversity Genomics, Empirical Population Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology, Conservation Genomics, Behavioral Ecology
Jonny Robert Lawrence
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am keen to hear from prospective graduate students working in the fields of pre-modern Arabic literature, Islamic studies (primarily pre-modern) and medieval and early-modern Islamic history.
Arabic literature, Islamic studies, gender, Islamic history
Karthik Sridharan
Associate Professor of Computer Science · Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
⭐ Want to join us, check out Machine Learning at Cornell.
His primary area of research is theoretical machine learning, with interests in statistical learning theory, online learning, optimization, empirical process theory, concentration inequalities, and game theory.
Kathie Therese Hodge
Associate Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section · School of Integrative Plant Science
⭐ PhD positions available in fungal systematics and ecology. Contact kth5@cornell.edu for details.
Fungal systematics, evolution and biodiversity
Fungal pathogens of plants and insects
Fungal ecology
Kenneth Paul Birman
N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Fall 2025 will be my last semester teaching, and while I plan to run my group until all the current PhD and MS students wrap up, I am no longer recruiting new students.
Cascade, Vortex, Derecho, Derecho Secure Audit Log / BlockChain, IoT applications (smart power grid, healthcare, industrial settings)
Kerik D. Cox
Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Cornell AgriTech · Cornell CALS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD and postdoctoral opportunities are available in the Cox lab for candidates interested in fungal genomics, fungicide resistance, and fruit disease management. Contact Dr. Cox directly for inquiries.
Fruit pathology
Antimicrobial resistance and disease forecasting
Biological control and germicidal light
Lillian Lee
Charles Roy Davis Professor of Computer Science · Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
⭐ See current possibilities for prospective students, postdocs, and interns.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Interaction, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Lori Huberman
Assistant Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ The Huberman lab is currently recruiting graduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fungal genetics and plant-microbe interactions. Interested applicants should email a CV and statement of interest to l.huberman@cornell.edu.
How fungi interact with the environment
Nutrient sensing in filamentous fungi
High-throughput functional genomics
Nils Deppe
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Graduate students: Please apply to either the Cornell Physics or Astronomy Ph.D. program, whichever is a better fit for you. I have no control over the admissions process so please do not email me directly.
Undergraduate students: I am not accepting any undergraduate students at this time.
My group studies extreme matter and gravity by solving Einstein's equations of general relativity using massively parallel computer simulations, a field called "numerical relativity." We simulate mergers of binary black …
Ping Wang
Professor, Department of Entomology, Cornell AgriTech · Cornell CALS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ For graduate study and postdoctoral research opportunities, please contact Ping Wang at pingwang [at] cornell.edu (pingwang[at]cornell[dot]edu). We also have summer research opportunities for undergraduate students. For information and application, please contact Ping Wang pingwang [at] cornell.edu …
My research is centered on the understanding of biochemical and molecular basis of insect midgut physiology and interactions of the midgut with insecticidal toxins. Our research objectives are multifaceted, aiming at the…
Preston Culbertson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
⭐ I'm looking for motivated PhD students to join my lab! Please see the note for more information.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotics
Qi Wang
Joan K. and Irwin M. Jacobs Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ PhD and MA applicants: I do not have funding to recruit a PhD student in Fall 2026, based on our departmental quota. I plan to recruit two MA students. Please refer to recent publications from my lab. If our research interests overlap, feel free to express your preference to work with me in your app…
My research interests are at the intersection of cognitive and social development. Integrating developmental, cognitive, and sociocultural perspectives, my research examines the mechanisms underlying the development of a…
Ruth Lawlor
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am interested in hearing from prospective graduate students wishing to conduct research on topics in U.S. military history, geopolitics, and/ or the global Second World War.
U.S. foreign relations, diplomatic, military and global history, sexual violence and the U.S. military justice system in World War II, global history of World War II, U.S. military in Alaska
Sarah Pethybridge
Associate Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Cornell AgriTech · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD and postdoc opportunities available in plant disease epidemiology and management. Contact Dr. Pethybridge for details.
Diseases of vegetables
Sclerotinia
Epidemiology and fungicide resistance
Shaila Musharoff
Assistant Professor, Computational Biology · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ We are recruiting motivated PhD students and postdocs. Please email with CV and research interests.
Dr. Shaila Musharoff is a statistical and population geneticist studying human disease architecture. Shaila uses population genetic approaches to assess how demographic and cultural factors, such as admixture and assorta…
Sorin Lerner
Professor of Computer Science · Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
⭐ I am always looking for great PhD students and post-docs!
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning
Steven Jackson
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ If you're a prospective doctoral student or post-doctoral scholar working in related areas, feel free to email me with a description of your work and interests (but please note that I am extremely limited in my ability to take on additional students at this time). I work with and advise doctoral stu…
sustainability; scientific collaboration; technology ethics, law and policy; global change and inequality; infrastructure; governance; collaboration; time; breakdown, maintenance and repair
Teresa E. Pawlowska
Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available in plant-microbe interactions and symbiosis evolution. Contact Dr. Pawlowska for details.
Evolutionary and population genomics
Innate immunity in fungi and fungal-bacterial interactions
Arbuscular mycorrhizae
Tingan Li
Assistant Professor · Cornell Duffield Engineering
⭐ Tingan Li is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to work on the experimental exploration of subglacial hydrologic channelization and till evolution under overburden stress. The project will involve designing and conducting flume experiments, developing numerical models, and potentially carrying ou…
Tingan Li studies how physical processes shape Earth's surface from mountains to rivers, using a combination of mechanistic models, flume experiments, and field observations. Current research includes sediment production…
Tolunay Beker Aydemir
Assistant Professor · Cornell Human Ecology
⭐ Graduate Students: 2024 - 2025 Available
Undergraduate Students: 2024 - 2025 Available
Our overall research interests center on how transporter-mediated zinc and manganese mobilization function to regulate diverse cellular processes in health and disease. Research Focus: The Aydemir Lab investigates how es…
Verity Platt
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I welcome applications from graduate students in Classics, History of Art, and Archaeology working in all areas of ancient visual culture and its receptions, as well as at the intersection of visual, material, and literary studies. You can apply to work with me on a PhD through the departments of Cl…
The history and historiography of Greek and Roman art; text and object/word and image; Roman wall-painting; seal-stones/glyptics; art and religion; Hellenistic and Imperial Greek literature; Pliny the Elder; cast collect…
Alexis Earl
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ We are currently recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Interested candidates should email a CV and statement of interest to alexis.earl@cornell.edu.
Computational biology, genomics, population genetics, systems biology, modeling
Amanda D. Rodewald
Garvin Professor and Senior Director of the Center for Avian Population Studies, Cornell Lab of Ornithology · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD students and postdocs are welcome to contact Dr. Rodewald regarding opportunities in conservation social science, bird ecology, and sustainable agriculture.
Conservation social science, bird ecology, climate change adaptation, sustainable agriculture, ecosystem services, environmental policy
Andrew G. Clark
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ We are currently recruiting PhD students and postdoctoral researchers interested in population genomics and evolutionary biology. Please contact Dr. Clark directly with CV and statement of interest.
Population genetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, statistical methods for detecting natural selection, human evolutionary genetics, Drosophila genetics
Andrew G. Clark
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ The Clark lab is currently recruiting Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers with interests in population genomics, comparative genomics, and evolutionary genetics. Interested candidates should contact Prof. Clark directly with a CV and statement of research interests.
Population genetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, and the genetic basis of complex traits.
Andrew William Grimson
Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ Graduate student and postdoctoral positions are available in the Grimson lab. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Grimson directly with CV and statement of research interests.
microRNA biology, post-transcriptional gene regulation, comparative genomics, evolution of gene regulatory networks
Anthony Koleske
Professor of Pharmacology and of Neuroscience · Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Koleske directly.
Neurodevelopment, synapse formation and stability, cytoskeletal regulation, integrin signaling, Abl tyrosine kinases, cancer metastasis
April Wei
Assistant Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ We are currently recruiting PhD students and postdocs with interests in computational biology, population genetics, and genomics. Please email with your CV and research interests.
Population genetics, computational genomics, evolutionary biology, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing large-scale genomic data.
Casey Dillman
· Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
⭐ Students interested in conducting research with me should contact me directly to discuss potential opportunities.
I am interested in many aspects of ichthyology research including evolutionary biology, natural history, phylogenetics, population genetics, and comparative anatomy. In my work I attempt to integrate these interests into…
Cliff Kraft
Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available in aquatic ecology and fisheries management. Contact clk2@cornell.edu with CV and statement of interest.
Aquatic ecology and management, fisheries science, conservation biology, ecosystem-based management, Oneida Lake long-term research, Adirondack lakes, salmonid ecology, invasive species impacts, socio-ecological systems
Daniel Anstett
Assistant Professor · School of Integrative Plant Science
⭐ The Anstett lab is recruiting PhD students and postdocs interested in evolutionary genomics and chemical ecology. Contact daniel.anstett@cornell.edu for opportunities.
Evolutionary ecology and genetics of plant-insect interactions; chemical ecology; plant defense and herbivore counter-adaptations; genomics of rapid adaptation; biodiversity and conservation
Daniel Joseph Decker
Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available in human dimensions of wildlife management and conservation social science. Interested applicants should contact Dr. Decker directly with CV and statement of interest.
Human dimensions of natural resources management; wildlife conservation and management; stakeholder engagement; conservation policy; application of social science to natural resources management
Dr. Christopher Sullivan
Associate Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ Ph.D. and M.S. students are sought for projects on fisheries ecology and ecosystem modeling. Interested applicants should email a CV and statement of interest.
Aquatic ecology, fisheries management, ecosystem modeling, quantitative ecology
Evan G. Cooch
Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available in quantitative ecology and wildlife management. Contact Dr. Cooch directly for opportunities.
Population ecology, quantitative ecology, wildlife management, statistical modeling, capture-recapture methods, Bayesian inference, waterfowl ecology and management, adaptive resource management.
Franklin Pugh
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ Graduate student and postdoctoral positions are available. Interested applicants should email Dr. Pugh directly with a CV and statement of research interests.
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation and chromatin structure in yeast and mammalian cells; genome-wide mapping of transcription factor binding and nucleosome positions; roles of transcription factors and chromatin re…
Gaurav Moghe
Assistant Professor · School of Integrative Plant Science
⭐ The Moghe lab is currently recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Interested candidates should email Dr. Moghe directly with their CV and research interests.
Plant metabolism, evolutionary genomics, systems biology, specialized metabolites, gene regulation
J. Andrew Royle
Senior Scientist · Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
⭐ Opportunities for PhD students and postdocs are available through the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and Cornell University. Interested applicants should contact Dr. Royle directly.
Statistical ecology, wildlife population modeling, hierarchical Bayesian models, occupancy modeling, spatial capture-recapture, animal movement, ecological monitoring, conservation biology
Jeongmin Song
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Opportunities:
We are always interested in recruiting talented and passionate members to the dynamic and collegial group. Please apply!
Please contact PI, Jeongmin Song (js2957 at cornell.edu) with your CV, if you are interested. We especially encourage women and other minority scholars to apply!
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Research Interests and Our Expertise:
- Glycoconjugates in the Host-Microbe Interactions;
- Bacterial AB toxins;
- Salmonella Host Adaptation, Virulence & Persistence;
- Antimicrobial Resistance;
- Vaccines & Monoclonal …
Jessica Williams
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology · Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
⭐ The Williams laboratory is currently seeking motivated PhD students and postdoctoral fellows interested in neuropharmacology and brain tumor research. Interested candidates should email their CV and a brief statement of research interests to Dr. Williams at jew4001@med.cornell.edu.
Neuropharmacology and Neuronal Signaling, Neuro-oncology, Molecular Pharmacology
John T. Lis
Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ Graduate student and postdoctoral positions available. Interested candidates should contact Prof. Lis directly with CV and statement of research interests.
Transcriptional regulation; chromatin structure and function; heat shock and stress responses; RNA polymerase pausing and elongation control; high-resolution genomic approaches
Kimberly O'Brien
Professor of Human Nutrition · College of Human Ecology
⭐ Accepting graduate students for 2024-2025
Calcium Metabolism and Bone Health; Maternal and Neonatal Anemia, Control of Maternal/Fetal Nutrient; Partitioning and Placental Mineral Transport; Vitamin D Kinetics during Pregnancy, Erythroferrone concentrations in ma…
Lars G. Rudstam
Professor · Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available in aquatic ecology and fisheries management. Contact for details.
Aquatic ecology, fisheries management, limnology, ecosystem modeling, invasive species, Oneida Lake research
Ling-Wei Kong
Assistant Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ I am currently recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Interested candidates should email me with their CV and a brief statement of research interests.
Computational biology, machine learning, genomics, statistical modeling, population genetics, and applications to human disease and evolution.
Marc F. Fuchs
Professor · School of Integrative Plant Science
⭐ PhD and postdoc positions available in grapevine virology and virus-vector interactions. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Fuchs directly with CV and research interests.
Grapevine virology, virus-vector interactions, epidemiology and management of plant virus diseases, molecular characterization of emerging plant viruses.
Marianne E. Krasny
Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ The Civic Ecology Lab regularly seeks motivated PhD students interested in environmental education, social-ecological systems, and community-based conservation. Interested applicants should contact Dr. Krasny directly with a CV and statement of interest.
Environmental education, civic ecology, social-ecological systems, community-based natural resource management, urban environmental stewardship, resilience and adaptive governance
Matthew Hare
Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available in aquatic conservation genomics and environmental DNA applications. Contact Dr. Hare for details.
Population, conservation and evolutionary genetics and genomics of aquatic organisms; ecological and evolutionary implications of fisheries management; genetic and genomic resource development for aquatic species; enviro…
Nina Overgaard Therkildsen
Associate Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ We are currently seeking motivated PhD students and postdocs to join our research group. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Therkildsen directly with a CV and statement of research interests.
My research focuses on the genetic and evolutionary processes that shape biodiversity in wild populations, particularly in marine and aquatic ecosystems. I use genomic tools to study how species adapt to environmental ch…
Oliver Clarke
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics · Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
⭐ PhD positions available – interested applicants should email CV and statement of interest to olc2002@med.cornell.edu
Structural and functional studies of membrane proteins involved in cellular signaling and transport; single-molecule biophysics; cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography.
Olivier Berton
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology · Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
⭐ Currently accepting PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. Interested candidates should email a CV and statement of interest to olb2011@med.cornell.edu.
Neurobiology of social behaviors; molecular and neural mechanisms underlying stress responses and social hierarchy; role of neuropeptides and neuromodulators in social decision-making; preclinical models of psychiatric d…
Paige Cunningham
Assistant Professor · College of Human Ecology
⭐ Graduate Students: Not available
Paul D. Curtis
Professor of Wildlife Science · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ PhD and MS opportunities available for students interested in wildlife damage management, human-wildlife conflict, and applied wildlife ecology. Contact Dr. Curtis directly for current openings.
Wildlife damage management, human-wildlife conflict resolution, vertebrate pest management, wildlife fertility control, wildlife disease ecology, behavioral ecology of wildlife in human-dominated landscapes
Philipp W. Messer
Associate Professor of Computational Biology · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ The Messer lab is currently seeking motivated PhD students and postdoctoral researchers interested in population genetics, evolutionary genomics, and gene drive systems. Interested candidates should contact Philipp directly via email with their CV and a brief statement of research interests.
Population genetics, evolutionary genomics, gene drive systems, computational biology, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics.
Reem Hajjar
Assistant Professor · Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
⭐ I am recruiting PhD students interested in social-ecological systems, forest governance, and environmental justice. Prospective students should contact me with a CV and statement of research interests.
Social-ecological systems, forest governance, community-based natural resource management, political ecology, environmental justice, sustainable livelihoods, tenure and property rights, participatory research methods
Shibani Ghosh
Associate Professor · Cornell University
⭐ Graduate Students: Not available
global nutrition (maternal and infant), food systems, nutritional and environmental determinants, public health interventions and policy
Steve Grodsky
Assistant Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ Dr. Grodsky is recruiting Ph.D. students interested in renewable energy–wildlife interactions, herpetofaunal ecology, and road ecology. Interested applicants should contact him directly with a CV and statement of interest.
Wildlife ecology and conservation; renewable energy–wildlife interactions; behavioral, physiological, and population ecology of amphibians and reptiles; road ecology; quantitative ecology and evidence-based conservation
Steven Manaoakamai Johnson
Assistant Professor · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ I am currently recruiting PhD students interested in social-ecological systems, fisheries management, and Indigenous knowledge. Prospective students should contact me directly with a CV and statement of interest.
Coupled human-natural systems; fisheries management; Indigenous knowledge; social-ecological networks; computational social science
Timothy J. Fahey
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Natural Resources · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ Currently accepting Ph.D. students. Interested applicants should contact Dr. Fahey directly via email with a CV and statement of research interests.
Forest ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, soil carbon and nutrient cycling, global change ecology, watershed biogeochemistry, temperate and tropical forest ecosystems
Virginia Moore
Assistant Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section · College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
⭐ My lab often hires undergraduate students to assist with fieldwork over the summer; please contact me by email if you are interested in ways to engage with my research group.
Breeding for sustainable cropping systems
Cover crops, intercropping, polycultures, organic farming systems
Legumes, forages, alfalfa, hemp
Wojtek Pawlowski
Professor · School of Integrative Plant Science
⭐ PhD positions available in the Pawlowski lab. Interested candidates should contact Prof. Pawlowski directly with CV and statement of research interests.
Meiotic recombination mechanisms, chromosome dynamics, plant reproductive biology, and genome evolution
Yarden Golan Maor
Assistant Professor · Cornell University College of Human Ecology
⭐ Please reach out if you are interested in human milk research opportunities.
human milk production and composition, and their association with infant growth and health outcomes
Brown University 11 hiring
Ritambhara Singh
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science · Brown University
⭐ The lab is looking for highly motivated students, with strong computational skills, who are excited about developing data-driven approaches to solve important problems in biology and health sciences. Required skills for lab members include basic UNIX/Linux competency and programming ability (prefera…
computational biology, data mining, health data science, Machine learning
Stephen Bach
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · Brown University
⭐ Info. for prospective Ph.D. students here
I investigate machine learning methods for incorporating high-level knowledge into statistical models. My approach is to develop new methods that blend statistical methods with rule-based systems to achieve benefits from…
Dmitri Feldman
Professor of Physics · Brown University
⭐ Salomon Research Award, Brown University, "Spin Transport in Quantum Wires", 2006-2007. CAREER award, NSF, "Non-Equilibrium Transport and Disorder Effects in Quantum Wires and Related Systems", 2006-2012. BSF grant, "Probing Fractional Statistics and Coherence with Anyonic Mach-Zehnder Interferomete…
Professor Feldman's research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics with emphasis on strongly correlated electrons in low-dimensional systems, and quenched disorder in hard and soft condensed matter
Elias I Muhanna
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of History, Director of Middle East Studies · Brown University
⭐ I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in encyclopedism, medieval Islamic intellectual history, book history, orientalism, classical Arabic literature and literary theory, and the history of the Arabic language.
Arabic, Arabic literature, early modern history, Historical linguistics, Intellectual History, Islamic world, Medieval history, Middle East, Middle East
Hui Wang
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics · Brown University
⭐ Elected Manning Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, 2004.
My research interest lies in the theory and applications of probabilistic methods. Recently, I have been working on game-theoretic importance sampling (IS). Importance sampling is a variance reduction technique in Monte …
Jungkyoung Na
· Brown University
⭐ Ph.D. student in Mathematics at Brown University
PDE and fluid dynamics
Michael J. Frank
Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science; Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ PhD and postdoctoral positions available. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Frank directly.
Computational modeling of cognition and brain function; reinforcement learning; decision-making; cognitive control; basal ganglia function; individual differences in executive function and learning; neuroeconomics; compu…
Mohammad (Ozz) Abdelfattah
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · Carney Institute for Brain Science
⭐ We are part of the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University. We are currently looking for postdoctoral researchers and PhD students to join our lab. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Dr. Abdelfattah at mohammad_abdelfattah@brown.edu.
We invent molecular tools to study how the brain works. Brain circuits process information in the form of electrical and chemical signals to form memories and shape behaviors. However there is no natural contrast mechani…
Seth E. Rockman
George L. Littlefield Professor of American History, Director of Undergraduate Studies · Brown University
⭐ Rockman welcomes inquires regarding Brown’s doctoral program from students focused on the United States from the era of the American Revolution to the Civil War. Prospective students interested in Atlantic Slavery and the history of capitalism more broadly should not hesitate to contact Rockman by e…
United States, Atlantic World
Sohini Ramachandran
Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology and Data Science and Professor of Computer Science
⭐ Interested in working with Sohini? CCMB Ph.D. Program
admixture, Genomics, human genetics, population genetics, whole-genome
Columbia University 67 hiring
Bin Xu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ If you are interested in our research and highly motivated to work with us, please email me at bx2105 at cumc.columbia.edu with a cover letter describing your previous working experience and career goals and your CV.
human genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders, human stem cell based disease modeling, neurobiology of neurodevelopmental diseases
Bin Xu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ If you are interested in our research and highly motivated to work with us, please email me at bx2105 at cumc.columbia.edu with a cover letter describing your previous working experience and career goals and your CV.
human genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders
human stem cell based disease modeling
neurobiology of neurodevelopmental diseases
Chozha V Rathinam
· Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ We are currently looking for highly motivated students, and postdoctoral fellows.
Decoding the genetic and molecular bases of stem cell self-renewal through ubiquitylation
Dian Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ We are recruiting students, technicians and postdocs!
Genetically Engineered Mouse Models
Mechanisms of tumor evolution
Molecular recording technology development
Single-Cell Genomics
Falak Sher, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ Students interested in exploring the applications of CRISPR Cas9 systems (genome editing) in neurodegenerative diseases, please contact Dr. Falak Sher for the description of available projects.
High-resolution functional genomics of Alzheimer's disease (AD) Despite ambitious efforts, there is no effective preventive or disease modifying therapy for AD. Accordingly, with an aging global population, there is a pr…
Falak Sher, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ Students interested in exploring the applications of CRISPR Cas9 systems (genome editing) in neurodegenerative diseases, please contact Dr. Falak Sher for the description of available projects.
High-resolution functional genomics of Alzheimer's disease (AD) Despite ambitious efforts, there is no effective preventive or disease modifying therapy for AD. Accordingly, with an aging global population, there is a pr…
Jin Xu
Jane and Leopold Swergold Associate Professor of Chinese Art History · Columbia University
⭐ Prospective PhD applicants are welcome to reach out and share their application materials. However, due to the high volume of inquiries, I may not be able to respond to every email, especially if your research interests do not closely match mine.
Art and Architecture in China
Krystalyn E. Hudson, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ We are always seeking diverse and highly motivated individuals, at all levels, to join our team! To apply for a position, please send your CV and cover letter detailing your interest to keh2197@cumc.columbia.edu
Dr. Hudson’s group focuses on mechanisms of anti-red blood cell (RBC) antibody formation, which is clinically relevant for transfusion medicine, pregnancy, and transplants. RBCs are critically important for tissue oxygen…
Laudan B. Jahromi
Professor of Psychology and Education · Teachers College, Columbia University
⭐ Professor Jahromi will be recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2024
Social-emotional well-being among children and families with complex support needs; the development of self-regulation in children with developmental disabilities and those at-risk for delay due to social-ecological fact…
Lei Ding
Gurewitsch and Vidda Foundation Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine · Columbia University
⭐ We are interested in recruiting motivated graduate students, postdocs and technicians.
Mechanisms, particularly cell-extrinsic mechanisms, that regulate hematopoietic stem cell function
Lovett, Benjamin J.
Professor of Psychology and Education · Teachers College, Columbia University
⭐ Dr. Lovett will NOT be accepting external PhD students for Fall 2026.
Benjamin J. Lovett, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Education in the School Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. He teaches courses on psychological testing and on the legal and ethical fram…
Matthew Carl Zajic
Assistant Professor of Intellectual Disability/Autism · Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology
⭐ Dr. Zajic is accepting new doctoral students for the 2026 Fall semester. Feel free to email with questions.
My primary research focuses on understanding and supporting the writing development of autistic individuals across the lifespan. A key goal of my research is to bridge foundational work to practice, ensuring findings are…
Maura Boldrini Dupont, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ She is committed to opening her lab for opportunities to raising scientists of all backgrounds.
Brain Imaging
Models of brain aging, epilepsy and psychiatric disorders
Neural Degeneration and Repair
Neuroplasticity in brain aging, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy and suicide
Neuropsychopharmacology
Neurotransmitters…
Melissa Collier-Meek
Associate Professor of Psychology and Education · Teachers College, Columbia University
⭐ Note - Dr. Collier-Meek is not reviewing doctoral applicants for the 2025-2026 academic year.
School-based implementation, treatment fidelity, implementation support, teacher consultation and coaching, classroom management, function-based behavioral interventions, multi-tiered systems of support
Prerna Arora
Associate Professor of Psychology and Education · Teachers College, Columbia University
⭐ Dr. Arora will be accepting external PhD students for Fall 2025.
Dr. Arora’s research focuses on issues of access and quality of care for historically marginalized youth and adolescents. In particular, Dr. Arora’s research focuses on identifying risk and protective factors in the deve…
Ryan Gaudet, PhD
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ We are looking for curious, passionate, and collaborative researchers (postdocs, graduate students, medical students, undergrads, and technicians) to join our team. To inquire, please email Dr. Gaudet with a cover letter describing interest and CV.
Encoded within the human genome is an arsenal of antimicrobial effectors that safeguard individual cells during infection. These restriction factors are not constitutively expressed but are part of elaborate and inducibl…
Sankar Ghosh
Chairman and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Columbia University
⭐ Postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory in the areas of cancer immunology and the regulation of inflammatory signaling. Expertise in flow cytometry and bioinformatic analysis is desirable.
Inflammation, immune responses and cancer. The Ghosh lab has a long-standing interest in understanding and elucidating the complexities of transcriptional regulation, with a particular focus on the innate and adaptive im…
Shan Zha, MD, PhD
James A Wolff Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Cell Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ We invite committed young scientists to join us in the adventures.
The Zha lab investigates how defects in DNA repair and DNA damage responses impact normal immune system development, lymphomagenesis, and treatment responses. The lab has developed cutting-edge technologies, including hi…
Umrao Monani, PhD
Darryl C. De Vivo Professor of Pediatric Neurology (in Neurology) · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ The lab welcomes inquiries from graduate students and postdoctoral scientists interested in careers devoted to the study of human genetics, the neurobiology of disease and the development of novel therapies for pediatric neurological conditions with unmet medical needs
Motor Neuron Disease, Neurobiology of Disease, Pediatric Neurology, Synapses and Circuits
Zhengbo Zou
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Students interested in working with the lab should email Zou.
Zhengbo Zou’s research aims to understand how intelligent agents, such as construction robots and building control systems, interact with human operators, occupants, the built environment, and the society. Zou leverages …
Zoë Crossland
Professor of Anthropology · Columbia University
⭐ She is currently accepting PhD students and is especially interested in working with students who wish to explore the intersections of archaeological theory and environmental archaeology in the context of Madagascar, the East African coast and the Indian Ocean more widely. She also encourages studen…
Gender, Sexuality, Genealogy, Ancestrality; Human/Animal Relations, Bodies & Medicine; Intellectual & Disciplinary Histories; Language, Social Theory, Critical Theory; Museums, Archives, Practices of Memory; Slavery, Col…
Alan Cohen, PhD
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (in the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center) · Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
⭐ No hiring information available.
Understanding the biological basis of health and aging, particularly how our bodies maintain dynamic equilibrium, and how evolution has shaped networks of biological and physiological mechanisms that keep us in balance a…
Alexandr Andoni
Associate Professor, Columbia University · Columbia University
⭐ If you are a prospective graduate student and are interested to work with me, please consider applying to our PhD program here. I am always looking to hire great PhD students.
I have a broad interest in algorithmic foundations of massive data. Some particular interests include sublinear algorithms (streaming and property testing), high-dimensional computational geometry, metric embeddings, and…
Andrew R. Marks, MD
Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Molecular Cardiology (in Medicine), Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ There are opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to head their own projects using any of the various techniques that we employ to examine the regulation of calcium signaling and muscle function in normal and diseased states.
Molecular biology of intracellular calcium release channels and their relevance to human disease.
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD
Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Associate Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Systems Biology · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ Accepting New Patients
Interactions between cancer cells and tumor microenvironment, metastatic niches, response and resistance to cancer immunotherapies, single-cell genomics, genome-editing tools
Bin Xu
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC
⭐ If you are interested in our research and highly motivated to work with us, please email me at bx2105 at cumc.columbia.edu with a cover letter describing your previous working experience and career goals and your CV.
human genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders, human stem cell based disease modeling, neurobiology of neurodevelopmental diseases
Carol Scheffner Hammer
Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders · Teachers College, Columbia University
⭐ Dr. Hammer is not currently accepting doctoral students.
Dr. Hammer’s research addresses four interrelated areas that focus on young children’s school readiness and academic outcomes. These include: trajectories of children’s language and literacy development; environmental a…
Chunhua Weng
Professor of Biomedical Informatics · Columbia University
⭐ Openings for research officer, postdoc, and research assistant are available immediately to model patient populations and quantify the population representativeness of clinical studies using electronic data sources. Highly motivated individuals with computing background and quantitative analytical s…
My current research focus on these areas:
- Data science and informatics for clinical evidence generation, appraisal, dissemination, and implementation
- EHR-based phenotyping and case or cohort identification
- Knowledg…
Corey Toler-Franklin
Assistant Professor · Barnard College, Columbia University
⭐ Opportunities for PhD students and postdocs are available in the GILM Lab. Please see the Opportunities page for more information.
Machine Learning, Data Acquisition, Appearance Modeling, Imaging Spectroscopy and Non-Photorealistic Rendering
David Louis Bell, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics and Population & Family Health at CUMC · Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
⭐ America's Top Doctor, NY Top Doctor
Child and Adolescent Health, Community Health, HIV/AIDS, LGBT health, Maternal and Reproductive Health, Public Health Education
David Sulzer
Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology) at CUMC · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ His laboratory developed new optical, electrophysiological and electrochemical methods including the first direct recordings of quantal neurotransmitter release from synapses, the fundamental unit of neurotransmission, and the first optical methods to observe neurotransmitter release and reuptake. H…
Cell biology, Learning and behavior, Neurodegeneration and repair, Neuroimmunology, Synapses and Circuits
David Wu, MD
Director of the Wu Family China Center for Health Initiatives · Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Dian Yang
Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ We are recruiting students, technicians and postdocs!
Mechanisms of tumor evolution, Genetically engineered mouse models of lung cancer development, Molecular recording technology development, Single cell genomics
Dieter Egli, PhD
· Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ We welcome inquiries about available projects.
Our research is focused on stem cell biology and cellular therapies for type 1 diabetes.
Ernst Garcon
Associate Professor of Radiology · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Research Interests
Arterial Spin Labeling
Quantitative imaging of White Matter Disease
George Hripcsak
Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics · Columbia University
⭐ I welcome PhD and MD postdoctoral candidates interested in working on any of the research listed below. Experience in a relevant methodological area (e.g. nonlinear dynamics) and domain area (medicine, physiology) would be ideal. I also welcome Columbia graduate and undergraduate students.
Phenotyping; Use of non-linear time series analysis in clinical phenotyping; Observational research and bridging phenotype and genotype; Electronic health records and automated decision support; Natural language processi…
Gil Hochberg
Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, Chair MESAAS · Columbia University
⭐ No specific hiring information provided.
Relationship between politics and aesthetics, representation and power in colonialism, orientalism, and nationalism, with a focus on Palestine, Israel, Zionism, and broader (post)colonial contexts including South Asia, A…
Gregg G. Gundersen, PhD
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ Research in my laboratory is focused on the fundamental question of how cells generate cellular asymmetry to carry out their specific function. Elements of the cytoskeleton, known as microtubules, have been found to play a central role in this process. We utilize motile fibroblasts as a model system…
The regulation and function of the microtubule cytoskeleton
Hachung Chung
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Columbia University
⭐ The Chung lab is always looking for curious, passionate, and positive researchers (postdocs, clinical scholars, graduate students, medical students, undergraduates, and technicians) to join our team. To inquire about positions please email Dr. Chung with a cover letter and CV.
Understanding how self-RNA sensing shapes human immune responses
Ivaylo Ivanov
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Columbia University
⭐ Postdoctoral Positions Available - see announcement at /s/ivanov-postdoc-positions.pdf
Regulation of mucosal immunity by commensal bacteria
Jose A Luchsinger, MD, MPH
Robert F. Loeb Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at CUMC · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ Not specified
['Relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and cognition', 'Relationship between diet and cognition']
Junhao (Hao) Wen
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics · Columbia University
⭐ PhD and postdoc positions are available. Please contact jw4745(at)cumc.columbia.edu for more information.
LABS focuses on developing and applying AI/ML methodologies to multi-organ, multi-omics data to understand human aging and disease. Our research underscores the principles of open science and reproducibility!
Kaveri Thakoor
Professor · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ Training and Employment Opportunities
The goal of the AI4VS Lab is to develop human-vision-inspired AI to automate the analysis of biomedical images to augment and work in tandem with the abilities of medical experts to expedite the detection of eye diseases…
Mann, Gregory
Professor · Columbia University
⭐ Mann has worked with a number of doctoral students on dissertations in history, anthropology and political science, as well as with Master’s students in the Columbia-LSE Dual Degree Program in International and World History. Queries from prospective students are welcome.
Gregory Mann, Professor, is an historian of West and francophone Africa. His work has focused largely on Mali and the Sahel in the twentieth century, including both the colonial and the postcolonial periods. Mann has wri…
Mark Santolucito
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · Barnard College, Columbia University
⭐ If you are interested in getting involved in this research, especially if you are an undergrad, please reach out - there is always room for you.
I care about developing theory, tools, and techniques that enable programmers to make the change they want to see in the world. To this end, I largely work in program synthesis, as a way to help users explore and underst…
Maya Deyssenroth
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences · Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
⭐ No hiring information available.
['Biostatistical Methods', 'Child and Adolescent Health', 'Environmental Health', 'Genetics', 'Maternal and Reproductive Health']
Megan Sykes, MD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Surgical Sciences (in Surgery), Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine · Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ No hiring information provided.
High Dimensional Immune Profiling in Transplantation, Human Immune Repertoire Alloreactivity, Transplantation tolerance, Type 1 diabetes autoimmunity, Xenotransplantation
Paulette Bernd
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology at CUMC · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ Dr. Paulette Bernd does not appear to be actively hiring at this time.
Dr. Paulette Bernd's research focuses on the role of neurotrophins during development, contributing to the understanding of anatomical principles and educational innovations in gross anatomy.
Pawel Muranski, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ Accepting New Patients
Cancer, Cellular Immunotherapy, Immunology, Immunotherapy, Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML), T Cells, Transplant Immunology, Viral Infections
Ramgopal, Sailakshmi
Assistant Professor · Columbia University
⭐ N/A
Roman historian exploring mobilities and identities in the Roman world; interests include the comparative study of diasporas, resistance, and the reception of classics in colonial and postcolonial India and North Africa
Ramnath, Kalyani
Assistant Professor · Columbia University
⭐ Kalyani Ramnath is a historian of modern South Asia, with research and teaching interests in legal history, histories of migration and displacement, transnational history, and questions of archival method.
Kalyani Ramnath is a historian of modern South Asia, with research and teaching interests in legal history, histories of migration and displacement, transnational history, and questions of archival method.
Rebecca Anne Haeusler, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ Not specified
Bile Acid Metabolism and Signaling, Metabolism
Richard Kalmin
Theodore R. Racoosin Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics · The Jewish Theological Seminary
⭐ Theodore R. Racoosin Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics
the interpretation of rabbinic stories, ancient Jewish history, and the development of rabbinic literature
Robert C. Bauer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ The Bauer Lab maintains a strong interest in training the next generation of cardiometabolic translational scientists, and potential students and trainees are encouraged to reach out for potential opportunities to work in the lab.
The Bauer Lab uses a mix of molecular biology, animal physiology, and functional genomics to translate human genetics studies into actionable biological mechanisms, with a specific focus on cardiometabolic traits. Curren…
Ruth Barraclough
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Modern Korean History · Columbia University
⭐ Spring 2026: Mondays 2:00 - 4:00 pm, and by appointment.
Ruth Barraclough is a labor historian of modern Korea with particular interests in gender, biography and literature.
Ryan Gaudet
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Columbia University
⭐ We are looking for curious, passionate, and collaborative researchers (postdocs, graduate students, medical students, undergrads, and technicians) to join our team. To inquire, please email Dr. Gaudet with a cover letter describing interest and CV.
Anti-pathogen effector mechanisms, innate immunity, tissue-specific responses
Samuel Sternberg, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ The desire to work with students in the lab was a major driver of Sam’s decision to transition from industry back to academia.
Exploring and exploiting CRISPR–Cas immune systems
Sascha Haubner
Assistant Professor of Medicine · Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
⭐ We are hiring! Interested trainees and postdoctoral candidates can contact Sascha Haubner: sh4712@cumc.columbia.edu. Currently open position: Staff Associate I (https://apply.interfolio.com/181753)
Engineering synthetic immunity against myeloid malignancies, leveraging synthetic receptor design and immune cell engineering informed by target biology and the bone marrow microenvironment
Serge Przedborski
Professor · Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
⭐ If you are an interested postdoctoral candidate, or you are looking for more information about the Przedborski Lab, then please contact Serge Przedborski directly.
Our research aims to unravel the molecular basis of neurodegeneration and devise therapeutic strategies to hamper the processes that cause neuronal death, the source of many debilitating disorders.
Shan Zha
James A Wolff Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Cell Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
⭐ We invite committed young scientists to join us in the adventures.
The Zha lab investigates how defects in DNA repair and DNA damage responses impact normal immune system development, lymphomagenesis, and treatment responses. The lab has developed cutting-edge technologies, including hi…
Stephen A. Edwards
Associate Professor · Columbia University
⭐ My group does not offer internships, summer or otherwise.
The Sparse Synchronous Model: A deterministic real-time execution technique that allows explicit, precise timing control. The Columbia Esterel Compiler.
Tanvir Ahmed Khan
Assistant Professor · Columbia University
⭐ I have worked with an amazing group of researchers. If you are interested in working with me, please contact me at tk3070@columbia.edu.
I build systems techniques to enable efficient data center processing. Enabling efficient data center processing is extremely challenging due to rapid growth in data and software complexity along with the ongoing slowdow…
Tyler Wayne Watts
Associate Professor of Psychology and Education · Teachers College, Columbia University
⭐ Dr. Watts will be reviewing applications for admission to the Developmental Psychology doctoral program for Fall 2026. Please check his personal website for updates on recent work, including work from his current doctoral students: tylerwatts.org
Vincent Racaniello
Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Columbia University
⭐ The laboratory is no longer accepting students.
Molecular biology of picornavirus replication and pathogenesis
Yuefeng Huang
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology · Columbia University
⭐ Postdoctoral positions are available.
Innate lymphoid cells in infectious and inflammatory diseases
ZhaoHong Han
Professor of Language and Education · Teachers College, Columbia University
⭐ Over the last twenty years, in addition to teaching graduate courses (from theory to research to practice) and sponsoring doctoral dissertations at Teachers College, Dr. Han has consulted to universities and school districts on research and teacher development grants and second language programs, cu…
English as a Second Language
International Education
Teacher Education
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Alex Barnett
Professor of Mathematics · Dartmouth College
⭐ We seek strong applicants for postdocs (FRF, due Dec 1) and research scientists (open rank, due Jan 15); please reach out if your work intersects my areas.
Signal processing, numerical PDE, numerical analysis, fast algorithms, biophysics, fluids, waves, data analysis, computational statistics, deep learning, sampling, optimization, protein imaging, inverse problems, quantum…
Erika L Moen, MS, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences · Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
⭐ Ph.D. Rotations. Students interested in rotating in the Moen Lab are encouraged to contact Erika.
Dr. Moen is a health services researcher with expertise in network analysis, biostatistics, and cancer. She leads a multidisciplinary research team with funding from the NIH, seeking to leverage network analysis to optim…
Feng Fu
Assistant Professor · Dartmouth College
⭐ We are looking for creative and self-motivated scientists at all stages (postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates) to join our lab.
game theory and AI, human behavior, evolutionary dynamics and mathematical humanities
J. Matthew Gulledge
Professor · Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
⭐ Those interested in conducting experiments in cortical physiology should contact the lab regarding post-graduate and post-doctoral positions in the lab.
Neurons in the cerebral cortex provide the biological substrate for the higher cognitive functions that define us as individuals. Our laboratory is investigating the signaling mechanisms by which information is communica…
Jody Trout
Associate Professor of Mathematics · Dartmouth College
⭐ Teaching: Math 73/103: Metric Spaces and Measure Theory in Fall 2025.
Courses taught:
• Math 24: Linear Algebra (Spring 2025)
• Math 35: Real Analysis (Winter 2025)
Madeleine McLeester
Assistant Professor · Dartmouth College
⭐ **Currently accepting graduate students interested in archaeobotanical analyses in the Great Lakes region**
environmental archaeologist who investigates anthropogenic landscapes, plant collection, human-environment entanglements, early colonial encounters, and sports. She specializes in ancient agricultural practices in margin…
Mark Sundrud
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology · Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
⭐ Rotations and Thesis Projects: Nuclear receptor networks in intestinal T cell development and function; T cell redox metabolism; gut microbe-bile acid-T cell interplay'; region-specific immune regulatory networks in the intestine; immune and bile acid dysregulation in IBD; bile acid-directed IBD the…
Intestinal immune regulation; gastrointestinal physiology; development and function of effector and regulatory T cells; bile acids; nuclear receptors; inflammatory bowel disease
Muni Zhou
Assistant Professor · Dartmouth College
⭐ Postdoctoral Researcher Opening
Plasma Physics / Astrophysics/solar physics / Turbulence / Magnetic reconnection / Cosmic magnetic fields / Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Simulations / Particle-in-cell (PIC) Simulations
Siming Zhao
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science · Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
⭐ Methods development for studying mutations in noncoding regions in cancer
Impacts of genetic backgrounds for cancer phenotypes
Causal gene/pathway identification in genome wide association analysis
Dr. Zhao's research focuses on studying the genetic etiology of human diseases, in particular, cancer. Her lab develops computational methods and tools to analyze large-scale genomic datasets, aiming to translate data in…
Yashi Ahmed
· Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
⭐ Graduate student rotations and postdoc applications are encouraged.
If interested, please contact yashi@dartmouth.edu
Our lab focuses on the mechanisms that control Wnt signal transduction, a cell-cell communication pathway that is critical for animal development and for stem cell maintenance in adult organs. Deregulation of Wnt signali…
Paul Robustelli
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Dartmouth College
⭐ The Robustelli laboratory is always eager to hear from prospective graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to discuss current opportunities to join us at Dartmouth. We are broadly interested in using atomistic molecular simulations to model the conformational dynamics and molecular recognition m…
Computational Biophysics, Computational Chemistry, Disordered Proteins, NMR Spectroscopy
University of California, Los Angeles 32 hiring
Aaswath Raman
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ VICE CHAIR FOR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION · UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering
⭐ Our group typically recruits students with backgrounds in Optics & Photonics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and related fields. Students may send their CV and a short statement of interest to aaswath@ucla.edu.
At the Raman lab, we seek to understand how light and heat interact with metamaterials and nanoscale optical structures and devices, with the goal of enabling new technologies. In particular, we are motivated by the poss…
Ajay Satpute
Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ Of note, my lab will be accepting students for the upcoming cycle.
My lab studies the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying social and emotional experiences in humans. We design brain imaging experiments and use machine learning techniques to address fundamental theoretical que…
Alan Castel
Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ Accepting New Graduate Students? Yes
How do we remember and why do we forget, and how does this change across the adult lifespan? In general, my research interests focus on human memory, attention and cognitive aging. In a world where we are often overwhelm…
Alex Purves
Professor of Classics · UCLA College
⭐ Students interested in pursuing graduate work with Alex Purves are encouraged to get in touch.
Greek literature, primarily from the archaic and classical periods; space and landscape in early Greek epic and prose tradition; embodiment and repetition in Greek epic; the senses; the sea in early Greek poetry; Homeric…
Amanda Kay Montoya
Associate Professor
⭐ Dr. Montoya will be accepting applications for PhD students in the Quantitative Psychology area to begin in Fall 2024.
My research focuses on improving the ability of psychology researchers to answer their questions of interest using sound statistical methods and by developing easy-to-use tools to encourage researchers to use the most ad…
Catherine M. Sandhofer
Professor · UCLA
⭐ Research Opportunities for Students
cognitive development and learning. I study the processes involved in children’s acquisition of words, categories, and concepts and how these processes are supported by the learning environment. My research aims to under…
Clarke, Steven G.
Distinguished Professor · UCLA
⭐ Professor Clarke accepts graduate students through the Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) Graduate Program and the UCLA ACCESS Ph.D. Program.
Dr. Clarke has established the paradigm that biological aging is no less than war waged between chemistry and biology. Chemistry represents the spontaneous reactions that degrade biomolecules and biology represents the r…
Falk Lieder
Assistant Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ I am currently looking for 1-2 graduate students and a postdoc who want to leverage computational modeling and/or behavioral experiments to investigate decision-making and reinforcement learning in social dilemmas and related questions about morality, rational altruism, or societal decision-making. …
I aim to do research that generates insights into morality, rationality, and altruism that can inform efforts to improve society and the future of humanity. My current focus is on moral learning and moral decision-making…
Gawain Antell
Assistant Professor · UCLA
⭐ The QuEST Lab has room to accept graduate and undergraduate students. I am excited to hear from anyone who may be interested in the lab, whether from a paleobiology, ecology, marine biology, geography, or other academic background. Please contact me directly to discuss possible opportunities. Gradua…
I am a macroecologist who explores Earth-life interactions at a range of spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales. I use geological data (fossil occurrences) to quantify ecological patterns using statistical models. This …
Han Du
Associate Professor · UCLA College of Letters and Science
⭐ I am currently accepting applications from prospective graduate students.
Bayesian methods and statistical computing; longitudinal data analysis and time series analysis; structural equation modeling; study design and sample size determination; meta-analysis and machine learning techniques. Ap…
Harold Pimentel
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR · UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering
⭐ We are currently looking for kind, curious, and ambitious researchers. Open positions are listed on our Join page. (http://pimentellab.com/join)
We aim to understand gene regulation by building broadly applicable computational tools to analyze high-throughput genomic assays. This approach works by carefully investigating the experimental design and developing dat…
Jaime Castrellon
Assistant Professor
⭐ I am reviewing graduate student applications to join the lab in Fall 2026 through the Social and Affective Neuroscience area and the Behavioral Neuroscience area. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining as a graduate student or as a postdoctoral scholar.
Humans regularly make decisions that require integrating benefits and costs to motivate pursuit of goals. However, there is much we don’t know about what motivates people to make decisions and why people differ in these …
John Doe
Professor of Physics · College of Science
⭐ Physics Department is seeking a Full-Time Assistant Professor
Fundamental Physics, Cosmology, High-Energy Particle Physics
Katsushi Arisaka
Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ We are always looking for grad and undergrad students who are interested in our research direction.
Origin of the Universe, Life and Consciousness; Dark Matter; High Energy Physics; Biophysics; Photon Detectors
Kristopher W. Kersey
Associate Professor, Arts of Japan · UCLA College
⭐ I am open to advising innovative and dynamic doctoral students working in all periods (ancient to contemporary) of Japanese art history, very broadly conceived. If interested in the program, feel free to email me directly.
history and theory of art, with a primary focus on Japanese art, design, and aesthetics
Lara Ray
Professor
⭐ I will be accepting students into the Clinical Psychology PhD Program for the Fall of 2024. I can also serve as a secondary mentor for students in behavioral neuroscience.
I am interested in the etiology and treatment of substance use disorders, particularly alcohol use disorder. My program of research focuses on the integration of clinical psychology, pharmacology, and neuroscience. I am …
Louis S. Bouchard
Associate Professor · UCLA
⭐ We are currently recruiting students to work on three projects (machine learning, molecular kinetics and quantum computing).
Dr. Bouchard and his group conduct experimental research in physical & analytical chemistry, materials and bioengineering. The group is involved in the development of engineering solutions for immunotherapy, contrast age…
Mario Dipoppa
Principal Investigator · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ Students and researchers interested in pursuing computational neuroscience research are welcome to apply to join our vibrant laboratory.
Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience; canonical computations in the cerebral cortex; data-driven circuit models; biologically realistic deep learning models; abstract neural network models; machine learning methods…
Nikki Barry
Assistant Professor · UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
⭐ Yes: M.A. in Education
Yes: Ph.D. in Education
psychological research about the cognition of human reasoning and decision-making regarding environmental issues and applying these findings to the design of learning environments that support learners to build better cl…
Paul Boutros
Principal Investigator · David Geffen School of Medicine
⭐ We are rapidly growing: if you want to join us, check out the [UCLA Job site](https://www.uclahealth.org/hr/careers) for our current openings!
Cancer Data Sciences
Pradip Gatkine
Assistant Professor · University of California Los Angeles
⭐ We are looking for motivated undergrad/grad students and postdocs to work on developing innovative astrophotonic instrumentation in our lab. Interested students and postdocs from Optics/Photonics, Astronomy, Physics, and Engineering backgrounds are welcome to contact Dr. Gatkine. New postdoc opportu…
On-chip integrated astrophotonic spectrographs to measure cosmic dynamics from exoplanets and their atmospheres to distant galaxies; high redshift Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) to probe the conditions in the early universe, in…
Tommaso Treu
Professor at UCLA · UCLA
⭐ If you are looking for a PhD Thesis, please E-mail me.
If you are a PhD Student abroad and you are interested in a visiting position in my group at UCLA feel free to contact me.
1. Galaxy Formation and Evolution. Examples of my research can be found here.
2. Co-evolution of spheroids and black-holes.
3. Gravitational Lensing and dark matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
4. Cosmography fr…
Tuan Do
Associate Professor · UCLA
⭐ UCLA Graduate students - please contact Prof. Do for details. UCLA Undergraduates - our lab takes on new research students through the Physics and Astronomy Department Summer Undergraduate Research Program or the UC Leads program. Applications for these programs are due in Winter or Spring each year…
My research interest is in understanding the formation of the nuclei of galaxies and fundamental physics with astrophysical probes. I'm currently studying the composition and star formation history of the Milky Way nucle…
Valerie Arboleda
Associate Professor · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
⭐ The Arboleda Lab is looking for a post-doctoral research fellows and graduate students to support several projects. Please contact Valerie directly by email with questions about potential projects. We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. …
Dr. Arboleda’s research program studies the causal relationships between genetic variation and human disease from the clinical perspective. A major challenge in genomics is how to interpret DNA variation in the context o…
William Boyd
Professor of Law · UCLA
⭐ I am always interested in working with talented, motivated, and hard-working undergraduate and graduate students. If you are considering applying to the IoES Ph.D. program and are interested in working with me, please send me an email with CV or resume, 1-2 page statement of interest, and copies of …
energy law and regulation, climate change law and policy, environmental law, interdisciplinary field-based research on resource use and environmental change, political economy of natural resource industries, contemporary…
Ximin He
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE OFFICER · UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering
⭐ There are openings for postdocs and PhD students. Students with background in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Optics, and Mechanics, may send CV to ximinhe@ucla.edu
Dr. He’s research focuses on biologically inspired materials based on stimuli-responsive polymers and micro/nano-structure fabrication, for applications in biomedicine, environment, and energy. The interdisciplinary rese…
Zhongbo Kang
Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ Prospective postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students are encouraged to visit the Join Us page for information on research opportunities and application details.
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and strong interactions, high-energy physics phenomenology, parton physics, QCD collider physics, gluon saturation and heavy ion physics, quantum computing and machine learning for nuclear an…
James Lloyd Smith
Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ Jamie is appointed to the Lancet/PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover where he will co-lead the Scientific Evidence Working Group.
Dynamics of Zoonotic Infections, Leptospirosis in California Sea Lions, Evolutionary emergence of new pathogens, Mpox in the Congo Basin, Childhood imprinting to influenza A viruses
Laura Chávez-Moreno
Assistant Professor, Core Faculty
⭐ Dr. Chávez-Moreno welcomes applications from prospective graduate students who are interested in developing lines of research with these or similar topics:
- how education makes Latinidad
- the specificity of the Latinx racialized category in education
- teachers' racial-literacy practices
- teachin…
Chicanx/Latinx education
Critical race & ethnic studies in education
Relational racialization
Intersection of racialization, language, literacy, and education
Racial literacy
Bilingual education
Urban schooling
Teacher e…
Neil Lin
Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ Our work is currently supported by the NSF CMMI AM, NIH NIGMS MIRA, Hellman Fellowship, CNSI Noble Family Innovation Award, JCCC, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research.
Mechanobiology Foundation: We investigate how physical cues, such as cell-cell adhesion, substrate interactions, and microenvironmental stresses, shape cell behavior and tissue development. Digital Biology & AI-Driven Di…
Noah Zaitlin
Assistant Professor · University of California, Los Angeles
⭐ The lab is currently seeking highly motivated postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to join our team. Interested applicants should contact Noah Zaitlin directly.
Genome Integrity and Epigenetic Inheritance in C. elegans
Paul Boutros
Principal Investigator · Institute for Urologic Oncology
⭐ We are rapidly growing: if you want to join us, check out theUCLA Jobsitefor our current openings!
Cancer Data Sciences. Our passion is cancer research. Not just cancer research into furthering our knowledge of this terrible disease: we are absolutely committed to changing clinical practice by developing highly person…
University of California, Berkeley 34 hiring
Abhishek Kaicker
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ I generally welcome graduate students who are interested in the history of early modern South Asia to apply to the PhD program in the department. Applicants are encouraged to submit statements of purpose that clearly and compellingly delineate a proposed course of historical investigation.
Please n…
I am an historian of Persianate South Asia (c. 1200-1900) with focus on the history of the Mughal empire. I am interested in questions of intellectual history and the history of concepts; early modern global history; rel…
Albert Ruhi
Associate Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
⭐ We are always interested in inquiries from motivated students and postdocs. If you are interested in our research program please contact the lab at: albert.ruhi@berkeley.edu
Freshwater ecology, biodiversity conservation, community ecology, global change
Allon Wagner
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ I am accepting new students every year. If you are interested in working with me, please apply to our PhD program, mention my name as a potential research advisor, and list CS-BIO or AI-SCI as your major area. This guarantees that your application will be forwarded to me for review. Once you're shor…
Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO), Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Andrew Wooyoung Kim
· College of Letters & Science
⭐ Interested students, researchers, and practitioners are encouraged to contact Dr. Kim for potential opportunities in and collaborations with the Kim Lab.
Intergenerational trauma, culture and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health and disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonia…
Angjoo Kanazawa
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ Dear prospective students: Click here for information. Thank you for your interest in joining my group! Sorry I can't respond to your email if you ask me about PhD admissions, please apply directly through the department, thank you! PhD applicants: I will be looking to hire one or two graduate stude…
My research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. We live in a 3D world that is dynamic, full of life with people and animals interacting with each other and the environmen…
Asad Q. Ahmed
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures · College of Letters & Science
⭐ Professor Ahmed is very happy to receive queries and applications from students wishing to pursue doctoral studies in his fields of interest and expertise, and he welcomes manuscripts of books and articles for publication in the venues noted above.
Arabo-Islamic philosophy and theology, with a special focus on logic and epistemology; classical Arabic poetry and poetics; Hadith studies; Tafsir; and Graeco-Arabic
Christopher W. Fletcher
Associate Professor · University of California, Berkeley
⭐ I am always looking for talented PhD students. If you are interested in joining my group, please make sure to apply to Berkeley in December, and list me under 'Faculty Interest'. Please do not email directly me about PhD supervision before you have been admitted (unless we have met in some professio…
Eric Y. Ma
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ Potential postdocs, graduate, and undergrad students can send me an email with your CV to start the conversation. Join us and be part of an exciting journey to build a state-of-the-art optics & optoelectronic lab from scratch!
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science
Frances Hellman
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters & Science
⭐ We currently have openings for graduate students in a variety of projects, including studying the thermodynamics of magnetocaloric materials, multilayer systems, semiconductor nanowires, and various magnetic materials.
Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science, Biophysics, Astrophysics
Jack P. Moehle
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Engineering
⭐ Professor Moehle is no longer accepting new graduate students or visiting scholars.
Design and analysis of structural systems, Earthquake engineering, Reinforced concrete construction, New & existing buildings , Lifeline systems, Rehabilitation (retrofitting)
Justin Davidson
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ For prospective and current undergraduate and graduate students, the MuHSiC project offers the opportunity to engage first-hand in corpus-based sociolinguistic research. Undergraduate and graduate students are openly invited to collaborate in data analysis, leading to possibilities for advanced (His…
Sociolinguistics, contact linguistics and language contact, language variation and change, Romance linguistics, quantitative methods (statistics, variable rule analyses for sociolinguistics, and computer software for sta…
Lynn Huntsinger
Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Russell Rustici Chair in Rangeland Management, Head graduate advisor Rangeland and Wildlife Management · Rausser College of Natural Resources
⭐ Note: Lynn Huntsinger is retiring and is not accepting graduate students.
Rangeland conservation and management
Maureen C. Miller
Professor, Jane K. Sather Professor of History · College of Letters & Science
⭐ Potential Grad Students — Please note, I am no longer admitting new graduate students.
My research and teaching explores the extraordinary capacity of individuals and societies for change, using the rapid transformation of Europe over the eleventh and twelfth centuries as a lense to interogate contemporary…
Nicolas Tackett
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ Note to prospective graduate students: Due to current department priorities, I am not currently accepting graduate students to work with me.
Chinese elite society (7th to 12th centuries), meritocracy / Song political culture, Northeast Asian interstate relations (10th-13th c.), frontiers, nationalism, death and death rituals, Tang capital cities
Rhona S. Weinstein
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters & Science
⭐ I am not accepting students
Community psychology (children, schools, and community settings): Classroom/school processes and positive development; expectations about ability and self-fulfilling prophecies; educational equity and school reform.
Samantha "Sam" Lewis
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ We are currently recruiting postdocs, graduate students, technicians and undergrads!
mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Sunaura Taylor
Assistant Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
⭐ NOTE FOR PHD APPLICANTS: I am accepting students for the 2024 application cycle. Please know I only bring graduate students into my lab who work in the areas of critical disability studies/crip studies. In addition I advise students working in critical animal studies and multispecies justice. Please…
Disability studies/crip theory; ableism; animal studies/ethics; multispecies justice; environmental humanities; ecofeminism; environmental justice
Yuan Cao
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ Prof. Yuan Cao is looking for highly self-motivated perspective graduate student and postdoctoral researchers in the field of 2D materials, low-temperature electrical transport, nanophotonics, metamaterials, MEMS and related fields, starting 2024 fall. Previous nanofabrication experience is a bonus.
His primary research interest is in the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional materials, and how to engineer these properties and find applications for them using cross-disiplinary approaches …
Alexis Kaminski
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ho-Shang and Mei-Li Lee Faculty Fellow · College of Engineering
⭐ November 2021 – update for graduate recruitment: I am recruiting PhD students to start in fall 2022! For more information, please see https://akkaminski.github.io
Stratified flows, hydrodynamic instabilities, transition to turbulence, mixing and entrainment, internal waves, non-normal stability, upper-ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical and environmental fluid dynam…
Asir Intisar Khan
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ Prof. Khan is always seeking highly motivated graduate students, and undergraduate researchers with a strong interest in transformative materials, devices, and their heterogeneous integration for energy-efficient electronics.
Physical Electronics (PHY), Power and Energy (ENE), Electronic Materials
Emmeline Chuang
Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Professor and Mack Distinguished Professor Emmeline Chuang's research focuses on how health and human service organizations can improve service access and well-being of underserved populations, with a specific focus on: …
Evan A. Variano
Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS:
The best way to get involved with Professor Variano’s research is to apply to the UC Berkeley graduate program in Civil and Environmental Engineering. You will likely have some questions about this process, which are best answered by our Graduate Admissions Advisor, In…
Environmental fluid dynamics, Novel imaging for flow measurements, Mixing & transport by turbulence, Flow & transport in wetlands, Hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms, Aerosol transport, Inquiry & inclusive educati…
Jamie Chang
Acting Associate Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Dr. Chang’s research involves investigating the structural determinants that impact the health of unhoused people, focusing on the role of social policies (e.g. encampment sweeps) on unhoused people’s health outcomes. Re…
Jennifer Skeem
Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Behavioral Health and Prevention/Intervention
Community, Organizational and Policy Development
Jose Eos Trinidad
Assistant Professor of Education and Organizational Studies · Berkeley School of Education
⭐ Application season is usually from September to December, with deadline in early December. I am open to advising students focused on (1) cross-sector partnerships, (2) education policy, (3) organizational/ sociological theory, and/or (4) causal inference. Feel free to email me about what you plan to…
Causal Inference, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Organizations
Maria Laura Delle Monache
Clare & Hsieh Wen Shen Distinguished Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ Perspective students: Students interested in joining the lab are encouraged to apply in the PhD programs in Systems Engineering and Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley.
Traffic flow modeling, Transportation systems, Traffic control
Neil Gilbert
Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Systems of Care for Children/Families/Older Adults
Comparative Welfare State Analysis
Child Welfare
Evaluation Research
Family Policy
Social Security
Paul Sterzing
Associate Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Adolescent violence and victimization
Polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents
Bullying involvement roles and mental health
Sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions
Impact of family-level micro…
Peter Jenks
professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ Students with research interests in these areas, particularly those investigating formal syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, morphology, or the syntax-phonology interface, with strong training in these areas and a clear research trajectory are encouraged to contact me to inquire about our PhD pr…
syntax-semantics interface; syntax-phonology interface; definiteness, quantification, and relative clauses; how phonological rules, especially those which are sensitive to prosody, are or are not syntactically constraine…
Pierluigi Nuzzo
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ I am accepting students! Read about how to apply.
Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation (CPSDA), Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR), Integrated Circuits (INC), Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Power and Energy…
Sean Darling-Hammond
Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences · School of Public Health
⭐ Available for Advising
K-12 policies and practices, Exclusionary discipline, Restorative practices, School policing, Racial bias, Belonging, Child and adolescent mental health, Stress and cognitive decline
Valerie Shapiro
Associate Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ View postdoc opportunities.
Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainability of Effective Prevention Practices
Systemic and Transformation Social and Emotional Learning
Infrastructure to Promote the Use of Research Evidence and Provide Implementation S…
Zachary A. Pardos
Associate Professor of Education · Berkeley School of Education
⭐ I am currently accepting grad students and undergraduate research assistants. Consult tiny.cc/zpUCB to schedule a meeting.
adaptive learning and AI. His current research focuses on knowledge representation and recommender systems approaches to increasing upward mobility in postsecondary education using behavioral and semantic data.
Zaijun Chen
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ I am accepting students! Read about how to apply.
Physical Electronics (PHY), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC), Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Integrated Circuits (INC)
Rice University 236 hiring
Akihiko Urayama
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Brain function is maintained in a well-controlled environment which is separated from the systemic milieu. The mechanisms that regulate the unique environment of the brain are collectively referred as the blood-brain bar…
Alejandro Aballay
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Alejandro Aballay's lab has a broad research program encompassing genetics, functional genomics and neurobiological approaches to study mechanisms involved in the control of immune responses against microbial pathogens. …
Alemayehu Gorfe
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
A major interest of our lab is to understand the thermodynamic principles of specificity in cell signaling and molecular transport by means of computational and theoretical techniques. The advent of petaflop computationa…
Alexis Bavencoffe
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We are studying new cellular targets to treat chronic pain, with an emphasis on patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). After SCI or chemotherapy, primary nociceptors…
Ali Azhdarinia
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research is at the interface of chemistry and biology and is focused on the development of targeted agents for the visualization and treatment of disease. Using novel chemistry platforms, my laboratory produces contra…
Andrea Stavoe
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Stavoe lab is interested in elucidating and understanding the molecular mechanisms of neuronal homeostasis during aging. Specifically, we are examining how the autophagy pathway is regulated in neurons during aging. …
Andrew Dunbar
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Dunbar lab seeks to explore the mechanisms driving clonal evolution in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs), a rare form of chronic blood cancer. Left untreated, MPNs are lethal—occurring as a result of progressive bo…
Andrew Pountain
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My lab uses experimental and computational techniques to understand the systems biology of gene regulation in microbes and microbial pathogens. We use advanced transcriptional technologies, particularly bacterial single …
Andrew Sikora
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Andrew Sikora is a head and neck cancer surgeon and tumor immunologist with a passion for improving patient outcomes through translational research. His research focuses on the immunobiology of head and neck cancer and o…
Andrew Song
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research group is dedicated to building next-generation AI tools for computational pathology, grounded in rigorous principles of statistical inference, with the overarching goal of deciphering multi-scale oncologic c…
Andrey Tsvetkov
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
G-quadruplexes in the brain
DNA and RNA sequences containing four stretches of guanines are able to form tetra-stranded stable structures called the G-quadruplex (G4-DNA and G4-RNA). Although G4-DNA and G4-RNA have been …
Anil Sood
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on mechanisms of cancer invasion and metastasis in ovarian and other cancers. Specifically, my research is focused in three main areas: 1) effect of neuroendocrine stress hormones on ovarian cancer gr…
Anna Konovalova
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Bacterial Cell Envelope Homeostasis. My research program is focused on how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain the integrity of their cell envelope, the hallmark of which is the outer membrane (OM). The OM is an es…
Anna Lee
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Improving the therapeutic ratio in the re-irradiation setting, the psychosocial impact of radiation therapy in patients and gender equity in the medical field. Specifically, I am looking at clinical outcomes of patients …
Anne-Marie Krachler
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We take a highly interdisciplinary approach to study information exchange at the bacteria-host interface. The main questions driving this work are “How do bacteria perceive the host and react to switch on colonization an…
Aria Vaishnavi
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Vaishnavi lab’s broad research interests focus on improving our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that drive initiation, maintenance, and progression of lung adenocarcinoma and to use those findings to identi…
Ashley Makela
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
cancer stem cells, brain metastasis, extracellular vesicles, tumor microenvironment, drug delivery, hypoxia, molecular imaging, bioluminescence, magnetic particle imaging, breast cancer
Benjamin Schrank
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The primary research focus of the Schrank Lab is to enhance the immune system's ability to detect and eliminate tumors that resist traditional immunotherapies. Our lab achieves this goal by targeting genome instability a…
Bhanu Priya Ganesh
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
gut-brain axis, bacterial therapy, amyloid beta, Alzheimer’s, stroke, infectious diseases, pathogens, immunology, microglia, metabolomics, amino acid metabolites, mucus barrier and host-microbe interaction
Bharti Manwani
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Stroke is the major cause of disability in United States and is known to be a sexually dimorphic disease. Women have worse outcomes and bear the major burden of post-stroke disability from ischemic strokes. Cardio-emboli…
Bin Wang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
DNA damage response; genomic instability and cancer; BRCA1 signaling; ubiquitin signaling
Bingjie Zhang
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Developing advanced multiomic single-cell technologies to investigate the molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis; Exploring epigenetic regulation underlying cancer plasticity and drug resistance; Understanding how differe…
Bisrat Debeb
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Research in my laboratory focuses on uncovering the molecular determinants of breast cancer aggressiveness, metastasis, and therapy resistance. Specifically, our efforts aim to: (i) identify and target the molecular driv…
Blaine Bartholomew
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Regulation of nuclear organization and chromatin dynamics by ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers. ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers are the gatekeepers of the cell and are crucial for maintaining cells in a pluripotent s…
Boyi Gan
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
cancer metabolism, ferroptosis, and cancer therapy
Burton Dickey
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Mucin Secretion
The principal focus of our laboratory is the molecular mechanism and pathophysiologic significance of airway mucin secretion. We use a mouse genetic approach that allows us both to gain fundamental insig…
Callie Kwartler
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Moyamoya disease (MMD), characterized by bilateral progressive stenosis and occlusion of the internal carotid arteries, is a common cause of stroke in children. Currently, the only treatment for MMD patients is surgical …
Cara Haymaker
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Defining the tumor immune microenvironment in rare solid tumors such as malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) and sarcoma where responses to immunotherapy strategies are lacking. Theme 1 is focused on investigating ways t…
Carmen Dessauer
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Regulation of adenylyl cyclase and cyclic AMP signaling
Cassian Yee
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Cancer immunotherapy, the use of the immune system to combat cancer, is a rapidly emerging field of research that has recently gained foothold in the clinic as a treatment modality. My laboratory works on the development…
Catherine Denicourt
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The G1 phase of the cell cycle is a critical period during which cells decide whether to proliferate or stay quiescent, depending on molecular checkpoints. Human tumors frequently have alterations in cell cycle regulator…
Chad Huff
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Graduate students in my lab would receive extensive, hands-on training in bioinformatics and computational genomics. Students will have the opportunity to take a leadership role in the identification of novel cancer-susceptibility loci from large-scale, next-generation sequencing projects. Students …
Research in my lab is concentrated on understanding human evolution and the genetic basis of human disease through statistical, computational, and population genomics. Our work spans a number of human genetics subdiscipl…
Charles Darkoh
Professor and R. Palmer Beasley, M.D. & Lu Yu Hwang, M.D. Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Global Health · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory focuses on microbial pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, and the molecular basis of enteric infectious diseases to identify and understand the mechanisms of action of novel virulence factors, pathways, an…
Chengyue Wu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The value of computational modeling in precision cancer healthcare cannot be overstated. Emerging developments in cancer assessment techniques and therapeutics offer numerous opportunities to detect cancers earlier, moni…
Chirag Patel
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
This interdisciplinary and translational laboratory studies the biology of glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of primary brain cancer in adults. With the hope of ultimately improving outcomes for patients with…
Christopher Johnston
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Over the last decade, extensive research has uncovered the presence of a distinct microbes within tumors across gastrointestinal tract cancers, which can persist in metastatic disease, and which differ among individual c…
Chunru Lin
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Recent insights have revealed the functional role of various classes of noncoding RNA molecules, especially in answering questions that have proven unviable with the central dogma of biology and conventional protein path…
Claudio Soto
Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
For the past 15 years, Dr. Soto's group has been engaged in research into the molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases associated to the misfolding and brain accumulation of proteins, particularly focusing in Alzhei…
Daniel Frigo
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Steroid hormones are chemicals that are made in one part of our body and can travel great distances to signal specific events in other parts of our body. At the molecular level, steroid hormones communicate by binding to…
Danielle Garsin
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
C. elegans as a model host for understanding the genetics of bacterial infection
David Grosshans
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory is focused on two main projects. The first is exploring the cellular mechanisms of radiation induced cognitive decline. Radiation plays an essential role in the treatment of brain tumors, with nearly 200,0…
David Tweardy
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
David Tweardy is a physician-scientist with a career-long interest in cytokine signaling, immunity, and oncogenesis. His research has focused on identifying structural and biochemical features of signaling proteins and o…
Devarati Mitra
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research efforts are focused on improving outcomes for cancer patients receiving radiation therapy to skin and superficial tissue targets using translational laboratory-based approaches spanning the spectrum of cell b…
Devika Soundara Manickam
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
drug delivery, extracellular vesicles, mitochondria, proteins, BBB, LNPs, ionic liquids
Diana Proctor
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Six Candida species are classified by the World Health Organization as critical and high-priority fungal threats, with infections from non-albicans species rising globally. While Candida typically colonizes healthy indiv…
Dianna Milewicz
Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Research in the Milewicz lab is focused on genetically triggered vascular diseases, including thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections, atherosclerosis, and moyamoya disease. For all these vascular diseases, premature d…
Dihua Yu
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory performs basic and translational cancer research at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC). Our laboratory functions as a bridge connecting basic and translational cancer research to important issues in c…
Dongjoo Choi
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Choi's research program focuses on the functional heterogeneity of glial cells, particularly astrocytes and microglia, in neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors. His lab investigates novel subpopulations of reac…
Dung-Fang Lee
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our research is dedicated to unraveling the enhanced functions of mutant p53, a protein implicated in the development of various cancers. By understanding how mutant p53 promotes cancer, we aim to identify potential stra…
E. Scott Kopetz
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The goal of research in my laboratory is an understanding of the therapeutic vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer, including those induced by oncogenes and tumor plasticity. The focus of the research is evaluation of tar…
Edgar Walters
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
We investigate pain-, injury-, and memory-associated plasticity in species ranging from humans to invertebrates. Our current emphasis is on mechanisms in mammalian nociceptors that are important drivers of persistent pai…
Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Vilar-Sanchez is a physician-scientist and a medical oncologist by training. His clinical expertise and practice are devoted to the care of patients and families diagnosed with Hereditary Cancer Syndromes with a spec…
Emil Schueler
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The overall objective of our lab is on developing the next generation biology-driven radiation treatment technologies and studying their unique biological effects in preparation for clinical translation. Our work lies in…
Emily Keung
Associate Member, Assistant Professor - Vice Chair of Research · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Soft tissue sarcomas, molecular pathogenesis, tumor immune microenvironment, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, experimental and computational approaches, biospecimens, therapeutic vulnera…
Ergys Subashi
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My work is focused on the development of MRI techniques for adaptive radiation therapy. I study and develop methods for improved target delineation by identifying functional tumor subunits with varying response to therap…
Eugene Koay
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Cancer Physics and Engineering Laboratory focuses on (1) the physical properties of cancer and how those relate to their biological underpinnings and (2) the engineering of patient-specific devices to improve cancer …
Eunhee Kim
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research is focused on evaluating molecular and genetic mechanisms, biomarkers, and inflammatory response involved in stroke pathology. Although stroke is one of the major causes of disability and death worldwide, tre…
Eunsu Park
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our glia-vascular biology lab seeks to understand how glia (microglia and astrocytes) interact with vascular cells to contribute to critical brain vascular diseases, particularly brain AVM, hemorrhagic stroke, vascular d…
Fabien Delerue
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Synthetic Biology (SynBio) encompasses transgenesis, gene editing, gene therapy, rare genetic disorders and assisted reproductive technologies. Dr Delerue's research focuses essentially on streamlining gene transfer tech…
Fabricio Do Monte
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Do Monte Lab focuses on understanding the neural circuits and mechanisms underlying emotional memories. We are particularly interested in elucidating how fear- and reward-associated memories interact to generate the …
Faraz Bishehsari
Professor · McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
I am the director of the Gastroenterology Research Center (GRC), a new multidisciplinary gastroenterology research center at McGovern Medical School. The GRC integrates translational research with patient care, focusing …
Federica Pisaneschi
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Radiopharmaceuticals (RPs) are drugs that leverage radiation to exert their diagnostic or therapeutic effect. The type of radioisotope and its emitted radiation dictates whether an RP is a diagnostic agent for nuclear mo…
Francesca Cole
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
DNA Repair by Homologous Recombination
Francisco Vega
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Dr. Francisco Vega is a Professor and the Lymphoma Section Head in the Department of Hematopathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC). Dr. Vega is an internationally recognized expert in lymphoma who is routinely inv…
Fuqing Wu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Infectious viral diseases, wastewater-based surveillance, molecular virology, genomic sequencing, mathematical modeling, viral metagenomics, microbiome and medicine
Gab Seok Kim
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We are investigating the role of interferon signaling and reactive oxygen species following stroke, as well as signal transduction in cerebrovascular diseases. Current research focuses on understanding the molecular and …
Gabriel Sawakuchi
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
We are a radiobiology laboratory interested in DNA repair research. Our goal is to develop strategies to sensitize tumors to radiation using DNA repair defects to induce direct radiosensitization or to enhance immunostim…
George Eisenhoffer, Jr.
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
zebrafish development and genetics; epithelial tissue homeostasis; regeneration; stem cells; cell extrusion; metastasis
Georgene Hergenroeder
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research interests are primarily in spinal cord and brain injury. My work in biomarker discovery and inflammation led me to evaluating autoantibody production after human spinal cord injury (SCI). Studies using experi…
Georgios Karras
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Protein Homeostasis and Cancer Evolution
Geraldine Raja
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
The advances in therapeutic agents have rendered most cancers curable, especially when diagnosed in the early stages. However, despite the advent of targeted therapies and immunotherapy, cancer metastasis and recurrence …
Gohar Manzar
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Natural killer (NK) cell biology, radiation therapy, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cell therapy, pediatric solid tumors
Guillermina Lozano
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
the p53 tumor suppressor pathway; mouse tumor models
Han Chen
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research interests mainly focus on statistical genetics and genomics, including computational methods for analyzing large-scale sequencing data, parametric and semiparametric statistical models for correlated data ana…
Han Liang
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The fundamental question driving our research paradigm is how to take full advantage of cancer genomic data to elucidate the molecular basis of human cancer and develop effective therapeutic strategies, thereby contribut…
Han Xu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Computational and Systems Biology
Hanseul Kim
Assistant Professor · The University Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on understanding how diet and the gut microbiome work together to influence the development of gastrointestinal (GI) and liver diseases, including colorectal cancer and liver cancer. I use large human…
Hemanth Mohan
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Mohan Lab is focused on understanding the neural circuit mechanisms that govern the transformation of sensation to action to drive goal directed behaviors. Sensory inputs from peripheral organs, such as the skin and …
Hind Rafei
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Overcoming immunosuppressive barriers in the tumor microenvironment (TME) to advance adoptive cell therapies for cancer; T and NK cell therapies; interplay between epigenetics and metabolism; enhancing efficacy of cellul…
Hojong Yoon
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Yoon Lab focuses on developing innovative small-molecule drugs to target previously undruggable proteins and to elucidate drug mechanisms at the molecular level. By integrating chemical biology, protein biochemistry,…
Honami Naora
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Research in the Naora Laboratory is directed to investigating the mechanisms of metastatic organotropism, with a focus on cellular dynamics in peritoneal metastasis. Whereas metastasis to various distal sites occurs thro…
Hongyuan Yang
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The primary goal of my laboratory is to understand the molecular mechanisms governing the sorting, trafficking, and storage of cellular lipids in health and disease. A major direction has been to define how lipid droplet…
Hussein Abbas
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Abbas lab aims to identify novel vulnerabilities and mechanisms of response/resistance to in leukemias (blood cancers) focusing on both intrinsic (leukemia-specific) and extrinsic (immunobiology, stroma, niche) facto…
Irina Serysheva
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Cell function depends on the continuous flow of molecules into and out of the cell and between intracellular compartments. Understanding the structural basis of ion transport is one of the most important frontiers in str…
Iwan Paolucci
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My main areas of research include artificial intelligence and stereotactic and robotic image-guidance for treatment of hepatobiliary malignancies with a strong focus on thermal ablation of primary and secondary malignant…
J. Christian Perez
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory uses a variety of experimental and computational approaches to gain insights into (1) gene regulatory circuits and (2) microbial interactions with the mammalian host. Transcriptional circuits are central to…
Jayhun Lee
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Developmental regulation of parasite survival and immune evasion by Schistosoma. Schistosomes are parasitic flatworms that cause schistosomiasis, a major parasitic disease that affects over 200 million people globally. A…
Jean Gautier
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Many, if not all cancers have unstable genomes. Genomic instability often arises from defects in DNA repair that can drive cancer development; yet the inability of cancer cells to faithfully repair DNA makes them vulnera…
Jeffrey Molldrem
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory has a longstanding interest in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the curative graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect mediated by donor T cells against recipient leukemia following allogeneic stem…
Jennifer Walker
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
We blend multiple scientific disciplines to define the host-pathogen interactions that determine the onset, course, and outcome of chronic infections. Using medical device infections as a model for chronic infections, we…
Jia Wu
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Biomarkers that can stratify patients with clinical relevance are critically needed for precision medicine in the cancer field. However, spatial heterogeneity of molecular subpopulations within a tumor has posed critical…
Jian Hu
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research focus of Hu lab is on stem cells and glial biology in the central nervous system (CNS), particularly under the context of glioma and neurodegenerative diseases. Malignant glioma is the most common and lethal…
Jianjun Gao
Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory conducts translational research that leverages clinical biospecimens and data to investigate the mechanisms of response, resistance, and toxicity to immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and chemotherapy in pati…
Jihye Yun
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory aims to identify dietary factors that can affect tumorigenesis and understand the molecular basis for the relationship between diet and colorectal cancer using preclinical model systems. In this regard, w…
Jinzhong Yang
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Advanced Adaptive Radiation Therapy, medical image computing for radiation oncology applications, novel image segmentation and deformable registration algorithms for multi-modality images, MR-guided online adaptive radio…
Jiyang Cai
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The back of the eye has immune privilege and under physiological conditions is protected from overt inflammation and autoimmune responses. With aging and age-related degeneration of the outer retina and the retinal pigme…
Jlenia Guarnerio
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Tumor cells constantly interact with the surrounding "normal" cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME), and these interactions are crucial for tumor growth and progression. Understanding this crosstalk is essential for …
Joo Eun Jung
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Main research interest in Dr. Jung's lab is to identify novel cells-to cells communication, which contributes to stroke recovery via mitochondria-derived small peptides (MDPs) in neurovascular unit. Dr. Jung has been inv…
Joseph Butner
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Butner’s research is focused on using mathematical and computational methods to discover causes of cancer treatment failure, identify new calculable biomarkers, and find methods to engineer personalized treatment str…
Joseph McCarty
Professor & Vice Chair · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The brain is the most vascularized organ in the human body. Its billions of neurons and glia are interconnected with an elaborate network of blood vessels that display many unique features, including a blood-brain barrie…
Joya Chandra
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our lab conducts multidisciplinary translational research in pediatric oncology therapy and survivorship with an emphasis on brain tumor and leukemia therapeutics and roles for modifiable behaviors in treatment outcomes.…
Juan Ocampo Ramos
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Dr. Juan Camilo Ocampo Ramos's research focuses on advancing the field of imaging physics and nuclear medicine through the development of innovative dosimetry tools and methodologies. His work emphasizes personalized dos…
Juli Bai
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research of Dr. Bai's lab is dedicated to unraveling novel mechanisms underlying the intricate interplay between immune regulation and metabolic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated…
Julia Tomasson
Assistant Professor of the History of Premodern Science and Technology
⭐ Professor Tomasson is happy to oversee independent studies, honors theses, and mentored research opportunities through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF) and Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program (RUSP). Tomasson also welcomes inquiries from graduate students (current and prospect…
History of Science; Science and Technology Studies; History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Mathematics; Historical Epistemology; Global Histories of Knowledge; Afro-Eurasia before 1800
Julio Cordero-Morales
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The long-term objective of my group is to uncover the mechanism(s) by which bioactive lipids modulate the function of vascular and sensory ion channels in vitro and in vivo. Members of the transient receptor potential (T…
Jun Wang
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Wang lab research is aimed at understanding signaling pathways such as Hippo, Wnt and Bmp pathways as well as non-coding RNAs in regulating craniofacial and heart development, diseases and regeneration. For example, one …
Jun-ichi Abe
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Many of the anticancer agents can lead to significant vascular complications, such as angina, myocardial infarction, venous or arterial thrombosis, and newly developed or worsened hypertension. These vascular events coul…
Junchen Liu
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Liu's lab combines high resolution imaging and pharmacogenetic approaches coupled with mouse cancer models to study how glycosylated lipids regulate KRAS oncogenesis. Oncogenic KRAS mutations occur at a high rate in …
Jyotika Sharma
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Using state of the art techniques and resources including unique transgenic mouse lines (many of which are not available commercially); and human patient samples, my laboratory is investigating neutrophil functions in ac…
Ke Li
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Li's research program focuses on two main areas: advancing CT and cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging technologies, and translating these innovations into clinical practice for improved cancer diagnosis and treatment. The Li…
Ken Chen
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My Lab is interested in comprehensively and accurately constructing the genomes and the transcriptomes of various cancer cell populations towards understanding the heterogeneity and the evolution of cancer as a consequen…
Kendra Carmon
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We are focused on identifying new targets for therapeutic development and investigating their function and signaling mechanisms in cancer. One of the targets our lab is studying is Leucine-rich repeat-containing G protei…
Kenneth Hu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Understanding how immune checkpoint blockade propagates through the multicellular network of the tumor microenvironment and draining lymphoid tissue is essential to improving its efficacy and response rate. Specifically,…
Keran Ma
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Ma lab aims to understand neuron-glia interactions and cellular dysfunction underlying behavioral disturbances in Alzheimer's disease at the molecular, cellular, circuit and network levels. We are interested in inves…
Keri Schadler
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
In the Schadler lab, we have two broad categories of interest: tumor vascular biology and the utilization of moderate aerobic exercise as a therapeutic adjuvant during cancer treatment or stem cell transplant. We use mou…
Kevin McBride
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Programmed DNA Damage and Immune System Diversity
Khandan Keyomarsi
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research in my laboratory is focused on the development of novel strategies for treatment and prognosis of breast cancer by combining experimental therapeutics with cell biology while targeting the cell cycle. To thi…
Kirk Roberts
Associate Professor · School of Biomedical Informatics
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
I am a methodologist in natural language processing (NLP) for biomedicine. Specifically, this means I see to advance the methods developed for biomedical NLP. I have published almost 200 scientific articles and am an int…
Kuang-Lei Tsai
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Human diseases are often caused by abnormal gene expression, such as cancer. In human cells, gene expression is tightly regulated by many macromolecular complexes, such as coactivators, chromatin remodeling complexes, an…
Kunal Rai
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Cancer cells acquire genetic and epigenetic alterations that drive progression through multiple steps of tumor evolution. We have limited understanding of the extent and nature of epigenetic alterations in cancers and th…
Kwong-Kwok Wong
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory is interested in deciphering the molecular pathogenesis of ovarian cancer with a translational goal to identify potential prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets for individualized therapy. My current…
Laura Goetzl
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Goetzl lab focuses on translational research in perinatal brain injury. Specifically, we explore mechanisms of fetal brain alterations related to three major areas of exposure: 1) Hypoxia/Ischemia 2) Viral infections…
Lawrence Kwong
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our lab focuses primarily on cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer), melanoma, and bladder cancer, with an emphasis on drug resistance, discovery of novel drug combinations, mouse modeling, patient sample analyses, and om…
Li Ma
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
breast cancer metastasis; breast tumor radioresistance & drug resistance; regulation of key breast cancer proteins & pathways by deubiquitining enzymes
Linghua Wang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our Laboratory at MD Anderson Cancer Center is a computational biology research lab. We develop and apply innovative bioinformatics approaches to dissect the tumor 'ecosystem', deeply profile tumor cells and the cells of…
Liuqing Yang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Although relatively unexplored, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are aberrantly expressed in a broad spectrum of cancers and are involved in promoting and maintaining cancer cell characteristics. The implicated functions o…
Long-Jun Wu
Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Wu's research mainly focuses on neuroimmune interaction in health and disease. Particularly, he is interested in studying the role of microglia, the highly dynamic immune cells in the central nervous system, in clini…
Luigi Perelli
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Why do normal cells become tumor cells? My team's research program aims to advance our knowledge in this area of cancer biology to discover molecular hallmarks of malignant transformation. My group is focused on malignan…
Marian Kalocsay
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Our new lab at MD Anderson is looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students to elucidate cancer-relevant molecular mechanisms in Immune Checkpoint signaling. We apply top-notch quantitative multiplexed TMT mass spectrometry with newest instruments. Come join a great diverse team and help find innovati…
The Kalocsay lab is using quantitative mass spectrometry to understand receptor signaling. We have pioneered proximity sensitive proteomics to precisely define functional interactions in situ at unprecedented temporal an…
Marianna Trakala
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory investigates how chromosomal instability (CIN) and aneuploidy—hallmarks of cancer—impact tissue homeostasis, tumor development, and immune surveillance. We aim to understand the physiological responses to c…
Mark A. Torres
Associate Professor, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
⭐ Dr. Torres does not consider GRE scores as part of his admission criteria and would prefer that prospective graduate students DO NOT submit these scores as part of their applications.
Biogeochemistry, Isotope geochemistry, Hydrology, Geomorphology, Geobiology.
Mark Hamilton
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of lymphoma. DLBCL is treated in the first line with chemoimmunotherapy and in the second line with CAR T-cell therapy. Lymphoma therapy is curative in the fi…
Mary (Cindy) Farach-Carson
Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Extracellular matrix plays a central role in cell and tissue form and function. The growth promoting activities of instructive extracellular matrices provide a very rich environment to study both normal and abnormal path…
Matthew DeBerge
Assistant Professor · McGovern School of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The general area of our research is the origin and role of inflammation in homeostasis and disease. We are particularly interested in the cellular and molecular regulation of inflammatory signaling during cardiovascular …
Melvin Klegerman
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The molecular targeting program of the cardiology research laboratories is focused on liposomal (and other particulate) targeting strategies aimed at developing improved modalities for diagnosis and treatment of cardiova…
Michael Curran
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Understanding the origins of immune privilege and T cell suppression in the coldest tumors, prostate and pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma; suppressive myeloid stroma; tumor metabolism; tumor hypoxia; hypermetabolism; S…
Michael R. King
E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering & CPRIT Scholar
⭐ Research in the King Laboratory is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, and a major award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). We are currently growing our team by recruiting outstanding postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, especially tho…
Mechanobiology, Cellular and Molecular Engineering, Immunoengineering & Cancer, Drug Delivery, Cell Therapies, Nanomedicine
Mikhail Bogdanov
Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Topobiology (lipid and protein topogenesis) and bioconformatics. Lipid-assisted dynamic membrane protein topogenesis. Dynamic membrane asymmetry. Lipochaperones. Bacterial envelope remodeling and development of resistanc…
Min Sup Song
Associate Member, Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Our laboratory focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms responsible for molecular pathogenesis of cancer, aging, and metabolic disorder. In particular, we are interested in identifying novel regulatory mechani…
Mohamed Naser
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research focuses on developing artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) models to optimize cancer treatment, predict patient outcomes, and improve clinical decision-making. I special…
Muxuan Liang
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research program focuses on advancing statistical and machine learning (ML) methods to enable personalized decision-making in healthcare. I develop innovative approaches in three interconnected areas: individualized t…
Nami McCarty
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
One of my lab main interests is to delineate the mechanisms of cancer dormancy and proliferation. We aim to delineate how changes in metabolism including protein synthesis and degradation regulate cancer dormancy and pro…
Natividad Roberto Fuentes, Jr.
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Proteins are often credited as the macromolecule responsible for performing critical cellular functions, however lipids have recently garnered more attention as our understanding of their role in cell function and human …
Nicholas De Lay
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Role of sRNAs in shaping bacterial behavior
Nitin Tandon
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Human language
Neural decoding of speech and BCI
Neural prostheses development
Population mapping of language and reading
Intra-cranial EEG (neural recording in humans)
Electrical cortical stimulation mapping
Imaging (e.…
Paige Taylor
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Palaniraja Thandapani
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our lab study mechanisms governing plasticity of mRNA translation during tumorigenesis, specifically how deregulation of transfer RNA (tRNA) pathways favor codon biased translation of oncogenic programs in leukemia. Thro…
Paul Scheet
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My main research involves the development of statistical methods for the analysis of population genetic data. Specifically, I work with models for linkage disequilibrium (LD), and develop applications for taking proper a…
Pawel Mazur
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ We are seeking strong candidates for three high-impact, cross-disciplinary research projects within the pancreatic and lung cancer research program (mdanderson.org/MazurLab). Current projects are supported by several multi-year grants focused on the development of novel targeted and immuno-therapeut…
Cancer Immunotherapy and Precision Medicine
Peeyush Thankamani Pandit
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Students will have the opportunity to contribute to our ongoing research aimed at repairing or rejuvenating cerebral vessels following stroke or Alzheimer’s disease. Another opportunity involves investigating the interactions between CNS endothelial cells and neurons in forming the complex six-layer…
In our lab, we focus on understanding the epigenetic and signaling mechanisms that regulate the development, maintenance, and repair of blood vessels in the central nervous system (CNS). Our groundbreaking discovery of a…
Peng Wei
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
The principal focus of my professional interests and expertise is to develop novel and powerful statistical methods motivated by emerging problems in biomedical research, in particular, genomics and genetics of complex h…
Peter Christie
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on a characterization of the mechanism by which bacteria deliver DNA and protein effector molecules across their cell envelopes and into eukaryotic target cells. Many medically and agriculturally impo…
Peter Van Loo
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
cancer genomics; tumor evolution; intra-tumor heterogeneity; cancer metastasis; genomics; epigenomics
Phuoc Tran
Professor & Chair · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory investigates the molecular and cellular pathways that drive the development, progression, and treatment response of prostate, lung, and liver cancers, with a particular emphasis on epithelial–mesenchymal pl…
Powel Brown
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ I am currently recruiting PhD students to rotate through the laboratory. Available projects include studies of critical molecules in triple-negative breast cancer including kinases (DAPK, MELK, RYK, and others), oncogenic phosphatases (PRL-3 and others), transcription factors (Sox, FOX, STAT transcr…
In my laboratory, we focus on identifying molecules that are necessary for the growth, survival, and transformation of breast cancers. We work to identifying the critical molecular pathways that control breast cell growt…
Priyatansh Gurha
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My primary research objective is to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression and contribute to the pathogenesis of heart failure. Within the context of this theme, we are investigating the…
Qingchun Tong
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The current obesity epidemic and its associated metabolic syndrome have imposed unprecedented challenges to society and medicine. Our research is directed to understand the fundamental mechanistic insights on key driving…
Rachel Miller
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
kidney development; planar cell polarity and Wnt signaling; primary cilia; morphogenesis; frog embryogenesis
Richard Cox
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Cox Lab explores the intricate biology of pancreatic islets, which orchestrate blood glucose control, and their role in metabolism, diabetes, and obesity. At the heart of this system are the insulin-producing beta ce…
Robert Orlowski
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory group's research efforts are focused on three areas, the first of which is identifying new genes and pathways that contribute to cancer pathogenesis in general, and the pathobiology of multiple myeloma and …
Rodrigo Romero
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Romero laboratory studies the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that govern lineage plasticity and therapy resistance in cancer. We seek to understand how tumor cells change identity in response to genetic perturba…
Ronald DePinho
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our basic and translational research program focuses on pathways and processes governing aging and age-related disorders, particularly cancer. Our experimental approach is built upon the use of unbiased computational ana…
Rosalie Griffin
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our group studies how inherited genetic variation, clonal hematopoiesis, and precancerous conditions shape the risk and progression of blood cancers. At the intersection of molecular epidemiology, computational genomics,…
Roza Nurieva
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our research is to understand the molecular basis of T cell mediated immune responses, and how abnormal immune regulation leads to immunodeficiency, autoimmunity and cancer. These studies will help us to understand the f…
Ruitao Lin
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Broadly speaking, my research work is driven by the interdisciplinary nature of statistics and the interplay between theory and practice. My primary research interest lies in developing adaptive statistical methods for c…
Ryan Sun
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research interests lie in developing novel statistical methodology that enables researchers to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly complex biomedical datasets. I also emphasize applying these methods and …
Sammy Ferri-Borgogno
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
It has been my personal vision and mission in my research career to understand how cancer biology, -omics technologies and immunology might be integrated to facilitate the understanding of host-tumor responses and identi…
Sang Hyun Cho
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research program covers a wide spectrum of research topics ranging from traditional medical physics to nanotechnology. Also, it is built upon both experimental and computational approaches to maximize the synergy betw…
Sara Zanivan
Associate Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Cancer-Associated Fibroblast (CAF) metabolism; Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics
Scott Evans
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
innate immunity, immunocompromised host, pneumonia, host-pathogen interaction, pattern recognition receptors, TLR, RLR, RIG-I, ODN, oligodeoxynucleotide, Pam2, mouse genetics, cell signaling, bacteria, virus, fungus, inf…
Seung-Hee (Sally) Yoo
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Biological rhythm (circadian clock) using an integrative approach combining mouse models with molecular and cellular mechanistic studies.
Seungwoo Kang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Have you ever wondered why some people lose control over their drinking, and what happens in their brains when they do? Could there be more effective treatments? These questions drive our research into the neurobiologica…
Seyed Javad Moghaddam
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Overall, the research in my laboratory focuses on the interplay between inflammation and lung cancer. Lung cancer, particularly lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is the second most common type of cancer, and the leading cause o…
Shengqing (Stan) Gu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our lab is interested in enhancing the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy by modulating cell-cell interactions. To achieve this goal, we integrate various cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches in the areas…
Sherif Gadoue
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport, LET/RBE quantification, robust optimization, treatment plan automation, GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo for online adaptive therapy, generation of proton plans database
Shervin Assassi
Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on elucidating the pathogenesis and determinant of disease severity/treatment response in systemic sclerosis. Systemic sclerosis is a multisystem, autoimmune disease which leads to extensive fibrosis …
Shiqin Su
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research focuses on leveraging advanced machine learning techniques to enhance radiation therapy planning, with a particular emphasis on automated dose prediction and optimization of planning constraints. By integrati…
Simon Eschweiler
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Immunotherapies have become crucial treatment options for a variety of cancer types. However, fewer than 30% of people respond to a given therapy. Agonistic immunotherapies were initially considered to mainly activate th…
Simon Young
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Young's research efforts include the synthesis and characterization of implantable biomaterials designed to elicit in situ cell recruitment and programming. His work includes the use of materials able to simultaneous…
Simone Krebs
Associate Professor · University of MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The primary focus of the Krebs Laboratory is the development and preclinical evaluation of imaging and theranostic agents including in conjunction with cellular engineering. Our bench-to-bedside research program includes…
Souvik Bhattacharyya
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our multidisciplinary research combines genetics, molecular biology, evolution, systems biology, big data, and mathematical modeling to study how bacterial behaviors impact antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Bacteria are ra…
Stephen Kry
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research is primarily directed at evaluating and improving the quality of radiation therapy. This includes evaluating institutional audit results done as part of clinical trial credentialing – understanding why instit…
Sunil Krishnan
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Research in the Krishnan Nanotechnology and Radiation Biology Laboratory at the Center for Translational Cancer Research in the Institute of Molecular Medicine and in the Neurosurgery Department in McGovern Medical Schoo…
Susan Bullman
Associate Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our research program investigates the complex interactions between the tumor microenvironment (TME) and the microbiome, with a particular focus on understanding how the intratumoral microbiota influences cancer progressi…
Swathi Arur
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
regulation and execution of RAS-ERK signaling; germ cell development; C. elegans genetics
Taichi Goto
Assistant Professor · Cizik School of Nursing
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
pain, wound healing, dementia, cancer, psychoneurological symptoms, biomarkers, neuroimmune mechanisms, biobehavioral science, microneedle drug delivery, translational neuroscience
Tao Wang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
I lead a top AI-for-science lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center, specializing in the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions for immunology discovery. Our interdisciplinary research integrates machine learning, st…
Theresa Guise
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Metabolic complications of cancer and cancer treatment-induced bone destruction: Role of TGFβ-mediated oxidation 1) Research Accomplishments: The Guise laboratory described the molecular mechanisms of bone metastases, th…
Tingting Mills
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
My research is primarily centered on elucidating the molecular mechanisms regulating various human diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), systemic sclerosis (SSc), and acute respiratory distress syndrom…
Travis Moore
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Cellular adhesion and migration require an intricate orchestration of membrane receptors and the cytoskeleton to transduce bidirectional force from extracellular substrates. When dysregulated, a myriad of pathologies can…
Vahid Serpooshan
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research program focuses on developing advanced 3D bioprinting, biomaterials, and stem cell–based platforms to model human development and disease and to engineer next-generation regenerative therapies, with a particu…
Valeria Vasquez-Robaina
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My group is working to uncover the mechanisms by which the plasma membrane modulates the function of mechanosensitive ion channels. Members of the mechanosensitive ion channel family mediate rapid cation influx in respon…
Vasanthi Jayaraman
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Structure and function of membrane proteins
Venugopal Reddy Venna
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Basic and translational stroke research, ischemic stroke, novel therapeutic approaches to improve ischemic stroke outcomes, reducing neuronal death, enhancing post-stroke recovery, post-stroke depression, cognitive impai…
Veronika Fedirko
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Research in my lab is concentrated on: 1) biomarkers and predictors of risk for colorectal cancer recurrence and mortality, 2) colorectal neoplasm prevention by chemopreventive agents such as vitamin D, calcium, and asp…
Victor Lopez del Amo
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Lopez del Amo laboratory research program presents two different research lines: 1. Investigating CRISPR-based technologies for population control: We develop and test new forms of CRISPR-based genome editing approac…
Vihang Narkar
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory is primarily interested in investigating nuclear hormone receptors as potential therapeutic targets in skeletal muscle associated diseases. Currently we are focused on estrogen-related receptors. We have so…
Vincent Bernard
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory takes a systems oncology approach to gastrointestinal malignancies, integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics, functional genomics, and radiation biology to define the molecular circuits that gov…
Wantong Yao
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ A tutorial in my laboratory will provide mentoring and hands-on experience with extensive training in topics and basic/advanced techniques that will be imperative for initiating a successful research career. A student joining the lab would also join a wide collaboration network across MD Anderson an…
The long-term goal of my laboratory is to build up a highly successful research team and work closely with fellow scientists and physicians to continue exploring the basic and translational problems of pancreatic cancer.…
Wei Cao
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My lab's research focuses on neuroinflammation accompanying neurodegenerative processes, esp. Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the past decade, neuroinflammation is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to the patho…
Weiva Sieh
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Sieh's research focuses on identifying genetic and epidemiologic factors underlying breast cancer risk and outcomes. Dr. Sieh currently leads an NCI-funded study to evaluate and improve genomic and radiomic algorithm…
Wenbo Li
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
An amazing feature of eukaryotic nuclei is that as long as 2 meters of DNA in linear length (3 billion base pairs in humans) is packaged into a space of less than 10 μm a diameter, while the information stored in all reg…
Wenliang Li
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Wenliang Li's research is to study novel molecular mechanisms of metastasis with the goal of identifying new biomarkers and drug targets for the development of better therapeutics for human cancers. Through genomics,…
Wenyi Wang
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Professor Wenyi Wang is a data scientist with expertise in statistics, machine learning and biology. Her laboratory advances statistical bioinformatics to unravel the genetic and transcriptomic heterogeneity of cancer. B…
Xi Chen
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Chen laboratory studies how cancer and its immune microenvironment sense and respond to stresses and therapeutic insults to evade immune surveillance and develop drug resistance. We specialize in cancer stress biolog…
Xiangdong Lyu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Despite the increasing numbers of effective agents for treating cancers, drug resistance remains the major barrier to long-term disease control. Our research focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms driving ca…
Xiaodong Cheng
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory studies intracellular signaling associated with second messenger cAMP. We apply multidisciplinary approaches, coupling biochemistry, biophysics and cell biology with pharmacology and chemical biology, to u…
Xiaoqian Jiang
Professor · School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory develops privacy-preserving analytics and trustworthy artificial intelligence to advance precision medicine while safeguarding patient confidentiality. Our work integrates cryptography—such as homomorphic e…
Xiaoqin Wu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health McGovern Medical School at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The lab focuses on 1) understanding the molecular mechanisms for regulating intracellular and extracellular vesicle trafficking and cell death in both metabolic homeostasis and disease; 2) identifying novel therapeutic t…
Xiaotian Zhang
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Zhang lab focuses on the gene expression regulation in disease and development. We are interested in the gene expression reuglation during the normal development process and more importantly, how these gene expressio…
Xiling Shen
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
systems biology, functional precision medicine, patient-derived cancer immune models, neural/microbial gut-brain axis, intravital imaging, cancer metastasis/metabolism, GI stem cells
Xin (Alex) Ge
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Biologics, including monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are the fastest growing sector of molecular medicines for fighting against cancers, infections, immune diseases, etc. Although a palette of powerful technologies has been…
Xinzhu Yu
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
In our decades-long pursuit of understanding the central nervous system (CNS) and the pathophysiology of devastating neurological and psychiatric conditions, research has nearly exclusively focused on one particular kind…
Xufeng Chen
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Targeted therapy and immunotherapy have revolutionized the field of cancer therapy in the past decade, especially for blood cancers, which is evidenced by the FDA approval of several targeted therapies and cellular immun…
Yang Chen
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Chen Laboratory is focusing on understanding the key mechanism that controls the two hallmark features of pancreatic cancer: the desmoplastic stroma and the immunosuppressive microenvironment. We integrate computatio…
Yang Liu
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Physical exercise induces a profound alteration of energy metabolism in skeletal muscle as well as in other organs such as heart, liver, and adipose tissue, which contributes to its beneficial effects in combating metabo…
Yanjun Sun
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Sun lab aims to elucidate the neural circuit mechanisms that underlie learning and memory, with a focus on spatial navigation and contextual representation in both health and disease. Understanding one's environment …
Ye Zheng
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Inherently drawn to problems at the interface of statistical, biological, and cancer studies, my research group goal is to investigate the genomic basis for gene regulation, which sheds light on the intrinsic features th…
Yejing Ge
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Adult stem cells (SCs) are essential units to orchestrate postnatal remodeling and repair damage. In contrast to steady state, SCs in coping with stress often expand their fates and embark on behaviors distinct from thei…
Yin Liu
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research interests focus on the development of computational and statistical approaches to performing large-scale analysis of cellular networks, biological pathways, genomic sequences, and gene expression. Current stu…
Ying Yuan
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on developing innovative Bayesian clinical trial designs aimed at enhancing the success and expediting drug development. Drug development is extremely complex and costly, fraught with uncertainties th…
Yisheng Li
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My current main research interests lie in Bayesian adaptive clinical trial designs, default and nonparametric Bayesian methods, and mediation analysis. My current focus in the area of Bayesian adaptive design is on mecha…
Yu (Aaron) An
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The main theme for Dr. Yu (Aaron) An’s laboratory is “adipose mitochondria impact metabolic homeostasis”. In the United States, more than 42% of adults are living with obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Contro…
Yu Lei
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
We are steering committee members of the NCI Immuno-Oncology Translational Network and the NCI Early Detection Research Network. We are a translational immunology group that has developed robust sponsored programs in the…
Yuan Pan
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Pan lab studies the neuron-cancer/cancer therapy (Cancer Neuroscience) and neuron-glial interactions, focusing on neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). NF1 is a multi-system genetic disorder caused by inactivating mutation…
Yuan-Hung Lo
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Lo Lab is a dynamic and collaborative research team focused on understanding how genetic and epigenetic alterations regulate gastrointestinal (GI) stem cell function, cancer cell plasticity, and clonal evolution duri…
Yuanzhong Xu
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Xu lab's research program seeks to understand the fundamental principles by which the brain encodes behavioral adaptation to specific environmental contexts. Flexibility in behavioral responses is crucial for promoti…
Zheng (Jake) Chen
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Biological clocks exert temporal control over essential cellular and physiological processes in diverse organisms. Conversely, dysregulated clocks have been associated with a number of chronic diseases and pathophysiolog…
Zhichao Xu
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
gene regulation, cancer genomics, enhancer hijacking, structural variants, 3D genome, chromatin architecture, CRISPR, Hi-C, genome engineering
Zhongming Zhao
Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Zhao has broad interests in the area of genomics, deep learning, precision medicine, translational science, and big data science. We develop novel computational approaches for deep understanding genetic variants and …
Ziyi Li
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Li's research focuses on developing statistical and machine learning methods and apply them to genomics, epigenetics, and computational biology. She is especially interested in solving questions motivated from real w…
Ziyin Li
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Cell cycle regulation in trypanosomes
Claire Fanger
Associate Professor of Religion · Rice University
⭐ I am accepting graduate students with some Latin interested in premodern Christianity and the varied connections between doctrine, practice, sanctity, and shaping of religious selves.
John of Morigny, the intellectual history of magic, medieval cosmology and epistemology, dreams and visions, occult traditions early and late, representations of human modes of access to the divine. Areas of Teaching inc…
Matthew Brake
Associate Professor
⭐ Presently, there are multiple positions available in Dr. Brake’s Mechadynamics Laboratory, including (but not limited to) interfacial mechanics, application of complex number theory to mechanical engineering, and additive manufacturing.
Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Mechanics, Contact/Interface Mechanics/Tribology, Numerical Methods, Vibration, Uncertainty Quantification, Additive Manufacturing, Applied Mathematics for Mechanical Engineering. Structural…
Matthew McGinley
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience - Baylor College of Medicine · Baylor College of Medicine
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Tani Barlow
George & Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities
⭐ Professor Barlow is accepting advanced graduate students in the field of Modern Chinese history with an emphasis in late 19th and early 20th century politics, media and consumer culture. Applicants with capacity to handle data sets, image analysis, cultural theory and business history particularly w…
Modern Chinese Intellectual History; Feminist Theory; Gender and Social Science
University of Notre Dame 21 hiring
Adam Jaffe
Assistant Professor · College of Science
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Research in the Jaffe group combines the diverse chemical properties of molecules with the favorable structural and electronic properties of crystalline inorganic solids to develop new hybrid material platforms. Hybrid o…
Brandon Ashfeld
Professor · College of Science
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Our research program is focused on the development of new methods to enable unconventional bond formations in the synthesis of complex natural products and designed materials. Our main objective is to use new chemical co…
CJ Jones
Professor of German Studies · Medieval Institute
⭐ Available to direct dissertations
Liturgy, Religious Women in Medieval Germany, Gendered and Religious Structures of Authority, Liturgical Practice, Communal Identity, Dominican Order’s Liturgy, Mystical Literature of the Dominican Order, Religious Cultu…
Emily Tsui
Associate Professor · College of Science
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Inorganic Chemistry, Energy, Materials, Synthesis
Gregory Hartland
Notre Dame Collegiate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies · College of Science
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Research in the Hartland group is focused on using optics to examine the properties of nanomaterials and how these materials interact with their environments. Almost all of the projects in the group involve single partic…
Hsing-Ta Chen
Assistant Professor · College of Science
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The Chen research group is broadly interested in the intersection of chemistry, physics, and materials. Research in the Chen group focuses on developing theoretical tools and using high performance computing facilities a…
Ian Carmichael
Professor; Director, Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory · College of Science
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Ionizing radiation pervades our environment and affects all life on earth. The absorption of this impinging energy produces profound chemical and biochemical transformations in the materials irradiated. Professor Carmich…
Ian Kuijt
Professor · College of Arts and Letters
⭐ Dr. Kuijt is currently accepting PhD students and is happy to supervise PhD thesis on a wide range of topics, including archaeological theory, material culture, the Near Eastern Neolithic, Historic Archaeology of Ireland, the economics of food storage, mortuary practices and the archaeology and ethn…
Archaeology, Irish historical archaeology, social inequality, visual histories
J. Daniel Gezelter
Professor; Department Chair · College of Science
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Research in the Gezelter group involves theoretical and computational studies of the dynamics of complex, condensed-matter systems. Some areas of particular interest include: enantiomeric separation using fluid flow, dyn…
Jessica Brown
Associate Professor · College of Science
⭐ Positions are available for talented graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
Structural, Biochemical & Cellular Roles of RNA Triple Helices
RNA structure is largely viewed as being single stranded or double stranded, although triple-stranded RNA structures were deduced to form in test tubes over …
Jon Camden
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies · College of Science
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It is well known that plasmonic nanostructures are capable of harvesting light and concentrating it in the near field. This special behavior results from the collective oscillation of the conduction electrons in a metall…
Marya Lieberman
Nancy Dee Professor of Cancer Research · College of Science
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Paper Analytical Devices - My lab designs paper analytical devices (PADs) to solve a host of analytical problems in low resource settings. We create millifluidic structures such as solution channels, reagent storage area…
Nicholas Lombardo, O.P.
Associate Professor of Theology · Medieval Institute
⭐ Available to direct dissertations
philosophy and theology of emotion, Christ’s crucifixion, evolution and human origins, original sin, nature and grace, the inspiration of scripture, the metaphysics of evil, and the theology of the Trinity
Rich Taylor
Professor · College of Science
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Chemical and Biological Synthetic Technologies for Accessing Biologically Active Natural Products
S. Alex Kandel
Professor · College of Science
⭐ Prospective graduate students can request more information or apply through the provided links.
Research in the Kandel group centers around Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). STM allows for imaging with sub-Ångstrom resolution, resulting in direct measurements of the individual atoms and molecules that make up th…
Seth Brown
Professor · College of Science
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Developing Catalysis for Energy and the Environment
Enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms of chemical reactions is critical to improve processes that interconvert between chemical and electrical energy or to make…
Shahriar Mobashery
Navari Family Professor in Life Sciences · College of Science
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The Mobashery research program integrates computation, biochemistry, molecular biology, and the organic synthesis of medically important molecules. Bringing together these different disciplines is desirable to produce bo…
Slavi Sevov
Professor · College of Science
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Chemistry of Main-Group Metals and Semimetals in Negative Oxidation States: The heavier members of Groups 14 and 15, both metals and semimetals, are known for their chemistry in various positive oxidation states. What we…
Steven Corcelli
William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science; Professor · College of Science
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Aqueous acids, bases, and salts. Biomolecular binding.
Vlad Iluc
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions · College of Science
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The Iluc research group focuses on the activation and functionalization of inert molecules, with an emphasis on C–H bonds. These are imperative scientific problems since less expensive and more readily available feedstoc…
Xin Lu
John M. and Mary Jo Boler Collegiate Professor · College of Science
⭐ We actively partner with clinical oncology networks to accelerate bench-to-bedside translation and welcome passionate graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates eager to transform cancer medicine.
The Lu Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame integrates mechanistic tumor immunology with translational drug discovery to decode immune evasion, metastasis, and therapy resistance in solid tumors. Our research progr…
Vanderbilt University 49 hiring
Amir Asiaeetaheri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
⭐ Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biostatistics
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biostatistics and Medical Data Science
Location: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, TN
Duration: Two Years
Mentorship: Dr. Amir Asiaee (website, email) (Primary Mentor, VUM…
David W. Wright
Stevenson Professor of Chemistry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Wright is not currently accepting graduate students.
VINSE
VICB
Nanomaterials Chemistry
Mass Spectrometry
Materials Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Chemical Biology
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Biochemistry
Bioanalytical Chemistry
Julio E. Ayala, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
⭐ Post-doctoral positions are available in the Ayala lab studying gut-brain interactions and the control of feeding behavior via the central nervous system. The focus of the research in the lab is to identify brain regions and mechanisms that mediate the effects of the gut hormone glucagon-like peptid…
Glucagon-like peptide-1, obesity, diabetes, energy balance, brain, transgenic mouse models, metabolic phenotyping, neuroscience
Kristin R. Archer, D.P.T., Ph.D.
Professor · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
⭐ Two-year postdoctoral positions in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are available for individuals with an interest in comparative effectiveness, patient reported outcomes, and registry data research. One position will involve working on a PCORI-funded pro…
Comparative Effectiveness; Patient-Centered Outcomes; Physical Therapy Modalities; Physical Therapy (Specialty); Decision Making; Fracture Healing; Gait; Walking; Leg injuries/rehabilitation; Lower Extremity/injuries; Mu…
Manuel Ascano, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
⭐ A postdoctoral position in RNA Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is available in my laboratory. The postdoc will be joining a new research group whose primary research interests are in understanding the post-transcriptional gene regulatory mechanisms employed by cells during periods of innate immun…
RNA, DNA, virus, host-pathogen interactions, biochemistry, innate immunity, post-transcriptional gene regulation
René Marois
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor, Winkelried Family Chair in Neuroscience · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Research in the Marois lab centers on two main main topics. First, much of the lab's work focuses on understanding the neural basis of attention in humans using fMRI and psychophysical tools. They are particularly intere…
Sean Polyn
Associate Professor of Psychology; Associate Professor of Psychiatry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Associate Professor of Psychology · Vanderbilt University
⭐ May be interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
comparative neuroanatomy, cellular composition of brains, brain morphology, brain evolution, metabolic cost of body and brain, sleep requirement across species, feeding time, and really interested in how all of these are…
Alex Schuppe
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Schuppe will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Organic, Catalysis, Total Synthesis
Andre Bastos
Assistant Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
A fundamental function of the brain is to predict what will happen next. But the mechanisms for how this is achieved are not well understood. Research in the Bastos laboratory (starting in Spring 2021) uses sophisticated…
Andrea Locke
Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biomedical Engineering
⭐ Dr. Locke will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Analytical Chemistry, Optical Spectroscopy, Biosensor
Antonia Kaczkurkin
Assistant Professor of Psychology
S Family Dean Fellow · College of Arts and Science
⭐ May be interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Antonia Kaczkurkin's research focuses on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to the etiology of internalizing disorders. She integrates multimodal measures such as functional magnetic resonance i…
Ashley Watts
Assistant Professor of Psychology · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Watts is actively recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow. If you are interested in working with the Mechanisms of Addiction and Psychopathology Lab at Vanderbilt, please email Dr. Watts.
Dr. Watts' research aims to understand the causes and consequences of mental illness (psychopathology), with a specific focus on addiction. Her research aims: 1) to improve how we classify various forms of mental illness…
Brian O. Bachmann
Stevenson Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Bachmann will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Natural Product Discovery.
Carmelo Rizzo
Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Rizzo is not currently accepting graduate students.
Chemistry and Biology of DNA Damage.
Covalent modification of DNA by electrophiles is generally accepted as the initial event in chemical carcinogenesis. If these modifications are not repaired, they can compromise the f…
Daria Kim
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Kim will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Catalysis
David G. Schlundt
Associate Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Will not be accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
behavioral medicine with specific focuses on nutrition and behavior, and racial and ethnic health disparities; social, emotional, and environmental influences on eating, exercise, and smoking behavior; effects of environ…
Douglas A. Mitchell
William Kelly Warren Sr. Chair in Biochemistry; Professor of Chemistry, Director of Vanderbilt Institute for Chemical Biology · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Mitchell will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Chemical biology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme engineering, synthetic biology
Douglas McMahon
Professor of Biological Sciences · College of Arts and Science
⭐ The McMahon laboratory is currently accepting applications from prospective Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows interested in circadian biology and neurobiology.
Circadian rhythms, photoreception, seasonal biology, neurobiology, molecular and cellular mechanisms of biological timing
Gary A. Sulikowski
Stevenson Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Pharmacology · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Sulikowski is not currently accepting graduate students.
Organic Synthesis
Chemical Biology
Natural Products
Medicinal Chemistry
Geoffrey F. Woodman
Professor of Psychology; E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience, Director of National Eye Institute T32 · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Geoff Woodman's research examines how mechanisms of visual attention and memory influence how we interact with the world around us. Specifically, how the primate visual system performs figure-ground segregation, attentio…
Gordon Logan
Centennial Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Science
⭐ May be interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Logan's research interest includes automaticity and skill acquisition, attention and performance, spatial cognition, executive control strategies and processes, stopping behavior, mental arithmetic, and attention deficit…
Isabel Gauthier
David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology; Vice Chair Department of Psychology; Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Gauthier studies visual object recognition, with particular emphasis on the plasticity of recognition mechanisms and their neural substrate. One issue that is of particular interest to her is how the visual system organi…
James Crowe
University Distinguished Professor; Ann Scott Carell Chair · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Crowe is not currently accepting graduate students.
Janet Macdonald
Associate Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Macdonald will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Our group has three major foci. The largest research program of the group is in the synthesis of nanocrystals, specifically understanding the factors that determine the crystalline phase when reagents are thrown "in the…
Jason Valentine
Professor
⭐ We are actively looking for motivated graduate students who are interested in tackling challenging problems at the frontier of science and engineering. Those interested should check out our About Us page and contact Prof. Valentine.
We are a team of researchers interested in understanding how nanoscale structuring can be used to engineer a material's optical properties. We are focused on using this understanding to develop novel materials for applic…
Jeffrey N. Johnston
Stevenson Professor of Chemistry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Johnston will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
VICB
Organometallic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Natural Products
Medicinal Chemistry
Chemical Biology
Bioorganic Chemistry
Asymmetric Catalysis
John McLean
Stevenson Professor of Chemistry; Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Science · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. McLean will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Analytical
Bioanalytical
Chemical Biology
Jon Kaas
Distinguished Centennial Professor of Psychology; Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology; Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Kaas's major research interests are in the evolution and functional organization of sensory-perceptual, cognitive, and motor systems, especially in primates, in the development of these systems, and in how these systems …
Jonathan Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Will not be accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Dr. Schaefer has two primary research objectives. The first is improving scientific understanding of the relationship between environmental exposures (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, environmental toxicants, victimizat…
Kari Hoffman
Associate Professor of Psychology
⭐ May be interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Lauren E. Buchanan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Buchanan will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Biophysics; Protein Structure and Aggregation; Ultrafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy; Physical Chemistry
Lawrence Marnett
University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Marnett is not currently accepting graduate students.
Organic, Bioorganic and Biochemistry
Leon Bellan
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering · Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
⭐ We currently have multiple openings for graduate students interested in working at the interface of tissue engineering, microfluidics, and non-traditional micropatterning approaches.
The Bellan Lab for Advanced Materials at Vanderbilt University focuses on developing scalable fabrication techniques for making microfluidic materials with unique properties. We use these microfluidic materials for biome…
Leon Bellan
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
⭐ We currently have multiple openings for graduate students interested in working at the interface of tissue engineering, microfluidics, and non-traditional micropatterning approaches.
The Bellan Lab for Advanced Materials at Vanderbilt University focuses on developing scalable fabrication techniques for making microfluidic materials with unique properties. We use these microfluidic materials for biome…
Marie Suver, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences · Vanderbilt University
⭐ We are hiring - please reach out to me about joining our team as a student or postdoc! I am accepting rotation students from graduate programs at Vanderbilt including Biological Sciences, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, and Neuroscience. Prospective graduate students can email me to discuss …
Neuroscience, behavior, sensory and motor systems, electrophysiology
Mengshan Ye
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Ye will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Physical Inorganic Chemistry
Coordination Chemistry
Michael P. Stone
Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Stone will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Our lab focuses upon chemistry and structural biology of DNA damage, and its role in cancer etiology. We probe chemical rearrangements of initially formed DNA damage, which may alter genotoxic response in cellular DNA. W…
Nathan D. Schley
Associate Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Schley will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
The aim of the Schley research group is the application of organometallic chemistry to unmask latent reactivity in organic substrates. Oxidation of simple hydrocarbons provides functional groups which serve as handles fo…
Paul A. Kramer
Associate Professor of History · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Prospective graduate students interested in applying to work under Prof. Kramer's supervision in the PhD program should download and read this brief set of guidelines. Prospective graduate students interested in applying to work under Prof. Kramer's supervision should contact him at his departmental…
Modern U. S. history, the United States in the World
Prasad Polavarapu
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Polavarapu is not currently accepting graduate students.
Theoretical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Natural Products
Chemical Physics
Biophysical Chemistry
Bioanalytical Chemistry
Renã A. S. Robinson
Professor of Chemistry; Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chair · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Robinson will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Proteomics, MASS Spectrometry, Alzheimer's, Neuro Science
Sohee Park
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Steven D. Hollon
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychology and Human Development; Professor of Psychiatry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Will not be accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Hollon's primary interest lies in the etiology and treatment of depression in adults. His work extends from basic psychopathology to prevention and treatment. He is particularly interested in the relative contribution of…
Steven D. Townsend
Stevenson Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Townsend will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Organic
Thilo Womelsdorf
Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Definitely interested in accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
Dr. Womelsdorf studies how neural circuits learn and control attentional allocation in nonhuman primates and humans. His laboratory uses
• Attention and learning paradigms utilizing 3D virtual reality renderingto unders…
Timothy Hanusa
Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Dr. Hanusa will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2016. (https://gradschool.vanderbilt.edu/how-to-apply/)
Synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the main group, transition metal, and rare earth elements. We put emphasis on mechanochemical synthesis (solvent-free grinding or milling) to generate otherwise unavail…
Timothy P. McNamara
Searcy Family Dean of the College of Arts and Science; Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Science
⭐ Will not be accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026
My research investigates human memory, cognition, and decision making, with a particular focus on spatial processing. My research has investigated the metric structure of spatial memory, the spatial reference systems use…
Zhongyue (John) Yang
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Vanderbilt University
⭐ Dr. Yang will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.
Enzyme Catalysis
Protein Engineering
Physical Organic Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University 5 hiring
Catherine Armbruster
Assistant Professor · Mellon College of Science
⭐ Please reach out if you're curious to hear more or are interested in joining us!
Bacteria constantly evolve in response to specific selective pressures in their environment. When opportunistic pathogens initiate an infection, they draw upon a genetic repertoire that was shaped by the environment wher…
Christopher G. Atkeson
Professor · Carnegie Mellon University
⭐ I am looking for new students. My current research focus is enabling robots to learn strategies (tricks, hacks) to do tasks from direct instruction, googling and using the web, observation, and practice (reinforcement learning). Potential graduate students need to be admitted to a CMU graduate progr…
Machine learning, humanoid robotics, human aware environments, robot learning, nonparametric learning, memory-based learning, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, modeling human behavior
Dominik Moritz
Assistant Professor · CMU School of Computer Science
⭐ I am open to hiring a PhD student starting in fall 2026.
Human-Centered Machine Learning, Data Science, Interactive Systems, Visualization Toolkits
Inseung Kang
Courtesy Faculty · Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
⭐ If interested in joining our lab, please email me at inseung@cmu.edu.
My group’s research is on developing wearable assistive devices (e.g., robotic exoskeletons) that can augment human mobility during locomotion. Some research topics include: 1) Robotic exoskeleton design and control (mec…
Mor Harchol-Balter
Dr. Bruce J. Nelson Professor of Computer Science · Carnegie Mellon University
⭐ Looking for mathematically strong student who likes to prove theorems and enjoys learning new math techniques.
Algorithms and Complexity, Applied Theory, Distributed Systems, Networking, Performance Modeling & Analysis
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 74 hiring
Akshay Sharma
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Akshay Sharma is accepting new PhD students.
HIV and STI prevention
Sexual and gender minority health
Remote health interventions
Health promotion and behavior change
Infectious disease epidemiology
Aline Eid
Assistant Professor · University of Michigan Ann Arbor
⭐ I am always on the lookout for motivated Ph.D. students. If you are interested in joining our group, please send me an email with your CV and a brief description of your background.
wireless sensing, ultra low power backscatter communications, and wireless power transfer
Anshuman Swain
Assistant Professor; Assistant Curator (UM Museum of Paleontology) · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ My lab will be looking for new graduate students and postdocs for Fall 2025. Interested students and researchers should contact me through email.
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding how abiotic and biotic interactions structure individuals, species, communities, and ecosystems across different spatiotemporal scales, and to explore these questions t…
Ashwin Shahani
Associate Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ We have multipleopen positions available for graduate students and postdocs. Please emailshahani@umich.eduformore details.
Professor Shahani’s research interests fall at the intersection of solidification science and advanced materials characterization. The solidification and processing pathways of metals and semiconductors continue to be ph…
Barbara L. Brush
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Barbara Brush is accepting new PhD students.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR)
Health disparities
Family homelessness
Best practice models
Nurse workforce
Beatriz Manzor
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
Latine adults, medication related health disparities, social determinants of health and chronic diseases
Diversity, equity, and inclusion at US Pharmacy Schools
Access to language services at community pharmacies
Ben Dantzer
Professor · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ I am currently seeking motivated undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers to join my research lab. Please contact me for further information.
Animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, physiological ecology
Christopher Dick
Professor, Curator, U-M Herbarium, Director, ES George Reserve · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ I am always interested in talking with prospective graduate students, and sponsor students with interesting project ideas. Prospective students are encouraged to start a dialog prior to applying.
My lab investigates evolutionary processes that underlie the rich diversity of tree species in tropical forests. My current work is focused on (i) the historical biogeography and community assembly of tropical forests, (…
Christopher R. Friese
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Christopher Friese is not accepting new PhD students.
Cancer, Health Services Research, Quality and Safety, Nursing Work Environments, Health Policy
Clayton J. Shuman
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Clayton Shuman is accepting new PhD students.
Implementation Science
Maternal-Infant Health
Neonatal Intensive Care
Perinatal Substance Use
Art-Based Interventions
Corey Lester
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
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Crystal Patil
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Crystal Patil is accepting new PhD students.
Implementation science
Reproductive and sexual health
Food and nutrition
Pain and chronic conditions
Global health
Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren is not accepting new PhD students.
Decision making
Women's' Heart Disease: Disparities and Biases
Heart failure
Cognitive dysfunction
Self-care management
Daniel Hertz
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting PhD Students.
Developing tools for individualizing cancer treatments
Understanding the role of patient genetics in treatment outcomes
Translating genetic associations into clinical practice to improve patient care
Daniel Rabosky
Professor; Curator, Museum of Zoology · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ Currently seeking graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
Macroevolution, speciation, herpetology, phylogenetic comparative methods, evolutionary ecology; Macroevolution, speciation, phylogenetic comparative methods, biodiversity theory, evolution and ecology of Australian rept…
David Blaauw
Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ We are always looking for talented PhD applicants. If you find one of the topics below interesting, feel free to apply to our graduate program and mention our lab in your application.
Ultra-Low Power Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits; Low Power RF Communication for IoT devices; Accelerators for Neural Networks and High-Speed Image Processing for Edge Devices; Michigan Micro-Mote (M3) and mm-scale compu…
Denise M. Saint Arnault
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Denise Saint Arnault is accepting new PhD students.
Women’s mental health, Immigrant women, Culture and mental health, Gender specific mental health risks, Transcultural psychiatry
Erin M Kahle
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Erin Kahle is accepting new PhD students.
Infectious disease epidemiology, Public health, Health disparities, Global health, HIV/AIDS
Florence U Johnson
Assistant Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Florence Johnson is not accepting new PhD students.
Dementia caregiving
Black caregiver mental health
Health disparities
Community support use
Policy
Geoffrey J. Hoffman
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Geoffrey Hoffman is accepting new PhD students.
Medicare Advantage
Alzheimer's disease
Injury/safety
Health policy
Caregiving
Haojie Zhu
Professor of Pharmacy · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
Utilize an integrated multi-omics approach combining pharmacogenomics, proteomics, and metabonomics to identify biomarkers associated with interindividual variability in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Determine ti…
Hernán López-Fernández
Professor
Curator of Fishes · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ There will be limited opportunities in the lab for highly motivated candidates, passionate about research topics on Neotropical freshwater fishes. I am especially interested in hearing from candidates with a strong affinity for one or more of the research lines in the lab. Prospective applicants sho…
I am interested in the evolutionary processes that originate “mega-diverse” biotic assemblages and the role of ecology in shaping the evolution of diversity. My lab studies the diversity, evolutionary history and conserv…
Hui Deng
· College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ We always welcome motivated students and postdocs in physics, applied physics, electrical engineering and computer science, and material science. Background in quantum optics, quantum information, spectroscopy or nano-fabrication is particularly useful. Please check out Join Us and send an email if …
Welcome to Deng Research Group
We are an interdisciplinary group primarily working with materials, cavities and lasers. We build new quantum systems and study new quantum phenomena based on collective matter-light intera…
Inés Ibáñez
Professor · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ M.S. and Ph.D. students interested in joining the lab please contact Professor Ibáñez.
Plant community ecology, climate change and invasive species
Ivo D. Dinov
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Ivo Dinov is accepting new PhD students.
Spacekime and predictive healthcare analytics
Foundational and generative artificial intelligence modeling (GAIM)
Teaching with technology and blended instruction
Biomedical data science, computational neuroscience, info…
Jade Burns
Assistant Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Jade Burns is accepting new PhD students.
Adolescent and young adult health
Sexual and reproductive health
Technology-driven interventions
Community-engaged research
Health equity
Janet L. Larson
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Janet Larson is accepting new PhD students.
Exercise and COPD
Stigma with COPD
Functional status in COPD
Anxiety and depression in COPD
Jason J. Corso
Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ Job Openings / Prospective Students (link: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~jjcorso/job-openings.html)
High-level computer vision and its relationship to human language, robotics and data science. Primarily focuses on problems in video understanding such as video segmentation, activity recognition, and video-to-text. Stud…
Jeanne-Marie R Stacciarini
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini is accepting new PhD students.
Global health, Mental health promotion, Health disparities, Rural health, LGBTQIA+ health
Jody R. Lori
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Jody Lori is accepting new PhD students.
Global health
Reproductive rights
Vulnerable populations
Community-based participatory research
John Kieffer
Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ <a href="https://mse.engin.umich.edu/people/kieffer/openings">Openings</a>
<p>The development of novel materials is an enabling factor for the advancement of technology. To accelerate the conception, fabrication, and deployment of materials with specific functionalities, we pursue a simulation-…
Julie Hui
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information · School of Information (UMSI)
⭐ I'm always looking for new collaborations and am currently recruiting PhD students.
Critical Studies of Design and Computing; Educational Technology and Learning Analytics; Human Computer Interaction (HCI); ICTs and Social Change; Science, Technology, and Society; Social Media and Social Computing
Julie Maslowsky
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Julie Maslowsky is accepting new PhD students.
Adolescent Development and Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Population Health
Health Policy
Health Equity
Kevin Joiner
Assistant Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Kevin Joiner is accepting new PhD students.
Diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2
Prediabetes
Culturally Competent Care
Limited English Proficiency
Social Stigma
Kimberly Strauch
Assistant Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Kimberly Strauch is accepting new PhD students.
Adverse childhood experiences/trauma-informed care
Underserved populations
Collaborative care models
Nursing workforce development
Informatics
L. Lacey Knowles
Robert B. Payne Collegiate Professor
Curator, Museum of Zoology · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ If you have interests in such projects, please contact Dr. Knowles to discuss possible research opportunities.
My research focuses on speciation and the processes that initiate or contribute to population divergence, and spans a wide range of temporal and spatial scales that have both ecological and evolutionary implications. We …
Laura R. Saslow
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Laura Saslow is accepting new PhD students.
Optimizing multi-component, online diet and lifestyle interventions
Supporting long-term dietary adherence with psychological tools
Self-management of chronic diseases using nutrition
Possible clinical applications of a …
Lei Ying
Professor · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
⭐ I have openings for Ph.D. students and Postdocs in the areas of reinforcement learning, stochastic networks, or random graphs. Please email me with your CV, representative publications, and transcripts if you are interested. Other opportunities to work with me: Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc and Data…
reinforcement learning, large-scale communication/computing systems for big-data processing, private data marketplaces, and large-scale graph mining
Lenette M. Jones
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Lenette Jones is accepting new PhD students.
Hypertension self-management
Health equity
Neurobiological mechanisms of interventions (neuroimaging and fMRI)
Health information behavior (acquisition, sharing, and use)
Lionel Robert
Professor of Information, School of Information and Professor of Robotics, College of Engineering · School of Information (UMSI)
⭐ I am currently accepting doctoral students in each of those areas.
Artificial Intelligence, Collective Intelligence and Organizational Technology, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Social Media and Social Computing
Lisa Kane Low
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Lisa Kane Low is accepting new PhD students.
Perineal and pelvic floor
Childbirth care
Childbirth practices in low resource settings
Physiological or normal childbirth
Dissemination of evidence based practices within the maternity care system
Liyue Shen
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ I am looking for self-motivated students in the areas of signal & image processing (SIP), machine learning (ML), computer vision (CV) to join our group, especially who is interested in Biomedical AI. Please see this page for more details and instructions. If you are interested in joining our group, …
Biomedical AI, machine learning, computer vision, signal and image processing, medical image analysis, biomedical imaging, data science, generative diffusion models, implicit neural representation learning, multimodal fo…
Lynae Darbes
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Lynae Darbes is accepting new PhD students.
Health Psychology
Relationship dynamics
International HIV prevention
Mental health
Women’s health
Mania Aghaei Meibodi
Assistant Professor of Architecture · Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
⭐ is actively expanding the Ph.D. program at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
developing novel computational design and fabrication methods suitable for large scale manufacturing in building industry, machine learning, robotic and 3D printing
Marcy Balunas
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School and Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
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Marcy Balunas
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School and Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
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Marie-Anne Sanon Rosemberg
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Marie-Anne Sanon Rosemberg is accepting new PhD students.
Occupational Health Disparities & Occupational Justice
Worker & Immigrant Health
Biological & Behavior Responses to Stressors
Chronic Disease Outcomes
Socioegological Stressors
Marvin Schilt-Solberg
Assistant Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Marvin Schilt-Solberg is not accepting new PhD students.
Sexual and gender minorities
Substance use
Adverse childhood experiences
Mental health
Young adults
Michael Dorsch
Lynda S Welage Collegiate Professor of Pharmacy, Associate Professor of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacist, University of Michigan Inpatient Pharmacy Services · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
Health Information Technology
- mHealth
- Clinical decision support
- Computable biomedical knowledge
Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Research
- Quality improvement
- Health services research
Educational Research
- Cir…
Michelle L. Munro-Kramer
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Michelle Munro-Kramer is accepting new PhD students.
Gender-based violence
Global health
Innovation
Vulnerable populations
Reproductive health
Milisa Manojlovich
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Milisa Manojlovich is accepting new PhD students.
Cancer care delivery, Interdisciplinary communication, Visual-based methodologies, The role of communication in diagnostic error
Ming Li
Associate Professor · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
⭐ We are recruiting one graduate student and one postdoc fellow to study human lysosomes. Please get in touch with Prof. Li for the details.
We study protein quality control of the lysosomal membrane and lysosome biogenesis in the context of neurodegeneration, cancer, and lysosome storage diseases. We aim to make exciting discoveries that will stand the test …
Nouri Neamati
John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
Structure- and ligand-based drug design
Cellular and molecular pharmacology
Preclinical drug development
Select targets of interest include: ER stress (GRP78 and PDI); DNA-binding proteins (HIV-1 integrase, APE-1); Prote…
Olayinka Shiyanbola
Charles Walgreen III Professor · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
Diabetes and Related Chronic Diseases
Medication Use Behaviors and Self-Management
Intervention Development and Implementation
Clinical Trials
Mixed Methods
Health Literacy and Research Literacy
Health Equity for Margina…
Olivia M Halabicky
Assistant Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Olivia Halabicky is not accepting new PhD students.
Environmental exposures, Child health and neurodevelopment, Global health equity, Adversity and stress, Longitudinal cohort studies
Qing Qu
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ Our group is always looking for self-motivated and talented individuals, please take a look at our Lab's Join Us for more details.
Broadly speaking, our research interest lies in the intersection of signal processing, data science, machine learning, and numerical optimization. In particular, I am interested in computational methods for learning low-…
Robert D. Gregg, IV
Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ Funded positions are reserved for admitted PhD students based on availability of funding. Please do not email me requesting a RA position before you have applied to a U-M PhD program. You may notify me when you apply so I can look for your application, but please be patient because the admissions pr…
Design and control of lower-limb prostheses and orthoses; Control mechanisms of human locomotion; Modeling and control of dynamic walking; Nonlinear control, including energy-based and passivity-based methods
Roland Kersten
Assistant Professor · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
Development of gene-guided approaches for plant natural product drug discovery
Elucidation of plant natural product biosynthesis
Development of synthetic biology approaches for diversification and pharmaceutical evaluati…
Roozbeh Tabrizian
Associate Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ If you're excited about this research, email me your CV and a brief note about topics you'd like to work on: [email protected].
My research investigates semiconductor micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (N/MEMS) for frequency control, physical sensing, spectral processing, and computing—pushing the frontiers of performance, power efficiency…
Sarah A. Stoddard
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Sarah Stoddard is accepting new PhD students.
Adolescent Substance Use
Future orientation
Adolescent health
Risk and resilience
Prevention Science
Youth violence
Sean Esteban McCabe
Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Sean McCabe is accepting new PhD students.
Substance use disorder
Controlled substances
Impact of addiction and overdose on children
Survey methodology
Sheria G. Robinson-Lane
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Sheria Robinson-Lane is accepting new PhD students.
Older Adults
Dementia
Pain Management
Family Caregiving
Health disparities
Sriram Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, and Associate Chair for Research in Biomedical Engineering · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ We are looking for students and postdocs interested in systems biology to join our lab. Please contact Sriram with your CV at csriram@umich.edu
Fighting drug resistance using AI: We are developing mechanistic AI tools (e.g. INDIGO, MAGENTA, CARAMEL) to design drug combinations with enhanced potency and reduced potential for developing resistance. We also study …
Terra Sztain, PhD
Assistant Professor · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
The Sztain research group combines chemistry, biophysics, mathematics, and computer science to understand dynamic biochemical systems. Our goal is to design novel molecules that address pressing environmental and medical…
Timothy Cernak
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Associate Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts · College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
⭐ Accepting Students
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Venkatesh Potluri
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information · School of Information (UMSI)
⭐ I am recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle and would love to work with current UM undergraduate and master's students.
Accessibility and Computing, Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization, Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Wenhao Sun
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ We have multiple open positions available for graduate students and postdocs. Please email whsun@umich.edu for more details.
We are interested in resolving outstanding fundamental scientific problems that impede the computational materials design process. Our group uses high-throughput density functional theory, applied thermodynamics, and mat…
Yang Chen
Associate Professor of Statistics · College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
⭐ I am recruiting postdocs, Ph.D. students master students to join my research group. If you are interested, please send your CV and transcript to my email.
My research interests are statistical methodology and computational algorithms motivated by scientific applications. In particular, my past and ongoing projects are focused on the following topics:
Bayesian modeling and…
Yiyang Li
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ There are multiple open positions for students and postdocs; my group at UM will start September 2020. Prospective graduate students should apply to a UM department, and are welcome to contact me prior to applying. Interested postdocs should email me directly att yiyangli@umich.edu.
My research interests are to develop new electrochemical materials for energy storage, brain-inspired computing, and information processing. Many ionic materials canhosta high density of point defects, which are mobile a…
Yun Jiang
Associate Professor · University of Michigan School of Nursing
⭐ Yun Jiang is accepting new PhD students.
Health informatics
Chronic condition self-management
Oral anticancer agents
eHealth/mHealth
Technology acceptance and use
Zheshen Zhang
Associate Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ Our group currently has multiple postdoc openings. Interested candidates with expertise in quantum optics are encouraged to contact Prof. Zheshen Zhang via email.
We are a research group at the University of Michigan. Our research encompasses both the theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information science, aiming to enable new sensing, data processing, communication, …
Ziyou Song
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering, University of Michigan
⭐ Our lab is looking for passionate and highly motivated PhD students. Several positions will be available in energy storage areas, including but not limited to: Advanced Battery Management System: Physics-informed machine learning for battery condition monitoring; State and parameter estimation at ba…
Modeling, estimation, optimization, and control of energy storage systems, including batteries, supercapacitors, and flywheels, for electrified vehicles and renewable energy systems. Using energy storage as a bridge, we …
Natalie Colabianchi
Professor · School of Kinesiology
⭐ Dr. Natalie Colabianchi, Professor in the School of Kinesiology, and the Director of the Environment and Policy Laboratory at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is currently seeking a motivated doctoral student to work on research related to the built environment and health outcomes for Fall 2…
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Qiong Yang
Associate Professor of Biophysics · University of Michigan Medical School - CCMB
⭐ We are recruiting! We warmly welcome interested individuals at all levels to check out our lab web pages (https://websites.umich.edu/~qiongy/) and contact us via qiongy@umich.edu to learn more.
Bridging Biophysics with Quantitative Systems & Synthetic Biology and Mechanobiology to pursue a comprehensive understanding of stochastic cellular and developmental processes in early embryos including Xenopus and zebra…
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Alexandra Decker
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences · Arts & Sciences
⭐ We are looking for motivated, visionary, and talented individuals to join our growing team! I will be recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026!
understanding how the mind and brain learn across time and development; cognitive processes that support learning and memory; tracking learning and memory processes across time; how subtle shifts in attention, decision-m…
Alireza Ghanbarpour
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology · WashU Medicine
⭐ Available to Mentor: PhD Students
Our research focuses on unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying substrate specificity and degradation by AAA proteolytic machines and their associated adaptor proteins, utilizing structural biology, biochemistry, …
Benjamin Garcia
Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
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Diana J. Montaño
Associate Professor of History
Director of Undergraduate Studies in History · Arts & Sciences
⭐ Prof. Montaño is not taking graduate students for Fall 2027 entry.
construction of modern Latin American societies with a focus on technology and its relationship to nationalism, everyday life and domesticity.
Dougal Hansen
Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies · Arts & Sciences
⭐ The WUSTL Glaciology lab is currently seeking graduate students and postdocs. Project topics are flexible and can be tailored to align with individual research interests, taking into account current resources and funding opportunities.
Glaciology, Glacial and Cold-Climate Geomorphology
Elizabeth Pollina, PhD
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology · WashU Medicine
⭐ Postdoctoral Researchers
Molecular Mechanisms of Nervous System Longevity and Rejuvenation
The Pollina Lab is broadly interested in identifying the molecular mechanisms that preserve longevity across the diverse cell types of the nervous system…
Eric Galburt
Professor · WashU Medicine
⭐ Graduate Programs (DBBS)
The Galburt lab studies the molecular mechanisms underlying transcription initiation and DNA repair in Bacteria and Eukaryotes. Four current lines of investigation are ongoing in the lab:
1. Transcriptional regulation in…
Gabor Egervari
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
⭐ We welcome researchers at all levels to join our lab! We are committed to a diverse, collaborative and equitable work environment where every member can thrive and grow. If you are interested in joining or a rotation, please send me an email at [email protected]. Our lab utilizes cutting-edge proteo…
My research program aims to understand how metabolic changes influence gene expression in the brain. Specifically, I investigate the recruitment of metabolic enzymes to the nucleus and to chromatin in different brain reg…
Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry · WashU Medicine
⭐ We welcome researchers at all levels to join our lab located in the Department of Genetics in Couch Biomedical Research Building! We are committed to a diverse, collaborative and equitable work environment where every member can thrive and grow. If you are interested in joining or a rotation, please…
Metabolic-epigenetic interactions in the healthy and diseased brain; role of metabolic changes in gene expression in the brain; recruitment of metabolic enzymes to the nucleus and to chromatin in different brain regions …
Gaia Tavoni, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · WashU Medicine
⭐ If you are interested in joining the lab as a postdoc or graduate student, please email Gaia Tavoni at gaia.tavoni@wustl.edu.
The Tavoni Laboratory investigates the fundamental principles underlying brain function, from sensing the environment to forming memories and making decisions. We study how information is represented and processed within…
Hema Adhikari
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
⭐ Willing to Mentor PhD Students
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase, Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase, Filamentous Growth, Mitogen, Carcinogenesis, KRAS, Interactome, Cell Membrane
Jim Janetka
Carl Frieden Distinguished Professor, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Professor of Molecular Microbiology · WashU Medicine
⭐ Available to Mentor: PhD Students
We are interested in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for treatment and prevention of cancer and infectious disease. One aim of our current research focuses on the identification of unconventional allo…
John Cooper
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professorship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology · WashU Medicine
⭐ Available to Mentor: PhD Students
The long-term goal of our research is to understand the molecular basis of cell motility, including the role of motility in human disease, especially cancer. How do actin, microtubules and their motors control the shape …
Kathleen Hall
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
⭐ Willing to Mentor
Available to Mentor:
PhD Students
I am interested in RNA binding to proteins and the mechanisms of this molecular recognition.
Lori Watt
Director of Graduate Studies in History
Associate Professor of History and of Global Studies · Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Watt welcomes applications from prospective PhD students with an interest in the political and social history of 20th century Japan, especially on the themes of empire, decolonization, and internationalism. Please contact her by email in advance of submitting an application to discuss whet…
Japanese history, empire, decolonization, internationalism, population transfers, postwar Japan, United Nations, refugee protection, human security
Naresha Saligrama
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology · WashU Medicine
⭐ Willing to Mentor
Available to Mentor:
PhD Students
The Saligrama lab is dedicated to understanding the adaptive immune responses in health and neurological disorders. Over the last few years it is becoming more and more evident that inflammation and adaptive immunity pla…
Patricia Weisensee
Assistant Professor · McKelvey School of Engineering
⭐ Contact Patty Weisensee for more details about the following projects: 1. Studying the effects of electrostatic charging for water droplets coalescing in oil; 2. Preparation of micrometer-sized dyed polymer spheres to study thermal-fluidic processes in additive manufacturing; 3. Studying the effect …
Experimental thermo-fluid dynamics using high speed imaging, including phase change heat transfer, droplet impact, wetting, and capillary transport in porous media.
Peter Burgers
Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
⭐ Available to Mentor: PhD Students
Our laboratory is studying DNA replication and DNA damage response mechanisms in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in human cells. Yeast is an ideal eukaryotic organism to study these pathways, both at a genetic and…
Rebecca Copeland
Professor of Japanese Language and Literature · Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Copeland is not currently accepting new PhD students.
Modern and contemporary women's writing in Japan, Modern literature and material culture, Translation studies
Roberto Galletto
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
⭐ Willing to Mentor
Available to Mentor:
PhD Students
The role of DNA helicases in promoting progression of DNA replication through sites that are difficult to replicate is of particular importance for our understanding of maintenance of genomic stability. During each cell …
Roger Michaelides
Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies · Arts & Sciences
⭐ The Radar Interferometry and Geospatial Science Laboratory ('Radar Lab'), led by Michaelides, is actively seeking graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to work on a range of research topics. If interested, please contact Roger Michaelides directly or visit the lab website for more informati…
Radar remote sensing, geospatial science, the Arctic, permafrost processes and hydrology
Timothy Lohman
Brennecke Professor of Biophysics in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
⭐ Willing to Mentor
Available to Mentor:
PhD Students
Mechanism and regulation of helicases and single strand binding proteins involved in DNA metabolism
Tom Franken
MD, PhD · WashU Medicine
⭐ If you are interested in joining the lab, check out our open positions.
How do you make sense of what you see? We study how the brain constructs a representation of the world around us.
Weikai Li
Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
⭐ Available to Mentor: PhD Students, Post-Baccalaureate Students, Postdocs
Dr. Weikai Li’s lab studies membrane enzymes, transporters and adhesion molecules that are important therapeutic targets in hematology and cardiovascular biology. To support the study, the lab has developed unique multid…
Emory University 20 hiring
Anna Grimshaw
Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Grimshaw is not accepting new graduate students.
Visual anthropology
Documentary cinema
Experimental ethnography
Professor Grimshaw's research interests focus around ethnographic cinema. In particular, she is concerned with the ways in which an intellectually challengi…
Ding Xu
Associate Professor · Emory University School of Medicine
⭐ Prospective postdoctoral scholars and PhD students who wish to join our highly productive team can directly email Dr. Xu. Currently, the earliest start date would be 09/2026.
The Xu lab studies one of the most fascinating biomacromolecules called heparan sulfate. Heparan sulfate is a highly negatively charged unbranched polysaccharide only found in animals. With its complex structure, heparan…
Donghai Liang
Associate Professor · Rollins School of Public Health
⭐ Highly motivated candidates are welcome to get in touch to discuss potential research opportunities further.
Aging, air pollution, biomarkers, cancer prevention, chemical exposure, data science, exposome, exposure assessment, maternal and child health
Douglas Walker
Associate Professor · Rollins School of Public Health
⭐ We currently have multiple laboratory and data analysis positions open. Students interested in PhD or postdoctoral opportunities in exposome research methods, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and complex exposures of emerging concern, including microplastics, are welcome to get in touch to discuss…
Exposome, Bioinformatics, Biomarkers, Chemical Exposure, Data Science, Environmental Health, Toxicology, Non-communicable Diseases, Machine Learning
Homa Ghalei
Director · Emory University School of Medicine
⭐ We currently have openings and are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team.
Ghalei lab studies how an abundant class of small non-coding RNAs, which are primarily localized in the nucleolus, regulate gene expression by affecting ribosome production and translational control. The lab employs RNA …
Irwin Waldman
Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Graduate student applicants should have substantive interests in conducting research on the classification and underlying causes of personality and psychopathology. Specifically, a strong interest in disentangling and characterizing genetic and environmental influences on personality and psychopatho…
My overarching interests are in developmental psychopathology and behavior genetics. In my lab we work at the intersection of psychology, statistics, and biology to understand the classification, causes, development, and…
Jiang-Xiazi Lin
Assistant Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ My new lab is looking for postdoc and students at both graduate and undergrad levels starting fall 2024. Motivated students are welcome to contact me at jiangxiazi.lin@emory.edu.
I am interested in studying the emergent phenomena in low dimensional quantum materials and exploiting them for future technologies. A special focus is the two-dimensional flat band systems where the interplay between Co…
Joshua Wallach
Associate Professor · Rollins School of Public Health
⭐ If you are interested in any of the topics outlined above, please email joshua.wallach@emory.edu for additional information.
Health Services Research, Public Health Policy, Health Policy, Addiction/Substance Abuse, Clinical Trials, Health Law, Health Outcomes, Research Methods
Matthew Freeman
Professor · Rollins School of Public Health
⭐ Those interested in PhD opportunities should review requirements and proceedures for the programs in Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Development and contact the relevant ADAPs for any logistical questions and support.
Global impacts of enteric and diarrheal diseases; global access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); hygiene-related foodborne illness and zoonosis; impact of WASH on neglected tropical diseases.
Max Lau
Associate Professor · Rollins School of Public Health
⭐ We are looking for passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team!
Infectious Disease Dynamics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Michael G. Peletz
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Peletz is not accepting new graduate students.
Social and cultural theory; Law, discipline, and social justice; Islam and religious change; Gender and sexuality; Cultural politics of modernity; Historical anthropology; Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Rim, the Musli…
Patricia A. Brennan
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I will be considering applications this year for graduate enrollment in the fall of 2026. To learn more about my research, and find the answers to common questions, please go to my Potential Graduate Student FAQ.
Biological, psychological, and social risk factors for internalizing and externalizing disorders from a developmental psychopathology perspective. Perinatal maternal health, psychosocial stress and trauma, and intergener…
Peter Hitchcock
Assistant Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I will be considering applications this cycle for graduate enrollment in Fall 2026. Please see my Prospective Graduate Student FAQ for more information.
Computational modeling, depression and anxiety, reinforcement learning, rumination and worry, sequential sampling models, treatment development.
Peter Little
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Director of the Emory Program in Development Studies · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Little is not accepting new graduate students.
Economic anthropology, Development anthropology, Ecological anthropology, Political anthropology, Agrarian change, Pastoralism, Sub-Saharan Africa
Robert A. Paul
Director of Undergraduate Research, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Paul is not accepting new graduate students.
Psychological anthropology
Psychoanalysis
Comparative religion
Myth and ritual
The ethnography of Nepal, Tibet, the Himalayas, and South and Central Asia
Roger Deal
Associate Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Excellent research and training opportunities are available in the lab for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers.
Genetics, Cell, and Developmental Biology; epigenetics; chromatin-based gene regulation; cell differentiation; organ formation; Arabidopsis thaliana; animal cell culture; genomics; genetics; molecular biology
Rohan Palmer
Associate Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ All interested parties should review the instructions on our website.
Undergraduate Research Assistants: Please email Dr. Palmer or a graduate student to confirm if the lab is accepting undergraduate research assistants. Application for undergraduate research education should be submitted using the …
My research centers on understanding the persistent and transient problems leading to alcohol and other substance use disorders (SUDs). Current research in the lab include:
1. the identification of genetic and environmen…
Temiloluwa Prioleau
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am actively recruiting new Ph.D. students to join the my research team. Prospective applicants should apply to the Emory CSI PhD program. I also encourage interested applicants to reach out to me directly via email (tpriole@emory.edu) before applying AND list me as a potential advisor on their app…
digital and computational health, the use of mobile/wearable technology, and advanced data analytics to develop human-centered computing solutions that enable personalized health.
Tonio Andrade
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I accept Ph.D. students not just in Chinese history but also in the history of early modern European colonialism.
Chinese history, Global history
Wladimir Benalcazar
Assistant Professor · Emory College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I currently have one postdoctoral opening, and one or two graduate student openings. Additionally, I have projects for undergraduate students who are proficient in Mathematica, Matlab, C++, or Python.
I am interested in studying collective effects in quantum matter. Specifically, I investigate the role that topology, symmetries, geometry, and interactions have on the existence of topological phases in insulators, supe…
Georgetown University 5 hiring
Grace Hui Yang
Professor · Georgetown University
⭐ I am looking for highly motivated PhD students with a strong mathematics background, excellent programming skills, and good writing skills. If you are serious about Information Retrieval research and/or aim to invent the next big thing on the Web, please contact me.
deep reinforcement learning, interactive agents, search engines, and privacy-preserving information retrieval
J. Montgomery
Professor · Georgetown University
⭐ I am looking for strong students with an interest in graphics, systems and networking. Whereas my interests focus on the applied side, I am also open to motivated systems students who are interested in signaling and medical imaging.
My research interests includes visualizing large data sets, computer graphics, networks and systems. My current research involves creating visualization tools that dynamically rendering planetary terrain models on GPU's.…
Sarah Adel Bargal
Assistant Professor · Georgetown University
⭐ I am hiring PhD students: If you have some research experience in Computer Vision and Machine Learning and are interested in applying for a PhD student position in the Computer Science Department of Georgetown University, here is the application link. Feel free to send me an email if you would like …
Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Timothy Newfield
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Tim is interested in supervising doctoral students in interdisciplinary historical epidemiology and in interdisciplinary late antique and medieval environmental history. He is unable to take on new students in 2025-26, however.
historical epidemiologist, environmental historian and scholar of late antiquity; history of infectious disease and climate change in the first millennium CE; environmental, medical and late antique history; history of g…
Ziwei Cong
Assistant Professor · McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
⭐ RA Hiring: She hires part-time research assistants with solid quantitative skills in computer science, data science, or econometrics.
Her research employs econometrics, statistics, and machine learning methods to investigate: (1) the designs of digital platforms (e.g., recommendation algorithms and business models); (2) the decision-making processes of…
University of Virginia 26 hiring
Adema Ribic
Assistant Professor of Psychology · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ If you are interested in joining or rotating in the Ribic Lab, please contact Adema Ribic directly at ar5pt@virginia.edu.
Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience
Adria LaViolette
Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia
⭐ Not accepting advisees, but available as a committee member
Archaeology of Africa; Iron Age; Swahili archaeology and history; precolonial urbanism; colonialism; household archaeology; craft specialization; collaborative heritage management.
Aidong Zhang
Thomas M. Linville Professor · University of Virginia
⭐ Note: My lab has position available for creative PhD students, motivated for doing research in the areas of machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, and health informatics. If you are interested, please contact me.
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics
Aron Marie
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Sign Language Program · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia
⭐ Accepting advisees
Chang Lou
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Our lab has multiple Ph.D. student positions starting from Fall 2024. If you are interested in building/hacking systems, we should talk. Learn More
Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Software Reliability
Channing Mathews
Assistant Professor of Psychology · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Mathews will be accepting a postdoctoral fellow through University of Virginia Rising Scholars Program and will be accepting graduate students for the 2023-2024 application cycle.
Community Psychology
Chris Chang-Bacon
Associate Professor · UVA School of Education and Human Development
⭐ Dr. Chang-Bacon will be recruiting doctoral students to begin in Fall 2027 (applications Due Dec 1st, 2026). Students may apply through the Curriculum & Instruction PhD Program or the Language Education in Multilingual Contexts PhD program.
Equity in multilingual and multicultural contexts; language ideologies and policies; teachers of multilingual learners; anti-oppressive pedagogies in teacher education; racial and linguistic discrimination in education.
Erin Moriarty Harrelson
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Sign Language Program · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting advisees
An ethnographer with extensive fieldwork experience in Cambodia and Indonesia, Erin Moriarty researches the intersection of mobility and languaging practices, focusing on deaf linguistic practices in transnational settin…
Eve Danziger
Professor, Director, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics · University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting advisees
Linguistic relativity; spatial language and spatial cognition, cross-cultural philosophies of mind, conversational gesture. Mayan linguistics; morpho-syntactic expression of verb argument structure, linguistic prehistory…
Ewald, Sarah E
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology · School of Medicine
⭐ The Ewald Lab is currently accepting applications for post doctoral positions. For information contact se2s@virginia.edu
The Ewald lab is accepting graduate trainees through The University of Virginia Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BIMS) and Medical Scientist Training Program
http://bims.vir…
Innate immunity, chronic disease, host-parasite interactions, Toxoplasma gondii, proteomics
Jessie Gibson (Sellers)
· University of Virginia School of Nursing
⭐ Dr. Gibson is currently accepting PhD students with related research interests. Please contact her via email for more information.
Kelsey Kubelick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are currently recruiting at all levels. Interested candidates are encouraged to reach out to Dr. Kubelick directly.
Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Theranostics and Image-Guided Therapies
Multi-Functional Nanoconstructs and Cellular Engineering
Cancer Immunotherapy
Regenerative Medicine
Kevin Janes
John Marshall Money Professor, Biomedical Engineering · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ He co-leads an NIH-sponsored training grants in Systems and Biomolecular Data Science Training Program (SBDS) and a U54 Research Center in Cancer Systems Biology (SASCO).
Biomedical Data Sciences, Computational Systems Biology, Quantitative Biosciences
Lanice Avery
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Psychology · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia
⭐ Dr. Avery is accepting new students for the doctoral program in Community Psychology (Fall 2025). She is also looking to recruit highly motivated undergraduate students for the RISE Lab in the Spring 2025. Interested parties should contact her directly at la4gd@virginia.edu to apply.
Community Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Lise Dobrin
Professor · University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting advisees
Language sound and word structure; Arapesh languages (Papuan); Melanesian culture; history of anthropology; linguistic field methods; ethnography of language shift, documentation, and description.
Mona Sloane
Assistant Professor of Data Science · University of Virginia
⭐ She is currently accepting Ph.D. students and postdocs.
Data + Society; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Data Ethics and Society; Qualitative Social Research; Data Collection and Cleaning; AI Audits
Natasha Diba Sheybani
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery (by courtesy) and Radiology & Medical Imaging (by courtesy); Research Director, UVA Focused Ultrasound Immuno-Oncology (FUSION) Center · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ The Sheybani Lab is actively recruiting at all levels. Interested candidates are encouraged to reach out to Dr. Sheybani directly.
Targeted Drug and Gene Delivery; Cancer Immunotherapy; Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Biomedical Data Sciences; Precision Medicine; Immune Engineering
Neeti Nair
Professor of History · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I welcome applications from students who are interested in pursuing a doctorate in modern South Asian history.
Modern South Asia, Political History, Transnational and Diplomatic History, Legal History, Intellectual History and History of Ideas
Paul Perrin
Professor of Data Science and Psychology · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ If you are considering applying to work with Perrin as a PhD student, undergraduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or post-bac, please read more about the process on the Social Justice in Disability and Health Lab applicant page.
Clinical Psychology
Paul Perrin
Professor of Data Science · University of Virginia
⭐ If you are considering applying to work with Perrin as a Ph.D. student, undergraduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or post-bac, please read more about the process on the Social Justice in Disability and Health Lab applicant page or apply to the Ph.D. in Data Science at UVA.
Analytics; Data + Society
Sameer Bajikar
Assistant Professor · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are looking to recruit passionate and motivated students interested in understanding the underlying causes of neurodevelopmental disorders. Prospective trainees are encouraged to contact Dr. Bajikar at sbajikar@virginia.edu to learn about current opportunities.
Bioinformatics and Genomics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Computational Biology, Stem Cells & Regeneration, Neuroscience, Translational Science
Sean R. Agnew
William G. Reynolds Professor of Materials Science; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, by courtesy · University of Virginia
⭐ Currently Recruiting
Our research is focused primarily on metals analysis, including magnesium alloy formability, intermetallic behaviors, and aluminum alloy fatigue.
Sepideh Dolatshahi
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Dr. Dolatshahi is looking for talented, enthusiastic and diverse members to join the lab! The lab’s priority is to provide training to highly motivated engineers and scientists who tackle real-world problems that closely impact people’s lives - and to have fun while doing so! Prospective graduate s…
Systems Immunology, Immunoengineering, Computational Biology, Maternal and Placental Immune Regulation
Sophie Trawalter
Professor of Public Policy and Psychology · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Prof. Trawalter will not be recruiting graduate students in Psychology for the 2021-2022 incoming class. However, she will be co-mentoring students in the Race and Inequality in Higher Education multidisciplinary doctoral fellowship program. See here for more information and how to apply: https://gr…
Social Psychology
Wajih Ul Hassan
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, School of Data Science · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Wajih is actively seeking undergraduate and graduate students to join his research lab. If you are interested in working with him, please reach out via email. To learn more, please visit his research lab (DART Lab) page above.
system intrusion detection and forensic investigation through the application of machine learning and data provenance techniques
Zongli Lin
Ferman W. Perry Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, by courtesy · University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Students interested in PhD studies on the above topics are encouraged to contact him.
nonlinear control, robust control, and control applications
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill 22 hiring
Ashok Krishnamurthy
Professor; MADS Lead Faculty · School of Data Science and Society
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
data analytics with applications in health care and social science, high-end computing for modeling and simulation, advanced computational tools to improve industrial productivity through virtual product and process deve…
Charles M. Perou, PhD
Professor · UNC School of Medicine
⭐ I am actively seeking new graduate students, medical fellows, and postdoctoral fellows, and have opportunities available for both experimentalists and computational scientists.
Breast cancer is a prevalent disease with known clinical and molecular diversity. To address these challenges, my research team uses a multidisciplinary approach based upon genomics, genetics, cancer biology, bioinformat…
Daniel Schrider, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics · UNC School of Medicine
⭐ The Schrider Lab looking to grow. If you have interest in joining then please don't hesitate to contact me.
Develop and apply computational tools to make evolutionary inferences from population genetic data
Elizabeth Havice
Professor of Geography, Bowman and Gordan Gray Distinguished Professor of Geography · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
⭐ Prospective students: feel free to write me to inquire about graduate school in our department. Be sure to include your CV and a short summary of your interests and how they relate to my research program.
agrarian studies, coastal and marine governance, commodity studies, corporate power, environmental politics, global value chain analysis, international development, natural resources, political economy, political ecology…
Huaxiu Yao
Assistant Professor · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ We will recruit 3 Ph.D. students for Fall 2027 and multiple interns or visiting students all year. Please read THIS for detailed recruitment information.
My research focuses on both the theoretical and applied aspects of building generalizable and adaptive agentic foundation models. Additionally, I am keen on utilizing these models to facilitate applications in biomedicin…
Iain Carmichael
Assistant Professor · School of Data Science and Society
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
Computational pathology, deep learning for medical imaging, multimodal data analysis, natural language processing for clinical notes, high resolution tissue imaging data (e.g. digital pathology, spatial transcriptomics, …
Jun Li
Associate Professor · School of Data Science and Society
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
Cancer bioinformatics, functional genomics, proteomics, and AI-driven precision oncology
Maliheh Ghajargar
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ My research lab (plantai) is hiring highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students to work on several research projects. Topics include multi-species storytelling, more-than-human-geographies, and human-environment-AI interaction! If you are interested please email an updated CV/portfolio with…
human-environment interaction, sustainability, and human-AI interaction
Mingyu Ding
Assistant Professor · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ I’m leading the Intelligent Dexterous Embodied AI Lab at UNC (IDEAL@UNC). My research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, embodied AI, and computer vision. I am actively seeking self-motivated students for PhD and intern positions. If you’re interested, please fill out this form and email…
robotics, embodied AI, and computer vision
Neil S. Gaikwad
Assistant Professor · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
AI ethics; human-AI value alignment for societal decision-making; human-computer interaction; computational sustainability; AI policy and governance
Praneeth Chakravarthula
Assistant Professor · UNC Chapel Hill
⭐ If you are interested in a PhD, postdoc, internship or a visiting position, please contact me with your resume.
optics, perception, graphics, optimization, and machine learning
Rob Dowen, PhD
Associate Professor · UNC School of Medicine
⭐ Two rotation projects are available in the lab:
Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Genetics, Metabolism, Molecular Biology
Sishuai Gong
Assistant Professor · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ I am looking for Ph.D. students and research interns! If you’re interested, please email me your CV and transcripts.
My research focuses on system reliability and security. In particular, I develop interdisciplinary techniques that draw on machine learning, software engineering, and computer architecture to understand and tackle the ch…
Tianlong Chen
Assistant Professor, CS@UNC at Chapel Hill · The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ I am looking for highly motivated students, in terms of RA/TA/externship/internship/visiting students. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact me by email, together with resume and transcripts.
efficient and reliable machine learning, large language model agents, multimodal learning, and AI for Biomedical Science
Virginie Papadopoulou, PhD
Research Assistant Professor · UNC School of Medicine
⭐ Currently, our lab can support MD/PhD students or undergraduate or MD students through hourly paid research assistant positions.
Biomedical Engineering, Drug Delivery, Imaging, Other, Physiology, Translational Medicine
Wai Tong (Louis) Fan
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
Probability theory and applications, stochastic modeling in population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics and atmospheric sciences
Weitong Zhang
Assistant Professor · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ <strong><span style="color:red">I’m actively seeking for highly motivated student to work with me:</span></strong>
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<li><strong>Prospective interns, Current UNC undergrad / grad students / Postdocs</strong>: Please fill out <a href="https://forms.gle/S7om5QRCjaTzMWuD9">this form</a> (feel free t…
My research focuses on reinforcement learning, with applications to modern machine learning models (incl. LLMs, diffusion models) and a deeper understanding of the foundations of exploration . My research goal is to deve…
Xiaoming Liu
Anil K. and Nandita Jain Endowed Professor of Engineering; MSU Foundation Professor
⭐ There are one immediate opening for post-doc and one opening available for Ph.D. student starting Fall 2019. The ideal applicant is self-motivated and has strong skills in both mathematics and programming. The post-doc candidate is expected to have a strong publication record in the computer vision …
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image and Video Processing, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interface, Medical Image Analysis, Multimedia Retrieval.
Yifei Lou
Professor · School of Data Science and Society
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
Image processing, sparse signal recovery, numerical analysis, optimization algorithms
Youzuo Lin
Associate Professor · School of Data Science and Society
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
physics-informed machine learning, deep learning, computational methods, and their applications in computational imaging, signal and image analysis
Zhongzheng (Jason) Ren
Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2026) · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
⭐ I am looking for motivated students at all levels to join my lab. For UW students: I'm seeking motivated undergrad and MS students for research. Topics are generally flexible, with a slight preference for visual generation, 3D vision, and VLMs. Feel free to reach out with your CV and transcripts.
computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. I am particularly interested in multimodal generation and understanding, with a focus on how AI systems comprehend and engage with complex real-world enviro…
Ziyu Chen
Assistant Professor · School of Data Science and Society, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
Applied harmonic analysis, applied probability, signal processing, data science, mathematical foundations of machine learning
University of Southern California 29 hiring
Bruna Klein
Assistant Professor of Psychology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Martins-Klein will be accepting graduate students and a postdoc fellow for 2023-24.
Her research explores factors that build resilience, emotion regulation and cognition across the lifespan. She integrates neuroimaging (fMRI functional connectivity, MVPA), ECG (heart rate variability), eyetracking (pupi…
Christopher Beam
Associate Professor of Psychology and Gerontology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ *I am considering taking a new graduate student for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Generally, my work addresses the biological and environmental mechanisms that explain differences in cognitive and psychological development across the lifespan. Development is a life-long process that consists of the ac…
Emilio Valadez
Assistant Professor of Psychology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ I will be recruiting PhD students during the current application cycle, for enrollment in Fall 2026.
I am a clinical scientist trained in developmental cognitive neuroscience. My lab focuses on understanding how early risk factors, such as temperament and early adversity, confer risk for future emotional problems among …
Julien Emile-Geay
Professor of Earth Sciences · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am always looking for motivated students, whether for a sumemr internship or a 5-year PhD program, so don’t be shy about emailing me!
Climate Science, Paleoclimatology, Data Analysis, Data Science
Noah Phillips
Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ I'm looking for excited graduate students to join my research group. Please visit my website to learn more about my group's research and, if you are looking for a PhD project in the broad fields of structural geology, tectonics, and/or ore deposit research, please contact me.
Structural Geology, Faults and Shear Zones, Rheology, Tectonics, Petrology, Ore Deposits
Payam Piray
Assistant Professor of Psychology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Piray will be recruiting graduate students.
How do people make sense of incomplete and noisy observations? How do humans make decisions in an uncertain world and how do they learn from their mistakes? Dr. Piray uses computational tools from machine learning (reinf…
Samuel Nastase
Assistant Professor of Psychology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ I'll be recruiting PhD students this year to start in Fall 2026!
Sandy LaTourrette
Assistant Professor of Psychology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
⭐ I will be considering PhD student applications this year, for admission in Fall 2026!
I study language, cognition, and their interaction across the lifespan: from infants as young as 6 months to preschool- and elementary-age children to adults. My research has investigated how labeling objects influences …
AJ Ogilvie
Associate Professor of Clinical Business Communication · USC Marshall School of Business
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Andrew (AJ) Ogilvie teaches courses in business writing and communication. Dr. Ogilvie has designed and taught university writing and communication courses at the undergraduate and MBA level for nearly a decade. His prim…
Ahmed S.K.
4‑Substituted-2-Thiazole Amides as Viral Replication Inhibitors of Alphaviruses · USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Amelia Jones
Assistant Professor · Roski School of Art and Design
⭐ Open for new opportunities in academic research and teaching.
Dr. Amelia Jones is a passionate educator specializing in 20th-century American literature and cultural studies. Her research focuses on identity, gender, and representation in modernist texts.
Austin Pollok
Assistant Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations
Assistant Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics · USC Marshall School of Business
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Austin Pollok is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Data Science and Operations at the USC Marshall School of Business, with a joint appointment in Finance and Business Economics. His research focuses on applying machine…
Ayca Altintig
Associate Professor of Clinical Finance · USC Marshall School of Business
⭐ Marshall Hires 18 Faculty Members (2024)
Faiza Moatasim
Associate Professor · USC School of Architecture
⭐ Open for positions related to urbanism and architectural theory.
Faiza Moatasim is Assistant Professor of Architecture in Urbanism and Urban Design at the USC School of Architecture. She specializes in the history and theory of architecture and urban design, modern colonial and post-c…
Jean Robison
Assistant Professor · Roski School of Art and Design
⭐ Hiring status or information
Dr. Jean Robison is an Assistant Professor in the Roski School of Art and Design with expertise in contemporary art, design, and visual culture.
John A. Romley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Jonathan Gomez
Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations · USC Marshall School of Business
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Marion Philadelphia
Professor of Clinical Business Communication · USC Marshall School of Business
⭐ Please visit the official profile page for hiring inquiries.
Marion Philadelphia is a Professor of Clinical Business Communication at USC Marshall School of Business. She has extensive experience in public relations, journalism, marketing, and the themed entertainment industry. Sh…
Michael Jakowec, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology · USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Dr. Michael Jakowec is an expert in the effects of exercise on neuroplasticity and synaptic regeneration in rodent models of Parkinson's disease. His research focuses on enhancing functional recovery in these models thro…
Pavitra Kavya
Assistant Professor of Clinical Business Communications · USC Marshall School of Business
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Quinn Maingi
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics · USC Marshall School of Business
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Ricardo Delao
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics · USC Marshall School of Business
⭐ Assistant Professor
Ricardo Delao is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School of Business, where he has been a faculty member since 2020. His research examines the role of beliefs in asset pricing …
Richard Kent Green
Professor of Finance and Business Economics · USC Marshall School of Business
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Richard Green is an expert on housing markets, housing policy, mortgage finance, and urban growth. His research has been published in a wide array of scholarly journals and popular media outlets, and he recently served a…
Sara Berman
Assistant Professor · USC Gould School of Law
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Dr. Sara Berman is an Assistant Professor in the Gould School of Law, specializing in tax law and legal education. Her research interests include tax policy, legal education, and the intersection of law and technology. S…
Sarah Gruzas
Associate Professor · USC Gould School of Law
⭐ Open position for Assistant Professor
Biography of Sarah Gruzas
Shaun Harper
University Professor and Provost Professor of Education, Business, and Public Policy · USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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Shaun Harper is a tenured faculty member in the Price School of Public Policy, Rossier School of Education, and Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is a Provost Professor and an exper…
Steven Brian Mednick
Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship · USC Marshall School of Business
⭐ Please visit the Marshall School of Business website for current hiring information.
Steven Brian Mednick is an expert in entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic alliances, and angel funding. He is the past Program Academic Director of the Marshall MSEI Program and the past Associate Dire…
Thomas Pringle
Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies · USC School of Cinematic Arts
⭐ No hiring information provided
Thomas Patrick Pringle is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Prior to joining USC, Pringl…
Timothy M. Chan
Dean of USC Mann · USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
⭐ February 1, 1995
University of California, San Diego 4 hiring
Jorge I. Poveda
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
⭐ We are currently looking for one highly motivated Ph.D. student to join our group. We are always looking for highly motivated students, postdocs, and visiting scholars with a strong interest in control, optimization, and learning systems.
Control, Optimization, Learning Systems, Stochastic Hybrid Systems, Hybrid Systems, Nonlinear Systems, Adaptive Control & RL, Extremum Seeking Systems
Ruben Abagyan
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy · UC San Diego
⭐ Minimum Duration: 1 year
Dr. Abagyan’s research focuses on the development of novel technologies for structure based drug discovery and optimization, structural systems biology for target finding and protein modeling. The lab screens specific bi…
Shadi Dayeh
Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
⭐ We welcome applicants from ECE, BioE, Materials/Applied Physics, and Neuroscience who want to build devices that reach patients. Projects typically span materials & fabrication, device/ASIC/packaging, rodent and large animal neurophysiology work, signal analysis/ML, and clinical studies with our hos…
Translational neurotechnology built on semiconductor rigor. We design human-grade neural interfaces and take them into the operating room, rooted in deep expertise in Si/SiGe and compound semiconductors (InAs, GaAs, GaN,…
Shermin De Silva
· School of Biological Sciences
⭐ I do not intend to recruit PhD students in the Fall 2024 application period
We study socioecology broadly construed, or how social systems influence ecological systems and vice versa. Human and nonhuman societies are intimately bound together with surrounding ecosystems. These conditions present…
New York University 42 hiring
Andrew Gordon Wilson
Professor · New York University
⭐ Note to prospective PhD students: in the upcoming application cycle (admission for 2026-2027), I am primarily interested in the theory and empirical science of deep learning. The following papers are representative of these interests: (1) epiplexity, a new measure of information for data selection; …
I aim to develop a prescriptive approach to building autonomous intelligent systems. This effort involves a variety of different research initiatives, which cumulatively work together towards achieving this vision. A maj…
Borja Garcia de Soto
Associate Professor NYUAD, Global Network Associate Professor NYU · NYU Tandon School of Engineering
⭐ Mentee Guidelines: https://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/graduate/phd-hub/mentoring-guidelines
construction automation and robotics, digital twin for the built environment, AEC cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and multimodal large language models (LLMs) in construction, lean project delivery, and Building In…
Chang Ee-Chien
Associate Professor · School of Computing, National University of Singapore
⭐ Our research group has a few research positions (Research Fellows, Research Assistants) available, looking for expertises in Security of AI, and AI for cybersecuity. Contact me for more info.
Topics in Security. Recently has been working on Machine Learning security, Trusted Execution Environment and applied cyrptography. Earlier works include multimedia and biometric security.
Cheng Tan
Assistant Professor · Northeastern University
⭐ If you are interested in building systems, we should talk [c.tan (at) northeastern.edu].
I’m broadly interested in computer systems. I build systems that enable users to verify their outsourced services. In particular, my recent research includes: building Faithful LLM Systems, verifying ML systems, verifyin…
David Fouhey
Institute Associate Professor · NYU
⭐ I am not taking students in the Fall 2025 PhD application season. I am not taking on direct advisees at this point. I am not generally looking for postdocs, visitors, or new collaborators except via people I already have an existing connection with.
I work on learning-based computer vision, with a particular focus on systems that reliably estimate physical properties and dynamics from images. This has led to three interrelated interests: Measurements for the Science…
Eunsol Choi
Assistant Professor · Courant Institute; New York University
⭐ If you would like to join my lab, please apply to NYU CS or DS program as I will be recruiting 1-2 student this cycle. If you like to work with me, apply to NYU's Ph.D program and mention my name in the application.
I enjoy studying real world language usages with simple, efficient and generalizable models. I also build benchmarks that allows us to evaluate NLP models and conduct model analysis. Here are research topics that I am cu…
Florian Schäfer
assistant professor · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
⭐ I am currently hiring PhD students and postdocs in this topic. Please have a look here to get an idea. If you have a strong background in computational mathematics, reach out! If you are on the postdoc market, please consider applying for the Faculty Fellow positions.
numerical computation, statistical inference, competitive games, elliptic PDEs, Gaussian elimination, conditional independence, multi-agent optimization, information geometric regularization, compressible fluid dynamics,…
Gautam Kamath
Assistant Professor · University of Waterloo
⭐ I will be moving to the Computer Science department at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU in September 2026, and am searching for members to join my group there. More details are available here, and a form to indicate interest is available here.
Reliable and trustworthy statistics and machine learning, including considerations such as data privacy and robustness.
Graham Dove
Assistant Professor · NYU Tandon School of Engineering
⭐ Prospective Ph.D. students for Fall 26 should reach out via email with a one pager outlining their research interests and how they connect to my projects, and demonstrating their potential for research excellence. I am particularly keen to hear from applicants interested in research through design a…
interaction design, human-computer interaction, community science, data visualization, interactive machine learning, human-AI interaction
He He
Assistant Professor · New York University
⭐ I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students this cycle. If you’re interested, please apply to the PhD program in Computer Science or Data Science and mention my name in your application. If you are interested in a post-doc position, please email me directly.
Understanding LLMs, Evaluation and oversight, Human-AI collaboration
Julia Kempe
Silver Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Data Science · New York University
⭐ For Prospective PhD Students: Applications for the Ph.D. program are reviewed by a department-wide committee and are very competitive. Please apply directly to the PhD Program of the Center for Data Science or the Computer Science Program. Do not forget to mention my name (and of other faculty you'd…
Machine Learning Theory, Deep Learning & Foundation Models, AI Safety & Robustness, ML for Science (Physics)
Ludovic Righetti
Glenn Y. Louie Professor · Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
⭐ Mentee Guidelines: https://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/graduate/phd-hub/mentoring-guidelines
Robotics and applications, optimal control, reinforcement learning, robotics societal/ethical issues, legged robots, robotic manipulation
Marshall Ball
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
⭐ I'm currently looking for creative and motivated students.
theoretical computer science, particularly the foundations of cryptography and computational complexity
Mengye Ren
Assistant Professor · Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science, New York University
⭐ I am also looking for motivated students at all levels in the following areas: Continual learning for LLMs, VLMs, and agents; Machine creativity for vision, language, and planning.
General areas: machine learning, computer vision, representation learning, continual learning, meta-learning, few-shot learning, artificial intelligence. My key research question is: how do we enable human-like, agent-ba…
Oded Regev
Silver Professor · New York University
⭐ We are hiring! Undergraduate, graduate students, and wet lab postdocs with interest in using machine learning in biological sciences should apply. Strong drive is a must.
How can we use machine learning to discover new biology and suggest novel therapeutic approaches? In our wet lab, we generate massive biological datasets containing millions of measurements, which we later use in the dry…
Ofer Kimchi
· Courant Institute, New York University
⭐ If you are interested in joining the group or collaborating with us, please contact Ofer by email. See this page for more information.
We aim to understand how living systems function. Biological systems often manage to solve problems that stump us, and so we try to learn from biology how to improve our own design capabilities. We develop mathematical m…
Qi Lei
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, and, by courtesy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science · New York University
⭐ I am actively looking for self-motivated and proactive students to work with. You are welcome to shoot me an email with your CV and short research plans/interests. (You may refer to this link to see whether our research interests match.) For Ph.D. applicants, please apply to Courant Mathematics or C…
My research aims to bridge the theoretical and empirical boundary of modern machine learning algorithms and in particular AI safety, with a focus on data privacy, distributionally robust algorithms, sample- and parameter…
Qi Sun
Associate Professor · NYU Tandon School of Engineering
⭐ Contact me if you are enthusiastic about cutting edge research across computer graphics, physics, and computational cognition, aiming at unprecedented virtual and augmented reality that revolutionizes urban life. Our research directions include novel multimodal/low-latency/immersive interaction devi…
Virtual/Augmented Reality; Computer Graphics; Computer Vision; Computational Perception
Rahul G. Krishnan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Medicine · University of Toronto
⭐ I will be recruiting students at all levels in Fall 2021 at the University of Toronto. If you are interested in developing new machine learning algorithms and applying them to problems in healthcare, apply to work with me here
probablistic inference in deep generative models, causality and applications of machine learning to healthcare
Robert G. Hoyland
Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History · Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
⭐ Member, Visiting Scholar Search Committee, AY2025-26
Roderick B. Campbell
Professor of East Asian Archaeology and History · New York University
⭐ Member, PhD Admissions Committee, AY2025-26
Chinese Bronze age, especially the Anyang period (ca. 1250-1050 BCE). Thematically, Campbell’s research has ranged from theorizing violence and early complex polities to historiography and more recently visual culture an…
Romain Lopez
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Biology · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
⭐ Join us if you're interested in machine learning research for biology.
Deep Generative Models, Causal Inference, Optimal Transport, Immunology and Genomics, Computational Biology
Samantha Kleinberg
Farber Chair Professor · Stevens Institute of Technology
⭐ We're hiring postdocs and seeking undergrad and grad students.
causal inference and time series data, clinical data, data generated outside of hospitals, decision making, stroke, diabetes, nutrition
Tim Kunisky
Assistant Professor · Johns Hopkins University
⭐ Unfortunately, I am not able to respond to inquiries about working with me from students who have not yet been admitted to Johns Hopkins. If you are one of those students, please instead apply to our PhD program and mention my name in your application.
computational complexity of statistical problems, spectral algorithms and random/pseudorandom matrix theory, diagrammatic methods in linear/multilinear algebra and their applications
Tim Mitchell
Associate Professor of Computer Science · Queens College / CUNY, CUNY Graduate Center
⭐ Prospective PhD students: If doing research on numerical computation topics (like those mentioned above as well as on my research and software pages) sounds like a great way to spend five years in grad school, then send me email to discuss, and check out our Computer Science PhD program at the CUNY …
designing fast and reliable algorithms and software for robust control and stability analysis of dynamical systems; tools applicable to model-order reduction, nonsmooth constrained optimization, benchmarking of numerical…
William Tsai
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology · NYU Steinhardt
⭐ Dr. Tsai will not be reviewing doctoral applications for students starting Fall 2026.
William Tsai, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and on the faculty of the Clinical/Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program. He earned his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Michigan…
Yanjun Han
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science · New York University
⭐ Due to the large volume of emails that I receive, I generally do not respond to unsolicited inquiries about student or postdoc openings; please apply through Courant or CDS programs. Nevertheless, if you have a strong quantitative background and think your interests are compatible with mine, please …
I am broadly interested in the mathematics of data science, including statistics, learning theory, bandits, and information theory. Recently I am interested in the theory of empirical Bayes methods.
Yuki Miura
Assistant Professor · NYU Tandon School of Engineering
⭐ Contact me to join my research group to leverage urban and climate data to identify, quantify, and mitigate climate risks and natural hazards while collaborating with stakeholders to develop actionable solutions.
- Climate risk assessment and management
- Urban resilience and adaptation
- Intersection of engineering, social science, and economics
- Data-driven modeling and optimization
Zhong-Ping Jiang
Institute Professor · NYU Tandon School of Engineering
⭐ Mentee Guidelines: https://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/graduate/phd-hub/mentoring-guidelines
Model-based and learning-based control for network systems with applications to robotics, connected and autonomous vehicles, and computational neuroscience
sAI Zhang
Assistant Professor · Tandon School of Engineering and Courant Institute, New York University
⭐ I am recruiting PhD students with backgrounds in AI and computer architecture. If you are interested, please reach out to sailabapplication@gmail.com.
I am a researcher working at the intersection of deep learning and hardware systems. I am passionate about developing efficient deep learning algorithms and optimized hardware designs for a wide range of applications, in…
Abraham A. Brody
Mathy Mezey Professor of Geriatric Nursing · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Home care, Palliative care, Non-communicable disease, Health Policy, Gerontology, Interprofessionalism, Chronic disease, Community/population health, Neurology, Research methods, Underserved populations
Audrey Lyndon
Vernice D. Ferguson Professor in Health Equity · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
maternal health equity, community health engagement, developing the nursing science and healthcare workforce, patient safety and quality in maternity and neonatal care, communication and teamwork among clinicians, parent…
Chenjuan Ma
Assistant Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Health Policy, Health Services Research, Home Health Care, Nursing workforce
Daniel David
Assistant Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Dena Schulman-Green
Associate Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Chronic disease, Gerontology, Global Health, Health Disparities, Mixed Methods Research, Oncology, Palliative care, Qualitative Research, Research methods, Serious illness, Self and Family Management, Theoretical and con…
Haeok Lee
Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Health disparities, immigrant populations, community-based participatory research, cancer prevention, Alzheimer's disease, mHealth interventions, storytelling videos for health behavior change
John Merriman
Assistant Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Improving cognitive function in postmenopausal women with breast cancer using stress management; how multiple determinants of health, including biobehavioral and social determinants, impact the efficacy of stress managem…
Susan Kohl Malone
Assistant Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Sleep patterns and circadian rhythms impact on metabolic health, preventing type 2 diabetes through personalized sleep interventions, improving sleep health to reverse metabolic syndrome in diverse populations, health di…
Tina Sadarangani
Assistant Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Chronic disease, Gerontology, Health Policy, Health Services Research, Immigrants, Underserved populations, Vulnerable & marginalized populations
Xiang Qi
Assistant Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Geriatric oral health, social epidemiology & psychiatry, dementia caregiving, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, data science, machine learning, multilevel modeling, causal inference, social determinants of healt…
Yaguang Zheng
Assistant Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Cardiometabolic risk reduction by leveraging mobile health, electronic health records, and data science techniques. Explored behavioral phenotypes through the use of wireless devices in clinical trials and real-world set…
Yzette Lanier
Associate Professor · NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Health promotion and disease prevention in communities of color, preventing HIV/STIs and unintended pregnancy among African American adolescents, adolescent romantic relationships and sexual behaviors, developmentally-ap…
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Adrienne Strong
Associate Professor of Anthropology · University of Florida
⭐ I supervise Ph.D. students interested in maternal and reproductive health, hospital ethnography, and the anthropology of biomedicine in a variety of geographic locations. If you are interested in applying to UF to work with me, please send me an email.
Medical anthropology, hospital ethnography, theories of care, pain care practices, and maternal mortality
Amy Mobley
Associate Professor, Department of Health Education and Behavior · College of Health & Human Performance
⭐ Please contact Dr. Mobley for further information about pursuing graduate studies in Health Education & Behavior or obtaining research experience as an undergraduate in her lab. Undergraduates interested in gaining research experience in Dr. Mobley's lab should complete the application form and emai…
Ecological and behavioral approaches to preventing and treating obesity throughout the lifespan
Parental influences on early childhood feeding and obesity risk
Nutrition education and behavior
mHealth and eHealth methods…
Diana Wilkie
Professor; Prairieview Trust – Earl And Margo Powers Endowed Professor; Director, Center For Palliative Care Research & Education; Director, Florida-California Cancer Research, Education And Engagement (CaRE2) Health Center · College of Nursing, University of Florida
⭐ I am currently accepting predoctoral students and postdoctoral trainees.
Use of informatics to promote patient-centered care; pain assessment; palliative and end-of-life care; biobehavioral therapies for cancer pain; behavioral correlates of cancer pain; sickle cell disease pain mechanisms, a…
Dr. Aleksandr M. Kazachkov
Assistant Professor & Assistant Director of the Center for Applied Optimization · College of Engineering
⭐ https://akazachk.github.io/#students
discrete optimization and computational economics
Dr. Berry Wen
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently accepting applications for graduate students.
My motivation to pursue more accurate remote sensing precipitation retrievals at global scale is powered by the massive precipitation observations and the advanced machine learning (ML) technologies. During my 10-year wo…
Dr. David Keellings
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently accepting applications for graduate students
Climatology, Extremes, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Dr. Johanna Engström
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ My graduate students are curious, creative, and self-motivated with a high-level of research integrity. If this sounds like you, and your research interests are related to hydroclimatology and/or renewable energies, please reach out by email.
Among the most severe current and future challenges to humanity is the ability to support a growing human population with water, food, and energy in a sustainable way. Using a mixed methods approach my research is based …
Elaine Seaver, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology · University of Florida
⭐ I advise students through the Biology and the Biomedical Sciences graduate programs at the University of Florida. It is strongly recommended that interested students contact me via email prior to application to one of these programs. Please include information on your research interests, educational…
Research in the Seaver Lab is aimed at understanding causes and effects of evolutionary change in developmental processes. We are interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms of development and regeneration in ann…
Hina Shaikh
Assistant Professor · University of Florida
⭐ email hshaikh@ufl.edu for more information about how you can join us in building a feminist data studies community at UF!
critical data and algorithm studies; feminist studies of space and place; critical Muslim studies
James Shepperd
Professor of Psychology · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Please note, I am no longer accepting new post docs, graduate students, or undergraduate students in my lab.
My research expertise is in the area of Self and Self-processes. I am particularly interested in people’s expectations about the future and how expectations persevere and change in the face of challenging information. I …
Juannan Zhou
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated postdocs, graduate students, and lab technicians to join the lab. If you are interested in evolutionary biology and machine learning, please contact me at juannanzhou@ufl.edu.
Research in the Zhou lab is centered around the fundamental biological question of how genotype determines phenotype. For example, the amino acid sequence of a protein determines its 3D structures, which in turn affects …
Katherine Grillo
Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor, 2024-2027; Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am currently recruiting graduate students for the African Archaeology Lab here at UF. Please contact me with any questions or for additional information!
My research interests center on the materiality of cattle-based pastoralism in eastern Africa, and the ways that ceramic technologies, for example, have been a critical part of mobile pastoralist repertoires through time…
Lindsey Rodriguez
· College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I will be taking a PhD student Fall 2025.
Close relationships
Substance use and misuse
Brief intervention development and evaluation
Motivational Interviewing
Cognitive reappraisal
Expressive writing
Interpersonal conflict
Communication
Mindsets
Emotion regulati…
Lori Knackstedt
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Open Positions – We are looking for a Post-doc!
I have a long-standing interest in studying the pathological changes in brain and behavior which occur in response to addictive drugs. For the past nine years, my work has focused on identifying neuroadaptations in the g…
Mamoun Mardini
Assistant Professor · College of Medicine
⭐ Note: I am always looking for motivated students and postdocs to join my research lab. Drop me a brief email about your background and your research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, frailty, mHealth
Marilyn E. Wende
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Education and Behavior · College of Health & Human Performance
⭐ Dr. Marilyn Wende has opportunities for doctoral student assistantships and mentorship. Please contact her via email for more information.
Epidemiology of physical (in)activity
Behavioral health
Implementation science
Measurement of physical activity and healthy eating environments
Identification of environmental resource and health disparities
Community-ba…
Marit Tolo Ostebo
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am currently accepting new graduate students. Feel free to contact me if you wonder whether your research interests would fit with what I do.
anthropology of policy, international development, critical global health, gender studies, digital anthropology, medical anthropology, Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Max Deardorff
Associate Professor, Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Spain · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I welcome applications from prospective Ph.D. candidates broadly interested in any field or topic of colonial Latin America, early modern Spain, or the Iberian Atlantic world. I especially encourage to apply those who intend to work on Colombian ethnohistory, the history of religious and ethnic mino…
Iberian Atlantic; Colonial Latin America; Colombia; Early Modern Spain; Race; Identity; Religion; Law; Indigenous Ethnohistory
Nasim Binesh
Assistant Professor · College of Health & Human Performance
⭐ Nasim Binesh is currently hiring Ph.D. students. Please reach out via email for more information.
Artificial Intelligence in Service Contexts: Service robots, consumer perception, and human-AI collaboration.
AI Ethics & Responsible Innovation: The ethical implications of AI in hospitality and gambling, including regu…
Nicolas Gauthier
Assistant Curator, AI for Cultural and Biological Diversity · Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
⭐ I am seeking creative graduate students and postdocs in geography or anthropology who want to use machine learning, agent-based modeling, and other computational methods to answer big questions at the intersection of the natural and social sciences. Please email me for more information on current op…
Human Ecology, Complex Systems, Climate Dynamics, Social-Ecological Networks, Environmental Data Science
Seojoo Han
Assistant Professor · College of the Arts
⭐ Student Research Opportunities (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral): I welcome inquiries from undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing research on topics such as the linguistic and material dimensions of contemporary grindcore, the formation and spatial practices of heavy metal pub…
Seojoo Han is currently researching Florida’s underground metal music scene from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, a homegrown cultural force often overlooked in the state’s history. Collaborating with both active and ret…
Staja Booker
Associate Professor · College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD Students: On a rolling basis
Accepting Postdoctoral Fellows: On a rolling basis
aging, pain assessment and management, pain disparities and health equity
Stefanie Wulff
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Please note that I currently do not have any openings for OPS positions, research positions, or volunteering work.
corpus linguistics, construction grammar, data-driven teaching, second language acquisition
Sugandh Gupta, Ph.D.
· College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ For Undergrads:
Are you an undergrad interested in getting involved in research in medical anthropology? Send me an email to ask about research opportunities.
For Prospective Graduate Students
Are you a prospective grad student interested in applying to our Ph.D. program and wanting to work with me…
Anthropology and politics of mental health and well-being, Militarism and Mental Health, Opioid Use Disorder, De-addiction and Recovery, Addiction Medicine, Harm Reduction, Care and Kinship, State Bureaucracies, Ethnogra…
Tamara G R Macieira
Assistant Professor · College of Nursing, University of Florida
⭐ Dr. Macieira is currently accepting predoctoral students and postdoctoral trainees.
Artificial Intelligence, Big data analytics, Cognitive Performance in Older Adults, Data Integration, data science, electronic health records
Wenjun Xie
Assistant Professor · College of Pharmacy, University of Florida
⭐ We are recruiting postdocs and graduate students!
My lab integrates molecular simulation, AI, and experimental approaches to investigate enzyme catalysis, evolution, and design. We discovered that generative AI models trained on natural enzyme sequences can accurately p…
Xiaofei (Bai) Bai
Assistant Professor · University of Florida
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Approximately 7000 rare (orphan) diseases have been identified in humans, and around 80% of these diseases are associated with a single gene, while the molecular mechanisms and effective treatments for a majority of thos…
Yan Wang
Associate Professor · College of Design, Construction and Planning
⭐ The Urban Agility and Resilience Lab at UF is recruiting doctoral students and a postdoctoral scholar. For more information, please visit https://www.complexresilientcities.com/positions/.
Urban Resilience; Urban Analytics; Spatial and Infrastructure Planning; Crisis Informatics (Social Media); Healthy Cities, Human Dynamics; Responsible AI; Smart and Connected Communities.
Zhanar Abil
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am currently seeking highly motivated postdocs and graduate students to join the lab. If you are interested in cell-free synthetic biology or bottom-up synthetic biology, contact me at abilz@ufl.edu.
We now understand the mechanisms of many different biological processes. However, we still haven’t been able to build a unified theory of life, a theory that would explain life’s origins and describe life beyond the boun…
Zhaoxi Zhang
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR · College of Design, Construction and Planning
⭐ Zhaoxi Zhang is leading the Urban Tech & Design (UTD) Laboratory at the University of Florida and is recruiting doctoral students. For more information, please visit https://www.urbanzzhaoxi.com/team
• Sensor-based measurement for urban health
• Human exposure to eye-level urban features (e.g., greenery)
• Urban agent for participatory intelligence
• 3D virtual simulation and human decision-making
• Urban roboti…
University of Texas--Austin 11 hiring
Alex Q. Huang
Professor · Cockrell School of Engineering
⭐ Dr. Huang is currently active in the following research areas and he welcomes inquiries by perspective research students and postdoctoral researchers.
Power Semiconductor Devices, Advanced Power Electronics, Renewable Energy Integration and Smart Grid, Power Management Integrated Circuits
Dr. Ann Reynolds
Associate Professor, Art History (Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture) · College of Fine Arts
⭐ She is not taking PhD students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
twentieth and twenty-first century art and visual culture in the United States and Europe with a concentration on the theory and practice of archival research
Guihua Yu
Professor · Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
⭐ Truly motivated graduate and undergraduate students and postdoc researchers are warmly welcome!
Functional nanoarchitectured materials and their assembly, integration and nanomanufacturing to enable significant applications in energy, environmental, and healthcare technologies.
Jie Li
Associate Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry · College of Pharmacy
⭐ Undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers who are interested in natural products and drug discovery (e.g., microbial genome mining, natural products chemistry, biosynthesis, and bioassays) are encouraged to contact Dr. Li (jie.li@austin.utexas.edu) for potential opening…
Our research focuses on microbe-derived natural product-based drug discovery. Natural products are specialized metabolites produced by living organisms such as microbes. With evolutionarily optimized chemical structures …
Julia Guernsey
Professor, Art History (Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Art) · College of Fine Arts
⭐ She is not taking PhD students for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Kizzy Albritton
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology · College of Education
⭐ Dr. Albritton may be accepting new doctoral students in Fall 2026.
Examines ways that school psychologists can improve the academic, social-emotional, and behavioral outcomes for young children (i.e., preschool) from minoritized and marginalized backgrounds in early childhood settings.
Kun Yang
Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry · College of Pharmacy
⭐ We look for motivated postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students with interests and expertise in biochemistry, molecular & cell biology, and organic synthesis. Please contact us at kun.yang@austin.utexas.edu or 512-471-4843 if you are interested in joining our research group.
We utilize a combination of techniques including biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, organic synthesis and mass spectrometry to study DNA-protein cross-link (DPC), a type of extremely cytotoxic and mutagenic DN…
Monica Romero
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology · College of Education, UT Austin
⭐ Dr. Romero may be accepting new doctoral students in Fall 2026.
Investigates culturally and linguistically responsive interventions and assessments for Latiné students.
Poulami Das
Assistant Professor · Cockrell School of Engineering
⭐ Poulami is actively looking for highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students to join her research group. Please email her if you are interested.
Quantum computing, Memory systems, Computer architecture, Emerging technologies
Seongmin Lee
Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry · College of Pharmacy
⭐ Undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in studying DNA damage, replication, and mutagenesis and anticancer chemotherapeutics are encouraged to contact Professor Lee (seongminlee@austin.utexas.edu).
Our research program aims to gain molecular-level insights into the mechanisms of DNA damage, repair, mutagenesis, translesion synthesis, and DNA-targeting anticancer drugs. We are particularly interested in oxidative (e…
Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology · College of Pharmacy
⭐ **Graduate Students:**
We recruit motivated and talented graduate students from the following graduate programs (address general application questions to the programs):
- [**Pharmaceutical Sciences** (Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology)](https://pharmacy.utexas.edu/research-practice/college-div…
Our focus is to understand the mechanisms of, and develop treatments for, incurable human diseases. We have two major projects:
**Neuroscience**
**Gene-environment interactions in parkinsonism.**
We seek to understand t…
Georgia Institute of Technology 7 hiring
Apurva Ratan Murty
Assistant Professor · College of Sciences
⭐ The Murty Lab is actively hiring PhD students, undergraduate mentees, postdocs and a full time lab manager. Reach out by emailing ratan.murty@psych.gatech.edu
Visual intelligence, Perceptual Development, Neurodeveleopment disorders, fMRi, Computational models, Artificial Neural Networks, NeuroAI
Christopher W. Wiese
Assistant Professor · College of Sciences
⭐ Dr. Wiese will not be recruiting students for Fall 2026.
Industrial/ Organizational Area Coordinator
Edvard P.G. Bruun
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ apply-barlab@ce.gatech.edu
Dr. Bruun’s research investigates how large-scale robotic automation can transform the design, assembly, and disassembly of building and infrastructure systems. His work develops computational and optimization methods fo…
H. Jerry Qi
Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering · Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
⭐ He is currently seeking talented undergraduate and PhD students and postdocs.
Additive/Advanced Manufacturing; micro and nanomechanics; Recycling; Soft Materials; Conducting Polymers
Paige Clayton
Director, MCRP Program
Assistant Professor, School of City & Regional Planning · College of Design
⭐ Currently accepting Ph.D. students.
Dr. Clayton's research is at the intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation, economic development, and science and technology policy.
Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond
Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning · College of Design
⭐ Currently accepting Ph.D. students.
Housing and Community Development
Tammy Thanh Tran
Assistant Professor · College of Sciences
⭐ Accepting applications for PhD students, master’s students, and research coordinators.
Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Memory, Spatial Navigation, Spatial Memory, Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, biomarkers
University of California, Davis 10 hiring
Dulce Wilkinson Westberg
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Westberg will be recruiting undergraduate students to join her lab to help with qualitative data analysis and other research projects in Fall 2024. She is also currently accepting applications for new graduate students for the 2024-2025 application cycle.
I am interested in how individuals navigate social structures and the implications of such structures for personality and identity. In my research, I examine variations in life narratives around race, ethnicity, gender, …
Emorie D Beck, PhD
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Beck is currently recruiting undergraduate students to join the lab at this time for the 2025-2026 academic year. She is not currently accepting graduate applicants.
Dr. Beck's research focuses around the question of what personality is. Definitions have big consequences for how we measure personality, what those measures predict both short- and long-term, how personality is thought …
Jennifer Whistler
Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology · UC Davis Center for Neuroscience
⭐ She is always searching for talented postdoctoral fellows and students to join her team.
Neurobiology of addictive disorders and their comorbidities. The majority of drugs used in human medicine target G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). The focus in the Whistler laboratory is elucidating how altering the s…
Jogender Tushir-Singh
Associate Professor · UC Davis School of Medicine
⭐ We are actively looking for motivated project assistants, students and postdocs. If interested in joining our team, please reach out directly via jtsingh@ucdavis.edu
Tushir-Singh's research focuses on using protein engineering and multi-targeting antibodies in the context of human cancers and other pathologies. He is particularly interested in targeting the differential clinical resp…
Luis Parra
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Parra is currently recruiting undergraduate students to join the Arcoíris Research Collective for the 2025-2026 academic year. Dr. Parra is accepting graduate applicants for Fall 2026.
Developmental Psychology, Minority Stress, Neurobiology, Intersectionality, Sexual and Gender Minority Health
Maija Kiuru, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Dermatology and Pathology · UC Davis Health
⭐ To apply for a research position, please email a cover letter and your C.V. to kiuru.research@gmail.com.
Genetic alterations in skin tumors and familial skin diseases
Mike Chin
Professor of Classics · College of Letters and Science
⭐ I am not accepting graduate students at this time.
Late ancient social and intellectual history; conceptions of the natural and the wondrous in antiquity
Literary cultures of late antiquity and the early middle ages
Performance, ritual, and performing objects in late ant…
Soojong Kim
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ I will consider applications from prospective doctoral students who submit their applications during the 2024 season and plan to commence their studies in the academic year 2025-26. If you wish to be considered, mention my name as your top potential advisor in your application.
Computational social science, New media & technology, Social media, Computer-mediated communication, Health & Science communication, Strategic communication
Tomiko (Tiko) Yoneda, PhD
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Yoneda enthusiastically invites applications for graduate students to join her lab in 2025.
Personality and Individual Differences; Healthy Aging; Health Behaviors; Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia; Physiological Dysregulation; Coordinated Data Analysis; Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis; Open Science &…
William Rayo
Assistant Professor of Teaching Psychology · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Rayo is currently recruiting undergraduate students to join his lab for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Metacognition
Network Science
University of California, Irvine 12 hiring
Alyson Zalta
Associate Professor of Psychology · School of Social Ecology
⭐ Note: I will not be accepting a doctoral student in the next application cycle (admission for Fall 2026).
Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Transdiagnostic, Resilience, Prevention & Treatment
Candice L. Odgers
Chancellor's Professor · School of Social Ecology
⭐ I do not anticipate interviewing PhD students who are applying for the Fall 2026 admission cycle.
developmental and quantitative psychology; mobile technologies and adolescent development; child mental health; social inequalities, neighborhood effects; ecological momentary assessment
Christopher W. Bauman
Professor · Paul Merage School of Business
⭐ The Organizations and Management area at the Merage School expects to take a few new PhD students who would start next Fall. PhD students at Merage always have opportunities to work with multiple faculty members. Therefore, we decide on PhD admissions as a group (i.e., everyone in the O&M area has a…
Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Negotiations, Organizational Justice
Gerardo Okhuysen
Professor · Paul Merage School of Business
⭐ Prof. Okhuysen is interested in PhD applicants who want to pursue their doctoral training using qualitative methods (such as participant observation and ethnography). There are many potential directions to follow in the study of organizations and Prof. Okhuysen is open to many topics. Some of his st…
Managing groups and teams
Leadership
Conducting research in organizations
Jodi Quas
Professor of Psychological Science and Nursing Science · School of Social Ecology
⭐ I may be taking a new student this coming year (2024-2025), please see our lab link above or samples of our work below to learn what we are doing now.
Memory development in early childhood, effects of stress and trauma on children's development, and children's involvement in the legal system. Specific interests include strategies to improve children's narrative product…
Nicholas Scurich
Chair and Professor of Psychology · School of Social Ecology
⭐ *NOTE: Professor Scurich currently has no research positions available, and he does not offer interviews to high school students.
psychology & law; judgment and decision making; violence risk assessment
Noah Askin
Associate Professor · Paul Merage School of Business
⭐ Professor Askin is interested in Ph.D. applicants who want to take a sociological approach to the study of organizations, networks, and/or creativity. He is particularly interested in students who have a background or genuine interest in quantitative computational methods (e.g., Python, R, etc.) for…
Organization Theory
Creativity & Innovation
Social Networks
Creative/Cultural Industries
Status & Rankings
Roy Fox
Assistant Professor · Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science
⭐ I’m looking to hire postdocs and advise additional graduate and undergraduate students. Please read this to get involved with my lab.
theory and applications of control learning — reinforcement learning, algorithmic game theory, information theory, and robotics. My current research focuses on structure, exploration, and optimization in deep control lea…
Sarah Pressman
Professor of Psychology · School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
⭐ I will be looking to take a graduate student on in 2027. You can learn more about our PhD program in Psychology here . You can find more information on our FAQ website. I do not typically meet/interview with students before they are officially invited for a program interview, but feel free to reach…
Stress, Positive Emotions, Physiological Pathways (e.g., endocrine, cardiovascular), Health Psychology, Facial Expression, Social Relationships, Positive Health Behaviors (e.g., vacation, sleep)
Stephen Schueller
Professor of Psychology · School of Social Ecology
⭐ I DO NOT anticipate interviewing PhD students who are applying for the Fall '26 admission cycle.
Clinical Psychology, Mobile Health ("mHealth"), Technology, Implementation Science, Treatment and Prevention, Depression, Positive Psychology
Suzann Duan
Assistant Professor · UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
⭐ Currently Accepting PhD Students
Unnat Jain
Assistant Professor · UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences
⭐ I am actively seeking motivated students interested in joining my research group. If you mention your interests in working with me in your application, I will review them carefully.
Deadline for Ph.D. Applications: December 15th
UC Irvine is a resourceful, friendly, and warm ecosystem and the camp…
AI, ML and Natural Language Processing
Computer Graphics and Vision
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 61 hiring
Angela Kou
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We are looking for postdocs to work on superconducting qubits and/or sensing of topological materials.
We are looking for students to work on building protected qubits using superconducting circuits.
Scanning probe microscopy of quantum materials, Topological materials, Hybrid superconducting circuits, Quantum information with superconducting qubits
Antonia Statt
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We are always looking for motivated, excited graduate students! If you are at UIUC, please send a short description of your research interests and background to us, and some times to meet. For applying to grad school at UIUC, please find all relevant information on our department webpage. If you are…
Our lab’s research focuses on understanding fundamental phenomena in soft matter systems, motivated by challenges in energy, environment, and technology. We are particularly interested in crystallization and aggregation …
Arijit Banerjee
Associate Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I am looking for students passionate about electrical machines, power electronics, control of power-electronic-based drives, and robotic actuators. Please apply through the department. Students with a mechanical engineering degree are also strongly encouraged to apply.
Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems
Power Electronics
Electrical Machines and Drives
Robotic Actuators
Electric Propulsion Systems
Renewable Energy
Benjamin L Hankin
Fred and Ruby Kanfer Endowed Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ <p>Please note: Dr. Hankin is open to accepting or interviewing applicants for Ph.D. program in clinical-community psychology this year, 2025-2026.</p>
<ul><li>Developmental psychopathology</li></ul>
Brenda Straka
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ For prospective students: Dr. Straka will be reviewing PhD and MSPS applications for the 2026-27 admissions cycle.
In one line of research, Dr. Straka explores the ways historically marginalized and underrepresented groups (e.g., Multiracial, Latine, Native American people, first-generation students) experience exclusion and negotiat…
Brian Bailey
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I almost always have undergraduate research opportunities available in my research group. Please contact me for further information.
Interactive Computing
Can Bayram
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Our group does not have an opening for a postdoctoral research scientist. Exceptions can be made for OUTSTANDING candidates who have extensive SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION expertise in a CLEANROOM environment. We also encourage SELF-, GOVERMENT- and COMPANY-funded candidates to apply. Postdoctor…
Efficient energy management and conversion for lighting, communications, information technology, transportation, and appliances; Electromagnetics and Optics; Energy storage conversion, management, and control; Gallium ni…
Catharine Edith Ann Fairbairn
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ I do expect to be reviewing doctoral applications in the 2024-2025 admissions cycle. Although there are a variety of opportunities for graduate engagement in my lab, I expect to have particular opportunities for students interested in technology-linked research methods development--specifically, wea…
Addiction
Alcohol
Social processes
D. A. Briley
Associate Head, Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Briley does not plan to accept graduate students for the 2026 Fall term.
Individual Differences
Personality Development
Identity Development
Socioecological Contexts of Development
Quantitative Methods
Dallas Trinkle
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Please contact me about current postdoctoral positions. I am looking to hire motivated, interested students. Please read a note for prospective students and then contact me.
Computational materials science: atomistics, electronic structure; Mechanical behavior: plasticity and phase transformation at atomistic scale; Defect properties: point defects, dislocations, interfaces; Transport: inter…
Daniel J Simons
Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ I might be accepting new students in the Master of Science in Psychological Science program for Fall of 2026 if they are a good fit for my laboratory. I will not be accepting new PhD students for Fall of 2026. I don't currently have any openings for new undergraduate research assistants in my lab (I…
Visual cognition, attention, perception, memory, research methods and practices, statistics, change blindness, inattentional blindness, metacognition & intuition
Joining my laboratory: I might be accepting new students …
Deming Chen
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We are recruiting. If you are passionate about research, inspired for innovation and impact, determined to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, and your research interests match one or more topics as listed in the "RESEARCH INTERESTS" section below, please contact Prof. Chen directly through emai…
Hardware security
GPU optimization and GPU computing
IoT and data analytics
Hardware/software co-design for SoC
System-level and high-level synthesis
Cloud computing
AI, machine learning and hardware acceleration
Reconfi…
Dominik Mischkowski
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Mischkowski is currently accepting new graduate students!
Physical and emotional pain are unfortunate, yet inevitable, parts of many people’s lives. Such pain can cause significant suffering and often interferes with people’s professional and social functioning. As PI of the So…
Elyse Rosenbaum
Melvin and Anne Louise Hassebrock Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Research opportunities exist for students with interests in device physics, circuit design and machine learning. Students must have good communication skills and an electrical engineering background.
Circuits
Eric Kuo
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I won't be accepting any new graduate students for the 2025-2026 Academic Year.
Socio-Emotional Dynamics of Collaboration
Causal reasoning
Mathematical reasoning in physics
The impacts of motivation on physics learning
Applying learning theories to design physics instruction and assessment
Gaurav Bahl
Associate Professor in MechSE · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ PhD oriented Electrical Engineering graduate students with a strong background in experimental optics are encouraged to contact Prof. Bahl with a complete CV.
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Grani Adiwena Hanasusanto
Associate Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Prospective students: I am unable to accept any RAs or TAs. If you are interested in working with me as a PhD student, please apply here and mention my name in the Faculty Interest field.
Houtan Jebelli
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
⭐ The Robotics, Automation, and Intelligent Sensing (RAISe) Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites top UIUC undergraduate students, passionate about the future of construction and robotics, to join our pioneering research team. Under the guidance of Dr. Jebelli, our lab spearheads …
Advanced Robotic Systems for Operational Excellence in Construction Projects
Advancing Robotics and Automation Engineering Pedagogy through the Strategic Integration of Cutting-Edge Immersive Technologies.
Next-Generatio…
Howard Berenbaum
Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Berenbaum is not planning to recruit any new doctoral students in the foreseeable future.
The ultimate goal of my research is to explain the development of adult psychopathology, with a focus on the role of emotional processes. My research is not limited to a single circumscribed etiological factor or experim…
Hyunseok Kim
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We welcome highly motivated students with a passion for tackling challenging questions to make a real impact in the field of semiconductor devices, materials, and integrated platforms. Interested students are encouraged to directly contact Prof. Hyunseok Kim (hyunseok@illinois.edu) with a CV.
Low-dimensional materials and thin films for microelectronics and photonics
3D heterogeneous integration technology
Jaime Lane Derringer
Associate Professor and Assistant Head, Information & Communication · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am not accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026.
Individual differences
Measurement
Gender and sexuality
Behavior genetics
My dual expertise in genetic methods and psychological assessment has led to the development of a research program organized around understanding…
Jaki Noronha-Hostler
Associate Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Currently seeking graduate students on a wide range of topics in nuclear theory
Nuclear theory: Relativistic heavy-ion collisions, relativistic fluids (viscous), Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Neutron Stars, Phase Transitions, Hadronic Interactions, Computational Physics, Nuclear astrophysics, Neut…
James Allison
Professor · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
⭐ The ESDL is not currently taking on new PhD or MS thesis students.
Intelligent Structure Design and Vibration Control
Aircraft electrification
Automotive Design (Vehicle Electrification, Hybrid Powertrains, Active Suspension Systems)
Electro-Thermal System Design Optimization
Robotics a…
Jessica Anne Krogstad
Associate Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We are always looking for talented and dedicated undergraduate researchers to participate in our research, but the best time to start is in the fall semester. Successful students are often characterized as having excellent time management skills, good communication skills, the ability to learn indep…
Our group focuses on understanding materials in nonequilibrium configurations and the evolution thereof, so as to generate and optimize unique functionality for operation in dynamic and extreme environments. Today, conti…
Jessica L Montag
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Summer 2026 Research Assistants for Learning and Language Lab
Cognition & Cognitive Development
Language Production and Comprehension
Language Development
Compilation and Analysis of Naturalistic Language Corpora (Speech, Text, Child-Directed Speech)
Jong Yeon Lee
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Post-docs in quantum information/condensed matter theory are encouraged to get in touch via email to discuss potential openings.
We currently have positions available for graduate students.
Numerical Simulations (e.g. DMRG, QMC, tensor-networks)
Topological phases and critical phenomena
Coherent control of quantum simulator platforms
Quantum information and non-equilibrium dynamics
Joseph Trujillo-Falcón
Assistant Professor · School of Earth, Society & Environment
⭐ Please visit the following page to learn about graduate school recruitment plans: https://publish.illinois.edu/alertaslab/openings/
Climate Variability and Change, Extratropical Cyclones and Winter Storms, Precipitation and Hydrometeorological Processes, Thunderstorm Dynamics and Hazards, Tropical Meteorology and Hurricanes, Weather and Climate Risk
Josh Long
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We have openings for graduate students on all of the experiments described above. Contact Prof. Long directly (email preferred) for details. We can support seven undergraduates in our group and all positions are currently filled (fall 2025). However, 1-2 positions usually open up per academic term a…
My research concentrates on experimental tests of fundamental symmetries and searches for macroscopic forces beyond gravity and electromagnetism ("5th forces") at submillimeter length scales, using nuclear and other tech…
Karin A Dahmen
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Professor Dahmen regularly has new projects for interested undergraduate and graduate students. Please contact her at dahmen@illinois.edu if you are interested in joining the group.
Condensed Matter Physics
Katy Huff
Blue Waters Associate Professor and Director, Advanced Reactor Fuel Cycles Laboratory · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
⭐ Post-Doctoral Research Opportunities: http://arfc.npre.illinois.edu/positions/postdoc/
Graduate Research Opportunities: http://arfc.npre.illinois.edu/positions/grad/
Undergraduate Research Opportunities: http://arfc.npre.illinois.edu/positions/ugrad/
Molten Salt Reactors, High-Temperature Gas Reactors, Micro-Reactors, Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactors
Scientific computing education
Repository system performance modeling
Open & reproducible scientific com…
Kejie Fang
Associate Professor in ECE · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We welcome highly motivated students to join our group. Our research intersects with several fields of science and engineering including quantum optics, nanophotonics, and NEMS, and offers rich opportunities for graduate researchers to be trained in device physics, fabrication, and measurements. Inc…
Quantum photonics, Nonlinear photonics, Optomechanics, Nanophotonics
Kevin Wise
Professor of Advertising · College of Media
⭐ Current/Prospective Students: Collaborating with students on research is one of my great joys. Please feel free to email me anytime if you’re interested in learning more about research and/or working in a media research lab.
If you’re not currently at the University of Illinois but interested in co…
My research explores the psychology underlying interactive media use. In other words, how do different attributes of medium, message, person, and situation influence the processes and outcomes of media use? I primarily a…
Kris Hauser
Professor of Computer Science · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I frequently involve undergraduates in my research, both as independent study students and summer interns. My lab also participates in competitions, so I also take on students who are interested in contributing to a team effort. My minimum guidelines are that you have a 3.7 GPA, relevant coursework,…
Robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning, as well as applications to intelligent vehicles, robotic manipulation, robot-assisted medicine, and legged locomotion.
Ling Jian Meng
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We are currently recruiting a post-doctoral research associate to join the Radiation Detection and Imaging Group.
Biomedical imaging; Radiation detection and measurement; Emerging X-ray imaging techniques; Health Physics; Image processing and statistical performance assessment; Instrumentation for emission tomography (PET and SPECT)…
Lu Chen
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Now, we are actively recruiting highly motivated postdocs with a background in experimental condensed matter physics to join our research group. Postdocs who are interested in our research are encouraged to get in touch via email.
Now, we are actively recruiting highly motivated graduate students to…
Electrical transport and thermoelectric measurements down to ~mK and 100 T
Torque magnetometry and torque diffential magnetometry measurements down to ~mK and 100 T
Thermal conductivity and thermal Hall conductivity meas…
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Professor · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
⭐ I have numerous problems and topics of potential interest to a broad range of students.
Helices, Helically-Wound Cables; Bioenegineering: Traumatic brain injury modeling, electrosurgery modeling; Mechanical and electromagnetic waves: stochastic propagation, scattering, tunneling effects, shielding; Spontane…
Nathan R Todd
Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Todd will be considering graduate students as a primary research advisor for the Fall 2026.
<ul><li>Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity</li><li>Sexual and Gender Minority Religion and Spirituality</li><li>Religious Settings, Religious Environment, and Structural Stigma</li><li>Diversity Education and Socia…
Nicole Riemer
Professor · School of Earth, Society & Environment
⭐ I am always looking for new graduate students to join my group. Please contact me for questions about potential projects or about the application process at our department.
Atmospheric Chemistry And Aerosols, Climate Variability and Change, Cloud Physics and Radiative Processes
Ning Luo
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I am looking for motivated and energetic Ph.D. students. Candidates are expected to have a solid background in Computer Science. No prior experience in cryptography or formal methods is required. However, candidates must be brave and eager to learn new things. The highest standard is required for re…
Trustworthy Machine Learning, Applied Cryptography, Formal methods and Automated Reasoning, Security and Privacy
Nishant Garg
Associate Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I'm actively looking for multiple graduate students (MS & Ph.D.) to join my research group. If you're interested, please apply online and mention your interest to work with me in your formal application.
Construction Materials, Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Nu-Chu Liang
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Undergraduate students can take research course (PSYC 290 or MCB 290) to gain research skills and experience in the Liang lab.
Graduate applicants are wellcome to send (ncliang8@illinois.edu) inquiry about graduate study with the Liang lab through affiliate programs e.g., psychology, neuroscience pr…
taste, ingestive behaviors, animal models of obesity and eating disorders, neurobiology of energy metabolism
polydrug use and behavior
cognitive and emotional behaviors in aging and dementia
Pengjie Wang
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Post-docs in experimental condensed matter physics are encouraged to get in touch via email to discuss potential openings. We currently have two positions available for graduate students. Please feel free to contact me for opportunities. Wang Lab works on experiments on 2D quantum materials and devi…
Quantum Phase Transition, Topological Quantum Physics, Strongly Correlated Quantum Physics
Qing Cao
Associate Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We are always looking for the best and most qualified potential graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to join the group. Interested applicants, please contact Professor Cao (qingcao2@illinois.edu) with your CV and research interests.
The Cao group seeks to exploit new materials and processing techniques to develop novel electronic and optoelectronic devices and systems exhibiting enhanced performance and functionality with more custom form factors. M…
Rakesh Kumar
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I am always looking for motivated and exceptional undergraduate students to join my group. Email rakeshk@illinois.edu if you want to do research in computer architecture. See our research/publications pages (http://passat.crhc.uiuc.edu) for a sampling of our research. Please attach your CV as well.
Low power and complexity-effective designs
CAD/architecture interactions
Computer Architecture
Roman Makhnenko
Associate Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Graduate Research Opportunities: - coupled THM behavior of claystones in nuclear waste disposal - use of machine learning for geophysical data processing and modeling
Rock-fluid interaction: poroelasticity, thermo-poro-visco-elasticity, plasticity, permeability
Fracturing of rock: size effect, process zone, hydraulic fracturing, failure criteria, induced seismicity
Geo-energy applicat…
Samy Meroueh
Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am looking for students interested in using cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, and structure-based computational methods to explore the mechanism of action of these compounds and to guide the design of new and improved molecular degraders. Students will also have the opportunity to screen large libra…
Molecular Glue and Heterobifunctional Transcription Factors Degraders in Inflammation and Cancer
Saugata Ghose
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I am looking for motivated graduate students who are interested in joining me at Illinois, so if that sounds like you, please contact me!
Data-centric computer architectures and systems
Processing-in-memory (PIM)
Memory and storage systems
Computing platforms for smart cities, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and genomics
Sayan Mitra
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I'm are looking for motivated graduate students who have done something interesting in either math or hardware (e.g., drones, airplanes). If you are confident that you have done both, I'd be interested to hear more.
Control Theory
Formal Methods
AI and Autonomy
Shaloo Rakheja
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ If you are interested in conducting your doctoral research in my group, please email me with a copy of your CV, research statement, and a short slide deck with an overview of your prior research experience and future goals. Please note that I will not be responding to inquiries that are outside of m…
Compact Modeling of wide bandgap and ultrawide bandgap semiconductor devices for high-frequency and high-power applications
Modeling and simulation of spin-based devices for low-power non-volatile memory and brain-inspir…
Stephen Boppart
Professor · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
⭐ The Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an immediate opening for a post-doctoral research associate in the area of nonlinear optical imaging systems for biomedical application…
Nonlinear Optical Microscopy
Medical Device Engineering
Optical Diagnostics of Cancer
Medical Engineering
Image-Guided Surgery
Optical Coherence Tomography
Lasers in Medicine and Biology
Optical Biomedical Imaging
Neuro…
Steven Lumetta
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ If the MRI is funded, there are three positions for people to develop the instrument, and I intend to find postdocs to fill those positions. The intent is to use the MRI as a catalyst for interdisciplinary research efforts around computational genomics, so these postdocs will be able to help with th…
computational genomics, smartphone-based bioassays, optical network architecture, computer architecture, cluster computing, parallel computing, user-level communication, validation and reliability
Taylor L Hughes
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I have graduate student positions open for one, or possibly two students.
My research interests are focused in three main areas: 1. Topological insulators/Superconductors 2. Using quantum information/entanglement techniques to characterize quantum condensed matter systems. 3. Mesoscopic transp…
Thomas Richard Kwapil
Director of Clinical Training, Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Note that I am recruiting graduate students for admission in fall 2025
Schizotypy and schizophrenia spectrum
Bipolar spectrum psychopathology
Experience Sampling Methodology
Timothy D Stark
Ralph B. Peck Professor of Civil Engineering; Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I always have research openings for highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students interested in various aspects of geotechnical and geoenvironmental enigneering.
Performance of Compacted Structural Fills and Slopes; Behavior and Improvement of Confined Dredged Material; Geothermal Energy Systems; Earth and Tailings Dams, Levees, Floodwalls, Landfills, and Other Earth Structures; …
Vidya Madhavan
Professor, Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering, Department Head · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We currently have openings in our group for motivated students. Please send me email if you are interested in learning more about our projects.
Unconventional superconductors, topological superconductors, correlated oxides, topological crystalline insulators, transition metal dichalcogenides
Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM), Molecular Beam Ep…
Violeta Rodriguez Palacios
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Rodriguez is accepting applications for graduate students to join her lab as a primary research advisor beginning Fall 2025. She will be considering applicants to both the Ph.D. program in Clinical-Community Psychology and the M.S. program in Psychological Science.
<ul><li>Health Equity </li><li>Parenting</li><li>Family Dynamics</li><li>Psychometrics and Measurement</li><li>Developmental Psychopathology</li><li>Artificial Intelligence</li><li>Natural Language Processing</li><l…
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki
Neil and Carol Ruzic Faculty Scholar, Associate Professor, Associate Head of Graduate Programs · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We consider undergraduate students from all departments at the University of Illinois. Students will be involved in a research project under the guidance of graduate student. Undergraduates will typically volunteer or work for credit, however exceptional students will have the opportunity to apply f…
Development of integrated quantitative imaging approaches to monitor individualized programs for disease prevention
In vivo mapping of biological processes using PET/SPECT/CT molecular imaging with targeted imaging agent…
Wolfgang Pfaff
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Our lab is always on the lookout for talented postdocs, and we currently have openings (as of Sept 2025). Please see our group website for details, and contact me by email to apply.
We will consider accepting one (or possibly two) new graduate students to join our lab as early as Spring 2026 if ther…
Quantum networks and distributed quantum computing
Open quantum systems
Quantum optics
Superconducting quantum circuits
Quantum information processing
Yingjie Zhang
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ We are always looking for motivated graduate students, postdocs, and undergrads to join us.
Molecular Imaging and Spectroscopy; Renewable Energy; Surfaces and Interfaces; Electrochemistry and catalysis; Nanomaterials; Cell Biology
Yingying Li
Assistant Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ I am actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students and Postdocs with a strong background in mathematics and interests in applications of smart grids or general networks and multi-agent systems. Students with a strong background in mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, and/or operation r…
Intersection of control theory, learning theory, and optimization theory
Learning-enabled control
Online learning, reinforcement learning
Multi-agent/network decision making
Applications in smart grids and smart cities.
Zhen Peng
Professor · The Grainger College of Engineering
⭐ Prof. Peng is currently looking for outstanding post-doctoral researchers joining his research group. Prof. Peng is currently looking for graduate students joining his research group.
Classical electromagnetism with scalable algorithms: extreme-scale electromagnetic computation; computational electrodynamics with machine intelligence
Statistical electromagnetics for complex environments: physics-orien…
University of Wisconsin--Madison 75 hiring
ASLI Göçmen
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My current research program contributes to the broader questions of the relationship between land development and environmental performance, and the effectiveness of policies, processes, and plans in helping create envir…
Alex Lazarian
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
MHD Theory: Reconnection, Dynamo Theory; Interstellar Dust: Alignment, Microwave Emission; Interstellar Turbulence: Statistical Studies; Circumstellar Regions and Comets: Polarization; Molecular Clouds: Dynamics
Almita A. Miranda
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Political and cultural geography, race/ethnicity, gender, neoliberalism, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, borders/boundaries, immigration law, social movements, mixed-status families, place and identities; L…
Amy Barger
Professor, Department Chair · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Observational cosmology, distant galaxies and supermassive black holes, observations at X-ray, optical, near-infrared, submillimeter, and radio wavelengths, star formation, and accretion histories of the universe.
Amy Stambach
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Professor Stambach is a cultural anthropologist whose research examines the production and mobilization of environmental knowledge. Her work includes studying Tanzanian education programs, U.S. evangelical religious grou…
Anna Andrzejewski
Frank Lloyd Wright Professor, American Art and Architecture · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Annemarie Schneider
Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Annemarie Schneider (Ph.D., Boston University Geography and Environment) is an Associate Professor at the Nelson Institute’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, and an affiliate faculty member in the De…
Bill Limpisathian
Assistant Professor and Associate Faculty Director of the UW Cartography Lab · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research sits at the crossroads of cartographic visualization and neuroscience – examining the perception and cognition of cartographic representations using fMRI. I spend my days thinking about how our brains see and…
Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Community engaged research and teaching, river restoration, flooding, storytelling
Catherine Grier
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes, reverberation mapping, quasar variability, quasar broad absorption lines, optical spectroscopy, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Christian Andresen
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I am interested in the understanding of Arctic hydrology, ecology and associated land-atmosphere carbon dynamics under the effects of climate change. This includes the evolution of surface hydrology under climate change,…
Christy Tremonti
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Christy Tremonti is an assistant professor in the Astronomy department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research is focused on galaxy evolution, in particular the processes that help regulate star formation. …
Chu Ma
Professor · College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
⭐ ASFM Laboratory is currently seeking undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting scholars. If interested, please contact chu.ma@wisc.edu.
Acoustic functional materials
Biomedical ultrasonic imaging
Non-destructive testing
Computational imaging
Claire Wendland
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
As a medical anthropologist, I focus on healing expertise and the globalization of biomedicine, particularly in southern Africa. My first major project explored the experiences of medical students learning to be doctors …
Elena D'Onghia
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research combines unique analytic models and high-resolution numerical simulations to get new insights into the dynamical processes that form the stellar skeleton of our Galaxy. While the study of our Solar System is …
Elizabeth Hennessy
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and History, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
William F. Vilas Research Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Cultural anthropology, East Asia, Japan. Her research focuses on symbols of Japanese identities within socio-political contexts and in comparative perspective. Notable works include studies on the Detroit Chinese, Sakhal…
Eric Carson
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Millennial-scale variations in streamflow and flooding due to changes in past climates to historic records of landscape change and sediment mobility related to human-driven changes in vegetation cover and land use.
Eric Wilcots
Dean of the College of Letters & Science and Mary C. Jacoby Professor of Astronomy · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research broadly focuses on understanding the evolution of individual galaxies and galaxy groups primarily through observations at radio wavelengths. Particular topics include Magellanic-type spirals, the evolution of…
Erika Marin-Spiotta
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Research in the Marin-Spiotta BiogeoLab research group in the Department of Geography at UW Madison broadly examines how anthropogenic and climatically-driven landscape disturbance alters the accumulation and loss of bio…
Falina Enriquez
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
As a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, I study music and language as an ensemble that helps us understand how people construct the world and emplace themselves—and others—within it. I focus on the cultural politics…
Frédéric Neyrat
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Dorothy Puestow Draheim Professor in the English department of UW-Madison (USA), Frédéric Neyrat is a French philosopher with an expertise in environmental humanities, contemporary theory, and technology studies. He is c…
Fumie Iizuka
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Fumie Iizuka is an archaeologist studying decisions made by hunter-gatherers and early farmers to adopt pottery and associated technology in response to climate and ecosystem changes. She critically evaluates geochronolo…
Grace Bulltail
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Greg Downey
Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication and School of Library & Information Studies · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
History and Geography of Information/ Communication Technology and Labor.
Henry Bunn
Glynn LL Isaac Professor of African Paleoanthropology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research emphasizes the evolutionary ecology of Early Pleistocene hominins, particularly the diet and foraging strategies of early Homo, and the behavioral ecology and archaeology of Hadza foragers near Lake Eyasi in …
Ian Baird
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Ian Baird's main geographical area of interest is mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos, Thailand and northeastern Cambodia. His research interests include Political Ecology, Human-Environment Relations, Insurgencies …
J. Mark Kenoyer
George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology, and Archaeology Certificate Advisor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Dr. Kenoyer’s research interests include the archaeology of early urbanism and state level society, ancient technology, ornaments, textiles, pottery, lithics and metallurgy. He also is involved in ethnoarchaeology, exper…
Jenna M. Loyd
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Jenna M. Loyd is a feminist geographer whose work focuses on racism and state violence. Her research has two main threads: one focuses on health and the social production of health inequities, as seen in 'Health Rights A…
Joe Mason
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Eolian and hillslope geomorphology, loess stratigraphy/sedimentology, soils and paleosols, Quaternary landscape evolution, Quaternary paleoenvironments of the Midwest, the Great Plains and northern China. Soil response t…
John Hawks
Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor and Chair of the Department · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I’m an anthropologist, and I study the bones and genes of ancient humans. I’ve worked on almost every part of our evolutionary story, from the very origin of our lineage among the apes up to the last 10,000 years of our …
John W. (Jack) Williams
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Paleoecology, Paleoecoinformatics, Paleoclimatology, Novel Ecosystems, Vegetation Dynamics, Global Climate Change, Quaternary Environments.
Jonathan Nelson
Assistant Professor and Director of GIS Professional Programs · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I am a researcher in geographic information science, technology & education, passionate about leveraging maps, geovisual analytics, and human-centered design principles to make spatial data more accessible, legible, and …
Karen B. Strier
Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My main research interests are to understand the behavioral ecology of primates from a comparative perspective, and to contribute to conservation efforts on their behalf. The northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), w…
Ken Keefover-Ring
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Biogeography, chemical ecology, plant secondary chemical variation, plant-animal interactions, herbivory, pollination, volatile organic compounds, allelopathy, plant competition, analytical chemistry, terpenoids, phenylp…
Kris Olds
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Higher Education, Regionalism, Global Cities, Pacific Rim, Canada, Singapore
Leonie Schulte
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research broadly explores the intersections of migration, language, policy, and time. Taking Germany as a core field site, I examine the ways in which state-sanctioned 'integration' requirements impact newcomers' soci…
Lisa Bhungalia
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Broadly my research explores the intersections of late-modern war, law, empire, and transnational linkages between the US and Southwest Asian and North African region. My first book, Elastic Empire: Refashioning War thro…
Lisa Naughton
Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Biodiversity conservation in developing countries; Social conflict and land use around protected areas; Land tenure & property rights; Wildlife conservation in human-dominated landscapes; Informal gold mining in tropical…
Maddy Kroot
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research examines the spatial and environmental politics of energy transitions, with a focus on the electricity grid. How can we think spatially about justice, democracy, expertise, and participation in and through en…
Mai See Thao
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Asian American Studies. My research examines post-refugee experiences with chronic disease and how it illuminates the structural vulnerabilities that refu…
Margaret Bryer
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research focuses on how ecology shapes behavior in nonhuman primates, specifically how the physical environment shapes primate behavior through feeding ecology, socioecology and foraging cognition. I use diverse analy…
Maria Lepowsky
Professor of Anthropology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Cultural anthropology, gender, historical anthropology, environmental anthropology, exchange, ritual, medical/nutritional, psychological anthropology, history of anthropology; Oceania, New Guinea, Native California, Cali…
Matt Turner
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Environmental governance, political ecology, politics of conservation and conservation science, savanna/steppe ecology, critical development studies, pastoralism and common property theory, climate change vulnerability a…
Matthew Bershady
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Galaxy structure & evolution; spectroscopic instrumentation. At National Science Foundation in Alexandria, VA on a temporary Rotator position.
Michael Maseda
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Galaxy formation and evolution; dwarf galaxies; stellar populations; spectroscopic studies of the distant Universe.
Morgan Robertson
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I am a geographer and political ecologist who specializes in the study of wetland policy and market-based environmental policy. I have written extensively on wetland banking, ecosystem services, economic theories of valu…
Mutlu Ozdogan
Professor, Forestry & Wildlife Ecology, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Land-use/land-cover conversion, climate change
Nam C. Kim
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I am an anthropological archaeologist interested in sociopolitical complexity, early forms of cities, factors associated with significant cultural change, and the relationship between modern politics, cultural heritage, …
Nicholas Stone
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Astrophysical transients, especially tidal disruption events and quasi-periodic eruptions. Accretion disks, both in transients and in active galactic nuclei. Gravitational wave sources, from LIGO to LISA. Orbital and ste…
Paul Robbins
Professor & Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Biodiversity; conservation; political economy; anthropogenic environments; India. CURRENT RESEARCH: 1) Biodiversity in agrofoestry plantations in Karnataka, India 2) Afforestation, colonialism, and contemporary forest po…
Qunying Huang
Professor, Director of Spatial Computing and Data Mining Lab · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research primarily focuses on GIScience, Spatial Big Data Analytics, GeoAI, and Remote Sensing. I leverage and synthesize big data streams from both physical (e.g., remote sensing) and social (e.g., social media, mobi…
Revel Sims
Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Revel Sims joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an assistant professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture (DPLA) and the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program (CLS) in September 2016. His rese…
Richard Townsend
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I’m interested in dynamical phenomena of massive stars – primarily, rotation, pulsation, mass loss, and magnetic fields. I make extensive use of theoretical models and computational tools to explore these fascinating pro…
Robert Mathieu
Albert E. Whitford Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Structure, kinematics and dynamics of star clusters and star-forming regions; stellar binary populations; blue stragglers and other objects on alternative stellar evolution pathways; stellar angular momentum evolution. R…
Robert Roth
Professor and Director of the UW Cartography Lab · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I teach and research the design of interactive, online, and mobile maps. As a geographer, I view maps and mapping technologies as tools to help solve complex geographic problems, and I therefore am a proponent of both in…
Samer Alatout
Professor, Community & Environmental Sociology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Social theories of power and government; Foucault; theories of border; biopolitics; environmental conflict (water resources and politics of identity); Palestine/Israel and the US/Mexico. Research areas include science an…
Sarah A. Moore
Department Chair, Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Sarah A. Moore is a Department Chair and Professor with research interests in waste, spatial and social theory, psychoanalytic and emotional geographies, urban geography, postcolonial development studies, and environment…
Sarah Clayton
Professor, Associate Chair, and Anthropology Major Advisor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I am an archaeologist interested in the development, social structure, and decline of the world’s earliest urban states. In particular, I study the interactions between urban and rural sectors of society and the ways in …
Sebastian Heinz
John and Abigail Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
High energy astrophysics and the astrophysical application of computational fluid mechanics in the context of cosmic structure formation and flows in the vicinity of compact objects. X-ray dust tomography and X-ray spect…
Sissel Schroeder
Bradshaw Knight Professor of Environmental Humanities · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My most current research has four interrelated spheres of study: ecological and agency-based considerations of emerging sociopolitical complexity among ancient societies in the midcontinental and southeastern United Stat…
Snežana Stanimirović
Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
ISM, IGM, and galaxies.
Song Gao
Professor (H.I. Romnes Fellow & AAG Fellow), Director of Geospatial Data Science Lab · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Song Gao is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director of the Geospatial Data Science Lab. His research focuses on GIScience, GeoAI, Geospatial Data Science, Human Mobility, Social Sensing, Spati…
Stephen Young
Associate Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Stephen Young has two main areas of research. The first engages with economic geography and development studies to explore how young people in provincial India are resisting or accelerating processes of marketization. Th…
Susanna Widicus Weaver
Vozza Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research is in astrochemistry and focuses on understanding the evolution of prebiotic molecules as stars and planets form. Our work encompasses laboratory molecular spectroscopy and instrument development, radio and f…
Thomas Beatty
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Observational studies of exoplanets, from detection through to characterization of their atmospheres and climates. Observations using the WIYN telescope and the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes.
Travis Pickering
Professor of Anthropology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Biological anthropology, Taphonomy, South Africa. Director of the Swartkrans Paleoanthropological Research Project (South Africa). Research focuses on understanding the role of hominids in the complex ecology of Swartkra…
Veronika Kusumaryati
Assistant Professor · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
My research analyzes the idea of race and indigeneity, and how they have shaped Euro-American and post-colonial ideologies of racial hierarchy. Specifically, I study the lives, thoughts, and politics of the Indigenous Pa…
Volker Radeloff
Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
Zoe Todd
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy · College of Letters & Science
⭐ None
I am interested in investigating the origins of life on Earth and understanding the implications for the possibility of life on other planets. My research utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to attempt to understand h…
Peter Chien
Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ We always welcome new students to join us, and we actively seek new academic and industrial collaborators across the physical sciences, engineering, and technology fields.
My main research areas are statistical perspectives of popular puzzles, A/B testing (aka, statistical design for online experiments), and statistical machine learning, with applications to science, engineering, and the I…
Alan D. Attie
Jack Gorski Professor of Biochemistry, Henry and Annrita Lardy Professor of Biochemistry · College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
⭐ https://attielab.biochem.wisc.edu/job-opportunities/
Genetics of diabetes, beta-cell biology, lipid metabolism, and diet outcome
Jiwei Zhao
Associate Professor · School of Medicine & Public Health, School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
⭐ The group is consistently looking for self-motivated researchers (postdocs [position.pdf], PhD students, Master students, and undergrads) with strong statistical and/or computational skills to join us. For prospective PhD students, please consider applying Statistics PhD program with Statistics opti…
Jiwei Zhao's research focuses on applying semiparametric techniques to understand the complex structure of modern biomedical data sets, usually in the pursuit of efficiency, robustness, and the tradeoff between the two. …
Shanan Peters
Professor · University of Wisconsin–Madison
⭐ Students interested in field-oriented paleo-strat problems and anyone who are skilled in programming and quantitative analysis of geospatial and other geological data should drop by. There’s a lot to do.
My current research emphasis involves quantifying the rock record at continental and global scales in order to better understand Earth history and the role that the formation and destruction of rocks plays in governing t…
Xia Zhu-Barker
Dr. · University of Wisconsin–Madison
⭐ We are currently looking for graduate students who are eager to engage in fundamental research in soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in dairy production systems! If you are interested in joining the lab, e-mail Dr. Xia Zhu-Barker to start the conversation.
soil and biogeochemical issues in agroecosystems; understanding how biogeochemical processes control the stability of agroecosystems in terms of carbon and nitrogen cycling, water movement, resource use efficiency, food …
Boston College 3 hiring
Jinhee Park
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Park is currently accepting doctoral students interested in pediatric feeding.
Prevention and management of feeding problems in infants and young children with medical complexity, Development of feeding skills during infancy and childhood, Biobehavioral methods, Measure development
Michael Glass
Assistant Professor, Director of the Honors Program · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Glass welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in the history of capitalism, racial inequality, metropolitan development, and environmental disaster.
Twentieth-century United States; political history; urban history; environmental history; race and capitalism; inequality.
Seth C. Kruckenberg
Associate Professor · Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am always looking for new students, so for more information about current opportunities please see my personal website on the pages linked below.
Structural Geology and Tectonics, Structural Petrology, Petrofabrics, Textural and Magnetic Fabric Analyses, Geochronology
Tufts University 4 hiring
Ayanna Thomas
Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The School of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Psychology · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Graduate and Undergraduate students interested in working in the Cognitive Aging and Memory Lab should contact Dr. Thomas.
Memory and Aging
Erik Dopman
Associate Professor, Biology · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Prospective graduate students are encouraged to contact Dr. Dopman and to apply to the Tufts Biology Department Ph.D. program. Information about how to apply and financial aid is available at the department website. As a graduate student, you should develop your own questions and dissertation projec…
Evolution and Genetics of Natural Populations
Hungtang Ko
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · School of Engineering
⭐ **Recruiting new PhD students for admission in Fall 2026**
Hungtang Ko's research focuses on the collective organization of biological collectives and robot swarms in fluid environments. He conducts animal experiments, simulates agent-based models, and designs biomimetic robots …
Ryan Cosner
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · School of Engineering
⭐ **Recruiting new PhD students for admission in Fall 2026.**
Ryan's research lies at the intersection of control theory, machine learning, and robotics, with the goal of enabling provably safe and dynamic robot autonomy in uncertain real-world settings. His work bridges theory and…
Rutgers University--New Brunswick 3 hiring
Desheng Zhang
Associate Professor · School of Engineering
⭐ There are several graduate RA positions available in my group starting 2025 Fall. If you are interested in Embodied AI, LLM, Data Science, Cyber-Physical Systems, or Internet of Things, please send me your CV (for existing RU students) or mention my name in the cover letter of your application (for …
Embedded AI, Cyber Physical Systems, Cyber Human Systems, Data Science, Machine Learning, LLMs, in Extreme-Scale Data-Intensive Urban Infrastructure from an Interdisciplinary perspective with extensive applications from …
Sudarsun Kannan
Professor · School of Engineering
⭐ I am hiring a postdoc working at the intersection of edge computing, operating systems, and computer architecture; ML expertise is a plus. I am also hiring Ph.D. students in these same areas. If interested, please email me your CV and, if available, links to open-source contributions or past system …
Operating systems, file systems, memory management, heterogeneous memory, edge computing, computer architecture
Yipeng Huang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University · School of Engineering
⭐ I am actively hiring graduate students and recruiting undergraduate students for research in quantum computing and computer architecture.
My research and teaching is in building and helping programmers use quantum, analog, and other emerging computer architectures for the post-Moore's Law era of computing.
Ohio State University 15 hiring
Cody Warren
Assistant Professor · The Ohio State University
⭐ I take graduate students through the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Program. Graduate students from outside departments are welcome to contact me directly about opportunities for rotati…
Mechanisms of cellular entry by emerging and pre-emergent animal viruses
Genetic determinants of successful cross-species virus transmission events
Coevolution of virus-host interactions
Mechanisms of restriction factor …
Dr. Alexander Petrov
Associate Professor, Cognitive Psychology · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Our lab is recruiting new members. There is a modeling track and an experimental track. People with diverse academic backgrounds – in psychology, computer science, philosophy, and other majors – are welcome. Please visit the Visual Cognition Lab page for details on how to get involved.
Relational processing and its pivotal role in human cognition. In particular, I have a strong interest in analogy making that dates all the way back to my Ph.D. dissertation in 1998. A guiding hypothesis is that the visu…
Dr. Hsin-Hung Li
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Li is recruiting Ph.D. students, postdocs and a research assistant for 2024. Contact Dr. Li or enter the lab webpage for more information.
Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
Elizabeth Holdsworth
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Holdsworth is currently looking to hire a student with work study funding to assist in the lab. Information about the position and an application is in Workday.
Dr. Holdsworth is currently recruiting new graduate students. If interested, please email her to discuss project ideas.
Biological Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Life History, Modern Human Variation, Social-ecological Systems
Felix Barber
Assistant Professor of Microbiology · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are currently hiring at all levels, so come and join us!
Microbial Physiology, Quantitative Biology, Bacterial Cell Walls
Guramrit Singh
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Highly motivated students at all levels who are excited to study post-transcriptional gene regulation in mammalian cells are welcome to join our team. Several exciting projects are available in experimental areas at the interface of traditional molecular/cellular biology, biochemistry and computatio…
Gene Expression, RNA Processing, Control of mRNA Fate
Hari Subramoni
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering · College of Engineering
⭐ I am looking for self-motivated students undergraduate, and graduate (masters and PhD) for various projects that I am working on. Funding is available for students provided you can demonstrate the required skills and attitude. E-mail me with the following details if you want to work with me.
- Name…
High-Performance Computing, High-Performance Interconnects and Protocols, Parallel Programming Models, Message Passing Interface, Distributed Deep Learning, Digital Agriculture, Conversational Interfaces
Iris Meier
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Postdoctoral applications from qualified and highly motivated individuals are always welcome.
Plant Nuclear Envelope, Nuclear Movement and Positioning, LINC complexes
Matt Southward
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Southward will be accepting graduate applications for the 2025-2026 cycle.
Sandy Wong
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am not accepting graduate students for the 2027-28 academic year.
Health Inequalities, Disability and Mobility, Environmental Health, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Shin-Chan Han
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ If you find interest in any, please feel free to contact him (han.104@osu.edu) for possible PhD research opportunities.
Geodesy, Geophysics, Geodetic Technology
Suren Byna
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering · College of Engineering
⭐ While most of the positions in the lab are filled, the lab will be looking for exceptional students, who are interested in the areas of Data and metadata management, Storage and I/O, File systems, and Energy efficiency in HPC, Cloud, and Edge computing. If you are an outstanding student and interest…
Prof. Byna's research interests span across many topics in scientific data management and analysis. These topics include parallel I/O, parallel file systems, next-generation data management systems, I/O libraries, file f…
Theresa Hice-Fromille
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am not accepting graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year.
I consider Black geographies of the past, present, and future in speculative fiction and lived experience to consider how it might inform practices in education, travel, and community building in the virtual and real wor…
Ting Zhu
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering · College of Engineering
⭐ Dr. Zhu's lab is looking for PhD, Master, and undergraduate students with full financial support. Please send your transcript and CV to this email: zhu.3445@osu.edu.
Big Data and Machine Learning, Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Smart Health and Smart Community, Autonomous Driving and Cyber-Physical Systems, Quantum Networking and Distributed Comp…
Xueru Zhang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering · College of Engineering
⭐ I am always looking for highly motivated PhD students! Please check out my personal website for details.
Machine Learning, Algorithmic Fairness, Privacy, Sequential Decision Making, Distributed Learning, Security Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara 4 hiring
Andrew Plantinga
Professor · UC Santa Barbara - Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
⭐ PhD program applicants: I work only with PhD students whose primary focus is economics.
Resource Economics, Land Use Economics
Dorota Dutsch
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
⭐ Graduate supervision: Dorota Dutsch welcomes inquiries from prospective students on gender studies, especially women in ancient philosophy, Roman drama, and reception.
gender and knowledge in literary texts ranging from Greek philosophical prose to Roman comedy; women's contributions to global philosophical traditions; ancient ideas about the gender of knowledge
Jessica K. Ivani
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
⭐ If you are interested in working with me as an undergraduate student: you must have taken LING181 and/or LING109 to join my lab. Email me to get in touch.
If you are interested in working with me as a graduate student: email me to get in touch.
Linguistic typology; quantitative typology and data structuring in language science; typological databases; morphosyntax and complex syntax; areal linguistics (South Asia); Tibeto-Burman languages of the Indo-Myanmar bor…
Laurel Brehm
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
⭐ If you are interested in working with me as an undergraduate student: I take about 4 new students as RAs and 2 as thesis students per year. You must have taken Ling 127 or Ling 125 to join my lab. Email me to get in touch.
I do not currently have priority to take new graduate students-- I might loo…
Psycholinguistics; sentence production; sentence processing; memory and language; eye-tracking; quantitative methods; meta-science
University of Maryland 17 hiring
Cixin Wang
Associate Professor, School Psychology · University of Maryland College of Education
⭐ I will be accepting Ph.D. students for mentorship in the 2019-2020 academic year. Applicants with an interest in school based mental health services, peer relationships, bullying prevention, parenting practice, working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, and bridging the gap b…
Bullying and bullying prevention, school-based mental health services and prevention of mental health problems, mental health literacy, help seeking among culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, parenting p…
Donald Milton
Distinguished University Professor · University of Maryland School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Milton is accepting PhD students for the Fall 2025 application cycle.
Airborne infection transmission, influenza, respiratory infection, occupational and environmental asthma, bioaerosols, occupational and environmental epidemiology
Gulnoza Yakubova
Associate Professor, Special Education · UMD College of Education
⭐ I am currently accepting new Ph.D. students.
autism, technology, mathematics, functional living skills, parent-implemented and culturally adapted interventions
Hannah Zierden
Assistant Professor · A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
⭐ We are currently looking to hire undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs. Please email Dr. Zierden if you'd like to learn more about our ongoing research projects.
The Zierden Lab focuses on rationally engineering next generation therapies aimed at preventing preterm birth, fostering healthy fetal programming, and improving maternal outcomes, with the ultimate goal of promoting hum…
Heather K. Amato
Assistant Professor, Global Environmental & Occupational Health · School of Public Health, University of Maryland
⭐ Dr. Amato is not accepting new PhD students at this time.
Environmental Epidemiology, One Health, WASH, Antibiotic Resistance
Jennifer D. Stowell
Assistant Professor · University of Maryland School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Stowell is accepting new PhD students for 2026.
Extreme weather events, natural disasters, wildfires, air pollution, compound hazard, climate epidemiology, environmental health, global health
Jesse Moody
Assistant Professor · A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
⭐ He is actively recruiting motivated students to join his lab.
RF and microwave circuit design
Millimeter-wave and sub-THz devices and systems
Ultra-low-power and energy-efficient integrated circuits
Nonlinear circuits and backscatter communications
Advanced frequency generation and…
Jimena Cosso
Assistant Professor · UMD College of Education
⭐ Dr. Cosso is reviewing applications for students to start in Fall 2025; please email her with inquiries.
Latine family math environment, early mathematics skills, Latine family-school interactions, dual language learners school readiness skills, cultural and linguistic relevant measures
Kelli Cummings
Associate Professor, Special Education · UMD College of Education
⭐ I will be accepting a Ph.D. student for mentorship for Fall 2026. Applicants with an interest in reading, early intervention, multitiered systems of support, and developing intensive interventions are especially encouraged to apply. Applications for the doctoral program are due December 1 for best c…
Language and Literacy, Second language/Bilingual literacy development, early childhood special education, multitiered systems of support (MTSS) School improvement, Social justice in schools implementation science, learni…
Kerry H. Alexander
Assistant Professor · UMD College of Education
⭐ I am interested in working with graduate students (PhD and Master's) who have taught or are teaching in public elementary school settings. My current research directly engages with schools, literacy instruction, and preservice and early-career teacher education in the local UMD area. I study the eve…
Sociocultural dimensions of early literacy theory and practice across contexts; critical literacy, multimodality, sociomateriality, and elementary writing instruction; coaching and mentoring; literacy teacher education
Mia Smith-Bynum
Professor and Chair, Family Science · School of Public Health, University of Maryland
⭐ Dr. Smith-Bynum will not be taking doctoral students for the entering 2025-2026 graduate class.
Parenting; Racial Socialization; Adolescent Development; Mental Health; Black Families
Paul Turner
Associate Professor, Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health · University of Maryland | School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Turner is accepting PhD students for the Fall 2025 application cycle.
Food and Chemical Toxicology; Mycotoxins, Aflatoxins, Fumonisins and Deoxynivalenol; Children and Infant Health; Global Health; Intervention and Mitigation
Rabiatu Barrie
Assistant Professor, Family Science Department · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Barrie is accepting doctoral students for the 25’-26’ school year
African American youth identity development; gendered racial socialization of African American boys; Black masculinity; trauma; traumatic stress in Black boys; community violence; community-based gun violence; interventi…
Stephen Gibson
Assistant Professor · UMD College of Education
⭐ Dr. Gibson is reviewing applications for students to start in Fall 2026; please email him with inquiries.
Fatherhood; Racial socialization; Racialized experiences; Racial Identity; Parental contributions to children's mental health and developmental outcomes
Yonghwi Kwon
Assistant Professor · A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
⭐ I am looking for motivated students, if you are interested in, please see this page.
Software Security
Systems Security (CPS Security, Autonomous Vehicle Security)
Cyber Forensics/Reverse-engineering (Disassembly, Decompilation)
Binary Analysis (Malware analysis, Binary patching)
You Zhou
Assistant Professor · A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
⭐ The You Zhou Research Group is hiring! Researchers with an interest and experience in correlated electronic systems, low-dimensional materials, nanophotonics and surface science are strongly encouraged to apply. If interested, please send your CV and a brief description of research interest to youzh…
Materials synthesis
2D materials and heterostructures
Transition metal oxides
Electronic and optical materials and devices
Zhambyl Shaikhanov
Assistant Professor · A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
⭐ I am recruiting motivated and hardworking graduate students interested in working in the areas of next-generation wireless systems, including sensing, security, and networking, to join my group. If you are interested, feel free to contact me.
Physical and Cross-Layer Wireless Security
Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Networking and Sensing
Intelligent Surfaces and Devices for Next-Generation Wireless
Wireless Mobile Systems and Robotics Networks
University of Rochester 61 hiring
Amanda Larracuente
Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor of Biology; Professor of Biology; Associate Chair · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting:
PhD students
Please email with inquiries.
Undergraduate researchers
Please email with inquiries.
What do transposable elements, satellite DNAs and meiotic drive systems have in common? They are all selfish DNAs and can spread in genomes and populations without offering any benefit, and many times even causing harm, …
Andrei Seluanov
Dean’s Professor, Professor of Biology · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Rochester
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students. Please email with inquiries. Undergraduate researchers. Please email with inquiries.
Molecular and cell biology; Tumor suppressor mechanisms in log-lived rodents the Naked Mole-Rat and Eastern Grey Squirrel; Mammalian Sirt proteins in regulation of stress response during aging; Anti-cancer mechanisms in …
Andrew Elliot
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Elliot will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Elliot will be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
The primary focus of Dr. Elliot's research is approach and avoidance motivation. Professor Elliot examines the antecedents, consequences, and development of achievement motivation and social motivation. He conducts basic…
Anne S. Meyer
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students (Please email with inquiries.), Undergraduate researchers (Please email with inquiries.)
Synthetic biology, 3D printing of bacteria, Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials, Survival strategies of bacteria, Organization of bacterial DNA
Bonnie Le
Assistant Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Le will not be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Professor Le's research focuses on how emotions and motivation shape well-being in interpersonal relationships. In particular, she examines how and when the regulation of emotions, the perception of emotions, and the mot…
Brianna Theobald
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
U.S. Women's and Gender History; History of Native America; History of Reproduction
Cameron Hecht
Assistant Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Hecht will be reviewing applications for the master of science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Hecht will be accepting applications for graduate students entering during the 2026-2027 academic year.
My research seeks to identify psychological processes that contribute to societal problems, develop theory-based interventions that target these processes, and identify the features of contexts that enable these interven…
Chad Shenk
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Shenk will be recruiting students to join his lab, The Innovation Lab for Pediatric Trauma and Behavioral Health Research. Professor Shenk will be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
There are three central, interrelated aims to Dr. Shenk's program of research: Improve the Estimation of Transdiagnostic Outcomes in Observational Child Maltreatment Research; Identify Targets Promoting Risk and Resilien…
Chen Zhang
Assistant Professor · University of Rochester Medical Center
⭐ Currently Accepting PhD Students
HIV prevention, substance use, behavioral health, data science, epidemiology, implementation science, AI-powered chatbot, PrEP continuum, structural racism, health disparities
Christopher Niemiec
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Niemiec will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Niemiec is interested in human motivation, emotion, and personality in social contexts. His research uses self-determination theory to examine the nature and functional significance of autonomy in a variety of …
Daven C. Presgraves
Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology; Professor of Biology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting:
PhD students
Please email with inquiries.
We study the evolution & consequences of selfish genetic elements. Recurrent invasion & innovation by selfish genetic elements and suppression & counter-innovation by hosts are major, if still unappreciated, drivers of g…
David Dodell-Feder
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Dodell-Feder will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Dodell-Feder will not be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Social cognition and social functioning in psychopathology
Douglas Portman
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students. Please email with inquiries.
Genetics of development and behavior in C. elegans; Neural cell fate specification; Sex differences in neural circuit function; Sexual dimorphism in developmental patterning
Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting:
PhD students
Please email with inquiries.
Undergraduate researchers
Please email with inquiries.
Evolution of sociality
Phenotypic plasticity
Neuroethology
Host-parasite coevolution
Mechanisms underlying parasitic manipulation
Gabriella R. Sterne
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students. Please email with inquiries.
The overarching goal of the Sterne Lab is to understand the neural circuit mechanisms that generate and shape complex feeding behaviors. To survive, animals must successfully derive energy from their environments. Moment…
Gilbert 'Rip' Collins
Tracy Hyde Harris Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Physics; LLE Senior Scientist; LLE Associate Director for Academics, Science and Technology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ We are accepting new students in several projects in extreme materials, fundamental science of inertial fusion, and the microphysics of planets and stars.
high energy density physics
Gregg Castellucci
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Castellucci is accepting graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year; interested applicants should apply to the BCS PhD program.
speech production, gesture and multimodal communication, motor planning and control, animal behavior, neuroethology, neural circuits and systems
Hanan Dery
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Physics · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Future Members
We are a theory group (zilch experiments). New members are added based on funding availability.
- Post-doctoral scholars who are interested in joining our group should have a Ph.D. in topics related to our research (e.g., condensed matter physics, spintronics, transition-metal dich…
theoretical condensed-matter physics
Hannah J. Kramer
Assistant Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Kramer will be reviewing applications for the master of science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Kramer will be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
I am broadly interested in how children and adults figure out what other people are thinking and feeling. In this work, I take context seriously: That is, not only how social structures shape people's reasoning, but also…
Harry Reis
Dean’s Professor in Arts & Sciences; Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Reis will not be considering applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Professor Reis' research interests involve social interaction and close relationships. Professor Reis studies the factors that influence the quantity and closeness of social interaction, and the consequences of different…
Hussein Aluie
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering · Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
⭐ Please check my website (above link) for PhD and postdoc opportunities.
Turbulence, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Compressible Flows, Magnetohydrodynamics, Hydrodynamic Instabilities
Isobel Heck
Assistant Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Heck will be reviewing applications for the master of science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Heck will be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
My research focuses on how young children come to represent and think about societal hierarchies, political systems, and social group-based inequities. This research embraces the perspective that how children see societa…
J. Albert C. Uy
Dean's Professor; Professor of Biology; Department Chair · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students. Please email with inquiries.
Evolutionary Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Genetics, Speciation, Conservation
J. David Lambert
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students (Please email with inquiries.) Undergraduate researchers (Please email with inquiries.)
The evolution of developmental mechanisms; Early patterning in molluscs and related groups; Cytoskeletal basis of asymmetric cell divisions; Evolution of novel phenotypes
Jedediah Kuhn
Assistant Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
I am an interdisciplinary historian of race, indigeneity, gender, and sexuality with a focus on Native American and Chicanx history in the American West and U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
Jeffrey T. Runner
Professor of Linguistics & Brain and Cognitive Sciences · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am not currently accepting PhD students
Experimental Syntax, Syntactic/Linguistic Theory, Binding Theory, Syntax Processing, Phrase Structure, Syntax/Semantics Interface
Jeremy P. Jamieson
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Jamieson will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Dr. Jamieson will not be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
The primary focus of Dr. Jamieson's work seeks to understand how experiences of stress impact decisions, emotions, and performance, and how stress responses can be optimized to promote resilience in the face of stressors…
John A. Tarduno
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Professor of Physics and Astronomy; LLE Distinguished Scientist; Dean for Research in Arts, Sciences and Engineering · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Opportunities are available for graduate students interested in multidisciplinary laboratory and field research with the Paleomagnetic Research Group (see www.ees.rochester.edu/pmag/). We have projects studying large-scale plate and mantle motions in the Pacific, Africa and High Arctic. Our archeoma…
experimental geodynamics; planetary science and astrophysics
John Kessler
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Research in my laboratory focuses on oceanic methane isotope biogeochemistry investigations. Our projects are heavily rooted in analytical chemistry, while also being very multidisciplinary drawing from the fields of chemistry, geology, biology, physics, mathematics, and engineering. I am always int…
Chemical Oceanography, Isotope geochemistry, Analytical chemistry
Judith Smetana
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Smetana is not accepting graduate student applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Professor Smetana's research examines adolescent-parent relationships and development in cultural contexts; children's moral and social reasoning; and development of parenting beliefs. My current research focuses on thre…
Justin Fay
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting:
PhD students: Please email with inquiries.
Undergraduate researchers: Please email with inquiries.
We are broadly interested in the genetic basis of evolutionary change and specifically interested in the role of changes in gene regulation. We combine analysis of gene expression with population genetic and molecular ev…
Karl Glastad
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Rochester
⭐ Now accepting:
PhD students: Please email with inquiries.
Postdoctoral Applicants: Please email with inquiries.
Gene regulation, hormonal signalling, molecular and cellular determinants of aging and lifespan; Mechanisms and evolution of plasticity; Arthropod genomics; Video games
Karl Rosengren
Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Rosengren will be reviewing applications for the master of science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Rosengren will not be accepting graduate student applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.
The focus of my work is on change: How children think about changes in the world surrounding them and how children and adults adapt to changes in their local environment in order to act safely and effectively. These topi…
Laura Ackerman Smoller
Arthur R. Miller Professor of History; Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Medieval and Renaissance Europe; Medieval Christianity; Early Science and Medicine; History of Astrology and Prophecy
Lisa Starr
Associate Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Starr will not be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Dr. Starr's research centers on the origins and consequences of depression and anxiety disorders in adolescence and adulthood. These interests have developed along several interrelated pathways.
First, her work examines…
Liz Handley
Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Handley will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle. Professor Handley will not be accepting applications for Ph.D students this fall for the 2026-2027 academic year.
The overarching goal of Dr. Handley’s research is to advance understanding of the impact of family adversity on development for individuals and families. Her research aims to identify the outcomes, mechanisms, and modera…
Loisa Bennetto
Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Bennetto will not be accepting applications for graduate students this fall for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties
Mark Hibbins
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students, Postdoctoral applicants
Phylogenomics, Phylogenetic methods, Hybridization and introgression, Genome evolution, Evolution of gene regulation, Convergent evolution, Computational biology
Matthew E. Lenoe
Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am not accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Russian and Soviet History; Stalinist Culture and Politics; History of Mass Media; Soviet Soldiers in World War II; Russia in East Asia; Leninism in World History
Meghan Underhill, PhD, APRN, FAAN
Assistant Professor · University of Rochester School of Nursing
⭐ Currently Accepting PhD Students
Cancer genetics, hereditary cancer risk, psychosocial care, clinical innovations, wellness-focused care, telemedicine, cancer genetic testing
Melanie Chambliss
Assistant Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Melissa Sturge-Apple
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Sturge-Apple will not be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
My research broadly focuses on family processes, parental functioning, and child development. My work is guided by theoretical conceptualizations derived from developmental psychopathology, self-regulation frameworks, ev…
Mical Raz
Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Health and Policy; Professor of History; Professor of Clinical Medicine in the School of Medicine and Dentistry · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
History of Medicine and Health Policy
Michael J. Jarvis
Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Public History and Museum Studies; Early American and Atlantic History 1450-1850 (Transnational); Material Culture and Historical Archaeology (Transnational); Digital History
Michael Welte
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: Undergraduate researchers. There may be openings for the spring and summer of 2026. Please e-mail with inquiries.
Cell and developmental biology; Intracellular trafficking of proteins, RNAs, and organelles; Regulation of motor-driven transport; Cell biology of lipid droplets; Lipid droplets in protein sequestration and innate immuni…
Michele Rucci
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ We are currently recruiting at various levels, both pre- and post-doctorate. Please write to us, if you are interested in joining the laboratory.
Vision and Action
Miron Zuckerman
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Zuckerman has retired and will no longer be accepting applications for graduate students.
Professor Zuckerman works on topics related to psychology of religion and social cognition. However, he is open to interesting ideas and potential work in just about any domain of psychological research. Regarding the ps…
Molly Ball
Assistant Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Brazilian History; Latin American History; Economic History; Immigration History
Nestor Tulagan
Assistant Professor of Counseling & Human Development, Warner School of Education; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Tulagan will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Tulagan will be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Professor Tulagan's (he/him/his) primary research examines how parents and other social figures (siblings, teachers, peers, etc.) contribute to the development of achievement motivation and social identities of ethno-rac…
Ning Wang
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students. Please email with inquiries.
Cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics; Organelle biogenesis; Organelle degradation through selective autophagy; Organelle aging and neurodegeneration
Pablo M. Sierra Silva
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
African Diaspora, Latin American, Caribbean and Atlantic History
Patrick Davies
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Davies will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle.
Professor Davies will be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year. To maximize equal access to information for potential …
My broad area of interest lies in children's socioemotional adaptation and maladaptation within the context of close interpersonal relationships especially in family contexts. My three primary research aims are as follow…
Ronald D. Rogge
Professor of Psychology · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Rogge will be reviewing applications for the Master of Science (MS) in psychological science for the March 2026 application cycle. Professor Rogge will be accepting applications for graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Ron Rogge is a clinical faculty member whose research focuses on understanding dynamics within romantic relationships and families. His basic research studies examine how individual factors (e.g., neuroticism, anger, agg…
Ruben Flores
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
US and Mexico Studies
Sina Ghaemmaghami
George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry; Professor of Biology; Director, Undergraduate Research · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students (Please email with inquiries.); Undergraduate researchers (Please email with inquiries.)
Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics
Stewart A. Weaver
Franklin W. And Gladys I. Clark Professor of History; Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Modern British History; Himalayan History; Environmental History
Thomas C. Devaney
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Late medieval and early modern Europe; History of emotions; History of the senses; Urban history; Interfaith relations; Popular culture
Thomas Fleischman
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
German History; Environmental History; Animal History; Agricultural History; State Socialism; Cold War
Vera Gorbunova
Doris Johns Cherry Professor; Professor of Biology; Co-director, Rochester Aging Research Center · School of Arts & Sciences, University of Rochester
⭐ Now accepting: PhD students (Please email with inquiries.); Undergraduate researchers (Please email with inquiries.)
Mechanisms of aging; Comparative biology of aging; Comparative biology of aging; DNA repair and genomic instability; Anticancer therapy
Xin Bi
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Now accepting: Undergraduate researchers. Please email with inquiries.
Epigenetic regulation of eukaryotic gene expression
Structural and functional domains of the genome
Chromatin boundary elements
Gene silencing
DNA damage repair and tolerance
Ying Xue
Associate Professor · University of Rochester School of Nursing
⭐ Currently Accepting PhD Students
Ying Xue's research aims to develop empirical evidence to guide national policies to optimize the nursing workforce and to improve health care delivery and outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations. Her research …
Lehigh University 7 hiring
Daniel Laverty
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ The Laverty lab is seeking undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows; please email Dr. Laverty if you are interested.
Biomolecular Structure and Function; Biochemistry; Chemical biology; Molecular biology; Precision cancer therapy; DNA damage and repair; Nucleic acid chemistry
Glenn Balbus
Assistant Professor · P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Please reach out via email about openings in Dr. Balbus' research group.
Dr. Glenn Balbus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. His current research leverages advanced characterization techniques and nanomechanical testing to in…
Jianxing Sun
Assistant Professor · P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
⭐ Dr. Sun is actively recruiting motivated students at all levels, including Ph.D., master’s, undergraduate students, and visiting researchers.
Experimental Thermo-fluid; Interfacial Science; Phase Change; Energy; Polymer Coatings
Julie Miwa
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ The laboratory is seeking scientists with experience in molecular genetics, genetic engineering, in vivo RNA interference, and behavioral pharmacology. We also perform parallel in vitro and in vivo investigations to elucidate the function of these important regulatory molecules, so scientists with a…
Neuroscience
Lisa Fredin
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are recruiting undergraduate researchers for projects on amorphous materials and molecular photochemistry. Email Prof. Fredin if you are interested!
Theoretical and computational chemistry, Electronic structure, Disorder in materials, Photochemistry/photophysics, Catalysis, Photoredox, Nanoscience
Meng Zhao
Assistant Professor · P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Dr. Zhao's research group is looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers with a strong interest in applied statistics and data science. Candidates with a solid background in statistics, mathematics, and programming are encouraged to reach out to Dr. Zhao for further info…
AI/ML/DS, Tensor Analytics, Multimodal Data Fusion, AI for Health, System Modeling and Monitoring
Xuanjie Wang
Assistant Professor · P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ multiple openings for PhD students
Thermal and Fluids Engineering, Nanoengineering, Thermal Management, Solar Energy, Energy Storage
Purdue University 132 hiring
Abigail Engelberth
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering | Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering · Purdue University
⭐ There are opportunities for graduate and advanced studies in her research group.
Bioseparations to recover valuable co-products from underutilized biological resources and the design of the recovery processes to assess potential economic feasibility of a given co-product. https://engineering.purdue.e…
Alec Rhodes
Assistant Professor // Sociology | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Alec Rhodes
is an economic sociologist who studies the causes and consequences of inequality and financial insecurity. He uses political economy, demographic, and spatial perspectives to answer questions related to inequality, poverty and mobility. He is especially interested in how inequalities acc…
Alec Rhodes
is an economic sociologist who studies the causes and consequences of inequality and financial insecurity. He uses political economy, demographic, and spatial perspectives to answer questions related to inequ…
Andrew Bellisari
Assistant Professor //History | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Dr. Andrew Bellisari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, he was an assistant professor and founding faculty member at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City and a Vietnam Program Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Specializing …
Dr. Andrew Bellisari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, he was an assistant professor and founding faculty member at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Min…
Benxin Wu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering · Purdue University
⭐ Graduate program applicant: If you are interested in studying for a PhD degree starting from Fall 2024 with the research in the field of laser-based manufacturing and materials processing in Prof. Benxin Wu's group, please email your short resume to Prof. Wu at wu65@purdue.edu. PhD program applicant…
Laser-matter interactions
Laser-induced plasma and laser-plasma interaction
Laser applications in manufacturing, materials processing, and other areas
Bradley Dilger
Professor; Director of Writing //English · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ PhD, University of Florida, 2003
Biography
Bradley Dilger uses qualitative research methods to study writing. He is one of the leaders of
Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing
, the first learner corpus linked to a repository of pedagogical texts. Crow researchers are creating digital tools to st…
PhD, University of Florida, 2003
Biography
Bradley Dilger uses qualitative research methods to study writing. He is one of the leaders of
Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing
, the first learner corpus linked to a re…
Bryce Dietrich
Associate Professor //Political Science · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Bryce Dietrich is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Political Science,
Director of the
Computational Social Science Lab
, and a research scholar at the
Center for C-SPAN Scholarship and Engagement (CCSE)
. His research uses novel quantitative, automated, and machine learning methods to ana…
Bryce Dietrich is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Political Science,
Director of the
Computational Social Science Lab
, and a research scholar at the
Center for C-SPAN Scholarship and Engagement (CCSE)
. His …
Christopher Seto
Assistant Professor // Sociology | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Christopher Han-Fai Seto earned his Ph.D. in Criminology from the Pennsylvania State University and joined the Purdue Department of Sociology in 2023. Chris’s substantive interests include hate crime, violence, health, and religion / morality. He is especially interested in the ecological aspects of…
Christopher Han-Fai Seto earned his Ph.D. in Criminology from the Pennsylvania State University and joined the Purdue Department of Sociology in 2023. Chris’s substantive interests include hate crime, violence, health, a…
Chunwei Liu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · College of Science
⭐ Chunwei has several Ph.D. positions available for the upcoming fall. If you are interested, please feel free to contact him directly or list him as a potential advisor in your application.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing; Databases and Data Mining; Distributed Systems
Daniel Winchester
Associate Professor // Sociology | Associate Professor //Cornerstone | Associate Professor //Religious Studies//SIS · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Sociology, University of Minnesota (2013)
M.A., Sociology, University of Missouri (2006)
Daniel Winchester joined the Purdue faculty in 2014. Most broadly, his scholarship focuses on answering questions about how culture shapes human subjectivity and action, with particular attention to the s…
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Minnesota (2013)
M.A., Sociology, University of Missouri (2006)
Daniel Winchester joined the Purdue faculty in 2014. Most broadly, his scholarship focuses on answering questions about how …
David Peterson
Associate Professor // Sociology | Associate Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ David Peterson received his PhD from Northwestern University and was a postdoc at UCLA before joining the sociology department at Purdue. He studies the nexus of scientific practice, emerging technologies, and expert authority. Currently, his work focuses on two topics. First, he studies how the org…
David Peterson received his PhD from Northwestern University and was a postdoc at UCLA before joining the sociology department at Purdue. He studies the nexus of scientific practice, emerging technologies, and expert aut…
Diana Zulli
Associate Professor //Communication · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Get to Know Assistant Professor Diana Zulli
My primary research interests are political communication, communication theory, digital technology, and crisis communication and my primary teaching interests are political communication, public relations, and crisis communication.
I typically work with g…
Get to Know Assistant Professor Diana Zulli
My primary research interests are political communication, communication theory, digital technology, and crisis communication and my primary teaching interests are political co…
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann
Professor // Sociology | Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ J.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, (1998)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (2001)
Recently published:
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann (2021)
Lactation at Work: Expressing Milk, Expressed Concern, and the Expressive Value of Law
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Link
Specialization
sociolog…
J.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, (1998)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (2001)
Recently published:
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann (2021)
Lactation at Work: Expressing Milk, Expressed Concern, and the Expressive Va…
Ellen Nye
Assistant Professor //History · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ellen Nye
is an economic historian specializing in the history of political economy, globalization, and early modern empires. She earned her PhD in History from Yale University, an MPhil in Social and Economic History from the University of Cambridge, and an AB in History and Middle Eastern Studies …
Ellen Nye
is an economic historian specializing in the history of political economy, globalization, and early modern empires. She earned her PhD in History from Yale University, an MPhil in Social and Economic History fr…
Evan Perrault
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies //Communication | Associate Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.A., Michigan State University
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Evan K. Perrault (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2014) is an Associate Professor of Health Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication.
A major research focus for Dr. Perrault is …
Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.A., Michigan State University
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Evan K. Perrault (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2014) is an Associate Professor of Health Communication in the…
Evelina Akimova
Assistant Professor // Sociology | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Specialization
: Social Science Genomics, Chronotype & Mental Health, Career Trajectories, Biodemography, Quantitative Methods & Causal Inference
Dr. Evelina Akimova’s primary research areas are health inequalities, focusing on chronotype and wellbeing, using computational social science and statist…
Specialization
: Social Science Genomics, Chronotype & Mental Health, Career Trajectories, Biodemography, Quantitative Methods & Causal Inference
Dr. Evelina Akimova’s primary research areas are health inequalities, focu…
Garam Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Purdue Polytechnic Institute
⭐ Graduate Research Assistant Positions Available (2025 Fall Semester)
We are seeking a highly self-motivated Graduate Research Assistant to support research in the following areas:
(1) 3D printed tooling for fiber-reinforced composite part manufacturing
(2) Recycling/upcycling of fiber-reinforced com…
Composites Manufacturing
Composites Testing & Characterizing
Multi-functional Composites
Hany Abdel-Khalik
Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ Graduate Research Opportunity
Postdoctoral Research Position CYNICS
Validation and Uncertainty Quantification
Big Data Analytics and Data Assimilation
Cyberattack-resilient Control Systems
LWR Computational Reactor Physics
Hwanseok Song
Assistant Professor //Communication · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Cornell University
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Yonsei University
Professor Song's research focuses examines social cognitive processes underlying risk, science, and environmental communication, with a particular focus on how people’s judgments about others such as public authorities …
Ph.D., Cornell University
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Yonsei University
Professor Song's research focuses examines social cognitive processes underlying risk, science, and environmental communication, with a par…
Hyesun Choung
Assistant Professor //Communication · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Dr. Hyesun Choung (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is an Assistant Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. Her research focuses on the lay psychology of AI, examining how people make sense of, evaluate, and respond to AI systems in communicative contexts. Sh…
Dr. Hyesun Choung (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is an Assistant Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. Her research focuses on the lay psychology of AI, examining how people …
Ilwoo Ju
Associate Professor //Communication · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Get to Know Assistant Professor Ilwoo Ju
My primary research interests are advertising, marketing communication effects and processes, persuasion, and pro-consumer issues in communication contexts. I teach advertising, strategic communication research and planning, and integrated marketing communica…
Get to Know Assistant Professor Ilwoo Ju
My primary research interests are advertising, marketing communication effects and processes, persuasion, and pro-consumer issues in communication contexts. I teach advertising, s…
Irwin Weiser
Professor //English · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Indiana University, 1976
Specialization
Rhetoric & Composition
Research Areas:
Composition theory, writing across the curriculum, and writing program administraton
Irwin Weiser is Professor of English and former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He has been teaching and administering intro…
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1976
Specialization
Rhetoric & Composition
Research Areas:
Composition theory, writing across the curriculum, and writing program administraton
Irwin Weiser is Professor of English and former D…
Jack Spencer
Associate Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Indiana University (1983)
Specialization
public discourse and social problems; deviance and social control
Dr. Spencer joined the Purdue faculty in 1989. He studies public discourse about social problems. His most recent work comprises two threads - how the mass media talked about youth viole…
Ph.D., Indiana University (1983)
Specialization
public discourse and social problems; deviance and social control
Dr. Spencer joined the Purdue faculty in 1989. He studies public discourse about social problems. His most…
Jacqui Frost
Assistant Professor // Sociology | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Jacqui Frost earned her Ph.D. at University of Minnesota in 2020 and joined Purdue sociology faculty in 2022. She is a mixed-methods scholar whose research integrates cultural sociology, sociology of religion, science and technology studies, and sociology of health. Most broadly, her work investigat…
Jacqui Frost earned her Ph.D. at University of Minnesota in 2020 and joined Purdue sociology faculty in 2022. She is a mixed-methods scholar whose research integrates cultural sociology, sociology of religion, science an…
Jessica R. Collier
Assistant Professor //Communication | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Jessica R. Collier is an assistant professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication. Her research uses experimental and survey methodologies to explore how media organizations and technology platforms interact in ways that can be beneficial or detrimental to democracy. Currently, she studies how …
Jessica R. Collier is an assistant professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication. Her research uses experimental and survey methodologies to explore how media organizations and technology platforms interact in ways…
Jian Jin
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering · College of Engineering
⭐ He currently has positions open for PhD students and post-docs.
Machine Systems Engineering, Data Science and Digital Agriculture
John O. Greene
Professor //Communication · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Pennsylvania State University
B.A., Purdue University
Current Positions:
Professor, Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University
Faculty Associate,
Center on Aging and the Life Course
, Purdue University
Director, Publications Board, National Com…
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Pennsylvania State University
B.A., Purdue University
Current Positions:
Professor, Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University
Faculty Associate,
Center on Aging an…
John Stahura
Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Ohio State University (1975)
Dr. Stahura joined the Purdue University faculty in 1975. He has authored or coauthored over 35 sociological articles in journals such as: the
American Sociological Review
,
Social Forces
,
Sociological Quarterly
,
Sociological Spectrum
,
Sociology and Social Rese…
Ph.D., Ohio State University (1975)
Dr. Stahura joined the Purdue University faculty in 1975. He has authored or coauthored over 35 sociological articles in journals such as: the
American Sociological Review
,
Social For…
Kaylyn Jackson Schiff
Associate Professor //Political Science | Associate Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Professor Jackson Schiff is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Political Science
at Purdue University and Co-Director of the
Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL)
.
Dr. Schiff studies American politics and policy, with a focus on quantitative and experimental methods. Her research addre…
Professor Jackson Schiff is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Political Science
at Purdue University and Co-Director of the
Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL)
.
Dr. Schiff studies American politics and p…
Kenneth Ferraro
Distinguished Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Faculty Associate:
Center on Aging and the Life Course
Ph.D., University of Akron, (1981)
Website:
https://www.purdue.edu/aging/faculty/?id=1
Specialization
aging; health; life course analysis; cumulative inequality
Professor Ferraro uses a life course perspective to study health inequality and deve…
Faculty Associate:
Center on Aging and the Life Course
Ph.D., University of Akron, (1981)
Website:
https://www.purdue.edu/aging/faculty/?id=1
Specialization
aging; health; life course analysis; cumulative inequality
Prof…
Kyle Haynes
Associate Professor //Political Science · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D. Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
B.A. Political Science and History, University of Delaware
Kyle Haynes Website
Specializations
International Relations
Research Summary
Kyle Haynes specializes in international security, U.S. foreign policy, conflict and bargaining, signaling, and great …
Ph.D. Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
B.A. Political Science and History, University of Delaware
Kyle Haynes Website
Specializations
International Relations
Research Summary
Kyle Haynes specializes in internation…
Liana Eustacia Reyes
Assistant Professor //Political Science | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Specializations
International Relations
Comparative Politics
Civil Wars
Law
Conflict Resolution
Liana Eustacia Reyes, J.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.
Dr. Reyes brings her expertise in the scientific study of law and conflict to unde…
Specializations
International Relations
Comparative Politics
Civil Wars
Law
Conflict Resolution
Liana Eustacia Reyes, J.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.
Dr…
Marcus Mann
Assistant Professor // Sociology | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Marcus Mann earned his Ph.D. at Duke University and joined Purdue sociology faculty in 2019. His primary research interests are in the fields of political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and social movements. He is currently working on projects that examine how knowledge in various domains is…
Marcus Mann earned his Ph.D. at Duke University and joined Purdue sociology faculty in 2019. His primary research interests are in the fields of political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and social movements. He i…
Mark Suchman
Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Mark Suchman
(he/him) is a Professor of Sociology at Purdue University and a Research Professor and former Executive Director at the American Bar Foundation. His research interests center on the impact of legal institutions on organizational and economic life, with a particular focus on how legal co…
Mark Suchman
(he/him) is a Professor of Sociology at Purdue University and a Research Professor and former Executive Director at the American Bar Foundation. His research interests center on the impact of legal instituti…
Miaolan Xie
Assistant Professor and Solberg Academic Excellence Scholar · Purdue University
⭐ I am seeking motivated PhD students — reach out if interested!
mathematical optimization, stochastic processes, and machine learning, drawing on tools from optimization theory, statistics, and applied probability. I develop adaptive optimization algorithms that are both theoreticall…
Miriam Barnum
Assistant Professor //Political Science | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Miriam Barnum is an assistant professor in the
Department of Political Science
and a faculty member in the
Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts
program.
Previously, Dr. Barnum was a Stanton Nuclear Security postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford Unive…
Miriam Barnum is an assistant professor in the
Department of Political Science
and a faculty member in the
Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts
program.
Previously, Dr. Barnum was a Stanton Nuclear Security postdoctoral f…
Murat Kocaoglu
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Assistant Professor of Computer Science (courtesy); Assistant Professor of Statistics (courtesy) · College of Science; College of Engineering
⭐ If you are interested in joining my lab, send me an email with your research interests.
Causal inference, causal discovery, causal machine learning
Muriel "Mickey" Harris
Professor //English | Writing Lab Director //English · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Specialization
Rhetoric & Composition
Research Areas:
Writing Center center theory, practice, and administration
She joined the Purdue faculty in 1976 as an assistant professor. Collaborating with several graduate students, she started the Purdue Writing Lab and began theorizing writing center schol…
Specialization
Rhetoric & Composition
Research Areas:
Writing Center center theory, practice, and administration
She joined the Purdue faculty in 1976 as an assistant professor. Collaborating with several graduate studen…
Patrice Buzzanell
Professor //Communication · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Purdue University
M.A., Ohio University
B.S., Towson University,
Summa Cum Laude
Dr. Patrice M. Buzzanell (PhD., Purdue University) is a Distinguished Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Universi…
Ph.D., Purdue University
M.A., Ohio University
B.S., Towson University,
Summa Cum Laude
Dr. Patrice M. Buzzanell (PhD., Purdue University) is a Distinguished Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and holds …
Patricia Sullivan
Professor //English · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986
Biography
Since arriving at Purdue in 1985, Patricia Sullivan has directed Technical Writing and currently directs the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition. Curriculum-wise, she has been instrumental in starting the B.A. in Professional Writing and sec…
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986
Biography
Since arriving at Purdue in 1985, Patricia Sullivan has directed Technical Writing and currently directs the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition. Curriculum-wise…
Rahim Rahimi
Associate Professor of Materials Engineering · Purdue University College of Engineering
⭐ Postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students who are interested in performing cutting-edge research in such areas of interest are highly encouraged to contact Dr. Rahimi about research opportunities in his lab.
Flexible and stretchable electronics and sensors
Wearable and implantable healthcare devices
Biomaterials and drug delivery systems
Lab-on-a-chip platforms for tissue engineering and rapid diagnostics
Printed electronics…
Robbee Wedow
Assistant Professor // Sociology | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Specializations: Population health, computational genomics, statistical genetics
Robbee Wedow is an assistant professor of sociology and data science at Purdue University. His main research interests are in statistical & computational genetics, behavioral genetics, and gene-environment interactions.…
Specializations: Population health, computational genomics, statistical genetics
Robbee Wedow is an assistant professor of sociology and data science at Purdue University. His main research interests are in statistical &…
Robert Marzec
Professor; Editor of Modern Fiction Studies //English | Professor // Philosophy and Literature // SIS | Professor //SIS | Professor //Comparative Literature//SLC · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Binghamton University, 2000
Biography
Robert Marzec is a professor of environmental and postcolonial studies. He received his PhD in English from Binghamton University in 2000 and joined the English Department at Purdue in 2007. He has affiliations with the Center for the Environment, the Ins…
Ph.D., Binghamton University, 2000
Biography
Robert Marzec is a professor of environmental and postcolonial studies. He received his PhD in English from Binghamton University in 2000 and joined the English Department at …
Robert Perrucci
Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Sociology, Purdue University (1962)
Dr. Perrucci joined the faculty in 1962 and served as department head from 1978-87. He was research director for three years of the NSF sponsored study of the engineering profession conducted by the American Society for Engineering Education, and was Simon …
Ph.D., Sociology, Purdue University (1962)
Dr. Perrucci joined the faculty in 1962 and served as department head from 1978-87. He was research director for three years of the NSF sponsored study of the engineering profes…
Robin Stryker
Distinguished Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Stryker received her BA summa cum laude, with highest honors in Sociology, from Smith College, and her MS and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her legal training at Yale Law School and the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University.
Specialization
Stryker's spe…
Stryker received her BA summa cum laude, with highest honors in Sociology, from Smith College, and her MS and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her legal training at Yale Law School …
Ryan Schneider
Associate Professor //English | Associate Professor //SIS · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Duke University, 1998
Biography
Ryan Schneider holds an A.B.
magna cum laude
, in History and Literature from Harvard University as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Duke. He specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American and African American literature with partic…
Ph.D., Duke University, 1998
Biography
Ryan Schneider holds an A.B.
magna cum laude
, in History and Literature from Harvard University as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Duke. He specializes in nineteenth- …
Scott Feld
Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (1976)
Specialization
social networks; individual and collective decision-making; evaluation research
Dr. Feld served as Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1975-1991. He then served as Professor of Sociolog…
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (1976)
Specialization
social networks; individual and collective decision-making; evaluation research
Dr. Feld served as Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology at the State University of…
Shiro Furuya
Assistant Professor // Sociology · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Shiro Furuya is a sociologist and social demographer with substantial interests in health, aging and the life course, and the family. Shiro’s work has attempted to uncover causal and selective processes that generate inequalities in health and well-being, in addition to describing these inequalities…
Shiro Furuya is a sociologist and social demographer with substantial interests in health, aging and the life course, and the family. Shiro’s work has attempted to uncover causal and selective processes that generate ine…
Smriti Bhatt
Assistant Professor · Purdue University
⭐ Looking for motivated and talented students who want to pursue high-quality research in the areas that align with my research interests!!!
Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems Security, Security and Privacy in Cloud-Enabled Internet of Things, Access Control and Communication Control, Models and Architectures, Edge Computing, Cybersecurity Education
Spencer Stewart
Assistant Professor //History · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Education
PhD (History), University of Chicago
Professional Experience
D. Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Utah
Publications
Stewart, Spencer and Eliza McKinney. "Who Tells Your Story? Analyzing a Century of Utah His…
Education
PhD (History), University of Chicago
Professional Experience
D. Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Utah
Publications
Stewart, Sp…
Sudip Vhaduri
Assistant Professor & Director, mAI Lab · Purdue University
⭐ Dr. Vhaduri always looks for highly self-motivated PhD students. If you are interested in his research area, please email him your CV, transcripts, and detailed TOEFL/IELTS and GRE scores. Email: svhaduri@purdue.edu, Subject line: Research Interest at mAI Lab.
Biometric Authentication, Information Integration and Informatics, Machine Learning, Mobile Wearable Computing and IoT, Healthcare Informatics
Sue Lim
Assistant Professor //Communication · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Sue Lim
is a social scientist with a strong interest in how artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), and other emerging technologies shape human judgment, decision-making, and behavior across contexts. Her current work focuses on three broad streams of research: 1) examining interpersona…
Sue Lim
is a social scientist with a strong interest in how artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), and other emerging technologies shape human judgment, decision-making, and behavior across contexts. Her cu…
T. Cole Jones
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Jones welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in the era of the American Revolution.
Early America, American Revolution
Tamal Krishna Dey
Professor · Purdue University
⭐ I am looking for motivated PhD students to work in Computational Topology, Topological Data Analysis. If you are interested, drop a note at my Purdue email
Computational Topology, Topological Data Analysis, Computational Geometry, Geometric Modeling, Graphics, Machine Learning
Tatiana Ringenberg
Assistant Professor · Purdue University
⭐ I am also currently seeking PhD students for Spring or Fall 2026. I am particularly interested in students with experience in Human Computer Interaction and/or Human-Centered Security. If you are interested in working with me, please email a copy of your CV to tringenb@purdue.edu and provide an expl…
Social cybersecurity, human interactions, social influence, adaptive behaviors in cybercrime ecosystem, online child safety, online fraud, vigilante justice, cybersecurity education, persuasion and manipulation in cyberc…
Tianyi Li
Assistant Professor · Purdue University
⭐ I am always looking to work with enthusiastic students! I am currently looking for students excited about doing work at the intersection of HCI, computing education, and intelligent user interfaces. Undergraduate and graduate students who would like to join my group should feel free to e-mail me at …
Sensemaking
Human-AI Collaboration
Crowdsourcing
Tony Silva
Professor //English | Professor //Linguistics//SIS | Professor //SIS · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D. Purdue University 1990
M.A. University of Illinois 1981
B.A. Kutztown State University 1977
A.A. Northampton Community College 1975
Specialization
Second Language Writing
Tony Silva directed the Graduate Program in Second Language Studies in the English Department at Purd…
Ph.D. Purdue University 1990
M.A. University of Illinois 1981
B.A. Kutztown State University 1977
A.A. Northampton Community College 1975
Specialization
Second Language Writing
Tony Silva directed t…
Torsten Reimer
Professor and Director of College of Liberal Arts Research Academy //Communication | Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Psychological Sciences · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Ph.D., Free University of Berlin (Germany)
M.A., Free University of Berlin (Germany)
B.A., University of Tuebingen (Germany)
Research Statement
Professor Reimer directs the
Communication and Cognition Lab
. Current projects of the lab focus on the role of AI in decision making, the adoption of new t…
Ph.D., Free University of Berlin (Germany)
M.A., Free University of Berlin (Germany)
B.A., University of Tuebingen (Germany)
Research Statement
Professor Reimer directs the
Communication and Cognition Lab
. Current proje…
Tyler Girard
Assistant Professor //Political Science | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Tyler Girard is an assistant professor in the
Department of Political Science
, core faculty of the
Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL)
, and faculty member in the
Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts
program.
Girard received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Western Ontario i…
Tyler Girard is an assistant professor in the
Department of Political Science
, core faculty of the
Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL)
, and faculty member in the
Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts
program.
Girar…
William G. Gray
Professor //History · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Professor Gray is accepting graduate students with an interest in Germany and the world.
HIST 104 Introduction to the Modern World
HIST 278 Money, Trade, & Power: The History of Capitalism
HIST 300 Eve of Destruction: Global Crises & World Organization in the 20th Century
HIST 323 German History
HIST 337 Eur…
Xiao Wang
Head and J.O. Berger and M.E. Bock Professor of Statistics · College of Science
⭐ I am looking for well-motivated Ph.D. students for machine learning related research. RA positions are available.
AI, Machine Learning, Nonparametric Statistics, Functional Data Analysis, Reliability
Xiaoping Bao
William K. Luckow Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering · College of Engineering
⭐ Open Positions: Prospective students and postdoctoral candidates with a background in bioengineering, cell and molecular biology, animal models, or other related area are encouraged to apply. Undergraduate students, exchange students or scholars are also welcome to join the lab. If you are intereste…
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), represent a potentially inexhaustible supply of human cells for regenerative medicine, due to…
Yvonne M. Pitts
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Dr. Pitts is currently accepting graduate students in the fields of American legal/constitutional history, 19th & 20th century vice/criminal regulation, and history of sexuality.
American Legal and Constitutional History, Citizenship, Sexual Regulation
Zachary Loeb
Assistant Professor //History | Assistant Professor //Cornerstone · College of Liberal Arts
⭐ Dr. Loeb is accepting graduate students in the History of Technology, History of Computing, and History of Disasters.
Zachary Loeb is interested in the end of the world. More specifically, he is interested in the idea that humanity’s romance with technology has the species (and the planet) on a course that may lead to catastrophe. He is…
Zhan Pang
Purdue University Faculty Scholar · Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
⭐ I am looking for highly motivated and self-driven PhD students with strong mathematics and statistics background and research interests in Statistical Decision Intelligence.
Statistical learning and decision theory, healthcare delivery systems, supply chain risk management, and pricing and revenue management.
Aaron Thompson
Associate Professor of HLA
⭐ As a landscape planner Dr. Aaron Thompson's teaching and research focus on using applied social-ecological science to achieve better decision making at the interface of land use planning and natural resource management. Prior to joining Purdue's Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architectur…
As a landscape planner Dr. Aaron Thompson's teaching and research focus on using applied social-ecological science to achieve better decision making at the interface of land use planning and natural resource management. …
Alla Golub
Research Economist in Climate Policy
⭐ Alla Golub joined the department as a Research Economist in Climate Policy working in the Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP). Alla graduated from Purdue in 2006 with Ph.D. in agricultural economics.
Alla Golub joined the department as a Research Economist in Climate Policy working in the Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP). Alla graduated from Purdue in 2006 with Ph.D. in agricultural economics.
Allan Gray
Land O'Lakes Chair/Prof of Ag Econ
⭐ <p>Allan is the executive director of the Digital Innovation in Agri-food Systems LAB (DIAL Ventures) in PARI. Allan founded DIAL Ventures in 2021 and provides strategic direction for the DIAL team and its network of industry partners. Allan works with DIAL’s professional team and Innovati…
<p>Allan is the executive director of the Digital Innovation in Agri-food Systems LAB (DIAL Ventures) in PARI. Allan founded DIAL Ventures in 2021 and provides strategic direction for the DIAL team and its network o…
Andy Oppy
Associate Director
⭐ <p>Andy Oppy serves as Associate Director of Academic Advisor and Career Services for undergraduate students in the Department of Agricultural Economics. In this position he advises undergraduates in academic, career, and personal planning. Andy works one on one with industry recruiters to connect t…
<p>Andy Oppy serves as Associate Director of Academic Advisor and Career Services for undergraduate students in the Department of Agricultural Economics. In this position he advises undergraduates in academic, career, an…
Angela M Hancock
Asst Professor Botany & Plant Pathology
⭐ <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our group is broadly interested in understanding how complex traits evolve. We integrate computational approaches with lab-based experimental work to identify the loci involved in quantitative trait variation and to reconstruct the evolutionary histori…
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our group is broadly interested in understanding how complex traits evolve. We integrate computational approaches with lab-based experimental work to identify the loci involved in&nb…
Ann Kirchmaier
Associate Professor Biochemistry
⭐ <h3><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q_XItFYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><p><br></p><h4>Area of Expertise: Epigenetic processes that mediate heritable modifications to chromatin</h4><p><br></p><p>The research in my lab f…
<h3><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q_XItFYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><p><br></p><h4>Area of Expertise: Epigenetic processes that mediate…
Barbara Golden
Professor of Biochemistry
⭐ <h3><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JQClHosAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><p><br></p><h4>Area of Expertise: Structural Basis for RNA function</h4><p><br></p><p><em>RNA is not a passive messenger</em></p><p>In the post gen…
<h3><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JQClHosAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><p><br></p><h4>Area of Expertise: Structural Basis for RNA function…
Bernhard Dalheimer
Assistant Professor, Macroeconomics and Trade
⭐ <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bernhard Dalheimer joined the Department of Agricultural Economics of Purdue University in August 2023. Before joining Purdue, Dr. Dalheimer was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Minnesota, an interim Professor at the University of Kiel and a Postdoc at the…
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bernhard Dalheimer joined the Department of Agricultural Economics of Purdue University in August 2023. Before joining Purdue, Dr. Dalheimer was a Visiting Fellow at the University o…
Bill Johnson
Professor of Botany & Plant Pathology/Wallace Named Chair
⭐ <b>Rationale</b><br><br>The estimated average monetary loss caused by weeds in field crops grown in the U.S. is over 4 billion dollars each year. Weed management expenses are one of the largest variable costs incurred by growers annually. Weeds growing on cropland are like crop plants themselves, dr…
<b>Rationale</b><br><br>The estimated average monetary loss caused by weeds in field crops grown in the U.S. is over 4 billion dollars each year. Weed management expenses are one of the largest variable costs incurred by…
Brady Hardiman
Associate Prof For & Nat Res & Envir Ecol Eng
⭐ <p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/hardiman/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dr. Brady Hardiman's website</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Brady Hardiman received a B.S. in Biology from Ashland University in 2003. After graduating, he spent two years as a research techn…
<p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/hardiman/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dr. Brady Hardiman's website</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Brady Hardiman received a B.S. in Biology from Ashl…
Bryan Pijanowski
Professor Forestry & Natural Resources
⭐ <p><strong>Soundscape Ecology and the Biodiversity Crisis</strong></p><p>The current biodiversity crisis is our “silent” grand challenge that needs creative solutions. As we entered the 21st century, our alteration of the planet resulted in the loss of plants, animals and microbes at unpreceden…
<p><strong>Soundscape Ecology and the Biodiversity Crisis</strong></p><p>The current biodiversity crisis is our “silent” grand challenge that needs creative solutions. As we entered the 21st century, our alteration …
Cale Bigelow
Professor of Horticulture
⭐ <p>Dr. Bigelow specializes in Turf Science and Ecology. He is heavily involved in undergraduate instruction, mentoring and recruitment. His applied research program focuses on urban sustainability issues with an emphasis on species/cultivar selection, and optimizing cultural management inputs like n…
<p>Dr. Bigelow specializes in Turf Science and Ecology. He is heavily involved in undergraduate instruction, mentoring and recruitment. His applied research program focuses on urban sustainability issues with an emphasis…
Cindy Nakatsu
Professor of Agronomy
⭐ <p>RESEARCH INTERESTS (appointment 80% research):</p><p><br></p><p>I am a microbial ecologist who uses basic microbiological and cutting edge molecular genetic methods to gain a better understanding of the adaptation of environmental microorganisms to perturbed ecosystems. Microbial analyses range f…
<p>RESEARCH INTERESTS (appointment 80% research):</p><p><br></p><p>I am a microbial ecologist who uses basic microbiological and cutting edge molecular genetic methods to gain a better understanding of the adaptation of …
Clement Bataille
Belcher Chair/Professor of FNR
⭐ <p>Dr. Clément Bataille brings a global perspective and interdisciplinary expertise to Purdue’s Forestry and Natural Resources department as the newly appointed Chair in Isotope Geoscience. With a background that bridges environmental engineering and geology, Dr. Bataille earned his MSc from the Ins…
<p>Dr. Clément Bataille brings a global perspective and interdisciplinary expertise to Purdue’s Forestry and Natural Resources department as the newly appointed Chair in Isotope Geoscience. With a background that bridges…
Clint Chapple
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
⭐ <h4><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JVaiqakAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h4><h4><br></h4><h4>Area of Expertise: Biochemistry and molecular biology of plant secondary metabolism</h4><p><br></p><p><strong>The role of the Medi…
<h4><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JVaiqakAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h4><h4><br></h4><h4>Area of Expertise: Biochemistry and molecular biol…
Da Chen
Assistant Professor
⭐ <p class="ql-align-justify">Dr. Da Chen joined food science department in Aug 2023 from the University of Idaho, where he was an Assistant Professor. Prior being a faculty, Da has worked in Department of Food Science and Technology in the Ohio State University and Department of Food Science in Purdu…
<p class="ql-align-justify">Dr. Da Chen joined food science department in Aug 2023 from the University of Idaho, where he was an Assistant Professor. Prior being a faculty, Da has worked in Department of Food Science and…
Daniel Quinn
Assistant Professor - Corn Production
⭐ <p><strong>Area of Expertise:</strong> Corn Production Systems</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Biography: </strong></p><p>Dr. Dan Quinn is the Extension Corn Specialist at Purdue University. Dr. Quinn earned his B.S. and M.S. in Crop and Soil Science at Michigan State University. While in Michiga…
<p><strong>Area of Expertise:</strong> Corn Production Systems</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Biography: </strong></p><p>Dr. Dan Quinn is the Extension Corn Specialist at Purdue University. Dr. Quinn earned his B.S. …
Daniel Szymanski
Professor of Botany & Agronomy
⭐ <p>Dan Szymanski’s lab is trying to understand how protein complexes can function across wide spatial scales to control plant morphology. His research combines forward genetics, biochemistry, and quantitative live cell imaging. Recently, in collaborations with materials scientists and computational …
<p>Dan Szymanski’s lab is trying to understand how protein complexes can function across wide spatial scales to control plant morphology. His research combines forward genetics, biochemistry, and quantitative live cell i…
Dylan Wainwright
Assistant Professor Biological Sciences/FNR
⭐ <p>I am interested in questions that tie together the form, function, and diversity of organisms - especially in fishes and sharks. To ask these kinds of questions, I work in the fields of functional morphology, biomechanics, and comparative evolutionary biology to use methods like three-dimensional…
<p>I am interested in questions that tie together the form, function, and diversity of organisms - especially in fishes and sharks. To ask these kinds of questions, I work in the fields of functional morphology, biomecha…
Elizabeth Tran
Professor of Biochemistry
⭐ <h3><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2qVV6uQAAAAJ&hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><p><br></p><h3>Tran Lab</h3><p><br></p><p>Elizabeth Tran earned her PhD in biochemistry at North Carolina State University where she developed an in vitro as…
<h3><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2qVV6uQAAAAJ&hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><p><br></p><h3>Tran Lab</h3><p><br></p><p>Elizabeth Tran earned her PhD in bi…
Ellen Van Loo
Associate Professor
⭐ <p>Dr. Van Loo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics. Prior, she was an Associate Professor at the Marketing and Consumer Behavior group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands (2019-2025) and a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Agricultural Economics at …
<p>Dr. Van Loo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics. Prior, she was an Associate Professor at the Marketing and Consumer Behavior group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands (2019-202…
Erin Percevault
Assistant Professor of Practice
⭐ <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Erin Percevault joins Purdue University as Assistant Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture and teaches in the LAAB-accredited professional landscape architecture program. Before moving to the Midwest, she was based in New York City. She earned her p…
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Erin Percevault joins Purdue University as Assistant Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture and teaches in the LAAB-accredited professional landscape architecture program…
Eva Haviarova
Professor Forestry & Natrl Res
⭐ <p>Eva Haviarova is presently Professor of Wood Products Engineering and Furniture Strength Design in Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University. She is responsible for teaching “Furniture and Cabinet Design and Manufacturing”, "Identification and basic Properties of Wood", “ Wo…
<p>Eva Haviarova is presently Professor of Wood Products Engineering and Furniture Strength Design in Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University. She is responsible for teaching “Furniture and Cabine…
Gurmukh Johal
Professor of Botany & Plant Pathology
⭐ The major focus of the Johal lab is to investigate how crop plants cope with stresses imposed by an ever-changing environment. This is pursued in the context of a couple of bona fide diseases of maize, as well as by taking advantage of spontaneous mutants that form disease-like symptoms in the absen…
The major focus of the Johal lab is to investigate how crop plants cope with stresses imposed by an ever-changing environment. This is pursued in the context of a couple of bona fide diseases of maize, as well as by taki…
Guy Tchuente
Assistant Professor, Quantitative Methods in Spatial Analysis
⭐ <p>Guy Tchuente is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods in Spatial Analysis in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (since 2023). His research sits at the intersection of econometrics (causal inference) and applied microeconomics (human capital), with a focus on de…
<p>Guy Tchuente is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods in Spatial Analysis in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (since 2023). His research sits at the intersection of econometrics (…
Henry Quesada
Assistant Director of Extension / ANR Program Leader
⭐ <p>Henry Quesada earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Production Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC). He began his professional career working in the commercial printing industry before pursuing graduate studies at Purdue University, where he completed both his M.S. a…
<p>Henry Quesada earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Production Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC). He began his professional career working in the commercial printing industry before pu…
Ignacio Ciampitti
Professor of Agronomy
⭐ <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ignacio Ciampitti, a quantitative agronomist with a focus on the integration of digital agriculture in the context of complex farming systems, is the co-director of the </span><a href="https://ag.purdue.edu/idaas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" …
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ignacio Ciampitti, a quantitative agronomist with a focus on the integration of digital agriculture in the context of complex farming systems, is the co-director of the </span><…
J. Andrew DeWoody
Professor Forestry & Natural Resources
⭐ <p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/dewoody/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Andrew DeWoody's website</a></p><p>J. Andrew DeWoody did his undergraduate studies in Wildlife and Fisheries at Texas A&M University. After a brief stint as a field biologist with the now-de…
<p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/dewoody/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Andrew DeWoody's website</a></p><p>J. Andrew DeWoody did his undergraduate studies in Wildlife and Fisheries at Texas A…
Jacob Ricker-Gilbert
Professor of Ag Economics
⭐ <p class="ql-align-justify">Jacob Ricker-Gilbert joined the faculty at Purdue in 2011, after completing his PhD at Michigan State University. Since then, he has built a research program around the theme of increasing agricultural intensification and productivity for small-scale farmers in the d…
<p class="ql-align-justify">Jacob Ricker-Gilbert joined the faculty at Purdue in 2011, after completing his PhD at Michigan State University. Since then, he has built a research program around the theme of increasin…
Jacquelyn Boerman
Associate Professor of Animal Sciences
⭐ <p>Jackie Boerman grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York and spent the early part of her career working as a dairy specialist in the Midwest, experiences that now inform her work as a professor of animal sciences. Her research focuses on determining how nutrition and management affect the healt…
<p>Jackie Boerman grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York and spent the early part of her career working as a dairy specialist in the Midwest, experiences that now inform her work as a professor of animal sciences. H…
James Markworth
Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences
⭐ <p><b>Area of Expertise:</b> Muscle Biology, Immunology, Molecular Nutrition</p><p><b>Education:</b> Honors B.S., Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; Ph.D., Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.</p><p><b>Post-doctoral Training:</b> University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; University of…
<p><b>Area of Expertise:</b> Muscle Biology, Immunology, Molecular Nutrition</p><p><b>Education:</b> Honors B.S., Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; Ph.D., Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.</p><p><b>Post-doc…
Jay Akridge
Professor of Agricultural Economics
⭐ <p>Jay Akridge is the Trustee Chair in Teaching and Learning Excellence and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He teaches classes on leadership and agribusiness management and conducts research on agribusiness issues including technology adoption and human talent needs.&n…
<p>Jay Akridge is the Trustee Chair in Teaching and Learning Excellence and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He teaches classes on leadership and agribusiness management and conducts researc…
Jeffrey Volenec
Professor of Agronomy
⭐ <p><strong>Area of Expertise: Crop Ecophysiology</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Professional Positions Held</strong></p><p>2023-2024 Interim Head, Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN</p><p>1992-pres. Professor, Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, I…
<p><strong>Area of Expertise: Crop Ecophysiology</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Professional Positions Held</strong></p><p>2023-2024 Interim Head, Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN</p><p…
Jessica Gurevitch
Distinguished Professor of Forestry & Natural Resources
⭐ <p><a href="https://ag.purdue.edu/department/fnr/faculty-sites/gurevitch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Jessica Gurevitch's website</a></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jessica Gurevitch, Distinguished Professor and Dean's Research Fellow, comes to Purdue from </span><span s…
<p><a href="https://ag.purdue.edu/department/fnr/faculty-sites/gurevitch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Jessica Gurevitch's website</a></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jessica Gurevitch, Disting…
Jinsu Hong
Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences
⭐ <p>Dr. Jinsu Hong is an Assistant Professor of Non-Ruminant Nutrition and Nutrient Management in the Department of Animal Sciences at Purdue University.</p><p>Dr. Hong earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Agricultural Biotechnology (Monogastric Nutrition and Biochemistry, Animal Science) from Seoul…
<p>Dr. Jinsu Hong is an Assistant Professor of Non-Ruminant Nutrition and Nutrient Management in the Department of Animal Sciences at Purdue University.</p><p>Dr. Hong earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Agricultural B…
Joseph Ogas
Department Head & Professor of Biochemistry
⭐ <h3><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uGhsJvsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><h4><br></h4><h4>Area of Expertise: Regulation of cell identity, signal transduction, chromatin remodeling</h4><p><br></p><p>The identity of plant…
<h3><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uGhsJvsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></h3><h4><br></h4><h4>Area of Expertise: Regulation of cell identity, s…
Kee Hong Kim
Professor of Food Science
⭐ <h2><strong>Education</strong></h2><p>Post-doctoral Fellowship –University of California, Berkeley, CA</p><p>Ph.D.–Rutgers University, NJ, 1999</p><p>M.S.–Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea</p><p>B.S.-Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea</p><p><br></p><h2><strong>Affiliations</strong></h2><p…
<h2><strong>Education</strong></h2><p>Post-doctoral Fellowship –University of California, Berkeley, CA</p><p>Ph.D.–Rutgers University, NJ, 1999</p><p>M.S.–Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea</p><p>B.S.-Seoul National…
Kenneth Foster
Professor of Ag Economics
⭐ <div>Professor Foster's research interests are in the fields of production economics and marketing with special emphasis on the structure and performance of agricultural production and marketing systems. His work has included a dynamic analysis of investment and supply in the U.S. beef cattle in…
<div>Professor Foster's research interests are in the fields of production economics and marketing with special emphasis on the structure and performance of agricultural production and marketing systems. His work has…
Kwamena Quagrainie
Clin Engage Professor Ag Econ/Fors & NR
⭐ <p>Dr. Quagrainie holds a joint appointment in Agricultural Economics Dept (70%) and Forestry and Natural Resources Dept (30%). He is also affiliated with the <a href="https://iiseagrant.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant</a> program as Aquaculture Economist &…
<p>Dr. Quagrainie holds a joint appointment in Agricultural Economics Dept (70%) and Forestry and Natural Resources Dept (30%). He is also affiliated with the <a href="https://iiseagrant.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" t…
Laramy Enders
Associate Professor of Entomology
⭐ <p><strong style="background-color: white;">Background:</strong></p><p>BS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - University of Rochester, NY</p><p>PhD Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology - University of California, Riverside</p><p>USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow - …
<p><strong style="background-color: white;">Background:</strong></p><p>BS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - University of Rochester, NY</p><p>PhD Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology - …
Lavanya Reddivari
Associate Professor of Food Science
⭐ <p><br></p><p>Dr. Lavanya Reddivari joined the Purdue Food Science faculty in 2018. Her research focuses on plant food bioactive components and gut bacterial metabolism in health and low-grade inflammation-driven chronic diseases. The goal is to develop food-based strategies to counter diseases such…
<p><br></p><p>Dr. Lavanya Reddivari joined the Purdue Food Science faculty in 2018. Her research focuses on plant food bioactive components and gut bacterial metabolism in health and low-grade inflammation-driven chronic…
Lee Schweitzer
Professor of Agronomy
⭐ <p><strong>Area of Expertise</strong>: Crops Teaching</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Education:</u></strong></p><p>B.S. Agronomy, Purdue University. 1974.</p><p>M.S. Agronomy, Crop Physiology. University of Illinois. 1978.</p><p>Ph.D. Agronomy, Crop Physiology. University of Illinois. 1980.</p><p…
<p><strong>Area of Expertise</strong>: Crops Teaching</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Education:</u></strong></p><p>B.S. Agronomy, Purdue University. 1974.</p><p>M.S. Agronomy, Crop Physiology. University of Illinois. …
Linda Lee
Professor of Agronomy & EEE/Assistant Dean of Agricultural Research and Graduate Education
⭐ <p class="ql-align-justify">Linda Lee is a Distinguished Professor at Purdue University with a joint appointment in the Department of Agronomy in the College of Agriculture (COA) and Environmental & Ecological Engineering in the College of Engineering. With degrees in Chemistry, Environmental En…
<p class="ql-align-justify">Linda Lee is a Distinguished Professor at Purdue University with a joint appointment in the Department of Agronomy in the College of Agriculture (COA) and Environmental & Ecological Engine…
Linda Pfeiffer
Associate Professor of ASEC
⭐ <p><strong>Faculty Profile</strong></p><p>My research interests center around communicating complex science to the public both through the media and using upstream, participatory engagement practices. Specifically, my interests include examining the systemic factors that influence the breakdown of c…
<p><strong>Faculty Profile</strong></p><p>My research interests center around communicating complex science to the public both through the media and using upstream, participatory engagement practices. Specifically, my in…
Lori Hoagland
Professor of Horticulture
⭐ <h3>Area of Expertise: Agroecology, soil health, organic nutrient management, biological control of pathogens, preventing metals contamination in edible crop plants</h3><p><br></p><h4><strong>Education:</strong></h4><ul><li>PhD, Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry, Washington State University</li><li…
<h3>Area of Expertise: Agroecology, soil health, organic nutrient management, biological control of pathogens, preventing metals contamination in edible crop plants</h3><p><br></p><h4><strong>Education:</strong></h4><ul>…
Luiz F. Brito
Associate Professor of Animal Sciences
⭐ <p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Education:</strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"> Honors B.Sc. in Animal Sciences (2010), M.Sc. in Genetics and Animal Breeding (2012), Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil; Ph.D. in Quanti…
<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Education:</strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"> Honors B.Sc. in Animal Sciences (2010), M.Sc. in Genetics and An…
Maria Sepulveda
Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources
⭐ <p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/sepulveda/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">Dr. Marisol Sepúlveda's Lab</a></p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Maria S. (Marisol) Sepúlveda is Professor of Ecotoxicology and Aquatic Animal Health. She earned a Doctorate in …
<p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/sepulveda/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">Dr. Marisol Sepúlveda's Lab</a></p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Maria S. (Marisol) Sepúlveda is Profe…
Melissa Widhalm
Regional Climatologist, Associate Director
⭐ <p>Melissa Widhalm is the Associate Director and Regional Climatologist at the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), located on the main campus of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). For over 15 years, she has worked to improve the usability of climate information for various sectors i…
<p>Melissa Widhalm is the Associate Director and Regional Climatologist at the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), located on the main campus of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). For over 15 years, she …
Michael Jenkins
Professor of FNR
⭐ <p><span style="color: rgb(76, 76, 76);">Mike Jenkins is an Professor of Forest Ecology in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) at Purdue University. Mike received a B.S. in Botany from Eastern Illinois University in 1989, a M.S. in Forestry from University of Missouri-Columbi…
<p><span style="color: rgb(76, 76, 76);">Mike Jenkins is an Professor of Forest Ecology in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) at Purdue University. Mike received a B.S. in Botany from Eastern Ill…
Michael Langemeier
Professor of Ag Economics
⭐ <p>Michael Langemeier joined Purdue University in July 2012. Michael’s Extension and research interests include cropping systems, benchmarking, strategic management, cost of production, and technical and economic efficiency. Most of Michael’s research has focused on the efficiency of farms and ranch…
<p>Michael Langemeier joined Purdue University in July 2012. Michael’s Extension and research interests include cropping systems, benchmarking, strategic management, cost of production, and technical and economic efficie…
Mike Saunders
Professor of Forestry & Nat Res
⭐ <p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Saunders4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>More on Dr. Mike Saunders</strong></a></p><p>Mike R. Saunders is a Professor of Silviculture in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) at Purdue University. Mike…
<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Saunders4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>More on Dr. Mike Saunders</strong></a></p><p>Mike R. Saunders is a Professor of Silviculture in the De…
Neil Knobloch
Professor Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication
⭐ <p><strong>Faculty Profile</strong></p><p>Dr. Neil Knobloch is a Professor of Ag+STEM Education and Co-Director of the Mentoring@Purdue Program. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Agricultural Education. Dr. Knobloch provides leadership to enhance K-12, undergraduate, and graduate educat…
<p><strong>Faculty Profile</strong></p><p>Dr. Neil Knobloch is a Professor of Ag+STEM Education and Co-Director of the Mentoring@Purdue Program. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Agricultural Education. Dr. …
Paul Ebner
Head and Professor of Animal Sciences
⭐ <h4>Area of Expertise: Microbiology</h4><p>Education: B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Tennessee</p><p>Post-doctoral Training: NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, LSU Health Sciences Center</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4TiXRXhpZg…
<h4>Area of Expertise: Microbiology</h4><p>Education: B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Tennessee</p><p>Post-doctoral Training: NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, LSU Health Sciences Center</p><p><br>…
Ronald Lemenager
Professor of Animal Sciences
⭐ <p>Area of Expertise: Ruminant Nutrition and Management, Beef</p><p>Education: B.S., University of Illinois; M.S. and Ph.D., Oklahoma State University</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Research Program</strong></p><p>Beef cow-calf nutrition and management</p><p>-- Energy and protein requirements of gestating…
<p>Area of Expertise: Ruminant Nutrition and Management, Beef</p><p>Education: B.S., University of Illinois; M.S. and Ph.D., Oklahoma State University</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Research Program</strong></p><p>Beef cow-cal…
Sarah LaRose
Associate Professor of ASEC/C & I
⭐ <p><strong>Faculty Profile</strong></p><p>Dr. LaRose is an agricultural teacher educator in the Purdue ASEC Department where she holds a joint appointment between the College of Agriculture and College of Education. As a member of a military family, LaRose grew up moving to various domestic and inte…
<p><strong>Faculty Profile</strong></p><p>Dr. LaRose is an agricultural teacher educator in the Purdue ASEC Department where she holds a joint appointment between the College of Agriculture and College of Education. As a…
Shaun Casteel
Professor of Agronomy
⭐ <p><span style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Dr. Shaun Casteel was born and raised on the family farm in east-central Illinois. Shauns family and farm life ingrained the values of integrity, work ethic, cooperation, and morality that are ever-present in his daily life. Casteel earned his B.S. in Crop Sc…
<p><span style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Dr. Shaun Casteel was born and raised on the family farm in east-central Illinois. Shauns family and farm life ingrained the values of integrity, work ethic, cooperation, and mora…
Songlin Fei
Professor/ iDiF Director
⭐ <p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/nrsa-lab/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Songlin Fei - Natural Resources Spatial Analysis Lab</a></p><p><br></p><p>Songlin Fei, Chair of Remote Sensing and Director of the Institute for Digital Forestry, is a quantitative ecologist specializing …
<p><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/nrsa-lab/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Songlin Fei - Natural Resources Spatial Analysis Lab</a></p><p><br></p><p>Songlin Fei, Chair of Remote Sensing and Director …
Stephen Lindemann
Associate Professor Food Science
⭐ Dr. Lindemann's research targets ways that diet influences the gut microbiome and the effects of those shifts in that gut colony of microorganisms have on health, such as inflammation and gut colonization by pathogens. The goal is to discover dietary solutions to health problems such as Crohn…
Dr. Lindemann's research targets ways that diet influences the gut microbiome and the effects of those shifts in that gut colony of microorganisms have on health, such as inflammation and gut colonization by pathogen…
Taryn Nance
Associate Director of Sales and Marketing
⭐ <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Taryn Nance serves as the program manager for the MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management. In this role, Taryn is responsible for the development, implementation and promotion of the MS-MBA dual degree program. She is also responsible for schedulin…
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Taryn Nance serves as the program manager for the MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management. In this role, Taryn is responsible for the development, implementation and pr…
Thaisa Cantu Jungles
Research Asst Professor Food Science
⭐ <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; background: white;">Thaisa Cantu-Jungles received her B.S. in Nutrition from the Po…
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; background: white;…
Todd Kuethe
Professor/Schrader Chair in Farmland Economics
⭐ <p>Dr. Todd Kuethe joined the Purdue faculty in 2019 as the Schrader Endowed Chair in Farmland Economics. The Schrader Endowed Chair in the agricultural economics department was created to promote applied research into farmland markets, values, returns, and use. Funding for the endowment was provide…
<p>Dr. Todd Kuethe joined the Purdue faculty in 2019 as the Schrader Endowed Chair in Farmland Economics. The Schrader Endowed Chair in the agricultural economics department was created to promote applied research into f…
Torbert Rocheford
Patterson Endowed Chair/Prof of Agronomy
⭐ <h3><strong>Patterson Endowed Chair for Translational Genomics in Crop Improvement</strong></h3><h6><strong>Area of Expertise</strong>: Maize Breeding, Genetics and Genomics</h6><p><br></p><p><strong>Research Program</strong></p><p>The process of using natural genetic variation to increase leve…
<h3><strong>Patterson Endowed Chair for Translational Genomics in Crop Improvement</strong></h3><h6><strong>Area of Expertise</strong>: Maize Breeding, Genetics and Genomics</h6><p><br></p><p><strong>Research Progra…
Trey Malone
Associate Professor Agricultural Economics and Boehlje Chair
⭐ <p>Trey Malone is an agri-food economist whose primary research interests are agribusiness entrepreneurship and public policy impacts on agri-food supply chains. He has published over 80 research articles in outlets including <em>Food Policy</em>, <em>Journal of Business Venturing Insights…
<p>Trey Malone is an agri-food economist whose primary research interests are agribusiness entrepreneurship and public policy impacts on agri-food supply chains. He has published over 80 research articles in outlets incl…
W. Scott Downey
Professor of Ag Economics
⭐ <p>Scott Downey is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business. He coordinates Purdue's certificate in industrial selling. He works in three areas: business-to-business purchasing decisions, sales practices that influence th…
<p>Scott Downey is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business. He coordinates Purdue's certificate in industrial selling. He works in three are…
Weicang Wang
Assistant Professor, Foods for Health - Foodomics
⭐ <p>Dr. Weicang Wang joined the Department of Food Science at Purdue in 2023. Weicang received his Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and postdoctoral training at the University of California-Davis. Applying lipidomics approaches and multiple cell/animal models, Weica…
<p>Dr. Weicang Wang joined the Department of Food Science at Purdue in 2023. Weicang received his Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and postdoctoral training at the University of Califor…
Xing Liu
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
⭐ <h4><strong>Research:</strong></h4><p>Research in the Liu Laboratory focuses on how cells control protein function and protein turnover through ubiquitination. Ubiquitination is a fundamental regulatory mechanism in eukaryotic cells: by attaching the small protein ubiquitin to other proteins, cells …
<h4><strong>Research:</strong></h4><p>Research in the Liu Laboratory focuses on how cells control protein function and protein turnover through ubiquitination. Ubiquitination is a fundamental regulatory mechanism in euka…
Ying Li
Associate Prof in Hort & Landscp Arch
⭐ <b>Research:</b><br><br>Our lab is interested in understanding how crops regulate primary and secondary metabolisms at transcriptional and epigenetic levels respond to environmental stimuli and developmental cues. We harness the power of omics to develop a comprehensive understanding of plant r…
<b>Research:</b><br><br>Our lab is interested in understanding how crops regulate primary and secondary metabolisms at transcriptional and epigenetic levels respond to environmental stimuli and developmental cues. W…
Zachary Brown
Assistant Director for Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives
⭐ <p><strong>Graduate Student Profile</strong></p><p>Zachary Brown, M.S., joined the College of Agriculture in 2018 and currently serves as the Assistant Director for Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives. In this role, Zac supports the advancement of Purdue Agriculture’s online education and Pu…
<p><strong>Graduate Student Profile</strong></p><p>Zachary Brown, M.S., joined the College of Agriculture in 2018 and currently serves as the Assistant Director for Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives. In this ro…
University of Georgia 20 hiring
Angela Yao
Professor · Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Yao is always happy to recruit promising graduate students interested in developing and/or applying geospatial analytical techniques to study urban and human dynamics, particularly those related to public health.
Geospatial data science: GIS, spatial statistics, machine learning, network analysis, Geovisaulization; Subject areas of focus: Urban Transportation, Public Health
Assaf Oshri
Samuel A. and Sharon Y. Nickols Endowed Professor/ Director: Georgia Center for Developmental Science · College of Family and Consumer Sciences
⭐ Assaf is accepting new applications for doctoral training in HDFS and Neuroscience.
I am part of the Georgia Center for Developmental Science. I am interested in children's and youth's well-being and resilience. In my research program, I focus on understanding youth development using multi-methods (obse…
Bram Tucker
Associate Professor
⭐ I am considering recruiting new PhDs student in 2026. Applicants' interest should overlap with mine in at least TWO of these four domains: THEORY (from human ecology, economic anthropology, behavioral ecology); PLACE (Madagascar, Africa); TOPICS (culture, risk, social change, choice, institutions;…
Economic anthropology
Ecological anthropology
Evolutionary anthropology
Household livelihoods
Hunting and gathering
Agriculture
Risk, time, and change
Social institutions and collective action
Perceived causality
Ancesto…
Catherine Walker O'Neal
Associate Professor · College of Family and Consumer Sciences
⭐ I am accepting students seeking to study military families in Fall 2026.
My passion is promoting family well-being through high-quality research. I am interested in the acute and chronic stressors families experience and how to enhance resilience when faced with stress, particularly for milit…
Daniel K. Capps
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ I am currently recruiting graduate students. Please contact me if you are interested in learning more.
science teacher professional development
science teacher education
instructional design to support learning in scientific practices
David S. Leigh
Professor · University of Georgia
⭐ I am currently recruiting students with interests in Quaternary environmental change, geoarchaeology, paleoflood analysis, modern river channel change and aquatic habitat, and geomorphic consequences of dam removal.
As a geomorphologist with interests in fluvial, eolian, hillslope, and soil systems, my overarching research themes examine late Quaternary climate changes and human impacts throughout the Holocene, including modern time…
Denis Dumas
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ Interested in becoming an educational psychologist? Email me about joining the lab as a funded graduate student.
Creativity, Psychometrics, Reasoning, Test development, Domain learning, Measurement validity
Giovanni P. Dazzo
Assistant Professor · Mary Frances Early College of Education
⭐ Dr. Dazzo is open to community partnerships and new Ph.D. students.
Participatory Action Research, Program Evaluation, Narrative Inquiry, Ethnography, Critical theories and methodologies
Hannah Krimm
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ Dr. Krimm is currently accepting doctoral students.
Developmental Language Disorders, Dyslexia / Reading Disabilities, Identification of Language-based Disabilities, Educational Technology Use, Professional Development
Javad Anjum
Assistant Professor · College of Education
⭐ Javad is currently accepting doctoral students. Interested candidates may reach out to him via email.
Aphasia, Cognitive-Linguistic Processes in Language and Communication, Aging, Cognition, and Communication, Experimental and Behavioral Methods in Language Research
Jerry Shannon
Associate Professor · University of Georgia
⭐ I am currently recruiting graduate students interested in studying disparities in access to food and housing, participatory and engaged research, and open source GIS tools.
Community engaged research, Food security/Food access, Housing, Urban development, Critical GIS
Jessica N. Torelli, PhD, BCBA-D
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ Dr. Torelli will consider doctoral student applications for the 2026–20207 admissions cycle in the Special Education Ph.D. Program.
Applied behavior analysis, Emotional and behavioral disorders, Intellectual and developmental disabilities, Single-case experimental design
Meredith Welch-Devine
Associate Professor
⭐ I will be accepting PhD students for Fall 2026 whose interests are related to human-environment interactions and climate change. If you are interested in working with me, please send your CV and a brief statement of your research interests (no more than 500 words) via email.
Political ecology
Knowledge co-production
Climate change
Extreme weather
Sea-level rise and coastal populations
Common pool resources
Interdisciplinary & team science
Communication of science
Rachel R. Cagliani, PhD, BCBA-D
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ Accepting Applications for Graduate Students for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
Adapted Curriculum, Applied Behavior Analysis, Profound Autism, Intellectual and developmental disabilities, Single-case research design
Rawad Saleh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ I am looking for motivated graduate students to join our team. Please send me an email if you are interested or if you require further information.
Studies aerosols and air quality. Our group studies the effect of atmospheric particulate matter (aerosols) on air quality and the climate. Our current focus is on the climate warming due to light-absorbing aerosols emit…
Sycarah Fisher, PhD
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ Dr. Fisher is currently accepting students.
Adolescent substance use
Adolescent mental health
School-based prevention and interventions
Minority populations
Implementation science / Health services research
Wenxuan Zhong
UGA Athletic Association Professor · University of Georgia
⭐ Postdoctoral positions in computational biology/bioinformatics is available immediately. These positions require excellent programming skills using C and Perl/Python and a firm knowledge of bioinformatics and Statistics. Interested candidates should forward their CV, selected reprints, a statement o…
Dr. Zhong's research focuses on the statistical methodology and theory development to face the striking new phenomena emerged under the big data regime. Over the past few years, Dr. Zhong has established diverse extramur…
Xiaoming Zhai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ I am accepting talented and dedicated doctoral students and visiting scholars who are interested in innovative assessment practices.
Science education with a focus on physics; Assessment and measurement theory; Applied quantitative methods and data sciences in science education; Technology integration theory in science education; AI/Machine learning-b…
Yang Yang
Professor
⭐ If you are interested in joining my research group, feel free to email me. Both PhD students and postdocs are welcome.
My primary research focuses on developing statistical methods for transmission dynamics of infectious diseases such as influenza, dengue, Ebola, COVID-19, HIV and cholera at both individual and population levels. These m…
Yoo-Kyoung Seock
Professor in Fashion Merchandising and Director of Graduate Studies · College of Family and Consumer Sciences
⭐ I am seeking highly motivated graduate students who are passionate about technology-driven research and instructional innovation. Areas of interest include AI, eye-tracking, VR, the Metaverse, and other emerging technologies in research and education.
In my scholarly pursuits, I lead the E.Y.E. Lab, dedicated to enhancing human well-being through research, education, and community engagement. Established following the COVID-19 pandemic, the lab focuses on technology i…
University of Washington 170 hiring
Aaron J. Wirsing
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Wirsing to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Wildlife Science
Adair Rounthwaite
Chair, Division of Art History; Professor, Art History; Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Professor in Arts · School of Art + Art History + Design
⭐ At present, I am not recruiting graduate students for 2026-27.
Art History, Contemporary, Participatory Art, Performance Art
Adam Leaché
Professor · University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Undergraduate students should send an introductory email to inquire about current openings. Graduate students should send an introductory email that includes the following: 1) a brief overview of your background and research experience, 2) a curriculum vitae, 3) copies of any relevant publications, …
Evolution & Systematics, Genetics & Genomics, Phylogenetics
Adam Steinbrenner
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Cell and Molecular Biology, Evolution & Systematics, Genetics & Genomics, Plant Biology, Synthetic Biology
Adam Summers
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Biomechanics, Marine Biology, Physiology
Aditya Ramesh
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I welcome inquiries from graduate students, especially those with an interest in the environmental history, the history of public health, and history of infrastructure and technology in South Asia and the British colonial world. I’m particularly keen on working with students interested in working on…
Empire and Colonialism, Environmental History, Globalism, Health, Historiography, History of Science, Science and Technology, South Asia, Urban History
Alex McInturff
Assistant Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor McInturff to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Conservation Science, Environmental Justice, Landscape Ecology, Nature-Human Interactions, Statistics, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling, Wildlife Science
Alexander Paredez
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Cell and Molecular Biology, Evolution & Systematics, Genetics & Genomics
Alexandra Velian
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Catalysis, Clean Energy, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials
Amber Williams
Assistant Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Racial socialization; Children's racial attitudes, racial inequality explanations, and cross-race friendships
Amy J. Ko
Professor, Associate Dean for Academics · University of Washington
⭐ Due to federal grant terminations, I am not recruiting doctoral students for 2026-27.
Critical Computing, Design Education, Social, Ethical, and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Ana Dueñas
Assistant Professor · University of Washington College of Education
⭐ Are you looking to get involved? Check out our current research opportunities: Strength-Based Approaches to Parent-Child Interactions in Autism: A Mixed Methods Video Analysis: This research examines the existing strengths and cultural resources that caregivers bring to interactions with their child…
Her primary research interests focus on identifying and validating culturally adapted social communication interventions that honor family strengths and cultural assets while being delivered by natural change agents. Her…
Andrea Stocco
Associate Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Computational neuroscience, cognitive science, learning, memory
Andrew Meltzoff
Professor Co-director, UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences · University of Washington
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Social and Cognitive Development in Infants and Young Children; Imitation; Intentionality; Linking Behavior to Dev. Cog. Neuroscience.
Angela Fang
Associate Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
predictive brain imaging, self-focused attention in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders; oxytocin
Angela Rowe
Assistant Professor · University of Wisconsin-Madison
⭐ I am currently seeking a graduate student to work on this upcoming project.
Radar meteorology | Cloud physics | Convective storms | Orographic precipitation
Anind K. Dey
Dean and Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Anind is actively recruiting new students for Autumn 2025.
Human-computer interaction, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Ubiquitous and mobile computing
Ann S. Anagnost
Professor<br>Sociocultural Anthropology
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Ethnography, Popular Culture, Sociocultural Anthropology
Anne B. McCoy
Natt-Lingafelter Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Research in the McCoy group focuses on two interrelated areas of investigation. The first involves the development of theoretical and computational approaches that allow us to investigate molecules and complexes that und…
Anthony Dichiara
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Dichiara to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Synthesis of nanomaterials from biomass; characterization of biomaterials and their applications in multifunctional composites and environmental remediation
Arianna Long
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Galaxies, high redshift galaxies, infrared astronomy, Interstellar, Intergalactic, & Circumgalactic Medium
Ariel Starr
Associate Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Development of higher-level cognitive skills including language, memory, and abstract reasoning
Ashleigh Theberge
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students, Accepting MSACST students
Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Biomedical Science & Engineering
Aylin Caliskan
Associate Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Aylin will be admitting Ph.D. students who are highly self-motivated and experienced in trustworthy AI, natural language processing, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and human centered computing.
Artificial Intelligence, Societal Impacts of AI and Ethics, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Ben Lee
Assistant Professor · University of Washington
⭐ He is currently recruiting Ph.D. students for Autumn, 2026.
Data Science, Library and Information Science
Ben Marwick
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Archaeology, Behavioral Ecology, Computational Methods, Data science, Evolution, Geoarchaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, Lithic Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Southeast Asian
Bernard Bormann
Professor/Director, ONRC; B. Bruce Bare Endowed Professorship in Forest Resources · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Bormann to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Climate Change and Adaptation, Ecosystem Science, Landscape Ecology, Nature-Human Interactions, Soil Science and Hydrology, Sustainable Forest Management, Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Beth Gardner
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2025: Beth Gardner is not currently accepting graduate students for the 2025-26 school year.
Hierarchical models, spatial capture-recapture models, occupancy models, camera trapping, hair snares, sampling techniques, spatial statistics, Bayesian inference
Betty Repacholi
Associate Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Social-cognitive and social-emotional development during infancy and early childhood.
Bing W. Brunton
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Computational Biology, Neurobiology, Physiology
Bo Zhang
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Analytical Chemistry, Materials, Chemical Biology, Clean Energy, Physical Chemistry, Chemical interfaces, Electrochemistry, single molecules/nanoparticles/cells, microscopy
Brandi M. Cossairt
Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Endowed Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Accepting MSACST students
Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Catalysis, Clean Energy, Nanoscience, Quantum Information
Brian Flaherty
Associate Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Latent class and mixture models; Measurement; Model selection; Exploratory data analysis; Analysis of change over time
Brian J. Harvey
Associate Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Harvey to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Climate Change and Adaptation, Conservation Science, Ecosystem Science, Fire Science, Landscape Ecology, Plant Science, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Restoration Ecology, Sustainable Forest Management
Bruce H. Robinson
Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Materials, Physical Chemistry
Carl Bergstrom
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Behavior, Computational Biology, Evolution & Systematics
Carlos Martínez-Cano
Assistant Professor · UW College of Education
⭐ I am currently accepting doctoral students with similar research interests (Autumn 2024)
I am a native of the U.S./México Borderlands and an anthropologist specializing in ethnographic investigations of non-dominant youth populations. My scholarly interests include how youth self-direct, both individually an…
Carrie Tribble
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Computational Biology, Evolution & Systematics, Phylogenetics, Plant Biology
Champak Chatterjee
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Catalysis, Biophysics, Enzymology, Protein Chemistry
Chantel Prat
Professor · Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Neural Basis of Individual Differences in Symbolic Cognitive Abilities, Self-Efficacy, Coding, Right Hemisphere Language, Working Memory, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
Cheryl Kaiser
Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Self, Social Identity, Diversity, Prejudice, Political Psychology
Chirag Shah
Professor · University of Washington
⭐ He is very selectively looking for new students in his lab and center with strong background and interest in generative AI, large language models in search and recommendation, and bias and fairness in information access systems.
AI, Search and Recommender Systems, Machine Learning, Data Science, Human-Computer Interaction
Christine Harper
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Biological Anthropology, Computational Methods, Evolution, Human Paleontology, Nonhuman Primates, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Statistics
Chun Wang
Professor · UW College of Education
⭐ I am currently accepting doctoral students in the Measurement & Statistics Program.
Quantitative Research Methods
Claire Willing
Assistant Professor · College of the Environment, University of Washington
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Willing to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Climate Change and Adaptation, Environmental Microbiology, Plant Science, Restoration Ecology, Sustainable Forest Management
Clara Wilkins
Associate Professor and Earl R. Carlson Professor
⭐ Accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
social inequality and social hierarchy maintenance
Clemens Cabernard
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Cell and Molecular Biology, Development, Genetics & Genomics, Neurobiology
Cody W. Schlenker
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
monitoring and manipulating electronic dynamics at various complex chemical interfaces, such as those involved in rechargeable battery chemistries, solar photocatalysts, next-generation photovoltaics, and heavy-atom free…
Coralynn Sack
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Clean Air, Sustainable Communities, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Occupational Medicine, Pollution, Wildfires
Cynthia Levine
Assistant Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
social psychology, health psychology
Dan Brown
Director and Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026: Dan Brown is not currently accepting graduate students.
GIS, remote sensing, spatial modeling; land-use and land-cover dynamics; linking landscape patterns with ecological and social processes
Dan Fu
Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Accepting MSACST students
development and applications of quantitative chemical imaging tools to study various pathophysiological processes of living biological specimens at single-cell resolution. These tools involve state-of-the-art laser engin…
Daniel R. Gamelin
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Clean Energy, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy, luminescence, magnetism
Daniel T. Chiu
A. Bruce Montgomery Professor of Chemistry, Endowed Professor in Analytical Chemistry, Washington Research Foundation Professor, Professor of Bioengineering · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology, Materials, Digital Assays, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Single-Cell Biology, Single-Molecule Studies, Fluorescent Nanomaterials
Darryl Holman
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Biological Anthropology, Demography, Evolution, Fertility, Field Research Methods, Population, Quantitative Methods, Reproduction, Reproductive ecology, Statistics
David Butman
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Butman to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Influence of humans and climate on carbon cycling at the intersection of terrestrial and aquatic systems
David Gire
Associate Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Neural Circuit Processing of Sensory Signals, Decision-Making, Mammalian Olfaction, Systems Neuroscience across Species
David J. Masiello
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Theory and Computation, Materials, Physical Chemistry, Electron and Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, Quantum Materials
David S. Ginger
B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Analytical Chemistry, Clean Energy, Materials, Physical Chemistry
Debrielle T. Jacques
Assistant Professor
⭐ Accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Developmental Psychopathology; Developmental Effects of Parental Psychopathology and Addiction; Parenting/Caregiving; Dynamic Intergenerational Processes of Psychopathology; Contextual Influences on Developmental Pathway…
Diana Ceballos
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Safe Workplaces, Sustainable Communities, Chemical hazards, Children's Health, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Occupational Health, Risk Assessment
Dianne J. Xiao
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
The overarching goal of research in the Xiao group is to endow porous materials with the enhanced reactivity and physical properties needed to meet rising global challenges in clean energy and sustainability. Projects in…
Douglas A. Reed
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Clean Energy, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials
Dustin J. Maly
Raymon E. and Rosellen M. Lawton Endowed Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not accepting PhD students
Chemical Biology, Analytical Chemistry, Proteomics, Enzymology
ELENA AUSTIN
Associate Professor · University of Washington School of Public Health
⭐ Accepting new students: Master
Clean Air, Safe Workplaces, Sustainable Communities, Agricultural health and safety, Community-engaged Research, Environmental Justice, Occupational Health, Pollution, Wildfires
Edmund Y. W. Seto
Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page. Contact Jeff Shirai (jshirai@uw.edu) for student opportunities with the Center for Environmental Health Equity. The center matches students' skills and interests with Environmental Just…
Clean Air, Clean Water, Sustainable Communities, Built Environment, Climate Change, Community-engaged Research, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Health Equity, Infectious diseases, Policy, Pollution, Risk Ass…
Elaine Faustman
Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new master's and PhD students in autumn 2025. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Developmental toxicology. Risk assessment methodologies. Molecular mechanisms of metals and pesticides. Biological monitoring. Birth defects. Children's health. Drug metabolism. Food additives and contaminants. In vitro …
Elizabeth Sanders
Professor · UW College of Education
⭐ Note: I usually only accept Ph.D. students who have completed their master's degree in our Measurement & Statistics program. Each year I consider accepting 1-3 new master's students.
Quantitative Research Methods
Elli Theobald
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Biology Education, Ecology
Eric Turnblom
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Turnblom to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
As an applied forest ecologist and forest biometrician, my primary field of interest is conducting research into ways and means of quantitatively describing, or modeling, forest stand dynamics outcomes resulting from sil…
Forrest E. Michael
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Catalysis, Organic Chemistry
Francisca Santana
Assistant Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Dr. Santana is not currently accepting graduate students for the 2026-27 school year.
Climate Change and Adaptation, Conservation Science, Environmental Justice, Nature-Human Interactions
František Tureček
Klaus and Mary Ann Saegebarth Endowed Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not accepting PhD students
His research interests have been in the chemistry of highly reactive molecules (enols, sulfenic acids), hypervalent radicals, nucleobase radicals related to DNA damage, and peptide radicals and cation-radicals. His other…
Frederick Reece
Assistant Professor, Music History · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Applicants interested in graduate study in Music History at the University of Washington are warmly encouraged to make contact to discuss research projects intersecting with any of Reece’s areas of expertise.
Frederick Reece studies music and sonic culture from 1789 to the present. Thematically, his research centers on issues of authorship and identity, and on music's conceptual intersections with the occult and supernatural.
Gabriele Varani
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Chemical Biology, Physical Chemistry
Geoffrey Boynton
Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Visual perception and its neural basis
Gojko Lalic
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Catalysis, Organic Chemistry
Gregory Bratman
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27: Gregory Bratman's acceptance of new graduate students is uncertain and dependent on the outcome of submitted research grant proposals. PhD candidates interested in working with Gregory Bratman are encouraged to apply.
Impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function, mood, and emotion regulation; accounting for mental health in ecosystem service assessments; environment and well-being.
Gregory Ettl
Associate Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Ettl to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Sustainable forestry; forest ecology; silviculture
Heidi Gough
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026: Space in the Gough Lab for accepting new graduate students is uncertain and dependent on the outcome of submitted research grant proposals.
Topic areas might include methanogenesis in anaerobic digestion, alternative on-site sewage treatment, and anaerobic treatability of pulp mill and …
Environmental Engineering; wastewater treatment and reclamation; biological processes in wastewater for biotransformation of emerging contaminants; biomethane recovery from anaerobic digestion; fate and transport of poll…
Hilary Godwin
Professor and Dean · School of Public Health
⭐ Not available to mentor new PhD and Master's students.
Nanotoxicology. Lead poisoning. Climate change and health. The impacts of conservation programs and policies on indigenous populations. Community-based approaches to addressing environmental health problems.
Horacio de la Iglesia
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Behavior, Neurobiology, Physiology
Hugh W. Hillhouse
Professor · University of Washington
⭐ The Hillhouse Group typically has openings for undergraduate researchers, graduate students seeking a PhD or MS, and postdoctoral researchers. Please see the Group's website for more information and a list of openings.
Solar Energy Conversion, Nanomaterials, Colloidal & Interfacial Phenomena, Electrochemistry
Indroneil Ganguly
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Ganguly to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of bio-based products; forest products marketing; forest economics
Ione Fine
Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Sight recovery technologies. The effects of long-term visual deprivation, Adult perceptual learning and plasticity, Psychophysics, fMRI and computational vision.
Jaime Snyder
Associate Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Professor Snyder is currently recruiting Ph.D. students for Autumn 2024 who are interested in pursuing research aligned with her focus on visual methodologies in contexts including: citizen science, personal health information, and local and vernacular knowledge systems.
Visualization Studies and Critical Visual Design Research; Computer Supported Cooperative Work; Human-Computer Interaction
Jamaal Muwwakkil
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students
African American, Cultural Anthropology, Education, Ethnography, Government, Identity, Institutions, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Storytelling
Jason Young
Assistant Professor, Director of TASCHA · University of Washington
⭐ I am open to accepting a PhD student for the 2025-2026 cohort - please do reach out to me if you are interested in working together and thinking about applying to the iSchool! I am particularly interested in admitting students that seek to do research in the areas of digital knowledge politics and n…
Critical Technology Studies, Digital Knowledge Politics, Community-Based Research
Jeff Rasmussen
Associate Professor · University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Cell and Molecular Biology, Development, Neurobiology
Jennifer Dubrow
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not currently accepting Ph.D. students or applications for postdoctoral supervision.
19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, aesthetics and politics, arts and technology, Comparative Literature, History of the book in South Asia, Literature, Literature and Other Arts, Modernism, South Asian, Textual Stud…
Jennifer Forsyth
Assistant Professor
⭐ Accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Genetic, neurobiological, and environmental mechanisms underlying schizophrenia and related disorders, brain development
Jennifer J. Otten
Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's and Doctoral students in Autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Understanding, changing and evaluating food systems and food systems policies as they relate to public health and nutrition outcomes. Understanding and improving the ways in which research gets to the public policy table…
Jennifer L. Ruesink
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Conservation Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Natural History, Plant Biology
Jesse G. Zalatan
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Chemical Biology, Biophysics, Catalysis, Organic Chemistry, Enzymology, Synthetic Biology
Jiaojian (Tristan) Shi
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Clean Energy, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Optics, Materials
Jonathan Bakker
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Jon Bakker is currently accepting graduate students for the 2026-27 school year, though space is dependent in part on successful research grant proposals. Prospective students should review this page on his website before contacting him.
My research focuses on:
- Restoration and management of prairies, savannas, and forests
- Long-term vegetation dynamics
- Statistical methods for community ecology
Joseph Sisneros
Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Neuroethology, Sensory Neurobiology, Animal Communication, and Animal Behavior
Joshua C. Vaughan
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Biophysics, Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Physical Chemistry
Joshua Lawler
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026: Space in the Lawler Lab for accepting new graduate students is uncertain and dependent on the outcome of submitted research grant proposals.
Landscape ecology; conservation biology
Judit Marsillach, PhD
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health, University of Washington
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
The exposome. Biomarkers of exposure and disease. Paraoxonases. Neurotoxicology. Early life exposures. Developmental exposure to environmental chemicals. Agricultural Health. Occupational exposures. Oxidative stress. Pes…
Julie Larson
Assistant Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Dr. Larson to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Restoration ecology; Management of dryland and rangeland ecosystems; Plant regeneration ecology, including seed and seedling development; Functional (trait-based) ecology; Plant population and community dynamics
Karen Levy
Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Not available to mentor new students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Clean Water, Safe Food, Sustainable Communities, COVID-19, Children's Health, Climate Change, Community-engaged Research, Environmental Health, Infectious diseases, Microbiome
Kent Wheiler
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Wheiler to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Sustainable forestry; wood products production, distribution and use; international wood markets and trade.
Kevin King
Professor
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Pathways to Alcohol and Drug Use and Dependence, Impulsivity and Self Regulation, Stress and Coping, Developmental Psychopathology, Longitudinal Methods
Kristen Missall
Professor · UW College of Education
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Development of Children & Youth
Developmental Disabilities
Early Childhood
Effective Schools & School Systems
Literacy
Social-Emotional Issues
L. Monika Moskal
Professor · College of the Environment, University of Washington
⭐ Autumn Admissions 2026: Professor Moskal is not recruiting students at this time.
Remote sensing; biospatial analysis
Laura Prugh
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Professor Laura Prugh is accepting new students for 2026-27.
Quantitative multi-species conservation and management; wildlife community ecology; conservation of endangered species and fragmented populations; human-wildlife interactions; noninvasive genetics; predator-prey interact…
Lauren Buckley
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Computational Biology, Ecology, Evolution & Systematics, Natural History, Physiology
Lauren J. Rajakovich
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Chemical Biology, Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Organic Chemistry
Li Ke (柯立)
Assistant Professor · UW College of Education
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Science & Mathematics
Teacher Education & Research
Lianne Sheppard
Professor · University of Washington School of Public Health
⭐ Not accepting new students autumn 2026.
Environmental and Spatial Statistics, Epidemiological Methods, Cystic fibrosis
Liliana Lengua
Professor
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
My research focuses on children’s resilient and vulnerable responses to economic disadvantage and adversity, identifying protective factors that promote children’s well-being, including parent well-being, parenting and c…
Lori Zoellner
Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Understanding the processes (e.g., memory processing, fear learning) underlying the prevention and treatment of chronic psychopathology following trauma exposure, including fear and loss such as posttraumatic stress diso…
Lucía Magis-Weinberg
Assistant Professor
⭐ Accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Cross-cultural approaches to adolescent development in the context of accelerated change in digital technologies
Magali Blanco
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's and Doctoral students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Clean Air, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Occupational Health, Pesticides, Risk Assessment
Marilena Loverde
Dr. Ann Nelson Endowed Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ If you are interested in joining my group as a PhD student or postdoc, send me an email.
Astrophysics, Cosmology & Gravitation; Particle Theory
Marissa Baker, PhD
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new master's students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Safe Workplaces, COVID-19, Chemical hazards, Environmental Justice, Occupational Health, Risk Assessment
Marissa Childs
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's and Doctoral students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Environmental health, climate change, air pollution, wildfire smoke, infectious diseases, climate change adaptation
Masha Baryakhtar
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ If you are interested in joining the group, please contact me.
Astrophysics, Cosmology & Gravitation, Particle Theory
Matthew F. Bush
Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Research in the Bush lab focuses on developing new mass spectrometry based approaches for elucidating the structures, assembly, and dynamics of biological molecules. His group applies these approaches to a wide range of …
Matthew R. Golder
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
The Golder Research Team innovates polymer synthesis using advancements in molecular design to redefine the plastic lifecycle with respect to construction, utility, and end-of-life. Inspired by the omnipresent “plastics …
Michael H. Gelb
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Analytical Chemistry, Catalysis, Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry, Enzymology
Mike Teodorescu
Assistant Professor · University of Washington
⭐ He is currently recruiting Ph.D. student applicants with a background in data science or economics for research on AI fairness, AI policy, and innovation economics.
Sociotechnical Information Systems, Economics of Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Munira Khalil
Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Clean Energy, Materials, Physical Chemistry, Theory and Computation
Mutian Hua
Assistant Professor · College of the Environment, University of Washington
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Mutian Hua will be accepting graduate students for the 2026-27 school year. Students interested in sustainable polymers, tough hydrogels, additive manufacturing and AI for science are encouraged to apply.
Engineering Sustainable Products and Systems
Nicholas M. Riley
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Chemical Biology, Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Mass Spectrometry, Glycobiology, Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Nicole Errett
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Health impacts of disaster. Community resilience. Climate change adaptation. Public health emergency preparedness. Public health policy. Health care emergency preparedness. Public health practice.
Nora Shipp
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Cosmology, Dark Matter, Galaxies, Milky Way, Software, Algorithms, & Data Science, Theory and Computation
Osama Ahmed
Assistant Professor and Weill Neurohub Term Assistant Professor · University of Washington
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Brain-wide dynamics, behavioral multitasking, neural circuit interactions underlying complex behavior, neurogenetics
P. Dee Boersma
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Behavior, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Natural History
Paige Reed
Teaching Associate · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Patricia A. Kramer
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Biological Anthropology, Evolution, Human Paleontology, Nonhuman Primates, Quantitative Methods
Patrick C. Tobin
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Dr. Tobin’s availability for new graduate student mentorship is currently uncertain and dependent on the outcome of submitted research grant proposals.
Invasive Species Ecology and Management, Landscape Ecology, Statistics, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling
Peter Kahn
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Peter Kahn is not currently accepting graduate students.
Nature-Human Interactions
Priscilla Lui
Associate Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Minority mental health; substance use; measurement; meta-science
Rachel Sklar
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's and Doctoral students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Environmental health. Exposure/risk assessment. Water sanitation and hygiene. Air pollution. Occupational Health. Carceral health. Community-engaged research. Low-cost exposure assessment methods.
Renata Bura
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Bura to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Fractionation of biomass into cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin; Bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass such as agricultural and hardwood biomass into biochemicals, including (1) robust pretreatment processes for mi…
Richard Gustafson
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Gustafson to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Engineering Sustainable Products and Systems; Life-Cycle Assessment
Sameer Shah
Assistant Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Dr. Shah does not have any available openings for undergraduate students in his lab for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Climate Change and Adaptation, Environmental Justice, Environmental Policy, Economics and Trade, Nature-Human Interactions
Sandor Toth
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Tóth to inquire about their ability to admit new students.
Natural Resource Informatics; sustainable forest and natural resource management; spatial forest planning and optimization; forest engineering and operations research; reserve design
Sapna Cheryan
Professor
⭐ Accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028.
Stereotypes, Identity, Culture, Belonging, Group Status
Sarah J. Converse
Associate Professor/Leader · University of Washington
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Sarah Converse is not currently accepting graduate students for the 2026-27 school year but interested students should check her website for the most up-to-date information.
Quantitative population ecology, demographic estimation and modeling, spatial demography, movement ecology, conservation biology, decision analysis
Sarah L. Keller
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Soft Matter Physics
Sarah M. Collier
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new PhD and Master's students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page. Dr. Collier also mentors in the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health program.
Safe Food, Sustainable Communities, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Nutrition
Sayako Kawashima
Teaching Associate · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Behavior, Biology Education, Development, Neurobiology, Physiology
Scott Anderson
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
compact binaries, Galaxies, High energy astrophysics, quasars/AGN, Stars, Time Domain Astronomy
Scott Murray
Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Visual Perception, Attention, Functional Neuroimaging
Sergey S. Rabotyagov
Associate Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2025-26 Admissions: Professor Rabotyagov welcomes inquires from prospective students but is currently not recruiting for a particular project.
Environmental Policy, Economics and Trade
Shannon Dorsey
Professor; Associate Chair for Graduate Studies · University of Washington
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents (particularly Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Dissemination and Implementation Science, Global Mental Health
Sharon L. Doty
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026 Admissions: Sharon Doty is not currently accepting graduate students for the 2026-27 school year.
Climate Change and Adaptation, Ecosystem Science, Engineering Sustainable Products and Systems, Environmental Microbiology, Plant Science, Restoration Ecology, Sustainable Forest Management, Plant microbiology
Soo-Hyung Kim
Professor · College of the Environment
⭐ Autumn 2026-27: Dr. Kim is not currently accepting graduate students.
Climate Change and Adaptation, Ecosystem Science, Plant Science, Restoration Ecology, Statistics, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling
Soojin Oh Park
Assistant Professor · UW College of Education
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Development of Children & Youth
Early Childhood
Educational Policy
Equity Studies
Immigration and Schooling
Learning Sciences & Human Development
Literacy
Policy & Educational Reform
Qualitative Research Methods
Quantita…
Stefan Stoll
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Accepting MSACST students
Physical Chemistry, Biophysics, Inorganic Chemistry, Theory and Computation, Chemical Biology, Chemistry Education, Spectroscopy, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Enzymology
Stephanie Halmo
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Biology Education, Cell and Molecular Biology
Stephen S. Bao
Affliate Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Not available to mentor new PhD and Master's students.
Ergonomics, biomechanics, some courses in industrial engineering and mechanical engineering.
Steven M. Goodreau
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Areas of interest: sexual networks; mathematical modeling; HIV; bacterial STIs; infectious disease epidemiology; sexual behavior; gay, bi and other men who have sex with men (MSM); behavioral prevention; biomedical preve…
Takato Imaizumi
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington
⭐ Not accepting new graduate students
Cell and Molecular Biology, Development, Physiology, Plant Biology
Tanu Mitra
Associate Professor · University of Washington
⭐ For the academic year 2026-2027, application deadline December of 2025, I am taking new PhD students.
Responsible and Human-Centered AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science
Tomikazu Sasaki
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Catalysis, Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's and PhD students in autumn 2026. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Sustainable Communities, Built Environment, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Health Equity, Heat, Risk Assessment
Verónica Di Stilio
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Development, Evolution & Systematics, Genetics & Genomics, Plant Biology, Evo-devo
Vivek Hari Sridhar
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Behavior, Ecology, Natural History, Neurobiology, collective behavior, decision-making
Willem Laursen
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Behavior, Cell and Molecular Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Neurobiology, Physiology, Synthetic Biology
William George
Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Alcohol Use & Sexuality, Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors, Sexual Assault, Cultural Issues
Yijie Geng
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health, University of Washington
⭐ Available to mentor new Master's students in autumn 2026. You can learn more about Dr. Geng's work at his website or by emailing him. Please follow the instructions on the How To Apply page.
Sustainable Communities, Chemical hazards, Children's Health, Environmental Health, Toxicology
Yuichi Shoda
Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
Human behavior
Z Yan Wang
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Biology and Weill Neurohub Term Assistant Professor
⭐ Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2027-2028, please email with questions.
neuroethology, aging & senescence, cephalopods, social insects, evolutionary neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, invertebrate social behavior
Željko Ivezić
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Cosmology Galaxies Software, Algorithms, & Data Science Solar System Time Domain Astronomy
Wake Forest University 1 hiring
Lara do Amaral Silva
Assistant Professor of Biology · Wake Forest University
⭐ In the mission of mentoring the next generation of scientists and professionals, the Amaral-Silva lab currently has two PhD students and four undergraduate students. We are always on the watch for new talented undergraduate and graduate students. If you are interested, please reach out (doamaral@wfu…
Neurophysiology, Neurobiology, Comparative physiology
Case Western Reserve University 19 hiring
Angela Dixon
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ The highly interdisciplinary research group is seeking talented undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers with varied expertise in biology, engineering, and other relevant areas.
Beverly Z. Saylor
Armington Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am always looking for curious and capable students (undergraduate and graduate) with backgrounds and interests in science, math or engineering to join my research program. Please contact me to discuss current opportunities.
My research examines sedimentary rocks and sediments as records of environmental change and as vessels that contain and react with fluids. I use sedimentary and stratigraphic analysis, mapping, geochemical properties, an…
Fu-Sen Liang
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We welcome applications for postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Potential graduate and undergraduate students should email fxl240@case.edu for more information. Postdoctoral applicants should send inquires and CV to fxl240@case.edu.
Chemical Biology, Biochemistry, Organic, Pharmaceutical
Fulai Jin
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine · School of Medicine
⭐ The Jin lab is actively seeking highly motivated students and postdocs with either experimental or computational (or both) lab experiences. Please contact Dr. Jin via fxj45@case.edu to discuss possible positions or projects.
In the 3D space, mammalian genome is folded and packed in a highly organized fashion. Besides the well-known chromatin relaxation and compaction associated with "open" and "closed" chromatin, DNA also form long-range loo…
Helen Long
Assistant Professor | Communication Development · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Long is accepting PhD students and interviewing undergraduate and graduate research assistants.
Early identification and intervention of speech and communication abilities and needs in young children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, especially those with motor conditions like cerebral palsy; improving clinicia…
James A. Van Orman
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am always interested in working with students who are curious about the internal evolution of planets (and a wide range of other topics!). Please contact me (email usually works best) to discuss current opportunities.
My group studies planetary interiors (including our own) using a combination of experiments and modeling, constrained by observations. Recent and current research topics include the role of volatiles in the formation and…
Jean Burns
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ The Burns lab is accepting students. Please contact Jean with an questions about the lab.
The Burns lab primarily studies how phylogenetic history, dispersal ecology, and population demography interact to influence species distributions and community assembly. Invasive species are a useful model system for un…
Jesse Berezovsky
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ The Berezovsky research group is searching for interested and motivated graduate and undergraduate students to design, build, and carry out experiments in the areas outlined above. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Berezovsky — I look forward to hearing from you!
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics; Spin coherence in nanostructures; Optical spectroscopy; Spin-photon interactions; Photonic resonators; Quantum measurement of spins in semiconductors.
Jiri Safar
Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine; Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine · School of Medicine
⭐ Safar Laboratory at the Department of Pathology offers graduate training in a wide range of projects in advanced neurobiology and neuroscience. The graduate program has a strong emphasis on cellular and molecular mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Frontotemporal deme…
My areas of research include protein misfolding, structure-function correlations, amyloid immunochemistry, age-related neurodegeneration, transgenic mice therapeutics, translational medicine, prion diseases, and Alzheime…
Lydia Kisley
Ambrose Swasey Associate Professor of Physics · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We welcome graduate and undergraduate scientists and engineers excited about interdisciplinary research to join our group. Please find more information about joining on the [group webpage](https://www.kisleylab.science/join-us).
Microscopy, experimental biophysics, soft condensed matter physics, interfacial/surface science, nanoscience, physical chemistry/chemical physics, signal processing, image analysis
Nami Tajima, PhD
Assistant Professor · School of Medicine
⭐ The Tajima lab is currently seeing a postdoctoral fellow. Specialty in electrophysiology, cryo-EM, cellular biology, neuroscience, or biochemistry/biophysics is desirable. This position offers a significant opportunity for learning molecular and cellular biology and career growth in academia. To app…
Synaptic transmission is an essential cellular event underlying learning and memory. Neuroreceptors, transporters, and ion channels mediate synaptic transmission, and their dysfunction is frequently implicated in brain d…
Ralph P. Harvey
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Unfortunately, I am unlikely to support, mentor or advise any graduate students in the near future. CWRU undergraduates interested in Senior Capstone research are welcome to contact me.
Most of my research involves the geochemical study of planetary materials (meteorites, mars rocks, and micrometeorites), but I am very broadly trained and my interests are diverse. Below is a list of research I'm involve…
Sandra Russ
Distinguished University Professor and Louis D. Beaumont University Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I may accept a new graduate student during the upcoming academic year.
My research has focused on understanding how pretend play is involved in child development and in child psychotherapy. I have worked with my students to develop a measure of pretend play that assesses both cognitive and …
Shane M. Parker
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We welcome applications for postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Potential graduate and undergraduate students should email shane.parker@case.edu for more information. Postdoctoral applicants should send inquires and CV to shane.parker@case.edu.
Computational Chemistry, Photochemistry, Spectroscopy
Shulei Zhang
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Students (both undergraduates and graduates) and postdocs with passions in the research field of condensed matter theory are encouraged to join our group. Please contact Prof. Shulei Zhang if interested.
We study a variety of problems in theoretical condensed matter physics, ranging from magnetism to topological matter. Modern magnetism is dedicated to understanding magnetic properties that originate from the spin degree…
Stacy R. Ryan-Pettes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Ryan-Pettes will be accepting a PhD student this upcoming academic year (2025-2026).
Adolescent Substance Use | Family-Based Treatment | Implementation Science
Steven A. Hauck, II
Professor and Chair · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am always looking for curious and capable students (undergraduate and graduate) with backgrounds and interests in science, math or engineering to join my research program. Current research topics include studying the structure and evolution of deep planetary interiors and their connection to surfa…
I study the evolution of interiors and surfaces of planetary bodies, including the Earth. Principally this involves computational studies of the mechanics of lithospheres, heat transport and dynamics of mantles of solid …
Thomas S. McCormick
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine · School of Medicine
⭐ Fellowship Job Opportunity
Send via email:
Three reference letters
CV
Immunological basis of psoriasis
Dermatology
Immunology
Autoimmune disease
Skin cancer
Xuan Gao
Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Physics · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are looking for talented and motivated students (both undergraduates and graduates) and postdocs to help solve important issues in condensed matter physics and nanoscience. If you are interested in current research opportunities in Gao's group, please contact Prof. Xuan Gao.
Experimental condensed matter physics; Nanoscale electronic transport; Two-dimensional electrons in semiconductor, oxide hetero-interfaces or graphene-like atomically thin crystals; Topological insulators; Electron corre…
Texas A&M University 63 hiring
Adi Joshi
Associate Professor · Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Dr. Joshi is currently accepting graduate, undergraduate students, and post-doctoral trainees.
Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor, Environmental Health, Liver biology, Metabolic diseases, Toxicology
Alison Altman
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ We are seeking students interested in high-pressure science, developing new solid-state and molecular f-element and heavy-main group element chemistry, and electronic structure elucidation methods, including synchrotron X-ray techniques.
New materials are crucial for addressing challenges in energy transport and information storage. Our research group aims to discover new inorganic materials by looking at underexplored regions of the Periodic Table in al…
Andres Viana
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Health Disparities
Latino Mental Health
Anxiety Disorders
Substance Use
Parenting
Emotion Socialization
Angela Knapp
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students: YES
Marine Biochemistry
Nitrogen Fixation
Dissolved organic nutrients
Marine nitrogen stable isotope geochemistry
Anita Rapp
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Students interested in working in these areas should contact Dr. Rapp. Information on our graduate program at Texas A&M can be found here.
Remote Sensing
Clouds and Precipitation
Satellite Meteorology
Mesoscale Meteorology
Atmospheric Radiation
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Anka Vujanovic
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Dr. Anka Vujanovic is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, and she is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science…
Annmarie MacNamara
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Emotions convey important information about events and people in our environment. They motivate us and are essential to survival (e.g., fear motivates a fight or flight response). However, when an emotional response is n…
Brian Albanese
Assistant Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Dr. Brian Albanese received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University after completing a pre-doctoral internship at the Charleston Consortium in Charleston, SC. Dr. Albanese is now an Assistant Profess…
Carlos Bolaños
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: No
Dr. Bolaños research aims at establishing causal relationships between early-life experiences, brain, biochemistry, and behavior. Specifically, his research interest center on investigating how exposure to psychotropic d…
Cheryl Jackson
Professor of the Practice · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2024-2025?: No
Industrial/Organizational
Cristine Heaps
Interim Department Head, Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology · College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Cristine Heaps is not accepting trainees at this time.
The primary research in my laboratory is focused on adaptations in the coronary circulation in response to disease and exercise training. Specifically, we study changes in cellular and molecular mechanisms of endothelium…
Darrell Worthy
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Key words that describe work we have done or are currently conducting in the lab: Reinforcement learning, Decision-making, Categorization, Associative learning, Aging and cognition, Mathematical modeling, fMRI, Substance…
Dongying Li
Associate Professor · College of Architecture, Texas A&M University
⭐ Dr. Li is currently recruiting Ph.D. students interested in landscapes and health, environmental psychology, urban informatics and spatial data visualization for 2024 fall.
Dr. Li’s research examines the relationship between the characteristics of the physical environment and people’s behavior and mental health. Specific topics include urban nature and mental health, environmental psycholog…
Dorothy Shippen
University Distinguished Professor, Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Genetics · College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
⭐ NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS
Telomeres, Telomerase, RNP structure function, Chromosome biology
Emile Schweikert
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently has an opening for a post-doctoral position working on the methodology for characterizing biomarkers and their molecular environment in individual biological nano-objects.
Our research explores the extreme limits of analytical chemistry: the characterization of atto to zeptomole quantities of molecules. The aim is to detect such amounts of analyte within nanometric surface volumes. The goa…
Glen Laine
Regents Professor & Wiseman, Lewie, Worth Chair in Cardiology · Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Glen Laine is not accepting trainees at this time.
cardiovascular physiology; biophysics and bioengineering; quantitative analysis of biological systems; chronic venous and arterial hypertension and cardiopulmonary bypass; lymphatic function; edema formation
Heather Thakar
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Note: Dr. Thakar is currently accepting graduate students.
Archaeological Theory
Evolutionary Ecology
New World Foraging and Proto-agricultural Societies (California, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua)
Isotope Geochemistry
Radiocarbon Dating
ZooMS Collagen Peptide Fingerprinti…
Heng Cai
Assistant Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Cai is actively recruiting undergraduate, MS, and PhD students to join her research group at Texas A&M University. If you are interested in working in her research group, please email her at hengcai@tamu.edu with your CV/resume.
Geographic Information Science
Geospatial Data Science
Socio-Environmental Sustainability
Disaster Resilience
Hui-Wen Lo
Department Head, Cell Biology and Genetics; Professor; Jean and Tom McMullin Endowed Professor · Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine
⭐ She is actively recruiting graduate students and scientists to her laboratory at Texas A&M Health Science Center, as well as tenure-track assistant professors to the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics.
Dr. Lo's research interests are primarily in molecular and cell biology that underlies tumor growth, tumor progression, brain metastasis, and cancer drug discovery and development. The Lo Laboratory has focused on three …
Ian Hughes
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
I consider my research to primarily be at the intersection of organizational behavior and occupational health psychology. Specifically, I will often focus on the impacts of person-to-person exchanges (both at work and at…
James Sacchettini
Rodger J. Wolfe-Welch Foundation Chair, Science; Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Chemistry · College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
⭐ NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS
Drug discovery and disease-related structural biology, including Tuberculosis, Malaria, Cryptosporidiosis, Chagas disease, Cancer, and Menkes syndrome (NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS)
Jessica Fitzsimmons
Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Please contact jessfitz@tamu.edu with a copy of your CV for more information.
Chemical Oceanography: Trace metal biogeochemistry, nutrients, pollutants, colloids, isotopes, hydrothermal vents, polar oceanography
Jinbo Wang
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We invite motivated students to join our lab as undergraduate researchers or PhD candidates.
Physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, satellite oceanography, role of the upper ocean in the Earth's climate system, small-scale processes, SWOT mission, upper-ocean submesoscale processes, application of ma…
Jonathan Sczepanski
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Postdoctoral position available. Please email CV, including a list of references, to Dr. Sczepanski.
Our primary research goals are to develop and apply novel tools for studying DNA damage in the context of chromatin and to explore new avenues for RNA-based therapeutics and diagnostics. By combining expertise in chemica…
Joseph Orr
Associate Department Head, Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences, Texas A&M University
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Dr. Orr directs the Cognitive Neuroscience of Goals and Actions Laboratory (CONGAlab). Research in the CONGAlab examines the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying executive functions. Specifically, we are intere…
Joshua Hicks
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: No
My research aims to understand how people answer the "big" questions in life and how people's answers to those questions influence their attitudes and behavior. Our lab formulates and tests a wide range of hypotheses rel…
Justin Moscarello
Associate Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Neural pathways of learning and memory
Active avoidance behavior and aversively motivated action
Disorders of emotional memory (PTSD)
The brain contains multiple memory systems. While these systems often work together,…
Ken Muneoka
Professor · Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Ken Muneoka is accepting trainees of these groups:
Undergraduate Scholars
My lab is focused on understanding epimorphic and tissue regeneration in mammals.
Kurt Rademaker
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently seeking highly motivated graduate students to join the Paleo Andes team and the Center for the Study of the First Americans. Contact Dr. Rademaker at rademaker@tamu.edu ahead of applying to the TAMU grad program.
settlement of the Americas
environmental archaeology
hunter-gatherers
historical ecology
lithic technology and provenance
geographic information systems
Larry Monocello
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I welcome inquiries from potential graduate students interested in research topics related to: mental health and illness (especially but not limited to body image and eating disorders), cultural models and cultural consonance, applied anthropology, research methods, and South Korea/East Asia. I will…
Health and wellbeing
Psychological/psychiatric anthropology
Cognitive anthropology
Cultural models
Cultural consonance
Body image
Male body image
Eating disorders
Embodiment
Masculinity/masculinities
Research methods
Sou…
Larry Suva
Professor · College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Dr. Suva is currently seeking graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and undergraduate researchers
Dr. Suva's entire research focus is on the skeletal consequences of disease. These interests include breast cancer bone metastasis, multiple myeloma, fracture healing, bone regeneration and bone anabolism.
Lei Zou
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ The GEAR Research Group is actively recruiting undergraduate student workers, graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D.), and visiting scholars/students. If you are interested in working with Dr. Zou on GIScience, GeoAI, Big Data, urban digital twins, disaster resilience, health GIS, and integrated social-en…
Geographic information science (GIScience)
GeoAI, Social Sensing
Remote Sensing
Digital Twins
Smart and Equal Resilience
Public Health
Socio-Environmental Sustainability
Lindsay Dawson
Assistant Professor · Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Lindsay A. Dawson is not accepting trainees at this time.
Cell Biology, Fracture healing, Regeneration Biology
Lucien Nana Yobo
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am actively seeking high motivated undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs to come join my group. If you're currently a TAMU undergraduate student, send me an email so we can find a time to meet. For prospective graduate student and postdocs, please contact me with a copy of your CV and p…
I am an isotope geochemist and stratigrapher who uses non-traditional stable isotopes (Ca, Sr, Cr, Mg, Fe) to investigates the effects of past changes in Earth's history from marine sedimentary rocks. Combined with these…
Mark Packard
Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2024-2025?: Yes
The primary focus of research in our laboratory is on the neurobiological bases of memory. Evidence indicates that memory is not a unitary phenomenon, but instead is organized in multiple brain systems that differ in ter…
Matthew Vess
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
My research broadly focuses on the psychological processes and consequences associated with people’s efforts to manage existential concerns, including concerns about personal identity, meaning, and mortality.
Affiliated…
Michael Golding
Professor · Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Our lab welcomes trainees from these groups and programs:
Graduate Students
Non-Thesis Masters
Postdoctoral Fellow
Undergraduate Scholars
Biomedical Sciences (BIMS)
Genetics (GENE)
Toxicology (TOXI)
Learn more about our Current Lab Members and our Lab Alumni at the Golding Lab website.
My long-term goals are to change the narrative on the origins of alcohol-induced birth defects, define epigenetic mechanisms of paternal inheritance, and provide an entertaining yet impactful learning experience to futur…
Michael Smotherman
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Graduate student opportunities. Students interested in pursuing the neuroethology of communication are encouraged to apply to our graduate training programs in Biology, Neuroscience or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Contact Dr. Smotherman directly for more information.
Evolution and Neurobiology of Communication
Communication is an essential part of sociality, and an animal's vocal communications provide a window into their cognitive capabilities, motivations, and behavioral ecology. …
Natalie Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Trainees interested in pursuing their PhD in toxicology, please see application information with details on application deadlines.
Inhalation & developmental toxicology
Maternal air pollution exposure
Neonatal respiratory tract infections
Childhood asthma
Gene-environment interactions
Olivia Manley
· Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are currently recruiting researchers at the graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral levels.
The Manley Lab is interested in the enzymology underlying the biosynthesis of natural products. Natural products, or secondary metabolites, are compounds produced by living organisms that often confer an evolutionary adv…
Qian Yuan
Assistant Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am actively looking for motivated students and postdocs for joining my group!
Data-driven and physics-based machine learning for computational fluid dynamics;
High performance computing;
Planetary geodynamics and planetary habitability;
Earth's interior and surface processes
Rachel Smallman
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
My research focuses on the conscious and non-conscious processes involved in everyday decision-making. One line of research focuses on counterfactual thinking, or thoughts of “what might have been”. Imagining…
Rachel Smith
Associate Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
My primary research interests are the neurobiological mechanisms of drug addiction and the compulsive behaviors and maladaptive habits associated with this psychiatric disorder. A central theme of my research thus far h…
Rebecca Brooker
Professor, APS Fellow · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Emotional and Biological Risk Factors for Anxiety Problems in Early Life
Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Risk for Psychopathology
Identifying Normative and Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Emotion Development
Gene…
Richard Gomer
Thomas Powell ’62 Professor of Science & University Distinguished Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ PostDoc Positions Open! Click here for more information!
Biological Resilience
Neural Circuits Regeneration and Repair
Synthetic Biology
Rongxiang Tang
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
My research aims to understand how the brain supports higher-order cognitive functions (e.g., attention, cognitive control, memory) across young and older adulthood. The current focus in the lab includes investigating ne…
Sarah Swinford-Jackson
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
There are currently no FDA-approved treatments for psychostimulant use disorders. A central theme of research in the Swinford-Jackson laboratory is to refine our understanding of the neurobiology underlying drug craving …
Sergio Lemus
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Lemus is currently accepting graduate students with similar research interests.
Specialty:
- Ethnography
- Theories of race
- Materiality
- The body
- Mexican Migration
- Border Theory
- Bio/necro/politics, and class
Current Research Projects:
As of Fall 2021, Dr. Lemus is an Assistant Professor in…
Shawn Chiang, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Prospective students interested in working with Dr. Chiang or the CACHE lab should email him to express interest before submitting application materials.
Culturally-tailored health communication, Communication Technology, Cancer Prevention, particularly HPV-related cancers, Population of Focus: Asian Americans/ sexual and gender minorities
Shogo Sato
Assistant Professor · Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Postdoc Position Available
A broad range of physiological functions exhibits daily variations, such as the sleep/wake cycle, the endocrine system, and metabolism, which are precisely controlled by molecular circadian clocks. Importantly, genetic d…
Shoshana Eitan
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences, Texas A&M University
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Dr. Eitan's lab is focused on understanding the biological mechanisms underlying mental and neurological disorders, and to develop improved strategies for prevention and management of these disorders. Recent work in the …
Srividhya Iyer
Assistant Professor · Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Dr. Iyer is currently accepting graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
Dr. Iyer's research interests lie in in understanding and leveraging the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), a response to protein folding and processing overloads in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), to maintain declining bo…
Stephanie C. Payne
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
I examine how individual differences facilitate (or inhibit) the effectiveness of human resource practices and how organizational initiatives can be implemented to be mutually beneficial for both the employee and the org…
Takashi Yamauchi
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences, Texas A&M University
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Emotion and cognition / Computational Psychiatry & Cognitive Modeling / Unconscious semantic processing / Cognitive Science of Decision Making
Brain-computer interface / Affective computing / Human Computer Interaction
…
Uday Bhanu Prakash Vaddevolu
Assistant Professor · College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, College of Engineering
⭐ Currently accepting applications for multiple Graduate Assistant Research positions for M.S. and Ph.D. programs. Please see attached document with more information and to whom you should send your application.
Soil–Water–Plant Interactions
Irrigation and Water Management
Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Sensing for Smart Irrigation
Data-Driven Water Management Strategies
Groundwater Modeling
Vani Mathur
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Dr. Mathur's work focuses on understanding the sources of disparities in pain, and the specific mechanisms by which social and cultural factors alter pain experience and pain physiology. Her research targets the problem …
Winfred Arthur, Jr.
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: No
My current research is broadly in the areas of (1) personnel psychology with an emphasis on testing, assessment, selection, validation, and associated methodological issues including but not limited to meta-analysis; (2)…
Yue Zhang
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Professor Zhang is seeking to recruit graduate students and one postdoc to connect fundamentals of atmospheric chemistry with air pollution and climate predictions. Candidates will have the opportunity to work on projects (1) using environmental chambers, state-of-the-art aerosol and gas phase mass …
With increasing interactions between human beings and the environment, air pollution and climate change are two major challenges many countries face. Atmospheric gas pollutants and aerosols, have significant health risks…
Yumiko Mochinushi
Instructional Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-4:00p
Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
Yuriana Aguilar
Assistant Professor · Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Dr. Aguilar is currently accepting trainees.
My research focuses on understanding why cardiovascular complications arise from diabetes. In particular, we study which proteins are critical in diabetic cardiomyopathy development and aim to deliver these via adeno ass…
Zhe (Sarina) Zhang
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Zhang is actively recruiting undergraduate, Master's, and PhD students to join the CIDI-Spatial research group. If you are interested in working with Dr. Zhang, please email your CV, a code sample (if available), and a writing sample to zhezhang@tamu.edu.
Geographic information science and system (GIS)
Cyberinfrastructure and CyberGIS
Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
High-performance and distributed computing
Participatory GIS and spatial decision-making
Research Appli…
Zhilong Yang
Associate Department Head (Research & Graduate Studies), Professor · College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested in joining an enthusiastic team to understand viruses and their hosts. We are recruiting trainees at various levels!
The overarching research goal of my laboratory is to understand the mechanisms governing viral replication, with the rationale that the discoveries from my research will expand our knowledge of both viruses and their hos…
Zina Trost
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: Yes
My research interests fall into three broad, overlapping categories:
1) First, I am interested in cognitive, affective, and behavioral factors that may contribute to development of chronic pain/disability or facilitate…
Virginia Tech 2 hiring
Florian Zach
Associate Professor · Pamplin College of Business
⭐ Information for Ph.D. applicants: Please reach out if you are interested in my research and research methods. A background in quantitative analysis or programming is preferred. VT offers several courses to learn and improve quantitative research methods.
Innovation adoption, Market entry, Positioning strategies
Seongmin Park
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Neuroscience, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech · Virginia Tech
⭐ Accepting students in Cognitive Neuroscience & Biopsychology
Neural mechanisms of learning and decision-making
- How does the brain learn from past experiences to make better decisions in the future?
Neural representation of structural knowledge
- How does the brain extract the …
Florida State University 109 hiring
Adam Dewan
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The Dewan Laboratory studies the molecular and cellular basis for sensory perception. The olfactory system is a powerful model in neuroscience for addressing how inputs to the brain contribute to stimulus perception. Now…
Adam Dewan
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
The Dewan Laboratory is focused on the molecular and cellular basis of sensory perception. Researchers use a combination of genetic, optogenetic, optical imaging, and behavioral techniques in mice to explore how olfactor…
Alireza Salami
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Dr. Alireza Salami’s research focuses on uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive decline in aging with a particular focus on episodic memory. He has led multiple projects funded by major grant agencies, aim…
Allison A. Wing
Associate Professor · Florida State University
⭐ If you are interested in pursuing research related to tropical convection, tropical cyclones and climate, please contact me (see below)! Prospective graduate students may apply through the EOAS department website.
Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Convection, organization of tropical convection and how this modulates tropical and global climate and climate sensitivity, the process of tropical cyclone formation, variability of tropica…
Alyssa R. Atwood
Associate Professor · Florida State University
⭐ If you are interested in joining my lab, please reach out to me over e-mail with a brief description of your research interests and a CV (or a summary of past coursework and research). You can also find the description of any open positions in the Opportunities section of this website.
geochemistry of coral skeletons, Earth history, climate reconstructions, tropics, geochemistry, oceanography, atmospheric science
Andrea Meltzer
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Andrea Meltzer's current research draws from an evolutionary perspective to examine how people's personal qualities shape their intimate relationships and how their intimate relationships shape their personal qualities. …
Anna Cohen
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Anna Cohen is recruiting students interested in social complexity, political economy, ceramic and/or geospatial analyses, research ethics, and Mesoamerican archaeology.
Anna Cohen, Ph.D. is an anthropological archaeologist who focuses on human-environmental interactions and ancient urbanism in the Americas. She uses remote sensing techniques like lidar and ceramic analyses to investigat…
Ashby Plant
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Promoting positive intergroup relations and reducing intergroup tension; interactions between different social groups; the role of motivation in the management and reduction of intergroup tension.
Bryan J. Cuevas
John F. Priest Professor of Religion · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Cuevas is currently accepting graduate students (M.A. and Ph.D.) interested in pursuing research topics in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies for the 2026-27 academic year.
Tibetan History and Biography Before 1800
Buddhist Narrative Literature
Buddhist Ritual Magic & Sorcery
Callie Little
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Dr. Little is Assistant Professor of Psychology and core faculty in the Florida Center for Reading Research. Her work examines how child-specific factors such as genetic influences transact with environmental contexts to…
Carmen Varela
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The Varela Lab aims to elucidate the mechanisms (cellular, network, computational) by which thalamic cells and networks contribute to learning and memory. A primary goal is to shed light on the spike and local field pote…
Choeeta Chakrabarti
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Choeeta Chakrabarti is recruiting graduate students interested in mixed-methods research in cultural, bio-cultural and medical anthropology, especially as it relates to health behavior and outcomes.
Choeeta Chakrabarti, Ph.D. is a medical anthropologist specializing in the intersection of health, culture and behavior, with a focus on how social organization and health intersect. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthrop…
Chris Martin
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Cognitive neuroscience of human memory.
Chris Schatschneider
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Not recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Educational psychology, learning disabilities, quantitative methods and research design, reading and language comprehension.
Colleen Ganley
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
The overarching goal of Colleen Ganley's research is to better understand factors that contribute to students’ mathematical learning and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career interests. She is pa…
Darin R. Rokyta
Professor
⭐ POSITIONS AVAILABLE for postdoctoral investigators, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
I am an evolutionary biologist studying the genetics of adaptation across a diverse array of experimental systems. Throughout my career, I have endeavored to integrate fine-scale molecular and genetic details into our un…
David Braithwaite
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
https://psy.fsu.edu/~braithwaite/research/
David S. March
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
David March investigates how automatic, often unconscious processes shape the way people perceive and respond to their social world, with a particular focus on threat. His Dual Implicit Process Model (DIPM) distinguishes…
David Thoms
Assistant Professor
⭐ Dr. David Thoms is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. David Thoms is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
Hosts rely on a healthy microbiome for optimal growth and development. While the microbiome is crucial for functional immune system development, immunity has also been shown to influence microbiome composition in a manne…
Dean Falk
Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dean Falk is not actively recruiting at this time but may accept graduate students studying a narrow range of subjects centered on the evolution of the brain and advanced cognitive and creative abilities. Please contact her directly to determine if your potential research topic is a good fit.
Biological anthropology with interests in: Brain evolution, Fossil Hominins, Origins of language and music, Autism, History of science
Debra Ann Fadool
Nancy Marcus Professor of Biological Science · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Olfactory Signal Transduction and Neuromodulation of Ion Channels.
Derek Nee
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The Nee Lab examines how behavior is guided by internal representations to perform goal-directed action. This requires understanding cognitive control, which promotes goal-relevant processing over habitual tendencies, an…
Douglas Storace
Assistant Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Dr. Douglas Storace is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. Douglas Storace is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
Perception, decision making and behavior depend on detecting and responding appropriately to sensory information. However, the mechanisms employed by the brain to encode sensory information, and how those signals are tra…
Dr. Amy Webster
Assistant Professor
⭐ Dr. Amy Webster is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. Amy Webster is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
Why individuals are different from each other is one of life's fundamental puzzles. A given individual's phenotype may be driven by a combination of genetic and present environmental conditions, along with prior environm…
Dr. Andrew Rassweiler
Biological Science Faculty Member
⭐ Dr. Andrew Rassweiler is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2024.
I am a quantitative marine ecologist with research interests straddling the linked fields of natural resource management and ecosystem resilience. I combine field experiments, data analysis and mathematical modeling to a…
Dr. Ashwanth Francis
Biological Science Faculty Member
⭐ Dr. Ashwanth Francis is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. Ashwanth Francis is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
The scope of my research program is to understand how viruses reach their replication centers within the nucleus of living cells. Our laboratory uses a combination of quantitative live-cell imaging, single virus tracking…
Dr. Austin R. Mast
Professor
⭐ Dr. Austin Mast is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2026.
My research program involves topics within the broadly defined area of biodiversity study. I am particularly interested in (1) the interplay of ecology and evolution that determines the form and function of plant life on…
Dr. Brian D. Inouye
Professor
⭐ Dr. Brian Inouye is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
I am a quantitative population and community ecologist, mostly working with plants and insects. I am interested in how variation among individuals (in traits, stages, and spatial locations) affects population dynamics an…
Dr. Deborah J. Ebener
Professor and Director of Clinical Training · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ Dr. Ebener is not accepting new doctoral students for Fall 2026.
Coping with disabilities (e.g., ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, mental health disorders, physical disabilities)
Recovery from substance use disorders and adaptation to co-existing disabilities and mental health disorder…
Dr. Debra A. Fadool
Professor
⭐ Dr. Debra Fadool is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. Debra Fadool is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
We are researching learning, memory, and neural plasticity at the level of the ion channel protein. Our main stay in the laboratory is biophysics, specifically a technique called patch-clamp electrophysiology, where we c…
Dr. Emily C. Lemmon
Professor
⭐ Dr. Emily Lemmon is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2024.
One of the most exciting questions in biology is How do new species arise? This question has intrigued and fascinated biologists from Darwin to the present. The goal of my research program is to gain insight into the pro…
Dr. Emily H. DuVal
Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Now recruiting PhD students for fall 2025. Contact by e-mail for availability of postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate research positions.
My primary area of interest is behavioral ecology. My research program explores the evolution of social behavior in animals, particularly birds, with an emphasis on cooperation, sexual selection, and reproductive strateg…
Dr. Hong-Guo Yu
Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Dr. Hong-Guo Yu is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2026.
Our research goal is to understand how chromosomes organize themselves and segregate during cell division. In mitosis the cell replicates itself by equally partitioning duplicated chromosomes. In contrast, during the fir…
Dr. Hongchang Cui
Associate Professor
⭐ Dr. Hongchang Cui is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2025.
Cell fate specification and reprogramming in plants; evolutionary and developmental biology; plant-environment interaction
Dr. Jacob Brown
Assistant Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ If you are interested in becoming a doctoral or master’s student pursuing research in these areas, please contact Dr. Brown at jbrown54@fsu.edu.
Muscle atrophy can lead to impairment of quality of life and metabolic health, while promoting morbidity and mortality. In our laboratory, we study the underlying mechanisms of skeletal muscle atrophy and dysfunction dur…
Dr. James Jordan
Assistant Professor
⭐ Dr. James Jordan is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. James Jordan is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
Epigenetic regulation of metabolism in health and disease.
Dr. James M. Fadool
Professor
⭐ Dr. James Fadool is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2020.
Using zebrafish as an model system, we investigate genetic & cellular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor development, patterning, retinal degeneration and regeneration.
Dr. Kathryn M. Jones
Associate Professor · Florida State University
⭐ POSITIONS AVAILABLE for postdoctoral investigators, graduate students, and undergraduate students
I am interested in the symbiotic interaction between nitrogen-fixing rhizobial bacteria and their legume host plants. We use the agriculturally-important bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti and Sinorhizobium medicae and thei…
Dr. Kenneth A. Taylor
Professor
⭐ Dr. Kenneth Taylor is currently recruiting new graduate students for Spring 2024.
Dr. Kenneth Taylor is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators for Spring 2024.
Our research uses 3-D electron microscopy (EM) to study structure and function at the resolution of molecules and supramolecular assemblies both isolated and within cells. This aspect of EM includes techniques such as el…
Dr. Leqi Cui
Assistant Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ We welcome enthusiastic undergraduate and graduate students to join our team.
My research is primarily focused on understanding how novel food processing technologies affect the physico-chemical properties and health benefits of foods. One particular food I am interested in is the plant-based prot…
Dr. Lisa C. Lyons
Associate Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Dr. Lisa Lyons is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2021.
Mechanisms through which the circadian clock and sleep modulate neural plasticity and memory formation
Dr. Liyun Miao
Faculty Member
⭐ Dr. Liyun Miao is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. Liyun Miao is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
Most animal life begins with the union of a sperm and an egg. The newly formed zygote develops under precise regulation, undergoing in vivo reprogramming to gain the potential to become any cell type and eventually a who…
Dr. Lyndsay Jenkins
Michael and Jean Shahnasarian Endowed Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ Dr. Jenkins typically accepts 1-2 doctoral students each year for the combined Ph.D. program in Counseling Psychology and School Psychology.
bullying and childhood trauma prevention research
Dr. Matt Cooper Borkenhagen
Assistant Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ Dr. Cooper Borkenhagen is currently accepting graduate student applications.
Dr. Michael Cortez
Assistant Professor
⭐ Dr. Michael Cortez is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2023.
I use mathematical models to explore how adaptation and species interactions drive patterns observed across communities. Much of my past work has focused on predator-prey, host-pathogen, and other exploiter-victim system…
Dr. Michael Giardina
Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ He is currently accepting doctoral student inquiries from those interested in working on/in the above theoretical, methodological, and topical areas, broadly conceived.
physical culture and bio-politics (e.g., the celebrity body, the mediated body, etc.); global sporting cultures (e.g., issues related to hybridity, flexible citizenship, and transnational identity); and sport and the cit…
Dr. Michelle Parvatiyar
Associate Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ The Parvatiyar Lab is currently recruiting Graduate Students. Visit the lab page for lab information and contacts.
My interests are centered on the development of therapeutic interventions to improve systolic function in dilated cardiomyopathies and other conditions culminating in heart failure. Additional interests include understan…
Dr. Qinchun Rao
Yun-Hwa Hsieh Endowed Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ Join Dr. Rao in the Food Safety and Quality Lab at FSU as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar! Click here to learn more.
My research interests lie in utilizing food chemistry, especially immunochemistry and physicochemistry, as a tool to answer questions arising in both food safety and quality disciplines. My food safety research primarily…
Dr. Scott Stagg
Professor
⭐ Dr. Scott Stagg is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2021.
Dr. Scott Stagg is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
Research in the Stagg lab is directed towards two tracks: the mechanisms of membrane trafficking, and high-throughput high-resolution cryo-EM. On the biological side, we determine the structure and mechanisms of protein …
Dr. Steven Lenhert
Associate Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Dr. Steven Lenhert is currently recruiting new graduate students.
My field of research is nanobiotechnology, which involves the application of nanoscience and biology to solve technological problems. Nanoscience is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand how a materia…
Dr. Val Wongsomboon
Assistant Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ We welcome motivated students interested in gaining research experience in human development & family science and related fields. We also welcome volunteers, especially those preparing for graduate school or careers in the social and health sciences.
If you are interested, please email: v.wongsombo…
Dr. Wongsomboon’s research is interdisciplinary, examining how stigma, social contexts, and evolving forms of relationship development influence health & well-being. She uses a range of quantitative and qualitative metho…
Elizabeth Hammock
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Elizabeth Hammock's lab uses genetic, molecular, cellular, and behavioral techniques to understand the neurobiological mechanisms of social and affective behaviors in developing and mature mammals. Some big questions in …
Emily Lemmon
Professor of Biological Science and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Brain and behavioral evolution during the formation of new species.
Emily Stewart
Assistant Professor of Geology · Florida State University
⭐ I am always looking for outstanding group members at every level, from undergraduate up to graduate students and postdocs. I am especially committed to empowering people of color, women, and LGBTQ+, disabled, or otherwise marginalized students and researchers. Graduate Students: I am always happy to…
Our group uses the rock record to investigate processes that occurred deep in Earth’s crust and throughout the billions of years of our planet’s history. I am particularly interested in metamorphic reactions that release…
Eric Shattuck
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Eric Shattuck is recruiting graduate students interested in health, sickness behavior, inflammation and immune function, sleep, and vaccine hesitancy across a variety of social and cultural contexts.
infectious disease, inflammation, immune function, sickness behavior, sleep and sleep health, tattoo flu, pain and anger, disgust and behavioral immune system, social immunology, health disparities, Indigenous health, hu…
Fanxiu Zhu
Professor
⭐ POSITIONS AVAILABLE for postdoctoral investigators, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
Dr. Fanxiu Zhu is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2022.
Dr. Fanxiu Zhu is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
My laboratory studies Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV), a human DNA tumor virus associated with several human malignancies, including Kaposi's sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma, and multicentric Castleman'…
Geoffrey Thomas
Specialized Teaching Faculty · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Geoff Thomas is interested in recruiting graduate students with interests in Bioarchaeology and Paleopathology of the American Southeast with specific interests in growth and development, health, behavioral reconstruction, and gender as it related to social organization and subsistence practices.
Skeletal biology
Subadult growth and development
Functional morphology and biomechanics
Hunter-gatherer lifeways
Evolutionary theory
Paleopathology
H.J. François Dengah
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dengah is recruiting graduate students interested in cognitive and medical anthropology, and learning how to conduct mixed-method ethnography.
Cultural Anthropology
Hanhan Xue
Associate Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ She is currently accepting doctoral student applications from those interested in working on/in international sport business, esports, and related areas within broader organizational theory and strategic management discipline frameworks.
Cross-cultural sport management, sport organizations in emerging markets (e.g., the Chinese market), qualitative studies of cultural organizational phenomena within professional sports and emerging sports, esports manage…
Heath M. Maranges
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Dr. Maranges studies what facilitates cooperation and moral decision making, including developmental environments, traits, and person perceptual processes.
Hui Wang
Associate Professor · FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
⭐ He currently has 1-2 graduate student research assistantship position(s) available starting from Spring 2014. The research focus will be on data mining and optimization for complex engineering systems. If interested, please contact him by email: huiwz.wang@gmail.com
Manufacturing process monitoring/diagnosis/design/control/ automation (with applications to automotive manufacturing)
Manufacturing system design and optimization (with applications to green energy systems)
Process contr…
Irmak Olcaysoy Okten
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Irmak Olcaysoy Okten's research examines the processes of social cognition with a specific focus on forming and updating impressions and beliefs implicitly (unintentionally) and explicitly (intentionally). She is particu…
Jayur Madhusudan Mehta
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Jayur Madhusudan Mehta is recruiting master's and Ph.D. students interested in coastal and environmental archaeology and the archaeology of the African Diaspora. Interested students can learn more about his work at campsite.bio.
Archaeology, human-environment relationships, coastal hazards, Indigenous communities, paleo-environmental reconstruction, coastal marsh ecology, anthropogenic biodiversity, household archaeology
Jennifer Steiner
Associate Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ If you are interested in becoming a doctoral or master’s student pursuing research in these areas, please contact Dr. Steiner at jsteiner2@fsu.edu.
My research interests include the role of nutrition and exercise in the prevention and treatment of disease as well as the promotion of optimal health and performance. More specifically, my work investigates the impact o…
Jeremy D. Owens
Professor · Florida State University
⭐ There are always oppurtunities to collaborate on projects and analysis in my lab and I am always looking for highly motivated and qualified individuals (students and postdocotral researcher) to work on various projects involving metal isotopes from the the entire geologic record.
My research focuses on the connections and interactions between ocean chemistry, biology and climate perturbations that relate to significant changes in oxygen concentrations. This work integrates geochemical, sedimentol…
Jesse Cougle
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Cognitive, behavioral, and biological processes in anxiety disorders, PTSD, problematic anger, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders; treatment of anxiety disorders and problematic anger; computerized treatments…
Jessica Ridgway Clayton, PhD
Carol E. Avery Professor
Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies
Director, Digital Textile Printing Laboratory · Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship
⭐ Dr. Ridgway welcomes applications from graduate students to work with her on her current research projects.
Creative Design
Functional Apparel Design
Body Image
Body Scanning
Digital Textile Printing
Mentoring
Teaching
Jian Feng
Associate Professor
⭐ Dr. Jian Feng is currently recruiting new graduate students.
Dr. Jian Feng is currently recruiting new postdoctoral investigators.
Epigenetic regulation of neuropsychiatric disorders. Brain function requires accurate control of gene transcription in response to environmental stimuli. Epigenetics plays a key role during this process by modulating gen…
Jim McNulty
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Jim McNulty's program of research focuses on how strong beliefs may change or remain stable over time. For the most part, he has addressed this issue in the context of close relationships, where initially positive belief…
Jimmy Yu
Sheng Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhism · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Yu is currently accepting graduate students (M.A. and Ph.D.) interested in pursuing research topics in East Asian Buddhist Studies for the 2025-26 academic year
Chinese Buddhist History 1100-1800
Chan/Zen Studies
Bodily Rituals
Justin Riddle
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The Riddle Lab is investigating the neural basis of cognitive control and psychiatric illness. Researchers study how network-scale brain activity measured with EEG and functional MRI can be modulated by non-invasive brai…
K. Ann Horsburgh
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ K. Ann Horsburgh is recruiting graduate students with interests in the interactions between lived experiences and health, broadly construed. Some background in biology is an advantage, but not essential.
Biological Anthropology
Kohsaku Tobioka
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Graduate students who are potentially interested in working with me or in the above subjects, feel free to send me an email to setup a meeting.
High Energy Theory
Lisa Eckel
Director of Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Obesity, eating disorders, neuroendocrine control of ingestive behavior, ovarian rhythms in behavior.
Lisa Lyons
Professor of Biological Science and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Signaling and circadian modulation regulating associative memory
Liz Brown
Assistant Professor of Biological Science and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Sleep, feeding, chemosensory function, aging, neurodegenerative disease.
Longfeng Li
Assistant Professor · Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
⭐ Dr. Li is currently accepting new graduate students.
I am interested in the dynamic interplay between parents and children, focusing particularly on early parent-child interactions and coregulation in relation to child development. My research examines how these early pare…
Mark D. McCoy
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Mark D. McCoy is recruiting graduate students interested in studying ancient societies, geospatial archaeology, and the archaeology of Pacific Islands, especially the Hawaiian Islands, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and the islands of Micronesia. Interested students can learn more…
Maya Stokes
Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Dr. Stokes is recruiting students at the MS and Ph.D levels for 2024 in the Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences at Florida State University. More information can be found on the departmental website. Interested students are encouraged to reach out to Dr. Stokes directly (mstokes@fsu.ed…
The Stokes Lab works at the intersection of geology and biology to understand how topography changes over time, and how that might affect the evolution of life. Our approach is multi-faceted, we use computational models,…
Michael Carrasco
Associate Dean, Research; Associate Professor · College of Fine Arts
⭐ Prospective doctoral students should contact him prior to applying to discuss their projects.
The expressive cultures of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas; Mesoamerican iconography, epigraphy, and poetics; Indigenous foodways, ethnobotany, and ecology; Critical Heritage Studies and Digital Humanities and Ima…
Michael Kaschak
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Michael Kaschak and his students study language. The Learning, Memory and Language Lab is interested in understanding the processes involved in language production and language comprehension. How do social and cognitive …
Michael Kofler
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Michael Kofler's primary research interests center on improving long-term outcomes for children with ADHD. This research follows two interrelated pathways: a) identifying internal and contextual strengths/assets that con…
Michelle Arbeitman
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Neuroscience · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The Arbeitman lab studies the molecular-genetic specification of behaviors, with a focus on reproductive behaviors in fruit flies and mice. The goal is to understand how genes specify the potential for behavior in these …
Mohamed Kabbaj
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Neuroscience · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Mohamed Kabbaj is accepting graduate students in collaboration with Z Wang.
The focus of their research is to understand the neurobiology underlying individual differences and sex differences in depression and drug addi…
Molly Hermiller
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The Hermiller Lab seeks to better understand how episodic memory allows us to store experiences and social interactions, mentally travel back in time to reimagine prior events and reminisce with others. Their research us…
Molly S. Hermiller
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Molly S. Hermiller is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the spatial and temporal dynamics of the human brain that support cognition – especially how the hippocampus interacts with a distributed network of brain re…
Nancy de Grummond
Professor of Classics · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Prof. de Grummond is currently accepting M.A. students.
Etruscan and Roman archaeology, Etruscan and Roman myth and religion
Omar Faruque
Associate Professor · FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
⭐ Research opportunities are available from time to time. Please contact me at faruque@caps.fsu.edu if you want to pursue graduate studies for future opportunities.
Real-time simulation; Ship electric systems; Application of real-time simulation in the area of bulk power system monitoring and control, smart grid and renewable energy integration
Oswaldo Medina-Ramírez
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Oswaldo Medina-Ramírez is recruiting students interested water governance and environmental anthropology.
water governance, environmental anthropology
Qian Yin
Assistant Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Dr. Qian Yin is currently recruiting new graduate students for Fall 2026.
My lab is interested in how individual proteins, or protein assemblies, mediate biological processes in the linked areas of membrane trafficking, innate immunity, and host-pathogen interactions. Longer-term perspectives …
Qunfang Wu
Assistant Professor · College of Communication & Information
⭐ I am recruiting 1–2 Ph.D. students to begin in Fall 2026 in the areas of HCI and HAI!
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered AI, Critical Design, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Social Computing.
Rasheda Haughbrook
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Rasheda Haughbrook is interested in the intersection of the environment, genetics, and overall context as they relate to developmental outcomes like academic achievement, physical health and mental health. She is also in…
Rhys Parfitt
Associate Professor · Florida State University
⭐ Prospective graduate students may apply through the department website.
Atmosphere-ocean interactions and the basic physics of atmospheric and oceanic circulations. Large-scale climate variability on all timescales and the socio-economic impact of extreme weather, particularly in a warming c…
Richard K. Bono
Assistant Professor · Florida State University
⭐ If you are interested in MS or PhD opportunities, please contact me.
GEOMAGNETIC FIELD DESCRIPTION
- Statistical field model development
- Recognizing coherent signals in highly scattered data
- Applying machine learning and novel statistical techniques to geomagnetic problems
- Bridging …
Rick Macatee
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Co-occurring mood/anxiety and substance use disorders, particularly cannabis use disorder; EEG/ERP methods; digital technology (computerized/smartphone interventions, wearables) for assessment and treatment
Roberto Vincis
Associate Professor in Biological Science and Neuroscience · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The research in the Vincis Laboratory aims to investigate the basis of our ability to decide and plan our eating behaviors and dietary choices. The motivation to eat depends greatly on the taste of food and the reward ex…
Sarah Brown
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
The Advancing Suicide Prevention and Intervention through Research and Engagement (ASPIRE) laboratory at Florida State University aims to investigate processes involved in the development of suicidal ideation and the shi…
Sherelle Harmon
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
Child and adolescent psychopathology, emotion regulation, executive functions, irritability, anxiety, mood disorders, transdiagnostic approaches, evidence-based practice.
Shin Kira
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Generalization: Decision-making in novel situations
Simon Foo
Professor · FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
⭐ Currently, my lab is full. Not accepting any more students until Fall 2027.
Photovoltaics
Multi-junction III-V compound Solar Cells
Organic/Polymer Solar Cells
Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Perovskite Solar Cells
Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Artificial Intelligence
Stephen A. Sansom
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ He is currently accepting graduate students.
Greek poetry, digital humanities
Suguru Takagi
Assistant Professor of Biological Science and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
Sensory circuits, processing, and behavior across species
Tanya M. Peres
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Tanya Peres is recruiting graduate students interested in foodways in the ancient Americas and the non-food roles of animals in Native American societies, and with previous experience in archaeological fieldwork, zooarchaeological analysis, paleoethnobotanical analysis, and other basic archaeologica…
zooarchaeology, relationships between humans and their environments, humans and animals, subsistence, native worldview, ancient and historic subsistence practices, use of animal bone and teeth implements in indigenous ta…
Tehila Nugiel
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The brain basis of learning and attention challenges in youth. The Learning Brain Lab uses cognitive neuroscience tools to investigate brain function in children with common developmental difficulties. They work with man…
Thomas Joiner
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Psychology · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2026
The Laboratory for the Study and Prevention of Suicide-Related Conditions and Behaviors at Florida State University focuses primarily on the study of the nature, causes, and management of suicidal behavior and related di…
Tim Stover
Professor of Classics · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Prof. Stover is currently accepting graduate students.
Latin poetry
Timothy Megraw
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Neuroscience · Program in Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting new graduate students
The Megraw Lab investigates the functions of centrosomes and cilia in cell division, development and disease using Drosophila, mouse, and human cell culture models. This includes asymmetric division of stem cells, the re…
Umit Karabiyik
Associate Professor · Purdue University
⭐ No funding is currently available for new students. I am looking for graduate students (preferably doctoral students) to work in my digital forensics research lab.
Digital and Cyber Forensics, Forensic Intelligence, User and Data Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (Applied to Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity), Computer and Network Security
Vandana Tripathi
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Tripathi is currently seeking graduate and undergraduate students to work on upcoming projects at FSU and NSCL. Please contact her to know more about her program (vtripath@fsu.edu).
Nuclear Experiment
NC State University 7 hiring
Breanne Wylie
Asst Professor · College of Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ ***Dr. Wylie is accepting Graduate Students for Fall 2026***
Bryan Clift
Asst Professor · College of Natural Resources
⭐ He is open to working with new graduate students.
Ethan Hyland
Assoc Professor · College of Sciences
⭐ We are currently looking for new graduate students (MS, PhD)!
My research falls into three main categories: 1) sedimentology and stratigraphy, which includes examining modern and paleo-critical zone processes or using chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and basin-scale macrostr…
Kasey Wagoner
Assistant Professor · College of Sciences
⭐ Our group has many projects that are looking for the right person to come along. If you're interested, please email Kasey with the following information: 1. who you are (e.g. "I'm a second year civil-engineering major") 2. the relevant courses or experience you have (e.g., "I've done a lot of python…
Physics Education Research, Graduate Education, Science Communication, Sports Science, CMB Cosmology
Ravi Kulkarni
Associate Professor · College of Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Research Staff: Pok Man Chan, MS (Lab Manager), and Aakriti Tyagi, PhD
Graduate students: Carissa Gaghan (PhD) – Major Advisor, Valeria Criollo (MS) – Major Advisor, Matthew Browning (PhD) – Major advisor, Abdelhamid Fares (PhD)- Co-advisor (Dr. Gimeno lab), Aaliyah Gore (MS)- Committee member (Dr. …
IMMUNOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASES and DISEASE CONTROL
Kulkarni laboratory focuses on studying 'host-microbe interaction' with a focus in the areas of immunology, microbiology, Probiotics and vaccines that are crafted into …
Ronald Baynes
Professor · College of Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Postdoctoral Fellow: Hiroko Enomoto
Ph.D Graduate Students: Earl Ford, Ranee Miller, Farha Sheela
Percutaneous absorption of topically applied drugs and chemicals; Dermal absorption and cutaneous toxicology of chemical mixtures; Transdermal drug delivery; Toxicology of military chemical vesicants; Chemical industry t…
Rong Yin
Asst Professor · Wilson College of Textiles
⭐ Positions of research assistant are available. Preference will be given to those who have research experience in textile technology, material science, chemistry, physics, and electronics or other related fields; and good GPA.
Fiber Science
Technical/Electronic Textiles/Wearables
Testing and Materials Evaluation
Textile Engineering
Textile Technology
University of Minnesota 25 hiring
Alex Watson
Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
Partial differential equations, mathematical physics, numerical analysis, computational physics, data science. Interdisciplinary research at the interface of mathematics with condensed matter physics and photonics. Recen…
Alexandra Zachwieja
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor · Medical School
⭐ This project is currently recruiting research assistants.
Climate change effects on social-environmental systems, human mobility, access, and health; Alaska Social-Environmental Systems Project (AkSES); human evolutionary anatomy, paleoecology, and human dispersal patterns in S…
Anar Akhmedov
Professor, School of Mathematics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new undergraduate research students
Accepting new graduate research students
Anar Akhmedov's research interests span diverse mathematical disciplines, including low-dimensional topology, symplectic/contact topology, gauge theory, algebraic geometry, group theory, and topological data science. His…
Andrey Chubukov
Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
Condensed matter theorist working in the area of unconventional behavior of electrons: Superconductivity, Strongly-correlated Electron Systems, Quantum Magnetism
Boya Xiong
Assistant Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new undergraduate research students
Accepting new graduate research students
Focusing on the interface of polymer science, environmental chemistry, and membrane material science, my research aims to i) elucidate the fundamental mechanism of polymer degradation that shapes sustainable design and m…
Gabriel Chan
Associate Professor · Humphrey School of Public Affairs
⭐ Currently reviewing PhD applicants
Science and technology; sustainable development; energy and environment; climate change
Gang Qiu
Assistant Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
My research focuses on investigating novel low-dimensional materials and nanostructures to expand the frontiers of classical nanoelectronics, cryogenic electronics, and quantum technologies. Our research takes a multi-di…
Gregory Handy
Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new undergraduate research students
Accepting new graduate research students
Theoretical neuroscience, applied mathematics, stochastic processes, mathematical biology, dynamical systems, and calcium dynamics.
Guanyi Lu
Assistant Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new undergraduate research students
Accepting new graduate research students
Experimental and numerical investigations of rocks' unique constitutive behaviors and their influence on natural and human-induced subsurface phenomena with emphasis on thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in fluid-driven hy…
Hai Dang Nguyen
Assistant Professor · University of Minnesota Medical School
⭐ Interested applicants should have a PhD and/or MD degree with a strong background in either biochemistry, cell biology, functional genomics, or pharmacology. The laboratory accepts Master and PhD students through Department of Pharmacology program.
In response to DNA damage from environmental and endogenous sources, cells activate an elaborate signaling network called DNA damage response (DDR). This response functions to preserve genomic integrity, which is critica…
Hudson Borja da Rocha
Assistant Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
Failure mechanisms and statistical precursors — predictive models for brittle–ductile transitions and acoustic emissions to improve early detection of material failure.
Damage and fracture in soft solids — experimental a…
Jin O-Uchi
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology · University of Minnesota
⭐ Come work with us! Visit https://med.umn.edu/lhi/about/jobs to see open positions in the O-Uchi lab.
Arrhythmia Heart Failure Adrenergic Signaling Ion Channels Mitochondria
Keith Olive
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics (MIfA) · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
Astrophysics, Cosmology, High Energy Physics, Theoretical Physics
Kurt Prins
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division · University of Minnesota Medical School
⭐ Come work with us! Visit https://med.umn.edu/lhi/about/jobs to see open positions in the Prins lab.
Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Ventricular Failure, CTEPH, Clinical Trial Participation, Pulmonary Balloon Angioplasty
Martina Cardone
Associate Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
The primal goal of my research is two-fold: (i) develop theoretical frameworks that offer engineering guidelines and insights for the study of practically relevant problems and (ii) design of computationally feasible tec…
Mary Garry
Professor of Medicine · University of Minnesota Medical School
⭐ Come work with us! Visit https://med.umn.edu/lhi/about/jobs to see open positions in the Mary Garry lab.
Neural control of cardiovascular responses to exercise; Generation of humanized organs for 1) novel human research models and 2) transplantation purposes
Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali
Associate Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
My general interests span the areas of information theory, communication systems, distributed learning and computing platforms, and Blockchains and distributed ledgers. My primary objective is to characterize the fundame…
Robert Evans III
Assistant Professor · College of Biological Sciences
⭐ Please note: while I love involving undergraduates in research, I do so as a collaborator; I am not a graduate faculty member or PI (i.e., I do not manage a lab and I do not take on graduate students or postdocs).
My research interests involve engaging students in structural biology/biophysics collaborations in the Medical School and College of Biological Science. Primary methodologies include macromolecular x-ray diffractometry (…
Stevie Chancellor
Assistant Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Hanlin Li (2022, Northwestern University; co-advised with Brent Hecht)
Human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) for high-risk health behaviors in online communities, using machine learning to identify high-risk behaviors such as pro-eating disorder, opioid use disorder and recovery, and …
Susan Jones
Distinguished McKnight University Professor · College of Biological Sciences
⭐ Prospective graduate students: I have no openings for graduate students at this time.
historical ecology of disease, comparative and veterinary medicine, environment and health, cultural history of animal and zoonotic diseases, development of comparative medicine, animal protection groups and the laborato…
Trevor Wardill
Associate Professor · College of Biological Sciences
⭐ The lab uses advanced methods in genetics, 2-photon imaging and behavioural quantification and are seeking interest from PhD students.
Dr. Wardill investigates information processing during visually guided behaviours in invertebrate species. The Wardill Lab studies how relevant information is extracted from visual scenes and used for appropriate behavio…
Yang (Katie) Zhao
Assistant Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new graduate research students
My research interest spans domain-specific acceleration chip design, computer architecture, and agile design automation. Specifically, my recent research centers around enabling ubiquitous AI-powered intelligent function…
Yaniv Brandvain
Associate Professor · College of Biological Sciences
⭐ I encourage students, postdocs, and collaborators with a deep curiosity and interest in speciation, introgression, plant mating system evolution, and/or genomic conflicts and who are unafraid of maths, computers, pipettes and plants in their native range and are who are interested in a collegial and…
We are dedicated to understanding the origin, diversity, distribution of, and evolutionary forces active within, the flowering plants. Our group is fundamentally integrative, synthesizing genomic, theoretical, phylogenet…
Yuan Cheng
Associate Professor · Humphrey School
⭐ Currently reviewing PhD applicants
Public management; nonprofit and NGO management; civic engagement and public participation; collaborative governance; local government
Yulong Lu
Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting new undergraduate research students
Accepting new graduate research students
Mathematical foundations of machine learning and data sciences
Applied probability and stochastic dynamics
Applied analysis and PDEs
Bayesian and computational statistics
Inverse problems and uncertainty quantification
William & Mary 6 hiring
Geoffery Zahn
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Zahn welcomes undergraduate and graduate students interested in fundamental and applied research into microbial communities.
Dr. Zahn is a microbial ecologist who investigates how microbial communities form and why their distributions shift across environments. He pairs field surveys with experimental microcosms, metagenomic assays, and machin…
Geoffrey Zahn
Assistant Professor · School of Computing, Data Sciences and Physics
⭐ Dr. Zahn welcomes undergraduate and graduate students interested in fundamental and applied research into microbial communities. Interested students should fill out the appropriate forms here: https://gzahn.github.io/contact.html
Dr. Zahn is a microbial ecologist who investigates how microbial communities form and why their distributions shift across environments. He pairs field surveys with experimental microcosms, metagenomic assays, and machin…
Isabelle Taylor
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Research Opportunities for Students: Lab Webpage
Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Medicinal Chemistry
J.C. Poutsma
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Research Opportunities for Students
Analytical, Computational, Physical
Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs
2024 University Professor for Research Excellence · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
⭐ I am currently looking for additional graduate students to assist in these modeling efforts. Specifically I am looking for prospective students who have a strong interdisciplinary background, including college-level physics, chemistry and math coursework. Experience with computer programming and mat…
Using mathematical models to study effects of climate change and other human impacts on coastal & estuarine systems; Assessing the impacts of climate change and land management on estuarine hypoxia and acidification; Com…
Radomir Ray Mitic
Assistant Professor of Higher Education · William & Mary School of Education
⭐ Dr. Mitic is accepting Ph.D. students interested in topics related to equity in graduate education, civic outcomes of higher education, and international/comparative higher education for Fall 2025.
Equity in Graduate Education, Student Outcomes, Civic Engagement, First-Generation College Students, International/Comparative Higher Education, Quantitative Research Methods
University of Massachusetts--Amherst 8 hiring
Adam Grabell
Assistant Professor · College of Natural Sciences
⭐ Dr. Adam Grabell, Director of the Self-Regulation, Emotions, and Early Development (SEED) laboratory (https://seedlabumass.com/) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is recruiting a graduate student in Developmental Science for fall 2023 enrollment. The incoming graduate student would ideall…
Dr. Grabell’s research focuses on emotion regulation and its relation to cross-diagnostic symptoms of psychopathology in early childhood. He is particularly interested in the fine details of how the emerging emotion regu…
Enrique (Henry) Suárez
Associate Professor · College of Education
⭐ If you are considering doing a PhD in any of these topics, reach out!
Multilingual Learners in Science Learning Environments (Translanguaging), Equity and Justice in Science Education, Science Teacher Education, Elementary Science Education, Physics Education Research, Family-based STEM Le…
Gonen Dori-Hacohen
Professor of Communication · College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
⭐ I am looking for graduate students who are interested in financial discourse, political discourse and civic participation. Additionally, I am looking for Israeli students who would like to study interactions in Hebrew.
I'm a discourse analyst, studying interactions in the media and in mundane situations, focusing on the intersection of interaction, culture, politics, and the media. Currently, working on projects on Entertainment-Politi…
Grant Wilson
Department Head, Astronomy
Professor · College of Natural Sciences
⭐ PhD in Astronomy
My research interests span much of the observable universe - from the energetics of clusters of galaxies to high redshift galaxy evolution, to star formation in nearby galaxies and in the Milky Way. I do this throu…
Jingjing Gao
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Adjunct, Chemistry · Riccio College of Engineering
⭐ We have openings for Postdoc, PhD student, Research Technician, interested applicants please email jgao@umass.edu with cover letter and CV.
Working at the interface of material science, chemistry, biology, and biomedical engineering, we aim to promote healthy aging with a materials-centric approach, to innovate the treatments for degenerative diseases. Our r…
Maria M. Galano
Assistant Professor · College of Natural Sciences
⭐ I will be reviewing applications for Fall 2023 admission to the Clinical Program. For more information about my ongoing research projects and community engagement, please visit the ViTAL Lab website. I will also be participating in two open houses for interested students on October 17th and 18th. Th…
Culture, development, and mental health; effects of early-life exposure to interpersonal violence in diverse populations; family processes and the broader social environment; pathways to psychopathology and resilient out…
Meichen Wang
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences · School of Public Health & Health Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD students and research personnel in the lab
Toxicology, environmental health, exposure, contaminants, food safety
Diet is a major source of exposure to many environmental chemicals, including PFAS, micro- and nanoplastics, PCBs, heavy metals, cyanotoxins, plastic…
Seth Donahue
Professor, Biomedical Engineering · Riccio College of Engineering
⭐ I am always happy to consider new potential graduate students and undergraduate researchers. If you are interested in a possible lab position please email me a single PDF containing your CV or resume and a 1 page description of your background & work ethic, your interest in our work, and your long-t…
Bioinspired Material Design; Bone Tissue Engineering; Comparative Biomechanics; Hibernation Physiology; Paleo-engineering and Biomechanics
Santa Clara University 4 hiring
Julia Scott
· School of Engineering
⭐ Join us as a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab at Santa Clara University under the direction of Prof. Kai Lukoff, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Our location in the Silicon Valley offers unique opportunities to engage with — and also critically examine —…
Jun Wang
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering
⭐ Funded Ph.D. and Master’s Openings - See more details here to join Dr. Jun Wang's research group
Data-Driven Design and Manufacturing, Physics-Driven Design, Generative Design, and Design for Additive Manufacturing. His current work is at the intersection of Machine Learning, Engineering Design, and Advanced Manufac…
Shiva Jahangiri
· School of Engineering
⭐ Please email me if you are interested in collaborating with me on research or pursuing a Ph.D. in databases (especially if you are working in the industry and would like to pursue your Ph.D. as a part-time student).
Big Data Management Systems, Databases for AI/ML (Vector Search & Indexing), Management of Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data, Resource Management and Query Scheduling, Query Optimization and Query Execution Engines
Ying Liu
Associate Professor · School of Engineering
⭐ The Video and Image Processing (VIP) Lab is now recruiting motivated Ph.D. students to do research in deep learning-based image and video processing. If you are interested, please send an email to Dr. Ying Liu with your CV, GRE scores, TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores for international students, undergra…
Image and Video Processing, Computer Vision, Deep Learning; Image and Video Coding, Coding for Machines, Point Cloud Coding; Vision-Language Model, Generative AI
Stony Brook University--SUNY 23 hiring
Adrianus (Ando) Van Der Velden
Associate Professor · Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
⭐ A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. van der Velden. Individuals with an interest in bacterial pathogenesis and host response are encouraged to send a curriculum vitae and cover letter to: Adrianus (Ando) WM van der Velden, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immuno…
Host interactions with Salmonella, with an emphasis on the immunology of infection. Research focuses on elucidating mechanisms that control the balance between the pathogen, the host, and its gut microbiota. Thematic pro…
Alisa Yurovsky
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics · Stony Brook Medicine
⭐ If you are a student at Stony Brook and want to work with me, please send me email to arrange an appointment.
Applied machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology.
Bassem Allam
Marinetics Endowed Professor · School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
⭐ There are often openings for different types of positions ranging from post-doctoral positions to high school internships. Please contact Bassem Allam for information about current availabilities.
Research Topics:
Marine invertebrate physiology and health, Shellfish Genomics, Aquaculture
My research focuses on interactions between benthic invertebrates and waterborne microbes in the framework of host-pathogen or…
Chengfeng Yang, PhD
Professor · Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
⭐ Graduate student positions are available to study the mechanism of carcinogenesis.
RNA dysfunction in carcinogenesis and resistance to cancer therapies
Danling Jiang
Professor of Finance and Associate Dean for Programs · College of Business
⭐ I recruit PhD, graduate, and undergraduate students to assist with research projects (https://sites.google.com/site/danlingjiang/research-opportunities).
Behavioral and Social Approaches to Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance, Stock and Blockchain Investments, Individual, Household, Analyst, and Managerial Behavior and Financial Decision Making. I recruit PhD, graduate, a…
Esther Speer, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics · Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
⭐ Undergraduate students interested in developmental immunology, microbiology or neurobiology research are welcome to join our lab to gain research experience, which they may also apply for credit as part of their degree. Any student interested in our laboratory research experience may contact the PI …
Dr. Speer’s Laboratory in the Division of Neonatology of Stony Brook Children’s Hospital focuses on the immunopathology of neonatal sepsis and inflammation and the development of adjunctive anti-inflammatory pharmacologi…
Fiona Clerc
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am looking to grow my group with students and a postdoc, please get in touch if you are interested in joining.
My research uses simple models to study physical processes within the Earth’s cryosphere and solid Earth, and their connections. To better understand these respective systems, I study direct interactions between ice shee…
Gregory Henkes
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ If you are interested in joining our research group, please contact me directly. I am actively seeking talented and motivated undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and visitors to populate our new stable isotope laboratory.
I’m interested in the stable isotope geochemistry of light elements (H, C, N, O, and S) and their use as recorders of the climatological, biogeochemical, and ecological evolution on Earth. My laboratory is devoted to ma…
Guanyu Huang
Assistant Professor · School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
⭐ Dr. Huang is hiring Ph.D. students and postdocs. All students, especially students from underrepresented groups, are welcome to contact Dr. Huang.
Research Topics
data science, AI, remote sensing, atmospheric environment, and climate
Dr. Huang’s research focuses on the science of air pollution, and its impact on public health. Dr. Huang is an expert of satellite …
Hassan Arbab
Dr. · State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook
⭐ There are multiple research assistant and post-doctoral research associate positions available in the next few years. Please contact Dr. Arbab with a copy of your CV.
Jeffrey Gustafson
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ As a new faculty member I am actively recruiting talented Masters and Ph.D. students to join my lab.
Research in the Gustafson group strives to apply innovative chemical strategies towards complex biological problems. Ongoing projects focus on three main areas (a) The development of chemical methodologies that enable th…
Joseph Warren
Professor · Office of the Dean SOMAS
⭐ Please feel free to email me if you’re interested in joining my lab (as an undergrad, graduate student, or post-doctoral researcher).
Research Topics
Acoustical oceanography, Zooplankton behavior and ecology
My lab uses acoustics as a tool to study a variety of biological (and physical) oceanographic processes. We work in a variety of habitats rangin…
Junjie Dong
Assistant Professor as of September 2026 · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ In Fall 2026, I will be joining the faculty at Stony Brook as an Assistant Professor. I am actively building an interdisciplinary research group. Prospective students and postdoctoral researchers interested in joining are encouraged to get in touch.
My research seeks to understand the large-scale structure and long-term evolution of Earth and other planets by investigating how their constituent materials behave at the atomic level. We integrate laboratory experiment…
Marine Frouin
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am currently setting-up a new luminescence dating laboratory with state-of-the art instrumentation, and actively seeking talented and motivated undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and visitors to take advantage of our facility. If you are interested in joining our research group, please …
My research is focused on the development and application of luminescence techniques to provide age constrains on archaeological materials or geological events. My work is specifically geared towards: (i) understanding l…
Mehdi Damaghi
Associate Professor · Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
⭐ For MSc, PhD, and MD/PhD positions directly contact Dr. Damaghi : mehdi.damaghi@stonybrookmedicine.edu.
For post doc positions send CV including your references to mehdi.damaghi@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Evolution of metabolic phenotypes in variable tumor microenvironment
The central aim of my lab research is to use ecological-evolutionary principles to understand molecular mechanism of breast and ovarian cancer initiati…
Minghao Qiu
Assistant Professor · School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
⭐ Interested students (undergrad, MS, PhD) and postdoctoral scholars who wish to work with Dr. Qiu are welcome to get in touch via email with a brief description of interest and your CV.
Research Topics
Air quality; Climate change impacts; Climate change and health; Energy and climate policy evaluations
Nicholas R. Eaton, Ph.D.
Professor · Stony Brook University
⭐ Dr. Eaton will not be recruiting a graduate student for admission to the Clinical Psychological Science Ph.D. Program in Fall 2026. For Fall 2027 admissions: Dr. Eaton is not certain yet if he will be recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2027 admissions. Final decisions about recruitment depend on…
Conceptualization, classification, assessment, and structure of psychopathology; comorbidity; mental health disparities; minority stress; marginalized identities (including those defined by sexual orientation, gender ide…
Paul Shepson
Dean · School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
⭐ We are currently looking for graduate students and postdocs who might be interested in working on one of these projects:
Research Topics
Atmospheric Chemistry and climate change; Aviation; Arctic and coastal halogen chemistry; greenhouse gas source and sink measurements; atmospheric aerosols; climate change communications
Atmospheric Che…
Pawel Polak
Assistant Professor; Visiting Professor · Stony Brook University
⭐ Prospective Students: I am seeking Ph.D. students with a strong foundation in mathematics, statistics, physics, and/or computer science. Prior experience or training in finance is not required. Prospective students may apply to the Ph.D. program in Applied Mathematics & Statistics at Stony Brook Uni…
statistical learning and machine learning methods with applications in engineering, medicine, and finance; machine learning and agent-based modeling to advance the study of fixed-income markets; AI in quantitative financ…
Peng Zhang
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor
⭐ Power Lab welcomes new PhD students and postdoc researchers in 2026. Please email me your cv and sample papers if interested. The focus of recruitment in 2027 will be AI and quantum technologies. I am considering students from Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics for the…
Power and Energy, Quantum Grids (Quantum-Engineered Power Grids), AI-Enabled Power Grids, Grid Reliability and Security, Cybersecurity, Power System Stability and Control, Electromagnetic Transients.
Shan Lin
Associate Professor · College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
⭐ I am looking for self-motivated PhD students with a CS/Control/EE background! RA positions are available!
Cyber physical systems, Wireless networks, Networked information systems, Sensing systems
Siu Chiu Chan
Assistant Professor of Medicine · Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
⭐ We are hiring motivated research support specialists and welcome undergraduate & postgraduate students to join us in PKD research. Please contact Siu Chiu Chan, PhD at siuchiu.chan@stonybrookmedicine.edu
I am studying the role of dysregulated signaling pathways in the initiation and progression of the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). My primary area of research is the analysis of dysregulated transcriptional mechanisms i…
Weisen Shen
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am actively seeking talented and motivated undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, and visitors to populate our new seismology laboratory. If you are interested in joining our growing research group, please contact me.
My research interests are seismic tomography and structure of the earth’s lithosphere. Key questions I try to answer include: 1) how do we make accurate images of the earth’s interior, and how do we quantify their reliab…
The Pennsylvania State University--University Park 45 hiring
Anthony Schmitt
Professor of Molecular Virology · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ Interested in conducting your PhD research in this laboratory? Apply to Penn State's Pathobiology graduate program.
Virology, Infectious Disease, Viral Budding, Cellular Trafficking, Virus-like Particles, Zoonoses
Belén Noroña
Assistant Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- Amazonian Indigenous people
- Oil and Gas Extraction in off-grid regions
- Indigenous Environmental Monitoring System
- Indigenous cartographies
Indigenous peoples
Feminist political ecology
Non-representational cartography
Oil extraction in the Amazon region
Benjamin Bayly
Associate Professor of Family Studies, Child, and Youth Development; Director, Penn State Better Kid Care · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ Dr. Bayly is currently recruiting a master's and/or PhD student for enrollment in the Education, Development, and Community Engagement graduate program for Fall 2026.
Prevention Science; Risk and Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence; Early Childhood Education; Program Implementation and Evaluation; Latent Variable Models; Time-varying Effect Models
Brian King
Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- Cultural & political ecology
- Health, livelihoods & justice
- Development & conservation
Development, Conservation, Southern Africa, Cultural and political ecology, Health, Livelihoods, Justice
Bronwen Powell
Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. Biodiversity & nutrition, Wild & forest foods, Dietary patterns & dietary diversity, Traditional food systems
Biodiversity and Nutrition
Wild and forest foods
Dietary patterns and dietary diversity
Traditional food systems
Applied research for improved policy and practice
Chris Fowler
Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- legislative and school redistricting
- census data
- voting rights
- segregation and residential sorting
Urban and economic geography
Demographics
Poverty
Planning and economic development policies
Spatial statistics
Complex economic systems
Daniela Aiello
Assistant Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. Housing and racial inequality [Canada/US/US South], Urban Indigenous social movements [Canada/US], Community engaged scholarship [anywhere], Archival research / postcolonial theories of materiality / text…
Urban political economy, Housing inequality, community-based research, anti-racism, anti-colonialism
Dawood Darbar
Professor and Chair, Medicine · College of Medicine
⭐ Dr. Darbar welcomes graduate students interested in cardiovascular biology, genetics, genomics, computational biology, and translational research.
atrial fibrillation (AF), cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular genetics, human genetics, genomics, functional genomics, transcriptomics, gene regulation, precision medicine, inherited arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, iP…
Elizabeth W. Boyer
Professor of Environmental Science · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ I work with graduate students across several departmental programs, including Forest Resources, Soil Science, Wildlife and Fisheries Science, and Ecology; and mentor students in interdisciplinary dual-title degrees in Biogeochemistry, International Agriculture and Development, and Transdisciplinary …
hydrological processes, watershed science, water quality, aqueous geochemistry, environmental health, environmental policy
Erica Smithwick
Director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and Distinguished Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. - Landscape ecology - Ecosystem ecology - Biogeochemistry - Fire ecology
Landscape ecology
Ecosystem ecology
Biogeochemistry
Fire ecology
Fang (Rose) Zhu
Associate Professor of Entomology · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS/PhD students. Postdocs, graduates, undergraduates, and high school students are welcome to join the iTOX lab at any time.
Xenobiotic adaptation, insect toxicogenomics, insect molecular biophysics, enzyme chemistry
Francesco Di Gioia
Associate Professor of Vegetable Crop Science · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ We are currently looking for a Research Assistant. Please find information on the position and how to submit your application below: Research Assistant. We're looking for highly motivated, reliable, and dedicated Undergraduate Research Assistants who will support the PI and graduate students conduct…
Sustainable vegetable production systems; Plant nutrition, soil fertility, and irrigation management; Alternatives to chemical soil fumigation; Vegetable response to abiotic stress; Vegetable quality; Agrobiodiversity an…
Funminiyi Olajide
Associate Teaching Professor · IST College of Information Science and Technology
⭐ Dr. Olajide supervises undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral research projects. He welcomes PhD candidates interested in the following areas: Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics & Incident Response (including Malware Analysis), Enterprise Cloud Computing & Information Security.
Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Digital Forensics & Incident Response, Enterprise Risk & Information Security Management, Cybercrime & Cyber Resilience
Jason L Rasgon
Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair in Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ I am looking for motivated people who are interested in applying a wide array of integrated techniques to investigate these important and exciting questions.
Wolbachia, Symbiosis, Genetically-modified organisms, Vector-borne disease, Densovirus, Population biology, aquaporins
Jennifer Baka
Associate Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- Geography
Energy geography, Political-industrial ecology, Environmental governance, Biofuels and hydraulic fracturing
John Tooker
Professor of Entomology · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ We are usually looking for undergraduate assistants. Please get in touch with Tooker if interested
Insect ecology, Plant-insect interactions, Conservation biological control, Chemical ecology, Gall insects
Johnathan Borland
Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health · College of Health and Human Development
⭐ Candidates interested in a PhD, postdoc, staff scientist, research technician or undergraduates are welcome to contact me.
Joshua Inwood
Professor of Geography and African American Studies · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. Racial capitalism, Memory and landscape work, Enslavement, Political Economy, Peace geographies
Critical race theory, Peace geographies, Social movements, Political economy, Urban geography
K. Sandeep Prabhu
Department Head; Professor of Immunology and Molecular Toxicology · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ Undergraduates-If you are interested in being part of the lab, please email Dr. Prabhu (subject to available slots)
Redox biology with an emphasis on selenium and selenoproteins; Macrophage biology- emphasis on inflammation and resolution; Endogenous bioactive lipid mediators; Cancer (leukemia) and leukemia stem cells; Redox control o…
Kara Fikrig
Assistant Professor · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ I am currently recruiting a Master’s or Ph.D. student to focus on research projects in Pennsylvania, and a postdoctoral researcher to focus on projects in Peru. If you are interested in joining the lab, please email me at karafikrig@psu.edu with your CV and a brief statement describing why you want …
Medical entomology, Vector ecology and behavior, Vector control, Vector-borne disease epidemiology
Karl Zimmerer
Distinguished Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. Land use & agricultural change; Biodiversity/soils/water/conservation; Food/producer-consumer networks/sustainability; Human-environment theory
Land use and agricultural change/global change
Economic development/globalization/neoliberalism
Nature-society and human-environment theory
Environmental impacts (biodiversity/soils/water/conservation)
Food/producer-cons…
Kathleen M. Brown
Professor of Plant Stress Biology · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ Please note that I am no longer accepting new graduate students or visiting scholars.
Root phenomics; Anatomical traits affecting water and nutrient acquisition; Genome-wide association studies; Root hairs
Long-Qing Chen
Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics; Professor of Mathematics · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ The Chen group is currently looking for motivated graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to work on the general area of thermodynamic and phase-field modeling of phase transformations, electrochemical reactions, and microstructure evolution under a wide variety of different external static and…
2D materials; Additive manufacturing; Piezoelectric materials; Sustainability; Ceramics; Composites; Computational materials; Electrochemistry; Energy; Ferroelectrics; Metals; Nanomaterials; Physics
Lorraine Dowler
Professor of Geography; Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliate in the School of International Affairs; Associate Head for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- Not recruiting for Fall 2025
- Political geography
- Gender
- Feminist geopolitics
Cultural geography, Gender, Qualitative methods, Feminist geo-politics
Louisa Holmes
Associate Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- Substance use epidemiology/prevention
- Health inequity & the exposome
- Local climate impacts & health inequity
health disparities, substance use, socio-spatial determinants of health, urban health, environmental justice, migration, demographic and geospatial research methods
Lu Lin
Assistant Professor · IST College of Information Science and Technology
⭐ I’m looking for highly motivated students, including Ph.D.s (fully funded), masters, undergraduates, and interns to join my group. If you’re interested in working with me, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by dropping me an email with your CV.
I have a broad interest in machine learning and data mining, with an emphasis on modeling relational data, e.g. graph and network. My current focus is trustworthy self-supervised machine learning on large-scale graph-str…
Luke Trusel
Associate Professor of Geogrphy · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ Join us! We are seeking a motivated PhD student to join the Cryosphere and Climate Lab in Penn State Geography in Fall 2025 as part of a newly funded NASA Cryospheric Science Program grant. The project focuses on using remote sensing and machine learning to investigate surface hydrology on the Antar…
Climate variability and change
Ice sheets
Ice-ocean-atmosphere systems
Regional and global climate models
Manzhu Yu
Associate Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- Deep learning
- Extreme weather events
Geographic information science
Spatiotemporal theories and applications
Big data and cloud computing
Natural hazards and extreme weather
Environmental informatics
Spatial data science and deep learning
Marie Boltz
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation; Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Education; Elouise Ross Eberly and Robert Eberly Endowed Professor · Nese College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting new PhD students
Improving outcomes for older adults including those living with dementia through behavioral interventions and organizational models; caregiver support and education, rural health in older adults; Dementia-capable health …
Mark Ortiz
Assistant Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. Environmental and/or climate justice/policy interests; Youth-centered or focused research; Community-based participatory methods
Youth politics
Social movement studies
Storytelling methods
Environmental/climate justice
Melissa Wright
Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- ecological and social justice
- borderlands
- Feminist political economy/ecology
Political economy, Feminist studies, Critical geography, Social movements, Transnationalism, Security and militarization in the Americans and along the Mexico-US border
Michael S. Wolfin
Assistant Research Professor · College of Agricultural Sciences
⭐ I'm looking for undergraduate research assistants, graduate students, and postdocs!
Insect Behavior, Chemical Ecology, Insect-Host Interactions, Integrated Pest Management, Mushroom Pest Management
Nairiti Sinha
Assistant Professor · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ We are actively hiring! Interested? Email the PI Dr. Nairiti Sinha at sinha@psu.edu with your full CV and your statement that outlines why you are excited about soft materials and squishy science!
Design-driven structure-property relationships of biomacromolecules, polymers and their conjugates
Nicolas Choquette-Levy
Assistant Professor of Geosciences · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am currently seeking a PhD student to join the Climate Adaptation Models for Policy (CAMP) Lab at Penn State starting in Fall 2025!
Policies to secure rural livelihoods against rising climate and environmental risks
Analyze how decision-makers at local, national, and international scales can better collaborate to achieve their development goals while…
Nikki Hill
Associate Professor · Nese College of Nursing
⭐ Accepting PhD students
Cognition and Aging, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; Health and well-being in aging, aging perceptions
Orfeu M. Buxton
Professor of Biobehavioral Health · College of Health and Human Development
⭐ For undergraduate research opportunities, please contact Dr. Courtney Whetzel (cwhetzel@psu.edu).
Facets of sleep health in a biopsychosocial framework; Biomarkers of health and well being including digital biomarkers to biological specimens; Acoustic disruption and enhancement of sleep; Successful aging and resilien…
Sebrina L. Doyle Fosco
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies · College of Health and Human Development
⭐ I am not able to accept new students for fall 2026.
My interests focus on exploring novel and sustainable ways to support wellbeing for adults working in high-stress services such as school, community mental health, and juvenile justice. My current research centers on the…
Shujie Wang
Associate Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. Remote sensing of cryosphere; Machine learning, deep learning applications for ice sheet studies; Glaciology, flow dynamics, ice fractures
Intersection of cryospheric science, remote sensing, numerical modeling, and machine learning; Antarctic ice shelf dynamics; Spatiotemporal dynamics of glacier algae over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Stephanie Law
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ Highly-motivated graduate or undergraduate students in Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, or Electrical Engineering who are interested in joining the group should contact Dr. Law at slaw@psu.edu. Potential postdocs with relevant research experience are further encouraged to contact Dr. Law …
Synthesis of thin films and heterostructures; Molecular beam epitaxy; Photonic materials and metamaterials; Synthesis of two-dimensional topological and quantum materials; Synthesis of semiconductor materials; Infrared a…
Susan Brantley
Atherton Professor and Evan Pugh University Professor Emerita of Geosciences · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ Grad applicants are encouraged. A current initiative at Penn State is the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. Grads are encouraged to apply to work at Shale Hills, especially on inter-related aspects of chemical, physical, and biological weathering.
Aqueous geochemistry
Geochemical kinetics
Microbial biogeochemistry
Trevor Birkenholtz
Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested.
- NOTE: Not recruiting for Fall 2025 admission
- Water Governance and Politics
- Green or Water Infrastructure
- Environmental Expertise
Political ecology, Social theory, Nature-society relations, Gender-dynamics, Water resources
Xi Gong
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health · College of Health and Human Development
⭐ Dr. Gong is looking for motivated Ph.D. students (starting Fall 2026), postdoctoral scholars, and undergraduate researchers to join his team. His lab works at the intersection of Geospatial Data Science, Environmental Health Sciences, and Spatially Integrated Social Science, tackling real-world chal…
Health and the Environment, Geographic Information Science, Big Data Science and Analytics, Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, GIS-Based Modeling
Yan Lin
Associate Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. Health GIS, health/medical geography, environmental health, spatial analysis and modeling
GIScience
Spatial analysis and modeling
Health and Medical Geography
Geospatial modeling and uncertainties
Ying-Ling Jao
Associate Professor · Nese College of Nursing
⭐ Jao accepts PhD students.
Assessment of apathy in people with dementia. Non-pharmacological interventions for neurobehavioral symptoms of dementia. Caregiver communication for older adults with dementia. Long-term care environments and lighting i…
Zhenlong Li
Associate Professor of Geography · College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
⭐ I am seeking graduate students interested in the below topics. Please contact me if interested. GIScience, Geospatial Big Data, GeoAI, Spatial Computing, Human Mobility, Social Media Analytics
GIScience
Geospatial Big Data
Spatial Computing
GeoAI
Michigan State University 10 hiring
Chen Chen
Professor · College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
⭐ Graduate student and postdoc positions are available.
Molecular mechanisms underlying mammalian spermatogenesis and infertility; genes and pathways influencing germ/stem cell self-renewal, differentiation and fertility; function of Tudor domain proteins and other Piwi-piRNA…
Diane Fischer
Professor · College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
⭐ Postdoctoral Fellow
Business of Nutrition Services
Elise Zipkin
Red Ceder Distinguished Professor · College of Natural Science
⭐ The Zipkin Lab strives to provide a productive, fulfilling, and fun environment for our members and collaborators. We work together, treating science as a team sport. Individuals can join as undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. Check out our lab policies to learn more abo…
Quantitative Ecology, Conservation Biology, Population Dynamics, Community Modeling
Elliot Rylder
Ph.D. of Elliot Rylder · Food Science and Human Nutrition
⭐ Hiring Opportunities | MSU Research Horizons | School of Food Science and Human Nutrition | Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Assistant Professor | Institution: Michigan State University | Location: East Lansing, Michigan | Description: MSU is an equal opportunity employer and is not di…
Plant Health and Microbial Load Safety, Fungal Species in Food Processing, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Plant-Microorganism Interactions, Microbial Safety and Quality, Microbiology Research, Extended Abstracts in Fo…
Gale Strasburg
Professor Emeritus · College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
⭐ openings for research associates and other positions in the department.
Protein Quality, Muscle Biotechnology, Animal Genetics, Plant Genomics, Metabolomics, Nutrition, Plant Biochemistry, Historical Cooking Technology
Han Zhang
Assistant Professor · Eli Broad College of Business
⭐ Dr. Zhang welcomes applications from prospective Ph.D. students with strong training in mathematics. In particular, applicants are expected to have completed at least one semester each of linear algebra and multivariate calculus. Strong candidates will have also completed coursework in real analysis…
Sustainability, Buyer-Supplier Relationships, Risk and Resilience, Supply Management & Procurement
Jenny Bond
Professor · College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
⭐ Hiring opportunities in the field of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Community nutrition, Dietetic education, and Extension food programs
Perry K.W. Ng
Professor Emeritus, Cereal Chemistry · College of Agriculture and Human Nutrition
⭐ [2021] Cereal Fiber and Food Innovation Postdoc Position.
[2022] Visiting Scientist in West Higher Education Institution
[2023] MSU Research and Development (MSR&D) (Global)
[2023] Adjunct Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition
[2023] Adjunct Professor in Plant Sciences
[2023] Adjunct Profess…
Chef's Science, cereal production, grain processing, dry processing, food chemistry, analytical chemistry, sensory analysis, Holder Analysis, hydrogen peroxide analysis, oxidant analysis, physical chemistry, analytical m…
Stanley Lim
Associate Professor · MSU Broad College of Business
⭐ I am actively looking for post-docs/visiting PhDs/research assistants to work with me across causal inference, structural estimation, optimization, and advanced machine learning with applications in retail, logistics, and food supply chains. Please contact me if you are interested.
AI & Machine Learning, Consumer Behavior & Trends, Retail Strategy & Systems, Logistics, Managing Services
Wei Peng
Professor · College of Communication Arts & Sciences
⭐ She is currently seeking motivated students who can work on projects related to AI and persuasive technology in the area of health misinformation.
Media Effects/Media Psychology
Psychological impacts of interactive media (mediators and moderators)
Utilizing technologies for health communication (persuasive technology)
Behavior change enabled by conversational agent…
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11 hiring
Andrew Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
⭐ He is interested in connecting with potential collaborators, and is also interested in advising doctoral students in the areas of digital politics and media ethics, and critical audience/user studies.
Andy Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research and teaching expertise include critical communication and cultural studies, technology and audience stu…
Dominik Fritz
Assistant Professor
⭐ Student positions are currently available.
In 2018, Dr. Dominik Fritz earned his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from RPI. From there, he entered into the Ph.D. program at RPI, where he worked to design and commission a cold neutron moderator system and performed var…
Dr. Kristen Schell
Research Scientist · School of Engineering
⭐ Dr. Schell is accepting new PhD students interested in optimization modeling, statistical, machine and deep learning modeling and forecasting problems.
Dr. Schell's research develops mathematical models that inform the energy transition. She works at both the generation level, improving wind energy resource assessment and forecasting, and at the systems level, designing…
Fudong Han
Associate Professor and Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
⭐ Han research group is always looking for highly motivated undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers in mechanical engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, and electrochemistry to join our group. Please contact Dr. Han (hanf2@rpi.edu) for possible opportunities.
Fudong Han is an associate professor and Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering a…
Ish Jain
Assistant Professor
⭐ Hiring new PhD students: https://ishjain.github.io/assets/docs/Ish_Jain_hiring_PhD_at_RPI.pdf
Ish Jain has been an Assistant Professor in the ECSE Department at RPI since Fall 2024. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego in 2024, and MS in Electrical and Computer Enginee…
Jian Shi
Professor
⭐ Jian Shi's group currently has a few openings for postdocs and PhD students who are interested in working on topological materials and/or quantum computing. Candidates interested in the positions are not required to have a specific background. Please send your application directly to Jian Shi's emai…
Academic Appointments
GlobalFoundries Endowed Dean’s Faculty Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2026-present
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2024-present
Professor,…
Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri
Assistant Professor
⭐ Prospective graduate students: I am looking for motivated Ph.D. students with strong mathematical and analytical skills. Please send me your CV if you are interested in Machine Learning and comfortable with programming.
Dr. Amiri was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at RPI in Fall 2023. His research is mainly dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence through the strategic use of data. In today'…
Ozgur Tumuklu
Assistant Professor
⭐ If you are interested in joining our team, please take a moment to view my Google Scholar page.
Dr. Tumuklu attained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, with a specialized focus on hypersonic flow instabilities utilizing kinetic approaches. Subsequent to his doctoral studies, he e…
Prashun Gorai
Assistant Professor · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
⭐ We are always interested in meeting prospective students (graduate, undergraduate) and postdocs. If you are excited to discover and design new functional materials for energy and sustainability, please check the open positions: Openings
Dr. Prashun Gorai is an Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Bachelor’s degree (Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, 2008) and PhD (Unive…
Theo Borca-Tasciuc
Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs
⭐ NanoTEC lab offers opportunities for a variety of hands-on, experimental, manufacturing, and simulation & design projects for Master, PhD, and undergraduate students. Email about research interest to: borcat@rpi.edu.
Dr. Theodorian (Theo) Borca-Tasciuc has a B.S. in Physics from Bucharest University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. He started his academic career in 2001 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and since 20…
Wei Bao
Assistant Professor
⭐ Warning: Prof. Bao now looks a bit older than this photo...We may have a graduate student opening
Dr. Wei Bao received his B.S. in physics (minor in chemistry) at Peking University, and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he did his postdoc at UC…
Brandeis University 1 hiring
Hannah Snyder
Principal Investigator · Brandeis University
⭐ Dr. Hannah Snyder will be considering PhD and MA applicants for the 2025-2026 admissions cycle! See more application information, including an FAQ for prospective grad students. We are currently recruiting new undergraduate research assistants! You can learn more about our RA position and apply to b…
Individual differences in executive functions (EF) are associated with many important aspects of human health and functioning, including mental health. Critically, EF processes continue to develop through the early 20s, …
Tulane University of Louisiana 5 hiring
Jun-yuan Ji, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · School of Medicine
⭐ Candidates interested in graduate study in the Ji laboratory at the Tulane University are encouraged to apply through the following program: https://medicine.tulane.edu/education/biomedical-sciences-graduate-program
Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental genetics
Michael Cunningham
Professor · School of Science & Engineering
⭐ Dr. Cunningham is not currently accepting graduate students this cycle.
examining adolescent development in diverse contexts; resilience and vulnerability in African American children and adolescents
Stacy Overstreet, Ph.D.
Professor · School of Science & Engineering
⭐ Dr. Overstreet is not accepting new graduate students this cycle.
Professor Overstreet's research interests focus broadly on children at risk for maladjustment due to the presence of chronic stressors in their lives. In her current research, Professor Overstreet utilizes an ecological-…
Wu-Min Deng, PhD
Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · School of Medicine
⭐ We are currently recruiting postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students for research.
Dr. Deng's laboratory is interested in how cell-cell and cell-tissue microenvironment interactions are involved in normal development and how disruption of such interactions leads to tumorigenesis in the Drosophila model…
Xiaolei Wang, PhD
Associate Professor · School of Medicine
⭐ We are currently recruiting postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students for research.
My research foci are to develop a better understanding of the development of the immune system and the immunopathogenesis of infectious diseases in pediatric hosts, including but not limited to AIDS, ZIKA and TB infectio…
University of Connecticut 161 hiring
. Kshitiz
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Accepting lab Rotation Students: Fall 2025
Our lab's objective is to understand a cell's interaction with its neighbors and the microenvironment. With a particular focus on tumor microenvironment, we aim to unravel the language cells employ to converse with each …
Abhijit Deb Roy
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
We are an experimental cell biology lab interested in both hypothesis-based and curiosity-driven questions, broadly within the realm of biomedical sciences. Our ongoing research projects are focused on investigating mole…
Abhijit Rath
Instructor of Molecular Oncology
⭐ Research Opportunities
i. Hereditary basis of unexplained MMR deficiency
Our lab's interest can broadly be divided into two categories.
i. Investigating mechanism of mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency in solid tumors. Primarily, our lab is interested in discovering genetic causes of early-onse…
Adam D. Schuyler
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Nonuniform Sampling of Multidimensional NMR. Nonuniform sampling (NUS) approaches in multidimensional NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) enable dramatic reductions in experiment time, increases in sensitivity and enhanceme…
Adam Kim
Assistant Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Alcohol-associated liver disease, Immunology, Epigenetics, Macrophage biology, Hepatocyte biology, Histone deacetylases (HDACs), Gut-liver axis, Microbiome, Inflammation
Alexander Jackson
Associate Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students and postdocs who are interested in cellular and synaptic electrophysiology and hypothalamic circuits.
Research in the laboratory is focused on the cellular and synaptic neurophysiology of neural circuits in the mammalian hypothalamus that regulate fundamental behavioral states such as sleep, arousal and feeding. Techniq…
Alice L. Burghard
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Sound-evoked plasticity, tinnitus mechanisms, auditory temporal processing, inferior colliculus physiology, electrophysiological tinnitus assessment, cochlear implantation, systems neuroscience
Alix C. Deymier
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The body must maintain a pH within a narrow range (7.4±0.05) to sustain life. However, many factors such as kidney disease, diabetes, metabolic diseases, and diet can shift this pH outside the acceptable range. To counte…
Andres D. Grosmark
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
What Are the Circuit Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory?
The overt learning that occurs while you are navigating the world around you is complemented by a covert form of re-learning, called memory consolidation, which occurs…
Andrew Arnold, MD
Murray-Heilig Chair in Molecular Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Genome Sciences
Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Director, Center for Molecular Oncology and
Chief Academic Officer, Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director, Office of Physician-Scientist Career Development
⭐ please contact PI to discuss
The most longstanding interest of our laboratory has been in the molecular genetic underpinnings of tumors of the endocrine glands. It was in the context of a search for a parathyroid tumor oncogene lying adjacent to a c…
André A. Grassmann
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ The Spirochete Research Laboratories offer research opportunities for graduate students, MD/PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and motivated undergraduate trainees. Ongoing projects include defining gene regulatory networks across theBorreliaenzootic cycle, mapping protein–DNA interactions, and cha…
I am a molecular microbiologist studying how bacterial pathogens sense host environments and remodel gene expression and cell surface architecture to promote infection, persistence, and transmission. My work focuses on s…
Ann Cowan
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
My general research interests center on the dynamic organization of the plasma membrane and in the application of quantitative fluorescence imaging and biophysical methods to the study of molecular events in living cells…
Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou, DDS, MS, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, School of Dental Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Microbial Pathogenesis
Basic Science Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis
Clinical Research Interests: Oral inflammation
Annabelle Rodriguez-Oquendo, MD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Linda and David Roth Chair for Cardiovascular Research, Center for Vascular Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
The Rodriguez-Oquendo lab is studying the genetic link between healthy HDL cholesterol, heart disease, and infertility in women. This work suggests that variations within the SCARB1 gene, connected to HDL levels, are ass…
Anne M. Delany, PhD
Professor, Medicine · Uconn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Regulation of osteoblast gene expression by microRNAs; Molecular mechanisms controlling bone remodeling.
Anthony T. Vella, PhD
Professor and Chair, Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Immunology, Senior Associate Dean for Research Planning and Coordination · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
My laboratory focuses on several aspects of T cell and inflammation biology. Our aim is to uncover how T cells function so that we can guide and control behavior of these important immune cells. We believe that the outco…
Archana Sanjay
Associate Professor, Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 block 2026
Arthur R. Hand, DDS
Professor of Craniofacial Sciences and Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Students for Lab Rotations At This Time
Our laboratory employs morphological, immunological and biochemical methodology to study protein expression and localization in salivary glands. Current areas of interest are:--microgravity effects on structure and prote…
Asis K. Das, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Gene Regulation in Bacteria. We study basic gene regulatory mechanisms in prokaryotes by a combination of biochemistry and classic and molecular genetics. Current research efforts are devoted in three areas: Genetics, ge…
Benjamin P. Sinder
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026. Email to discuss further and arrange!
Bone disorders, including OI, and their treatment by pharmacologic and cell therapeutics. The factors regulating the accrual of bone mass and related impact on therapeutic efficacy. Translational orthopaedics and modulat…
Bing Hao
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Lab Rotation Projects
--Elucidation of the mechanism that regulates the substrate lysine selection by E2 and E3 during ubiquitin transfer.
--Structural characterization of the E2-SCF E3 interaction and its role in the ubi…
Our research focuses on understanding how the cell cycle is regulated by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis using x-ray crystallography as a primary tool. Progression through the cell cycle is coordinated by the cyclin-depen…
Bing Lu, MD, DrPH
Professor, Public Health Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Dr. Lu's research projects have opportunities for graduate students.
Design and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies, Statistical methods in Epidemiology, Outcome research in chronic diseases, Nutritional Epidemiology.
Breno Satler Diniz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Dr. Diniz lab is focused on investigating how age-related changes in biological processes (the Pillars of Biological Aging) affect the development and outcomes of late-life mental and neuropsychiatric disorders and how i…
Byoung-Il Bae, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The cerebral cortex is the largest part of the human brain and mediates advanced cognitive functions such as language and abstract thinking. Its abnormal development is implicated in neurological and psychiatric disorder…
Carolyn Greene
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ TheFamily Adversity and Resilience (FARR)Program currently has three active NIH-funded studies centered on understanding how exposure to stress, trauma and other adversity affects children and families. We have manyresearch opportunitiesfor individuals from all levels of training (undergraduate, doc…
Dr. Greene’s research is aimed at improving mental health outcomes for children by understanding the protective and risk factors and family processes that contribute to the development of childhood psychopathology. Curre…
Cathryn Glanton Holzhauer, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ UConn NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship
Changchun Liu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ People are the engine and driving force of innovations in our research lab. We always seek highly talented researchers from different biomedical science field (e.g., molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, cell biology) to work synthetic biology, CRISPR technology, and their biomedi…
Our research group is interested in applying interdisciplinary approaches to develop new tools and methods to solve current challenges in life sciences, such as disease diagnostics, medical therapeutics, as well as perso…
Christine R. Beck, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences
Joint Appointment, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Associate Director, Genetics and Developmental Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The mechanisms governing non-recurrent human structural variation (SV) are diverse and often poorly understood. I am investigating how human DNA maintains fidelity in the context of a repetitive genome. Human Alu element…
Christopher D. Heinen, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Colon cancer is the third most common malignancy in men and women and ranks behind only lung cancer in cancer deaths. The most common hereditary disease that predisposes patients to colorectal cancer is Lynch syndrome (L…
Corey Acker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Functional imaging of neural activity, synaptic physiology, cardiac electrophysiology, mechanisms and functional signatures of autism in model systems.
Dr. Acker's lab focuses on developing and applying advanced quantit…
Cory A. Brennick
Assistant Professor in Residence · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotations at this time.
My career in cancer immunotherapy began with focusing on somatic mutations that give rise to tumor-specific antigens, or neoantigens. After thoroughly testing hundreds of putative neoantigens, we identified novel criteri…
Damion J. Grasso, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ The Family Adversity and Resilience (FARR) Program currently has three active NIH-funded studies centered on understanding how exposure to stress, trauma and other adversity affects children and families. We have many research opportunities for individuals from all levels of training (undergraduate,…
Dr. Grasso's research broadly focuses on understanding biobehavioral mechanisms involved in trauma- and stress-related disorders in children and effective strategies for assessing and treating trauma-related impairment. …
Daniel W. Rosenberg
Professor of Medicine and HealthNet Chair in Cancer Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My laboratory has a longstanding interest in the molecular events that accompany early gastrointestinal neoplasia. We apply powerful and exquisitely sensitive cutting-edge technologies to understand the earliest cellular…
Danielle R. Rux
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Come join us! We are seeking curious and collaborative scientists at all stages of training, including undergraduate, post-bacc and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Please contact Dr. Rux directly for more information. rux@uchc.edu.
The Rux Laboratory specializes in musculoskeletal development, regeneration, and disease. Dr. Rux is an expert in skeletal developmental biology and in the Hox genes that are evolutionarily conserved fro embryonic patter…
Dashzeveg Bayarsaihan, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at This Time
Dr. Bayarsaihan received his Ph.D. from Wesleyan University and carried out postdoctoral training at Yale University. One of his research topics focuses on the molecular basis of human diseases with complex phenotype usi…
David C. Martinelli, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
A synapse is the fundamental structural unit by which neurons communicate. The importance of synapses cannot be overstated as their collective activities impact every moment of our subconscious and conscious mind. Furthe…
David C. Steffens, MD, MHS
Samuel “Sy” Birnbaum/Ida, Louis and Richard Blum Chair in Psychiatry
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Undergraduate, graduate and medical students and trainees interested in working with Dr. Steffens should contact him at steffens@uchc.edu.
Dr. Steffens has been funded by the NIH for over twenty-five years. His research focuses on links between late life depression and subsequent cognitive decline and development of dementia. Assessments include structural …
David Han
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Students for Lab Rotations at This Time
We are currently working on three areas: The first project deals with the process of recognition and engulfment of apoptotic cells. In terms of the basic biology of this process, we are interested in identification of li…
David W. Rowe
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
The primary focus of the laboratory is to recognize and ultimately isolate subpopulations of cells at define levels of differentiation within the skeletal lineage for bone, articular cartilage, temporal mandibular cartil…
Dmitry M. Korzhnev
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ <p><strong>Accepting Lab Rotation Students</strong>: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026</p><br /><p>Lab Rotation Projects <br /> - Structure, dynamics and interactions of proteins involved in DNA damage tolerance pathways <br /> - Studying folding mechanisms of single-domain proteins. S…
The primary focus of my laboratory is studies of protein structure, dynamics and interactions using structural biology methods, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. We make u…
Dongyuan Song, PhD
Assistant Professor in Computational Genomics · UConn Health
⭐ We are looking for students and postdocs that are interested in developing novel computational methods for single-cell/spatial omics.
Students in Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at UConn Health are very welcome to rotate in our lab. If you are interested in computational genomics, please email me (doso…
Our primary research interest is to develop computational methods for analyzing modern “omics” data, especially for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. Our research combines statistical modeling, bioinformatics, and…
Douglas M. Brugge
Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences<br />Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Community Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Many of Dr. Brugge's research projects have opportunities for students. In the past students at all leavels, from high school to post docs have worked on projects he directs.
Dr. Brugge directs the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH), a set of studies about ultrafine particles from traffic and their association with cardiovascular health risk (funded by NIEHS, NHLBI, E…
Duck O. Kim, DSc
Professor of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Neuroscience of the auditory system; computational neuroscience of single neurons and neural systems; otolaryngology research using otoacoustic emissions; biomedical engineering. Our research seeks to integrate systems-n…
Duygu Ucar
Assistant Professor, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine · Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2024, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2025
Elisa Barbarese, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
The role of mRNA trafficking in myelin and synapse formation.Our laboratory studies the mechanism and regulation of mRNA transport, localization, and translation in oligodendrocytes and neurons. An 11-nucleotide sequence…
Elizabeth A. Eipper, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Peptides; membrane protein trafficking; cuproenzymes; neurons; pituitary peptides seem to have preceded the 'classical' transmitters as the nervous system developed - creatures like Hydra and Drosophila utilize peptides …
Eran Agmon
Assistant Professor
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Biomedical Engineering Department
Associate Director, Systems Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
computational systems biology, multi-scale modeling and simulation, cell biology, machine learning, complex adaptive systems
Ernesto Canalis
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Medicine, UConn Health · UConn Musculoskeletal Institute, UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026. Projects available include --Role of Hes1 in osteoclast differentiation and function; --Role of Nfat in osteoblast differentiation and function; --Characterization of genetically engineered mice carrying Notch2 or Notch3 mu…
Bone metabolism, osteoporosis, metabolic bone disorders, skeletal growth factors, glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis, Notch signaling, NFAT in osteoblast and osteoclast differentiation, genetically engineered mouse mode…
Ernst J. Reichenberger
Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development, Department of Reconstructive Sciences · Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development
⭐ Accepting students for Lab Rotations: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026. Email for more information.
The skin and skeleton would seem to be very stable parts of the human body. Contrary to appearances, however, both skin and skeleton are in a nearly constant state of flux. The bone mass in skeletal structures is the res…
Evan Lentz
Assistant Extension Educator · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not accepting graduate students.
My research interests revolve primarily around commercial fruit production and serving the educational needs of the commercial fruit growers of Connecticut. My research combines traditional production, integrated pest ma…
Feliks (Ephraim) Trakhtenberg
Associate Professor, Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Lab rotation projects revolve around fundamental questions in neuronal development and regeneration in the CNS. We integrate cutting edge molecular, biochemical, genetic, bioinformatics, and translational approaches. Rotation projects involve the following techniques…
Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms of neuronal development and regeneration, and to utilize gained knowledge in developing translational approaches for repairing injured central nervous system (CNS) circu…
George A. Kuchel, MD CM, FRCP, AGSF, FAAAS
Professor of Medicine, Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology · University of Connecticut
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of aging emphasizing inter-individual variability and resilience mechanisms pertaining to mobility, voiding, cognition and host defense
Design and validation of geroscience-guide…
Gloria Gronowicz, PhD
Professor Emeritus · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
The major interest of my laboratory is the study of bone cell responses to implants in aging. Both dental and orthopedic implant materials are being investigated. Presently with Drs. Kuhn and Hurley, we are developing ne…
Golda S. Ginsburg, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ CAMP is currently enrolling elementary school teachers and their students who struggle with anxiety in select CT public schools for a DOE funded study.
Students who wish to work in the CAMP lab can assist in implementing studies and analyzing collected data while receiving mentorship.
Pediatric anxiety and mood disorders
Guo-Hua Fong
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · Center for Vascular Biology
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Angiogenesis, the growth of new microvessels, is a double-edged sword: it is essential for normal tissue growth and repair but is also associated with a variety of diseases such as tumorigenesis, neovascular age-related …
Haiying Tao
Associate Professor of Soil Nutrient Management and Soil Health · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently seeking a post doc in precision agriculture. Visiting scholars, national and international collaborations are welcome.
Soil fertility
Soil health
Nutrient and carbon cycling in soil-plant-atmosphere system
Best management practices for fertilizer and amendment applications to optimize yield and economic return, while minimizing environme…
Hideyuki Oguro
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The Oguro laboratory investigates mechanisms that regulate blood-forming hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) development, self-renewal, and malignant transformation using mouse models, patient samples, and human induced plurip…
Huanzhong Wang
Professor of Plant Molecular Biology · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
Plant Molecular Biology
Vascular Development
Secondary Growth
Hugh M. Blumenfeld
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine · UConn School of Medicine
⭐ I have served as faculty advisor and primary investigator for medical students doing research in the area of health care access.
I have done clinical research in the effects of music on patients recovering from traumatic brain injuries and on premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. I have presented at national conferences on several…
I-Ping Chen
Professor, Endodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
In the Chen laboratory, we mainly focus on the investigation of pathogenic mechanisms of craniometaphyseal dysplasia (CMD) using multiple genetic and molecular biology approaches including a knock-in mouse model for CMD …
I-Ping Chen, DDS, PhD
Professor, Endodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
In the Chen laboratory, we mainly focus on the investigation of pathogenic mechanisms of craniometaphyseal dysplasia (CMD) using multiple genetic and molecular biology approaches including a knock-in mouse model for…
Iddo Ben-Ari
Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I’m usually looking for both grad and undergrad students for research work.
Probability
Ion I. Moraru
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ <p><strong><strong>Accepting Lab Rotation Students</strong>: </strong>Fall Block 2025 and<strong> </strong>Spring 2 Block 2026</p>
My general research interests center on understanding signal transduction mechanisms, in particular related to calcium and phosphoinositides. Examples are quantitative experimental and modeling studies of signaling netwo…
Irina Bezsonova, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Ubiquitination and Cancer:
The p53 signaling pathway is a complex multi-component network central to cancer biology. Over 50% of all tumors have mutated tumor suppressor p53. The primary focus of my reasearch is struct…
Ivo Kalajzic, MD, PhD
Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 block 2026
Growth factor based enhancement of bone repair
Notch signaling and bone fracture healing
Transplantation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells as therapy for Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Jaime Imitola, MD
Professor of Neurology, Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ He has mentored and trained dozens of fellows, residents, and medical students, efforts that were recognized with the 2023 UConn Mentor of the Year Award.
progressive MS, neurodegeneration, and repair and has been studying these processes for the last 15 years. At the bedside, he is working on understanding the impact of social determinants of health in the biological prog…
Jean-Denis Beaudoin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences
Assistant Director, Genetics and Developmental Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ The Beaudoin lab is currently building its team! The lab will open in January 2020 and it is your chance to become an active and important member of this new exciting team. We aim to build a diverse and collaborative team where each individual brings something different and has room to grow scientif…
Research in our lab stems from two captivating biological observations that appear unrelated at first sight. The first is the fascinating process by which two of the most specialized and highly differentiated animal…
Jeffrey C. Hoch, PhD
Director, Gregory P. Mullen NMR Structural Biology Facility
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Our laboratory works on problems related to the physical basis for the biological activity of proteins. Broadly, this includes their structure, dynamics, stability, and interactions with other molecules. Some specific qu…
Jeffrey H. Chuang, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ We are currently seeking graduate students interested in a variety of problems in post-transcriptional regulation and cancer genomics. Our lab is a computational lab and students should have expertise/interest in programming and quantitative approaches.
My lab is interested in computational and mathematical approaches to analyzing large data sources, to understand how genomes function and evolve. Since moving to the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in 2012, the l…
Jeffrey Pella, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Please contact me for opportunities related to the Scholarship and Discovery course.
The development, maintance, and treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders.
Jenna Bartley, PhD
Associate Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Not currently accepting rotation students.
Dr. Bartley studies translational research into human aging with a focus on how immune responses and physical function decline as we get older. Her multidisciplinary research aims to uncover common pathways among the agi…
Jianbin Ruan
Assistant Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ The Lab is currently recruiting highly motivated post-doctoral research fellows. Interested persons please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a list of 3 references to Dr. Jianbin Ruan via ruan@uchc.edu.
The lab focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of innate immune signaling, especially signal transduction pathways of pyroptosis and inflammation using multi-disciplinary approaches including cryo-electron micro…
Jianjun Sun
Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students and postdocs who are interested in reproductive physiology, ovulation, and ovarian cancer.
Research in the laboratory focuses on reproductive physiology and ovarian cancer. Powerful genetic tools in Drosophila will be applied to decipher the formation and physiological function of the secretory cells in the fe…
Jianzhong Yu
Associate Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking motivated graduate students and postdocs to join our team.
Currently, there are two major research directions in the lab. The lab’s first research direction is focused on the molecular mechanisms of organ size control and tumorigenesis. For this direction, we are particularly in…
Jill Desimini
Director & Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently accepting graduate students.
Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Climate Justice
Jillian Wanik
Associate Professor in Residence · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently not accepting Graduate students.
the role of mindfulness in changing health behaviors, malnutrition identification and transitions in the healthcare system and the role of nutrition and health in elective joint surgery.
Jinbo Bi
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ There are multiple postdoctoral fellowship positions in our laboratory
Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Data mining, Pattern recognition, Optimization, Computer vision, Bioinformatics, Medical informatics, Drug discovery
Joana Paulino, PhD
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
We are a membrane protein biophysics and structural biology research group investigating viral-host protein interactions that allow viruses to bypass the host's native immunity. We investigate how some Flavivirus such as…
Joanne Conover
Professor
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students who are interested in research topics involving developmental neurobiology, stem cell biology, neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury.
Neural stem cell biology and its application in neurodegenerative disease
Joel S. Pachter, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The major focus in this laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms by which leukocytes and pathogens invade the central nervous system (CNS). Movement of both soluble and cellular elements into the CNS is regulated by mic…
John B. Schenkman
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
The cytochrome P450s are ubiquitous proteins found in most phyla. Several thousand different forms have already been identified. The individual species have large numbers of cytochrome P450 forms. In humans, for example,…
John H. Carson
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
This laboratory is investigating intracellular trafficking of mRNA in cells of the nervous system using a combination of molecular biological, microinjection, confocal microscopy and three dimensional visualization techn…
John R. Harrison
Associate Professor, Orthodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for lab rotations at this time
John R. Harrison, PhD
Associate Professor, Orthodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for lab rotations at this time
John Travis Hinson, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiology and Genetics
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My laboratory utilizes genomic approaches to interrogate mechanisms of inherited cardiovascular disorders especially those that lead to heart failure. We are particularly interested in developing single cell and cardiac …
Joseph Lorenzo, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UConn Health · UConn Health
⭐ Role of Runx1 in osteoclast biology
The influence of hormones and cytokines on both bone resorption, which is mediated by osteoclasts, and bone formation, which is mediated by osteoblasts. The nature and regulation of osteoclast precursor cells in health a…
Julia Smachylo
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
Environmental Stewardship, Critical Visualization, Urban Theory
Julie Robison
Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ I often have research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students interested in aging and disability policy and aging families. Please contact me directly for current information.
Long-Term Services and Supports, Family Caregiving, Dementia, Depression
My research aims to improve quality of life and quality of care for people who need long term services and supports (LTSS), and their families. LTS…
Justin D. Radolf, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Lab Rotation Projects
Molecular Pathogenesis of Syphilis and Lyme Disease
1. Differential gene expression by Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete. B. burgdorferi undergoes dramatic changes in gene expression …
Lyme Disease/Borrelia burgdorferi
The Lyme disease spirochete B. urgdorferi is maintained in nature via an enzootic cycle in which it is transmitted by the nymphal stage of its vector, the deer tick Ixodes scapularis, t…
Justin L. Cotney, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Postdoctoral positions in comparative functional genomics for both experienced molecular biologists and computational biologists are available in the Cotney Lab within the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences and the Institute for Systems Genomics at UConn Health.
The Cotney Lab is interested in determining how gene regulatory elements, namely enhancers, control gene expression during mammalian development. We aim to understand how new gene regulatory functions evolve, to identify…
Kai Li
Assistant Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ We are looking for students and postdocs that are interested in studying immune recognition, innate immunity or host-microbe interaction. Students in PhD or MD-PhD program at UConn Health are welcome to rotate in our lab. Please email me (kali@uchc.edu) directly. Our lab is seeking postdoctoral rese…
Innate Immunity, Immune Recognition, Phagocytosis, Proximity Labeling, Host-Microbe Interaction
Karen Menuz
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students and postdocs who are interested in olfaction, sensory neuroscience, and cellular and molecular physiology.
Our lab studies the mechanisms supporting robust responses to odors in the insect olfactory system. Currently, we are interested in how the molecular and cellular environment surrounding olfactory neurons influences thei…
Kelly L. Hawley
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2024, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2025
Kepeng Wang
Assistant Professor of Immunology
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
Chronic inflammation increases cancer risk and accelerates the progression of many malignancies, including those of the lung, stomach, liver and colon. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and tumor-infiltrating myeloid and immune…
Kevin Lo, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Endocrinology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Institute of Materials Science (IMS)
Assistant Director
Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering · UConn Health
⭐ PhD studentship and postdoctoral fellowship. Accepting new students at all levels.
SHORT-HEAL (SHORT-term treatment HEALing) Initiative: activating stem cells, modulating immune response, promoting angiogenesis for tissue regeneration; The Role of Piezoelectricity in Stem Cell Culture; Pre-Innervated T…
Kevin P. Claffey, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology<br />Center for Vascular Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Post-Doctoral Candidates with relevant experience will be considered. Please submit a CV or Biosketch with contact information for at least three references to:claffey@nso2.ucuc.edu.
The projects in Dr. Claffey's laboratory are focused on pre-clinical models of breast cancer, particularly targeting angiogenesis and VEGF-dependent mechanisms is a key area of interest for my laboratory. Key areas of ex…
Lance Bauer, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Students with expertise in neurobiology or computer science can use our neuroimaging software to conduct secondary analyses of EEG/ERP data for class projects or publications.
Genetic and personality risk factors for addiction and their neurophysiological correlates.
Leslie A. Caromile
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Center for Vascular Biology
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025
Investigating the mechanistic role of prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) in prostate cancer tumor vascularization, progression and metastasis; SNPs in PSMA and prostate cancer health disparities; novel PSMA target…
Leslie R. Bernstein, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time.
Psychoacoustics, sensory processes. Our current research is aimed at gaining a broader understanding of the manner in which information at the two ears is utilized in order to detect and localize sound (binaural informat…
Lihong Wang
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Neuroimaging correlates of cognitive outcomes in late-life depression, neural signatures of depression vulnerability, neural plasticity in patients with late-life depression and mild cognitive decline, geriatric depressi…
Linda Hillstrom Shapiro
Professor, Department of Cell Biology; Director, Center for Vascular Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2024, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2025
Research in the Shapiro laboratory concentrates on understanding the regulation and function of cell surface peptidases in the angiogenic endothelium of tumors, vessels at sites of inflammation and in cardiovascular dise…
Lynn Puddington
Associate Professor of Immunology and Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
The overall goal of the research ongoing in my laboratory is to elucidate the contribution of maternal antigen or immune status in the susceptibility or resistance to development of allergic airway disease in offspring. …
Madison L. Doolittle
Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Not currently accepting lab rotation students
We study mechanisms of musculoskeletal aging, senescence, and osteoimmunology within the bone microenvironment. With age, a higher proportion of cells exhibit cellular senescence: a growth-arrested, yet inflammatory stat…
Manisha Sinha
James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
Accepting MA Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
The Long Nineteenth Century: Transnational histories of slavery, abolition, and feminism, the History and Legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, United States History, Political History, African American History, Wo…
Mansoor Sarfarazi
Professor of Surgery and Human Molecular Genetics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time.
Molecular Genetics Studies of Glaucoma, Molecular Genetics Studies of Other Inherited Conditions, Ongoing Studies utilizing Next-Generation Exome & DNA Sequencing Technologies
Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos
Professor of Neuroscience
Janice and Rodney Reynolds Endowed Chair of Neurobiology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The synaptic, cellular and network mechanisms involved in sensorimotor information transmission, coding and storage during motivated behaviors.
Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ The Family Adversity and Resilience Program (FARR Program) currently has three active NIH-funded studies centered on understanding how exposure to stress, trauma and other adversity affects children and families. We have many research opportunities for individuals from all levels of training (underg…
Dr. Briggs-Gowan’s current research broadly centers on mental health problems in young children, including identifying risk factors, and pinpointing underlying genetic, stress-response, and neurocognitive factors involve…
Margaret K. Callahan, MD, PhD
Professor of Immunology and Medicine
Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Advanced Melanoma
Cancer Immunotherapy
Checkpoint Blockade
Targeted Inhibitors
Novel Therapies
Biomarker Development
Clinical Trials
Mariana B. Alfonso Fragomeni
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
Climate adaptive design
Bioclimatic design
Heat resilient design
Marion E. Frank, PhD
Professor of Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
To reveal chemosensory stimulus coding strategies, we study odor and taste identification in humans, and gustatory neurophysiology and behavior in hamsters. The broad goal of our research is to develop fundamental unders…
Mark Brand
Professor of Horticulture and Plant Breeding, Nursery Extension Specialist · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
Woody landscape plants and nursery crops
Ornamental plant breeding
Aroniaberry fruit production
Mark R. Terasaki
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
I have been using advanced light microscopy techniques to investigate intracellular organization and function. Most of my work has involved imaging of living cells using confocal microscopy. I have recently completed wor…
Masako Nakanishi
Assistant Professor-in-Residence · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2026, Spring Block 2027
The Rosenberg/Nakanishi laboratory focuses on the chemoprevention of colorectal cancer (CRC) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). A key focus of our work is the role of bioactive lipid signaling in colon carcinogenesi…
Maureen Kahiu
Assistant Cooperative Extension Educator of Turfgrass and Weed Ecology · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Turfgrass Management, Turfgrass Weed Science, Weed Science, Turfgrass Organic Matter Management
Mayu Inaba-Oguro, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Our research aims to elucidate how cells alter their fates between normal or disease conditions. To address this, we model regeneration and tumorigenesis using Drosophila gonads. We use a combination of fly genetics with…
Melissa J. Caimano
Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Regulatory pathways and molecular mechanisms underlying mammalian host adaptation and maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi within its natural enzootic cycle; role of the alternate sigma factor RpoS; c-di-GMP for maintenan…
Mia Maltz
Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology and Soil Health · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Microbial mediation of ecological restoration; Dispersal of airborne fungi
Michael R. Gryk
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
The focus of our laboratory is structural bioinformatics. We are currently involved in several projects on this topic, mainly the use of NMR spectroscopy as a tool for macromolecular characterization and molecular struct…
Mina Mina, DMD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Pediatric Dentistry
Director, DMD/PHD Program
Co-Director, Skeletal, Craniofacial and Oral Biology Training Grant · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
My labaratory is interested in the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate the formation of organs in embryos, their renewal and regeneration into adulthood. Most of our studies are focused in initiation and morp…
Ming Xu
Assistant Professor, UConn Center on Aging and the Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences
⭐ We have several openings for graduate students and postdocs.
Cellular senescence is one of the major players contributing to the fundamental aging process. My lab is leveraging novel mouse models and primary human cells as tools to examine the role and underlying mechanism of sene…
Mingyu Qiao
Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ My lab currently has multiple openings for motivated senior undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scholars. Students/scholars with multidisciplinary skills in chemistry, biology, and materials or strong backgrounds in chemical/biological/food/agricultural/biomedical/environment…
The major research focus of Dr. Qiao’s laboratory is to utilize food- or nature-derived materials, in combination with advanced bioprocessing technologies, to create scalable and cost-effective encapsulation solutions fo…
Nick Goltz
Assistant Extension Educator, Director of Plant Diagnostic Laboratory · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not accepting graduate students.
Plant Diagnostics
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Applied Plant Pathology
Nilanjana Maulik
Professor of Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Molecular mechanism of myocardial angiogenesis in the diseased/infarcted heart, ischemia/reperfusion injury, apoptosis and on the development of cardioprotective strategies which includes gene and stem cell therapy.
Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Our lab offers diverse research opportunities for trainees at different career stages.
Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Email Oscar for more information.
We are a bacteriology lab studying the molecular bases that enable pathogenic bacteria to endure, acclimate, and prevail in the unwelcoming conditions of their host. Our research seeks to understand how bacterial pathoge…
Paola Vera-Licona
Associate Professor/Basic Science · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
We have available short and long-term projects including: development of modeling and analysis tools and algorithms of regulatory networks, the analysis of multi-omics data in cancer such as triple negative breast cancer and…
Our research group works on a variety of problems within the fields of computational systems medicine, computational systems biology, mathematical biology and bioinformatics. We focus on the design and application of mat…
Patrick A. Murphy, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Cell Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Disturbed blood flow patterns can lead to chronic inflammatory conditions in the arterial wall, a precipitating event in cardiovascular components of heart attack and stroke. The Murphy lab is dissecting the interactions…
Paul M. Epstein, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Dr. Epstein's laboratory has been studying cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDE), a large family of isozymic enzymes which control the cellular levels of two key signal transduction molecules, cAMP and cGMP, and the…
Pedro E.T. Miura
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ We are looking for trainees and technicians that would like to work with mammalian cultured cells (mES, hES, and derived neurons), CRISPR gene editing, and RNA-sequencing to answer questions in RNA biology.
UConn Graduate students in the Biomedical Science Ph.D. Program have the opportunity to rota…
The Miura lab studies alternative RNA isoforms, including long 3’UTR mRNA isoforms, alternatively spliced mRNA isoforms, and circRNAs. We are interested in the molecular functions of these RNAs in neurons, and how differ…
Pedro Mendes, PhD
Boehringer Ingelheim Professor in Cell Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My research is in the area of computational systems biology, which aims to better understand biological systems through the use of computer models. My active areas of research are:
- Development of modelling and simulat…
Penghua Wang
Associate Professor · UConn Health
⭐ A PhD student position is available from now (March 2026).
My research is focused on pattern recognition receptor signaling pathways and pathogenesis of mosquito-borne RNA viruses. On the host end, I am interested in cellular regulation of the major viral RNA (RIG-I like recepto…
Peter F. Maye, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My lab investigates how different genes and cell types contribute to the regulation of skeletal tissues. Advances in omics approaches and applications to mine datasets are rapidly changing the landscape of biology. Curre…
Peter Setlow
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Spores of bacteria of Bacillus species are extraordinarily resistant to all manner of harsh treatments, and largely because of this resistance, spores of some Bacillus species are major agents of food spoilage and food-b…
Rajkumar Verma
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ A postdoctoral research fellow position is available in the group of Rajkumar Verma in the Neuroscience Department, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington CT. Verma lab studies mechanisms of recovery in a rodent model of ischemic stroke injury. The current focus of Verma lab is to …
My lab investigates the cause-effect-relationships of stroke outcome. we focus on following three specific areas of stroke research. Project 1: Stroke remains a leading cause of disability in the United States. Despite r…
Rashmi Bansal, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Developmental, cellular and molecular biology of Oligodendrocytes, the cells that synthesize myelin membrane in the central nervous system; growth factor regulation of development and function and its relationship to neu…
Rebecca Page
Professor of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
How we sense and react to our environment is communicated in the cell by vast networks of highly dynamic, interacting proteins. These interactions are regulated in both space and time, and it is this tight regulation tha…
Rosa Raudales
Associate Professor in Horticulture & Greenhouse Extension Specialist · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Irrigation water management
Controlled environment agriculture
Waterborne pathogens
Sandra K. Weller
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
HSV-1 and -2 are large DNA virus which are responsible for oral and genital infections, sight-threatening ocular infections and brain infections which can be life threatening. Our laboratory uses genetic, biochemical, bi…
Sangamesh G. Kumbar
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ <p><strong><strong>Accepting Lab Rotation Students:</strong> </strong><span>Summer 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023</span></p>
Dr. Kumbar’s research is focused on synthesis and characterization of novel biomaterials/polymers for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications. Polymeric materials namely polysaccharides, polyposphazenes, polyan…
Scott Rich
Assistant Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking undergrads, graduate students, and postdocs excited by this research question and the tools of computational neuroscience to build the lab. To stay up-to-date with these opportunities, please fill out this form.
Dr. Rich's lab will use a wealth of tools from computational neuroscience, including the creation of biophysically detailed models of individual neurons, the study of in silico neuronal microcircuits, and mathematical an…
Sebnem Nur Tuncdemir
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Positions for a postdoctoral fellow and PhD (MD or MD/PhD) candidates are available in the Tuncdemir lab on a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study examining the circuit mechanisms by which multisensory information arriving from the external world generates the functional diversity in the…
My lab is interested in understanding how the neural circuits that encode specific features of contexts are organized in adults and the key developmental mechanisms by which this network is formed. We study the hipp…
Sergio Luzzatto
Professor and the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
Accepting MA Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
Nineteenth century and twentieth century Italian history; Eighteenth century and nineteenth century French history; Twentieth century Jewish studies.
Shuwen Tan
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am looking for PhD/MS students to start in Fall 2025.
I am a physical oceanographer who is interested in studying oceanic processes driven by interactions with topography, including dense overflows, flow hydraulics, internal waves, and turbulent mixing, as well as their imp…
Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology · School of Medicine
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
Innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions, inflammasomes
Srdjan D. Antic, MD
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Electrophysiology and optical imaging of calcium and voltage from dendrites in brain slices, cell culture of human neurons, spontaneous electrical activity, immunolabeling of human and mouse brain sections, computational…
Stefan Brocke
Associate Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
My laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain injury in inflammatory and inflammation-associated disorders of the central nervous system. For this purpose, we focus on:
vascular triggers leading to…
Stephen J. Crocker, PhD
Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Co-Associate Director, Neuroscience Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ There are research opportunities to study and learn about our projects (as described above), for PhD, MS, MD and MD/PhD candidates.
My lab is interested in how the immune and nervous systems interact and how this balance is disrupted by disease. Specifically, my research program has centered around the role of glia in the context of immunity and myel…
Steven Z. Chou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Visiting Scholars or Students: Yes. Please contact Dr. Steven Chou at schou@uchc.edu to discuss the details of your visiting plan and research program.
Postdocs: Yes. Highly motivated candidates are invited to apply for a 3-year postdoc position in our lab (with the potential to extend after the 3rd…
Our research is focused on the structural basis of the following three cellular processes in health, and protein engineering for treating related diseases:
1. Actin-Based Cell Motility
2. Cytokinesis
3. Transmembrane Sig…
Tannin A. Schmidt, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My basic and translational research interests in biomedical engineering lie within biomechanics (biotribology), biomaterials, biointerface science and biochemistry/biophysics, all within the context of engineering health…
Vanessa M. Scanlon
Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
Currently, I work on understanding extrinsic mechanisms that underly hematopoietic progenitor cell fate decisions. I have developed a novel method for time-lapse microscopy of bipotent progenitors dividing and committing…
Vijay A. Rathinam, DVM, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
The overall goal of our research efforts is to understand the immunologic basis of infectious and inflammatory diseases. The recognition of invading pathogens by the innate immune system is central to the development of …
Vladimir I. Rodionov
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Research in this laboratory is focused on molecular mechanisms of intracellular transport and organization of microtubule cytoskeleton. The model system that is being used is melanophores, pigment cells of lower vertebra…
Wendy Mok, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Our research focuses on how bacteria respond to and survive antibiotic treatment. We are especially interested in bacterial persisters, which are rare cell types in a population that can tolerate lethal doses of antibiot…
Xian Wu
Associate Professor In Residence · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I welcome graduate students who are curious about these questions and eager to explore them through collaborative research.
Physics Education Research
Xiangyou Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of age-related dementia, is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that leads to progressive memory loss, cognitive impairment, and ultimately death. The β-sit…
Yanjiao Zhou
Associate Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Postdoctoral Fellow position in microbiome and alcohol research. A position is available to conduct studies and receive training in alcohol research with a focus on the gut-brain axis and the gut microbiome. This collaborative effort involving the UConn Alcohol Research Center, the Laboratory of Mic…
The major research interest of her laboratory is to develop microbiome-based diagnostics and therapeutics for multiple sclerosis as well as other diseases, with a focus on how nutrition and microbial metabolites influenc…
Yanlin Wang
Professor of Medicine<br />Chief, Division of Nephrology<br />MD/PhD Program Co-Director · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The overall goal of the Wang lab is to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of kidney disease with a focus on the roles of inflammatory cells and fibroblasts in the pathogenesis of …
Yi Li
Professor of Horticultural Plant Biotechnology and Breeding · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ No longer accepting new graduate students.
Development of climate-smart turfgrasses requiring reduced mowing, fertilizer, and irrigation inputs
Development of plant biotechnologies for crop improvement
Yulan Xiong
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Neuroscience Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Molecular Pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease
Yusuf M. Khan
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery<br />Associate Director, Skeletal Biology and Regeneration Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Skeletal Biology, Regenerative Engineering, Bone Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Nanofibrous Matrices, Ultrasound-Mediated Mechanical Stimulation, Stem Cells, Mechanotransduction
Zhao-Wen Wang
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Currently not accepting lab rotation students for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Regulation of neurotransmitter release by Ca2+ and Ca2+-sensitive proteins Function and regulation of gap junctions My lab uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model organism to study molecular mech…
Zhichao Fan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ NIH-supported Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in Leukocyte Biology and Immunology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (UConn Health). Our laboratory is looking for motivated postdoctoral fellows to study integrin activation and leukocyte trafficking in inflammatory diseases using advan…
Neutrophils are the most abundant population of human leukocytes (~60%) and play critical roles in infections and inflammation. Circulating neutrophils are recruited to inflamed or infected tissue. The recruitment cascad…
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Aaron S Devanathan
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Antiretroviral clinical pharmacology, HIV, PK/PD modeling
Afonso Silva
Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ Afonso Silva Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Afonso Silva Publications Park, S. An open access resource for marmoset neuroscientific apparatus. An Open Access Resource for Marmoset Neuroscientific Apparatus. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE OPEN , 16-17. An open access resource for …
Neurosciences Clinical sciences Biomedical engineering Biological psychology Cognitive and computational psychology Biochemistry and cell biology
Albert To
Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ I also conducted postdoctoral research with Wing Kam Liu at Northwestern University. i6Al4V Component Using Wire-Arc Directed Energy Deposition. An integrated hybrid wire-arc directed energy deposition, friction stir processing, and milling system for multi-track, multi-layer part manufacturing. wal…
My primary research interests are in design optimization for additive manufacturing, multiscale methods, and computational mechanics. Currently, my research group is actively working on fast process modeling and topology…
Aleksandar Stevanovic
Associate Professor · Civil and Environmental
⭐ ovic Skip to main content Civil and Environmental Open Navigation Aleksandar Stevanovic Dr. He has advised more than 30 graduate students (MSc and PhD) and five post-doctoral associates.
Dr. Stevanovic is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches courses in traffic engineering, transportation planning, and operations resear…
Alicia R. Mathers Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology; Associate Professor, Department of Immunology · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Graduate students interested in rotation opportunities should contact Dr. Mathers.
Understanding induction of cutaneous inflammation, in particular psoriasis and wound healing; Develop novel therapeutics utilizing both murine and human models. In our first project we are examining the role of danger si…
Amr Mahmoud
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ Comprehensive Study on The Effect of Diversity Composition on Engineering Teams’ Dynamics. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings .
Data management and data science Machine learning Nanotechnology
Badie Morsi
Professor · Chemical and Petroleum
⭐ Morsi Skip to main content Chemical and Petroleum Open Navigation Badie Morsi Awards (2005 - 2008) Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).
Chemical engineering Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy Physical chemistry Materials engineering Environmental engineering Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering
Bo Zeng
Associate Professor · Industrial
⭐ Outer Approximation and Generalized Benders Decomposition. A projection-based reformulation and decomposition algorithm for global optimization of a class of mixed integer bilevel linear programs. em Expansion Planning Using Bilinear Benders Decomposition. and Wind Power Output Using Bilinear Bender…
My research focus on developing and utilizing optimization and analytics tools to address challenges in real systems, especially discrete optimization models with uncertainties (robust and stochastic mixed integer progra…
Brian Gleeson
Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation Brian Gleeson Currently the Harry S. e Coatings with Pt-Modified Ni and Ni3Al Alloy Compositions. High Temperature Reaction of MCrAlY Coating Compositions with CaO Deposits. On the phase composition changes during high temperature oxi…
Currently the Harry S. Tack Chaired Professor of Materials Science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to serving as department chair from 2014-2025, h…
Carl Snyderman
Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
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Carl H. Snyderman, MD, MBA, is Professor of Otolaryngology, with secondary appointments in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering at…
Catherine Greeno
Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Development of practice-based evidence in Mental Health
Barriers and facilitators to implementation of reform in county-support case management
Outcomes for people discharged from a state psychiatric hospital
Mental heal…
Christian A Fernandez
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students, Accepting PhD Students
Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Drug-induced immunogenicity, Drug-induced liver injury, Immunopharmacology
Cynthia L Salter
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Salter is not able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
Da Yang
Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Since joining Pitt in 2014, Dr. Yang has established a highly visible and well-funded research program. His laboratory has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, including senior-author papers in Cancer Cell, Nat…
Daniel Shiwarski
Assistant Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ iel Shiwarski Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Daniel Shiwarski Dr. During his postdoctoral research fellowship in Dr. tissue microfluidics, and iii) the generation of opensource hardware and software for tissue engineering and cellular biomechanics evaluation. Development of a hi…
Dr. Shiwarski obtained a combined undergraduate degree from Bucknell University in cell biology and biochemistry, a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for Neural …
Danielle M Tufts
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ I am interested in recruiting motivated graduate students who are interested in tick-borne diseases, disease ecology, and host-vector-pathogen interactions.
I am a vector-borne disease ecologist interested in evolutionary genetics, pathogen transmission pathways, ecological drivers of pathogen emergence, host-vector-parasite interactions, and co-infections. My goal is to enh…
David Sanchez
Associate Professor · Civil and Environmental
⭐ chez Skip to main content Civil and Environmental Open Navigation David Sanchez David V. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings , 2020-June. In ASEE Annual C…
David V.P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Civil & Environmental Engineering department and serves as the Associate Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. He coord…
Deborah Moon
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Developing, adapting, implementing, and evaluating interventions designed to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and promote mental health among marginalized families in under-resourced communities. Informed by …
Douglas Slain
Department Chair of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Emily F Dauria
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Dauria is able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
Broadly, the goal of my work is to end health inequities experienced among individuals surveilled or impacted by the criminal legal system (e.g., the system of policing, prosecution, courts, detention, and community supe…
Feng Xiong
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ - 2016) Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford. (2014) Graduate Student Gold Award, Materials Research Society (MRS). Selective deposition and stable encapsulation of lithium through heterogeneous seeded growth.
Nanotechnology Condensed matter physics Electronics, sensors and digital hardware Materials engineering Quantum physics Electrical engineering
George Klinzing
Instructor · Chemical and Petroleum
⭐ nzing Skip to main content Chemical and Petroleum Open Navigation George Klinzing Prof.
Prof. George E. Klinzing holds degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. degree from the later. He recently was given an honorary doctor of engineering d…
Guofeng Wang
Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ (2002) Silver award winner of Graduate Student Award at 2002 spring MRS meeting. Electrified vapour deposition at ultrahigh temperature and atmospheric pressure for nanomaterials synthesis. Composition-dependent ordering transformations in Pt-Fe nanoalloys. Highly efficient decomposition of ammonia …
Materials engineering Physical chemistry Macromolecular and materials chemistry Nanotechnology Condensed matter physics Inorganic chemistry
Helen E. Petracchi
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Heng Huang
John A. Jurenko Endowed Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary Appointment); Professor, Biomedical Informatics (Secondary Appointment)
⭐ I am looking for Postdoc, PhD students, motivated for doing research in the areas of big data, machine learning, bioinformatics, computer vision, and biomedical image analysis. If you are interested, please contact me.
Imam H Shaik
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Pharmacokinetics, Drug Metabolism, Clinical pharmacology
Jason A Deakings
Assistant Professor, Associate Director, Center for Health Equity · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Deakings is able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
Jeen-Shang Lin
Associate Professor · Civil and Environmental
⭐ oved friction force calculation with an augmented open-close iteration formulation in discontinuous deformation analysis. shaped breakout failure mechanisms in underground opening.
Civil engineering Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy Geology Geophysics Biochemistry and cell biology Biomedical engineering
Jingtong Hu
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ g Hu Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Jingtong Hu Awards (2021) IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Donald O.
Electronics, sensors and digital hardware Electrical engineering Distributed computing and systems software Architecture Graphics, augmented reality and games Data management and data science
Joe Yun
People Leader: Level 4 Information Technology · Electrical and Computer
⭐ Yun Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Joe Yun Joseph T. University of Pittsburgh, where he also holds the position of Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Swanson School of Engineering. l Media Intelligence and Learning Environment: an Open Sour…
Joseph T. Yun, Ph.D. serves as the Director of Artificial Intelligence Enablement at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also holds the position of Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Swan…
John Keith
Professor · Chemical and Petroleum
⭐ (2008 - 2010) Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. Theoretical studies of Pd metal deposition on the √3 x √3 4-mercaptopyridine self-assembled monolayer.
Computational research at the confluence of chemistry, applied physics, materials science, and engineering.
Research Interests: Physical chemistry Theoretical and computational chemistry Organic chemistry Atomic, molecu…
John Whitefoot
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation John Whitefoot Awards (2024) Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Automotive engineering Mechanical engineering Electronics, sensors and digital hardware Engineering practice and education
Joseph Rubin
Distinguished Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Joseph Rubin Publications Satish, L.
Juan Jose Mendoza Arenas
Assistant Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ any-particle systems is full of exciting and wide-open problems, whose solution would provide society with new clean and efficient technologies.
From processes we find in our daily life, to effects in nanoscale devices, interactions between different constituent elements of a system are of vital importance. Several prominent cases take place in quantum materials,…
Julie Phillippi
Associate Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Julie Phillippi Publications Ker, E.
Biochemistry and cell biology Biomedical engineering
Junmei Wang
Associate Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Computational Chemistry and Biophysics, Drug Discovery and Development, Systems Pharmacology and Outcomes, specifically
1. Molecular mechanics force field (MMFF)
2. MMFF-based scoring function
3. computer-aided drug des…
Justin Fischgrund
Lecturer · Industrial
⭐ Justin Fischgrund Skip to main content Industrial Open Navigation Justin Fischgrund Justin Fischgrund, P.
Justin Fischgrund, P.E. is a Lecturer for the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Course in the Swanson School of Engineering. In addition, Justin is the Owner & Principal of Fischgrund Consulting, a niche firm specializing in dri…
Kenneth Urish
Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Kenneth Urish Publications Cisneros, C. Open Forum Infect Dis , 8(1), ofaa593. JAMA Netw Open , 2(11), e1916008. 1001/jamanetworkopen.
Clinical sciences Biomedical engineering Sports science and exercise Microbiology Medical microbiology Biochemistry and cell biology
LiRong Wang
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Deep/machine learning, electronic medical records analysis, clinical trial emulation, target identification, chemogenomics/cheminformatics/bioinformatics database, signaling pathway, clinical data mining on mental disord…
Liang Zhan
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ Zhan Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Liang Zhan Biography Ph. patterns of non-target trials vary based on their position to previous target stimuli. 's disease using higher-order singular value decomposition. k Integrating Small and Large Language Models for Open-Domain …
Biological psychology Neurosciences Machine learning Clinical sciences Cognitive and computational psychology Clinical and health psychology
M. Najeeb Shafiq
Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Education
⭐ Professor Shafiq teaches graduate courses in the economics of education, quantitative methods, and comparative education. He welcomes inquiries from prospective students and visitors.
The social and non-monetary benefits of education (including the effects of education on civic, moral, political, and socioemotional outcomes)
Education, poverty, and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
H…
Mahmoud El Nokali
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ kali Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Mahmoud El Nokali Awards (1998) Outstanding Teacher in Electrical Engineering Award.
Electronics, sensors and digital hardware Condensed matter physics Nanotechnology Electrical engineering Communications engineering Classical physics
Manoj Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · School of Medicine
⭐ If you are interested in joining our research team, please contact me at Mak328@Pitt.edu.
In a modernized society, where it is becoming difficult to escape loud noises, exposure to loud noises is the leading cause of hyperacusis and tinnitus, the highly debilitating hearing disorders characterized by hyperexc…
Marianne Seney
Associate Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ arianne Seney Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Marianne Seney Publications Barko, K. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci , 5(3), 100476.
Biological psychology Neurosciences Clinical sciences Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences Genetics Clinical and health psychology
Marlo Perry
Research Associate Professor, Child Welfare Education and Research Programs · School of Social Work
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes. Students working with me will be involved in projects examining child welfare workforce issues around training, development, retention, and/or well-being.
Child welfare
Workforce development
Mary L. Ohmer
COSA Chair and Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Community organizing
Violence prevention
Community solutions to violence and trauma
Community development
Equitable development
CBPR
Dr. Ohmer conducts research and evaluation on a variety of community-based projects and…
Mary Rauktis
Research Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ I would be interested in a doctoral student who would like to focus on child welfare, specifically residential or foster care, but also evaluating or developing in-home preventative interventions. Although this is an emerging area for me, I have been working within the animal-human intersection, ex…
Research on out-of-home care for children with a focus on social learning practices and climate
Human-animal interaction research
Interventions with vulnerable populations
I would be interested in a doctoral student who…
Michele Manuel
U. S. Steel Dean of Engineering · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Michele Manuel Michele Manuel is the U. Increasing the composition range of a novel τ 11 -Al 4 Fe 1. n of the Al-Co-Fe phase diagram over the whole composition range.
Michele Manuel is the U. S. Steel Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. Previously, she was Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Unive…
Nahmah Kim-Campbell
Associate Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ Kim-Campbell Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Nahmah Kim-Campbell Publications Butler, M. vents in Children and Young Adults With Thrombocytopenia at the Time of Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy Initiation.
Clinical sciences Cardiovascular medicine and haematology Nursing Paediatrics
Neeraj Gandhi
Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ Experimental control of eye and head positions prior to head-unrestrained gaze shifts in monkey.
Neurosciences Machine learning Biological psychology Ophthalmology and optometry Allied health and rehabilitation science
Oliver Hinder
Assistant Professor · Industrial
⭐ Oliver Hinder Skip to main content Industrial Open Navigation Oliver Hinder Dr. e University of Pittsburgh, Oliver was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Google in the Optimization and Algorithms group in New York.
Dr. Oliver Hinder's research focuses on continuous optimization, with a penchant for local optimization methods such as gradient descent. Dr. Hinder aims to develop reliable and efficient algorithms built on solid mathem…
Paul Andrew Johnston
Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students, Accepting PhD Students
Peter Wipf
Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Total synthesis of natural products, organometallic methodology, and medicinal chemistry.
Philip E Empey
Associate Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students; Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Empey's laboratory employs a bench-to-bedside approach to study pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics mechanisms of variation in drug response. This includes wet lab studies of drug transporter interactions, drug qua…
Phillip W Schnarrs
Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Schnarrs is accepting PhD students for Fall 2025.
LGBTQ+ health, HIV prevention, behavioral and mental health, early life adversity and stress, population health studies, intervention trials, community engaged research, substance misuse and addiction, suicidality, depre…
Prashant Kumta
Distinguished Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ co-principal investigators, and more than a dozen graduate students as well as half a dozen post doctoral fellows. Pulsed Current Electrodeposition of Silicon Thin Films Anodes for Lithium Ion Battery Applications. Electrodeposition of amorphous silicon anode for lithium ion batteries. e of Mg-Zn-Ca…
Materials engineering Physical chemistry Biomedical engineering Macromolecular and materials chemistry Inorganic chemistry Nanotechnology
Pratap Khanwilkar
Director of Master's Programs and Professor of Practice · Bioengineering
⭐ ohnson Memorial Award: Outstanding Bioengineering Graduate Student, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah.
Four decades of transformational contributions and leadership in innovative medical technology advancement including innovation and commercialization. 4 breakthrough technologies advanced to help patients in cardiac, neu…
Qihao Wu
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Research Area I: Gut Microbial Metabolism of Xenobiotics <br>Research Area II: Paired Omics-Directed Natural Product Discovery
Raman Venkataramanan
Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Pregnancy, Organ Transplantation, Cancer
Robert Gibbs
Vice Chair for Education, Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students, Accepting PhD Students
Robert WS Coulter
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Coulter is able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
My mission is to eliminate substance use and violence inequities for LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) youth and young adults. To accomplish this mission, my research focuses on: (1) examining the compl…
Sangyeop Lee
Associate Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ I have an opening for a PhD student. Please contact me with your resume or CV for the position.
Condensed matter physics, Materials engineering, Macromolecular and materials chemistry, Nanotechnology, Atomic, molecular and optical physics
Simone Brixius Anderko
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Biochemistry, cytochrome P450 enzymes, structural biology, X-ray protein crystallography, enzymology
Song Li
David and Betty Brenneman Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Li has established a strong research program centered at the interface of biology/immunology and biotechnology. His lab has developed several novel delivery systems that are aimed to solve major issues in his fields …
Stephen Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science · School of Computing and Information
⭐ I am actively looking for self-motivated and talented students to join my research group. Please email me with your CV or drop by my office.
My research interests lie broadly in the area of distributed systems and cyber-physical systems (CPS), with an emphasis on sustainability and security. My current research explores distributed systems and built-environme…
Subhadip Ghatak
Associate Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ bhadip Ghatak Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Subhadip Ghatak Publications Moulick, M. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open , 10(10S), 40-41.
Clinical sciences Medical biotechnology Biochemistry and cell biology Biomedical engineering Genetics Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
Susheng Tan
Research Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ Tan Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Susheng Tan Dr. orporated β-Ga 2 O 3 films made by pulsed laser deposition. crystalline Ga 2 O 3 films made by pulsed laser deposition. ride Nanosheets Prepared by Pulsed Laser Plasma Deposition.
Dr. Susheng Tan is currently a Research Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) with the role of Executive Microscopy Specialist of the Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterizatio…
Sylvanus Wosu
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation Sylvanus Wosu Awards (2012) 2012 NAMEPA Outstanding MEP Award. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings , 2016-June. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings . In ASEE Annual Conference …
Materials engineering Mechanical engineering Aerospace engineering Civil engineering Nanotechnology
Tagbo Niepa
Assistant Professor · Chemical and Petroleum
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Tatsuya Sakurahara
Assistant Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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Dr. Tatsuya Sakurahara is the Director of the Risk Analysis and Reliability Engineering (RARE) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), Swanson School of Engineering at the Uni…
Thomas Piccone
Assistant Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ Model to predict the effect of composition on the high temperature ductility Of Steel.
Full-time Non-Tenure Stream (NTS) faculty member teaching courses in Materials Science
Research Interests: Materials engineering Mechanical engineering
Travis Labrum
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes. Students working with me will be involved in projects examining family caregiving and representative payeeship for persons with psychiatric disorders.
Family relationships of persons with SMI
Elder mistreatment
Velvet Blair Journigan
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
synthetic medicinal chemistry, structure-based drug design
Wei Zhang
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students; Accepting PhD Students
Synthetic chemistry, polymers, drug delivery, pain, wound healing, biomaterials, nano materials
Wen Xie
Joseph Koslow Endowed Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Dr. Xie's lab is currently having openings for MS and PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting students/scholars. All positions are NIH grant funded. Candidates with experience in liver disease, immunology, cancer biology, metabolomics and proteomics are particularly encouraged to apply. Pos…
Nuclear receptor-mediated transcriptional regulation of genes that encode drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters, and implications of this regulation in xenobiotic and endobiotic homeostasis and human diseases.
William Slaughter
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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Materials engineering Mechanical engineering Aerospace engineering Biomedical engineering Civil engineering Condensed matter physics
Wissam Saidi
Research Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ n of High-Entropy Alloy Catalyst for Ammonia Decomposition and Ammonia Synthesis.
Physical chemistry Materials engineering Condensed matter physics Macromolecular and materials chemistry Nanotechnology Theoretical and computational chemistry
Xiang Qun Sean Xie
Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Xie has brought his expertise in AI machine-/deep-learning (ML/DL) chemogenomics systems pharmacology and medicinal chemistry drug design discovery into the cutting-edge translational R&D as well as clinical data min…
Xiaochao Ma
Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Drug metabolism, drug-induced liver injury, toxicometabolomics, and safety-based precision medicine
Xiayun Zhao
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation Xiayun Zhao Dr. For more details (including current openings), welcome to visit Dr. Development of open-architecture two-wavelength grayscale digital light processing for advanced vat photopolymerization. (American Chemical Society) N…
Dr. Zhao joined the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) as an assistant professor in August 2018. She received a B.S. from the Department of Precision Instruments in Tsinghua University. Before pursuing her Ph.D. at Georgia …
Zhi-Hong Mao
Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ il for Uniform Magnetic Field to Wirelessly Power Position-Free Targets. A Fast and Robust Diagnostic Method for Multiple Open-Circuit Faults of Voltage-Source Inverters Through Line Voltage Magnitudes Analysis. Landmark-Based Indoor Positioning for Visually Impaired Individuals. A Novel Mat-Based S…
Electronics, sensors and digital hardware Electrical engineering Computer vision and multimedia computation Human-centred computing Artificial intelligence Data management and data science
Binghamton University--SUNY 18 hiring
Ana Laura Elías Arriaga
Assistant Professor
⭐ Dr. Elias's group has opportunities for highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students
Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials (2D atomically thin layers, graphene, carbon nanotubes, and related materials)
Hetero bilayers and moiré engineering
Raman spectroscopy
Brian P. Callahan
Associate Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ Accepting BCCB graduate students
Research in the Callahan lab blends chemistry and biology. They pursue challenging scientific problems that are relevant to human health and disease yet understudied. Projects can be hypothesis-driven or more technology-…
Carl P. Lipo
Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs · Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ <p><strong>For Prospective Graduate Students</strong></p>
<p>Lipo welcomes graduate students who are curious, collaborative and eager to take on the challenge of building anthropology as a science. Whether you are interested in island sustainability, cultural transmission, remote sensing methods or…
<ul><li>Island Archaeology (especially Rapa Nui/Easter Island)</li><li>Cultural Transmission and Evolutionary Archaeology</li><li>Remote Sensing, UAV Photogrammetry, and GIS</li><li>Luminescence Dating and Geophysical Me…
Diane Miller Sommerville
Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ Professor Sommerville is not accepting doctoral students at this time.
19th-century U.S., The American South, U.S. Women's History, Civil War & Reconstruction, History of Sexuality, African-American History
Elizabeth DiGangi
Associate Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ Not accepting graduate students for 2025-2026
Forensic anthropology; Population-specific standards; Age-at-death estimation; Trauma analysis; Prehistoric and historic health; stress; and well-being; Latin America; Caribbean; Europe Bioarchaeology; Paleopathology; No…
Eriks Rozners
Professor
⭐ Accepting BCCB graduate students
Chemical approaches to control the function of regulatory RNAs
Non-ionic backbone-modified RNA analogs
Molecular recognition of folded RNA using Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs)
Triplex-forming PNAs to control function of SA…
Huiyuan Guo
Assistant Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Biochemistry · Binghamton University
⭐ Her research group is currently hiring! Prospective undergrads, graduates, and postdocs are welcome to contact Dr. Guo (hguo@binghamton.edu) with CV attached.
Analytical Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry
Biochemistry
Sensors
Nanotechnology
Julien Panetier
Associate Professor; Chair, Faculty Senate · Materials Science and Engineering
⭐ Accepting BCCB graduate students
Novel molecular catalysts
Conversion of solar energy to fuels
Activation of small molecules
Katherine Wander
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · Public Health
⭐ Her work supports graduate student training and research; interested students should email her before submitting an application.
Evolutionary medicine and public health
Infectious disease and immune function
Human nutrition, growth and development
The optimal iron hypothesis
The immune system of human milk
Minfei Su
Assistant Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ Accepting BCCB graduate students
Biochemistry and structural biology; Structural basis and mechanism of GPCR signaling; GPCR drug discovery; Cryo-electron microscopy
Ming An
Associate Professor
⭐ Accepting BCCB graduate students
Organic chemistry
Bio-organic chemistry
Medicinal chemistry
Biological chemistry
Pharmaceutical chemistry
Chemical biology
Drug discovery
Patricia M. Di Lorenzo
Professor Emeritus · Binghamton University
⭐ Not accepting new students of postdoctoral fellows
Neural code for taste in the brainstem of lean and obese rats; temporal coding of sensation
Ralph Miller
Bartle Distinguished Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ Not accepting new students or postdoctoral fellows.
Elementary information processing (animals/humans)
Memory and forgetting
Role of temporal relationships between events in elementary learning
Pavlovian conditioning
Sozanne Solmaz
Associate Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ Accepting BCCB graduate students
Brain and muscle developmental diseases in infants, including spinal muscular atrophy
Roles of nuclear pore complexes in brain development
Structure-based design of therapies for Alzheimer’s disease
Cytoskeletal motors
S…
Wei Qiang
Professor · Binghamton University: The State University of New York
⭐ Accepting BCCB graduate students
Biological Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Membrane Biophysics
Structural Biology of Amyloid Aggregates
Molecular Mechanism of Amyloid Cytotoxicity
Xuefeng Jiang
Assistant Professor
⭐ Xuefeng Jiang's group has opportunities for highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students.
Nanophotonics and Integrated Photonics
Complex and Chaotic Photonics
Light-Matter Interactions
Non-Hermitian Physics
Yukui Luo
Assistant Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ https://www.yukuiluo.com/recruiting_ads/
Hardware-oriented security and trust
FPGA-based virtualization system and security
Trustworthy Internet of Things (IoT)
Trustworthy AI acceleration and optimization
Hardware-based accelerator design
Zhiyong (Tom) Xu
Research Professor · Binghamton University
⭐ Not Accepting Students
Physical chemistry
Materials chemistry
Nanotechnology
Energy storage Materials
Battery and capacitor
Power electronics materials
Printable electronics
3D printing materials
Packaging materials
Hydrogen storage materials
…
Indiana University--Bloomington 1 hiring
Danny Valdez
Associate Professor · School of Public Health‐Bloomington
⭐ Dr. Valdez is currently accepting doctoral students with a background or interest in applied social media mining, digital health, and associated analytics.
Dr. Valdez is a big data scientist, primarily leveraging social media data and computational informatics algorithms to study, visualize, and interpret applied health behaviors, including mental health markers from social…
Clemson University 18 hiring
Adam Melvin
Dr. · College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
⭐ Open positions for graduate students and undergraduate students are currently available. Please contact Dr. Adam Melvin if interested in joining the research group.
Development of new tools and technologies to quantify and characterize complex biological systems; interdisciplinary approach combining chemical and biomedical engineering with chemical biology, biochemistry, biophysics,…
Alexis Stamatikos
Associate Professor · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ Any prospective student who has relevant experience with these skills and is interested in atherosclerosis research is highly encouraged to directly contact Dr. Stamatikos via email.
Dr. Stamatikos' research interests include identifying mechanisms that drive atherosclerosis and developing novel therapeutics for this disease. Research areas of Dr. Stamatikos include vascular inflammation, cholesterol…
Allison Traylor
Assistant Professor · College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
⭐ Dr. Traylor expects to accept a Ph.D. student to begin in Fall 2026.
Betsy Albritton
Assistant Professor · College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
⭐ Dr. Albritton will be accepting a PhD student for the 2026-2027 cycle.
Leadership, emotions, quantitative research methods, natural language processing
Bhupinder Farmaha
Associate Professor, Nutrient Management Specialist · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ A PhD position is available at in our group to support research on nitrogen management in South Carolina corn systems. The student will conduct field and laboratory work, including frequent travel to commercial corn farms across the state for sampling and data collection, as well as analyze and pres…
My goal is to develop a nationally recognized externally funded applied research program, which includes the development of technologies capable of enhancing current nutrient management strategies resulting in increased …
Bulent Koc
Associate Professor · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ https://www.clemson.edu/cafls/academics/graduate/agriculture.html
- Agricultural Mechatronics Systems, Precision Agriculture
- Agricultural Mechanization and Equipment Development, Ag Machinery Systems
- Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Debabrata Sahoo
Associate Professor-Sustainable Water Resources Engineering · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ Undergraduate students, Graduate Students (M.S/Ph.D), Post-Docs: To join the SWRL group, please email me at dsahoo@clemson.edu.
HABs-CHABs, Stormwater Management, Ecological Engineering, Watershed/Water Quality Modeling, Watershed Instrumentation and Monitoring, In-stream processes, Biogeochemistry, Water sensor applications, Big Data, Data Manag…
Dong Lin
Assistant Professor · College of Science
⭐ PhD Student:
Jiayi Zong (joined in 2025)
Undergraduate Student:
Paul Coney Hitopoulos Jr. (joined in 2025 as a sophomore)
My primary research interest is in the interactions between the Earth's atmosphere and its space environment. I have been trying to understand the physical connections between atmosphere and geospace in three pathways: p…
Hehe Wang
Associate Professor of Plant Bacteriology, Plant Bacteriologist/Pathologist · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ Looking for a new PhD student with MS degree
To address the needs of stakeholders and promote sustainable agriculture, my lab conducts basic and applied research to study the epidemiology, ecology, and genetics of bacterial pathogens in different crop production sy…
Heide S. Temples
Professor, Track Lead of the Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program · College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD Students at Clemson University (See research interests on PPTs)
Pediatric Growth & Development
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Pediatric Obesity
Breastfeeding
Epigenetics
Genetics
James Faust
Professor of Floriculture Physiology · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ Current Graduate Students
Melissa Munoz, PhD
Michael Alden, PhD
Paul Millar, MS
Shara Ortiz, MS
Gabriela Calidonio, MS
Alex Carver, MS
I specialize in Floriculture Physiology with a focus on greenhouse production of ornamental flowering crops, both potted and cut flowers. I also do research on Cannabis (industrial hemp).
Jody Nicholson
Professor · College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
⭐ I am considering graduate students for the 2027 application cycle (applications due by January 15, 2027 to start August 2027).
My research concentrates on health promotion and prevention in aging. Currently, I am a co-PI on two studies funded by the National Institute of Aging (NIA): the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE; https://sites.p…
Marissa Shuffler, PhD
Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology · College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
⭐ NOTE: Dr. Shuffler is not currently planning to accept new graduate students for Fall 2026 admission, but intends to accept new graduate students for Fall 2027 pending funding availability.
Teamwork, team dynamics, leadership, team and leadership development, virtual teamwork, geographic dispersion of teams, multicultural team leadership, multiteam systems, team building, team training, healthcare teams, te…
Qiushi Chen
Professor of Civil Engineering · College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
⭐ Computational geomechanics is an interdisciplinary topic that is at the interface of geotechnical engineering, applied mechanics, computational science and material science. Prospective M.S. and Ph.D. students who are interested in this area are always encouraged to apply to join my group.
Computational geomechanics
Discrete element method and finite element method
In situ characterization and utilization of extraterrestrial regolith
Biomass feedstock preprocessing and handling
Liquefaction hazard assessme…
Reed Goodman
Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ My lab is currently accepting graduate students (M.A. and Ph.D.). If you are interested in pursuing these and related topics, please email.
My current research focuses on historic rice impoundments in the southeastern United States, exploring their connections to tidal agroecology, descendant community knowledge, ecosystem services, and heritage foodways. Be…
Skip J. Van Bloem
Professor · College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
⭐ At the moment, I am not accepting graduate students because I do not have extra graduate student funding available. If you have your own funding, I'm happy to consider your application.
Disturbance ecology; ecophysiology, particularly wind stress physiology in trees; effects of invasive species on ecosystem function; long term forest community dynamics; tropical ecology
Xia Jing
Associate Professor · College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
⭐ The HI-D&E lab is recruiting PhD students for an NIH-funded R01 project: to explore reusable generic machine-executable rules for CDC-recommended immunization schedules in primary care settings without in-house technical support. This project intends to help low-resource primary care settings to mai…
Clinical decision support systems
Data-driven hypothesis generation & visual analytics
Evidence-based clinical decision making
Health IT for rural and under-served populations
Knowledge bases
Knowledge representation an…
Xueling Shi
Assistant Professor
⭐ Looking for motivated graduate and undergraduate students eager to explore research in space physics and space weather.
Dr. Shi’s research focuses on ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves and their role in space weather. She uses data analysis to study how these waves transfer energy through geospace, impact the ionosphere and radiation belts, …
Syracuse University 2 hiring
Amit K. Sanyal
Associate Professor
⭐ I am seeking two new PhD students interested in working on geometric control and estimation for multi-agent rigid body systems (MARBS). Interested applicants should have some knowledge and background in nonlinear control theory, and should contact me directly by email before applying. These two posi…
Geometric mechanics and its applications to robotics and control, Geometric control of nonlinear systems, Geometric observer design for nonlinear systems, Guidance, navigation and control of aerospace vehicles, Dynamics …
John Colasacco
Writing Center Instructor · College of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Hiring Opportunities in Creative Writing
Creative Writing, Fiction, Poetry, etc.
University at Buffalo--SUNY 10 hiring
Alex Reid
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ If you are a graduate student or prospective graduate student interested in working with Dr. Reid, more information is available here.
Media Theory, Digital Rhetoric, Posthumanism, Social Media, Media Infrastructure, Game Studies, Professional-Technical Communication, Digital Pedagogy
Arun Lakshmanan
Associate Professor of Marketing · School of Management
⭐ Currently accepting applications for PhD students in Marketing with interests in consumer behavior and experimental methods.
Consumer behavior, decision making, marketing communications, branding, social influence
Daesung Shin
Assistant Professor · Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Opportunities are available for outstanding individuals interested in the pathophysiology of neurological disorders. A strong background in Neuroscience, Genetics, Biochemistry, and/or Cell Biology is desirable. If you would like to apply for a research position (Postdoc, PhD student, or Research Te…
Glia - Physiology & Pathophysiology; Lysosomal Storage Diseases; Myelin Diseases; Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Dahong Chen
Assistant Professor · Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
⭐ We are recruiting. See lab website https://t.ly/cr-4d
Autism; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Developmental Biology; Epigenetics; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Retina – retinal disease and therapy; Transcriptomics
Despina Stratigakos
Professor of Architecture · School of Architecture and Planning
⭐ Apply for the 2025-26 Stratigakos Fellowship: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/50299
gender and sexuality in architecture, power and ideology in architecture, inclusive communities, equity in architecture
Dinesh Gauri
Associate Professor of Marketing · School of Management
⭐ Currently accepting PhD students in Marketing with interests in retailing and consumer behavior.
Retailing, Pricing, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Analytics
Eleni A. Kyriakidou
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
⭐ Join Prof. Kyriakidou's lab as a postdoctoral associate
Heterogeneous catalysis; nanoparticle synthesis and surface science, and the application of such catalysts to environmental processes
Patricia Logan-Greene
Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs · School of Social Work
⭐ Logan-Greene is actively seeking doctoral student mentees with interests in violence prevention.
Violence and victimization, including child maltreatment and firearm violence; violence prevention; system responses to violence; quantitative analysis
Sophie Nowicki
Empire Innovation Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Please contact Dr. Nowicki if you are interested in working with me. My research website gives a better idea of the projects that I am working on.
Glaciology, ice-sheet modeling, climate modeling, sea level change
Stephan Kolzenburg
Assistant Professor · College of Arts of Sciences
⭐ Please contact Dr. Kolzenburg for PhD. and MS. opportunities commencing in fall 2021.
Experimental and Physical Volcanology; Magma and Lava Rheology; Geo-Materials Science; Volcanic and Geologic Hazards
Colorado School of Mines 6 hiring
Andriy Zakutayev
Research Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ If you are interested in research opportunities at NLR supported by an external graduate, postdoctoral or professional felowship, please contact me at Andriy.Zakutayev@nrel.gov.
Discovery and design of inorganic materials; high-throughput experimental methods, including automated and autonomous experimentation; non-equilibrium synthesis of metastable materials (in particular nitrides); discovery…
Brooks Tellekamp
Research Scientist · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ If you are interested in research opportunities at NLR supported by an external graduate, postdoctoral or professional fellowship, please contact me at brooks.tellekamp@nlr.gov.
Development of materials for next generation power electronic devices and neuromorphic computing; ultra-wide band gap (UWBG) semiconductors with nitride and oxide chemistry; ternary nitrides, correlated oxides, and cryst…
C. Estelle Smith
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Professor Smith is seeking excellent students to join her research lab beginning in January 2023. Positions are available for highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students interested in HCI, participatory design, and health and wellbeing. Prospective researchers should complete the following …
Human-Computer Interaction and Social Computing
Whole-Human-Centered Design for UI/UX, AI/ML, and Community Data Science
Computational Spiritual Support
Mental Health and Social Support
Online Communities
Guannan Liu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Dr. Liu has multiple openings for self-motivated students to work on cybersecurity research. Prospective researchers should email Dr. Liu with CVs and any other supporting materials.
Network security, System security, Cloud computing security, User Authentication, access control, and authorization
Parisa Bazazi
Assistant Professor · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Two Ph.D. positions are available on experimental studies related to Interfacial Flows and Soft Matter. Candidates with a background in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Petroleum) or related disciplines with a strong interest in laboratory work, experimental fluid dynamics, and hands-on assembly o…
Emulsions/Foams
Wetting dynamics
3D Printing/Coating
Interfacial Flow
Interfacial Rheology
Hydrogen Storage and Transport
Ryan M. Richards
Professor, Department of Chemistry · Colorado School of Mines
⭐ Post-Doctoral Researcher Position Available
The Richards group works at the interface of the fields of renewable energy, nanoscale materials, sustainability, circular economy, catalysis and inorganic chemistry. The group leverages collaborative efforts (predominan…
Stevens Institute of Technology 12 hiring
Abhishek Sharma
Associate Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ Research positions are available in the Sharma lab for motivated individuals:
Undergraduate and graduate students: Please send your CV and a cover letter describing your research and career interests to Dr. Sharma by email. You can also schedule a meeting with Dr. Sharma to learn more about our res…
The overarching goal of Sharma lab is to design and develop novel-molecular reactivity and molecular function to ultimately accelerate the discovery of new therapeutics.
The emergence of resistance to chemotherapeutic dr…
Carrie Perlman
Associate Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ Openings are available for talented and enthusiastic individuals to join the lab in the position of staff researcher, postdoctoral fellow and/or Ph.D. student. Please email Dr. Perlman, including a copy of your CV, to inquire.
In the Lung Mechanics Laboratory, Dr. Perlman and her group combine mechanics, physiology and biophysics to understand and develop new treatments for ventilation injury of edematous lungs.
Elnaz Banan Sadeghian
Assistant Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ We have open PhD positions for students with strong background in Machine Learning libraries and Communication Theory (Physical Layer).
Communication Theory, Machine Learning, Data Storage, Assistive Technology, Brain-Computer Interface
Hao Chen
Assistant Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ Ph.D. student positions and Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) positions for full-time Master's students starting Fall 2025 are available in my lab, with a particular focus on research in quantum computing (for engineering design and optimization) and/or space logistics.
Dr. Hao Chen is the director of the Complex Engineering Systems Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Enterprises. His research program focuses on resolving emerging design challenges of complex…
Hongbin Li
Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Memorial Chair Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ I am seeking highly motivated PhD students with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to join my research group at Stevens Institute of Technology. Additionally, there are immediate job openings available for postdoctoral positions in the above research areas.
Signal processing, machine learning, sparsity and compressive sensing, wireless communications, sensor networks, and radar systems.
Jae Chul Kim
Associate Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ Openings about RA and Postdoc positions are posted in the research website.
By Application
Battery Materials: Design, Processing, and Characterization
- High Voltage Cathode Materials for Advanced Lithium (Li)-Ion Batteries
- Dendrite-free Anode-free/Li Metal Batteries
- All-Solid-State Batterie…
Kai Li
Assistant Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ I am looking for self-motivated students to work on these research areas. If you are interested, please read our recent papers before sending me an email with your CV and transcripts.
System and network security, cybercrime detection and prevention, performance evaluation and optimization, blockchain and cryptocurrency
Kathrin Smetana
Assistant Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ I am always looking for enthusiastic students and PostDocs with mutual research interests to join my group.
Prospective graduate students: Please, send me an email with your CV and a brief motivation letter and apply to the Pure and Applied Mathematics PhD program of the Stevens Institute of Techno…
Kathrin Smetana's research interests lie broadly in the areas of numerical analysis, high-dimensional probability, and scientific computing. More precisely, my research focuses on the development and analysis of randomiz…
Kwahun Lee
Assistant Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ Hiring highly motivated graduate students and postdocs. Please contact Dr. Lee directly if you are interested.
The Lee Laboratory focuses on developing (1) novel nanoparticle-based probes for in situ imaging and sensing of biological processes; and (2) a model platform for quantitative imaging of biomolecular phase behaviors. To …
Shudong Hao
Teaching Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ NOTE: I do not have openings for research assistants and teaching assistants.
My research is to develop natural language processing algorithms to process, organize, and preserve large data set in minority languages. Modern machine learning or natural language processing algorithms tend to be limit…
Xiaojiang Du
Professor and Anson Wood Burchard Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ Multiple PhD Student Positions Available: The students should be self-motivated, and have good background in programming. The PhD students will be working on IoT security, or AI/ML security. Prior experience on security or networking is a plus. Email me your application materials (CV, transcript, TO…
* Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Security
* Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security, Machine Learning Security
* Wireless Network Security, Mobile Device Security
* System and Network Secur…
Yong Zhang
Professor · Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
⭐ Undergraduate and graduate students with strong motivations are welcome to contact Professor Yong Zhang regarding the potential opportunity of joining his group's interesting and rewarding scientific endeavors.
High Accuracy Computational Chemistry to Help Solve Experimental Problems
Our research focuses on developing and utilizing computational methods to provide accurate information for molecular and biomolecular systems, pa…
University of Illinois Chicago 21 hiring
Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I am actively seeking highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students, and postdocs who are interested in utilizing regional and Earth system models, and observations to understand the dynamics of the climate system, better quantify extreme weather/climate events and address the critical challe…
Dr. Akinsanola is broadly interested in how large-scale tropospheric circulation influences regional climate and climatic extremes. He utilizes varieties of climate models and observations to better understand climate dy…
Austin Mordahl
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I am actively looking to grow my research group with new Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., students. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in working together. *Funded RA positions available.*
approaches to automatically find bugs and improve the quality of software. More specifically, I am interested in improving the utility, performance, and usability of static analysis and testing tools for finding bugs.
David Hernández Uribe
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I welcome applications from highly motivated undergraduate students, M.S. and Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers interested in economic geology, subduction-zone processes, metamorphic and igneous petrology, phase equilibria, and geochemical cycling.
Subduction-zone processes, Economic geology, Metamorphic geology and tectonics, Phase equilibria
Douglas D. Thomas
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy - Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Director of Graduate Studies, College of Pharmacy - Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy · Retzky College of Pharmacy
⭐ An NIH-funded Postdoctoral position is available immediately to study epigenetics. We offer a dynamic research environment with dedicated mentoring to support career development. If interested email ddthomas@Uic.edu and visit https://research.uic.edu/news-stories/postdoctoral-position-in-epigenetics…
investigate the myriad of abnormal epigenetic modifications that have been associated with tumor phenotype via tumor suppressor silencing or upregulation of oncogenic proteins. The current emphasis of our team focuses on…
Farid Peiravian, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor
⭐ Currently, I am not accepting any new students.
GeoAI (Applications of AI in GeoSpatial Analysis), Active Transportation & Complete Streets, Rail Transportation, Public Transportation, Transportation Safety & Accessibility
Hongjin Li
Associate Professor · College of Nursing, University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ She is currently accepting PhD Students.
Dr. Li's research focuses on three main components: (1) phenotyping, identifying trajectory and predictors (genetic and metabolomic) of the psychoneurological symptom cluster (pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, depression…
Jason Polakis
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I’m looking for excited and motivated students to work with. Information for PhD applications at UIC can be found here.
Web and Mobile Security
Internet Privacy
Online Social Networks
Network Security
Jeffrey Sklansky
Professor
⭐ For potential graduate students, Sklansky is currently accepting new students in early American history, intellectual history, labor history, and the history of capitalism.
intellectual and social history of capitalism in colonial America and the United States
Jennifer Brier
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ As of 2025, I have taken a pause on accepting new PhD students. I will consider working with students in various fields--public history, oral history, the history of HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ history in the US--but I am not able to serve as the main advisor to new PhD students.
Jeremy Riel
Assistant Professor · College of Education
⭐ I am regularly seeking undergraduate and graduate interns and research assistants to join the lab who are interested in educational technology development, AI, games and simulations, or technology policy. More information for undergraduates can be found at the Undergraduate Research Experience page.…
Computational knowledge representation; Human-AI interaction; Neuro-symbolic AI; Interactive AI agents for teaching and learning; AI literacy and computational thinking education/professional development; Simulations and…
Keely Stauter-Halsted, PhD
Professor and Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland
⭐ For potential graduate students, she is currently accepting students wishing to specialize in modern East Central Europe, especially Poland, and who are able to conduct research in at least one East European language. She is particularly eager to train those interested in questions of human mobility…
modern East-Central European history with a focus on Poland, Eastern Europe, Poland, The Polish diaspora, migration and refugee studies, comparative nationalism, post-imperial transitions, peasant mobilization, gender an…
Kevin M. Schultz
Professor and Chair of the Department of History
⭐ Professor Schultz is accepting graduate students working on American history topics ranging from the late nineteenth century to today. He particularly invites students working in religious and intellectual history, the 1960s, and American immigration.
Malgorzata Fidelis
Professor
⭐ Yes, I am currently accepting new students. I can advise a range of topics related to Eastern Europe, but my expertise is in social and cultural history with a focus on gender, youth, popular culture, everyday life, the history of communism, and the intersection of culture and politics.
Mary Dawn Koenig
Associate Professor · College of Nursing, University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ Currently accepting PhD students
maternal obesity, perinatal nutrition, iron metabolism, nutritional status and immune/inflammatory responses, interventions to optimize nutrition in pregnancies complicated by obesity, improving iron bioavailability and …
Mitchell Theys
Clinical Associate Professor
⭐ I am not currently looking for any students, but if you have a good idea, or if your interests align with mine, there may be some opportunities.
I am currently interested in Improving the Undergraduate Experience.
Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I am actively looking for students to join doing their MA and PhD research… email me!
Sarick Lars Matzen
Assistant Professor
⭐ I am looking for undergraduate and graduate (Masters and Ph.D.) students who are interested in understanding metal transport and bioavailability in urban soils. Interested students can email me with a brief description of their interests and questions at smatzen@umn.edu
Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry, Nanoparticle Behavior, Environmental Justice
Stephanie Torres
Assistant Professor · College of Education, University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ *Dr. Torres will not be accepting new PhD graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year*
community-based participatory research (CBPR), healing-centered approach, community-based programs, well-being and mental health among immigrant communities, resilience, empowerment, cultural strengths among Latine commu…
Wei Tang
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ Fully funded Ph.D. positions are available. Prospective students are encouraged to contact Dr.Tang with their CV, academic transcripts, and TOEFL scores.
computer vision, machine learning, and digital image processing
Xiaoguang Wang
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ Seeking one highly motivated Ph.D. student interested in computer systems and security. Occasionally offers funded research opportunities for UIC master’s and undergraduate students, with preference for students who have taken his courses.
I work on system and software security projects, including system software support for heterogeneous CPU architectures and software system security. My past projects also include building secure systems on (with) virtual…
Youngjoon Suh
Assistant Professor
⭐ We're Hiring! Opportunities available at https://suh.lab.uic.edu/opportunities/
Dr. Suh’s research intersects the multidisciplinary fields of thermal-fluid sciences, interfacial and transport physics, and renewable energy, centering on keywords – machine learning, data-driven science, and computer v…
Howard University 3 hiring
Dawit Kidane-Mulat
Associate Professor · College of Medicine
⭐ I am looking for PhD students to start in fall 2024. Position available for Postdoctoral fellows. Position available for Lab Manger/Lab tech.
Oxidative DNA damage and repair; DNA replication stress; Targeting DNA repair deficiency in cancer therapy.; Exploring DNA repair deficiency to elicit inflammatory signaling and enhance immunotherapy.; Manipulating cance…
Maurice B. Fluitt
Assistant Professor · College of Medicine
⭐ We are always interested in hearing from highly motivated postdocs, Ph.D. candidates, and undergraduate students. If you are interested in joining our group, please send your CV/Resume to maurice.fluitt@howard.edu
Epigenetic Regulation in Diabetic Kidney Disease; identifying biomarkers for diabetic kidney disease; understanding the mechanisms of disease development and progression in the diabetic kidney to attenuate disease progre…
Xiping Zhan
Research assistant professor · College of Medicine
⭐ Internship and research technician positions are available. Candidates with backgrounds in molecular biology, cell culture, histology, MATLAB, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and CUDA are especially encouraged to apply. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to visit Howard IBMS Program for additional in…
Ca homeostasis modulation, dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases
Patient specific iPSCs, cellular neurophysiology and neurotoxicology
Multimodal sensory integration, negative sensation evaluation and tinnitus
University of California, Santa Cruz 8 hiring
Andy Yeh
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ Post-doctoral candidates should send a single email containing your CV, a short statement describing your research interests, as well as contact information for three references to Dr. Andy Yeh (hsyeh@ucsc.edu). Lab technicians/assistants with an undergraduate degree in biology, chemistry, engineeri…
Biotechnology
Chemical Biology
Biomedical Sciences
Design
Scientific Method
Cihang Xie
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ I am co-leading the Vision · Learning · Assured Autonomy (VLAA) Lab with Professor Yuyin Zhou. Our lab has multiple openings for summer interns and visiting students with flexible starting times. If you are interested in these opportunities, please complete this form.
My research interest lies at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning, with the goal of building human-level computer vision systems. I am particularly interested in securing model performance under distr…
Nikos Tziavelis
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ I am actively looking for motivated PhD students to join my group. If you have a strong background in databases/systems, or if you are excited about designing algorithms for problems that come up in data processing systems, apply to the <a href="https://grad.soe.ucsc.edu/cse">PhD program</a> of UC S…
Database systems
Database theory
Norman Makoto Su
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Human Computer Interaction · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ We are always looking for new collaborators. If you are interested in doing research with us, please contact Professor Norman Makoto Su.
Human Computer Interaction
Peter A Alvaro
Associate Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ If you are a UCSC undergraduate or Masters student interested in collaborating, please send me an email describing your research interests. PhD admission decisions are made by committee. However, if you are a PhD applicant and are interested in working on one of the projects above, make sure to ment…
Data management systems
Distributed systems
Logic programming
Yihsu Chen
Professor, Professor, Technology Management in Sustainability · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ Looking for self-motivated (Ph.D., MS. & undergraduate) students to work on energy-, transportation-, and water-related projects. Students can apply and enroll either in Electrical & Computer Engineering or Environmental Studies programs. If interested, please send me an email to yihsuchen (at) ucsc…
Energy
Environmental Policy
Economics
Water
Economics and policy in energy
Water resources and transportation sectors
Yuanchao Xu
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ I am always looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students interested in these areas. Feel free to contact me at yxu314@ucsc.edu if you are interested in working with me!
computer architecture, security, and ML systems and architecture
Yuyin Zhou
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ We are always actively looking for self-motivated PhD/interns. Welcome to apply from <a href="https://ucsc-vlaa.github.io/opening.html">here</a> and drop me an <a href="mailto:yzhou284@ucsc.edu">email</a>. The official PhD application portal is <a href="https://grad.soe.ucsc.edu/admissions">here</a>…
Artificial Intelligence
Rutgers University--Camden 2 hiring
Julianne Griepenburg
Dr. · College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ We are actively seeking researchers at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral level. Qualified individuals should contact Dr. Julianne Griepenburg to discuss research opportunities within our group.
ultrafast lasers, laser ablation/machining, membrane photoporation/phototransfection, plasmonic nanoparticle scattering, nano-structured ferroelectric materials, multiphoton absorption polymerization
Nir Yakoby
· College of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Posdoctoral position for the Spring 2027
Tissue Patterning and Morphogenesis; cell fate determination by cell signaling; BMP and EGFR signaling pathways; Drosophila oogenesis; evolution of BMP signaling dynamics; spatiotemporal changes in EGFR activation.
American University 3 hiring
Chelsea Butkowski
Assistant Professor · School of Communication
⭐ Butkowski is currently taking PhD students, so please be in touch!
feminist and queer media studies, platforms and algorithms, visual cultures, and political communication
Megan Finn
Associate Professor · School of Communication
⭐ I am accepting MA and PhD advisees.
Rohan Grover
Assistant Professor · School of Communication
⭐ Grover is currently accepting PhD students. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in pursuing a PhD in Communication.
Southern Methodist University 1 hiring
Jiun-Yu Wu
Professor · Simmons School of Education and Human Development
⭐ Dr. Wu is currently expanding his team and actively recruiting students and researchers to collaborate on these transformative projects, aiming to further innovate and expand the impact.
Learning Analytics, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Multilevel Modeling, Network Analysis, AI-enhanced Learning Analytics, Digital Learning, Educational Psychology, Data Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 5 hiring
Erin Ottmar
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I direct the Math Abstraction Play Learning an Embodiment (MAPLE) lab at WPI. I am actively looking for undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of backgrounds who are interested in working (or volunteering) in the MAPLE lab. If you are interested, please contact me!
Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Applied Developmental Science, Social and Emotional Learning and Development, Perceptual Learning Interventions in Mathematics, Educational Technology
Jun Dai
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Dai is always looking for self-motivated students at all levels (undergraduates, master, and PhD). Stipends are competitive if offered paid positions. If you have interests, please email him. Post-doctoral and visiting researchers or students are also welcome.
artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and networked and distributed systems, with recent emphasis on large language model (LLM) security, autonomous agent security, advanced attack detection, vulnerability analysis, se…
Mali Ghajargar
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ She is actively looking for undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of backgrounds who are interested in working in the lab.
Qi Zhang
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am looking for PhD students and visiting researchers!
building collaborative AI agents; formalisms, theories, and algorithms of single- and multi-agent planning and reinforcement learning
Xiaozhong Liu
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I’m actively looking for PhD students with good experience in NLP and/or deep learning.
natural language processing (NLP), text/graph mining, information retrieval/recommendation, metadata, and computational social science. His recent research is focusing on AI explainability/trustworthiness, natural langua…