Research-focused faculty at Florida State University, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (109)
Professors at Florida State University with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
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. Nowhere in the mammalian nervous system is there a more direct …
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 olfactory perception is mapped and encoded within the brain.
Alireza Salami
Professor of Psychology and 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, aiming to build the foundation for future interventions that pr…
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 tropical cyclone intensity, and extreme weather and climate
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. For example, she has shown that various aspects of women's p…
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 investigate how precontact communities adapted to political changes in…
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 shape learning trajectories. To capture the complexity of e…
Carmen Varela
Assistant Professor of Psychology and 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 potential dynamics that facilitate learning and memory across th…
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 anthropology from the University of Florida (2018), an M.A. in soci…
Chris Martin
Assistant Professor of Psychology and 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 particularly interested in the early development of math anxie…
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 understanding of the biases and patterns of evolution. My spec…
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 the unique speed and strength with which threatening versus…
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 manner that prevents dysbiosis.
Plant roots are analogous to the…
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 · 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 · 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, and working memory, which sustains and transforms information …
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 transformed into meaningful information that we perceive and ac…
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 environmental experiences, development, or other unknown causes. The…
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 address basic and applied questions in temperate and tropical…
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 and correlative light and cryo-EM (CLEM) techniques to gain…
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 Earth, (2) the use of biodiversity research specimens and d…
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 and species interactions. Projects in the lab include work on …
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 disorders
Influence of humor and spirituality on attitudes toward di…
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 can measure single conformational changes in ion channel prot…
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 proximate and ultimate causes of speciation in order to underst…
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 strategies. I combine field studies of behavior, demography, and mo…
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 first division of meiosis, homologous chromosomes pair, recombi…
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 during aging and age-related diseases. We use in vivo and in vi…
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 their interactions with their plant hosts alfalfa and Medicago t…
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 electron crystallography, electron tomography, helical and &ld…
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 proteins, whose tertiary and secondary structures can be altered…
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 whole organism. While we have gained some understanding of this…
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. Matt Cooper Borkenhagen is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. His research interests focus on the intersection of nutrition and energy metabolism, exploring how the body derives and utilizes energy from food to support physiological function.
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 systems. I develop theory using a combination of analytical method…
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 city (e.g., stadium entertainment districts, promotional cultur…
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 understanding discrete mechanisms of how innate immunity plays a role…
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 focuses on the development of rapid methods for the detecti…
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 complexes involved in vesicle trafficking pathways. We have …
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 material's properties change as its size is changed at length scale…
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 methods (e.g., cross-sectional, longitudinal, experimental, natur…
Elizabeth Hammock
Associate Professor of Psychology and 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 her lab: How are social brains built? How does nurturing car…
Emily Lemmon
Professor of Biological Science and 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 or sequester carbon, sulfur and other volatiles, interactin…
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, human adaptability
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's disease. We are interested in viral proteins that are loca…
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 management
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 control and informatics for advanced materials
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 particularly interested in the effects of motivational factors (e.g…
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 of alcohol, and/or different dietary/exercise treatments on t…
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, sedimentological and biological data to inform mapping and numerical m…
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; courage and strategies to facilitate courageous behavior.
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 gene expression without changing underlying DNA sequences. It h…
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 beliefs frequently become negative despite partners' strong motive…
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 · 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 brain stimulation techniques like transcranial magnetic stimulat…
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 · 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 · 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 parent-child dynamics influence and are influenced by children’s…
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…
Mark D. McCoy is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University, within the College of Arts and Sciences. An anthropological archaeologist, he holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and his research interests include to…
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, remote sensing data, field observations, and molecular data…
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 Imaging; The relationships between “traditional” expressive cul…
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 factors shape the words and phrases that people choose when …
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 contribute to resiliency and positive outcomes for some youth w…
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 well-studied model systems that allow for rapid progress as …
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 addiction. Another focus of their research is to examine epigene…
Molly Hermiller
Assistant Professor of Psychology and 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 uses brain stimulation to test theories of how the human hippo…
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 regions to support episodic memory. In the Hermiller Lab, rese…
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 extend to the interplay between inflammation, infection, aut…
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 interested in exploring novel statistical modeling to measure …
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 climate.
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 between numerical dynamo simulations and paleomagnetism
- De…
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 experienced while eating. How are we able to extract taste inf…
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 shift to suicidal behaviors, with the goal of making meaningful…
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 · 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 tattooing traditions, symbolic power of animals in native cosm…
Tehila Nugiel
Assistant Professor of Psychology and 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 many different young people including youth with learning diffi…
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 disorders (e.g., eating disorders, mood disorders, personality…
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 · 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 regulation of centrosomal and other microtubule-organizing cen…
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
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