PhD Advisors at Northwestern University 西北大学 US
Quick answer: Northwestern University in the US has 920 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 12 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at Northwestern University, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (12)
Professors at Northwestern University with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Barnor Hesse
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Black Studies, Political Science, and Sociology · Weinberg College of Arts and 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 and Applied Science
⭐ 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 design innovative optical systems and computational algorithms …
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 and 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
⭐ 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 confocal microscopy; biophysical modeling; computational simula…
Jesús Escobar
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities; Director of Undergraduate Studies · Weinberg College of Arts and 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 and 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 postdoctoral research, which unveiled a novel population of endothe…
Matthew H. Johnson
Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Anthropology · Weinberg College of Arts and 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 and historical archaeology, archaeology in its cultural cont…
Saba Parvez
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 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 pathways influencing functional genomic states
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
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Aaron Godwin
Assistant Professor of Instruction & Academic Advisor · School of Communication
Musical Theater, Opera, Queer theory, Voice
Aaron I. Packman
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
My research focuses on water, sediments, and microorganisms, particularly the intersection of physical transport processes with biological and biogeochemical processes. I seek to understand the role of environmental interfaces in water system dynamics, including the surface-groun…
Abbe Walker
Assistant Professor of Instruction of Classics · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
ancient religions, transitional and marginal women in antiquity, and particularly the role of women in early Christian asceticism
Abi Adams
Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Abi Adams is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where she also serves as Director of the Morton Shapiro Center for Applied Economics. Her research interests include labor studies and children and families, as evidenced by her role as an NBER Research Associate i…
Adam L. Hoeflich
Professor of Practice · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Legal Ethics, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Mass Torts
Adam Unsworth
Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Adam Unsworth is Professor of Horn at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, a position he began in September 2025. He previously held the same role at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he taught from 2007 to 2025.
Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor · School of Communication
Audio-Visual Integration, Auditory Processing, Hearing, Infant Health, Neuroscience, Neurovascular function
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Joseph Cummings Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Radiology · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Multimedia Signal Processing, Multimedia Communications, Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Medical and Biological Signal Processing, DNA Signal Processing, Scientific Studies in the Arts.
Al Luhaibi, Abdulwahab
Assistant Professor
Abdulwahab Al Luhaibi is an Assistant Professor of Physics, affiliated with Northwestern University. His research profile includes work in physics, with scholarly output associated with Northwestern University and collaborations with researchers such as John Ketterson.
Alan V. Sahakian
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Cardiac electrophysiology, in particular the mechanisms, monitoring and automatic diagnosis and treatment of the atrial cardiac arrhythmias. Irreversible electroporation methods for ablating cancerous tumors including non-resectable liver and pancreatic cancer. RF ablation for es…
Alana Arenas
Assistant Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alessandro Rotta Loria
Louis Berger Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
<p><em>Subsurface innovation via science and engineering</em>. My work lies at the intersection of Mechanics, Energy, and Electrochemistry, focusing on the subsurface. By harnessing theoretical, computational, and experimental studies, I address temporal problems lasting from sec…
Alex Lee
Howard Friedman ’64 JD Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Administrative Law, Securities Regulation, Law and Economics, Economic Regulation
Alex Mincek
Associate Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexander Coppock
Associate Professor of Political Science; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Alexander Coppock's current work assesses the generalizability of empirical research findings through meta-reanalysis.
Alexander Gemignani
Associate Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Alexander Gemignani is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University, affiliated with the School of Communication. He also serves as the Artistic Director of the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) and the National Music Theater Conference (NMTC) at the Eugen…
Alok Choudhary
Harold Washington Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
American Politics, Black Political Thought, Social Movements, Presidential Leadership, American Political Development
Amanda Dehnert
Associate Professor · School of Communication
Amanda Dehnert is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University's School of Communication. A regional theater director, she has served as associate artistic director and acting artistic director at Trinity Repertory Company and has directed productions at venues in…
Amanda Petford-Long
Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
The research in my group concentrates on understanding the behavior of magnetic, ferroelecctric and multiferroic oxide nanostructures, and in particular on determining the role that interfaces play in controlling this behavior. We are correlating the ferroic and transport propert…
Amanda Stathopoulos
William Patterson Junior Professor; Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dr. Stathopoulos’ research pushes the boundaries of human-centered sustainable mobility, bringing critical attention to the behavioral, social, and experiential dimensions that shape transportation systems. Her work uncovers how the lifestyles, values, mental models, and shifting…
Amy Stanley
Orrington Lunt Professor of History, and Director of Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Geographic Field(s): Asian History; Global History
Thematic Field(s): Urban History; Gender and Sexuality History
Principal Research Interest(s): Early modern and modern Japan
Ana Arjona
Associate Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
The dynamics and legacies of organized violence, especially civil wars and organized crime, local governance, state building, and the foundations of political order.
Andrew Boyce
Associate Professor; Director, MFA in Stage Design · School of Communication
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew M. Koppelman
John Paul Stevens Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Conflicts of Law, Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Law and Religion
Andrew Megill
Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Andrew Megill is a professor of conducting and director of choral organizations at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where he holds the Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice, Jr. University Professorship in Performance. His work centers on conducting, and he leads the Biene…
Andrew Papachristos
The John G. Searle Professor and Chair of Sociology; Faculty Fellow, The Institute for Policy Research; Director, Northwestern Neighborhood and Network Initiative (N3); Associate Professor (by courtesy), Human Development and Social Policy · School of Education and Social Policy
Social networks, urban neighborhoods, gun violence, street gangs, and policing.
Andrew Rivers
Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Roberts
Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
The quality of democracy, representation, elections, political institutions, biography & politics
Andrew Talle
Associate Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Andrew Talle is Associate Professor of Music Studies at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his German contemporaries, and he is the editor of *Bach Perspectives, Volume Nine: Bach and His German Co…
Angela Dixon
Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences · School of Education and Social Policy
Health Disparities, Bereavement, Mortality, Stratification and Inequality, Discrimination, Colorism
Angela G. Ray
Associate Professor · School of Communication
Media analysis, Memory, Public Persuasion and Opinion, Rhetorical History
Angela M. Barragán
Assistant Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ann Gunter
Chair of the Department of Classics; Professor of Art History, Classics, and in the Humanities · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Ann C. Gunter's work addresses the visual and material culture of the ancient Near East and its Eastern Mediterranean neighbors. Her primary research interests include artistic and cultural interaction between the Mediterranean and the Near East; the relationship between material…
Anna D. Shapiro
Professor, Marjorie Hoffman Hagan, Class of 1934 · School of Communication
Anna D. Shapiro is a professor at Northwestern University, where she holds the Marjorie Hoffman Hagan, Class of 1934 professorship, and serves as the artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. A Tony Award-winning theatre director, she has been affiliated with Steppenw…
Anna Parkinson
Scott P. Bruder | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
twentieth and twenty-first century German-language literature and film, psychoanalytic and critical theory, modern South African literature and film, memory studies, forensic anthropology, literature of migration, gender and queer theory, literary theory, genocide studies, and me…
Annelise Riles
Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
International Human Rights, Conflicts of Law, International Law, Feminist Legal Theory, Global Financial Regulation, Legal Anthropology
Anthony S. Chen
Associate Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interest(s): American Political Development
Program Area(s): American Politics
Regional Specialization(s): United States
Subfield Specialties: American Political Development; Comparative Historical Analysis; Political Parties; Race, Ethnicity and Politics
Antonio Terrone
Associate Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
East Asian cultures, politics, and religions; politics, policies and religion in modern and contemporary China and its borderlands; religious culture, literature, violence, and ethno-religious politics (Tibetans and Uyghurs)
Arantzazu Alarcon-Fleming
Professor of Instruction · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Arantzazu Alarcon-Fleming is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering. She earned her PhD in Civil Engineering from Northwestern, where her research focused on the constitutive…
Ari Glogower
Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Tax Policy, Corporate and Partnership Taxation, Federal Income Taxation, Tax Compliance, Taxation and Constitutional Law, Taxation and Economic Inequality
Ariel Rogers
Associate Professor · School of Communication
Cinema-Film, Digital Media, Media analysis, Television
Arthur Butz
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Digital signal processing. The present emphasis is a return to my earlier focus on space-filling curves (diverse applications).
Arthur Prindle
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
We are interested in understanding how molecular and cellular interactions give rise to collective behaviors in microbial communities. We use synthetic biology, quantitative microscopy, and microfluidics to directly investigate the molecular mechanisms behind how cells communicat…
Ashish Koul
Assistant Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Geographic Field(s): Asian History
Thematic Field(s): Political and Policy History; Religious History
Principal Research Interest(s): 19th and 20th century South Asia
Ashty Karim
Professor · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
The Karim Lab develops molecules, systems, and processes to enable global sustainability. Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, calling for urgent innovations in sustainability that are useful across geographies and economies and can operate at scale. Developing i…
Aymar Jean Christian
Professor; Director, Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises; Margaret Walker Chair · School of Communication
Black studies, Cinema-Film, Digital Media, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Media production, Queer theory, Social Media, Television
Barbara Butts
Associate Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Barbara Butts is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Her professional background includes seventeen years as a stage and production manager before joining the faculty, and her teaching focuses on stage management and le…
Barry Wimpfheimer
Associate Professor of Law (Courtesy)
Associate Professor of Religious Studies · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Beau River
Coach, MS in Learning and Organizational Change · School of Education and Social Policy
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bernard Black
Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor · Northwestern University
Law and Finance, International Corporate Governance, Health Law and Policy, Corporate and Securities Law, Medical Malpractice, Empirical Methods for Causal Inference
Beth Andrews
Assistant Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Beth Andrews is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in 2003 from Colorado State University.
Bharath Chandrasekaran
Department Chair; Ralph and Jean Sundin Endowed Professor · School of Communication
Auditory Processing, Language Learning and Processing, Neuroscience, Scientific Collaboration
Bihter Esener
College Fellow · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Seljuk-period bronze mirrors in medieval Anatolia; cross-cultural material culture; medievalism in popular culture; digital tools and games in art history
Bill Heyck
Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Modern British history, Liberal politicians, Victorian intellectuals, freelance writers, redbrick universities, W. B. Yeats, E. P. Thompson, analytic philosophy, history of golf, four nations history, history from below, Victorian crisis of faith, conflict in Northern Ireland, en…
Bimbola Akinbola
Assistant Professor; Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies · School of Communication
Art History, Art Theory and Practice, Black studies, Diaspora Studies, Feminist theory, Queer theory, Visual cultures
Bo Zhang
Assistant Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Applying geospatial technologies to study physical environment change; development and application of Markov chain geostatistics; spatiotemporal patterns of aerosol particles; transit accessibility; transportation network analysis.
Bonnie Martin-Harris
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor · School of Communication
Communication Skills, Data Science, Swallowing Disorders, Voice
Branden Ghena
Assistant Professor of Instruction · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
My research covers several systems areas including networking and operating systems, but my specialty is embedded systems. It is the kind of field where you debug software with an oscilloscope. Particularly, I work on resource-constrained embedded hardware, software, and networki…
Brannon Ingram
Associate Professor of Religious Studies · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Islamic studies, Islam in South Asia, global South Asian diasporas, Sufism, Islamic law, politics in the modern era, Deoband movement, Muslim revivalist movements, category of religion, colonialism, political Islam
Brenna Argall
Professor of Computer Science · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
As need increases, access decreases. Often the more severe a person's motor impairment, the less able they are to operate the very machines created to assist them. My lab endows assistive machines with customized robotics autonomy and intelligence to address this confound. Robots…
Brett Neveu
Assistant Professor · School of Communication
Gaming, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Television
Brian J. Reiser
Orrington Lunt Professor of Learning Sciences · School of Education and Social Policy
The design of learning environments and curriculum materials for science that support authentic practices including explanation, argumentation, and designing investigations. His research examines the cognitive and social interaction aspects of scientific inquiry, principles for s…
Brian Libgober
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Program Area(s):
Methods; American Politics
Regional Specialization(s):
United States
Subfield Specialties:
American Political Economy; Law and Politics
Brianna Borger
Assistant Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Brianna Borger is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and Undergraduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University's School of Communication. She is also a performing artist, educator, and director based in Evanston, Illinois, with experience as a …
Bruce Ankenman
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
As a design engineer in the automotive parts industry, Bruce Ankenman found that an engineer's job depends on the ability to efficiently collect and analyze data. Since many engineers have limited access to statistical methods, his research has centered around developing simple-t…
Bruce Sherin
Professor, Learning Sciences · School of Education and Social Policy
Conceptual change in science; computational linguistics applied to natural language data; programming environments for learning; external representations in science and mathematics.
Caitlin Body
Assistant Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Performing Arts, Stage Managing
Casey Ankeny
Professor of Instruction of Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Casey J. Ankeny, PhD is an associate professor of instruction and the director of the MS Program in Biomedical Engineering, and assistant dean of The Graduate School master’s programs at Northwestern Engineering. She is investigating cyber-based student engagement strategies in f…
Catherine S. Carrigan
Assistant Professor of Instruction/Undergraduate Academic Advisor for Radio, Television and Film and Theatre · School of Communication
Academic Advising, Career Development
Chad Mirkin
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Fundamental and applied nanoscience, nanomaterials, nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, nanolithography
Chamille Lescott
Assistant Professor of Instruction of Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chang-Han Rhee
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Applied and Theoretical Probability, Stochastic Simulation, Experimental Design, Theoretical Foundation of Artificial Intelligence
Cheng Sun
Professor of Mechanical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Sun’s primary research interests are in the fields of Emerging applications of nano-electronics, nanophotonics, nano-electromechanical systems and nano-biomedical systems necessitate developments of viable nano-manufacturing technologies. His research group is engaged in developi…
Chika Okafor
Assistant Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, Law and Economics
Chris Abani
Board of Trustees Professor of English · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Chris Abani is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University, where he is affiliated with the Department of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. A novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright born in Nigeria, his creative work an…
Chris Wolverton
Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
My group's research is centered on computational materials science, and specifically first-principles quantum mechanical simulation tools. These computational tools have advanced to the point now where materials may be "synthesized virtually", with their properties predicted on a…
Chrissy Martin
Assistant Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Chrissy Martin is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University’s School of Communication. An interdisciplinary performance artist and movement educator, her work is rooted in contemporary and Afro-Caribbean dance, postmodern experimental music, vocal jazz, and…
Christina C Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Christina C Nguyen is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University's School of Communication, where she works as a filmmaker and expanded cinema artist. Her research and creative practice explore the periphery of human perception and experience, with a focus o…
Christine Helmer
Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Christian theology from historical, systematic, and constructive perspectives; German intellectual history; theology of Martin Luther; philosophy and theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher; Luther Renaissance; biblical reception; theology's conversation with the modern study of rel…
Christopher Guzman
Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Christopher Guzman is a Professor of Piano at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. An internationally performing pianist, he is recognized for his versatility across a broad repertoire, from the Baroque era to the avant-garde.
Christopher Riesbeck
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences; Associate Professor, Computer Science · School of Education and Social Policy
Natural-language understanding, case-based reasoning, authorable learning-by-doing environments, critiquing tools for education.
Christopher Schuh
Dean, John G. Searle Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Schuh's research is focused on structural materials including metals and ceramics, in which he seeks to control disorder in material microstructures for the purpose of optimizing mechanical properties. His research group uses experiments, analytical theory, and computer simulatio…
Claudia Haase
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy · School of Education and Social Policy
Life-span development, emotion, relationships (e.g., couples, parent-child relationships, friendships), well-being, health.
Claudio Benzecry
Professor · School of Communication
culture, arts, knowledge and globalization
Clayton Brown
Professor of Instruction; Director of Undergraduate Studies · School of Communication
Cinema-Film, Directing, Documentary, Space Travel
Clifford Zimmerman
Professor of Practice · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Legal Writing, Legal Research
Clinton William Francis
Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, E-Commerce, Legal History, Intellectual Property, Property Law, Payment Systems
Colin Hisey
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Our lab explores biomedical micro- and nanotechnology, with a strong focus on extracellular vesicles (EVs). EVs are micro- and nanoscale lipid-enclosed particles that contain diverse molecular cargo and circulate in all bodily fluids as a form of intercellular communication. Howe…
Corey Byrnes
Associate Professor of Chinese Culture · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
environmental humanities; 19th-21st century Sinophone literature, film, and visual culture; animal studies; landscape and spatial studies
Courtney Lynam Scherr
Associate Chair; Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies · School of Communication
Health Communication, Risk Communication
Cécile Chazot
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
The Sustainable Polymer Innovation Laboratory (SPIn lab) at Northwestern University, led by Professor Cécile Chazot, seeks to develop sustainable manufacturing and recycling of polymers and composites. Our focus areas include fiber-based materials, biopolymers, large-scale proces…
Dahye Kim
Assistant Professor of Korean Literature and Culture · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
modern Korean literature and culture, critical approaches to media history, and the cultural dimensions of communication technologies in East Asia
Dan P. McAdams
The Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology; Professor, Human Development and Social Policy · School of Education and Social Policy
Narrative psychology; the development of a life-story model of human identity; generativity and adult development; themes of power, intimacy, and redemption in human lives; modernity and the self; autobiographical memory; psychological biography.
Daniel Abrams
Professor / Joint with Applied Mathematics · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Daniel Abrams is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University, with a joint appointment in Applied Mathematics. His research interests center on dynamical systems, complex systems science, nonlinear dynamics, and the physics of social systems.…
Daniel Apley
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Statistical modeling and analysis of engineering, industrial, and enterprise systems; machine learning and predictive analytics; quality engineering and six sigma; manufacturing process diagnosis and control
Daniel B. Rodriguez
Harold Washington Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Local Government, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Statutory Interpretation, Property Law, Positive Political Theory, Law & Technology
Daniel J. Fitzmier
Associate Professor of Instruction; Lance E. Rosenzweig Director of the Debate Society · School of Communication
Contemporary Debate, Corporate and Government Communication, Rhetorical Tradition
Daniel J. Galvin
Professor of Political Science; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research; Director, Workplace Justice Lab@NU · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interest(s):
American political economy, American political development, labor policy and politics, labor standards enforcement, organizing and collective action, American government, presidency, parties, multi-method research
Daniel Majchrowicz
Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture; Director of Undergraduate Studies · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
South Asian Literature and History (Pakistan and India), Islam in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, Urdu and Hindi Language and Literature, Travel Writing, Mobility, Global History, Translation
Daniel Shanahan
Associate Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Daniel Shanahan’s research incorporates music-analytic, computational, and experimental methods to better understand the cognitive and communicative constraints of music. His interests include corpus studies, music and emotion, the oral transmission of music, the computational an…
Daniel W. Linna Jr.
Director of Law and Technology Initiatives, Professor of Instruction in Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Artificial Intelligence for Legal Services, Law, Regulation, and Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Law & Technology, Law and Science, Law and Social Science
Danielle Bainbridge
Assistant Professor; Director, Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama Program · School of Communication
Black Feminist Theory
19th-21st century Black arts and culture
Performance Studies
Theatre History
African American Literature (19th c to Contemporary)
Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Performance (18th c to Contemporary)
US & Anglophone Caribbean History
Postcolonial Theory
Danielle Gilbert
Assistant Professor; Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Political violence, international security, hostage taking and recovery, civil war, terrorism, negotiations
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship; Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Director, Master of Science in Biotechnology Program · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
The Tullman-Ercek lab builds biomolecular devices for a wide range of applications in areas from medicine to the environment. In particular, Tullman-Ercek lab research focuses on highly organized self-assembling proteins – the nanoscale building blocks of biology. Such systems ab…
Danny M. Cohen
Professor of Instruction; Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction · School of Education and Social Policy
Holocaust and atrocity education; Hidden Holocaust histories; The design of informal learning environments; Museum, exhibition, and memorial design; Collective memory and marginalized narratives; Pedagogies for educating about violence and atrocity; Holocaust film and fiction; Fi…
Danuta Mirka
Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Mirka’s research interests encompass various aspects of structure and expression in Western art music of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the theory and analysis of meter and rhythm and the study of musical communication. She is particularly interes…
Darren Gergle
Bao Family Professor in Human-Computer Interaction; Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD in Technology and Social Behavior · School of Communication
Darren Gergle is the Bao Family Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at Northwestern University, where he also serves as Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD in Technology and Social Behavior. His research interests center on human-computer interaction and the social di…
Darren Green
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Practice · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Contracts, Venture Capital, Start-Up and Entrepreneurial Matters, Entity Formation and Founder Matters
Dashun Wang
Kellogg Chair of Technology; Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences; Professor of Management and Organizations · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dashun Wang’s current research focus is the science of science, a field that seeks to improve our quantitative understanding of the inner workings of science using the recent explosion of data in science. Wang and his group of highly interdisciplinary researchers take a multidisc…
Dassia N. Posner
Associate Professor, Theatre, Slavic Languages and Literatures · School of Communication
Directing, Dramaturgy, Puppetry, Theatre History, Translation
David A. Dana
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Environmental Law, Property Law, Intellectual Property
David Barton
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Energy-efficient, modular, and fast computing and communications technologies are vital to our increasingly computing power-hungry future. Integrated photonics provides a route to more efficient computing and communications. Our group is interested in pushing the frontiers of int…
David Bilger
Professor of Trumpet · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
David Bilger is Professor of Trumpet at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, a position he assumed in 2022. He previously served as principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1995 to 2022. His professional background includes a Master of Music degree from t…
David Catlin
Assistant Professor; Head of Acting · School of Communication
Acting, Directing, Improvisation, Playwriting
David Chavannes
Assistant Professor of Instruction; Director of Undergraduate Studies · School of Communication
Caribbean Studies, Collaborative Piano, Instructional Design, Oral and Archival History, Project Management
David Dunand
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Physical and mechanical metallurgy of multiphase metallic materials. My research focuses on metallic alloys, composites, foams and scaffolds, with particular emphasis on measuring and modeling their mechanical properties in light of their microstructure. Strong focus in the area …
David McGill
Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David Morton
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Stochastic optimization and its application to public health, energy, and security.
David O'Neill
Professor of Instruction of Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Starting from a background in general engineering, I undertook doctoral studies modeling heat transfer and cell death in the liver during radiofrequency ablation. My post-doctoral work was based around development of a prototype medical device for respiratory gas analysis in coll…
David Rapp
Walter Dill Scott Professor; Professor, Learning Sciences; Professor, Department of Psychology · School of Education and Social Policy
Reading comprehension; memory following learning experiences; updating prior knowledge; the acquisition of accurate and inaccurate information; translation of cognitive science research to educational settings; multimedia learning; visualizations as learning tools.
David Zaretsky
Associate Professor of Instruction · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
I teach advanced courses in computer engineering spanning AI systems, high-performance computing, computer architecture, electronic design, and technical entrepreneurship. My teaching emphasizes the translation of foundational theory into real systems, ensuring students can apply…
Deborah Brown
Kye N. Coolley · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
theoretical astrophysics
Deborah Tuerkheimer
Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Evidence, Feminist Legal Theory, Criminal Law, Gender Violence
Dedre Gentner
Professor, Learning Sciences; Professor, Psychology · School of Education and Social Policy
Learning, reasoning, and conceptual change in adults and children, especially processes of similarity; metaphor, and analogy; mental models; acquisition of meaning.
Derk Joester
Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
My group uses state-of-the-art methods to study the formation, properties, and degradation of mineralized tissues. We are broadly interested in vertebrate and invertebrate dental tissues, and the mechanisms by which organisms control phase transformations. We study the latter in …
Derrick Gardner
Director of Jazz Studies · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Derrick Gardner is the Director of Jazz Studies at Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, where he serves as a Senior Lecturer in Music Performance. A trumpeter, composer, and arranger, he leads the ensemble Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets, whose wo…
Dhruv Aggarwal
Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Finance (Courtesy) · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Dhruv Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Finance (Courtesy) at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He is a law and finance scholar whose research focuses on the economic analysis of corporate and securities law. His work has appeared …
Diego Klabjan
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence - text analytics, deep learning, federated learning, optimization; transportation, finance, bioinformatics
Dilip Gaonkar
Professor, Culture and Communication; Director of the Center for Global Culture and Communication · School of Communication
Dilip Gaonkar is a Professor in Rhetoric and Public Culture and the Director of the Center for Global Culture and Communication at Northwestern University. He also directs the Center for Transcultural Studies, an independent scholarly research network concerned with global issues…
Domenic DeSocio
Assistant Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
language-learning technologies, methods to better integrate queer perspectives into language pedagogy, German modernist literature of the 1910s and 1920s, and postwar gay male literary cultures on both sides of the Atlantic
Donald Schleicher
Artist-in-Residence, Director of Orchestras · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dongning Guo
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
My research interests lie in wireless communications, spectrum policy, blockchain and decentralization, and information theory. My current projects concern the fundamental limits of blockchain, spectrum sharing techniques and policies, next generation terrestrial and non-terrestr…
Dotun Ayobade
Associate Professor · School of Communication
Black studies, Choreography, Dance, Gender Diversity and Equality, Performing Arts, Social Activism and Impact, Sound Cultures, Theatre History
Drew Edward Davies
Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
17th- and 18th-century music in Latin America, Iberia, and the wider European context, with complementary research interests in colonialism, contemporary architecture, and a diversity of musical genres and practices.
Drew McKinley
Assistant Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Business Associations, Corporate Finance, Energy Law
Duri Long
Assistant Professor · School of Communication
human-centered AI, AI literacy, human-AI interaction, learning sciences, design research, cognitive science, co-creative AI, embodied exhibits, art installations
E. Patrick Johnson
Faculty · School of Communication
E. Patrick Johnson is Dean of the School of Communication and Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is also the founding director of the Black Arts Consortium at Northwestern and was inducted into the Ame…
Eleanor O’Rourke
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences; Associate Professor, Computer Science · School of Education and Social Policy
Design of technology-enabled learning experiences, educational games and playful learning, growth mindset interventions, connected classroom ecosystems.
Eliza Bent
Associate Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Eliza Bent is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University's School of Communication, where she is also affiliated with the Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab. As a playwright and performer, her research and creative practice…
Elizabeth Gerber
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences; Associate Professor, Design · School of Education and Social Policy
Elizabeth Gerber is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University, affiliated with the Segal Design Institute, Mechanical Engineering, and Technology and Social Behavior departments, as well as the Learning Sciences and Design programs. Her research focuses on designing techn…
Elizabeth Horn
Associate Professor · School of Communication
theatre for young audiences, creative drama, personal narrative and devised theatre, applied theatre, arts and wellness
Elizabeth Norton
Associate Professor · School of Communication
Childhood Development, Language Learning and Processing, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Neuroscience
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Professor of Political Science; Professor and Chair of Religious Studies · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Hurd studies the politics of religion in US foreign and immigration policy, the global politics of secularism and religious freedom, religion, politics and American borders, the US in the Middle East, and the intersections of critical political theory with political the…
Elizabeth Smith
Assistant Professor of Instruction and Weinberg College Advisor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Elizabeth Smith is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and Weinberg College Advisor in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Her academic focus is in cultural anthropology, with research interests in gender …
Ella King
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering (beginning on September 1, 2026); Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (beginning on September 1, 2026) · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
The King group works to understand and design materials that are dynamic, responsive, and can correct their own errors. Unlike human-made materials, biological systems are strikingly robust to errors in the face of dynamic, out-of-equilibrium environments. Living matter corrects …
Elvira Mulyukova
Assistant Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
My research is aimed at understanding the physical processes that govern evolution of terrestrial planets, ranging from the atomic scale physics of mineral grains to the planetary scale of mantle flow. Specifically, I use mathematical methods to develop physically consistent mode…
Emerson H. Tiller
J. Landis Martin Professor of Law & Business · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Contracts, Intellectual Property, Administrative Law, Law, Economics and Social Science, Positive Political Theory
Emily A. Weiss
Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Our goal is to understand the mechanisms by which energy is converted from one form to another within hybrids of inorganic nanostructures and organic molecules. The model system we use most is a colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal, or quantum dot. We map the surface chemistry of …
Emily Kadens
Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Contracts/Torts, English and European Legal History
Emma Adam
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy · School of Education and Social Policy
Using diary studies to examine how adolescents’ everyday experiences influence their moods, their stress biology, and their sleep; the implications of adolescent stress for adolescent and adult mental and physical health and academic outcomes; ethnic/racial and socioeconomic disp…
Eric Garcia
Associate Professor of Instruction · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Eric J. Perreault
Professor of Biomedical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Research in our group focuses on understanding the neural and biomechanical factors involved in the normal control of multi-joint movement and posture and how these factors are modified following neuromotor pathologies such as stroke and spinal cord injury. The goal of this resea…
Eric Parker
Librarian, Associate Director for Collection and Bibliographic Services · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Erica Hartmann
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Medicine (Pulmonary Division) · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
My research focuses on understanding, at the molecular level, how microbial communities respond to anthropogenic chemicals and then using that information to influence real-world outcomes, especially by controlling the spread of undesirable traits (e.g., antibiotic resistance). T…
Erica Weitzman
Associate Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German-language literature, philosophy, and culture; realism and naturalism; aesthetics; poetics and rhetoric; modernism and the avantgarde; new materialisms; critical theory; psychoanalysis; phenomenology; theories of irony, comedy, and hu…
Erik C. Nisbet
Professor; Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor in Policy Analysis and Communication; Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD in Media, Technology, and Society · School of Communication
International Politics, Political Communication, Public Persuasion and Opinion, Science and Environmental Communications
Erik Gernand
Professor of Instruction · School of Communication
Cinema-Film, Media production, Playwriting, Screenwriting
Erik Luijten
Liu-Wang Liming Professor; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry; Provost Elect · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
<h5>Computational Materials Science of Soft Matter</h5><p>My research focuses on the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of materials, with a strong emphasis on complex fluids, such as polymeric systems, colloids, electrolytes, and active matter. These systems are studied pr…
Erin Courtney
Associate Chair; Associate Professor; Associate Director, MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage · School of Communication
Erin Courtney is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University's School of Communication, where she also serves as Associate Director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage. An award-winning playwright, her wo…
Erin F. Delaney
Professor of Law (on Leave) · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Federalism, Courts and the Judicial Process
Erin Talati Paquette
Assistant Professor of Law (Courtesy) · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Erin Talati Paquette is an Assistant Professor of Law (Courtesy) at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a faculty member in medicine, law, and bioethics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is also affiliated with the Center for Bioethi…
Erin Waxenbaum
Director of Undergraduate Studies · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Erin Waxenbaum is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, where she serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her research focuses on human osteology, with over a decade of study in the field.
Ermin Wei
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and (by courtesy) Computer Science · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Ermin Wei is interested in the control and operation of networked systems, with focus of market analysis of smart grid and energy networks. Ermin's research also includes large scale distributed optimization algorithms and theory with emphasis on nonlinear convex optimization, ne…
Eun Hee Kim
Associate Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
second language acquisition/processing, linguistic misunderstanding, tools to promote learning
Eunmi Lee
Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
cultural studies and language acquisition
Exal Iraheta
Assistant Professor of Instruction/Academic Advisor · School of Communication
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ezra Friedman
Professor of Law · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Ezra Friedman is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he also holds the Benjamin Mazur Summer Research Professorship. His academic background includes a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a law degree f…
Fadi Abdeljawad
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
The growing technological demands of the 21st century underpin the need to design materials by means of controlled manipulation of their microstructures. This design approach opens an exciting and bottomless field, in which one “zooms in” to the scale of materials defects to unra…
Federico Ciardo
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Geomechanics; Applied mechanics for geophysical, geomechanical and engineering problems; Computational mechanics.
Felicia D. Henderson
Associate Professor · School of Communication
Directing, Entertainment Industry, Media analysis, Media production
Francesca Tataranni
Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Professor of Instruction of Classics and Director of the Latin Program · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Frank R. Safford
Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Franziska Lys
Professor · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Lys' research is concerned with the application and evaluation of the effectiveness of media-related and technological innovations to improve the learning of foreign languages. Between 1987 and 2002, Dr. Lys has been collaborating with Dr. William Anthony on the product…
G. Jeffrey Snyder
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
New Permanent Magnets.
Characterization and analysis of electrical and thermal interface resistance in semiconductors. Grain boundary complexion engineering for high thermoelectric performance; band structure engineering of thermoelectric materials; zintl materials for thermoelec…
Gayle Ratliff
Assistant Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Gayle Ratliff is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology (2015). Her professional activities include teaching under…
Genevieve A. Tokic
Professor of Instruction · Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Tax Law, Tax Policy, Tax Program, Taxation, International Taxation
George Schatz
Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Theory, nanoscience, plasmonics and excitonics, self-assembly, catalysis
George Wells
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Environmental biotechnology
Microbial ecology of engineered and impacted natural systems
Microbial nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and shortcut biological nutrient removal systems
Sustainable biological wastewater treatment
Resource and energy recovery from waste
Bioelectrochemic…
Gerardo Ribeiro
Professor · Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Germán Campos-Muñoz
Associate Professor of Instruction of Classics · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Germán Campos-Muñoz is an Associate Professor of Instruction of Classics at Northwestern University, affiliated with the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. He completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include foreign l…
Gianluca Cusatis
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Mechanics of infrastructure materials and constitutive modeling of concrete and cementitious composites
Giorgia Chinazzo
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Chinazzo’s work focuses on creating knowledge and technologies in support of the intelligent buildings of the future—spaces that can sense, adapt, respond, and improve the quality of life of occupants while reducing environmental impact. Her research blends engineering, architect…
Giuseppe Buscarnera
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Constitutive modeling of geomaterials; mechanics of unsaturated soils; chemo-mechanics of porous rocks; theory of material stability and its application to geo-engineering problems; fracture and crushing in granular materials; natural hazards; slope stability analyses; landslide …
Gregory J. Wagner
Professor of Mechanical Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
I am interested in the development and application of computational simulations methods for multi-scale and multi-physics problems in engineering, especially in the areas of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and material transport. Many of the most fascinating engineering systems ar…
Guillermo A. Ameer
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Surgery, Daniel Hale Williams Professor, Director, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering · McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Gustavo Diaz
Assistant Professor of Instruction · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Statistics, research design, causal inference, experiments, computational social science.
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