PhD Advisors at University of California, Davis 加州大学戴维斯分校US
Quick answer: University of California, Davis in the US has 905 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 10 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 University of California, Davis, 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 (10)
Professors at University of California, Davis with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Dulce Wilkinson Westberg
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Westberg will be recruiting undergraduate students to join her lab to help with qualitative data analysis and other research projects in Fall 2024. She is also currently accepting applications for new graduate students for the 2024-2025 application cycle.
I am interested in how individuals navigate social structures and the implications of such structures for personality and identity. In my research, I examine variations in life narratives around race, ethnicity, gender, and social class, in relation to psychosocial adjustment and…
Adj/PTVisiting Prof/PTLecturer · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Beck is currently recruiting undergraduate students to join the lab at this time for the 2025-2026 academic year. She is not currently accepting graduate applicants.
Dr. Beck's research focuses around the question of what personality is. Definitions have big consequences for how we measure personality, what those measures predict both short- and long-term, how personality is thought to change, and more. One way of doing this is to focus on di…
Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology · UC Davis Center for Neuroscience
⭐ She is always searching for talented postdoctoral fellows and students to join her team.
Neurobiology of addictive disorders and their comorbidities. The majority of drugs used in human medicine target G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). The focus in the Whistler laboratory is elucidating how altering the signaling "bias" of a GPCR for its various downstream signali…
⭐ We are actively looking for motivated project assistants, students and postdocs. If interested in joining our team, please reach out directly via jtsingh@ucdavis.edu
Tushir-Singh's research focuses on using protein engineering and multi-targeting antibodies in the context of human cancers and other pathologies. He is particularly interested in targeting the differential clinical response of immunotherapies and chimeric-antigen receptor (CAR) …
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Parra is currently recruiting undergraduate students to join the Arcoíris Research Collective for the 2025-2026 academic year. Dr. Parra is accepting graduate applicants for Fall 2026.
Developmental Psychology, Minority Stress, Neurobiology, Intersectionality, Sexual and Gender Minority Health
Professor of Classics · College of Letters and Science
⭐ I am not accepting graduate students at this time.
Late ancient social and intellectual history; conceptions of the natural and the wondrous in antiquity
Literary cultures of late antiquity and the early middle ages
Performance, ritual, and performing objects in late antiquity
Premodern notions of gender, sexuality, and the body
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ I will consider applications from prospective doctoral students who submit their applications during the 2024 season and plan to commence their studies in the academic year 2025-26. If you wish to be considered, mention my name as your top potential advisor in your application.
Computational social science, New media & technology, Social media, Computer-mediated communication, Health & Science communication, Strategic communication
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
⭐ Dr. Yoneda enthusiastically invites applications for graduate students to join her lab in 2025.
Personality and Individual Differences; Healthy Aging; Health Behaviors; Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia; Physiological Dysregulation; Coordinated Data Analysis; Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis; Open Science & Transparency;
Abi Gopal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis. Their research focuses on numerical analysis, with particular interests in numerical methods for integral equations, analysis-based fast algorithms, and numerical linear a…
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
Professor Zientek’s research focuses on the experience of trench-fighting in the First World War. He investigates how soldiers mitigated the psychological pressures of fighting by analyzing soldiers’ daily practices and rituals. His first book, A Thirst for Wine and War (2024) co…
Adam Jacob's primary research interests are differential geometry and partial differential equations, with a focus on complex geometry. Specific interests include geometric flows, singularities and deformations of the Yang-Mills equations, special Lagrangians, and mirror symmetry…
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery · UC Davis Health
Dr. Wollstein's research and academic interests include patient outcomes of traumatic injuries of the upper extremity and incorporating wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) into her practice - which can decrease time, expense and inconvenience that can be associated…
Yu’s research interests include drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, noncoding RNAs, anticancer pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. The ultimate goal of his research is to translate noncoding RNAs to new therapies. Current efforts in his laboratory are dir…
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
colonial and postcolonial literary studies, African and black diasporic literatures and cultural production, translation, climate arts, marine mammals, and political theory and philosophy
Dr. Moshiri is a retina specialist treating all forms of medical and surgical diseases of the retina. The scope of his practice includes eye injections for age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular diseases, and several other rare retinal maladies. …
Health Sciences Professor of Dermatology · UC Davis Health
Dr Brassard is a Medical Dermatologist interested in complex dermatological conditions such as Auto-immune Connective Tissue diseases, wound healing and skin manifestations of immunodeficiency. Surprisingly, patients can get very sick with skin diseases and get hospitalized. I ha…
Research in the Lombard Lab focuses on identifying and targeting the mechanisms of prostate tumor progression, with the goal of enhancing therapeutic efficacy and designing novel strategies to improve patient outcomes. The clinical landscape for the management of prostate cancer …
Assistant Professor, Urologic Surgery and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine · UC Davis Health
Dr. Lombard's research centers on the study of prostate cancer and mechanisms underlying its progression and both response and resistance to therapy. His lab's current focus is on the integration of PARP inhibitor treatment strategies into clinical care and the design of novel co…
Dr. Lee's academic and research interests center on pediatric urology, health professions education, and outcomes research. Specifically, his research utilizes multi-institutional collaborations, such as the Traumatic Renal Injury Collaborative in Kids (TRICK) consortium, to inve…
We are interested in the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction, particularly in the role of proteostasis (protein homeostasis) in cardiovascular diseases. Impaired protein degradation is associated with many cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases. Our laboratory is interested…
Alex Thomson's research is in the area of theoretical condensed matter physics. She uses analytical calculations as well as computation to treat the complex interactions among electrons that may ultimately lead to new devices and other applications. Additional research interests …
Dr. Roussos' interests center on advancing education in anesthesiology, sharing instructive clinical cases through conference presentations, and enhancing wellness and support for residents.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology · UC Davis Health
Movement Disorders, Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonism, Tremors, Dystonia and Huntington's disease, Deep Brain Stimulation, Botulinum Toxin Injections for treatment of movement disorders, Clinical trials in Huntington's disease
Assistant Professor of Art History and Classics · College of Letters and Science
Alexandra Sofroniew is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include ancient Greek and Roman religion, particularly household devotion, as well as antiquities and material culture. She previously served a…
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
Ali Anooshahr is a faculty member in the History Department at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on topics including Islam, sovereignty, and violence in the pre-modern world, with specific work on 16th-century Mughal India. He has authored numerous publica…
Assistant Professor of Teaching · College of Engineering
remote sensing and AI applications for precision and digital agriculture; applying innovative technologies (LiDAR and multispectral/hyperspectral imaging), automation (UAVs), and artificial intelligence (machine learning and deep learning algorithms) in agriculture to facilitate …
Professor, MED: Pediatrics; Professor, MED: Cell Biology and Human Anatomy · School of Medicine
Tarantal’s research program includes the following areas of translational research:
- Gene therapy and somatic cell gene editing
- Stem and progenitor cell therapies / Regenerative Medicine
- Fetal: Pediatric models of human disease
- Fetal: maternal microchimerism and precision …
Professor and Chancellor's Fellow · University of California, Davis
Professor Ledgerwood's research investigates how people's attitudes and experiences are shaped by the social context. Her lab seeks to answer questions such as: When and why do people get stuck in negative or positive ways of thinking about something? To what extent do people's i…
Professor, Department of Urologic Surgery · UC Davis Health
Dr. Gao's research focuses on seeking to better understand the molecular changes associated with the progression of prostate cancer, identification of diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets to stop the progression of late-stage prostate cancer.
Dr. Guyer investigates neural and behavioral underpinnings of adolescent psychopathology (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance use) via social, emotional and cognitive processes. She studies how adolescents process facial emotions, social threats, and peer evaluation, and how ado…
Dr. Whitaker's research focuses on improving care for children and adults with cerebral palsy, focusing on hip surveillance, outcomes, gait, and critical analysis of literature and standard of care. She also has an interest in clubfoot and lower limb deformities.
Professor and Chair · University of California, Davis
Amber E. Boydstun is a professor and chair of political science at the University of California, Davis. Her research examines the interaction between media and politics, focusing on how media attention and framing of policy issues shape responses from citizens and policymakers.
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East/South Asia Studies
Amy Motlagh is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East/South Asian Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she also holds the inaugural Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature. Her research interests center on mo…
Amy R. Brooks-Kayal, M.D., F.A.A.N., F.A.N.A., F.A.E.S.
Chair, Department of Neurology; Professor, Department of Neurology
For Patients:
Dr. Brooks-Kayal's research focuses on understanding how seizures effect the brain and on development of novel treatments for the prevention, treatment and cure of epilepsy.
For Referring Providers:
Dr. Brooks-Kayal's research focuses on the effects of seizure acti…
Assistant Professor | Assistant Nutritionist in AES · UC Davis Nutrition Department
Building on her extensive experience in maternal and child nutrition and dietetics, Dr. Nichols conducts interdisciplinary women’s health research in two primary areas at the intersection of dietetics, reproductive epidemiology, and cardiometabolic health. First, she investigates…
Associate Professor of Clinical, Med: Emergency Medicine · School of Medicine
Amy V. Barnhorst is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis, where she also serves as Associate Director of the California Firearm Violence Research Center. Her research interests include firearm violence prevention and psy…
Dr. Iosif’s primary research interest lies in the analysis of data with complex structure, including repeated measures, longitudinal assessments with dropouts, and clustered data with informative cluster size. Her methodological focus is on a specific subtype of these data, in wh…
My research focuses on precision irrigation, remote sensing, crop and soil spatial variability, hydraulics of pipe line systems, crop modeling, water resources management, irrigation engineering, and climate change impact analysis.
Lei Zhu | Case School of Engineering | School of Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Davis
Andreas Albrecht is a leading theoretical cosmologist. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 where, with Paul Steinhardt, he wrote one of the original papers on “new†or “slow roll†inflation. Slow roll inflation has since become the dominant phe…
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
In the Fox lab, we want to understand the neurobiology of affective style. We want to understand why some people are afraid to leave the house, while others enjoy the feeling of danger. We want to understand why some people callously abuse, while others become overwhelmed with em…
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
Professor Todd's research spans several topics: (1) perspective taking and mentalizing; (2) cognitive processes underlying social categorization, evaluation, inference, and judgment; and (3) stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination based on combinations of social categories (e…
Debra McGivney | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Davis
Professor Andrew Waldron's research is devoted to a broad range of problems in theoretical and mathematical physics. In particular he has made an important contribution to the conjectured Banks-Fishler-Shenker-Susskind (BFSS) matrix model of string theory and M-theory. String the…
theoretical astrophysics
cosmological structure formation: halos, galaxies, stars
computational methods of cosmological galaxy simulations
Milky Way, Andromeda, low-mass galaxies in the Local Group
dynamics of stars and gas in galaxies
stellar nucleosynthesis and metal enrichment…
Professor Yonelinas examines the processes underlying human memory. In order to characterize the functional nature of different memory processes he uses implicit and explicit tests as well as several 'second generation' procedures such as the process dissociation procedure, the i…
Assistant Professor of English · College of Letters and Science
André Naffis-Sahely is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include poetry, translation, and exile literature, and he is the author of two poetry collections, *The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life* and *High Dese…
Reséndez specializes on early European exploration and colonization of the Americas, the U.S-Mexico border region, and the early history of the Pacific, particularly the pioneering voyages of discovery and the biological exchanges across the largest ocean on Earth.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology · School of Medicine
Dr. Gelli's research focuses on resolving the molecular mechanisms of neuroinfectious diseases to identify targets for the development of novel therapies.
Dr. Jarman's research interest centers on the roles of biological sex and gender identity in acute care medicine. Specifically, Dr. Jarman studies sex differences in venous thromboembolism. She is also engaged in health equity researched, aimed at mitigating modifiable health dis…
Professor | Nutritionist in AES · University of California, Davis
Dr. Zivkovic’s research is focused on the role of diet and nutrition in Precision Health. Precision Health emphasizes individually tailored approaches to optimize health and prevent disease. The Zivkovic Lab has four overall research themes: 1) Investigating the functional biolog…
Research and Development Engineer, Advanced Highway Maintenance & Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center · College of Engineering
Anh Duong is a Research and Development Engineer at the Advanced Highway Maintenance & Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center at the University of California, Davis. Their work focuses on research and development in highway maintenance and construction technology.
Vice Chair of Robotics & New Technologies, Department of Surgery; Chief, Division of Colorectal Surgery; Associate Professor, Department of Surgery · UC Davis Health
Dr. Sarin has an interest in identifying the role of minimally invasive and newer techniques in colon and rectal surgery as well as improving perioperative care. To this end he has worked on and extensively published on robotic colorectal surgery, enhanced recovery protocols, opi…
The Central Nervous System (CNS) is a complex network of numerous cell types. For example the human brain contains about 80 billion neurons associated with roughly 300 billion glial cells, and hundreds of different neuronal and glial cell types have been identified by morphology …
Associate Professor of Classics · College of Letters and Science
Anna Uhlig is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis, where she has been a faculty member since 2013. Her research focuses on performance and poetics in the Greek Mediterranean, with interests in drama, lyric, and the traditions of reperformance…
Assistant Professor · College of Biological Sciences
Antonio Serapio-Palacios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics within the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis, where he joined in 2025. His research focuses on microbiology, molecular biology, and cell…
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
Professor Mosley's work investigates the ways that social categorization and social identity structure judgments of, and responses to, different forms of intergroup inequalities. Her current program of research is driven by the following questions: (a) How do group-based biases a…
Dr. Monjazeb is a clinician scientist performing cutting edge clinical and basic science research. He is an internationally recognized expert in cancer immunotherapy. His research is focused on understanding how the immune system can be harnessed to fight cancer and how radiother…
Dr Soulika's research centers on the role of local immune responses in the healing process following tissue injury. The detrimental effects of inflammatory injury in the central nervous system are evident in disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis and Acute Transverse Myelitis. Afte…
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
Aubyn Stahmer is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and serves as director of the UC Davis MIND Institute and its Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Her research focuses on behavioral scien…
Dr. Saiz’s research interests include both clinical and basic science studies. Clinically, he is specifically interested in surgical techniques, patient outcomes, and advancing treatment methods and protocols. Mechanistically, his lab investigates the systemic and local effects o…
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine · UC Davis Health
Dr. Flores is a pediatric anesthesiologist providing care for all children requiring surgery as well as other services requiring anesthetic care. He has special interests in congenital heart disease as well as acute pediatric pain medicine. In addition to his clinical interests, …
Professor of History · College of Letters and Science
the transformation of Islam in the Ottoman public sphere from the late thirteenth to the early twentieth century; Ottoman socio-political history in the early modern era (16th-18th centuries); Islamic law; the intellectual tradition of Islam with a special emphasis on the relatio…
Our research group focuses on cell-mediated immune responses to HIV and other viruses in mucosal tissues, and trafficking of lymphoid cells to mucosal tissues and the central nervous system.
Significance
Most studies of antiviral immunity have focused on peripheral blood. Howeve…
Dr. Waldau holds an NIH grant to study the mechanism of memory decline after intraventricular hemorrhage in a rodent model. His further basic science research efforts are focused on understanding the role of dentate gyrus neurogenesis and transplantation of vascularized cerebral …
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science · UC Davis Health
Dr. Jastrzembski's research consists of clinical trials on pediatric eye disease through the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG) as well as research on social inequities in pediatric eye care.
Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Immunology · University of California, Davis
Dr. Hurrell’s lab explores the dynamic interplay between nutrition, metabolism, and immune regulation, focusing on how specific nutrients and metabolic pathways influence the development and function of immune cells in both health and disease, particularly asthma and allergy. Uti…
Penn's research focuses on understanding the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes the human disease tuberculosis using cutting-edge genetic and proteomic tools.
Assistant Professor of Classics · College of Letters and Science
Bianca Hand is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis. Her research and teaching focus on the ancient Mediterranean, including courses on death and dying in the region and the 19th- and 20th-century reception of Assyrian art. She also works on a…
Professor and Chair · College of Letters and Science
Bo Feng has expertise in interpersonal, supportive and intercultural communication. Her scholarship focuses primarily on supportive communication, which includes a broad range of situations in which people interact with the intention of seeking or providing some form of aid or as…
Brad Pollock is a Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Chairman of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Public Health Sciences. His research interests focus on public…
Branden J. Cord, MD, PhD, is a Yale-trained neurosurgeon with who specializes in treating patients with cerebrovascular disorders of the brain, neck and spine, in addition to and adult-onset CSF disorders. These include brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), dural a…
International Relations, political violence, international cooperation, global security, network science, multilevel network analysis, computational modeling, machine learning, data visualization
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering · University of California, Davis
Space-time analogies in electromagnetics: There is an intriguing analogy between the equations that describe the natural diffraction of electromagnetic wave in space and the spreading or dispersion of electromagnetic pulses in dielectrics. The mathematical analogy between these e…
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law · University of California, Davis
Antidiscrimination Law
Constitutional Law
Civil Procedure
Immigration Law And Policy
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the Law
Law And Cultural Studies
Mood and anxiety disorders are more likely to occur in women, yet most mouse models focus on males. Using the monogamous California mouse, Professor Trainor studies the effects of stress on the brain and behavior. One line of research investigates how oxytocin acts in different b…
Professor Wiltgen studies cellular and molecular mechanisms of memory formation in the hippocampus and neocortex. He is particularly interested in systems level consolidation and the process by which new memories are stabilized and maintained over time. To examine these issues, h…
Dr. Chang provides comprehensive eye care to patients age 8 to geriatric, with a special interest in the senior population. She provides diabetic eye exams, takes care of eye emergencies, and providing eye health monitoring to patients with complex eye conditions. She also perfo…
Food processing engineering: simultaneous product-process development; Modeling: heat and mass transfer, (bio)chemical reactions, and predictive microbiology; Agro-industrial by-products: plant-based proteins and biomolecules; Materials and thermal/non-thermal processes for food …
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
Dr. Hostinar researches childhood adversity (experiences of stress, maltreatment, poverty, loneliness) and how they influence later development and health. She has a particular interest in protective factors that may buffer children and adolescents from chronic stress and subsequ…
Dr. Sadegh's research laboratory (at the Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine) aims to develop new treatment options for hydrocephalus and to advance our knowledge of the composition of brain fluids, which has implications in various conditions such as brain tumors and e…
Research in the group is focused on analytical chemistry with specific emphasis in the area of nutrition, disease markers, and mass spectrometric methods. Our area of study is as diverse as the students who take part. Students come from all disciplines of chemistry including anal…
Dr. Slupsky's research includes understanding the impact of diet on human health from the perspective of nutrition, the gut microbiome, and host-microbial co-metabolism. She uses a multi-discplinary research approach that integrates metabolomics with clinical measures, global gen…
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Chair, Grad Group in Public Health Sciences · School of Medicine
Dr. Carolyn Dewa's research focuses on work disability related to mental disorders. She also studies the provision and access to mental health services and supports to people experiencing mental illnesses. Her recent studies have examined the successful continuous employment of p…
Professor · UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine
Carrie J. Finno is a Professor at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine. Her research focuses on equine genetics, including the functional annotation of the horse genome through the FAANG project and the identification of genetic variants associated w…
Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension · University of California, Davis
Dr. Nguyen's long-term goal is to bridge the gap between "what we know" and "what we do" about food insecurity in the U.S. Her research broadly aligns with one of three areas: 1) supporting the implementation, evaluation, and effectiveness of Extension and nutrition education pro…
Professor and Chair of CANDEL · School of Education
Cassandra Hart is an associate professor of education policy. She evaluates the effects of school, state and national education programs, policies, and practices on overall student achievement, and on the equity of student outcomes. Hart’s work has focused on online education in …
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
Asian American history, race and ethnicity, immigration, California and the American West, gender, agricultural and rural history, refugees and resettlement policy
Dr. Chen's research focuses on central regulation of the cardiovascular system and autonomic function. She is particularly interested in how environmental factors induces neuroplasticity in the central autonomic pathways.
Professor Ranganath's research concerns the neurocognitive structure of human memory and executive control. One set of studies currently underway concerns the relationship between short-term, or working memory, and long-term memory. Results from event-related fMRI studies conduct…
Charles DeCarli is a professor at the University of California, Davis, where his research in medicine and neuroscience focuses on dementia and brain aging. His work uses brain imaging and genetic analysis to identify early warning signs of cognitive decline, including changes tha…
Distinguished Professor · University of California, Davis
Latin American social, cultural, and intellectual history; Peru and the Andes; the history of catastrophes and natural disasters (earthquakes); the Tupac Amaru Rebellion; Truth Commissions. Current Project: Violence, Memory and the Shining Path in Peru
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese · College of Letters and Science
music-literature relations in the twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean and Brazil, sound studies and ethnomusicology, Afro-Latin American thought and poetics, hip hop studies, comparative literature
Associate Professor, Department of Urologic Surgery; Assistant Director for Translational Research, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center · UC Davis Health
Dr. Liu has extensive expertise in clinical oncology and prostate cancer research. He has identified novel resistance mechanisms and developed innovative pharmaceutical strategies to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer. He has also generated a number of unique tools that…
Associate Professor of Chinese · University of California, Davis
Chinese linguistics
Cognitive semantics
Chinese as a second language (pedagogy and acquisition)
Application of computer technology in language instruction
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
Cheryl Boudreau’s research examines whether and when different types of political information help voters to make informed political decisions. She uses experiments in survey, laboratory, and field settings to investigate the effects that information like endorsements, voter guid…
Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · UC Davis Health
Dr. Shin is a general PM&R physician. He sees patients in his adult general rehabilitation and spine clinics as well as in the electrodiagnostic lab. He has a partidcular interest in amputee prosthetic management. Dr. Shin's main academic interest lies in the educations of medica…
Professor, Division of Clinical Anesthesiology · UC Davis Health
Dr. Bohringer has published articles on opioid free anesthesia, multimodal analgesia, neuromuscular blocking drugs and their reversal, intraoperative bronchospasm, the prevention of myocardial injury, airway management and invasive blood pressure measurement. He has also publishe…
Dr. Sandrock has clinical interests in respiratory infections, community-acquired and viral pneumonia, and ICU-acquired infections. His research interests include emerging infectious diseases at the animal and human interface, particularly respiratory infections such as avian inf…
Dr. Stewart’s research focuses on the design and evaluation of nutrition and health interventions for women and young children in low income communities. She examines the effects of these interventions on growth, health, and development throughout the life course. She utilizes pr…
Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery · UC Davis Health
Dr. Kreulen's research includes cartilage transplantation and treatment of osteochondral defects, use of orthobiologics in fusions, three-dimensional printing in limb salvage, advanced treatment of syndesmotic injuries.
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
Christopher Hare is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on ideology, polarization, and the application of measurement models and supervised machine learning methods to the study of voter behavior.
Professor Meissner's research focuses on the economic history of the international economy, particularly between 1870 and the present. He has expertise in international financial crises, exchange rate policy, and international trade and finance.
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery · UC Davis Health
Dr. Bayne’s research explores the biomechanics and clinical outcomes of upper extremity surgery, spanning both shoulder and hand/wrist reconstruction. His work examines shoulder arthroplasty performance, rotator cuff biomechanics, and mechanisms of carpal instability. He is dedic…
Christyann Darwent is a Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. A zooarchaeologist, her research focuses on how humans adapt to arid, high arctic environments and coastal ecosystems, with fieldwork including archaeologica…
Dr. Cinthia Tirado, M.D., is an Associate Physician Diplomate and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, a position she has held since 2011. Her professional affiliations include membership in the Am…
Professor of English · College of Letters and Science
medieval religious literature and culture, from saints' lives and preaching to doctrinal handbooks and miracles of the Virgin Mary, with a particular interest in the relationship between teachers and learners, between the audiences of sermons and religious writings and the creato…
Associate Professor of Spanish · College of Letters and Science
Second language acquisition
Second Language textbooks
Second language vocabulary
Spanish derivational morphology
Second language Morphological awareness
Learner corpora
Graded readers
Emotional processing of words
Distinguished Professor and Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities · College of Letters and Science
literature, science, and technology; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of physics; nanotechnology; video games; digital humanities
Associate Professor of Classics · College of Letters and Science
Ancient Science, Medicine, Technology, and Philosophy; Optics; Pharmacology; Intercultural Connections between Mediterranean, Assyro-Babylonia, the Black Sea, Egypt, and India
Professor, Arline Miller Rolkin Professorship in Health Innovation, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Director of Precision Medicine and Data Sciences · School of Medicine
Computational approaches to reveal mechanisms of excitability in the heart and brain. The Clancy Lab aims to develop and implement computational approaches to understand mechanisms of excitable disease in the heart and brain. Electrically based syndromes such as arrhythmia and ep…
Professor and Vice Chair of Education · School of Medicine
Environmental exposure and breast cancer
Receptor tyrosine kinases in breast tumor progression and therapeutic resistance
Tumor suppressors and oncogenes in breast cancer
Mouse models of breast cancer
MicroRNA and other novel therapeutics for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Ph.D. Candidate – Applied Microeconomics, Risk and Insurance Economics · University of California, Davis
applied microeconomist with research focused on how individuals and communities manage risk. This work draws from development, behavioral, financial, environmental, and agricultural economics.
Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies · University of California, Davis
Corrie Decker is a Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she also serves as External Chair of American Studies. Her research focuses on African history, particularly the co-optation and challenging of power structures, as…
Family law, relationship recognition, same-sex and non-marital couples, parentage, constitutional law, employment discrimination, sexuality, gender, and the law
Professor, Public Health Sciences · School of Medicine
Dr. Lyles is a trained health services researcher who studies quality of care, health behavior and health outcomes. Her research focuses on harnessing health information technology to improve chronic disease management and help reduce health disparities. She has worked on digital…
Project Scientist · University of California, Davis
Craig Lage is a Project Scientist in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the characterization of CCD sensors, including investigating the Brighter-Fatter effect, which causes image size distortions in bright objects due to ele…
Medical and psychological anthropology; experimental ethnographies; theater and devising; performance; migration; psychoanalysis; ethno-psychiatry; subjectivity; theories of translation; affect theory; human rights; citizenship; anthropology of the state and the law; Italy, Europ…
Professor, Department of Pharmacology · School of Medicine
Dr. Ripplinger's research focuses on cardiac arrhythmias and autonomic control of heart rhythm. Her lab uses state-of-the-art optical imaging and neuromodulatory approaches in animal models of cardiovascular disease to assess the impact of neural inputs to the heart.
Dr Shen's research and teaching interests are broadly focused on two areas. The first is the structure and impact of social networks in various online platforms. These sites include social networking apps (such as Facebook and WeChat), Massively Multiplayer Online Games (such as …
Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of death in the United States. Our knowledge of sudden cardiac death is still limited. CAST (Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial) and SWORD (Survival With Oral d-Sotalol) clinical trials failed and tested drugs increased mortality. These…
Beleford's research program within the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology and Department of Pediatrics studies molecular genetic causes of vascular anomalies - disorders of arterial, venous, and lymphatic formation. Beleford's group is interested in genetic modifiers o…
Professor and Chair · University of California, Davis
Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics: Studies of the bulk properties of nuclear matter under extremes of temperatures and pressure, the nuclear equation of state, the quark-gluon plasma phase transition.
Dr. Herman's research focuses on sports injury prevention and rehabilitation, particularly regarding the effect of concussion and baseline neurocognitive performance on neuromuscular control and musculoskeletal injury risk. Dr. Herman also studies the effect of headgear on athlet…
Assistant Professor of Spanish · College of Letters and Science
Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, Colonial Latin American Literature and Culture, Food Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History of the Senses, Labor Studies, Animal Studies
Finance Assistant · University of California, Davis
Dr. Hampel’s research is focused on method development for phenotyping breast milk and plasma samples and assessment of micronutrient deficiencies in mostly developing countries as well as evaluation of biomarkers to assess adequate micronutrient intake for mothers, breast milk s…
Dr. Brown is a fellowship trained orthopaedic oncologist, specializing in surgical treatment of both benign and malignant conditions of the musculoskeletal system. This includes bone and soft tissue sarcoma, metastatic bone disease, pediatric bone tumors, as well as benign soft t…
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
The overall goal of Professor Stolzenberg's research is to advance our understanding of the neurobiology of parental behavior. The question of how experiences that occur throughout the lifetime produce enduring effects on brain and behavior is a fundamental part of this research …
Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow · School of Education
EMPHASIS AREA: LLC. Adolescent Language and Literacy; English Education; Linguistic Anthropology of Education; Sociocultural Approaches to Learning; Discourse Analysis; Black and Latina/o Youth Interactions; Ethnography
How many professors at University of California, Davis are hiring PhD students in 2026?
As of 2026-10-19, 10 professors at University of California, Davis, a US university, show active PhD hiring signals in phd-match's faculty database.
How many faculty profiles does phd-match have for University of California, Davis?
phd-match lists 905 faculty profiles at University of California, Davis, each with research interests, department, and a link to the professor's homepage.
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No. University of California, Davis is one of 174 universities phd-match covers across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore (US 97, UK 17, AU 10, CN 26, HK 8, CA 10, SG 6).
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Data last updated: 2026-10-19 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.