PhD Advisors at University of California, Davis 加州大学戴维斯分校
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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Aaron Tang
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law · School of Law
Constitutional Law, Education Law, Federal Courts, Labor Law, Supreme Court, Appellate Advocacy
Abi Gopal
Assistant Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adam Derek Zientek
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 J. Taylor, M.D.
Dr. Taylor's research and academic interests are focused on rapid and enhanced post-operative recovery protocols, use of navigated and robotic technologies to improve implant positioning, surgical techniques for revision and complex primary joint replacement, patient outcomes, an…
Adam Jacob
Professor · University of California, Davis
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…
Adi Wollstein, M.D.
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…
Adrienne Hoit-Austin
· University of California, Davis
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Afra Afsharipour
John D. Ayer Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Society · School of Law
Comparative Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Mergers And Acquisitions, Transactional Law
Agustina Carando
Associate Professor of Spanish · College of Letters and Science
Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism and Language Change, Heritage Language Education, Writing Development
Aimee K Moulin
Professor of Clinical, Med: Emergency Medicine · School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aiming Yu
Professor · School of Medicine
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…
Aiming Yu
Professor · University of California, Davis
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Akua Banful
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
Ala Moshiri, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor · UC Davis Health
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. …
Alain Brassard, M.D.
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…
Alan Lombard
Assistant Professor · School of Medicine
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 …
Alan Paul Lombard
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…
Albert C. Lin
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law and Co-Director of the California Environmental Law and Policy Center · School of Law
Environmental Law, Natural Resources, Evidence
Albert Fannjiang
Professor · University of California, Davis
I am interested in imaging, vision, inverse problems, wave propagation, turbulent mixing and transport.
Albert Lee, D.O.
Assistant Professor
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…
Aldrin Gomes
Professor · School of Medicine
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…
Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
Kant, 17th and 18th Century Philosophy (especially Leibniz), Social Philosophy
Alex R Thomson
Professor · University of California, Davis
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 …
Alexander Roussos
Associate Physician Diplomate · UC Davis Health
Dr. Roussos' interests center on advancing education in anesthesiology, sharing instructive clinical cases through conference presentations, and enhancing wellness and support for residents.
Alexander Soshnikov
Professor · University of California, Davis
Random Matrix Theory with connections to Probability, Mathematical Physics, and Combinatorics.
Alexander Wein
Gerald Saidel | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Davis
Math of data science, theory of computing
Alexandra O'neill Duffy, D.O.
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
Alexandra Sofroniew
Assistant Professor of Art History and Classics · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ali Anooshahr
Professor · University of California, Davis
Empires, Indo-Persian culture, historiography, slavery, and economic history.
Ali Anooshahr
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ali Moghimi
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 …
Alice F. Tarantal, Ph.D.
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 …
Alicia Lauren Agnoli
PhD Student · UC Davis Health
Dr. Agnoli's research interests focus on addressing issues of access to care, particularly for vulnerable populations and individuals with substance use disorders. She also investigates issues related to managing complex chronic pain and opioid-related risks. She teaches students…
Alicia Rusoja
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
Latinx Youth, Adults and Communities; (Im)migrants; Intersectionality; Participatory Action Research; Practitioner Inquiry; Research Justice; Coloniality-Resisting, Humanizing, and Feminist-of-Color Methodologies; Sociocultural & Critical Perspectives on Literacy and Education; C…
Alireza (Ali) Pourreza, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension · College of Engineering
Precision Agriculture/horticulture; Agricultural Mechanization; Remote Sensing and GIS; Machine Vision; Agricultural Robotics and Automation; Big Data; Hyperspectral/Multispectral Imaging.
Alison Ledgerwood
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…
Alix Rogers
Acting Professor of Law · School of Law
Bioethics, Property, Trusts, Wills, And Estate Planning, Health Law, Science and Law, Law And Society, Legal History
Alla Fomina
Associate Professor · School of Medicine
Immune Cell Function
Membrane Trafficking and Fusion
Endocytosis/exocytosis
Intracellular Ca2+ Signaling
Ion Channels
Allan R. Martin
Chair, Spine Clinical Quality Improvement; Residency Program Director, Neurological Surgery Residency Program; Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
Dr. Martin is a leader in advanced spinal cord imaging, technology research, and clinical outcomes research with more than 65 peer-reviewed journal publications, numerous research awards, and patents. He is an Engineer with a keen interest in technology that improves patient care…
Allen C. Gao, M.D., Ph.D.
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.
Almerindo Eduardo Ojeda
· University of California, Davis
Language Structure and Theory: Formal linguistics; semantics of number, collectivity, and partitivity; computational linguistics
Amanda Guyer
Professor · University of California, Davis
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…
Amanda Midboe
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amanda Tencza Whitaker, M.D.
Assistant Professor
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.
Amber E. Boydstun
Professor and Chair · University of California, Davis
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amelia Miazad
Acting Professor of Law · School of Law
Corporate law, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues
Amelia Sorensen, M.D., M.H.P.E.
PhD Student · UC Davis Health
Dr. Sorensen’s academic interests focus on optimizing outcomes in hand and wrist fracture care, advancing health equity through improved access to specialized treatment, and enhancing surgical education. Holding a master’s degree in health professional’s education, she is committ…
Amin Aminaei Chatroudi
ASSOC PROJ SCIENTIST-FY · University of California, Davis
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amrik Singh
Vice Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine; Professor · UC Davis Health
Dr. Singh's research focuses on improving oxygenation monitoring techniques and outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
Amy Motlagh
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East/South Asia Studies
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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…
Amy R. Nichols, PhD, MS, RDN
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…
Amy V Barnhorst
Associate Professor of Clinical, Med: Emergency Medicine · School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ana Peluffo
Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures · College of Letters and Science
Affect and Emotions
Sexuality Studies
Nineteenth-century Cultural Studies
Transnational Feminisms
Gender and Race
Latin American Cinemas
Ana-Maria Iosif, Ph.D.
Professor · School of Medicine
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…
Andre Daccache
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
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.
Andrea Cann Chandrasekher
Professor of Law · School of Law
Law And Economics, Criminal Law And Procedure, Labor Law, Law And Society, Police And Policing
Andreas Bäumler
PhD Student · School of Medicine
<strong>Enteric Pathogens, the Host and its Gut Microbiota</strong></p>
<p><strong>Host responses during gastroenteritis</strong>. My laboratory has a long-standing history of pioneering new models and approaches to address key questions about the pathogenesis of gastroenteritis.…
Andreas J. Albrecht
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…
Andres Carvajal
Professor · University of California, Davis
Microeconomic Theory, Financial Economics
Andrew Fox
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…
Andrew James Jones, M.D.
PhD Student · UC Davis Medical Center
Dr. Jones is a general family medicine provider offering both preventative and treatment focused care for patients of all ages from infants and children to adult and geriatric patients. His special areas of clinical interest include chronic disease (hypertension, diabetes, substa…
Andrew Nelson, M.D.
PhD Student · UC Davis Health
Dr. Nelson provides comprehensive eye care for common eye conditions such as cataract and glaucoma. His clinical interests include complex cataract surgery, traumatic eye injuries, and ophthalmic pathology. Dr. Nelson is involved in resident and medical student education in ophth…
Andrew Roskos-Ewoldsen
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Todd
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…
Andrew Waldron
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…
Andrew Wetzel
Professor · University of California, Davis
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…
Andrew Yonelinas
Professor · University of California, Davis
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…
André Naffis-Sahely
Assistant Professor of English · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrés Reséndez
Professor · University of California, Davis
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.
Angela Gelli, Ph.D.
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.
Angela Jarman, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor · UC Davis Health
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…
Angela M. Zivkovic, Ph.D.
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…
Anh Duong
Research and Development Engineer, Advanced Highway Maintenance & Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center · College of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ankit Sarin, M.D., M.H.A.
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…
Anna La Torre, Ph.D.
Professor · School of Medicine
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 …
Anna Uhlig
Associate Professor of Classics · College of Letters and Science
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Anna Waiyee Kong, M.D.
Associate Physician
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Anna Zarkh
PhD Student · University of California, Davis
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Anne Schilling
Hillel Chiel | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Davis
Combinatorics, representation theory, mathematical physics, probability
Anthony F. Jerant, M.D.
PhD Student · UC Davis Health
One of Dr. Jerant's main research interests is to seek ways of improving the care of common debilitating health conditions. A major focus of this work is to develop and evaluate approaches to increasing patients' participation and choices in their own care.
Antonio Serapio-Palacios
Assistant Professor · College of Biological Sciences
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Anujit Chakraborty
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Anushka Kulkarni
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Anya Stewart
Kenneth J. Winston - Caltech Directory · University of California, Davis
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Apra Sood
Health Sciences Professor of Clinical Dermatology · UC Davis Health
Complex medical dermatology with a special focus on contact dermatitis, atopic dermatitis and other eczematous dermatoses
Ari Kelman
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ariana J. Valle
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
(im)migration, race, ethnicity, & racialization, political sociology, Latina/o/x sociology & politics, qualitative methods
Ariel Mosley
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…
Arif Camoglu
Assistant Professor of English · College of Letters and Science
global eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, critical theory, poetry and poetics, and empire with a focus on Anglo-Ottoman encounters
Arman Rezaee
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
Development Economics
Arta M. Monjazeb, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor · UC Davis Health
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…
Arthur Charles-Orszag
Assistant Professor · College of Biological Sciences
Evolutionary Cell Biology of Archaea & Eukaryogenesis
Ashish Shenoy
Associate Professor · University of California, Davis
Development Economics, Migration, Seasonality, Local Institutions, Poverty Measurement
Ashutosh Bhagwat
Boochever and Bird Distinguished Professor of Law · School of Law
Administrative Law, Antitrust, Constitutional Law, Energy Law, Law And Economics, Regulated Industries, Supreme Court, Telecommunications Law
Athanasios Geromichalos
Professor · University of California, Davis
Macroeconomics, Financial Economics
Athena Soulika, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · School of Medicine
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…
Aubyn Stahmer
Assistant Professor · University of California, Davis
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