PhD Advisors at University of California, San Diego 加州大学圣地亚哥分校 US
Quick answer: University of California, San Diego in the US has 1026 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 4 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, San Diego, 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 (4)
Professors at University of California, San Diego with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Jorge I. Poveda
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
⭐ We are currently looking for one highly motivated Ph.D. student to join our group. We are always looking for highly motivated students, postdocs, and visiting scholars with a strong interest in control, optimization, and learning systems.
Control, Optimization, Learning Systems, Stochastic Hybrid Systems, Hybrid Systems, Nonlinear Systems, Adaptive Control & RL, Extremum Seeking Systems
Ruben Abagyan
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy · UC San Diego
⭐ Minimum Duration: 1 year
Dr. Abagyan’s research focuses on the development of novel technologies for structure based drug discovery and optimization, structural systems biology for target finding and protein modeling. The lab screens specific biomedical targets to discover new drug leads, and validate th…
Shadi Dayeh
Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
⭐ We welcome applicants from ECE, BioE, Materials/Applied Physics, and Neuroscience who want to build devices that reach patients. Projects typically span materials & fabrication, device/ASIC/packaging, rodent and large animal neurophysiology work, signal analysis/ML, and clinical studies with our hos…
Translational neurotechnology built on semiconductor rigor. We design human-grade neural interfaces and take them into the operating room, rooted in deep expertise in Si/SiGe and compound semiconductors (InAs, GaAs, GaN, InN) and the hetero-integration science that makes reliable…
Shermin De Silva
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
⭐ I do not intend to recruit PhD students in the Fall 2024 application period
We study socioecology broadly construed, or how social systems influence ecological systems and vice versa. Human and nonhuman societies are intimately bound together with surrounding ecosystems. These conditions present both constraints and opportunities for the expression of so…
All Faculty at University of California, San Diego (196)
ADRIAN BORSA
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Cryosphere and Polar Science, Geodesy and Lithospheric Deformation, Instrumentation and Observational Networks, Remote Sensing, Land Surface Hydrology
AFZALI GOROOH, VESTA
Research Professional · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
ALDEN, DOUGLAS
R&D ENGINEER · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Remote Sensing, Climate Sciences, Ocean Instrumentation and Technology, Remote Sensing and Satellite Oceanography
ALEC BRENNER
Assistant Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Alec Brenner is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are not detailed in the available sources.
ALFORD, MATTHEW
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Coastal Oceanography, Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing, Ocean Instrumentation and Technology, Physical Oceanography, Upper Ocean and Submesoscale Processes
ALICE GABRIEL
Associate Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Seismology and Earthquake Physics
ALLARD, SARAH
Academic (Project Scientist) · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Sarah M. Allard is an academic (Project Scientist) at the University of California, San Diego, affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Pediatrics. Her research focuses on host-associated and environmental microbiomes, including the impacts of…
ALMALITI, JEHAD
Visitor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jehad Almaliti is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on marine natural product discovery and the development of antimalarial therapeutics, incl…
ALUWIHARE, LIHINI
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Organic matter composition and cycling
Analytical techniques for examining complex mixtures
Isotopes as tracers of organic matter source and residence time
Diversity of microbial metabolisms in aquatic environments
ANDREAS ANDERSSON
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Biogeochemistry, Coastal Processes, Low Temperature Geochemistry, Marine Chemistry, Ocean Acidification
ANDREW ALLEN
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics, Marine Microbiology, Phytoplankton Biology and Algal Biofuels, Plankton Ecology and Food-Web Interactions, Polar Ecology, Population and Community Ecology, Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Biogeochemistry, Coastal Oceanogra…
ANDREW BARTON
Associate Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Marine ecology, Marine ecosystems, Macroecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Climate impacts, Biogeochemistry
APOSTOL, ROMALYN
EVENTS SPEC · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
ARCILA, DAHIANA
Assistant Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Deep-Sea Biology, Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics, Systematics and Biogeography, Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Past Climate Change
Aaron Coleman
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Biology Education Research; Teaching Scientific Reasoning; Research on Fibroblast Growth Factor Signal Transduction
Aaron Rosengren
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Astrodynamics, Celestial Mechanics, and Dynamical Astronomy; Orbital Debris and Space Situational Awareness; Applied and Computational Mathematics; Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaotic and Complex Systems.
Aarons, Sarah Miranda
Muir College Faculty Listing
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abdoulaye Ndao
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Nanophotonics, integrated optics, nanomaterial/structure design, bio photonics
Abhishek Saha
Associate Professor
Combustion, fluid mechanics, propulsion, flame dynamics, droplet dynamics
Achyuta Adhvaryu
Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics; Director, 21st Century India Center · School of Global Policy & Strategy
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adah Almutairi
Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry · Jacobs School of Engineering
Nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science
Adam Feist
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Systems Biology; Laboratory Automation; Adaptive Laboratory Evolution (ALE); Genome-Scale Modeling; Synthetic Biology; Metabolic Engineering; Biomanufacturing; Microbial Physiology
Adam J. Engler
Professor and Department Chair, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Cardiovascular and Cancer Mechanobiology
Adele Edling Shank
Miriam Novotny | Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University · UC San Diego
Adele Edling Shank is a dramatist and academic affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, where she founded the graduate master of fine arts playwriting programme and the new plays festival. She served as head of graduate playwriting (1989-92) and chaired the depart…
Adrian Jinich, Ph.D
Assistant Professor · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
The Jinich laboratory is a mixed computational and experimental group. The overarching goal of the Jinich lab is to develop computational methods that predict enzyme substrate chemical structure based on amino acid sequence, thereby unveiling previously unknown enzyme functions a…
Aftab Jassal
Faculty Profile
anthropology of religion; ritual and performance studies; human-nonhuman relations; illness and healing; environmental anthropology; theories of space and place; narrative and storytelling; ethnography; caste; Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism; South Asia
Aga Kendrick
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Aga Kendrick is a faculty member affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, and is associated with the Kendrick Lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Structural Biology and Biochemistry from the University of C…
Aila M. Matanock
Associate Professor · School of Global Policy & Strategy
Aila M. Matanock is an Associate Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on political violence, weak states, international intervention, peacekeeping, and elections.
Akos Rona-Tas
Horst A. von Recum | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · UC San Diego
economic sociology, risk and uncertainty, rational choice theory, and statistical and survey methodology
Alan Saghatelian
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Alan Saghatelian, PhD, is a Professor and Frederik Paulsen Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he is affiliated with the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, and an adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Diego. His research in…
Alan Schneider
Faculty In Memoriam · UC San Diego
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Albert Pisano
Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering; Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives; Professor, MAE; Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
Micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS, manufacturing, wireless sensors for harsh environments, low-cost sensors.
Albert R. Chern
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Numerical analysis, differential geometry, algebraic topology, differential equations, computational mathematics
Alessandro Marinoni
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Magnetically controlled nuclear fusion, plasma, advanced modeling
Alessandro Palermo
Professor, Structural Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Structural engineering, bridge engineering, timber engineering, novel cementitious materials, non-metal reinforcement, digital fabrication
Alex Gantman
Professor of Practice · Jacobs School of Engineering
Alex Gantman is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego, within the Jacobs School of Engineering. He also serves as Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies Inc., where he leads the Qualcomm Product Se…
Alex Orailoglu
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Electronic design automation, VLSI testing, and synthesis of fault-tolerant integrated circuits (ICs).
Alex Steiny Wellsjo
Assistant Professor of Economics and Strategy · Rady School of Management
Behavioral Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Health Economics
Household Finance
Organizational Economics
Alex Warstadt
Assistant Professor in Linguistics and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (joint appointment) · UC San Diego
Alex Warstadt is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego, where he holds a joint appointment. His research focuses on computational modeling of human language processing and acquisition, including …
Alexander Fattal
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
visual and multimodal anthropologist whose scholarly and creative work has focused on the Colombian armed conflict and efforts to forge a less violent future in that Andean nation. His work spans traditional academic publications, books and peer-reviewed articles, as well as comm…
Alexander W. Kocurek
assistant professor · UC San Diego
philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. Specifically, my research focuses on counterfactuals, identity, hyperintensionality, chance, expressivism, metalinguistic negotiation, conceptual engineering, and metametaphysics.
Alexandra Heaney
Assistant Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexandra Jazz Dickinson
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Organ development requires regulated spatial and temporal coordination of stem cell division, tissue differentiation, and cellular maintenance. Accordingly, dysregulation of this balance can lead to defects in cell behavior, tissue morphogenesis, and organ function. How stem cell…
Alexandro Segade
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
Performance Art, Video Art, Queer Art, Latinx and Caribbean Art, Experimental Film, Writing for Camera, Contemporary Art Theory, Exhibition Design, Comics Studies, Surrealism and Science-Fiction
Alexey Arefiev
Professor and Chair · Jacobs School of Engineering
Computational and theoretical plasma physics with the focus on high-intensity laser-plasma interactions, high energy density physics, and kinetic plasma phenomena; Numerical algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations.
Alin Deutsch
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Semistructured and XML data, data security, adaptive distributed query design, and the design and optimization of query languages.
Alisa Huffaker
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Like animals, plants continually interact with a plethora of other organisms in their environment, including potentially pathogenic microbes and herbivorous insects that can cause disease or damage. To minimize the detrimental impact of invading organisms, plants must mount a rap…
Alison O'Daniel
Associate Professor, Suraj Israni Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts · UC San Diego
Alison O’Daniel is an Associate Professor and the Suraj Israni Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Her research and creative practice engage with themes of disability, care, and the body, as reflected in works such as her 2011 mixed-media p…
Alistair Russell
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Nearly every cell in the human body has the capacity to respond to a viral infection with the production of interferons—critical components of cell intrinsic immunity that drive resolution of disease, and, unfortunately, much of the resultant immunopathology. Unsurprisingly, viru…
Allan Havis
Playwriting Faculty · UC San Diego
Allan Havis is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego, where he has headed the MFA playwriting program and continues to teach. He holds an MFA from Yale Drama School and has also served as Provost of Thurgood Marshall College…
Allan Timmermann
Dr. Harry M. Markowitz Endowed Chair in Finance and Investing, Distinguished Professor of Finance · Rady School of Management
Asset Pricing
Portfolio Management and Evaluation
Time-series and Panel Econometrics
Economic Forecasting
Alon Orlitsky
Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
Communications and information theory, with particular interests in signal processing, data compression, speech recognition and learning theory.
Amanda Batarseh
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
Palestinian literature, Arabic literature, Arab American and Arab diaspora literature, Indigenous studies, Mediterranean studies and comparative literature
Amarnath Gupta
Sean Abbott-Klafter | Case School of Engineering | School of Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · Jacobs School of Engineering
Amarnath Gupta is a Research Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, where he leads the Advanced Query Processing Laboratory in the Data and Knowledge Systems group. His research focuses on data management, data modeling,…
Amelia Glaser
Professor · UC San Diego
Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, translation studies, transnational literary theory, intersection of Slavic and Jewish literatures, poetics of leftist internationalism
Amir Zarrinpar
Professor · School of Biological Sciences
At the Zarrinpar Lab, we are pioneering the study of the gut microbiome and its impact on human health. We explore the intersection of circadian biology, gut physiology, and the gut microbiome to understand their collective influence on a number of diseases, such as obesity, type…
Amna Salam
Assistant Professor of Political Science · UC San Diego
American political institutions using formal models and empirical methods. In particular, her work looks at how actors within the legal system can work strategically to advance their political and ideological objectives. Currently, she is working on various projects considering t…
Amrita Dhar
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
early modern literature, disability studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, migration studies, and the environmental humanities
Amy Adler
Professor · Visual Arts, UC San Diego
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amy Alexander
Professor · UC San Diego
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amy Kiger
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Cellular remodeling: Investigating membrane regulation of dynamic cell organization & shape. Cells must continuously maintain integrity and compartmentalization with changes in cell size and shape that occur in development, immunity, aging and disease. How cellular spatiotemporal…
Amy L. Non
Professor · UC San Diego
Dr. Non's overall research goals are to understand mechanisms driving health disparities across varying racial/ethnic groups and social classes. She examines biological mechanisms beyond the genome through which sociocultural experiences, often early in life, and even prenatally,…
Amy Ousterhout
Assistant Professor · Jacobs School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amy Ousterhout
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Operating systems and networks
Amy Pasquinelli
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
The discovery that regulatory RNAs control almost every biological pathway has revolutionized our understanding of gene expression. At the forefront, microRNAs (miRNAs) have proven to be an abundant and essential class of RNA molecules in plants and animals. The numerous examples…
Amy Sara Carroll
Professor · UC San Diego
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ananda Goldrath
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Immunological memory ensures that, once infected by a particular virus or bacteria, individuals are generally protected from a second encounter with that same pathogen. This ability of lymphocytes to "remember" is the basis for protection following vaccination. Little is known ab…
Anastasia Kiyonaga
Assistant Professor
How the brain generates and maintains transient mental representations to guide behavior. How the active content of thought intersects with perception, attention, and action.
Andrea Chiba
Professor · UC San Diego
Spatial attention, associative learning, acetylcholine, amygdala.
Andrea Mendoza
Professor of Ancient Studies · School of Arts & Humanities
20th and 21st century Japanese and Latin American literary and visual texts; intellectual history and philosophy; critical gender studies; critical race studies; and decolonial critique
Andrea R. Tao
Professor, Chemical and Nano Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Functional nanostructured materials, nanowires, nanophotonics, and biomimetic materials. She works in nanophotonics and optics at the nanoscale, in the synthesis and assembly of platonic nanocrystals, and in developing nanowires for sensing applications.
Andreas Ernst
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Cells face a daunting logistical challenge, with thousands of reactions taking place each second to sustain their growth and viability. To address this challenge, eukaryotic cells organize their interior into a set of membrane-enclosed compartments, referred to as organelles or t…
Andrew Barton
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Marine phytoplankton are microscopic photosynthetic organisms living in the ocean surface. They form the base of the marine food chain, and can thus impact larger marine organisms, from zooplankton to commercially important fish and even whales. Phytoplankton also play instrument…
Andrew Chisholm
Professor · School of Biological Sciences
How the skin and nervous system maintain and repair themselves. The skin (epidermis) and the nervous system are each capable of regenerative responses to injury. Epidermal epithelia undergo robust wound healing responses in response to physical injury, related to the skin's abili…
Andrew D. McCulloch
Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
In-vitro, in-vivo and computational cardiac mechanics and physiology in health and disease.
Andrew J. Lucas
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Biogeochemical/Physical control of phytoplankton productivity and community structure; internal waves; submesoscale physical dynamics; air/sea interactions; physical/biological interactions; autonomous vehicle development;low power wave and ocean current energy generation
Andrew Kahng
Distinguished Professor, CSE; Distinguished Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
Professor Kahng is an expert on the physical design of Very Large Scale Integrated circuits (VLSI), along with the VLSI design-manufacturing interface, the application of AI and machine learning to chip design, and the technology roadmap for semiconductors and semiconductor-based…
Andrew Kehler
Professor · UC San Diego
Andrew Kehler is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, affiliated with the Department of Linguistics. His research focuses on topics in linguistics, including pronoun resolution and discourse coherence. He has authored numerous publications and is recognized amo…
Andrew Muroyama
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
The complex and beautiful biological forms that surround us are created by the coordinated actions of individual cells. How this coordination is achieved is one of the central questions in developmental biology. We are interested in understanding the myriad ways that cells encode…
Andrew Shiau
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew deWaard
Associate Professor
Broadly defined, my research analyzes the relationship between culture and commerce, focusing on media systems, the social processes that shape them (capitalism, financialization, racialization, digitalization), and the roles of agents within them (institutions, corporations, wor…
Angela Booker
Associate Professor and Provost of Eighth College · Eighth College
Youth Civic and Political Participation; Learning in Informal Settings; Media and Technology for Learning; Mathematics in Context; Parent Advocacy; Anthropology and Education; Qualitative Research Methods
Ania Jaroszewicz
Assistant Professor of Marketing · Rady School of Management
Combining consumer behavior and behavioral economics, her research is guided by the goal of improving public policy and consumer well-being. She is particularly interested in topics related to poverty, financial decision-making, and the psychology of asking and rejection.
Anna Joy Springer
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
Anna Joy Springer is an Associate Professor of writing at the University of California, San Diego, where she is also recognized as an author, visual artist, and feminist punk performer. Her research and creative practice focus on hybrid texts that combine sacred and profane eleme…
Anne Beatty-Martínez
Assistant Professor
How does cognition support language use? How does language use impact cognition? My research agenda capitalizes on the diversity and variability in language experience to better understand adaptive change in cognition and in behavior. The primary aim is to lay a theoretical and e…
Anne Elizabeth White
Assistant Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science · Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Anne Elizabeth White, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on patient-clinician communication, particularly examining strategies for effectively re…
Anthony J. Harb
Assistant Professor · UC San Diego
My research brings together theories and methodological tools from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, education, media, and ethnic studies to better understand how discursive and linguistic practices shape, and are shaped by, identity work. My interdisciplinary work conte…
Anthony O’Donoghue, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Our research is focused on the detection and characterization of proteolytic enzymes associated with disease. Many of the proteases that we study are found in infectious organisms, cancerous tissues, immune cells or human biofluids. Following in depth characterization of the t…
Anthony V. Sebald
Professor · Jacobs School of Engineering
Electronic systems and control, intelligent systems, fuzzy and neural systems
Antonio L. Sanchez
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Reacting and nonreacting flows
Anya Gallaccio
Professor · UC San Diego
Anya Gallaccio is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. A Scottish artist born in 1963, she creates site-specific, minimalist installations that often work with organic materials such as chocolate, sugar, flowers, and ice. She st…
Anya Samek
Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy · Rady School of Management
Applied Microeconomics
Behavioral Economics
Experimental Economics
Household Economics
April Lukowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Research in the Lukowski lab aims to understand and harness the unique chemistry of marine life through the discovery of novel biosynthetic enzymes and exploring their biocatalytic potential in an inclusive, collaborative, and multidisciplinary environment. We use techniques in e…
Armin Schwartzman
Professor, HALICIOGLU DATA SCIENCE INST · Vc-academic Affairs
Armin Schwartzman is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, affiliated with the Division of Biostatistics and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute. His research interests include signal and image analysis, random fields, manifold-valued data, and applications in…
Arshad Desai
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
We are focused on understanding the pathways and molecular mechanisms that ensure accurate genome inheritance during cell division. Errors in genome inheritance are the cause of birth defects and are implicated in both cancer initiation and progression. In addition, the machinery…
Arthur Wagner
Founding Chair · School of Arts & Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Arun K. Kumar
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Data science, advanced analytics, data management, database systems, machine learning
Aryana Sepassi, PharmD, MAS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Professor Sepassi is a pharmacist, health economist, and outcomes scientist. Her research mission is to improve healthcare accessibility for immigrants in the United States by generating empiric data that accomplishes three main goals: To identify socioeconomic disparities and th…
Ashley Juavinett
teaching faculty · School of Biological Sciences
My research and writing focuses broadly on education and careers in the field of neuroscience, with a focus on best practices for introducing biology students to programming. Part of this work involves capitalizing on open access datasets as course-based undergraduate research ex…
Axel Nimmerjahn
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
The human brain consists of sets of cells that form networks of dazzling complexity. Much research has focused on understanding the circuits formed by neurons, the electrically-excitable cells that process and transmit information. However, glial cells, the second major cell type…
Ayelet Gneezy
Energy Systems Engineering Institute at Lehigh University, graduate and undergraduate engineering and sciences · UC San Diego
Behavioral Change, Environmental Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Behavioral Pricing, Pay-What-You-Want Pricing, Consumer Behavior and Decision-Making
Aysan Celik
Professor · Department of Theatre and Dance
Aysan Celik is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Their professional profile is listed on LinkedIn, indicating an affiliation with the university.
Ayse P. Saygin
Associate Professor
Cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, visual perception, attention, multisensory integration, biological motion, social neuroscience, language comprehension, human-machine interaction, social robotics.
BECKER, SUSAN
RES LAB MGR · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Susan Becker is a research laboratory manager at the University of California, San Diego, affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her professional profile indicates a focus on marine and environmental science research.
BETANCUR, RICARDO
ASSOC PROFESSOR · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ichthyology
Evolution
Macroevolution
Phylogenomics
Phylogenetic comparative methods
Genomics
Phylogeography
Biogeography
Population genetics
BRIAN WOODWARD
RES/DEV ENGR · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Brian Woodward is a research/development engineer affiliated with the Coastal Processes Group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. His work involves conducting field surveys, such as those at Torrey Pines State Beach, to study coastal erosi…
BRIGGS GUM, ELLEN
RES/DEV ENGR · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
BROWNING, ERIC
PR LAB MECHN · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
BRUCE, SEAN
ASST CURATOR FISH/INVERT · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
BUCK, ERIC
SEA CAPTAIN MGR · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
BUCKINGHAM, MICHAEL
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ocean Acoustics, Ocean Instrumentation and Technology
BUTROS, AMELIA
LIBRARIAN · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
BZ ZGLICZYNSKI
Academic (Project Scientist) · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Babak Rahimi
Associate Professor of Communication, Culture and Religion · School of Arts & Humanities
Iran; Shi'i Islam; Medieval and (early) modern history, sensory religion, technology studies, public sphere, and theories of modernity. Rahimi’s research interests focus on the intersections of culture, religion, and technology, with a particular emphasis on the historical and so…
Babette Mangolte
Professor · UC San Diego
Babette Mangolte is a French cinematographer, film director, and photographer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. She is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches, and is also based in New York City as an experimental filmmake…
Barna Saha
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithm Design & Analysis, Probabilistic Method and Large Scale Data Analytics
Ben Cowan
Professor, History · UC San Diego
right-wing radicalism, morality, sexuality, 20th-century imperialism, Cold War Brazil, cultural and gender history of the post-1964 era, Latin American histories of mountaineering
Ben Doller
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Benjamin Bergen
Professor
Language comprehension and production, including grammar, word meaning, metaphor, profanity, and talking while driving.
Benjamin Bratton
Professor · UC San Diego
the philosophical problematics of the interfaciality, digital urbanism & media architecture, contemporary continental philosophy & aesthetic theory, institutional technology transfer protocols and platforms, design research management & methodologies, classical and contemporary s…
Benjamin L. Smarr
Associate Professor, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Time series analysis in biological systems, data science
Bernhard O. Palsson
Professor, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
We study the complexity of cellular life using experimental and computational methods that span the genome to the phenotype. Our research includes the development of methods to analyze metabolic dynamics (flux-balance analysis, and modal analysis), and the formulation of complete…
Bill Lin
Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
Novel embedded system and VLSI architectures for communications and networking applications.
Bill McGinnis
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
One major research interest of our lab is the regulation of transcription patterns of Hox genes in animal embryos. Hox gene expression patterns determine the morphological features that develop on the anterior posterior axis of animal embryos, and how Hox expression patterns are …
Boatema Boateng
Associate Professor
Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Transnational Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, and African Diaspora Studies.
Bonnie N. Kaiser (Bronwyn)
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
Haiti, Kenya, psychological anthropology, global mental health, implementation science, idioms of distress, and cultural adaptation
Boris Kramer
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Multifidelity and data-driven modeling, optimization and control, uncertainty quantification, reliability-based design and design under uncertainty in fluid flows
Boubacar Kante
Assistant Professor · Jacobs School of Engineering
Experimental and Theoretical Electromagnetic Materials from Microwaves to Optics for Novel Devices with Applications in Energy, Defense, and Health Systems. Professor Kanté’s multidisciplinary research interests are in the areas of wave-matter interaction, from microwave to optic…
Brad Werner
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Coastal Processes, Coastal Oceanography, Global Hydrography and Circulation, Modeling and State Estimation of the Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate
Bradley Moore, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Dr. Moore's laboratory is focused on understanding the fundamental mechanisms and pathways involved in how microbes produce antibiotics, anticancer agents, and other bioactive natural products, with a special emphasis on marine microorganisms. Research is performed at the chemist…
Bradley Voytek
Professor and Chair
Bradley Voytek is a Professor and Department Chair of Cognitive Science, and Professor in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and the Neurosciences Graduate Program at UC San Diego. He’s an Alfred P. Sloan Neuroscience Research Fellow and a Kavli Fellow of the National Academie…
Brandon Som
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
Literary Arts and Creative Writing, 20th and 21st Century Poetry, Transpacific and Border Studies, Asian American and Chicanx-Latinx literary and cultural studies
Branislav L. Slantchev
Professor of Political Science · UC San Diego
military coercion, intrawar negotiations, the conduct of war, and war termination
Brett Stalbaum
Professor of Teaching (SLSOE) · UC San Diego
Big Data, Geographic Information Systems in the Arts, and "Locative Media" (defined broadly)
Brian Aguado
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Biomaterials, tissue engineering, precision medicine, sex differences, cardiovascular disease, immunoengineering
Brian Cross
Professor · UC San Diego
Brian Cross is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he is also the founder of Triton Art. Through this organization, he has organized over 30 workshops and social events for the campus arts community.
Brittany Wright
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Wright is an ambulatory care trained pharmacist who previously developed clinical pharmacy services within outpatient pediatric and adult cystic fibrosis and pulmonology clinics. Clinically, her research interests include cystic fibrosis, asthma, non-CF bronchiectasis, rare l…
Brookie Best, PharmD, M.A.S.
Dean, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Pediatrics · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Best specializes in pharmacokinetics – the processes by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized and eliminated by the body – and pediatric clinical pharmacology research. Her research efforts have focused on studying anti-HIV drugs in infants, children, adolescents…
CAGE, CAMERON
R&D Engineer 1 · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
CAO, BING
Assistant Project Scientist · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
CAO, QIAN
Research Professional · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Qian Cao is a Research Professional at the University of California, San Diego, affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research focuses on hydrology and extreme weather, particularly the role of hydrological initial conditions and atmospheric rivers in flood…
CHOY, Anela
Associate Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Deep-Sea Biology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Theory, Environmental Toxicology
CLEMESHA, RACHEL
Academic (Project Scientist) · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
California Coastal Climate & Low Stratiform Clouds
CONSTABLE, STEVEN
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Electrical conductivity of crust and mantle
Seafloor instrumentation
Geophysical data analysis and inversion
COOK, MATTHEW
Assistant Project Scientist · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
COOK, ORNA
INSTR LAB SUPV · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
COREY GABRIEL
EXEC DIR/MAS-CSP · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
COUTO, NICOLE
Ast Project Sci/Rsch & Dev Engineer · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Nicole Couto is a Project Scientist/Research and Development Engineer affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on physical oceanography, including studies of summer surface residence time in West Anta…
Camila Alvarez
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
environmental sociology, environmental justice, and critical quantitative methodology
Camille F. Forbes
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
Camille F. Forbes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. A historian, critic, and performer, her research interests include African American cultural history and performance, as exemplified in her work on figures such…
Candis M. Morello, Pharm.D., APh, CDCES, FCSHP, FASHP
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Morello's research program involves exploring clinical outcomes in people with diabetes and associated disorders (eg., cardiac, renal, neuropathy, dyslipidemia, liver, depression), and educational or wellness outcomes of student pharmacists. Dr. Morello maintains a practice a…
Carlos F. Coimbra
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Heat and mass transfer, stochastic modeling and forecasting, variable order methods, longwave and shortwave radiation, cloud physics; concentrated solar power.
Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León
Energy Systems Engineering Institute at Lehigh University, graduate and undergraduate engineering and sciences · Rady School of Management
Corporate Finance
Household Finance
Labor & Finance
Carol Arcos H.
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
Cultural studies, anti-colonial feminisms, cuir/queer studies in Latin America
Carol Padden
Professor, Dean of Social Sciences, Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication · UC San Diego
My areas of research broadly stated are: language, communication and culture. For most of my career I have been involved in the study of sign language, particularly American Sign Language (ASL). The field of sign language studies, now involving many more sign languages than just …
Caroline Jack
Assistant Professor · UC San Diego
media history, business history, and the history of media technologies, along with critical studies of advertising, corporate communication, and promotional culture
Casandra Lopez
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Catherine Constable
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Electromagnetism, Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, Mathematical and Theoretical Geophysics, Numerical Modeling
Cathy Gere
Professor · UC San Diego
Cathy Gere is a professor of history of science at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches and researches in the field. Her scholarly work includes books such as *Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism* and *Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good*, with current re…
Charles Thorpe
Professor · UC San Diego
Social theory
Sociology of knowledge and intellectuals
Sociology of science and technology
Cultural sociology
Sociology of childhood and youth
Chin, Emily
Associate Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
High Temperature Geochemistry, Isotopic Geochemistry, Tectonics and Structural Geology, Volcanology
Chris Mi
Distinguished Professor · San Diego State University
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chris Parry
Faculty In Memoriam · UC San Diego
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christena Turner
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
Chinese and Japanese Studies, culture, consciousness, labor relations and workplace cultures, everyday life, religion, and ethnography
Christian Metallo
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Christian Metallo is a bioengineer affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, where he served as an assistant and associate professor of bioengineering. His research focuses on metabolism, particularly how oxygen availability influences fat production and the interp…
Christina Chambers
Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christina Hueschen
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
The living world is weird and wonderful. The millions of species living on Earth showcase a mind-boggling diversity of cells and organisms, and much of this richness remains unexplored by science. Consider, for example, the incredible morphogenesis and mechanics of parasitic orga…
Christina J. Schneider
Professor of Political Science · UC San Diego
Her research focuses on how international cooperation and bargaining interact with democratic politics at the national level—particularly in the context of European Union governance, regional organizations, and international development.
Christina Towers
Assistant Professor · Salk Institute of Biological Studies
Christina Towers is an Assistant Professor at the Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she is also affiliated with the Salk Cancer Center. Her research focuses on cancer biology, particularly the mechanisms of autophagy inhibition and mitochond…
Christine Alvarado
Endowed chairs · UC San Diego
Christine Alvarado is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, where she also serves as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and holds the Paul R. Kube Chair. Her research interests include…
Christine Alvarado
Paul R. Kube Endowed Chair of Computer Science · Jacobs School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christine Hunefeldt
Professor · UC San Diego
Andean and Amazonian history; Lives of women, indigenous peoples, black populations; Power relations, fiscal policies, state formation
Christopher Kuhl
Design Faculty · UC San Diego
Christopher Kuhl is a design faculty member at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests focus on the development of microgrid platforms for showcasing new distributed energy technologies.
Christopher Lee
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
The goal of the lab is to develop multiscale physical models which bring to life biological scenes at the subcellular and cellular scales--just as molecular dynamics has brought to life static crystal structures of proteins and found varied applications in drug discovery. We deve…
Christopher Oveis
Associate Professor of Management · Rady School of Management
Positive Emotions
Empathy and Compassion
Social Connection
Emotion Regulation
Optimizing Stress Responses
Christopher Stout
Professor of Political Science · UC San Diego
Christopher Stout's research focuses on the politics of underrepresented groups in the United States. Much of this research seeks to explore how political elites of color use messaging strategies to boost electoral support and investigates how political and social factors shape g…
Christopher Wills
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Our laboratory is examining a broad range of evolutionary questions, including the evolution of sex and recombination, the evolution of microsatellites in lower organisms, microevolutionary events that take place in the course of infection in the genomes of pathogens, the evoluti…
Cinnamon Bloss
Professor
Dr. Cinnamon Bloss is a Professor of Public Health, Psychiatry, and Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Empathy and Technology. Her research interests span clinical psychology, statistical genetics, genomic medi…
Claire Acevedo
Associate Professor · Jacobs School of Engineering
Biomechanics, fracture mechanics, skeletal tissues, multiscale experiments, X-ray synchrotron
Clark C. Gibson
Professor of Political Science · UC San Diego
Clark C. Gibson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests center on political economy, including topics such as development aid and the behavior of politicians in office.
Clinton Tolley
Professor of Philosophy
history of modern philosophy, philosophy of culture, social philosophy
Conor R. Caffrey, Ph.D.
Professor · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Drugs and Diagnostics for infectious diseases of poverty. Infectious diseases associated with poverty, including the neglected tropical diseases, are overlooked in terms of the number, efficacy and safety of the drugs available for treatment. As part of the Center for Discovery a…
Cornelis Murre
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
We study gene regulation in adult stem cells and developing lymphocytes. Both global and single cell strategies are being utilized with the aim to describe normal development as well as aged and diseased states in molecular terms.
We have a long-standing interest in deciphering …
Cory Root
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
Sensory systems detect features of the external world, which are represented in the activity of ensembles of neurons in the brain. My lab seeks to understand how sensory information is represented in the brain and how internal representations acquire meaning that can be used to i…
Craig Callender
Professor, UC San Diego Department of Philosophy · UC San Diego
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Craig Callender
TATA CHANCELLOR DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY · UC San Diego
Craig Callender is the Tata Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he also serves as a founding faculty member and co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. His research interests include the philosophy of phy…
Craig McIntosh
Professor; Co-director, Policy Design and Evaluation Lab; Institute of the Americas Professorship for Inter-American Affairs · UC San Diego
His main research interest is the design of institutions that promote the provision of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs, and he has conducted field evaluations of innovative anti-poverty policies in Mexico, Guatemala, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.
Cressida Madigan
Faculty overview including research interests, contact info, and outreach · School of Biological Sciences
My lab uses genetic and imaging tools to study mechanisms of infection-mediated inflammation and neurological injury. We use zebrafish as a model host, which allows for real-time observation of infections that typically play out at difficult-to-access sites in humans. We are curr…
Cristina Della Coletta
Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, Chancellor's Associates Chair in Italian Literature · School of Arts & Humanities
Historical fiction, Italian cinema and film adaptation, women's and cultural studies, use of technology in the humanities
D'SPAIN, GERALD
Research Geophysicist · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Population and Community Ecology, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Applied Ocean Sciences, Autonomous Ocean Platforms and Global Observing Systems, Ocean Acoustics
DANIEL WANGPRASEURT
Associate Researcher · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Coral Ecophysiology
Coral Restoration and Engineering
Aquatic benthic photosynthesis
Blue Tech
DARIUSZ STRAMSKI
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Applied Ocean Sciences, Ocean Instrumentation and Technology, Ocean Optics, Remote Sensing and Satellite Oceanography
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