PhD Advisors at University of Chicago 芝加哥大学
Research-focused faculty at University of Chicago, 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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Agathe Pernoud
Assistant Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
Microeconomics
Amir Sufi
PhD Student · Booth School of Business
Corporate finance; financial intermediation; intangible capital; leveraged finance; private credit
Anil Kashyap
Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance · Booth School of Business
Banking; business cycles; corporate finance; monetary policy.
Anthony Lee Zhang
Associate Professor of Finance · Booth School of Business
household finance, industrial organization, real estate, and web3/defi
Ayelet Fishbach
Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing · Booth School of Business
Self-control, motivation, decision making.
Beidi Hu
Assistant Professor of Marketing · Booth School of Business
consumer behavior, judgment and decision-making, how consumers and marketers make decisions under uncertainty
Brent Neiman
Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
International macroeconomics, trade, and finance.
Dan Adelman
Charles I. Clough, Jr. Professor of Operations Management · Booth School of Business
Healthcare Data Analytics; Performance Measurement and Benchmarking; Policy Analysis with OR in Energy and Healthcare Systems; Approximate Dynamic Programming; Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization; Supply Chain Management; Inventory, Production, and Logistics.
Emanuele Colonnelli
Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship · Booth School of Business
Finance, Entrepreneurship
Emir Kamenica
Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
Information Economics
Evan Munro
Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics · Booth School of Business
Evan Munro’s research interests are in econometrics and causal inference, with a focus on designing experiments, estimating treatment effects, and formulating optimal policy in markets and other strategic environments. His work combines tools from machine learning, statistics and…
George M. Constantinides
Leo Melamed Professor of Finance · Booth School of Business
Asset pricing theory and tests; the equity premium puzzle; transaction costs; derivatives; term structure of interest rates.
Giovanni Compiani
Associate Professor of Marketing · Booth School of Business
industrial organization and quantitative marketing
Guenter J. Hitsch
Kilts Family Professor of Marketing · Booth School of Business
Quantitative marketing and industrial organization; empirical models of consumer choice and competition; economics and marketing of new products; economics of dating and marriage markets.
Jacob Conway
Assistant Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jeffrey R. Russell
Alper Family Professor of Econometrics and Statistics · Booth School of Business
Econometrics; time series; empirical finance; analysis of high-frequency financial data.
John C. Heaton
Myron S. Scholes Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Anthony Pritzker Family Foundation - Family Office Initiative Director · Booth School of Business
Asset pricing; portfolio allocation; time series econometrics.
Joshua Conrad Jackson
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science · Booth School of Business
Cultural evolution, emotion, moral psychology, religion, social psychology changes with societal changes, globalization, public policy, political polarization, social media algorithms
Kristin Donnelly
Assistant Professor of Marketing · Booth School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Lars Hansen
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor The University of Chicago Departments of Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business · Booth School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Lars Stole
David W. Johnson Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
Economics of contracts and organizations; industrial organization; informational economics; current research focuses on price discrimination and competitive contracting.
Luigi Zingales
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance · Booth School of Business
Corporate governance, the effect of trust and culture, political economy, digital platforms
Marianne Bertrand
Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
Labor economics; corporate and household finance; development economics.
Pascal Noel
Singh Family Professor of Finance · Booth School of Business
household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, real estate, labor, and behavioral economics
Pietro Veronesi
PhD Student · Booth School of Business
Asset pricing: stock valuation under Bayesian uncertainty and learning; equilibrium models of stock return predictability and volatility; political uncertainty and asset prices. Corporate finance: Initial Public Offerings; CEO compensation and incentive contracts.
Rad Niazadeh
Associate Professor of Operations Management · Booth School of Business
Online algorithms and optimization in markets and platforms; Algorithmic mechanism design and game theory; Online learning theory and applications in operations management; Algorithmic aspects of machine learning and data science in management
Raghuram G. Rajan
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance · Booth School of Business
Corporate finance; theory of organizations; financial intermediation and regulation.
Randall S. Kroszner
Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
International and domestic banking and financial institutions and their regulation; conflicts of interest in financial services firms; international financial crises; the Great Depression; monetary economics; corporate governance; debt restructuring and bankruptcy; corporate gove…
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Associate Professor of Economics · Booth School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Robert W. Vishny
Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Finance · Booth School of Business
Behavioral and institutional finance; corporate governance around the world; political economy.
Sanjay K. Dhar
James M. Kilts, Jr. Professor of Marketing · Booth School of Business
Advertising strategy; brand management; consumer promotion evaluation and planning (bonus buys versus in-store coupons, package coupons, free-standing insert (FSI) coupons, cross-ruff coupons); e-commerce strategy; marketing strategy; new product development, management and strat…
Sid Kankanala
Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics · Booth School of Business
Econometrics, economic models with endogenous variables and latent unobservables
Stefan Nagel
Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance · Booth School of Business
Asset pricing, investor behavior, formation of investor expectations, personal experiences in shaping expectations, models of investor learning, machine learning techniques for investment strategies
Stephanie Smith
Assistant Professor of Marketing · Booth School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Steven Neil Kaplan
Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and Kessenich E.P. Faculty Director at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation · Booth School of Business
Private equity; venture capital; corporate governance; boards of directors; mergers and acquisitions; corporate finance.
Thomas Talhelm
Associate Professor of Behavioral Science · Booth School of Business
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Culture, rice and wheat agriculture, collectivism, individualism, social ecology
Yueran Ma
Carhart Family Professor of Finance · Booth School of Business
empirical studies at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics
AE Stevenson
Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies · Division of the Arts & Humanities
Black feminist studies; Black studies; social media studies; horror; Black women's filmmaking history
AITHA, AKSHAY
Assistant Professor · University of Texas at Austin
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
ASHTON LAZARUS
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aalok Kacha, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care; Associate Professor of Surgery · The University of Chicago
Anesthesia
Aaron Dinner
Professor of Chemistry · The James Franck Institute
Cellular Dynamics, Computational Biology, Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Rare Event Algorithms
Aaron Dinner
Professor of Chemistry · Division of the Biological Sciences
Topics: Cellular Dynamics, Computational Biology, Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Rare Event Algorithms
Aaron Elmore
Associate Professor of Computer Science · University of Chicago
Cloud Computing, Databases, Distributed Systems
Aaron Esser-Kahn
Professor of Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aaron Fox, PhD
Professor of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences
Professor of Neuroscience Institute · Division of the Biological Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aaron Gottlieb
PhD Student · University of Chicago
Criminal Justice Policy, Criminal Legal Change, Criminal Legal Policy, Decarceration, Social Welfare Policy, Social Work, Sociology
Aaron J. Elmore
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science · The College
Building data systems that address the growing data deluge. This includes building a resource-efficent database system (CrocodileDB), new compression techniques for databases (DenseStore and EdgeTSD), bringing git-like functionality to Databases (Datahub, Decible, and OrpheusDB),…
Aaron Jakes
PhD Student · Division of the Social Sciences
modern Middle East and South Asia, global environmental history, and the historical geography of capitalism
Aaron Potechin
Associate Professor of Computer Science · University of Chicago
Complexity Theory; discrete mathematics; computational complexity theory; sum of squares hierarchy; semidefinite programs; combinatorial optimization problems
Aaron S. Chou
CASE Senior Scientist · The University of Chicago
Chou’s research focuses on developing quantum computing and sensing techniques to study fundamental physics. Current topics include 1) detecting axion dark matter using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger multiqubit entangled states; 2) developing superconducting qubit-based signal proce…
Aaron Schein
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science · University of Chicago
Bayesian statistics, causal inference, and machine learning for applied problems in political science, economics, and genetics, among other fields.
Aaron Tugendhaft
Robert Aird Chair of Humanities · Deep Springs College
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aarti Venkat, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine · The University of Chicago
oncology, specifically i) developing bioinformatics and machine learning methods for improving cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and ii) building data meshes, systems that researchers can use to perform federated search and learning
Aashish Clerk
Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering · The University of Chicago
Theoretical Quantum Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Optics, Engineered Quantum Systems, Quantum Information
Abbe Kordik, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology · The University of Chicago
Contraception, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Quality Improvement
Abdul Khan, MD RPVI
Assistant Professor of Radiology · The University of Chicago
Biliary Tract Disease, Cementoplasty, Cholangiocarcinoma, Intrahepatic, Cholelithiasis, Cryoablation, Embolization, Therapeutic, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Knee Osteoarthritis, Kyphoplasty, Liver Cancer, Adult, Neuroendocrine Tumor, Portal Hypertension, Radiofrequency Catheter Abl…
Abdullah Pratt, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abhinav Sidana, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery · The University of Chicago
Kidney Cancer, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Urologic Surgery, MRI Guided Focal Laser Ablation, Prostate Cancer, Urologic Cancers
Abid Khan, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery · The University of Chicago
Critical Care Surgery, Emergency General Surgery
Abigail Vieregg
Professor · Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the College
Prof. Vieregg builds radio and millimeter wave experiments and use them for neutrino astrophysics and cosmology with the cosmic microwave background. Vieregg is the PI of PUEO and RNO-G, which are balloon-borne and ground-based radio detectors for ultra-high energy neutrinos. S…
Abimbola Adelakun
Associate Professor of Global Christianity and the Tandean Rustandy Scholar · Divinity School
History of Christianity, Religion, Literature and Visual Culture, Religions in the Americas, Global Christianity, Religion and Performance, Pentecostalism, Theater and Religion
Abraham Eastman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Adult Psychiatry · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ada Palmer
Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College · University of Chicago
Early modern Europe; the Renaissance, with a focus on Italy; the Reformation; longue-durée intellectual and cultural history; postclassical reception of classical philosophy; Renaissance humanism; history of the book, printing, and reading; censorship and information control espe…
Ada Weinstock, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine · The University of Chicago
Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell, Immunometabolism, Macrophages, Resolution of Inflammation, Weight cycling, Weight Loss
Adam A. Davidson
Assistant Professor of Law · Law School
Criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, the intersection of race and law, reforming or abolishing police, prisons, and the prison industrial complex
Adam Avrushin
Deputy Director · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adam Chilton
Dean, Howard G. Krane Professor of Law · Law School
empirical law and economics
Adam Christopher Martersteck, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Institute · The University of Chicago
Aging, Healthy, Alzheimer Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Biomarkers, Cognitive Aging, Computational Modeling, Patient-Specific, Frontotemporal Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Imaging, Magnetic Resonance, Machine Learning, MRI Scan…
Adam Cifu, MD
Professor of Medicine · The University of Chicago
Chronic Disease Management, Diabetes Prevention, Hypertension
Adam DuVall, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics · Division of the Biological Sciences
Acute Leukemia, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Care, Cancer Predisposition Syndromes, Cellular Therapy, Lymphoma, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant
Adam Fales
Teaching Fellow · Division of the Arts & Humanities
Nineteenth-Century US Fiction, Black Studies, Legal Studies, Histories of Gender and Sexuality, Disciplinary History
Adam Green
Associate Professor of History and the College · Division of the Social Sciences
modern US history; African American history; urban history; comparative racial politics; and cultural economy
Adam Shaw
Senior Instructional Professor of Computer Science · University of Chicago
Databases, Programming Languages
Adam Vohra, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine · The University of Chicago
Cardiac Catheterization, Cardiac CT Angiography, Coronary Artery Disease
Adam Zelizer
Assistant Professor · Harris School of Public Policy
legislative politics, causal inference, how legislators make decisions, expertise acquisition from policy research, influence through deliberation, effects of individual decision-making processes on policy outcomes, legislative processes that lead to more informed, effective, and…
Adekunle Odunsi, MD
AbbVie Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Professor of Medicine; Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics; Dean for Oncology · The University of Chicago
Cervical Cancer, Clinical Trials for Gynecologic Malignancies, Endometrial Cancer, Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia GTN, Gynecologic Cancers, Immunotherapy, Ovarian Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Vaginal Cancer, Vulvar Cancer
Aden Kumler
Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College · The University of Chicago
Western Medieval Art and Architecture
Adena Rosenblatt Hartstein, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pediatrics · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adil Javed, MD PhD
Professor of Neurology · The University of Chicago
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis, CADASIL, Connective Tissue Diseases, Demyelinating Disease, Lupus, MOG Antibody Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis MS, Neuromyelitis Optica NMO, Neurosarcoidosis, Optic neuritis, Sjogrens Syndrome, Transverse myelitis, White Matt…
Aditya Bhandari
· The University of Chicago
Spatial Economics and International Trade
Macroeconomics
Aditya Juloori, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology · Division of the Biological Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adom Getachew
PhD Student · Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
Political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean.
Adom Getachew
Professor; Interim Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity · University of Chicago
History of political thought, International law, Theories of empire and race, Black political thought and post-colonial political theory
Adrian D. S. Johns
Allan Grant Maclear Distinguished Service Professor · Division of the Social Sciences
the history of science; British history; history of intellectual property; and history of the book and other media
Adriana Segura Olson, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine · The University of Chicago
Asynchronous Learning, Curriculum, Emergency Medicine, Graduate Medical Education
Adriana Z. Robertson
Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law · Law School
Her research interests lie at the intersection of law and finance, including securities law, capital markets regulation, corporate finance, and business law.
Adrien Desmoulin
Research Engineer · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adrienne Brown
Professor · The University of Chicago
Critical Race Studies | Cultural Studies | Historicism (Old and New) | African American Literature | Twentieth-Century American Literature | Contemporary Literature | Literature and the Arts | The Novel | Urban Studies
Agnes Callard
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (2025-26) · Division of the Arts & Humanities
Ancient Philosophy and Ethics
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature · The University of Chicago
Nineteenth-century Latin American literatures and Caribbean cultural histories
Agnes Malinowska
Loubat Professor of American Archaeology · Division of the Arts & Humanities
American literature and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on histories of gender and sexuality as they intersect with race and class. Women’s cultural production and feminist political struggle around biological and social reproduction, mot…
Agneska Bloch
Pozen Doctoral Fellow · Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ahmed El Shamsy
Professor of Islamic Thought · The University of Chicago
Intellectual history of Islam, evolution of classical Islamic disciplines and scholarly culture, orality and literacy, history of the book, theory and practice of Islamic law, interplay of Islam with other religious and philosophical traditions.
Ahmed Hamimi, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aidan Kaplan
Assistant Instructional Professor · Division of the Arts & Humanities
linguistic variation in Arabic, Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, translanguaging pedagogy, translation
Aiman Altaqi
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics · The University of Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ainsley LeSure
Associate Teaching Professor · Brown University
political theory with a particular focus on the critical theory of race and racism, phenomenology, democratic theory, and feminist theory