PhD Advisors at University of Pennsylvania 宾夕法尼亚大学 US
Quick answer: University of Pennsylvania in the US has 2802 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 68 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 Pennsylvania, 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 (68)
Professors at University of Pennsylvania with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Ada Maria Kuskowski
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ She is currently seeking graduate advisees. She encourages those interested in pursuing their PhD at Penn History to reach out with a note of introduction to ensure the work they wish to pursue is a good fit.
Her intellectual interests include legal history and culture, law and literature, vernacular writing and translation, court culture, social histories of knowledge, history of the book, conquest and colonial culture.
Adrian Raine
Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Adrian Raine is not presently taking on PhD students.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Neurobiology of antisocial behavior in children and adults
Research Synopsis
I study antisocial behavior from neuroscience, developmental, and social perspectives. My laboratory focus on risk and protective factors for childhood conduct disorder,…
Alan Stocker
Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Alan Stocker will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas
Models of visual perception and decision making; linking theory to psychophysical and physiological data
Research synopsis
"Believing is seeing." - My research interest is to understan…
Alison M. Buttenheim
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Term Endowed Professorship in Global Women's Health; Professor of Nursing and Health Policy, Penn Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine · School of Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? Yes; Accepting Fellows? Yes
How can we use behavioral science to prevent infectious disease? Using insights from behavioral economics and related disciplines, Dr. Buttenheim designs and trials interventions to change behaviors that are central to infectious disease prevention. Her work spans Chagas disease …
Amanda Bettencourt
Assistant Professor · School of Nursing
⭐ Principal Investigator: "The ACTUATE-CBC Study," a mixed methods type II hybrid implementation and effectiveness multi-year research study funded by the Department of Defense. Partnered Research Opportunity: "A health system-partnered implementation research project to improve the sustainability of …
Pediatric acute care, burn care, implementation science, nursing outcomes research, health services research, disaster medicine, evidence-based practice implementation in pediatric hospital settings
Andrew Head
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Prospective Ph.D. applicants: I will not be taking on incoming Ph.D. students in fall 2026.
Penn master's and bachelor's students: If you want to do research with our group, take Penn's class in human-computer interaction—CIS 4120/5120—and then apply to do research with our group here. You may also …
Human-computer interaction · Programming · Reading.
Angela Duckworth
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Angela Duckworth will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Developmental Psychology; Individual Differences; Positive Psychology; Behavior Change
Specific Research Areas
Grit; Self-Control
Professor Angela Duckworth will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Advisees
Benjamin Lira [Postdoc]
Abigail Blyl…
Ann Marie Hoyt-Brennan
Director of Simulation · School of Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? Yes; Accepting Fellows? No
Simulation in nursing education, experiential learning, virtual reality (VR) in healthcare education, opioid overdose training, interdisciplinary simulation, LGBTQ youth health education
Antonio Loquercio
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am recruiting! Please follow the instructions on this page to apply for a PhD. In your application, please make sure to mention my name under faculty you are interested in working with. If you're already at UPenn, please fill this form. We're going to get back to you if we have a project that fits…
Physical intelligence, simulation-to-real-world transfer, end-to-end learning-based methods, agile flight, locomotion, learning from videos, machine learning
Arthur Dunham
Professor of Biology · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently not accepting new graduate students
My research interests are in understanding and predicting the behavior of complex ecological systems. These interests span the interfaces among physiological ecology, evolutionary ecology, and population biology. Currently, my research is focused in four areas:
(1) Developing th…
Ayelet Meron Ruscio
Professor & Director of Clinical Training · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Ayelet Meron Ruscio will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Specific Research Areas
Anxiety and mood disorders–their nature, classification, and comorbidity
Research Synopsis
My research is broadly concerned with the nature, classification, and comorbidity of mental disorders, with a particular focus on…
Ben Z. Stanger
Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Please contact Dr. Stanger directly to discuss potential projects. We currently have NO open postdoctoral positions.
Cellular Plasticity
Pancreatic Cancer
Tumor Immunology
Metastasis
Key words: Pancreatic Cancer, Tumor Immunology, Cell Plasticity
Description of Research
Pancreas Cancer
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is poised to become the second leading cause of cancer death in the …
Benjamin Franklin Voight, Ph.D.
Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ For the 2024-2025 academic year, my lab has openings for computational post-doctoral positions. Please see the following site for further details on how to apply.
The lab also has a number of potential graduate student rotation projects available for the 2024-2025 academic year. Ideal students will …
Our lab develops and utilizes statistical genetics, computational biology, and population genetics-based approaches to understand the biological underpinnings and evolutionary history of human traits and complex disease.
Keywords
Population Genetics, Statistical Genetics, Bioinf…
Brenda Casper
Professor of Biology · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently not accepting new graduate students
Research in my plant ecology lab is wide-ranging, with recent projects focusing, broadly, on the responses of plants and soil microbes to various stresses: including climate change, soil contaminants, and the inhospitable environment of coastal sand dunes. We work at the level o…
Brent Cebul
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Cebul welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in U.S. political history, urban history, political economy, and histories of inequality.
Twentieth-century U.S.; political; urban; business and political economy; race and inequality
Brian C Capell
Assistant Professor of Dermatology · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ If you would be interested in joining our team, please contact us!
Epigenetics at the Nexus of Environment, Cellular Memory, and Epithelial Disease
The Capell Lab studies how epigenetic regulation shapes epithelial tissue responses to the environment. We investigate how environmental exposures, metabolism, and sex chromosome biology influence c…
Charlene W. Compher
Professor of Nutrition Science · School of Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? No; Accepting Fellows? No
An enhanced understanding of the role of diet in health and disease is a compelling challenge of the 21st century. Through her research and clinical practice, Charlene W. Compher works to meet this challenge while enhancing the quality of nutrition care of vulnerable populations …
Chenshu Zhou
Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Zhou will not be admitting new grad students for the 2022-2023 application cycle.
With broad training in film and media studies and Chinese art and cultural history, Dr. Zhou’s research explores a variety of questions related to the moving images, in particular spectatorship, exhibition, and temporality.
Constantinos Koumenis, PhD
Richard H. Chamberlain Professor of Radiation Oncology · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Currently the lab is accepting 2 new rotation students.
KEYWORDS:
Tumor Microenvironment, Tumor Metabolism, Integrated Stress Response, drug screens, radiosensitizers.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Develop novel, more physiologically relevant animal models of incidental radiation damage and employing novel radiation delivery technologies (suc…
Daniel Janzen
Professor of Biology; Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Term Chair · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Currently not accepting new graduate students
Ecology and Biodiversity, Evolution
Daniel Moriarity
Assistant Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Daniel Moriarity will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Precision psychopathology
Psychoneuroimmunology
Methodological reform
Research Synopsis
Dr. Daniel P. Moriarity directs the The Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry (PPDI) Lab at UPenn. This lab conducts research focused on the dynamic interplay between stress, …
Daria V Babushok
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ We are always looking for talented individuals who are passionate about science. There are opportunities to contribute at every level, and we welcome inquiries from undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scientists, and medical students, residents, and fellows. Please contact Daria.Babush…
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The Babushok Lab conducts basic and translational research to understand the fundamental mechanisms by which bone marrow can fail, how bone marrow failure can lead to pre-malignant genetic changes and myelodysplastic syndrome and leukemia, and the relationship…
David Hsu
Richard A. Sapp Professor; Professor of Management · The Wharton School
⭐ Short stay opportunity at Wharton for advanced doctoral or post-doctoral students:
David Hsu recruits year-round for short stay visiting scholars whose research interests are in the domain of entrepreneurship and innovation. The ideal candidate would be self-funded and propose a specific topic of s…
intellectual property rights, start-up innovation, strategies for commercializing technological innovation, venture capital
David Mandell
Professor of Psychiatry · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor David Mandell will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; Developmental Psychology
Research Synopsis
Current projects include:
Autism intervention research network for behavioral health
This proposal will identify barriers and to advance strategies for the deployment of evidence-based interventions…
Deborah Becker
Practice Professor of Nursing · School of Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees?: Yes
Accepting Fellows?: No
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dinesh Jayaraman
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ For prospective PhD students: Formal admissions are processed through the university's various programs. You may send me email too, but please note that I might not be able to respond.
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Douglas Durian
Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are looking for motivated graduate students and postdocs to join our highly-collaborative interdisciplinary research team – please see the following papers/press and contact me for further information.
I’m an experimentalist working on the statistical and nonlinear physics of widely-varied forms of soft matter. Until recently my focus was on particulate systems composed of densely packed colloids, grains, or bubbles. But my primary focus is shifting to a new class of systems …
Eiichiro Azuma
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Azuma is not going to accept new graduate students.
Asian American, Japanese American, Modern Japan, Immigration and Race/Ethnic Relations, Colonial Taiwan and Imperial Pacific
Emily Falk, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication, Psychology, Marketing, and OID (Operations, Information, and Decisions) · University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Professor Emily Falk will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Attitudes & Persuasion, Behavior Change, Climate Communication, Networks, Neuroscience, Public Health, Race & Ethnicity, Social Media, Tobacco & Substance Abuse
Geoffrey Goodwin
Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Geoffrey Goodwin will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Decision Processes; Social and Cultural Psychology
Specific Research Areas
Social cognition, moral psychology, and reasoning
Professor Geoffrey Goodwin will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
George M Burslem, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Currently seeking rotation students and post docs – contact George for details.
Our research is focused on the development of novel chemical approaches to modulate lysine post-translational modifications. This includes both synthetic and protein engineering approaches to understand lysine modifications as well as chemical biology approaches to modulate them …
Hydar Ali, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Mentorship · School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Projects are available for interested undergraduate, dental and graduate students to study mast cell MRGPRX2 and Fc-epsilonRI
Mast cells in host defense and chronic inflammatory diseases. Mast cells are granulated cells of hematopoietic lineage that reside close to blood vessels primarily at sites exposed to the external environment, such as the skin, oral/gastrointestinal mucosa and respiratory tract. …
Jiatao Gu
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am actively recruiting self-motivated PhD students, visiting students, and research interns. Please fill out this interest form.
My research goal is to advance AI agents' ability to interact with the physical world — leveraging generative ML for world modeling, iterative reasoning, and decision-making. I build multi-modal generative models spanning language, images, video, and 3D, targeting systems that ar…
Jing (Jane) Li
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ For Prospective Postdoctoral Researchers (2024-2025, NEW): For the 2024-2025 period, we are specifically interested in postdoctoral candidates with a background in system security and a strong publication record at leading security conferences such as S&P (Oakland), CCS, Security, and NDSS, or at co…
Computer Architecture, Compiler, Distributed Systems, VLSI, Machine Learning, Security
John Trueswell
Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor John Trueswell will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Developmental Psychology
Language and Communication
Memory and Learning
Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas
Word learning, grammar learning, and real-time language comprehension
Research Synopsis
I'm interested in word learning, grammar learning, and real-time langua…
Julia Ticona, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication, Assistant Professor of Sociology, by Courtesy · Annenberg School for Communication
⭐ Not Accepting Students
Big Data, Data Privacy, Digital Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Gig Economy
Kathryn H. Bowles
Professor of Nursing and van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence · School of Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? No; Accepting Fellows? Yes
Throughout her career, Dr. Bowles' research has focused on the use of information technology and health informatics to improve healthcare for at-risk older adults and support healthcare providers' efforts to improve planning and provide transitional care following hospital discha…
Lei Gu
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students to join in Fall 2026. If you’re interested, please apply directly to Penn ESE PhD program. I expect to take on new graduate students in the near future. If you’re interested in working with me at Penn, please apply to the Penn Engineering graduate progr…
Power electronics, energy conversion, and medical devices. Our focus is on creating efficient, compact systems that power exciting technologies, including renewable energy platforms, AI hardware, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines, semiconductor processing tools, robotics,…
Li Shen
Professor · University of Pennsylvania
⭐ We may have opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, and for postdoctoral researchers, subject to funding availability. If you are interested, please email li.shen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu for additional information.
machine learning, medical image computing, biomedical and health informatics, trustworthy AI, NLP/LLMs, network science, imaging genomics, and multi-omics and systems biology, with applications to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and other complex disorders. We fo…
Lingjie Liu
Aravind K. Joshi Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ There are multiple open research positions in my Lab. Topics of interest include: 1. Neural Representations and Rendering for 3D/4D Reconstruction 2. Physics-Grounded 3D/4D Reconstruction 3. 3D/Video World Simulator 4. Physics-based Human Motion Generation 5. Humanoid Robots and Dexterous Hands 6. O…
Neural Scene Representations, Neural Rendering, Human Performance Modeling and Capture, 3D Reconstruction
Loretta Flanagan-Cato
Associate Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Loretta Flanagan-Cato will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Community engagement and education outcomes
Specific Research Areas
Neuroscience outreach; social connection and achievement
Professor Loretta Flanagan-Cato will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Lorin M. Hitt
Zhang Jindong Professor; Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions · The Wharton School
⭐ I am not currently taking on post-docs, research assistants or students who are not already in the Wharton program and do not respond to such requests (sorry). If you are interested in becoming a Wharton Ph.D student please apply through the Ph.D. Program.
applied econometrics, economics of electronic commerce, information systems and organization, information technology and productivity, intangible assets
Maria Geffen
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Neuroscience and Neurology · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Maria Geffen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.
Professor Maria Geffen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Dr. Maria Geffen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.
Dr. Geffen is a leader in the field of auditory neuroscience. She is interested in the way the brain encodes information about the world and how our perception is shaped by our emotional stat…
Martin Seligman
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Martin Seligman will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Positive Psychology; Prospection; Imagination; Big Data; Well Being; Agency; Coaching
Specific Research Areas
Positive Psychology, optimism, learned helplessness, depression, creativity, and agency
Research Synopsis
Positive Psychology, optimism, learned helplessness, and depre…
Matthew D. Nelson
Professor of Biology, John J. Meehan, M.D., Pathways to Medical Professions Director and Health Professions Advising Committee Co-Director
⭐ The Nelson lab is looking for students who are excited about studying the genetics and neurobiology of sleep. Students are encouraged to directly contact Dr. Nelson for more information.
Every animal on earth sleeps or displays quiescent behaviors that resemble sleep. Humans spend greater than a third of their lives asleep but, amazingly, fundamental questions about sleep remain unanswered including: What is its function? And; How is it regulated at a molecular a…
Matthew R. Hayes
Albert J. Stunkard Professor in Psychiatry, Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Neuroscience Research, Director, Molecular and Neural Basis of Psychiatric Disease Section, Dept. of Psychiatry, Director of the Obesity Unit, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism (IDOM), University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Professor Matthew R. Hayes will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Neuroendocrine systems that regulate energy balance; neural, behavioral, cellular, molecular, and physiological mechanisms by which hormones such as GLP-1, amylin, GIP, PYY, and leptin regulate food intake and body weight through action in the caudal brainstem and mesolimbic rewa…
Meena Jagadeesan
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ Prospective PhD students: please apply to the Penn CIS PhD program and list my name there. Unfortunately, I don't have the capacity to respond to individual inquiries outside of the formal application process.
Prospective postdocs: if you are interested in working with me, please email me with a br…
I study machine learning ecosystems where ML models (such as LLMs) interact with other ML models, humans, and model-providers. I aim to steer how multi-agent interactions shape safety, performance, and society. For example, we investigate scaling laws under competition, feedback …
Michael C. Abt
Assistant Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ The Abt lab is actively recruiting graduate students to join the lab. If you are interested in discussing rotation projects, visit https://abtlab.med.upenn.edu/ or send an email to michael.abt@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Investigating Immune-Microbiome Interactions
The goals of the Abt lab are to examine interactions between the microbiota and the immune system in the context of infectious disease. The microbiome, consisting of bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa, can modulate immune defense …
Michela Locci
Associate Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ We are accepting applications for highly motivated undergraduate/graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Individuals with a strong background in cellular/molecular immunology or bioinformatics are encouraged to apply by submitting a CV and a cover letter by email (michela.locci@pennmedicine.upen…
The production of antibodies (Abs) with high affinity and pathogen neutralization potential is crucial for preventing and fighting pathogen infection. To produce such Abs, naïve B cells are activated in response to cognate antigen and subsequently undergo rounds of somatic hyperm…
Monica Calkins
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ ***Professor Monica Calkins will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.***
Dr. Calkins is Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Her research program focuses on the clinical characterization and treatment of psychopathology, especially psychotic disorders, and the evaluation of biobehavioral …
Nacho Sanguinetti
Assistant Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Nacho Sanguinetti will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Cognitive Neuroethology Lab
Play Behavior
Wild Cognition
Cognitive Neuroethology Lab
We are interested in uncovering new biology underlying “adaptive cognitive processes”, as in adaptive, species-typical cognitive processes of wild animals in their natural habitat. While societ…
Nat Trask
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ We are looking for creative and mathematically-inclined PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings)!
Machine learning methods grounded in the structure of physics and geometry; combining tools from geometric mechanics, exterior calculus, and variational modeling with modern AI architectures to create interpretable and reliable models for complex physical systems in high-conseque…
P. Jeremy Wang
Professor of Developmental Biology · School of Veterinary Medicine
⭐ For rotation projects and postdoctoral positions, please contact Jeremy Wang.
Epigenetics in reproduction, spermatogonial stem cell self-renewal, silencing of transposable elements, piRNA biogenesis, m6A RNA modification, regulation of meiosis, DNA recombination, chromosome segregation, DNA double-strand break repair, chromosome synapsis, male infertility …
Pamela Z. Cacchione
Professor of Geropsychiatric Nursing · School of Nursing
⭐ Accepting Mentees? Yes; Accepting Fellows? Yes
Geropsychiatric Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Vision and hearing interventions for older adults, Sensory enhancement, Mental health of older adults, Ageism and stigma, Health policy for dual eligible population, Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), Managed Lo…
Peter Holquist
Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Holquist works with graduate students in the fields of Russian history, Soviet history, and the history of modern Europe. Applicants to the graduate program in any of these sub-fields are encouraged to contact Prof. Holquist via email (see above) before the application deadline. If you are having a…
Russian and European History
Philip Gehrman
Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Professor Philip Gehrman will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Dr. Gehrman's research is focused on insomnia, and other sleep disorders, in the context of mental health conditions. He uses a variety of research approaches to understand how sleep and mental health are intertwined including laboratory and ambulatory sleep assessment, genetics …
Rebecca Waller
Associate Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Waller will likely be recruiting for the 2025/2026 academic year.
For prospective PhD students applying Fall 2024 for admission in 2025/2026: Dr. Waller is waiting on the outcomes of several pending grant submissions. Please check back in mid-October for an update. Either way, we are prioritizi…
Developmental Psychology; Developmental Psychopathology; Clinical Psychology; Developmental Neuroscience
Specific Research Areas
Antisocial behavior; Callous-unemotional traits; Empathy and conscience; Parent-child interactions; Imaging gene-by-environment models of psychopathol…
Robert DeRubeis
Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Robert DeRubeis is no longer accepting new graduate students.
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Specific Research Areas
Causes and treatments of mood disorders
Research Synopsis
In my lab we focus on the processes and outcomes of treatments for depression with the goal of understanding the mechanisms of effective treatments and improving …
Robert M. Radway
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am actively recruiting Ph.D. students to join my lab at UPenn for the 2025-2026 academic year. Please submit a formal application to the doctoral program, listing me as a potential supervisor. In additon, feel free to contact me via email with your CV, transcript, and a brief description of your r…
My research interests are in scaling system architectures via multiple multiplicative improvements:
- Technology-optimized architectures for artificial inteligence / machine learning, augmented & virtual reality, and the internet of things
- Heterogeneous 2.5D, 3D, and monolithi…
Russell Epstein
Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Professor Russell Epstein will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Behavioral Neuroscience; Cognitive Neuroscience; Memory and Learning; Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas
Neural mechanisms underlying high-level vision and spatial navigation.
Research Synopsis
My lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying visual scene perceptio…
Scott Hensley
Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Enthusiastic undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral fellows should email hensley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu if you are interested in joining the lab.
Research Interests
-influenza virus
-H5N1
-SARS-CoV-2
-antibodies
-antigenic drift
Key words: Influenza virus, H5N1, SARS-CoV-2, antigenic drift, viral pathogenesis, viral receptors, antibody specificity, vaccines
Description of Research
Seasonal influenza viruses pose a major…
Sudeep Bhatia
Associate Professor of Psychology and Marketing · The Wharton School
⭐ Professor Sudeep Bhatia will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Judgment and Decision Making, Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Cognition
Sunny Shin
Professor of Microbiology · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Prospective students and postdocs are encouraged to contact Dr. Shin to learn more about our research.
My lab is interested in uncovering innate immune mechanisms used by the host to defend itself against bacterial pathogens and how bacterial pathogens evade host immunity to cause disease.
We study innate immunity and host:pathogen interactions using a variety of gram-negative b…
Tyler Bonnen
Assistant Professor with July 1, 2026 Start · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Asssistant Professor Tyler Bonnen will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Memory and Learning; Sensation and Perception; Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Specific Research Areas
Computational models of perception and memory; Neuro-AI
Research Synopsis
Perception and memory are interlocking cognitive functions, yet they are often studied in isol…
Vincent Liu
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I am actively looking for motivated, passionate PhD students! If you are interested, please apply here.
distributed systems and networking, including orchestrating increasingly complex ML systems, making serverless computing correct and efficient, scalable simulation for large-scale AI clusters, exploiting programmability for zero-waste networks
Walter R. Witschey, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology · Perelman School of Medicine
⭐ Dr. Witschey is recruiting postdoctoral fellows, PhD and MS candidates in Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science to work on cutting-edge AI and imaging research.
Dr. Walter Witschey is Associate Professor of Radiology, Associate Vice Chair of Research IT, and Director of the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. His core research focus is cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), imaging technologies and a…
William Sturkey
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Associate Professor of American History · School of Arts and Sciences
⭐ Dr. Sturkey is currently seeking graduate advisees in African American and Southern History. While he cannot interview all prospective applicants before they submit their applications, Dr. Sturkey encourages those interested in pursuing their PhD at Penn History to e-mail with a note of introduction…
history of race in the American South since 1865; social, economic, diplomatic, and narrative history; experiences of working-class racial minorities; Modern American History; African American History; Southern History; Historical research methods and writing
Yuxin Chen
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
⭐ I'm looking for highly motivated postdocs and Ph. D. students with strong mathematical background and interest in machine learning theory (particularly diffusion models, LLM, and RL), statistics, and optimization.
machine learning theory (particularly diffusion models, LLM, and RL), statistics, and optimization
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A. Brooks Bowden
Associate Professor · University of Pennsylvania
Economic evaluation, Cost-effectiveness analysis, Designing field trials, Comprehensive support for students, Leveraging external educational resources
A. Craig MacKinlay
Joseph P. Wargrove Professor of Finance · The Wharton School
asset pricing models, behavior of futures prices, econometric modeling, market microstructure, mutual fund performance., stock market behavior
A.T. Charlie Johnson
Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
Transport phenomena (charge, energy, and spin) in nanoscale systems, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and hybrid nano-structures based on these materials conjugated with proteins, synthetic peptides, and DNA.
Aalim M. Weljie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics · Perelman School of Medicine
The Weljie Lab is at the forefront of understanding systems level changes in metabolism in a translational medicine context, particularly related to sleep and circadian rhythms. We are in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics within the Perelman Sc…
Aaron E Chen
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) · Perelman School of Medicine
MRSA skin and soft-tissue infections; emergency bedside / point-of-care ultrasound
Aaron J. Chalfin
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of Criminology · University of Pennsylvania
Chalfin’s current research focuses on the costs and benefits of policing, the preferences of police officers, place-based crime prevention and the determinants of crime victimization. He is also interested in the advancement of social science research methods and have written on top…
Aaron Richterman
Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease; Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy · Perelman School of Medicine
He uses multiple research methodologies to evaluate the relationships between poverty, food security, and individual and population health outcomes (in particular those related to infectious diseases). He is interested in both non-experimental approaches to assessing the effects …
Aaron Roth
Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer & Cognitive Science · School of Engineering and Applied Science
algorithms and machine learning, private data analysis, fairness in machine learning, game theory and mechanism design, learning theory
Aaron Wunsch
Associate Professor · Stuart Weitzman School of Design
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abass Alavi
Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abby E. Alpert
Associate Professor of Health Care Management · The Wharton School
health economics, public economics, pharmaceutical policy, applied econometrics
Abby Reisman
Associate Professor of Teacher Education · Graduate School of Education
Dr. Reisman’s research centers on the challenges of teaching document-based historical inquiry. Her scholarship investigates the design and implementation of curriculum materials, assessments of student learning, teacher education, and professional development experiences that su…
Abdulhamit Arvas
Assistant Professor of English · School of Arts and Sciences
Early Modern Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone, Comparative Race and Empire Studies, Critical Theory, Drama and Theatre, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Visual Culture
Abdulhamit Arvas
Assistant Professor
Abdulhamit Arvas is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, with affiliations in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, the Middle East Center, Theater Arts, and Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His re…
Abdulhamit Arvas
Assistant Professor of English · School of Arts and Sciences
Early Modern Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone, Comparative Race and Empire Studies, Critical Theory, Drama and Theatre, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Visual Culture
Abia Abia
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abigail Peterson, DMD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Community Oral Health · School of Dental Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abigail Schmucker, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine · Perelman School of Medicine
geriatric medicine, medical education, research, QI/patient safety
Abike T. James
Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology · Perelman School of Medicine
Community Engagement, Health Equity
Abraham Nitzan
Donner Professor of Physical Sciences, Professor of Chemistry · School of Arts and Sciences
Research in my group focuses on theoretical aspects of chemical dynamics, the branch of chemistry that describes the nature of physical and chemical processes that underline the progress of chemical reactions with the aim to achieve understanding of such processes and the ability…
Adam Grant
The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management; Professor of Psychology · School of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adam Grant
The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management, Professor of Psychology · University of Pennsylvania
Adam Grant is the Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and a Professor of Psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An organizational psychologist, his research and writing focus on work, motivation, and how people think and grow, topics he also exp…
Adam J. Waxman
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) · Perelman School of Medicine
Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis Clinical Trials
Adam Lidz
Associate Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
I work in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology. I am interested in the formation and evolution of large scale structure, i.e., in understanding how the Universe evolves from a smooth, simple initial state to its present day complexity with galaxies, galaxy clusters, and other s…
Adelheid Voskuhl
Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science · School of Arts and Sciences
Early Modern and European Enlightenment, technocracy, philosophy, technology
Adelheid Voskuhl
Associate Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Central Europe, US, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, Long Eighteenth Century, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Psychoanalysis, …
Adelheid Voskuhl
Associate Professor, History & Sociology of Science · School of Arts and Sciences
Heidi Voskuhl's research field comprises the history of technology from the early modern to the modern period. Her broader interests include the philosophy of technology, the history of the Enlightenment, and modern European intellectual and cultural history.
Adeline Vanderver, MD
Professor of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine
Leukodystrophy
Adi Hirshberg, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology · Perelman School of Medicine
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Mobile health technology
Postpartum care
Aditi Vasan
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics · University of Pennsylvania
improving the health and social service systems serving children and families living in poverty; reducing administrative burdens to improve families’ access to economic support programs, including WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid; implementing and evaluating health system-based interventi…
Adrian Popescu, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adriana Petryna
Francis E. Johnston Endowed Term Professor; Graduate Chair, Anthropology; Director, MD-PhD Program in Anthropology (Penn Medical Scientist Training Program) · School of Arts and Sciences
Biology, Culture and Disease; Complex Societies and Social Organization; Environment and Society; Material Cultures; Social Change; State Power and Political Transformation; STS and Cultures of Expertise; Technology
Adriana Petryna
Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology · School of Arts and Sciences
Anthropological studies in the U.S., Europe, and Brazil, focusing on the socio-political nature of science, how populations are enrolled in experimental knowledge-production, and what becomes of citizenship and ethics in the process. Her concepts have advanced the social scientif…
Adrianna (Anna) Jenkins
Associate Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
Cognitive Neuroscience; Social Cognition; Decision Processes
Specific Research Areas
Social cognition and its relationship to other cognitive systems; contributions of the prefrontal cortex to social and non-social decision-making; psychological and neural mechanisms of uncerta…
Adva Buzi, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ahmed Al-Ogaili
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aimin Chen
Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aisha Shaikh
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension) · Perelman School of Medicine
Dr. Shaikh's research focuses on understanding and managing kidney complications in patients with cancer and those receiving cancer therapies. Dr. Shaikh is a member of the American Society of OncoNephrology Research Committee. She is a Councilor of the American Society of Diagno…
Aislinn Bohren
Associate Professor of Economics · School of Arts and Sciences
models of information and how individuals interact in dynamic settings; learning under model misspecification; discrimination; information aggregation; moral hazard; econometrics of randomized experiments; designing rating systems; information campaigns and committees; providing …
Akhilesh Basi Reddy
Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics · Perelman School of Medicine
Circadian clocks, Sleep, Metabolism, Neural circuits, Deep Learning, Machine Intelligence, Digital Biology, Programmable Biology, Large language models (LLMs), AI safety
Al Filreis
Professor of English · University of Pennsylvania
Al Filreis is the Kelly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. His work includes co-founding PennSound and publishing the online j…
Ala Stanford
Professor of the Practice of Biology · School of Arts and Sciences
Equitable health care, environmental factors that impact health outcomes, bias in health care delivery that exacerbates health disparities and intersection of biology and health equity.
Alain F. Plante
Professor, Faculty Director, University Scholars Program · School of Arts and Sciences
My research interests lie in the field of terrestrial carbon biogeochemistry. I am interested in the mechanisms and process that act to stabilize and de-stabilize organic carbon in surface soils, and the links between the soil carbon balance and the broader global carbon cycle.
Alain Plante
Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Science · University of Pennsylvania
organic matter cycling and storage in soils, biological, chemical and physical methods to characterize soil organic matter, predicting its behavior in the global carbon cycle
Alan Strudler
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and of Philosophy · School of Arts and Sciences
Ethics
Corporate responsibility
Alden Young
Faculty · School of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alejandro Ribeiro
Solomon and Sylvia G. Charp Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering · School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aleksandra Vojvodic
Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alessandra Ilaria Cardi
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alessandro Dovis
Associate Professor of Economics · School of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alessia Cordella
Assistant Professor, Small Animal Diagnostic Imaging (CE) Radiology · School of Veterinary Medicine
Radiology, Computed Tomography, Ultrasonography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Alex J. Hughes
Associate Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alex Moshkin
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Koc University, Istanbul · School of Arts and Sciences
20C Russian Literature, Diaspora and Transnationalism, World Literature, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Visual Culture, Translation, Memoirs and Memory, Jewish Studies and Israel Studies.
Alex Posecznick
Associate Faculty Member · Graduate School of Education
Dr. Posecznick’s research interests lie at the intersection of cultural anthropology, qualitative methods, and higher education. His work explores the organizational culture, policy, and practice of educational institutions, with a focus on legitimacy, merit, gatekeeping, and equ…
Alex Rees-Jones
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy · The Wharton School
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alex Weisiger
Associate Professor · School of Arts and Sciences
International politics, political decisions relating to the use of force, causes of war and peace, war termination and peacebuilding after conflict, international relations theory, game theory
Alexa J Watach
Assistant Professor of Nursing at Penn Medicine Sleep Medicine · School of Nursing
Dr. Watach is a nurse researcher and implementation scientist with a program of research focused on accelerating the translation of evidence to practice in sleep medicine. Her work prioritizes stakeholder engagement and collaborative approaches to bridge gaps between researchers …
Alexander J. Brucker, MD
Founder's Professor in Retinal and Vitreous Diseases in Ophthalmology · Perelman School of Medicine
Dr. Brucker's research focuses on 3 main areas: Age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other retinal, vitreous and retinovascular diseases. He is presently the Principal Investigator in multiple clinical trials in age-related macular degeneration, diabetes, a…
Alexander M Tucker
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexander Olssen
Assistant Professor of Health Care Management · The Wharton School
Health economics, industrial organization, applied econometrics, drug pricing
Alexander Proekt
Robert Dunning Dripps Professor in Anesthesia II · Perelman School of Medicine
Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience
Alexandra Lee Strauss
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Gastroenterology) · Perelman School of Medicine
Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Barrett's esophagus, Esophageal Lichen Planus
Alexandra V. Crooks
Assistant Professor, Small Animal Cardiology (CE) · School of Veterinary Medicine
Heart failure management, arrhythmia diagnosis and treatment
Alexandra Weiss, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Gastroenterology) · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexandre Arkader, MD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Perelman School of Medicine
Limb-sparing surgery for children with bone and soft-tissue malignancies
Quality of life in children with bone and soft-tissue malignancies
Complex pediatric orthopaedic trauma
Skeletal/ angular deformities associated with congenital abnormalities
Alexis Ogdie, MD, MSCE
Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine
Psoriatic Arthritis, Axial Spondyloarthritis, Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology
Alfred Bennett Harbage
Full Professor, 1942-1947 · School of Arts and Sciences
Alfred Bennett Harbage was an American Shakespeare scholar and professor of English, notably serving as a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1942 to 1947 and later teaching at Columbia and Harvard. His research focused on Shakespearean studies and Elizabethan d…
Ali A. Zaidi
Professor of Practice · School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ali Jadbabaie
Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Core faculty, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, JR East Professor of Engineering · School of Arts and Sciences
Ali Jadbabaie is the Head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the JR East Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is also core faculty in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. His research interests span …
Ali Karjoo-Ravary
Richard W. Bulliet Assistant Professor of Islamic History, Columbia University · School of Arts and Sciences
Islamic Studies, Social History, Sufism.
Ali Rahim
Professor of Architecture · Stuart Weitzman School of Design
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ali Yazdanyar, DO, PhD, MMM, MS
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine · Perelman School of Medicine
clinical research and patient safety and quality improvements
Alice Marya Abernathy
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine
Preconception counseling, sexual and reproductive health, contraception
Health policy
Health Services Research
Causal inference
Geospatial analysis
Alice S. Chen-Plotkin
Parker Family Professor of Neurology · Perelman School of Medicine
The over-arching goal of our research is to better understand the mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease in order to intervene in these disease processes.
Our general approach is to use unbiased genomic- or proteomic-scale screens in human-derived materials to generate leads, w…
Alice Xu
Assistant Professor, School of Social Practice and Policy · School of Arts and Sciences
comparative political economy of development with a focus on urban and distributive politics, inequality and social policy, and environmental politics in the Global South
Alicia E. Long, DVM, DACVIM, DACVECC
Assistant Professor of Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care, (CE) · School of Veterinary Medicine
The equine fecal microbiota and its relationship to colic
Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) in equine patients
Alicia Risner-Bauman
Associate Professor of Clinical Oral Medicine, Associate Professor of Clinical Restorative Dentistry · School of Dental Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aline Gatignon
Assistant Professor of Management · School of Arts and Sciences
Cross-sector Partnerships, Emerging Markets, Cooperative Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, Non-market Strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Multi-level Theory
Alison Pouch
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aliza Simeone
Assistant Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (AC) · School of Veterinary Medicine
Advances in identification of Equine Herpes Virus infections and management of outbreaks; mitigation strategies for zoonotic disease risks, especially related to Rabies Virus; the efficacy of various specific biosecurity precautions in the face of infectious disease challenges.
Alkistis Elliot-Graves
Pathologist-in-Chief, Providence VA Medical Center,Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,Clinician Educator · School of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy of Science (Concepts and Methodology in Modeling, Target Systems, Ecology)
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Allan G. Chester
Felix E. Schelling Professor of English Literature · School of Arts and Sciences
Allan G. Chester was the Felix E. Schelling Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focused on English literature, with published works including a biography of Hugh Latimer and a study of the poet and playwright Thomas May. He also served …
Allan I. Pack
John Miclot Professor · Perelman School of Medicine
Dr. Pack is pursuing research on genetics/genomics of sleep and its disorders. His laboratory is conducting studies in Drosophila and mice and translating these findings to humans. A particular focus of Dr. Pack’s work is to evaluate the genetic determinants of sleep homeostasis.…
Allen Yang, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Allison K. Hoffman
William Maul Measey Professor of Law and Health Sciences · Penn Carey Law
Administrative, Regulatory, and Compliance Law; Health Law; Torts, Restitution, and Insurance Law
Allyson Mackey
Assistant Professor of Psychology · University of Pennsylvania
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aloisio P. Araujo
Professor of the IMPA - Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics Brazilian Ministry for Science & Technology, MCT · School of Arts and Sciences
Aloisio P. Araujo is a Professor at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), part of the Brazilian Ministry for Science & Technology (MCT), and is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include economic theory, particularly focusing on…
Alon Bergman
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor of Health Care Management · The Wharton School
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alonso Carrasco-Labra, D.D.S., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Professor · School of Dental Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alp Sungu
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions · The Wharton School
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alycia K. Frampton
Assistant Professor of Large Animal Anesthesia · School of Veterinary Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alyssa Ammazzalorso, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases) · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alyssa R. Rosen, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology · Perelman School of Medicine
Epilepsy, Autism
Amalia Z. Dache
Assistant Professor, Higher Education Division · School of Arts and Sciences
Postcolonial studies, Community and student resistance, Urban geography, College access, AfroLatina/o/x studies
Amalia Z. Daché
Associate Professor of Higher Education · Graduate School of Education
Postcolonial studies, Community and student resistance, Urban geography, College access, AfroLatina/o/x studies
Amanda Albrecht, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine · Perelman School of Medicine
medical education with a focus in clinical reasoning, and quality improvement with a focus in patient safety and operations
Amanda Finegold Swain
Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health · Perelman School of Medicine
Medical Humanities, Narrative Medicine
Amanda Shanor
Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics · The Wharton School
Amanda Shanor is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, particularly the intersection of the First Amendment and economic life, as well as freedom of speec…
Amb. Andrea Canepari, LL.M.
Professor of Practice · Penn State School of International Affairs
public and cultural diplomacy with a focus on diaspora, subnational and food diplomacy
Amber R. Reed
Assistant Professor at Spelman College · School of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Americus Reed
The Whitney M. Young Jr. Professor, Professor of Marketing · The Wharton School
how social identity, social influence, values, attitudes and judgments interact in shaping purchase decisions and consumer behavior.
Amish J. Patel
Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amita Mohan
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies · School of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ammie M. White
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology · Perelman School of Medicine
General Pediatric Radiology; Special interest in the areas of Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiothoracic and Pediatric Pulmonary Imaging; Quality and Safety
Amol Navathe
Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine; Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School · The Wharton School
Health equity, provider payment, clinician behavior, behavioral economics, payment model design and evaluation, bundled payments, value-based care, financial and non-financial incentive design, performance feedback, predictive analytics
Amol S. Navathe
Professor, Health Policy and Medicine · University of Pennsylvania
Payment model design and evaluation, bundled payments, value based care and payment models, financial and non-financial incentive design, behavioral economics, clinician practice change, pragmatic clinical trials, observational data analyses, primary care payment and specialty bu…
Amy Beth Castro, PhD
Associate Professor · School of Social Policy and Practice
Economic mobility
Guaranteed income
Innovation
How social policies produce gender and race disparities in housing and lending
Amy C. Durham
Professor, Anatomic Pathology (CE) · School of Veterinary Medicine
Oncologic pathology with a particular interest in lymphoma and employing the World Health Organization classification system for lymphoid neoplasms in domestic animals. One goal of the research is to identify certain subtypes of lymphomas and correlate these subtypes to clinical …
Amy C. Offner
Associate Professor of History · School of Arts and Sciences
Twentieth-century US and Latin America, transnational history, capitalism and political economy, empire and foreign relations
Amy Forrestel, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amy Gutmann
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication · School of Arts and Sciences
democracy and education; deliberation, compromise, diplomacy, and their critics; bioethics and access to health care; identity politics; ethics in public affairs
Amy Gutmann
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication · School of Arts and Sciences
Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Education
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication · University of Pennsylvania
Politics & Elections, Political Communication
Amy J. Behrman
Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amy Kaplan
Edward Kane Professor of English · School of Arts and Sciences
American literary and cultural studies, culture of US imperialism
Amy L. Johnson, DVM, DACVIM (LAIM & Neurology)
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Equine Medicine (CE); Professor of Medicine and Neurology · School of Veterinary Medicine
Botulism, Neurology, Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM). Lyme neuroborreliosis
Amy M. Sawyer
Professor of Sleep & Health Behavior · School of Nursing
Dr. Sawyer’s research focuses on health behaviors relative to sleep disorders. This line of inquiry emerged from her long-standing clinical practice in sleep medicine, where Dr. Sawyer became acutely aware of patients’ reluctance to use sleep-disordered breathing (i.e., obstructi…
Amy Sepinwall
Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics · The Wharton School
corporate constitutional rights, gender and racial justice, individual and collective responsibility for corporate and financial wrongdoing, law and religion
Amy Stornaiuolo
Professor of Literacy Education · Graduate School of Education
Dr. Stornaiuolo’s research focuses on people’s digital literacy practices, especially how digital technologies support cross-cultural learning opportunities. Interested in literacy’s mobile dimensions, she studies the shifting relationships between authors and audiences online an…
Amy W. Huber
Assistant Professor of Finance · The Wharton School
Financial intermediation. Asset pricing. International finance. Macro-finance.
Amy Waldman
Assistant Professor of Neurology · Perelman School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amy Wax
Professor of Law · Penn Carey Law
Civil Litigation: Practice and Procedure, Employment and Labor Law, Family Law and Child Advocacy
Amy Wrzesniewski
William and Jacalyn Egan Professor; Professor of Management · The Wharton School
The experience and meaning of work; Creation of meaning in challenging organizational and occupational contexts; The valuing and devaluing of work
Ana C. Castejon Gonzalez, DVM, PhD, DAVDC, DEVDC
Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry and Oral Surgery (CE) · School of Veterinary Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ana Gisele Ozaki
Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architectural History · School of Arts and Sciences
Ana Ozaki's research investigates the complex ways racial ideologies have interfered with architectural understandings of climate and the environment within the African diaspora, mainly within the Black Atlantic. Centered on Brazil's construction of an architectural ideal for the…
Anastassia Amaro, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism) · Perelman School of Medicine
Evaluation and medical treatment of patients with obesity and its complications. Novel therapies for treating obesity. Pre-and post-bariatric surgery care. Medical treatment of Diabetes Mellitus. Continuous glucose monitors. Continuous insulin infusion devices (insulin pumps). Hy…
Anderson Ye Zhang
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science · The Wharton School
Group Synchronization, Spectral Analysis, Ranking from Pairwise Comparisons, Clustering and Mixture Models, Network Analysis, Mean Field Variational Inference
Andre DeHon
Boileau Professor of Electrical Engineering · School of Engineering and Applied Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andre Scedrov
Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science
logic, cybersecurity, information assurance, information privacy, computer security and privacy, cryptographic protocols, formal methods, formal grammar, logical aspects of linguistic structure.
Andrea Goulet
Professor of French and Francophone Studies · School of Arts and Sciences
19th-21st-century French novel; science and literature; visual studies; spatial theory; urbanism; popular crime fiction and the detective novel; literatures of the anthropocene
Andrea Goulet
Professor of Romance Languages · School of Arts and Sciences
Andrea Goulet is a professor and graduate chair of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests center on nineteenth-century French literature, with a focus on detective fiction and…
Andrea Goulet
Professor of French and Francophone Studies · School of Arts and Sciences
19th- and 20th-century French fiction; science and literature; spatial theory; urbanism; popular crime fiction; the nouveau roman; Optiques: the Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction (2006); Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Space and Science in French Crime Fiction…
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