PhD Advisors at Washington University in St. Louis 圣路易斯华盛顿大学
Research-focused faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, 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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AJ Jones
Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology Assistant Director of Anthropology's Medicine and Society Program Director of the Experiential Ethnography Studio · Arts & Sciences
Medical and psychological anthropology, disability studies, feminist and queer theory, experimental and multimodal ethnography, subjectivity, care, performance, bioethics, anthropology of the U.S.
Aaron Ammerman
DBBS Graduate Research Assistant · WashU Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aaron Bobick
Senior Research Associate · McKelvey School of Engineering
Studies how robots can more efficiently interact with objects
Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD
Alan A and Edith L Wolff Professor of Developmental Biology · WashU Medicine
Our laboratory investigates molecular mechanisms that control the structure and function of neural circuits in health and disease. We combine genetic, molecular, neuroanatomical, and bioinformatic analyses to identify pathways that promote the maintenance of axons and synapses in…
Aaron F. Struck, MD
· WashU Medicine
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Aaron J. Lacy, MD, MHPE
Assistant Residency Program Director; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine · WashU Medicine
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Aaron N. Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor of Developmental Biology · WashU Medicine
Muscle development, regeneration, and disease
Aaron Norris, MD, PhD
Residency Program Director for Research and Scholarship; Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology; Neuroanesthesia Fellow (2016-17) · WashU Medicine
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Aaron Russell, MD
Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology; Assistant Professor, Medicine (Dermatology); Program Director, Dermatopathology Fellowship · WashU Medicine
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Aaron Wille, MD
PhD Candidate · WashU Medicine
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Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSCI
Arthur W. Stickle Distinguished Professor and Chair, John F. Hardesty, MD Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences · WashU Medicine
Artificial intelligence
Aayushi Uberoi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology · WashU Medicine
The skin provides the first line of defense for all vertebrates. An effective skin barrier is essential to life and protects the underlying organs from dehydration, inflammation, environmental exposure, and infections. The skin houses the skin microbiome which is unique and disti…
Abbey Huelsmann
Physician Assistant · WashU Medicine
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Abby Bisch
CRNA Mentorship Co-Director · WashU Medicine
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Abby Hughes-Strange, CRNA
PWH Lead CRNA
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Abby M. Green, MD
· WashU Medicine
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Abdallah El-Thaileb (Eteleeb)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · WashU Medicine
My research interests lie in the field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. More specifically, I am interested in the development of computational algorithms and machines learning approaches to integrate and interpret multiple large-scale modalities of "omics" data to bet…
Abhi Iyer
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · WashU Medicine
Neurodegeneration, Neuroimmunology, microglia, astrocytes
Abhinav Jha
Associate Professor · McKelvey School of Engineering
Develops computational-imaging methods for diagnosing and treating diseases
Abram Van Engen
Chair of the Department of English, Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Professor of Religion and Politics (by courtesy), Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities · Arts & Sciences
Early American Literature, Religion and Literature, History of Emotions, Intellectual History, Puritanism, Collective Memory, American Exceptionalism
Adam Hogan
Assistant Professor of Art and Head of Experimental Media Arts · [Non-WashU] University of Arkansas
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Adam Kepecs
Rita Levi-Montalcini Professor of Biomedical Sciences · WashU Medicine
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Adam L. Booth, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology and Immunology · WashU Medicine
Serrated polyps of the colon
Gastroesophageal neoplasia
Gastrointestinal post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders
Artificial intelligence and digital pathology
Patient-pathologist consultation
Adam T. Eggebrecht, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology · WashU Medicine
novel brain function hardware, analysis pipelines and algorithms
Adeel S. Khan, MD, MPH, FACS
PhD Student · WashU Medicine
Improving outcomes in hepatobiliary and transplant surgery
Social economic and racial disparities in organ transplantation
Adetunji T. Toriola, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery · WashU Medicine
Dr. Toriola's research focuses on characterizing the molecular basis and determinants of mammographic breast density and breast cancer in order to identify those that can be targeted in breast cancer prevention, especially in premenopausal women. In addition, he performs molecula…
Adia Harvey Wingfield
Assistant Vice Provost
Professor of Sociology · Arts & Sciences
Professor Wingfield specializes in research that examines the ways intersections of race, gender, and class affect social processes at work.
Aggie Toppins
Associate Professor · Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
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Aimee S. James, PhD, MPH
Graduate Student · WashU Medicine
Health education
Cancer prevention
Health disparities
Community perceptions of health and health care
Reducing cancer health disparities
Aisling Last, MD
PhD Student · WashU Medicine
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Ajay Minton, PA
· WashU Medicine
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Ajay Minton, PA-C
Physician Assistant · WashU Medicine
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Aki Ishida
Director, College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design; Sam and Marilyn Fox Professor · Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
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Aki Ushiki
Assistant Professor of Genetics · WashU Medicine
Her research primarily focuses on skeletal development and diseases, with a special emphasis on enhancers. She has significantly advanced the understanding of genetic mechanisms underlying congenital limb deformities, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), and bat wing developmen…
Akinkunle Owoso
Professor of Psychiatry · WashU Medicine
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychosis risk, general medicine-psychiatry interface
Alan Chang
Assistant Professor of Mathematics · Arts & Sciences
geometric measure theory, harmonic analysis
Alan Pestronk, MD
Professor, Neurology · WashU Medicine
Myopathy, neuropathy, myasthenia gravis, weakness, numbness, sensory loss, pain, fatigue, neuromuscular disease, neuroimmunology, muscular dystrophy
Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD
August A. Busch Jr. Professor of Neurological Surgery; Senior Vice-Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Professor of Neurosurgery, Genetics, Neurology, and Developmental Biology; Director, Brain Tumor Center; Co-Leader, Neurorestorative Therapy Group, Hope Center; Castle Connolly Top Doctor · WashU Medicine
Brain tumors continue to be challenging and often devastating neurological diseases. My laboratory is interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms that drive tumor cell behavior in glioblastoma, a malignant brain cancer that is almost invariably fatal, as well as in aggre…
Alecia Vogel
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · WashU Medicine
Development and Neural Correlates of Emotion Dysregulation
My research focuses on the developmental course of dysregulation in both negative affect (irritability) and positive affect (excitability), understanding how these impact the development of psychopathology and may be targ…
Alessandro Vindigni, PhD
Professor; Section Co-Director - Molecular Oncology · WashU Medicine
DNA replication and repair
Genome stability
Cancer etiology
DNA damaging chemotherapy
Alex Chen
Assistant Professor of Physics · Arts & Sciences
High Energy Astrophysics
Neutron Stars
Black Holes
Plasma Physics
Alex Holehouse
Faculty · WashU Medicine
We explore how intrinsically disordered protein regions confer biological function and how this goes wrong in disease. The lab integrates physics-based models (all-atom and coarse-grained simulations) with informatics and machine learning to develop sequence-specific predictions.…
Alex Holehouse
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
A large fraction of proteins and protein regions are classified as "intrinsically disordered". These regions have historically been hard to study, but play key roles in a wide variety of cellular functions. Furthermore, these regions are strongly implicated in many diseases. In t…
Alex Ramsey
Post-Doctoral Fellows · WashU Medicine
Implementation of tobacco and other substance use disorder treatments
Prevention science at intersection of substance use and cancer
Integrating genomic applications into clinical practice
Use of digital interventions and electronic health records to support treatment delivery
Or…
Alexander A. Brescia, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Surgery · WashU Medicine
Studying the impact of the rapid dissemination of transcatheter technology (e.g., TAVR) on access, outcomes, and resource utilization in cardiac surgery. Evaluating acute postoperative opioid prescribing and new persistent opioid use in cardiothoracic surgical patients, as well a…
Alexander Croft, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine; Assistant Medical Director, Howard and Joyce Wood Simulation Center; Co-Director, Simulation; Director, In-Situ Simulation Acute Care (ISSAC) Program · WashU Medicine
Medical education and medical simulation, teamwork, communication, and human factors in healthcare
Alexander H. Stegh, PhD
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Alexander Hatoum
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · WashU Medicine
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Alexander S. Bradley
Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences · Arts & Sciences
Organic and Isotope Geochemistry, Geobiology, Microbiology
Alexander Seidel
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Alexander Stefaniak
Head of Musicology, Professor of Musicology, Director of Undergraduate Studies · Arts & Sciences
Nineteenth-century Music
Virtuosity
Piano Culture
Romantic Aesthetics
Music Criticism
Alexandra Decker
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences · Arts & Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
understanding how the mind and brain learn across time and development; cognitive processes that support learning and memory; tracking learning and memory processes across time; how subtle shifts in attention, decision-making, arousal or reward shape what we learn; why learning o…
Alexandra Rutz
Assistant Professor · McKelvey School of Engineering
Advances bioelectronics using materials and fabrication-based approaches
Alexandra Serpe, MD
Assistant Professor · WashU Medicine
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Alexey Sergushichev, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Immunology · WashU Medicine
My general research interest lies in developing computational approaches for analysis of high-throughput data to help uncover novel biology. More specifically, there are three major directions my lab focuses on. 1. Pathway analysis: we maintain and improve the FGSEA package (http…
Alexis Duncan
PhD Student · Brown School
Psychiatric epidemiology
Obesity and eating disorders
Substance use and related disorders
Child abuse and neglect
Behavior genetics
Alexxai V Kravitz
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · WashU Medicine
Dr. Kravitz is interested in the study of basal ganglia circuits and how their function changes in disease states such as obesity, addiction, and anxiety disorders. Under normal conditions, the basal ganglia drives animals toward the selection of adaptive behavioral outcomes. Lea…
Ali Ahmady, PhD, HCLD
Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology · WashU Medicine
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Ali Ellebedy, PhD
Leo Loeb Endowed Professor, Pathology & Immunology · WashU Medicine
Defining the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate memory B cell heterogeneity and fate.
Understanding the rules for eliciting broadly neutralizing B cell responses against rapidly evolving pathogens, such as influenza viruses.
Aliakbar Daemi
Associate Professor of Mathematics · Arts & Sciences
Gauge theory, Low-dimensional topology, Symplectic geometry
Alireza Ghanbarpour
Assistant Professor · WashU Medicine
The Ghanbarpour Lab studies the breakdown of proteins in bacteria and human mitochondria by ATP-dependent AAA proteases and their cognate modulators. AAA proteases are crucial for removing unneeded or aberrant proteins, ensuring cellular health and shaping the proteome for specif…
Alireza Ghanbarpour
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology · WashU Medicine
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Our research focuses on unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying substrate specificity and degradation by AAA proteolytic machines and their associated adaptor proteins, utilizing structural biology, biochemistry, and cellular assays in both bacteria and human mitochondria.
Alisabeth Ayars
· Arts & Sciences
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Allan Hazlett
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies · Arts & Sciences
Epistemology
Metaethics
Moral Psychology
Aesthetics
Allan Larson
Professor of Biology · Arts & Sciences
Allan Larson's research combines natural history and molecular biology to evaluate patterns and processes of evolution at multiple levels of biological complexity. His main interests are in evolutionary biology, genetics, and the histories of these disciplines. Published work app…
Allison Denise Mitchell, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology · WashU Medicine
Post dural puncture headache, loss of resistance monitoring.
Allison L. Haas, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology · WashU Medicine
My interests include implementation of novel diagnostics to improve workflow, efficiency, and time to results in the microbiology laboratory to more rapidly and accurately diagnose complicated infections. I am particularly interested in the development of rapid molecular assays f…
Allison R. Eberly, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology & Immunology · WashU Medicine
My research interests include developing and implementing more rapid and accurate diagnostic tests for infections that are under-/mis-diagnosed. I am particularly interested in molecular diagnostics for nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) and improving access to STI molecular testi…
Allison S. Reed
Assistant Professor, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Arts & Sciences
Intersectionality (Emphasis on race, gender, and sexuality)
Sociology of Health and Illness
Politics and Social Change
Qualitative Research Methods
Allison Zanaboni
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine · WashU Medicine
Advanced Emergency Ultrasound (AEMUS)
Alvitta Ottley
Courtesy Appointment, MDes; Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
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Alyssa D. Wait, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery · WashU Medicine
Rectum-sparing operations for cancer, diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopies, colon and rectal cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Assistant Professor of English · Arts & Sciences
contemporary poetry, comparative approaches to Afro-diasporic culture and literature, cultural studies, digital literary cultures, and the digital humanities
Amanda J. Ortmann, PhD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery · WashU Medicine
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Amanda M. Nicklas, OD
Pediatric Optometrist · WashU Medicine
Pediatric optometry, strabismus, amblyopia, primary eye care
Amanda Stewart
PT Instructor · Arts & Sciences
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Amber R. Leis, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery · WashU Medicine
Plastic and reconstructive surgery Hand surgery
Amber Stratman, PhD
Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology · WashU Medicine
Mechanisms regulating blood vessel formation, stabilization, and blood flow sensing during development and disease.
Amit A. Pawale, MBBS, FRCS, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery · WashU Medicine
Aortic valve replacement, aortopathies, coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass surgery, extracorporeal life support, heart failure surgery, heart transplantation, mitral valve repair and replacement, valvular heart disease, ventricular assist devices implantation
Amit Bhatt
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology · WashU Medicine
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Amit Pathak
Professor · McKelvey School of Engineering
Cell migration, micro-fabrication and hydrogel synthesis, tumor microenvironment, cancer mechanobiology, and computational modeling of cell-matrix interactions
Amit Walia, MD, MSCI
Fellow in neurotology · WashU Medicine
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Amjad Musleh, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine · WashU Medicine
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Amy F. Kells, MD, PhD
Research Scientist · WashU Medicine
Hand and wrist surgery
Traumatic nerve injury
Complex wounds
MRI neurography
Nerve injury pathology
Amy Greenhalgh
Teacher of Applied Music, Viola, Assistant Dean of Advising, College of Arts & Sciences · Arts & Sciences
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Amy Hauft
Director, College & Graduate School of Art; Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professor of Art · Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
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Amynah Pradhan
Director of the Center for Clinical Pharmacology; Professor of Anesthesiology · WashU Medicine
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Ana A. Baumann, PhD, MA
Associate Professor of Surgery · WashU Medicine
Dr. Baumann's research agenda focuses on the intersection of implementation science, adaptation science, and healthcare equity. She works to identify strategies that facilitate the implementation of evidence-based interventions in low-resource settings and historically underserve…
Ana Babus
Associate Professor of Economics · Arts & Sciences
Microeconomic Theory, Finance
Ana Ruiz Manzano
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, RNA Polymerase, Transcription, DNA Repair, Helicase, Fidaxomicin
Anand Lakshminarasimhachar, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology · WashU Medicine
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Anca Parvulescu
Professor of English · Arts & Sciences
Global modernism
Literary and Critical Theory
Literary Comparatism
Migration Studies
East Europe
Andrea Giedinghagen
Assistant Professor of Engineering - Professor Hixon's research focuses on tissue engineering/regenerative medicine strategies to improve treatment and… · WashU Medicine
LGBTQ+ youth mental health; minority stress; stigma and coming out experiences; trauma and resilience
Andrea Liefer, CRNA
SLCH Chief CRNA · WashU Medicine
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Andrea Rodriguez-Restrepo, MD
Director of Pediatric Regional Anesthesia; Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology · WashU Medicine
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Andrea Soranno
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics · WashU Medicine
My main research interests are the physical principles and molecular mechanisms determining biomolecular function. A particular focus are intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). At variance with the classical structurefunction paradigm that we are familiar with from 50 years of…
Andreas Kautt
Assistant Professor · Arts & Sciences
In the Kautt Lab, we investigate the mechanisms and conditions driving (or constraining) the evolution of biological diversity with a special focus on animal behavior. To this end, we combine a genomics-centered approach with molecular experiments, behavioral assays, and fieldwor…
Andrew Bernheimer
Associate Professor of Architecture · [Non-WashU] Parsons School of Design
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