Doctoral Council

Arts & Sciences

Member until August 2025

Research: Cultural history; popular and material culture; public space and state formation in Latin America; collective identities.

Teaching: Courses focused on the cultural history of the Americas; the impacts of cultural goods and activities on politics, identities, and public life; and research methods and professional writing.

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S)

Member until August 2026

Research: Environmental microbes & processes. Professor Bose’s lab generates new ways of addressing issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, pollution, human health, sustainability and the circular economy.

Teaching: Undergraduate course in microbiology and graduate course in experimental design and critical thinking.

Brown School

Member until August 2026

Research: Racial and ethnic disparities in health and mental health care, implementation science, integration of physical and mental health services, mental health services research.

Teaching: Graduate level courses in mental health services research, mental health policy, and implementation science.

Arts & Sciences

Member until August 2026

Research: Nutrients and contaminants in soils and aquatic systems, mineral and chemical records on planetary surfaces, reactions between rocks and water on the early earth.

Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental processes, soil systems, water chemistry, and professional development.

PhD Student in Imaging Science

Member until August 2025

Research Interests: developing computational frameworks for breast cancer risk assessment using digital breast tomosynthesis.

PhD Candidate in Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Member until August 2025

Research interests: Evolution and applications of intrinsically disordered protein regions

Arts and Sciences

Member until August 2026

Research: Social organization and political institutions of ancient nomadic societies, Economy, paleoenvironmental interactions of extreme environments throughout prehistory, Urbanism and trade along the ancient Silk Roads.

Teaching: Undergraduate courses include the formation of long-term social landscapes, ancient nomadic ecology, and 3D modeling with Geospatial technologies. Graduate courses include Archaeological Theory and Advanced Geospatial modeling in Anthropology.

Arts and Sciences

Member until August 2026

Research: Purpose in life; wellbeing across the lifespan; identity development; personality and cognitive aging.

Teaching: Health psychology, social gerontology, personality psychology.

PhD student in Molecular Cell Biology

Member until May 2024

Research Interests: Regulation of RNA localization and local translation in astrocytes

School of Medicine

Member until August 2026

Research: Stroke recovery, Rehabilitation, and Accelerometry

Teaching: Graduate content in motor systems neuroscience, motor control, and research design. Graduate research mentorship.

McKelvey School of Engineering

Member until August 2026

Research: Super-resolution microscopy; nanoscale sensing; single-molecule spectroscopy; optimal design, detection, and estimation.

Teaching: Undergraduate classes on applied linear algebra and electromagnetics, graduate course on modern optical imaging.

PhD student in Germanic Languages & Literatures

Member until May 2024

Research Interests: 19th-Century German Literature Gender Studies Crime in Literature Female Perpetrators Dorfgeschichten (Village Tales) Medieval Literature and Culture

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S)

Member until August 2024

Research: Cellular and circuit level neuroscience, neuropharmacology.

Teaching: Graduate and postdoctoral apprenticeships,  graduate neuroscience, graduate research fundamentals, phase 1 medical curriculum.

McKelvey School of Engineering

Member until August 2026

Research: Rational design of materials for energy, optical and electronic applications, atomic-scale modeling, electronic structure calculations, electron microscopy.

Teaching: Undergraduate course on Materials Science, Graduate courses on Thermodynamics of Materials and Atomistic Modeling of Materials.

School of Medicine

Member until August 2025

Research: Hearing loss prevention and improving intervention outcomes, improving access to hearing health care.

Teaching: Graduate courses in audiology and deaf education, graduate research mentorship.

Arts and Sciences

Member until August 2026

Research: Theoretical nuclear physics, nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear electroweak properties, many-body methods, electron and neutrino scattering from nuclei.

Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate Quantum Mechanics, Undergraduate Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science.

Office of the Provost, McKelvey School of Engineering

Chair

Research: Studies at the confluence of Electrochemical Engineering and Materials Science, with an emphasis on electrochemical energy conversion and storage.

Teaching: Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Electrochemical Engineering, Energy Conversion and Storage, and Chemical Reaction Engineering.

 

Olin Business School

Member until August 2027

McKelvey School of Engineering

Member until August 2025

Research: Artificial intelligence, specifically planning and scheduling algorithms, and their interactions with human users.

Teaching: Undergraduate level courses on artificial intelligence.

McKelvey School of Engineering

Member until August 2024

Research: Diffuse Optical Tomography; Photoacoustic Imaging ; Optical Coherence Tomography, Imaging Reconstruction and Machine Learning.

Teaching: Graduate and  Undergraduate classes on Biooptics and Bioinstrumentation.