Academics

Recent Faculty Hires

2008-2009

ZAKARIAN, Armen

Chemistry, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Florida State University

Research Interest:

 

LUDKOVSKI, Michael

Statistics and Applied Probability, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University (Operational Research and Financial Engineering)

Research Interest:

2007-2008

BOOKHAGEN, Bodo

Geography, Assistant Professor

Dr. rer. Nat Universitat Postdam, Institut fur Geowissenschaften (Geology)

Research Interest: Late Quaternary Climate Changes, Quantitative Geomorphology, Landscape evolution on short (<1 y) and long (>106 y) timescales, Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating, Remote Sensing of Rainfall and other climatic parameters

 

BRIGGS, Cheryl

Ecology, Evolution and Marie Biology and Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Professor

Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Systems Biology

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (Biology)

Research Interest: Theoretical ecology; disease ecology; population dynamics; systems biology

 

CASCINI, Paolo

Mathematics, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University (Mathematics)

Research Interest: Algebraic Geometry, Several Complex Variables

 

LATTO, John

Ecology, Evolution and Marie Biology, Lecturer PSOE

Ph.D., Imperial College, London, UK

Research Interest: Population and community ecology; host-parasitoid interactions.

 

NAYAK, Chetan

Physics/Stations Q, Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University (Theoretical Physics)

Research Interest: condensed matter physics

 

SCHOOLER, Jonathan

Psychology, Professor

Ph.D., University of Washington (Psychology)

Research Interest: consciousness; memory; emotion; creativity; social cognition; philosophical issues in psychology such as the relationship between experience and self-report.

 

PROULX, Stephen

Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Assistant Professor,

Ph.D., University of Utah (Biology)

Research Interest: Gene network evolution; evolution of gene regulation; evolution in varying environments; canalization and robustness; sexual selection; sex allocation; niche evolution