- Departments
- Interdepartmental Programs
- Institutes and Centers
- Brain Imaging Center
- California Nanosystems Institute
- Center for Evolutionary Psychology
- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
- Center for Research in Financial Mathematics and Statistics
- Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
- Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration
- Earth Research Institute
- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
- Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Marine Science Institute
- Materials Research Laboratory
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
- National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
- Neuroscience Research Institute
- Sage Center for the Study of the Mind
- Southern California Earthquakes Center
- UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
- UCSB Natural Reserve System
New Faculty
2012-2013
Physics & College of Creative Studies, Lecturer
Ph.D., Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia (Mathematical Physics)
Research Interest: Physics instruction.
Chemistry & Biochemistry & BMSE, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University (Biophysics)
Research Interest: Prebiotic chemistry of nucleic acid replication and function.
Statistics & Applied Probability, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University (Statistics)
Research Interest: Probability, stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations, collisions of Brownian particles, local time of semimartingales, mathematical economics & finance (stochastic portfolio theory), and statistics in finance, molecular biology & sports.
Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Swansea University (Phytoplankton carbon physiology)
Research Interest: Evolution of phytoplankton and global biogeochemistry, interactions between climate change and ocean biota, ocean acidification, physiological ecology of phytoplankton, marine calcification, adaptation of ecinoderm larvae to ocean acificiation, shotgun proteomics, functional genomics.
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (Microbiology)
Research Interest: Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels, sensory signaling, animal behavior.
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University (Neuroscience)
Research Interest: Drosophila genetics to investigate the molecular mechanisms of cell motility.
Mathematics, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (Mathematics)
Research Interest: Applied analysis and numerical computation of scientific problems arising from geophysical fluid, seismology, material science and biology.
2011-2012
Geography, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Münster, Germany (Geography)
Research Interest: GIScience, geospatial semantics, mobile computing, and geographic information retrieval.
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Lecturer
Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing (Developmental Psychology)
Research Interest: Issues of acculturation, ethnic identity, and racial/ethnic discrimination among adolescents of immigrant families.
Physics, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University (Physics)
Research Interest: Experimental ultracold atomic physics, quantum simulation, optical lattices, trapping of alkali and alkaline earth atoms, novel quantum phases, nonequilibrium dynamics, new cooling techniques, analogies between condensed matter and atomic physics, quantum metrology, micron-scale force sensing.
2010-2011
Physics, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University (Physics)
Research Interest: Focused within experimental condensed matter physics, addressing fundamental quantum mechanical effects in mesoscopic systems using state-of-the-art experimental techniques, specifically scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and cantilever torque magnetometry. Focused on electron transport and magnetization studies of semiconducting and metallic nanostructures and single molecule magnets, driven by the advancing complexity of new material systems and extreme submicron processing methods. Some of these systems are nanoscale devices created using lithographic tools; others are complex materials created by advances in chemical synthesis.
OGRAIN, Christopher
Mathematics and Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, Lecturer
Ph.D., UC Irvine (Mathematics)
Research Interest: Mathematics Education and Applied Mathematics.
Earth Science, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rice University (Earth Science)
Research Interest: Understanding how sedimentary systems have responded to past climate and sea-level changes, focusing on Quaternary coastal systems, with ongoing projects along the coasts of the Antarctic Peninsula and the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. He has also started to conduct research studying the impacts of past climate changes on terrestrial depositional systems such as playa lakes (Texas), arroyos (Oklahoma), and eolian dune fields (Texas and Oklahoma).
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (Molecular Biology)
Research Interest: Understanding how a cell can maintain or change identity, how a cell chooses between self-renewal and the initial decision to differentiate, and how a differentiated cell with limited developmental potential can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent cell.
Physics, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., UC Berkeley (Physics)
Research Interest: Main areas of research include strongly correlated systems in condensed matter physics, quantum phase transitions and universal behaviors, novel phases in frustrated magnets and psuedo spin systems, and topolical insulators.
