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Photo Name Title Email / Phone Expertise
Alexandra Anderson-Frey Alexandra Anderson-Frey Assistant professor, Atmospheric Sciences

akaf@uw.edu

Tornadoes and severe storms

Christopher Adolph Christopher Adolph Associate professor, Department of Political Science

cadolph@uw.edu

Comparative political economy, public policy and administration

economics
economy
Election 2024
policy

Mika Ahuvia Mika Ahuvia Assistant professor, Jackson School of International Studies

mahuvia@uw.edu

206-685-0891

Archaeology of the Middle East, especially related to ancient Judaism and Christianity

archaeology
Christianity
Judaism
middle east
religion

Scott Allard Scott Allard Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

sallard@uw.edu

206-221-4872

Poverty and inequality, safety net policy and urban policy

inequality
policy
poverty
safety net

Nara Almeida Nara Almeida Assistant teaching professor, Program of Civil Engineering, UW Tacoma

almeidan@uw.edu

Concrete (both conventional and pervious concrete), using waste byproducts to manufacture construction materials, "green building" certifications (such as LEED), low-impact development strategies

asphalt
climate change
concrete

Gunnar Almgren Gunnar Almgren Professor emeritus, School of Social Work

mukboy@uw.edu

206-685-4077

Social welfare and health care policy; government health care systems; disparities in health and health care; poverty and inequality

inequality
poverty
social work

Tim Althoff Tim Althoff Assistant professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

althoff@cs.washington.edu

data science, data mining, computational social science, social network analysis, natural language processing, applications to human health and well-being, industry consulting

artificial intelligence
health
mental health

Molly Altman Molly Altman Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

mraltman@uw.edu

206-221-6576

Patient-provider interactions, health care bias and discrimination in LGBTQ+ and racialized communities, pregnancy and birth, sexual and reproductive health care, abortion care, transformative justice in nursing education

Abortion care
Reproductive rights
rvw

Ernesto Alvarado Ernesto Alvarado Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

alvarado@uw.edu

206-616-6920

Forest fire ecology, fire management, prescribed fire, smoke emissions, climate change, tropical forestry, landscape, international forestry, modeling

Cecilia Aragon Cecilia Aragon Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

aragon@uw.edu

Human-centered data science; data visualization; visual analytics; human-computer interaction; data-intensive discovery; human-centered natural language processing.

Aleksandr Aravkin Aleksandr Aravkin Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics

saravkin@uw.edu

COVID-19 modeling; mathematical and statistical analysis, and applications to natural, physical, and health sciences; optimization; machine learning and data science

compartmental models
complex data sets
epidemiology
expert witness
finance
inverse problems
litigation
navigation; kalman filtering and smoothing
Nonconvex
nonsmooth
ODE models
optimization
optimization algorithms
outlier-robust models
regression
robust statistics
tracking
transmission models

Virginia Armbrust Virginia Armbrust Professor, School of Oceanography

armbrust@uw.edu

206-616-1570

Diatom genetics, DNA-based investigations of marine microbe communities

Jennifer Atkinson Jennifer Atkinson Associate Teaching Professor, UW Bothell

jenwren@uw.edu

773-350-8364

Emotional/psychological toll of climate change; climate grief and eco-anxiety; building hope and resilience

climate change
IPCC

David Aucsmith David Aucsmith Senior Research Scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory

aucsmith@uw.edu

206-685-5184

cybersecurity, especially for law enforcement or national security

Elena Austin Elena Austin Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

elaustin@uw.edu

Agricultural workforce health and safety, air pollution in schools, indoor air quality, jet pollution and effects on health, use of emerging technologies to improve occupational health

Ryan Avery Ryan Avery Deputy director and senior research engineer, Washington State Transportation Center

rpavery@uw.edu

206.792.5011

Transportation, planning, demand modeling, incidents, public transit, travel behavior, data analysis for transportation, tolling, congestion & capacity

bridges
public transit
Seattle traffic
traffic
West Seattle Bridge

David Bachman David Bachman Professor and associate director, Jackson School of International Studies

dbachman@uw.edu

Chinese politics, economics and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; U.S. foreign policy in Asia

Jared Baeten Jared Baeten Professor, Department of Global Health, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Medicine

jbaeten@uw.edu

Infectious disease physician, public health, global health, epidemiology

Sylvia S. Bagley, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor of Equitable Instructional Leadership; Director, TLC Specialization in Instructional Leadership Masters

sbagley@uw.edu

206-591-4380

Instructional leadership; Teacher leadership; Professional development for teachers; Coaching and mentoring in schools (non-athletic); Holistic data use by teachers to inform instruction; Action research/practitioner research

education

Marissa Baker Marissa Baker Assistant professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

bakermg@uw.edu

206-616-4709

Worker health and safety, worker health effects related to COVID-19, health effects of job displacement or job insecurity, occupational risks firefighters face and how that could be compounded during a pandemic, vulnerable workers, controls for worker protection

firefighters
wildfire

Joel Baker Joel Baker Science director, Center for Urban Waters

jebaker@uw.edu

253-254-4423

Transport of organic contaminants in the environment, oil spills and water contamination, particularly in urban environments.

chemistry
contaminants
modeling
oil spills
UW Tacoma
water

Jennifer Balkus Jennifer Balkus Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

jbalkus@uw.edu

206-616-6614

Infectious diseases, sexual & reproductive health, social determinants of health

Abortion
HIV
Public health
Reproductive rights
rvw

Jeff Ban Jeff Ban Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

banx@uw.edu

modeling, simulating and managing multimodal transportation systems to control congestion and reduce energy use and emissions

Wendy Barrington Wendy Barrington Associate Professor, Epidemiology; Associate Professor, Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

wendybar@uw.edu

anti-racist public health transformation, community engagement and partnerships, health equity, social determinants of health, social epidemiology, cancer disparities

anti-racist healthcare
cancer
health equity

Janet Baseman Janet Baseman Professor, Department of Epidemiology

jbaseman@uw.edu

Epidemiology, public health practice, public health surveillance, public health emergency preparedness and response systems

David Battisti David Battisti Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

battisti@uw.edu

Food security and climate change, geoengineering, long-term climate cycles

Betty Bekemeier Betty Bekemeier Professor, School of Nursing

bettybek@uw.edu

Local public health department practice, systems, workforce, and funding; public health practice strengths and needs in the wake of COVID-19

Emily M. Bender Emily M. Bender Professor, Department of Linguistics

ebender@uw.edu

Natural language processing; ethics and natural language processing; fairness, transparency and accountability in natural language processing and AI more broadly; multilingual natural language processing

George Bergantz George Bergantz Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

bergantz@uw.edu

206-685-4972

Volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Numerical modeling, lab experiments and field studies.

volcanoes

Carl Bergstrom Carl Bergstrom Professor, Department of Biology

cbergst@uw.edu

206-685-3487

Behavior, evolution and systematics, mathematical and computational biology

Jeffrey Berman Jeffrey Berman Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

jwberman@uw.edu

206-616-3530

Steel structures; seismic design and blast considerations for steel structures

Daniel Bessner Daniel Bessner Associate professor, Jackson School of International Studies

dbessner@uw.edu

U.S. foreign policy, national security

Election 2024

Arbella Bet-Shlimon Arbella Bet-Shlimon Associate Professor, Department of History

shlimon@uw.edu

(206) 616-5279

modern Middle East history

history
middle east

Jessica L. Beyer Jessica L. Beyer Assistant Teaching Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Lead, JSIS Cybersecurity Initiative

jlbeyer@uw.edu

Cybersecurity, cybersecurity policy/politics, international security, internet and politics, online communities, dis/misinformation

Election 2024

Laada Bilaniuk Laada Bilaniuk Professor, Department of Anthropology

bilaniuk@uw.edu

Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, language politics, nationalism, popular culture, gender; Ukraine, post-Soviet states

Ukraine

Cecilia Bitz Cecilia Bitz Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

bitz@uw.edu

206-543-1339

Arctic sea ice, climate change

Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth Research assistant professor, Atmospheric Sciences

edwardbw@uw.edu

Sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans

Paul Bodin Paul Bodin Research professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

bodin@uw.edu

206-616-7315

Seismicity, seismic wave propagation and aftershock probabilities in the Pacific Northwest; earthquake sources; earthquake early warning system

Ann Bostrom Ann Bostrom Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

abostrom@uw.edu

Risk perception, risk communication, and decision making under uncertainty

Jody Bourgeois Jody Bourgeois Professor emerita, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

jbourgeo@uw.edu

202-525-8617

Global tsunamis, history of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and asteroid impact

Trevor Branch Trevor Branch Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

tbranch@uw.edu

206-221-0776

Large whales — especially blue whales — and also minke and humpback whales, including studies estimating abundance, changes in population size over time, maps of occurrence, status and the separation of subspecies

blue whales
humpback whales
marine mammals
whales

Rovy Branon Rovy Branon Vice provost, University of Washington Continuum College

Contact Linnéa Mobrand-Volper to reach Rovy Branon: linneamv@uw.edu

Online learning, learning technology development, fee-based degrees and certificate programs, instructional design

certificate programs
continuing education
fee-based degrees
life-long learning
professional education
professional programs

Alice Bravo Director of Applied Behavior Analysis Program, Assistant Teaching Professor

acbravo@uw.edu

applied behavior analysis, early childhood special education, early intervention, autism spectrum disorder

education

Philip Brock Philip Brock Associate professor, Department of Economics

plbrock@uw.edu

206-543-5955

Brock studies development economics, financial economics, international finance and macroeconomics

economics
economy
macroeconomics

Sally Brown Sally Brown Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

slb@uw.edu

206-616-1299

Contaminated soils, risks, waste (compost municipal wastewater) soil amendments, carbon accounting

Benjamin M. Brunjes Benjamin M. Brunjes Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

brunjes@uw.edu

206-685-0680

American political institutions and processes; Public administration – bureaucracy, management, organization theory, ethics; and Public finance and procurement – budgeting, tax policy, government contracting

Karin Bumbaco Karin Bumbaco Washington's deputy state climatologist, and research scientist, UW Climate Impacts Group

kbumbaco@uw.edu

206-543-3145

Past, current and future Washington weather trends. Washington snowfall and drought. Publishes the monthly newsletter on statewide trends and forecasts.

heatwave
snow

Gerard Cangelosi Gerard Cangelosi Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Screening, self-sampling for TB and COVID19 and other infectious diseases, infectious disease emergence, occupational exposure, global health

Beatriz (Bia) Carlini Beatriz (Bia) Carlini Senior research scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute

bia@uw.edu

206-616-5880

Tobacco cessation and brief interventions for substance use disorders using technology

cannabis
drug abuse
marijuana
substance disorder
tobacco

Emily Carrington Emily Carrington Professor, Biology

ecarring@uw.edu

Marine organisms

heatwave

Joan Casey Joan Casey Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

jacasey@uw.edu

environmental health, environmental justice, power outages, extreme heat, wildfires, climate change and health

heat dome
power outages

Manuel Castellote Manuel Castellote Research scientist, UW Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, & Ecosystem Studies

manuelcm@uw.edu

206-526-6866

Whales’ vocal communication, echolocation and hearing; effects of noise on whales

echolocation
marine mammals
whales

Angelica Chazaro Angelica Chazaro Assistant professor, School of Law

chazaro1@uw.edu

206-543-8754

Immigration and refugee law and policy, provision of immigration legal services, immigrant rights movements, criminalization of immigrants, vulnerable immigrant populations

immigration
refugees

Cynthia Chen Cynthia Chen Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

qzchen@uw.edu

Using big data to infer people's travel patterns, biases in big data, creating urban adaptive systems and protecting communities against disruptions, post-COVID public transit system transformation, infrastructure and smart cities, engineering and health, transportation engineering, urban adaptable systems, human mobility pattern analysis

natural disaster
resilience
smart cities
transportation

Shuyi Chen Shuyi Chen Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

shuyic@uw.edu

206-685-1736

Tropical meteorology, air-sea interactions, mesoscale dynamics, numerical modeling

Sapna Cheryan Sapna Cheryan Professor, Department of Psychology

scheryan@uw.edu

206-543-5688

The role of cultural stereotypes in human behavior, gender stereotypes, immigration, race relations, women’s under-representation in computer science

gender
immigration
race
STEM
stereotypes
women

Jungwon Choi Jungwon Choi Assistant professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

jungchoi@uw.edu

Power electronics design, electric vehicle charging, wireless power transfer, energy storage.

charging
electric vehicles
power

Martin Cohen Martin Cohen Teaching Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

mcohen@uw.edu

Workplace health and safety, COVID-19 mitigation, chemical and other exposures in the workplace

Chris Coward Chris Coward Senior principal research scientist, Information School

ccoward@uw.edu

Incorporating research on misinformation into new information literacy guidelines and learning resources.

disinformation
misinformation

Katherine Cross Katherine Cross Doctoral student, Information School

kcross1@uw.edu

Social media, online harassment, shaming, video gaming, nerd and tech culture, ethics of information technology, technology ethics education

Julia Yue Cui Julia Yue Cui Associate Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

juliacui@uw.edu

Toxicology, chemical hazards, children's health, microbiome, how early chemical exposures influence health

Alison Cullen Alison Cullen Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

alison@uw.edu

Risk analysis, environmental policy, wildfire risk and management

policy
risk analysis
wildfire
wildfires

Sara Curran Sara Curran Professor, Jackson School of International Studies

scurran@uw.edu

206-459-9236

Impacts of climate change on people in the developing world, immigration, migration

climate change
immigration
migration

Lara Dalch Lara Dalch Instructor, Communication Leadership

ldalch@uw.edu

Leadership development, adult learning content strategy and design, podcast development and production, communications, digital marketing, women's leadership

Karam Dana Karam Dana Associate professor, Middle East and Islamic Studies

karam@uw.edu

425-352-5284

Religious influence on political identity, political and civic engagement of Muslims in Western contexts, specifically the U.S., Middle East public opinion, how state-society relations are transforming the Middle East

islam
middle east
muslims
religion
UW Bothell

Katie Davis Katie Davis Associate professor, Information School

kdavis78@uw.edu

Technology's role in child/adolescent development and wellbeing; adolescents' technology use, family and friend relationships, online school experiences, and mental health during the coronavirus pandemic

facebook
instagram
mental health
social media
SPS
teens
tik tok

Cole DeForest Cole DeForest Associate professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Bioengineering

profcole@uw.edu

303-506-9725

Biomaterials, tissue engineering, 3D printing, bioorthogonal chemistry, optogenetics, protein engineering, drug delivery, polymer chemistry, photochemistry

cell biology
gels

Marine Denolle Marine Denolle Assistant professor, Earth and space sciences

mdenolle@uw.edu

Ground motions, seismic monitoring, machine learning with seismic data

earthquakes

Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio Associate professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

jdingpan@uw.edu

253-693-4823

Sources and fate of emerging organic contaminants, including PFCAs (perfluorinated carboxylic acids), PFCAs, PFOS and related human-made pollutants

environment
forever chemicals
UW Tacoma
water quality

Nives Dolšak Nives Dolšak Professor and director, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs

nives@uw.edu

206-685-2144

Climate change, policy, common pool resources

InflationReductionAct

David Domke David Domke Professor, Department of Communication

domke@uw.edu

206-543-2662

Political leadership, news coverage and social change, particularly the dynamics of post-9/11 America

communication
Election 2024
media
news
politics

Alison Duvall Alison Duvall Associate professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

aduvall@uw.edu

206-221-8311

Hillsides, river channels, landslide history in Washington and Oregon

environment
flooding
landslides

Meghan Eagen-Torkko Meghan Eagen-Torkko Associate professor and Director of Nursing at UW Bothell School of Nursing and Health Studies

eagen@uw.edu

Reproductive health, reproductive rights, contraception, Title X, LGBTQ+ health, sexual and reproductive health

Abortion
rvw

Marc Eberhard Marc Eberhard Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

eberhard@uw.edu

206-715-9751

Reinforced concrete behavior and design; Earthquake engineering; Bridge engineering; Rapid construction

bridges
concrete
construction
earthquake engineering

Kristie Ebi Kristie Ebi Professor, Department of Global Health and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

krisebi@uw.edu

206-543-8440

Health risks of and responses to global change, particularly climate change

climate change
global health
health
heatwave

Josephine Ensign Josephine Ensign Professor, School of Nursing

bjensign@uw.edu

Public health, health and homelessness, health and poverty, health policy, narrative medicine, public health nursing

Nicole Errett Nicole Errett Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

nerrett@uw.edu

Development, implementation and health impacts of policies to build resilience in the context of public health emergencies, disasters and climate change

Nadine Fabbi Nadine Fabbi Managing director, Canadian Studies Center/Arctic & International Relations

nfabbi@uw.edu

206-543-6269

Arctic indigenous politics, Permanent Participants/Arctic Council, Inuit politics in Canada/globally

arctic
canada
Indigenous
politics

Mary Fan Mary Fan Professor, School of Law

mdfan@uw.edu

206-685-4971

Criminal law and procedure, policing, prosecution, evidence

congress
immigration
president

Jeff Feldman Jeff Feldman Professor of Practice, School of Law

feldmanj@uw.edu

Constitutional law, civil procedure, trial and appellate practice, criminal law and procedure, antitrust and class action litigation

constitutional law
rvw

Megan Ming Francis Megan Ming Francis Associate professor, Department of Political Science

meganmf@uw.edu

206-685-2338

American politics, race, the development of constitutional law, black political activism, the construction of rights and citizenship

2020 election
activism
constitutional law
Election 2024
politics
race
rights and citizenship

Jerry Franklin Jerry Franklin Professor emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

jff@uw.edu

425-392-7655

Forest ecology, landscape ecology, disturbances, old-growth and forest management

Dargan Frierson Dargan Frierson Associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

dargan@uw.edu

206-685-7364

Global precipitation and climate change, tropical regions and climate change, and climate solutions

climate change
precipitation
rain
tropical

Jon Froehlich Jon Froehlich Associate professor, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

jonf@cs.uw.edu

Urban accessibility, assistive technology, physical computing

deaf
education
hearing
human computer interactions
sidewalk

Kai-Mei Fu Kai-Mei Fu Professor, Department of Physics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

kaimeifu@uw.edu

Quantum technologies, quantum networks, quantum sensors, quantum communication

quantum computing
quantum education
quantum information science
quantum materials
quantum sensing
quantum technology

T.J. Fudge T.J. Fudge Assistant research professor, Earth and space sciences

tjfudge@uw.edu

206-543-0162

Glaciers in Antarctica and Washington state

glaciers
heatwave

Rachel Fyall Rachel Fyall Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

fyall@uw.edu

206 616-7677

Involvement of nonprofit organizations in advocacy, policy, and the delivery of public services, particularly within the context of housing and homelessness

advocacy
homelessness
housing
policy

Alex Gagnon Alex Gagnon Associate professor, School of Oceanography

gagnon@uw.edu

206-543-5627

Ocean acidification, corals

acidification
corals
ocean

Stephen Gardiner Stephen Gardiner Professor, Department of Philosophy

smgard@uw.edu

206-221-6459

Philosophical implications of geoengineering

geoengineering
philosophy

Jim Gawel Jim Gawel Associate professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, UW Tacoma

jimgawel@uw.edu

253-692-5815

Transport of metal contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic systems, environmental chemistry, urban water management issues related to human influences

chemistry
environment
urban water
UW Tacoma
water quality

Fabio Ghironi Fabio Ghironi Professor, Department of Economics

ghiro@uw.edu

International macroeconomics, macroeconomics and monetary economics

economics
economy
macroeconomics

Sourojit Ghosh Sourojit Ghosh Doctoral student, Human Centered Design & Engineering

ghosh100@uw.edu

AI, text-to-image generators, harmful AI outputs, stereotyping in AI

artificial intelligence
human computer interactions

Deborah Giles Deborah Giles Killer whale researcher, Friday Harbor Laboratories

giles7@uw.edu

916-531-1516

Marine mammals of the Salish Sea, killer whale health, physiology and diet; Southern Resident orcas; orca population dynamics and reproduction, conservation biology, Salish Sea ecosystem health

biology
killer whales
orcas
salish sea
whales

David Ginger David Ginger Professor, Department of Chemistry

dginger@uw.edu

206-685-2331

Next generation solar cells including perovskites, polymers and quantum dots; microscopic characterization of advanced materials for solar power, energy efficient lighting and energy storage materials

efficient lighting
solar

Kate Glazko Kate Glazko Doctoral student, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

glazko@uw.edu

Accessibility, generative AI, disability bias in AI, AI for accessibility

accessibility
technology

Hilary Godwin Hilary Godwin Dean, School of Public Health

Translating public health communications and projections for a general audience; insights into how to make good, evidence-based decisions in times of uncertainty

Karen Fredriksen Goldsen Karen Fredriksen Goldsen Professor, School of Social Work

fredrikk@uw.edu

206-543-5722

Aging, well-being and longevity, intergenerational solutions to reduce social isolation, health disparities and resilience among LGBTQ+ people and other underserved communities

aging
equity
LGBTQ

Anne Goodchild Anne Goodchild Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

annegood@uw.edu

206-543-3747

Freight transportation, E-commerce and online shopping, Urban Freight Home delivery, UAV or drone delivery, Goods movement, Sustainable freight transportation, Transportation logistics

Steven Goodreau Steven Goodreau Professor, Department of Anthropology

goodreau@uw.edu

Infectious disease modeling, HIV, gay/bisexual men's health, pandemics in history

Anthony Greenwald Anthony Greenwald Professor, Department of Psychology

agg@uw.edu

206-543-7227

Unconscious cognition, implicit bias, co-creator of the Implicit Association Test

equity
implicit bias
race

Mary Kay Gugerty Mary Kay Gugerty Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

gugerty@uw.edu

Evaluation and impact measurement in the social sector; advocacy, accountability and voluntary regulation programs among nonprofit and NGOs; and health, agriculture and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa

advocacy
philanthropy
policy

Kevin Haggerty Kevin Haggerty Professor, School of Social Work

haggerty@uw.edu

206-543-3188

Marijuana use and youth development; prevention programs at the community, school and family level; the intersection of biological and environmental risks for drug abuse

cannabis
drug abuse
drugs
marijuana
prevention

Anjum Hajat Anjum Hajat Associate professor, Department of Epidemiology

anjumh@uw.edu

206-685-3618

Air pollution (including from wildfires) impacts on disadvantaged populations, impacts of employment on health

air quality

Gregory Hakim Gregory Hakim Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

ghakim@uw.edu

206-685-2439

Weather and climate models

modeling
snow
weather

Crystal C. Hall Crystal C. Hall Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

hallcc@uw.edu

206-221-5237

Judgment and decision making, poverty and social welfare policy, and psychology and behavioral economics

economics
economy
policy
poverty
welfare

Alexes Harris Alexes Harris Professor, Department of Sociology

yharris@uw.edu

Deviance and social control, juvenile justice, race and ethnicity, social stratification/inequality

ethnicity
inequality
race

Dennis Hartmann Dennis Hartmann Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

dhartm@uw.edu

206-543-7460

Global climate change

climate change
environment

Brian Harvey Brian Harvey Assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

bjharvey@uw.edu

206-685-9929 (desk) 650-521-1988 (mobile)

Wildfires, climate, ecology, resource management, forest disturbances

Rachel Heath Rachel Heath Associate professor, Department of Economics

rmheath@uw.edu

206-543-5796

Development economics, with a particular focus on gender and labor markets

economics
economy
markets

Jeffrey Heer Jeffrey Heer Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

jheer@cs.washington.edu

Data visualization; human-computer interaction; the perceptual, cognitive and social factors involved in making sense of data, resulting in new interactive systems for visual analysis and communication

computer science

Christie Hegermiller Christie Hegermiller Assistant professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

caheg@uw.edu

Ocean waves, coastal change (erosion and accretion), coastal flooding (chronic and acute), coastal sand transport

hurricanes

Dr. Jeremy Hess Dr. Jeremy Hess Professor, School of Medicine and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

jjhess@uw.edu

206-221-4059

Climate change health impacts, health care disaster risk management, public health adaptation to climate change, health effects of heat exposure, early warning systems

climate change
forest fire
heatwave
wildfire

Heather Hill Heather Hill Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

206-685-8041

Effects of poverty and low-wage work on families and children

Hugh Hillhouse Hugh Hillhouse Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

h2@uw.edu

206-685-5257

Conversion of sunlight into electricity; current solar cell technology (Silicon, CdTe, CIGS, tandems); next generation printable solar cells based on earth abundant materials and hybrid perovskites; conversion of chemical fuels into electricity

solar

Shana Hirsch Shana Hirsch Research scientist, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

slhirsch@uw.edu

(206)-384-7350

Marine renewable energy

climate change
Columbia River Basin
renewable energy
restoration
salmon
science and society

Anne Hirsch Anne Hirsch Associate professor, School of Nursing

hirsca2@uw.edu

509-385-7490

Nursing education

Rodney JY Ho Rodney JY Ho Professor, School of Pharmacy

Anti-viral and COVID-19 drugs, HIV and cancer drug development, experimental treatment and prevention, global drug access, clinical virology, drug repurposing, translational medicine, mentoring medical scientists for research, developing products for medical impact

Jennifer Lee Hoffman Professor, College of Education

jennilee@uw.edu

206-616-6309

College athletics leadership; College athletics policy (i.e., conference realignment, athlete pay, gender equity); College esports; NCAA and sports governance; Title IX

Anna Lauren Hoffmann Anna Lauren Hoffmann Assistant professor, Information School

alho@uw.edu

206-616-1198

Data ethics; Data and Society; Data, Fairness, and Discrimination

Paula Holmes-Eber Paula Holmes-Eber Affiliate professor, Jackson School of International Studies

pholmese@uw.edu

Culture and conflict in the Middle East, women and Islam, women and war in the Middle East, sectarianism and ethnic identity in the Middle East, U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq, new media/Internet and culture change, Arab spring

Afghanistan
Arab Spring
islam
middle east

Meredith Honig Professor, College of Education

mihonig@uw.edu 

School district central office policy and leadership; Teaching, learning, and equity; Teacher quality and diversity

education

Meredith Honig Meredith Honig Professor, College of Education

mihonig@uw.edu

School district decision-making

education

Bill Howe Bill Howe Associate professor, Information School

billhowe@uw.edu

206-221-9261

Scientific databases, data-intensive scalable computing, visualization, web services, cloud computing, citizen science

citizen science
computer science
data
data science
engineering
informatics

Betina Hsieh Professor of Teacher Education

bychsieh@uw.edu

Teacher Education/ Teacher preparation; Teacher recruitment, retention & attrition; Teachers of Color/ Disparities in (Racial) Representation between K-12 teachers and students; Asian Americans in Education

education

Rania Hussein Rania Hussein Associate teaching professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

rhussein@uw.edu

Embedded Systems, digital twinning, digital design with integrated circuits, remote experimentation, medical image analysis, internet of things, disruptive technologies for educational solutions, equitable access in engineering education, inclusive pedagogy, equitable and Inclusive policies in education, workforce development, STEM outreach and engagement, industry partnerships, under-represented minorities in STEM, women in engineering, Muslims in higher education

Alex Hutko Alex Hutko Research seismologist, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

ahutko@uw.edu

(206) 685-9677

ShakeAlert earthquake early warning, regional earthquake monitoring, global seismology, large earthquakes

earthquakes

Horacio de la Iglesia Horacio de la Iglesia Professor, Department of Biology

horaciod@uw.edu

circadian rhythms, biological clocks, human sleep

daylight saving time
DST
standard time

Tania Busch Isaksen Tania Busch Isaksen Teaching Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

tania@uw.edu

206-685-4919

Safe workplaces, clean air, public health outcomes associated with extreme heat and wildfire smoke exposures, risk communication methods, climate change-related public health adaptation planning and response, sustainable materials management

air quality

Ann Ishimaru Ann Ishimaru Associate professor, College of Education

aishi@uw.edu

206-543-9840

educational equity, families and education, educational leadership and systems change, school-community relations, community organizing

education

Vikram Iyer Vikram Iyer Assistant professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

vsiyer@cs.washington.edu

Internet of things, wireless communication, wildlife tracking, bio-hybrid systems, miniaturized robots and sensors, battery-free devices and power harvesting

beetles
bumblebees
cameras
hornets
sensing

Yael Jacobs Yael Jacobs Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics

jjacobs7@uw.edu

Applied microeconomics, labor economics, industrial organization and game theory

Dan Jaffe Dan Jaffe Professor and chair, Physical Sciences Division, UW Bothell

djaffe@uw.edu

425-352-5357

Particles in wildfire smoke, particle transport, wildfire plumes, air quality, atmospheric chemistry

air quality
pollution
smoke
wildfire

Tyler Jimenez Tyler Jimenez Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

jimenezt@uw.edu

Native American psychology; prejudice; racial inequality; policing and police militarization

psychology

Kathleen Johnson Kathleen Johnson Affiliate Instructor, School of Nursing

Johnsk5@uw.edu

425-359-0483

School nursing at the local, state and national level

Susan Joslyn Susan Joslyn Associate professor, Department of Psychology

susanj@uw.edu

Decision-making, risk communication

Ian Joughin Ian Joughin Glaciologist, Applied Physics Laboratory

ian@apl.washington.edu

206-221-3177

Glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, global sea-level rise

Antarctica
glaciers
greenland
ice
polar science
sea-level rise

Baptiste Journaux Baptiste Journaux Acting assitant professor, Earth and space sciences

bjournau@uw.edu

Space exploration, icy moons, water and habitability of other planets

exoplanets
NASA
space

Bettina Judd Bettina Judd Associate Professor, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

bjudd@uw.edu

medical racism and its history, history of gynecology, Black feminist thought

Abortion
Public health
racism
Reproductive rights
rvw

Peter Kahn Peter Kahn Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and Department of Psychology

pkahn@uw.edu

206-616-9395

Nature's effects on health; using technology to simulate nature's benefits

Jonathan Kanter Jonathan Kanter Research associate professor, Department of Psychology

jonkan@uw.edu

Mental health consequences of the crisis and how to cope (especially stress and depression); social distancing, isolation, and the importance of staying connected; xenophobia and prejudice during the crisis

psychology

Dr. Catherine Karr Dr. Catherine Karr Professor, School of Medicine and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

ckarr@uw.edu

206-616-4355

Pediatric environmental health, air pollution, asthma, pesticides, global children’s environmental health, farmworker health

Reşat Kasaba Reşat Kasaba Professor, Jackson School of International Studies

kasaba@uw.edu

206-543-4373

State-society relations in the Middle East from a historical perspective, Turkey

middle east
politics
Turkey

Lynn Katz Lynn Katz Research professor, Department of Psychology

katzlf@uw.edu

Parenting; marital/couple relationships

Aaron B. Katz Aaron B. Katz Principal lecturer emeritus, Department of Health Systems & Population Health

garlyk@uw.edu

206-550-2277

Health care policy, public health policy, health care markets, health insurance markets, health care safety net, health care reform, Medicaid, ACA, global health policy, global AIDS policy

rvw

Dr. Joel Kaufman Dr. Joel Kaufman Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and School of Medicine

joelk@uw.edu

206-616-3501

Environmental and occupational epidemiology, health effects of diesel exhaust exposures, environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease, traffic-related air pollution, environmental health

Rick Keil Rick Keil Professor, School of Oceanography

rickkeil@uw.edu

Organic matter in aquatic environments, water quality, water testing

water quality

Deborah Kelley Deborah Kelley Professor, School of Oceanography

dskelley@uw.edu

206-543-9279

Underwater volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, cabled deep-sea observatories

volcanoes

Megan Kennedy Megan Kennedy Director, Resilience Lab

meganken@uw.edu

Systems-based approaches to addressing college student mental health and well-being; social and emotional learning in higher education

mental health
Reslience Lab

Maureen Kennedy Maureen Kennedy Associate professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

mkenn@uw.edu

253-692-4981

General regional wildfire issues, wildfire ecology, wildfire science, wildfire severity, strategies to reduce wildfire fuels, reducing fire hazards and impacts on wildlife and homes.

forest fire
UW Tacoma
wildfire

Os Keyes Os Keyes Doctoral student, Human Centered Design & Engineering

okeyes@uw.edu

Gender, disability, artificial intelligence, data ethics, facial recognition, medical AI

ethics
LGBTQ

Julie Kientz Julie Kientz Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

jkientz@uw.edu

206-221-0614

families, kids and technology; consumer health technologies; human-centered design; families using technology to navigate home-based learning during COVID-19 pandemic

family
kids
technology

Jason Kilmer Jason Kilmer Associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

jkilmer@uw.edu

206-685-4512

Evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol, cannabis/marijuana, and other drug use by college students

alcohol
drug abuse
drugs
marijuana
prevention

Sharon Kioko Sharon Kioko Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

skioko@uw.edu

Public finance (US states/local governments), tax policy, voter referendum and tax limitations, education finance (K-12), infrastructure finance/debt management

Daniel Kirschen Daniel Kirschen Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

kirschen@uw.edu

206-543-2174

Smart grids, integration of renewable energy, power system economics, power system security, blackouts, electricity grid

brown out
brownout
energy
heat wave
heatwave
InflationReductionAct
natural gas
power systems

Marieka Klawitter Marieka Klawitter Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

marieka@uw.edu

206-616-1673

Family and employment policy, gender, policy analysis, LGBTQ policy and savings and asset-building for low-income families

family
gender
income
LGBTQ
policy
sexual orientation

Terrie Klinger Terrie Klinger Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs

tklinger@uw.edu

206 685-2499

Managing natural resources in the ocean; ecological effects of environmental stressors, such as ocean acidification and habitat loss; how rocky intertidal communities respond to and recover from disturbance

acidification
environment
intertidal
ocean

David Knight Associate Professor of Education Finance and Policy

dsknight@uw.edu

785-393-4985

school finance, educator labor markets, cost of education, equitable resource allocation, efficiency in education, enrollment decline, charter schools/vouchers, school choice

education

John Koenig John Koenig Lecturer, Center for West European Studies

johnmonroekoenig@gmail.com

European security, transatlantic relations and the Cyprus problem

Ukraine

Pang Wei Koh Pang Wei Koh Assistant professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

pangwei@cs.washington.edu

Machine learning, natural language processing

artificial intelligence

David Kohlbrenner David Kohlbrenner Assistant professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

dkohlbre@cs.washington.edu

Security and privacy (computers, computer hardware, web browsers, internet-of-things), computer security competitions (e.g. Capture the Flag, DEFCON)

hacking

Ed Kolodziej Ed Kolodziej Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

koloj@uw.edu

253-692-5659

Water quality and organic contaminants in natural and engineered systems, particularly in urban environments and roadway runoff

contaminant removal
mass spectrometry
pollution
Puget sound
salmon
stormwater
tires

Gregory Korshin Gregory Korshin Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

korshin@uw.edu

206-543-2394

Corrosion, release of heavy metals (lead, copper) in drinking water and other water contaminants

Meade Krosby Meade Krosby Senior scientist, Climate Impacts Group

mkrosby@uw.edu

206-579-8023

Climate change, wildlife movement, climate adaptation

heatwave

Ramya Kumar Ramya Kumar Doctoral candidate, Department of Epidemiology

rmakak1@uw.edu

global health, HIV and sexually transmitted infections, emerging infectious diseases, stigma in public health, climate change and health

Africa
emerging infectious diseases
equity and justice
global climate change
global health
global health security
stigma

Patricia Kuszler Patricia Kuszler Professor, School of Law

kuszler@uw.edu

health law, including reproductive rights, vaccines and medical malpractice; bioethics

Abortion
COVID-19
Public health
Reproductive rights
rvw
vaccines

Kristin Laidre Kristin Laidre Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

klaidre@uw.edu

206-616-9030

Arctic marine mammals (polar bears, narwhals, bowhead whales, belugas) as well as baleen whales (humpbacks and fin whales)

beluga
bowhead whales
fin whales
humpback whales
marine mammals
narwhals
whales

Joshua Lawler Joshua Lawler Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

jlawler@uw.edu

Nature’s health benefits, and the effectiveness of programs and policies designed to take advantage of those benefits. Director of UW's Nature and Health Initiative.

Ed Lazowska Ed Lazowska Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

lazowska@cs.washington.edu

206-543-4755

Techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery; information technology and public policy; design, implementation and analysis of high-performance computing and communications systems.

Randy LeVeque Randy LeVeque Professor emeritus, Department of Applied Mathematics

rjl@uw.edu

206-685-3037

Modeling tsunamis and other geohazards in the Pacific Northwest

math
modeling
tsunami

Su-In Lee Su-In Lee Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

suinlee@cs.washington.edu

Machine learning and data science, explainable AI (or interpretable machine learning), computational biology, clinical AI

health care

Christine Lee Christine Lee Research professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

leecm@uw.edu

206-543-6574

Marijuana and young adults, high-risk behavior, alcohol, prevention, intervention

alcohol
drug use
drugs
marijuana
prevention

Dawn Lehman Dawn Lehman Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

delehman@uw.edu

206-715-2108

Concrete bridges, composite construction, concrete frames, concrete walls and structural steel braced frames

concrete
construction
infrastructure
steel
structures
Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Scott Lemieux Scott Lemieux Assistant teaching professor, Department of Political Science

slemieux@uw.edu

Supreme Court, Electoral College, elections, impeachment, politics

2020 election
Election 2024
electoral college
rvw
supreme court
voting

Liliana Lengua Liliana Lengua Professor, Department of Psychology

liliana@uw.edu

206-543-5655

Children's resilience in economic disadvantage and adversity; children’s social, emotional and academic competence in the face of adversity

La TaSha Levy La TaSha Levy Assistant professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies

levyl@uw.edu

206-543-4358

African American history, race and ethnicity, social justice, social change movements

ethnicity
history
race
social change
social justice

Karen Levy Karen Levy Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

klevyx@uw.edu

Ecology and epidemiology of food- and waterborne diseases, water quality, food safety, infectious diseases, the impact of climate and land use change on the transmission of diarrheal diseases

James Lin James Lin Assistant professor, Jackson School of International Studies

jyslin@uw.edu

Taiwan, U.S.-Taiwan relations, Taiwan-China relations, Taiwan society and politics

Taryn Lindhorst Taryn Lindhorst Professor, School of Social Work

tarynlin@uw.edu

Grief/loss, death and dying, cancer, domestic violence, international child abduction

Shan Liu Shan Liu Associate professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering

liushan@uw.edu

Healthcare modeling and decision analytics; optimization applied to medical decision making, public health policy and resource allocation problems; technology assessment and evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis

health care
health policy
Public health

Clark Lombardi Clark Lombardi Professor, School of Law

lombardi@uw.edu

206-543-4939

Islamic law, constitutional law, religion and the law

federal courts
Islamic law
religion

James D. Long James D. Long Associate professor, Department of Political Science

jdlong@uw.edu

206-543-2947

Elections in fragile and developing countries, voting behavior and turnout, election fraud, corruption, electoral violence, Afghanistan, Africa

2020 election
corruption
Election 2024
politics
voting

Mark Long Mark Long Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

marklong@uw.edu

206-543-3787

Policies that affect transitions from high school to college to the labor market

economics
income
minimum wage
policy

Gabriel Lotto Gabriel Lotto ShakeAlert User Engagement Facilitator, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

glotto@uw.edu

ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system; tsunamis; subduction zone earthquakes

George Lovell George Lovell Professor, Department of Political Science

glovell@uw.edu

206-543-2780

American political institutions, political development, social movements and constitutional theory

constitution
Election 2024
politics
social movements

Laura Lowes Laura Lowes Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

lowes@uw.edu

Reinforced concrete structures, seismic design of concrete structures, retrofit of structures to improve earthquake resilience, simulation of earthquake response of structures

Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Jessica Lundquist Jessica Lundquist Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

jdlund@uw.edu

206-685-7594

Mountain snow, snow melt and streams

Parker MacCready Parker MacCready Professor, School of Oceanography

pmacc@uw.edu

206-685-9588

Modeling of ocean circulation; chemistry and biological properties in the Salish Sea and coastal waters of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia

algae
modeling
tsunami

Don MacKenzie Don MacKenzie Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

dwhm@uw.edu

206-685-7198

Electric vehicles, shared use transportation services, energy use in transportation sector

bike shares
bike sharing
discrimination
e-scooters
Lyft
rental scooters
ride-share
scooter sharing
Uber

Devin MacKenzie Devin MacKenzie Associate professor, Department of Materials Sciences & Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering

jdmacken@uw.edu

206-221-0309

Scale-up and applications of printed electronics and emerging thin film electronic material such as solar materials and energy storage devices

clean energy
solar

Eric Madfis Eric Madfis Associate Professor, UW Tacoma School of Social Work & Criminal Justice

emadfis@uw.edu

253-692-4809

causes and prevention of school violence, mass murder

crime
school violence
UW Tacoma
violence

Lucía Magis-Weinberg Lucía Magis-Weinberg Assistant professor, Department of Psychology

luciamw@uw.edu

Social media and adolescent development and mental health; adolescent mental health during the pandemic; adolescent media use in Latin America; collaborating with schools to promote digital citizenship

adolescence
mental health
social media

Steve Malone Steve Malone Research professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

smalone@uw.edu

206-685-3811

Regional earthquake and volcanic hazards; helped to monitor and study the first major modern eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

earthquakes
Mount St. Helens

Lisa Manheim Lisa Manheim Associate professor, School of Law

manheim@uw.edu

206-685-2546

election law, disputed elections, constitutional law, presidential power, Supreme Court, federal courts

2020 election
constitutional law
Election 2024
presidential power
supreme court

Jennifer Mankoff Jennifer Mankoff Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

jmankoff@uw.edu

Accessibility for people with disabilities of all sorts, especially with regard to 3D printing and machine learning; lived experience of disability in academia

accessibility
artificial intelligence

Charles Marcus Charles Marcus Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Department of Physics

cmarcus@uw.edu

Experimental condensed matter physics, quantum coherent electronics, quantum matter, qubits, quantum chaos, complexity, topology in condensed matter

Laurie Marhoefer Laurie Marhoefer Associate professor, Department of History

marl@uw.edu

206-685-5085

Gender, sexuality and LGBT/queer politics in the 20th century United States and Europe, and German electoral politics in the 1920s

antifa
fascism
gender
history
LGBTQ
politics
queer

Julian Marshall Julian Marshall Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

jdmarsh@uw.edu

(206) 685-2591

Models and measurements of people's exposure to air pollution, investigating ways to reduce exposures, environmental justice and disparities in exposure, exposures in the United States and in low-income countries

air pollution
environmental justice

Cliff Mass Cliff Mass Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

cmass@uw.edu

206-685-0910

Weather prediction and modeling

snow
weather

Guillaume Mauger Guillaume Mauger Washington's state climatologist and research scientist, UW Climate Impacts Group

gmauger@uw.edu

206-685-0317

Recent and historical weather trends across Washington state, as well as climate impacts and adaptation

Michael McCarthy Michael McCarthy Research associate professor, Earth and space sciences

mccarthy@uw.edu

206-685-2543

Lightning, space weather, aurorae, radiation belts and sprites (upper-atmosphere electrical discharges)

astronomy

Monica McLemore Monica McLemore Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Nursing

mclemor@uw.edu

510-239-7162

reproductive rights and justice, birth equity, maternal health, anti-racism in healthcare

Abortion
anti-racist healthcare
birth equity
policy translation
Reproductive rights

Lynn McMurdie Lynn McMurdie Research associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

lynnm@uw.edu

206-685-9405

Weather, thunderstorms, storms over mountain ranges

snow

Victor Menaldo Victor Menaldo Professor, Department of Political Science

vmenaldo@uw.edu

206-543-2769

Political economy of natural resources and property rights, including intellectual property rights, and regime change

economy
Election 2024
intellectual property
property rights
regime change

Scott Meschke Scott Meschke Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

jmeschke@uw.edu

Detection and control of pathogens in air, water, food and on surfaces; environmental surveillance to detect COVID-19, polio, antimicrobial resistance

Lucas Meza Lucas Meza Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

lmeza@uw.edu

Nanofabrication, nanomechanics, nanomaterials, lithography, additive manufacturing/3D printing, digital design, composites, bioinspired materials, architected materials, metamaterials

buckling
carbon fiber
strength

Ian Miller Ian Miller Coastal hazards specialist, Washington Sea Grant

immiller@uw.edu

360-417-6460

Coastal issues in Washington, including: climate change and sea level rise; coastal flooding; marine debris; tsunamis; and beach erosion

peninsula
sea-level rise
tsunami

Niloofar Mireshghallah Niloofar Mireshghallah Postdoctoral scholar, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

niloofar@cs.washington.edu

Privacy, generative AI, policy, natural language processing

AI
artificial intelligence
policy

Kristen Missall Kristen Missall Professor, College of Education

kmissall@uw.edu

206-616-9689

early skill development, school readiness, school transition and early school adjustment for ages 3-8; director of the School Psychology Program

education

Sajjad Moazeni Sajjad Moazeni Assistant professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

smoazeni@uw.edu

Data center and cloud architecture, networking and interconnects for AI and machine learning supercomputing, optical interconnect, optical sensing and imaging, electronic and photonic integrated chip design, industry consulting

big data
energy
energy efficiency
sustainable

Scott Montgomery Scott Montgomery Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies

scottlm@uw.edu

206-897-1611

Arctic and oil, oil and gas (reserves, technology, prices, politics), fracking, nuclear power, worked 25 years in the energy industry

arctic
Election 2024
energy
fracking
nuclear power
oil
Ukraine

David Montgomery David Montgomery Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

bigdirt@uw.edu

206-685-2560

Dirt formation, transport, movement, geology, soil health

dirt
geology
soil

Michelle Montgomery Michelle Montgomery Associate professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

montgm2@uw.edu

Climate justice, Indigenous identities and climate change, environmental ethics

climate change

Sue Moore Sue Moore Research scientist, Center for Ecosystem Sentinels

moore4@uw.edu

Ecology, bio-acoustics and natural history of whales and dolphins; emphasis on marine mammals in the Pacific Arctic region

bio-acoustics
bioacoustics
dolphins
marine mammals
whales

Kristi Morgansen Kristi Morgansen Professor and Chair, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics

morgansen@aa.washington.edu

206-616-5950

Aerospace engineering, bioinspired sensing and control, sensor networks, remote sensing

Sara Mouradian Sara Mouradian Assistant professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

smouradi@uw.edu

Quantum technologies, quantum sensing, quantum computing, trapped ion technologies, solid-state quantum technologies, optics, photonics

Steve Muench Steve Muench Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

stmuench@uw.edu

206-616-1259

Infrastructure construction (bridges, roads, dams, etc.), Transportation infrastructure sustainability, Sustainability rating systems, Roads and pavements

Sarah B. Munro Sarah B. Munro Assistant Professor, Health Systems and Population Health; Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (Canada)

sarahmun@uw.edu

Contraception and abortion, shared decision making, patient decision aids, access to care, community-based research, health equity

Abortion
health equity
Reproductive Health
Reproductive rights

Sean Munson Sean Munson Associate professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering

smunson@uw.edu

Consumer health technologies, health-tracking technologies, patient-provider collaboration, human-centered design, design and mental health

exercise
fitness
health

Michelle Muth Michelle Muth Assistant professor, Earth and space sciences

mmuth@uw.edu

Volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest, the chemistry of volcanoes

volcanoes

Rebecca Neumann Rebecca Neumann Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

rbneum@uw.edu

206-221-2298

Arsenic and other metal contamination in groundwater; plants and contamination; climate change; water quality/storm water; and food quality

Jan Newton Jan Newton Oceanographer, UW Applied Physics Laboratory

newton@apl.washington.edu

206-543-9152

Ocean observing, ocean acidification and phytoplankton in Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest waters

heatwave

Xuan-Thao Nguyen Xuan-Thao Nguyen Professor, School of Law

xunguyen@uw.edu

206-616-7658

Cryptocurrency (NFTs, class action litigation, payments, blockchain games); intellectual property (trademarks, brands, copyrights, patents, licensing; IP financing and taxation); venture capital (venture debt, shareholder litigation); ESG/Environmental Social Governance (stakeholder capitalism metrics, compliance)

cryptocurrency
law
NFTs
venture capital

Randy Nichols Randy Nichols Associate professor, Department of Communication

rjnic@uw.edu

253-692-4575

Media/communication industries, video game industry, media/communication policy, emerging media technologies, video game labor, media/communication labor

Peter Nicolas Peter Nicolas Professor, School of Law

pnicolas@uw.edu

206-685-2459

LGBTQ issues, civil rights, affirmative action, constitutional law, music law, First Amendment issues

affirmative action
civil rights
First Amendment
LGBTQ
music law

Ayokunle Olanrewaju Ayokunle Olanrewaju Assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering; Bioengineering

ayokunle@uw.edu

Diagnostics for infectious diseases, portable and miniaturized devices,

Yoshitaka Ota Yoshitaka Ota Professor of practice, Marine and environmental affairs, and Director, Ocean Nexus Center

yota1@uw.edu

Ocean governance, ocean equity, marine plastics

environmental justice
environmental policy
ocean

Jennifer Otten Jennifer Otten Associate Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

jotten@uw.edu

Nutrition policy, food production, food waste, food security and access for vulnerable populations

Dennis O’Dea Dennis O’Dea Senior lecturer, Department of Economics

odea@uw.edu

Public economies, social networks and applied macroeconomics

economics
economy
macroeconomics
social media

Margaret O’Mara Margaret O’Mara Professor, Department of History

momara@uw.edu

206-685-2928

Tech history and tech regulation, American presidents and American politics, work and workers, past and future of cities

2020 election
Election 2024
history
silicon valley
technology

Soojin Oh Park Soojin Oh Park Assistant professor, College of Education

parkso@uw.edu

Early childhood development, parenting, race and income equity, immigrant-origin children, family engagement

education

Katy Pearce Katy Pearce Associate Professor, Department of Communication

kepearce@uw.edu

technology and social media in authoritarian states

social
Wordle

Diana Pearce Diana Pearce Senior lecturer, School of Social Work

pearce@uw.edu

Income inequality

coronavirus
COVID-19
income
inequality

Saadia Pekkanen Saadia Pekkanen Professor, Jackson School of International Studies

smp1@uw.edu

Space law, space security, space policy, space diplomacy, Small-Satellites-Big Data (SSBD)

Noam Pianko Noam Pianko Director, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

npianko@uw.edu

History of Israel; modern Jewish history; Zionism; American Judaism

Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky Associate professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies

cpt4@uw.edu

206-543-6363

Immigration and citizenship, Latinx studies, race relations, labor, illegality and the everyday experiences of societal membership as undocumented migrants and members of mixed-status families

citizenship
family
immigration
labor
latino
latinx
race

Robert Plotnick Robert Plotnick Professor emeritus, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

plotnick@uw.edu

206-930-5111

American poverty, income inequality, income support policy and social policy issues

economics
economy
income
inequality
policy
poverty

Brian Polagye Brian Polagye Associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

bpolagye@uw.edu

206-543-7544

Marine renewable energy (wave, tidal, riverine and offshore wind)

Matthew J. Powers Matthew J. Powers Associate Professor, Department of Communication

mjpowers@uw.edu

802-922-3364

Media

2020 election
communication
Election 2024
media

Aseem Prakash Aseem Prakash Professor, Department of Political Science

aseem@uw.edu

425-681-5097

Environmental policy, climate governance, NGOs and nonprofits, and voluntary/private regulation

2020 election
Election 2024
environmental policy
InflationReductionAct
politics

Terry Price Terry Price Affiliate Instructor, School of Law

tprice@uw.edu

family law, health law, LGBTQ rights

Election 2024
health law
LGBTQ
rvw

Susan Prichard Susan Prichard Fire ecologist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

sprich@uw.edu

509-341-4493

Wildfire ecology, climate change and fire, wildfire management, fuel treatment effectiveness, dry forest restoration, changing landscapes (legacies of fire exclusion, recent wildfires and climate change).

climate change
ecology
forest restoration
wildfire
wildfires

Dr. Peter Rabinowitz Dr. Peter Rabinowitz Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Emerging infectious diseases, zoonotic infectious diseases, One Health

Scott Radnitz Scott Radnitz Associate professor, Jackson School of International Studies

srad@uw.edu

Post-Soviet region, protests, authoritarianism, Eurasia, Russia

Ukraine

Adrian Raftery Adrian Raftery Professor, Department of Statistics, Department of Sociology

raftery@uw.edu

Interpreting COVID-19 data, understanding different COVID-19 data sources and statistics

COVID-19
data
statistics

Anis Rahman Anis Rahman Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Communication

aniscom@uw.edu

US-China communication geopolitics, South Asian cultures, media in hybrid regimes, Chinese Belt & Road Initiative in South Asia

Anita Ramasastry Anita Ramasastry Professor, School of Law

arama@uw.edu

International law; human rights; corruption/money laundering; business dealings with and sanctions against Russia; supply chains; business and contract issues

Ukraine

Jessica Ray Jessica Ray Assistant professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

jessray@uw.edu

Contaminants in stormwater; current green stormwater infrastructure and best management practices; reactive media that can increase contaminant removal; sources of PFAS in water; PFAS properties; current treatment processes for PFAS in water

forever chemicals
PFAS
salmon
stormwater

Arjee Restar Arjee Restar Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

restar@uw.edu

Reproductive health, Transgender health, Health policy, Epidemiology, Social determinants of health

Abortion
Reproductive Health
rvw
Transgender Health

Mouse Reusch Mouse Reusch Regional ShakeAlert coordinator, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

topo@uw.edu

206-462-8874

Pacific Northwest earthquakes, seismic risk, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system

earthquakes
shake alert
shakealert

Taylor Riley Taylor Riley Doctoral Student, Epidemiology

striley@uw.edu

Sexual and reproductive health and rights, perinatal health care, social determinants of health

Abortion
Reproductive Health
Reproductive rights
rvw

Marilyn Roberts Marilyn Roberts Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

marilynr@uw.edu

Contamination and disinfection in the environment and on surfaces

Jenny Robinson Jenny Robinson Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

jrobins1@uw.edu

Tissue regeneration after sports injury, biomaterials for regeneration, sex differences in sports injury and regeneration, cartilage and fibrocartilage biology

diversity in STEM
knee
recovery
soccer
sports medicine
women's sports

Charles Roeder Charles Roeder Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

croeder@uw.edu

206-543-6199

Gusset plates and steel bracing frames; seismic behavior of steel and composite structures; fatigue of steel structures; temperature effects in structures; movements in bridges; bridge bearings and expansion joints

bridges
construction
earthquakes
infrastructure

Franziska Roesner Franziska Roesner Associate professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

franzi@cs.washington.edu

Computer security and privacy, online mis/disinformation, online advertising and tracking

2020 election

Roger Roffman Roger Roffman Professor emeritus, School of Social Work

roffman@uw.edu

206-915-6544

Behavioral interventions in the fields of addicted disorders and domestic violence

addiction
domestic violence
social work

Matt Rogers Matt Rogers Research scientist, UW Climate Impacts Group

rawrgers@uw.edu

Local climate impacts across Washington state

climate
climate change

Jennie Romich Jennie Romich Associate professor, School of Social Work

romich@uw.edu

Poverty, government policies to address inequities

income
inequality
poverty

Julie Rorrer Julie Rorrer Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

jrorrer@uw.edu

Sustainable chemistry, chemical recycling of waste plastics, biofuels, reaction engineering

catalyst
chemistry
fuels
plastics
sustainable

Elaina Rose Elaina Rose Associate professor, Department of Economics

erose@uw.edu

206-543-5237

Labor economics, development economics and applied microeconomics

economics
economy
labor
microeconomics

Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Professor, Department of Epidemiology

rowhani@uw.edu

206-221-1602

Violence prevention, with a focus on reducing firearm-related harm

epidemiology
gun violence

Chris Rudell Chris Rudell Associate professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

jcrudell@uw.edu

206-685-1600

Wireless communication systems; integrated circuit design, particularly in CMOS technology; analog, mixed-signal, radio- and high-frequency millimeter wave circuit design; integrated neural interfaces; all-CMOS integrated Positron Emission Tomography front-end readout electronics; biomedical integrated circuits

5G
cell phones

Adrienne Russell Adrienne Russell Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication

adruss@uw.edu

Communications and media

activism
communication
Election 2024
media

Dr. Coralynn Sack Dr. Coralynn Sack Assistant Professor , Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and School of Medicine

cssack@uw.edu

Environmental and occupational lung disease, health effects of air pollution and wildfire smoke, occupational exposures in cannabis workers

air quality
wildfire

Tatiana Sadak Tatiana Sadak Associate Professor, School of Nursing

sadakt@uw.edu

206-459-1158

Psychiatry, older adult mental health, caregiving, dementia, long term care

Eric Salathé Eric Salathé Associate professor, School of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, UW Bothell

salathe@uw.edu

206-616-5351

Pacific Northwest climate change, extreme weather events

climate change
flooding
UW Bothell
weather

Ilene Schwartz Ilene Schwartz Professor, College of Education

ilene@uw.edu

206-616-3450

special education, inclusion, behavorial interventions, autism

education

Dan Schwartz Dan Schwartz Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

dts@uw.edu

Clean energy research, Washington Clean Energy test-beds, energy storage, accelerating global clean energy development and integration

clean energy
InflationReductionAct

Pepper Schwartz Pepper Schwartz Professor, Department of Sociology

couples@uw.edu

206-543-4036

Sexuality, marriage, cohabitation, gender, women’s issues, parent and child issues, communication between men and women in intimate and work relationships

communication
family
gender
LGBTQ
marriage
relationships
sexuality

Axel Schweiger Axel Schweiger Polar scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory

axel@apl.washington.edu

206-543-1312

Sea ice volume, Arctic weather, polar science

arctic
climate change
physics
polar science
sea ice
weather

Edmund Seto Edmund Seto Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

eseto@uw.edu

Health effects of air pollution and noise exposures, use of emerging technologies to evaluate exposures to environmental and workplace hazards

Chirag Shah Chirag Shah Professor, Information School

chirags@uw.edu

misinformation and search engines, search and recommender systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence

AI
artificial intelligence
fake news
Google
Google searches
music
playlists
Spotify

Nancy Simcox Nancy Simcox Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

nsimcox@uw.edu

Use of cleaners and disinfectants in the workplace, green cleaning, and transitioning to safer chemicals

Kate Simonen Kate Simonen Assistant professor, Department of Architecture

ksimonen@uw.edu

206-685-7282

High-performance building systems and environmental life cycle assessment of buildings, explaining engineering concepts to non-technical audiences

architecture
infrastructure

Christopher Simpson Christopher Simpson Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

simpson1@uw.edu

Workplace health and safety, assessment of exposure to toxic chemicals, cannabis worker health and safety

Mark Smith Mark Smith Professor, Department of Political Science

masmith@uw.edu

206-616-3606

Public opinion, interest groups, political communication, political economy and public policy

2020 election
Election 2024
politics
polling
public policy
voting

Dr. June Spector Dr. June Spector Associate professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

spectj@uw.edu

Heat exposure and other climate-related hazards in working populations

heatwave

Emma Spiro Emma Spiro Assistant professor, Information School

espiro@uw.edu

misinformation in social media, including disaster and crisis events; information flow; social behavior and social interaction; collective sensemaking; attention dynamics; role of emergency responders; and computational and data science methods.

Hugh Spitzer Hugh Spitzer Professor, School of Law

spith@uw.edu

206-685-1635

Constitutional law, federalism, legal ethics and professional responsibility, state and local government law, comparative constitutionalism

John Stanton John Stanton Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

stanton@uw.edu

206-543-6057

General bridge knowledge; earthquake engineering, including seismic isolation; precast and pre-stressed concrete structures; concrete bridges

bridges
concrete
earthquake engineering

Eric Steig Eric Steig Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences

steig@uw.edu

206-685-3715

Antarctic glaciers, Antarctic ice cores, El Niño cycles

Antarctica
El Nino
glaciers
ice
weather

Nephi Stella Nephi Stella Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

nstella@uw.edu

206-221-5220

Marijuana and neuropathologies, multiple sclerosis

marijuana
multiple sclerosis

Kristi Straus Kristi Straus Associate director, Program on the Environment

kmstraus@uw.edu

Sustainability, personal choices, sustainable behavior

Stuart Streichler Stuart Streichler Affiliate associate professor, Law, Societies and Justice Program

sstreich@uw.edu

206-842-4902

Presidential campaigns, law, Supreme Court, constitutional law, law and race

Election 2024
law
race
supreme court
UW Bothell

Jennifer Stuber Jennifer Stuber Associate professor, School of Social Work

jstuber@uw.edu

206-616-9083

Suicide prevention, mental health policy, social justice, stigma and discrimination, health disparities among vulnerable populations

discrimination
forefront
mental health
suicide

Huatong Sun Huatong Sun Associate professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

htsun@uw.edu

Innovation and design for social media & technology across the globe; inclusivity and social justice concerning cross-cultural, multicultural, and global design; cultural sensitive design

Abigail Swann Abigail Swann Associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Biology

aswann@uw.edu

206-616-0486

Vegetation and global climate

biology
climate change
ecosystem
plants

Dr. Pooja Tandon Dr. Pooja Tandon Associate professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

pooja@uw.edu

Strategies for play and exercise for children during COVID-19 restrictions. Research is on preventing childhood obesity and the connection between outdoor play, physical activity and various health and development outcomes in preschool-age children.

Riki Thompson Riki Thompson Associate Professor, Writing Studies & Digital Rhetoric at UW Tacoma

rikitiki@uw.edu

206-355-5474

Intersections of language, technology, identity, and interpersonal connectivity with a focus on how people negotiate digital spaces to connect with (and exclude) others

digital communication
online dating
pandemic dating
self-representation online
social media and society
teaching with technology
visual communication

LuAnne Thompson LuAnne Thompson Professor, School of Oceanography

luanne@uw.edu

206-543-9965

The ocean's role in climate variability and change, marine heatwaves, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

climate
climate change
models
sea-level rise

Jim Thomson Jim Thomson Principal oceanographer, UW Applied Physics Laboratory

jthomson@apl.washington.edu

206-616-0858

Waves, wave hazards in the Arctic Ocean, tidal and wave energy

arctic
ocean
waves

Joel Thornton Joel Thornton Professor and chair, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

joelt@uw.edu

206-543-4010

Tracking wildfire smoke impacts on air quality and climate, detecting emissions

Rebecca Thorpe Rebecca Thorpe Associate professor, Department of Political Science

bthorpe@uw.edu

206-543-6493

United States political institutions, political development, state violence, the national security state, criminal justice system

Afghanistan
criminal justice system
Election 2024
politics
terrorism

Harold Tobin Harold Tobin Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, and Washington's state seismologist

htobin@uw.edu

206-543-6790

Earthquakes, Cascadia subduction zone, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system, global plate tectonics

Cascadia
earthquakes
PNSN
shakealert
subduction
tsunami
Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Maya Tolstoy Maya Tolstoy Dean, UW College of the Environment

coenvcom@uw.edu

Marine geophysics; seafloor earthquakes and volcanoes; academic inclusion; environmental sustainability

InflationReductionAct

Timeka N. Tounsel Timeka N. Tounsel Assistant Professor of Black Studies in Communication

timeka@uw.edu

Black/African American culture, television, race & media, gender & media, Black feminism/womanism, digital media, ethnic marketing

Christopher Tounsel Christopher Tounsel Associate Professor, Department of History

ctounsel@uw.edu

847-284-0687

Sudan, South Sudan

Kathy Troost Kathy Troost Associate teaching professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences

ktroost@uw.edu

206-221-1770

Landslides, Seattle geology, Puget Lowland geology, geologic hazard mapping

Yulia Tsvetkov Yulia Tsvetkov Associate professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

yuliats@cs.washington.edu

Natural language processing, ethics and AI, computational social science, multilingual natural language processing, large language models

artificial intelligence
ethics

Ka-Kit Tung Ka-Kit Tung Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics

ktung@uw.edu

Modeling COVID-19 outbreaks, projecting public health impact, comparing different types of modeling approaches

Alex Turner Alex Turner Assistant professor, Atmospheric Sciences

turneraj@uw.edu

Methane: Natural and human sources, history, and statistical modeling

methane

Stephen Turnovsky Stephen Turnovsky Professor, Department of Economics

sturn@uw.edu

206-685-8028

Economic growth, macroeconomics and international macroeconomics and public economies

economics
economy
macroeconomics

Aniruddh Vashisth Aniruddh Vashisth Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

vashisth@uw.edu

Fiber composites, nanocomposites, rapid manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, mechanics of materials, material synthesis

carbon fiber

Jacob Vigdor Jacob Vigdor Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

jvigdor@uw.edu

206-616-4436

Immigration policy, racial and economic inequality, minimum wage

economics
economy
minimum wage
race

Denise Walker Denise Walker Research associate professor, School of Social Work

ddwalker@uw.edu

206-543-7511

Development, testing and implementation of interventions that bring about positive changes in patterns of behavior; treatment of marijuana disorders in both adolescents and adults

Melanie Walsh Melanie Walsh Assistant teaching professor, Information School

melwalsh@uw.edu

Social media, data about culture (books, art, etc.), ethics of data and data collection, AI art and writing, large language models, digital humanities, contemporary reading and readers, programming for non-computational audiences

Camille Walsh Camille Walsh Associate professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell

camwalsh@uw.edu

425-352-3352

Immigration law

immigration
law
UW Bothell

Yinhai Wang Yinhai Wang Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and director, Washington State Transportation Center

yinhai@uw.edu

Transportation safety, traffic sensing, smart infrastructure and mobility, connected and automated vehicles, traffic operations, smart cities, artificial intelligence methods and applications

artificial intelligence
bike
biking
pedestrians

Chun Wang Professor, College of Education

wang4066@uw.edu

AI for measurement, psychometrics, large-scale national and international educational surveys

artificial intelligence
education

Mark Ward Mark Ward Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies

wardm7@uw.edu

Humanitarian emergencies & natural/man-made disasters; public-private partnerships in disaster response

Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Joseph Wartman Joseph Wartman Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

wartman@uw.edu

206-685-4806

Natural hazards, disasters, landslides

landslides
natural disaster

Allison Webel Allison Webel Professor, School of Nursing

awebel@uw.edu

HIV and aging, healthy aging, physical activity and aging, and living with HIV

aging
HIV

Stacey Wedlake Stacey Wedlake Research scientist, Information School

staceyaw@uw.edu

Digital equity, digital inequalities, digital divides, adult digital literacy — mostly focused in the United States

Alys Eve Weinbaum Alys Eve Weinbaum Professor, English; Adjunct Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Comparative History of Ideas

alysw@uw.edu

206-310-3794

Reproductive politics and cultures, reproductive rights and justice; feminist studies and gender studies; critical race theory; Black Studies; Marxism and marxist literary criticism; African American literature; modern transatlantic literature and culture

Reproductive rights
rvw

Carolyn West Carolyn West Professor of Clinical Psychology, UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

carwest@uw.edu

Domestic violence; sexual assault; sexual harassment; reproductive health and abortion; racism in media images and pornography; psychology of Black women; mental health

Reproductive rights
rvw

Jevin West Jevin West Associate professor, Information School

jevinw@uw.edu

206-543-2646

Misinformation, evolution of science, the models and science used to predict the spread of COVID-19

disinformation
misinformation

William Wilcock William Wilcock Professor, School of Oceanography

wilcock@uw.edu

206-543-6043

Marine geology, monitoring seafloor earthquakes, Cascadia subduction zone

Cascadia
earthquakes
geology
subduction zones

John Wilkerson John Wilkerson Professor, Department of Political Science

jwilker@u.washington.edu

Legislative organization and decision-making, health politics, comparative legislative studies

Election 2024
legislative
legislator
politics
waleg

Daniela Witten Daniela Witten Professor, Department of Biostatistics; Department of Statistics

dwitten@uw.edu

206-616-7182

Machine learning for big data, with applications to genomics, neuroscience, and other fields

Jacob O. Wobbrock Jacob O. Wobbrock Professor, The Information School

Human-computer interaction (HCI), user interface technology, user interface design, input/interaction techniques (e.g., touch, gesture, voice), mobile and wearable technology, accessible computing, assistive technology for people with disabilities, technology entrepreneurship

accessibility

Kathleen Wolf Kathleen Wolf Research social scientist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

kwolf@uw.edu

Nature-based human health, environmental health, environmental psychology, urban ecosystems, urban forestry, urban planning, green schoolyards

Rob Wood Rob Wood Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

robwood2@uw.edu

206-543-1203

Clouds, marine brightening, climate change, climate variability

climate
clouds

Rebecca Woodgate Rebecca Woodgate Associate professor, School of Oceanography

woodgate@apl.washington.edu

206-221-3268

Arctic Ocean environment, especially in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea

arctic
ocean
sea

Jie Xiao Jie Xiao Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

jxiao4@uw.edu

Electrochemical energy storage, batteries for electric vehicles and grid energy storage, energy manufacturing

Paul Yager Paul Yager Professor, Department of Bioengineering

yagerp@uw.edu

Microfluidics, bioassay development for detection of pathogens and assays for biomarkers of human health, home diagnostics and point-of-care diagnostics development, biophysics.

bacteria
virus

Jinkyu "JK" Yang Jinkyu "JK" Yang Associate professor, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics

jkyang@aa.washington.edu

metamaterials, composites, origami-inspired material/structure design

Ekin Yasin Ekin Yasin Director of Communication Leadership Program, Teaching Professor

ekiny@uw.edu

917-822-8393

Leadership for AI, AI and communications, future of work, role of communication at organizations, responsive leadership during crisis, changes in the tech industry, social impact, communication for emerging tech

Jason Yip Jason Yip Associate professor, Information School

jcyip@uw.edu

Technology use among children and families in homes, schools, and communities; digital gaming; education technology; designing with children

education
teaching with technology
technology

Michael Yost Michael Yost Professor and chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

airion@uw.edu

206-685-7243

Agricultural safety and health, ambient air pollutants, children’s health, climate change, diesel exhaust, pesticides, noise, vibration exposure

coronavirus
COVID
PPE
wildfire

Amy Zhang Amy Zhang Assistant professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

axz@cs.washington.edu

Human-computer interaction, social computing, social media, online communities, misinformation, online harassment, remote work, online collaboration, collective action, content moderation