Michael Altman
School of Medicine Member until May 2029 Research: Quality clinical implementation of hyperthermia for MR/HIFU systems, quality assurance of MR/HIFU systems, automated quality assurance of contours for radiation therapy treatment planning, and an array of projects in prostate and breast brachytherapy.
Tim Wencewicz
Arts & Sciences Member until May 2029 Research: Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistance, Enzyme Mechanisms, Enzyme Inhibitors, Natural Product Biosynthesis, Bacterial Iron Acquisition.
J. Dillon Brown
Arts & Sciences Member until May 2029 Research: Postcolonial literature and theory, Anglophone Caribbean literature, Black and Asian British literature, world literature, global modernisms, diaspora, migration, hemispheric American literature, and Anglophone postcolonial literature. Teaching: Undergraduate courses include writing identity, Caribbean Literature in English, Seminar for Freshman: Immigrants and Exiles. Graduate courses include International Modernism/World Literature.
Kunal Agrawal
McKelvey School of Engineering Member until May 2029 Research: parallel computing, design of provably good runtime systems for parallel programming environments, scheduling, resource allocation, transactional memory, cache-aware, and cache-oblivious streaming.
Jeffrey Henderson
DBBS/School of Medicine Member until May 2029 Research: Infection pathogenesis; translational metabolomics; mass spectrometry; transition metal biology; phagocyte biology. Teaching: Graduate classes on reading scientific literature, epistemology and biomedical research; research proposal preparation.
Jenika Scott
PhD Student in Social Work (Brown School) Member until May 2028 Research Interests: Wellness outcomes among Afro-Caribbean women; psychosocial stress; structural inequality and cultural displacement; asset-, capacity-, and capability-building; community-based, public health, and culturally grounded approaches to well-being and social policy
Cass Pitts
PhD Student in Molecular Genetics and Genomics (DBBS) Member until May 2028 Research interests: Chromatin profiling, transcription factor binding mechanisms, and epigenetics.
Stephen Plassmeyer
PhD Student in the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences – Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology Member until May 2027 Research Interests: Transcription factor intrinsically disordered region evolution and sequence-function relationships
Matías Acevedo Gutiérrez
PhD Student in Hispanic Studies Member until May 2027 Research Interests: Theater Studies, Performance Studies, popular and material culture, public sphere and cultural policies in the Southern Cone
Joseph Jez
Arts & Sciences Member since August 2025 Research: Biochemistry and structural biology of plant and microbial metabolic pathways. Teaching: Biotech Explorers Pathway (an A&S First-Year Program – Bio1210, Bio1220, Bio3010), the two-semester Biochemistry course sequence (Chem4810, Chem4820), and summer undergraduate research programs (Amgen Scholars, Beckman Scholars, and NSF-REU).
Anya Plutynski
Arts & Sciences Member since January 2025 Research: Philosophy of Biology; History and Philosophy of Medicine; Philosophy of Science; Biomedical Ethics, biomedical research ethics, particularly issues surrounding precision oncology, cancer genomics, and risk communication. Teaching: Courses include Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Biology, and PNP Seminar on Mental Health & […]
Katharine Flores
McKelvey School of Engineering Member until May 2028 Research: Kathy Flores’ primary research interest is the mechanical behavior of high performance structural materials, with particular emphasis on understanding structure-processing-property relationships in bulk metallic glasses and their composites.
Cynthia Cryder
Olin Business School Member until May 2027 Research: Judgment and Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior, Financial Decision Making, Incentives, Field and Internet Research Methodology. Teaching: MBA courses in Marketing Management; PhD courses in Experimental Methodology in Behavioral Science.
Patrick Fowler
Brown School Member until May 2027 Research: Housing and environmental justice, child and family programs and policies, community-engaged systems and data sciences. Teaching: Conceptual foundations of anti-racist social science, responsible AI, program and policy evaluation, equitable prevention and promotion program design.
Shenyang Guo
Brown School Member until May 2027 Research: Statistical methods of causal inference, longitudinal modeling, methods of program evaluation and intervention research, child mental health services. Teaching: Graduate courses on linear and generalized linear modeling, survival analysis, and methods of causal inference.
Michael Frachetti
Arts and Sciences Member until May 2027 Research: Social organization and political institutions of ancient nomadic societies, Economy, paleoenvironmental interactions of extreme environments throughout prehistory, Urbanism and trade along the ancient Silk Roads. Teaching: Undergraduate courses include the formation of long-term social landscapes, ancient nomadic ecology, and 3D modeling with Geospatial technologies. Graduate courses include […]
Patrick Hill
Arts and Sciences Member until May 2029 Research: Purpose in life; wellbeing across the lifespan; identity development; personality and cognitive aging. Teaching: Health psychology, social gerontology, personality psychology.
Catherine Lang
School of Medicine Member until May 2027 Research: Stroke recovery, Rehabilitation, and Accelerometry Teaching: Graduate content in motor systems neuroscience, motor control, and research design. Graduate research mentorship.
Vijay K. Ramani
Senior Vice Provost for Graduate Education and International Affairs
Expertise: Electrochemical energy conversion and storage Research: Vijay’s research interests lie at the confluence of electrochemical engineering, materials science, and energy technologies, with a focus on electrochemical energy conversion and storage (low temperature fuel cells, electrolyzers and redox-flow batteries). NSF, ONR, DOE, ARPA-E, and industry currently fund/have funded his research. He is a fellow of the Electrochemical […]
Steve Mennerick
Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S) Member until May 2027 Research: Cellular and circuit level neuroscience, neuropharmacology. Teaching: Graduate and postdoctoral apprenticeships, graduate neuroscience, graduate research fundamentals, phase 1 medical curriculum.