Science: Faculty Experts: For Journalists

Dr. Mohamed Abazeed

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, The Graduate School

Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology

Field: Artificial Intelligence, Cancer and Oncology, Complex Systems, Data Science, Genetics, Radiology

Focus Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Treatment, Genetic Medicine and Health, Machine Learning and Automation, Medical Imaging, Precision Medicine, Statistics and probability

Katherine R. Amato

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Field: Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Gastroenterology, Human Biology, Molecular Biosciences

Focus Areas: Ecology, Health Equity and Disparities, Human Evolution, Infant Health, Life Sciences, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases, Physiology

Yarrow Axford

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

William Deering Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Field: Earth Science

Focus Areas: Climate Change, Geology, Ice Melt, Sea Level Change

Patricia A. Beddows

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Field: Earth Science

Focus Areas: Climate Change, Geology, Sea Level Change

Holly Troy Benz

McCormick School of Engineering

Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Master of Science in Energy & Sustainability

Field: Business Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Focus Areas: Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Electric Cars, Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable energy

Christopher P L Berry

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

CIERA Board of Visitors Research Professor

Field: Data Science, Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, Gravity, Theoretical Astrophysics

Neal Blair

McCormick School of Engineering, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Field: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth Science

Focus Areas: Agriculture, Biofuels, Biogeochemistry, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Deforestation, Ecology, Environmental Science, Environmental Sustainability

Paul J. CaraDonna

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Instruction, Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Field: Plant Biology

Focus Areas: Bees and Pollination, Climate Change, Ecology

Alexis R. Demonbreun

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Center for Genetic Medicine, Department of Pharmacology

Field: Human Biology, Molecular Biosciences, Neurology, Pathology

Focus Areas: Muscular Dystrophy, Regenerative Medicine

William Dichtel

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Organic Chemistry, Water Quality and Purification

Zoheyr Doctor

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Board of Visitors Research Assistant Professor

Field: Data Science, Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Data Science, Data Visualization, Gravitational Waves, Gravity

Claude-André Faucher-Giguère

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Dark Matter

Aaron Geller

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Lead Data Scientist

Field: Data Science, Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Data Science, Data Visualization

Andrew Geraci

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Atomic Physics, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves

Daniel Horton

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Field: Earth Science, Environmental Studies, Public Health

Focus Areas: Climate Change, Electric Cars, Environmental Science, Environmental Sustainability, Extreme Weather, Natural Disasters, Pollution

Andrew D. Jacobson

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Earth and planetary science

Field: Earth Science

Focus Areas: Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Decarbonization, Environmental Science, Geology, Sustainable energy

Vicky Kalogera

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Daniel I Linzer Distinguished University Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, Theoretical Astrophysics

Neil Kelleher

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor and Director Proteomics

Field: Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences

Focus Areas: Biotechnology

Kevin L. Kohlstedt

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Research Associate Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Biophysics, Machine Learning and Automation, Molecular Bonds, Quantum Mechanics, Solar Energy, Sustainable energy

Shane L. Larson

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves

Joshua Nathaniel Leonard

McCormick School of Engineering

Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence,

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Cancer and Oncology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Human Biology, Molecular Biosciences, Synthetic Biology

Focus Areas: Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Cancer Treatment, Drug Development, Genetic Medicine and Health, HIV/AIDS, Immunology, Pharmaceutical Industry, Precision Medicine

Abraham Lerman

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Field: Earth Science

Focus Areas: Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Geology, Sustainable energy

Jeffrey Lopez

McCormick School of Engineering

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Field: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Data Science, Materials Science

Focus Areas: Climate Change, Electric Cars, Organic Chemistry, Robotics, Sustainable energy

Dave Meyer

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics

Chad Mirkin

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Nanomedicine

Richard Morimoto

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology

Field: Aging, Human Biology, Molecular Biosciences

Focus Areas: Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, Neurodegenerative Disease, Stress

Milan Mrksich

McCormick School of Engineering

Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science

Focus Areas: Cancer Treatment, Cell Biology, Drug Development

Justin M. Notestein

McCormick School of Engineering

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Field: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Biofuels, Carbon Cycle, Molecular Bonds, Organic Chemistry, Sustainable energy

Teri W. Odom

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Biomedicine, Nanomedicine

Thomas O’Halloran

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Adjunct Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Focus Areas: Cancer Treatment, Cell Biology, Cellular Metals, Drug Development, Therapeutics

Emile A. Okal

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Field: Earth Science

Focus Areas: Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Tsunamis

Arthur Prindle

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Molecular Biosciences

Focus Areas: Biotechnology

Gabriel Jacob Rocklin

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Field: Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Pharmacology

Focus Areas: Biochemistry, Biophysics

John Rogers

McCormick School of Engineering

Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Bioelectronics, Haptics, Nanomedicine, Wearable Technology

Brad Sageman

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Field: Earth Science

Focus Areas: Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Decarbonization, Environmental Sustainability, Geology, Sustainable energy

Karl Scheidt

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Chemistry and of Pharmacology

Field: Chemistry

Focus Areas: Cancer Treatment, Drug Development, Therapeutics

Nathaniel P. Stern

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Field: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Atomic Physics, Fiber-optics, Information Systems and Technology, Quantum Mechanics

Fraser Stoddart

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Molecular Bonds

Sasha Tchekhovskoy

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics & Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Dark Matter

Danielle Tullman-Ercek

McCormick School of Engineering

Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Field: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biosciences, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology

Focus Areas: Antibiotic Resistance, Biochemistry, Biofuels, Biomaterials, Biophysics, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Industry, Vaccines

Melville Ulmer

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Data Science, Data Visualization

Suzan Van Der Lee

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Field: Earth Science

Focus Areas: Data Science, Earthquakes, Geology, Natural Disasters