Faculty Labs and Research

The Tian Research Lab focuses on the identification and quantification of known and unknown contaminants in our environment, to assess their risks to human health and the ecosystem.

The Peltier research group integrates organic, inorganic, and materials chemistry to tackle challenges in catalysis, energy, and sustainability. We develop synthetic methods to manipulate electronic structure, leading to novel molecules and designer materials. Our current focus is on creating high-capacity porous frameworks for gas storage and molecular separations, new redox-active materials for stable redox flow…

The Wang Lab seeks to advance our understanding of chloroplast function using the model unicellular microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The research in Wang lab aims to provide new targets for bioengineering crops, algae, and other photosynthetic organisms to improve their photosynthesis efficiency and enhance their resistance to environmental stresses while improving yields and sustainability. Wang lab…

Our group combines chemistry and biology to investigate the molecular machines responsible for building and maintaining the bacterial cell envelope. We focus on essential, conserved protein complexes for which antibiotics have yet been developed. A long-term goal of our research is to design precision, mechanism-based inhibitors targeting these proteins to combat multidrug-resistant infections.

The Davidi lab investigates stress adaptation mechanisms in extremophilic algae to develop solutions for global food security and ecosystem health by understanding and enhancing resilience in photosynthetic organisms.

The Wang Lab develops mammalian synthetic biology tools to advance anti-cancer cellular therapy, regenerative medicine, and microfluidic human organ models.

The Water Resources Ecohydrology Lab (WRElab) seeks to help better manage watersheds for the good of both people and nature in a shifting climate. To do so, we build new understanding of how watersheds function as systems, with interactions among meteorological forcing, geologic setting, and ecological process, and how these systems affect critical water resources.

The Climate Dynamics Lab investigates the causes and impacts of changes in oceanic and atmospheric circulation and climate variability, both past and future, with the goal to improve quantitative understanding of the physical processes driving climate dynamics across time scales. They take an interdisciplinary approach that integrates climate modeling, isotope-enabled simulations, statistical and machine learning…

Professor Whitfield-Gabrieli’s primary mission is to understand the brain basis of psychiatric disorders and to promote translation of this knowledge into clinical practice.

Work at the Complexity & Society Lab, or the “And Lab”, is centered around theoretical and methodological advances in Complex Systems science, with focus areas in network dynamics, learning and inference, network generative models of AI architectures, and graph comparison.