Full Members – Dissertation Advisors
Faculty members who actively participate in CCIB and run research labs that are open to CCIB MS and PhD students. Check out the Research Page for a research-focused view of the same list.
Director, CCIB
Professor, Physics
Research Interests: Molecular simulations, free energy calculations, membrane proteins, intrinsically disordered proteins
Graduate Program Director, CCIB
Associate Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis and microbial adhesion
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, CCIB
Assistant Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Evolutionary Genomics, Adaptation, and Speciation
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Forensic toxicology research with focus on driving under the influence of drugs
Brian Corbett
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Assistant Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Neural mechanisms underlying stress resilience
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, bioinformatics, and computational biology
Associate Professor, Physics
Research Interests: Design, development, and understanding of materials and interfaces with applications in energy and sustainability, using multi-scale modeling and simulations.
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Research focused on Bionanotechnology, Biocatalysis and Spatially Interactive Biomolecular Networks
Associate Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Biodiversity, Ecological Stoichiometry, Biogeochemistry, Trait-based Ecology, Functional Biogeography, Food Webs, Paleoecology, Environmental Change
Henry Rutgers Chair, Department Chair, & Associate Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Bioanalytical chemistry, Forensic systems, Forensic DNA analysis, Single cell forensics
Associate Professor, Physics
Research Interests: Nanoparticle functionalization and light-activation
Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Genome organization, Evolution and manifestation, Cancer
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests: Explainable and Fair Artificial Intelligence for Health Informatics, Cybersecurity, and Social Good.
Hunter King
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Assistant Professor, Physics
Research Interests: physical ecology; non-equilibrium and soft matter physics
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Molecular modeling and machine learning
Undergraduate Director & Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Molecular modeling and machine learning
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Sustainable Catalysis, Organometallics, DFT, Mechanistic Studies, Redox Reaction, Electron Transfer, Molecular Catalyst Design
Vice Chancellor for Research
Distinguished Professor & Joseph and Loretta Lopez Chair, Mathematics
Research Interests: Control and optimization of network flow
Assistant Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Stomatal Development and Drought Resistance
Graduate Program Director & Associate Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Development of natural materials, morphology, chemical synthesis and structure modifications
Department Chair & Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Annelid development and evolution, Stem cells
Assistant Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Mitochondria, Aging, Neurodegeneration, Inorganic polyphosphate, PolyP
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Biosensing, Chiral Material, Nanotherapeutics
Full Members – Masters Advisors
Faculty members who actively participate in CCIB. Some may also run research labs that are open to CCIB MS students.
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Research Interests: Applied Mathematics and Probability
Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests: Approximation algorithms, Randomized algorithms, Computational geometry
Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, Systems biology, Biological signal processing, Network science
Associate Professor & Department Chair, Physics
Research Interests: Growth and characterization of novel solid state materials.
University Professor
Research Interests: Parallel and distributed computing, real-time systems, algorithms
Professor & Department Chair, Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational geometry and its applications
Professor & Graduate Program Director, Computer Science
Research Interests: Algorithms and combinational optimization, Computational game theory
Associate Members
Faculty who have overlapping research interests with CCIB, and who may serve on committees of CCIB graduate students.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Research Interests: Color perception and color memory, Rapid perceptual learning, Visual perception of realistic images
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, Mathematics
Research Interests: Geometry and topology
Assisstnat Teaching Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Pain, Migraine, Opioid Epidemic, and Biology Education Research
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Neuroscience
Professor, Mathematics
Research Interests: Involutive Structures, Several Complex Variables, Differential Geometry and Partial Differential Equations.
Vice Chancellor for Reseach
Research Interests: Animal Ecology/Wildlife Conservation
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Synthesis and reactivity of fluorinated organic molecules, and their spectroscopic characterization (especially nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry), identification and measurement of biological molecules
Robrecht van der Wel
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Associate Professor, Psychology
Research Interests: Psychological mechanisms underlying everyday physical actions, Motor control, Object manipulation, Sequence planning, Interpersonal action planning and coordination (joint action), Belief representations in action, and the Sense of agency.
Emeritus Members
Director, Rutgers Pinelands Field Station
Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Understanding of nutrient cycling process at different levels of scale in forest soils and, in particular, the role of fungi in these processes
Professor Emeritus, Physics
Research Interests: Electrostatic force in mitosis
Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Hormone actions at neurotransmitter receptors, Electroencephalographically-defined sleep and waking, Computational models
Associate Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Physiological basis of neuronal algorithms, Modeling underwater vision, Neuroethology
Gabor Toth
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Professor, Mathematics
Research Interests: Geometry of eigenmaps and spherical minimal immersions, Visualizing mathematics