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Kory Evans

Assistant Professor of BioSciences

Rice UniversityUSBiology

Dr. Kory M. Evans is an Assistant Professor in the Department of BioSciences at Rice University. His academic background encompasses ichthyology, comparative anatomy, and phylogenetic comparative methods. Dr. Evans...

BiologyEvolutionary biologyEcologyZoology
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William Parsons

Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor

Rice UniversityUSReligion

William Parsons is the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. His research focuses on the intersections of religion, psychology, and culture, with particular interest in mysticism,...

MedicinePhilosophyGeologyPsychoanalysis
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Jessica Butts

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Rice UniversityUSBioengineering

Jessica Butts, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Bioengineering and the Neuroengineering Initiative at Rice University. She completed her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the...

BiologyNeuroscienceCell biologyComputer science
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Sylvia Dee

Associate Professor, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Joint Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Rice UniversityUSEarth Science

Sylvia Dee is an associate professor and climate scientist at Rice University, specializing in climate change and the past, present, and future of Earth’s hydrological cycle. She completed her undergraduate degree in...

ClimatologyEnvironmental scienceGeologyOceanography
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Jeffrey J. Kripal

J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought

Rice UniversityUSReligion

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He has chaired the Department of Religion for eight years and contributed to the creation of the GEM Program, a...

PhilosophyHistoryArtSociology
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Nina Bobkova

Associate Professor of Economics

Rice UniversityUSEconomics

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Rice University, and a CEPR Research Affiliate. I obtained my Ph.D. from Bonn University in 2018. My research area is microeconomic theory, in particular...

Positive economicsComputer scienceEconomicsPolitical science
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Bruce Carlin

George R. Brown Professor of Finance

Rice UniversityUSOperations Management

Bruce Carlin is the George R. Brown Professor of Finance at Rice University. Prior to his tenure at Rice, he spent 12 years on the faculty at UCLA. He is a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic...

BusinessEconomicsMedicineFinance
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Jonathan Ajo-Franklin

Professor, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Rice UniversityUSEarth Science

Jonathan Ajo-Franklin is a professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University. His research focuses on solving challenging problems related to environmental and energy systems...

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Ilana Gershon

Herbert S. Autrey Chair, Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology Co-Director, Program in Science and Technology Studies

Rice UniversityUSAnthropology

Ilana Gershon is a US-focused anthropologist with broad interests in political and legal anthropology, linguistic and media anthropology, science and technology studies, and the anthropology of work. She holds the...

SociologyLibrary scienceComputer sciencePolitical science
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Richard Boylan

Professor of Economics

Rice UniversityUSEconomics

Richard Boylan is a Professor of Economics at Rice University and an associate for Brown College. He received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1991 and his M.S. from the same institution in 1988....

EconomicsPolitical scienceMathematical economicsBusiness
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Han Xiao

Professor of Chemistry, Bioengineering, Biosciences

Rice UniversityUSDepartment of Brass

Han Xiao serves as the Director of the SynthX Center and holds the position of Associate Professor within the Department of Chemistry, Biosciences, and Bioengineering at Rice University. His research focuses on...

ChemistryMedicineBiologyCombinatorial chemistry
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9.5K
citations
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Maura Coughlin

Assistant Professor of Economics

Rice UniversityUSEconomics

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Rice University. My areas of research are health economics and empirical industrial organization.

Computer scienceEconomicsEconometricsMathematical economics
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Evgeni Penev

Associate Research Professor

Rice UniversityUSMaterials Science and NanoEngineering

Evgeni Penev is an Associate Research Professor at Rice University. He studied physics at the St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia in Bulgaria, where he received his M.S. degree in solid-state physics. He earned his...

Materials scienceCondensed matter physicsNanotechnologyPhysics
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R. Bruce Weisman

Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and NanoEngineering

Rice UniversityUSChemistry

R. Bruce Weisman is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University, where he also serves as the Associate Chair for Teaching in the Department of Chemistry. His research group...

Materials scienceChemistryNanotechnologyPhotochemistry
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Walter Chapman

William W. Akers Chair Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Director of Undergraduate Studies Member, Ken Kennedy Institute

Rice UniversityUSChemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Professor Walter G. Chapman is the William W. Akers Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University and his Ph.D. in...

ChemistryThermodynamicsMaterials scienceStatistical physics
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Dominic Boyer

Professor

Rice UniversityUSAnthropology

Dominic Boyer is a writer, media maker and anthropologist, whose work focuses on the energy and environmental challenges of our era, particularly the need to decarbonize society and to break the ecocidal trajectory of...

SociologyPolitical scienceMedia studiesAnthropology
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Tanika Raychaudhuri

Associate Professor

Rice UniversityUSTransnational Asian Studies

Tanika Raychaudhuri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University. She earned her PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2019. Following her doctoral...

Political scienceSocial psychologyPsychologySociology
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Andriy Nevidomskyy

Professor

Rice UniversityUSPhysics

Dr. Andriy Nevidomskyy is an expert in theoretical condensed matter physics, working in the field of strong electron correlations in quantum materials. His research focuses on the collective behaviour of electrons in...

Condensed matter physicsPhysicsMaterials scienceQuantum mechanics
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4.3K
citations
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James Shee

Norman Hackerman-Welch Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Rice UniversityUSChemistry

James Shee is a professor associated with the Department of Chemistry at Rice University. His research focuses on electronic structure theory, particularly in the context of strongly correlated electronic systems. He is...

ChemistryPhysicsStatistical physicsComputational chemistry
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1.2K
citations
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Illya V. Hicks

Trustee Professor and Department Chair of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research

Rice UniversityUSComputing and Mathematical Sciences

Illya V. Hicks is a Trustee Professor and Department Chair of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at Rice University. He joined the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice in...

MathematicsCombinatoricsComputer scienceDiscrete mathematics
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