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| Name | Department | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, Brittany | Curriculum and Instruction | reading education (k-16), comprehension, metacognition, children's literature, digital literacies, culturally responsive pedagogies |
| Aguiar, Elroy | Kinesiology | Physical activity, sedentary behavior, walking, health, cardiometabolic health |
| Allen, Rebecca | Psychology | I have 3 primary research interests: the cultural dynamics of medical and financial decision making, meeting the behavioral health needs (substance use, mood, cognition) of rural and underserved communities, and interventions for palliative care and bereavement. |
| Andrabi, Mudasir (Roohi) | Nursing ( Adult Health, Gereontology, health behavior, health promotion) | Heart health promotion for rural adults and older adults |
| Atkinson, Travis | Computer Science | My current research focuses on the topics of cyber security, software engineering, and control systems security. These efforts include malicious software detection, threat avoidance, digital forensics, and security in control system environments (previous efforts in power systems and transportation). |
| Azarmanesh, Deniz | Human Nutrition, Hospitality and Sport Management | Effects of diet and inflammation on women's health |
| Bachrach, Daniel | Management | team processes, drivers of individual and team-level performance, undergraduate student performance, leadership |
| Bao, Yuping | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Drug discovery and drug delivery |
| Barnard-Brak, Lucy | Special Education | Autism, Disabilities, online learning |
| Barron, Keri | Undergraduate | I am interested in cardiovascular disease prevention in young adults. I am specifically interested in African American women. |
| Barth, Joan | ISSR | Broadening participation in STEM; Gender stereotypes; Implicit attitudes/stereotypes; evaluatiion |
| Bartlett, Robin | Nursing | rural health; adolescent health; risk behavior prevention; bringing adolescents to the discipline of nursing |
| Berryhill, Blake | Human Development and Family Studies - in the College of Human Environmental Sciences | Implementation of mental health in underserved areas and different contexts - including telehealth |
| Biefeld, Sharla | Psychology | My research can be discussed across three separate themes, (1) dehumanization, (2) peer-to-peer sexual harassment, and (3) discrimination across intersecting identities, the lynchpin to my program of work is understanding body-based harassment that children, adolescents, and adults experience. My current projects focus on gender diverse populations, body image, and eating disorder symptomatology. I utilize both quantitative and qualitative approaches. |
| Bonizzoni, Marco | Chemistry and Biochemistry | supramolecular chemistry, particularly non-covalent intermolecular interactions in water for biological and environmental applications to chemical analysis driven by machine learning algorithms |
| Braun, Summer | Psychology | Teacher well-being, social and emotional learning, mindfulness-based interventions |
| Campanelli, Luca | Department of Communicative Disorders | My research interests lie broadly in psycholinguistics, specifically exploring how cognitive architecture constrains speech and language processing. I investigate the role of memory mechanisms and probabilistic expectations in speech and language processing, both in typical and atypical populations. |
| Carver, Jeffrey | Computer Science | Software Engineering for Research Software |
| Cevasco-Trotter, Andrea | School of Music | Music Therapy. Effects of music therapy on physiological parameters, length ofhospitalization, and developmental outcomes of premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Also, my research involves music therapy with older adults, particularly those with dementia and other neurocognitive disorders. |
| Cheatham, Leah | Social Work | Transitions to adulthood, Disability justice, Youth leaving foster care |
| Cheng, Mark | Electrical and computer engineering | Wearable sensors,, 3D printing, signal processing |
| Ciesla, Lukasz | Biological Sciences | Neurodegenerative diseases, neuroinflammation, inflammaging, resolution of inflammation, pro resolving molecules, healthy diet and lifestyle. |
| Clement, Prabhakar | civil, construction and environmental engineering | water quality and groundwater |
| Cochran, James | Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science | Applied statistics and operations research |
| Cox, Jenni | Psychology | My research explores factors that influence individual decision making within the context of the criminal legal system. I am interested in how individual differences, including personality traits and demographic factors, such as gender and sexual orientation, impact the legal decision maker’s judgments and ultimate decisions. In addition, I explore how evidence regarding psychological constructs (e.g., psychopathy) and psychological assessments are considered by these legal decision makers. |
| Cribbet, Matt | Psychology | Sleep, cardiovascular disease risk, stress, early life stress, psychophysiology, autonomic nervous system functioning. |
| Crowe-White, Kristi | Human Nutrition | To investigate the impact of bioactive compounds and functional foods on outcomes of cardiometabolic disease in preclinical and clinical models including genetic explorations underlying interindividual responsiveness and to examine the role of bioactive food compounds and dietary patterns on gut microbial composition and gut-derived metabolites involved in chronic disease prevention and treatment. |
| Curtin, Kevin | Geography and the Environment | GIS and facilities location science |
| Davis, Thompson | Psychology | Phobias/fears (lifespan), child/adolescent anxiety disorders broadly, parenting, autism |
| Davis-Hazell, Alexis | Music | Interdisciplinary collaboration in any of the following areas: Voice, Singing and well being, Language and Singing, Body as Instrument, The American Negro Spiritual, African American composers of western art music, Rock Music in American Culture, Persisting legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy in Vocal Performance Culture, Russian Lyric Diction, Early 19th century Russian art song literature |
| DeCaro, Jason | Anthropology | Psychological and medical anthropology; social and cultural determinants of health; social ecological models of human development; healthy aging (esp. pain, sleep, and mood); stress and health during childhood and adolescence; child caretaker mental health; immune system functioning in socioecological context; salivary, blood. and hair biomarkers related to stress, aging, pain, and inflammation |
| Denham, Andre | ELPTS | Interested in the use of technology to transform teaching and learning. Specifically interested in game based learning, and professional development |
| Douglas, Joy | Human Nutrition, Hospitality & Sports Management | Dementia care, nutrition for older adults, traumatic brain injury, interprofessional education |
| Dudding, Katherine | Nursing | Neonatal pain; Informatics:Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications for use in healthcare |
| Dunkle, Jack | Chemistry and Biochemistry | biochemistry, antibiotic resistance, CRISPR-Cas, structural biology |
| Fedoroff, Michael | Alabama Water Institute | Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
| Ford, Michael | Management | occupational health, employee work-life balance and well-being, employee substance use |
| Freeborn, Todd | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Wearable and portable sensors for non-invasive physiological monitoring |
| Giorgio, Luciana | School of Social Work | Examining social and environmental factors impacting sleep health and cardiovascular health disparities |
| Glenn, Andrea | Psychology | antisocial behavior, ADHD, prevention and intervention, hormones, sleep |
| Gosa, Memorie | Communicative Disorders | Pediatric feeding and swallowing development and disorders |
| Gregg, Abbey | Community Medicine and Population Health | health services research, public health, EMS, Medicaid |
| Halpern, David | Mathematics | Mechanical and physicochemical behavior of biological systems; Interfacial phenomena and transport processes pertinent to lung disorders; Fluid dynamics; Mathematical modeling; Scientific Computing. |
| Han, Hyemin | ESPRMC | Moral development, moral education, educational psychology, educational neuroscience |
| He, Hongsheng | Computer Science | Robotics, machine learning, and autonomy |
| Helfrecht, Courtney | Anthropology | effects of physical and social (eco-cultural) stressors on child health and development, nutritional anthropology, physical activity, effects of water pollutants on child health and development |
| Henry, Carrie | Nursing | Traumatic grief in minority women, particularly after fetal loss |
| Higgins, Melanie | Biological Sciences | New enzyme and natural product discovery from microbial sources. |
| Hites, Lisle | Community Medicine & Population Health | Rural Health, Health Disparities, Burnout in healthcare workers, |
| Horton, Abby | Nursing | My research focus is the mental health and resilience of vulnerable populations. I am interested in exploring mental health challenges associated with depression, anxiety, stress, and coping among college students and rural health populations. |
| Iyengar, Atulya | Biological Sciences | Proper brain function requires the concerted action of a diverse array of gene products. Our broad research interests center on how genes which regulate neuronal excitability (e.g. ion channels) and/or neurotransmission (e.g. neurotransmitter receptors) interact with one another and with the extrinsic environmental factors (e.g. diet, stress, temperature) to shape normal and aberrant nervous system activity. We utilize the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model organism, and employ both classical and transgenic approaches to precisely manipulate the genome. In these single- and double-mutant flies, we correlate changes in neuronal structure and function with alterations in motor circuit activity patterns and the organization of behavioral repertoires. Findings from our work provide basic insights on the functional organization of the Drosophila nervous system and often have implications in understanding the etiology neurological disease. |
| Jacobs, Lindsey | Psychology | geropsychology, decision-making capacity, behavioral health interventions for older adults and caregivers, telehealth |
| Kerns, Carolyn | Nursing | patient safety, quality healthcare outcomes, professional development |
| Ki, Eyun-Jung | Advertising and Public Relations | utilizing cutting-edge technologies, such as online communities, metaverse, and chatbots, to address pressing social issues, especially in the areas of climate change and mental health. Her research focuses on developing innovative approaches to integrate technology into climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. |
| Kim, John | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Cancer bioengineering |
| Koh, Amanda | Chemical and BIological Engineering | Soft, active materials for sensors and wearable devices |
| Kong, Lingyan | Human Nutrition | Food science, biopolymers, dietary fiber, encapsulation, phytochemicals, nutrition |
| Kumar, M. N. V. Ravi | Translational Science and Medicine | Drug Delivery |
| LeFevor, Matthew | Geography & the Environment | agriculture, conservation, rural areas, mountains, water |
| Lakin, Joni | Educational Studies | STEM Education, place-based learning, informal STEM, afterschool programs, middle school |
| Lee, Amy | Graduate Programs | Women's Health, OB/GYN, maternal child health disparities, IPV, emergency gynecology, family planning |
| Lee, Hee | Social Work | Health Disparities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Technology driven behavioral health intervention (e.g., AI, VR, App, Sensor, etc.), and Rural Health |
| Lochman, John | Psychology | I am a Senior Fellow for ALRI. my research interests include prevention and intervention research, and longitudinal course, and contextual risk factors (community, peer, family, conduct problems in children and dolescents |
| Love, Heather | Human Development and Family Studies | Dr. Love's research focuses on suicide prevention and intervention by studying the risk and protective factors in close relationships. |
| Lynn, Christopher | Anthropology | Cultural impacts on health |
| Malaia, Evie | Speech, Language and Hearing (formerly Communicative Disorders) | Neural bases of multimodal communication |
| Martin, Jeffrey | Management | Dynamic capabilities. How organization reconfigure and redeploy resources. Institutional theory. |
| McDaniel, Sara | Special Education | Equity in school discipline, mind-body interventions, social emotional behavioral well-being for students and teachers, integrating school-based mental health |
| Mills, Maura | Management | My research focuses on positive organizational behavior, including primary attention to issues regarding employee attitudes and well-being, work engagement, and the work-life/work-family interface. |
| Monroe, Charles | Metallurgical Engineering | Metal casting, biomedical implants |
| Moran, Ryan | Health Science | Biomechanics related to concussion in sport |
| Nguyen, Hai-Dang | Math | Probability and Statistics, Data Science, Mathematical Biology, Infectious Disease |
| Nickelson, Jen | Health Science | breastfeeding, infant and child nutrition, parental and environmental influences on infant and child nutrition |
| Noh, Hyunjin | Social Work | end-of-life care, palliative care, pain management, deprescribing, health disparities, gerontology, qualitative research |
| Olson, Lindamarie | School of Social Work | Impact of childhood developmental trauma on the brain and behavior of adolescents with a focus on justice-involved youth |
| Park, Sungho | Political Science | Sungho Park is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama. His research interests include state and local budgeting and finance with emphases in fiscal federalism, fiscal condition, fiscal rules and institutions, and budget reforms; he is also interested in various policy issues such as policy designs and tools, economic development, and collaborative governance. |
| Pawloski, Lisa | Anthropology and Deans Office | Biocultural/Environmental impacts on nutrition (obesity) and health in low and middle income countries. Adolescents and Aging in Thailand. Also working in Alabama regarding barriers to breastfeeding. |
| Peacock, Cynthia | Communication Studies | Political communication |
| Pederson, Josh | Communication Studies | Relationships, social support, relational repair |
| Perez-Huerta, Alberto | Geological Sciences | Biomineralization and biomaterials |
| Rao, Shreyas | Chemical and Biological Engineering | Cancer bioenginering, tissue engineering, tumor microenvironment, metastasis, biomaterials |
| Reed, Laura | Biology | genetics, genomics, metabolomics, diabetes/obesity, evolution, population variation, genotype by environment interactions, course-based undergrduate research |
| Scalfani, Vincent | Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering, University Libraries | chemical information, cheminformatics, bibliometrics |
| Snowden, Tim | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Drug Design, Drug Otimization, Organic Synthesis, Probes for Chemical Biology |
| Soylu, Firat | Educational studies | Cognitive and educational neuroscience, mathematical cognition, educational psychology, EEG/ERP, fMRI |
| Suarez Pellicioni, Macarena | ESPRMC | Neural basis of numerical cognition. Role of cognitive and affective factors. Development. |
| Trull, Valerie | Nursing | criminal justice, sex crimes, trafficking, workplace mental health, nursing, interdisciplinary research |
| Vincent, John | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Bioinorganic chemistry with a focus of metallobiochemistry. Specialty is the nutritional biochemistry, toxicology, and pharmacology of chromium. |
| Wang, Changzhen | Geography and the Environment | GIS, Health Geography, Spatial Network Modeling and Analysis, Computational Methods, Geovisualization |
| Wheat, John | Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine | Rural health, rural medical education, especially targeting Alabama’s most disparate populations. |
| White, Susan | psychology | clinical trial design, mental health, youth, implementation science, autism |
| Wilkerson, Amanda | Health Science | Sedentary Behavior & Physical Activity, Workplace Health Promotion, Utilization of Health Behavior Theoretical Models, and Program Evaluation |
| Witte, Tricia | Human Development and Family Studies | Violence, trauma, substance use and addiction |