Meet the minds behind our groundbreaking research.
Our faculty includes some of the foremost authorities across every imaginable discipline. Here are just a few.
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Nahid Bhadelia
Founding Director, BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research (CEID)
Founding Director, BEACON
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, and Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Global Health Security -
Thomas Bifano
Director, Photonics Center
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David Boas
Professor (BME, ECE)
Director of Neurophotonics Center -
Meredith Brooks
Assistant Professor, Global Health
Junior Faculty Fellow, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -
Dillon Brout
Assistant Professor, Astronomy
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Jonathan Buonocore
Assistant Professor, Environmental Health
Core Faculty, Institute for Global Sustainability -
Deborah Carr
A&S Distinguished Professor, Sociology
Director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science -
Wei-Lun Chao
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Junior Faculty Fellow, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -
Christopher Chen
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Ji-Xin Cheng
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering
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Cutler Cleveland
Associate Director, Institute for Global Sustainability
Professor, Earth & Environment -
Ayse Coskun
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, College of Engineering
Director, Center for Information and Systems Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering -
Alice Cronin-Golomb
Director, Vision & Cognition Laboratory
Professor, Psychological & Brian Sciences -
Robert Davey
Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL)
Professor of Microbiology, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine -
Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy
Program Manager, Clean Energy and Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Initiative, Institute for Global Sustainability
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Patricia Fabian
Associate Director, Institute for Global Sustainability
Professor, Environmental Health -
Kevin Gallagher
Professor, Global Development Policy
Director, Global Development Policy Center -
Boqing Gong
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Junior Faculty Fellow, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -
Mark Grinstaff
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry
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Lucy Hutyra
Distinguished Professor, Chair, Earth & Environment
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Plamen Ivanov
Director, Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology
Research Professor, Physics -
Darrell Kotton
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University
David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine -
Britta Lassman
Co-Director and Co-Founder, BEACON
Research Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine -
Loretta Lees
Faculty Director, Initiative on Cities
Professor, Sociology -
Jonathan Levy
Chair and Professor, Environmental Health
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Ayse Lokmanoglu
Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies
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Kenneth Lutchen
Vice President and Associate Provost for Research
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Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
Assistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences
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Joseph Mizgerd
Professor, Medicine and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology
Director, Pulmonary Center -
Sean Mullen
Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs
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John Ngo
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Jacob Nudel
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Junior Faculty Fellow, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -
Ioannis Paschalidis
Director, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Engineering -
Pawel Przytycki
Assistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences
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Tommaso Ranzani
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering
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Lee Roberts
Professor, Physics
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Emily Ryan
Associate Director, Institute for Global Sustainability
Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering -
Kendra Sims
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
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Michael Sorenson
Associate Dean of the Faculty, Natural Sciences,
Professor, Biology -
Benjamin Sovacool
Director, Institute for Global Sustainability
Professor, Earth & Environment -
Paul Stillman
Assistant Professor, Marketing
Junior Faculty Fellow, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -
M. Selim Ünlü
Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
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Brian Walsh
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Jörg Werner
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
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Adrian Whitty
Associate Professor, Chemistry
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Wilson Wong
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Harvey Young
Interim Vice President for the Arts
Dean, College of Fine Arts
Professor, English, Theatre Arts, American Studies, and African American & Black Diaspora Studies -
Xuezhou Zhang
Assistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences
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