Science Experts

Professor | ChairUniversity of Florida

Dr. Michael Jaffee is board-certified in neurology, psychiatry, sleep medicine, and brain injury medicine.

Alzheimer DiseaseSleep DisordersConcussionDementiaTraumatic Brain Injury

President & CEOMaRS Innovation

Turning academic ideas into commercial realities

Corporate & Business StrategyEarly-Stage InvestingLife Sciences and HealthcareTechnology TransferCommercialization of Innovation

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Alison Barth's work focuses on understanding how experience transforms the properties of neurons to encode memory.

Research DesignNeural PlasticityBiophysicsNeuroscience

Associate ProfessorVCU College of Engineering

Dr. Arodz's research focuses on machine learning and bioinformatics

Biomedical Data ScienceFoundational ModelsBioinformaticsMachine Learning & Deep LearningQuantum Machine Learning

Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning; Professor of Chemical and Biological EngineeringVillanova University

Randy Weinstein, PhD, is an authority on chemical engineering and an expert on teaching and learning methods in higher ed.

Teaching and Learning MethodsTeaching and Learning in Higher Education Flipped LearningChemical Engineering ProblemsSurface Science

Interim ChairUniversity of Florida

Michael Tonks's research is focused on understanding the behavior of materials in harsh environments, including in nuclear reactors.

Materials in harsh environmentsMolten salt reactorsNuclear energyNuclear space reactorsComputational materials sciences

Associate ProfessorFlorida Atlantic University

Elan Barenholtz uses behavioral and embedded computational approaches to study the brain and behavior.

Embedded Computational Neural ModelsPerception and LearningDeep Learning

Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Rochester

Randall Curren is an ethicist who works across the boundaries of moral, political, legal, environmental, and educational philosophy.

Ethics of SustainabilityMoral PsychologyAncient Greek Philosophypatriotic education

Professor of Political ScienceUniversity of Connecticut

Stephen Dyson's research is focused upon the psychology of elite decision making in foreign policy.

Elite Decision Making Foreign PolicyWorld LeadersInternational Relations

Distinguished ProfessorNew Jersey Institute of Technology

Michel Boufadel focuses on water, water technology and energy, offering insights into oil spills and other environmental disasters.

Oil SpillsGlobal WarmingSustainabilityWater TechnologyEnvironmental Disasters

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