Expert Directory
Elliot Berkman, PhD
Professor of Psychology; Co-Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience; Director, Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
University of OregonAddiction,Behavioral Health,Goal Setting,Goals,motivation for decision making,motivation to change,Obesity,Self-Control,Smoking Cessation,smoking cessation expert
Elliot Berkman is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and Co-Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience. He studies the motivational and cognitive factors that contribute to success and failure at health goals such as cigarette smoking cessation and dieting. His research leverages the distinct strengths of several research methods, including functional magnetic resonance imaging, longitudinal survey methods, and laboratory experiments. This work adopts a translational neuroscience approach by using knowledge of brain function, structure, and connectivity to design and improve interventions on health behavior and wellbeing. Projects in the lab are currently funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He directs the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology.
Bioinspiration,bioinspired design,bionic eye,Chaos Theory,Fractals,Nature and Health,Neuroscience,Physics,retinal implants
Physicist Richard Taylor is internationally known for his innovation using bioinspiration to improve health and wellbeing. He has published more than 300 papers, including 11 papers Nature and 3 in Science. His work has been featured in TV documentaries and the subject of articles in The New York Times, Scientific American, The New Yorker, as well as popular science books. Taylor studies fractals in physics, psychology, physiology, geography, architecture and art. He designed bio-inspired retinal implants to restore vision to victims of retinal diseases. His other work uses bio-inspired fractal images to reduce people's stress levels in the built environment, such as in carpets. He also uses computer analysis to study and authenticate art works and is considered the leading expert on the artist Jackson Pollock. Taylor regularly gives lectures around the world, invited by organizations as diverse as the Nobel Foundation, the White House, the Royal Society and national art galleries such as the Pompidou Centre and the Guggenheim Museum.
Ihab Elzeyadi, PhD
Professor of Architecture & Building Science; Director, High Performance Environments Lab
University of OregonArchitecture,Sustainable Design
Ihab Elzeyadi has been engaged in the design, construction, and research of high-performance buildings for more than 25 years. He has conducted post-occupancy evaluations and building performance assessments of more than 100 buildings, 55 of them are LEED™ and LBC rated. In addition, Elzeyadi has led grant-supported research on the relationship between people and buildings including impacts of the physical environment on health, productivity, and well-being as they relate to sustainable design strategies in commercial and educational environments. His studies produced evidence-based design guidelines and design-assistance services on various commercial projects with an emphasis on energy and resource effective design. He completed a number of research projects investigating cost and financial benefits of green and LEED™ educational environments, livable communities’ physical infra-structure, and the Green Classroom Toolbox Project for energy retrofits of existing schools. Elzeyadi is the founder and director of the University of Oregon High Performance Environments Laboratory (HiPE) and the Façade Integrated Technologies testing facility (FIT). Both are state-of-the-art award winning facilities that provide research and consulting services for the building industry, research institutions, private, and public entities.Elzeyadi is a registered architect and engineer in Egypt where, since 1988, he has maintained a private architectural practice specializing in building rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of historic structures. He was the designer and principal architect for winning entries in competitions for the Abu-Dhabi National Oil Company Administration Building (UAE) and for the rehabilitation and reuse of regional offices of the World Health Organization in Alexandria, Egypt.
Elizabeth Budd, PhD, MPH
Evergreen Assistant Professor, College of Education, Family and Human Services, Food Studies, Prevention Science
University of Oregonhealth disparites,Health Equity,Health Promotion,Health Promotion and Disease Prevention ,Healthy Eating,LatinX Health,Physical Activity,Public Health
Elizabeth "Liz" Budd is a nationally recognized scholar of public health, health promotion and health equity. She holds leadership roles in the Physical Activity Section of the American Public Health Association. The goal of her research is to prevent the onset of chronic diseases, especially among groups with heightened risk, in order to achieve population-level health equity. Specifically, she examines the policies and environmental factors (social and physical) that influence physical activity and healthy eating. She has a particular interest in youth, adolescent girls, and Latino/a/x community members. Budd also works to implement, evaluate, and foster the sustainability of evidence-based interventions to promote healthy behaviors in community settings. She’s part of a team of researchers that designed a program that used culturally informed outreach with well-located community testing sites to triple turnout for COVID-19 testing in Latinx communities around Oregon. The researchers are hopeful their findings can help shape future public health and other outreach campaigns to Latinx communities across the country. Budd is an Evergreen Assistant Professor situated within the College of Education, Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department, and affiliated with the Family and Human Services and Prevention Science programs. She’s also a member of the Health Promotion Initiative and Prevention Science Institute.
community-based interventions,opioid abuse,Parenting,Pregnancy,Pregnancy Loss,Substance Use Disorders
Camille Cioffi's research focuses on improving health, mental health, and substance use outcomes among people with substance use disorders who are pregnant and parenting with a particular focus on highly stigmatized populations including people experiencing homelessness and people who inject drugs. As a research assistant professor at the Prevention Science Institute, she's part of a team that designed a culturally and trauma informed approach that tripled COVID-19 testing in Latinx communities. The efforts resulted in several published papers, including as a Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open paper. Another project, published in Children and Youth Services Review, found that vulnerable teens who lose a pregnancy are at increased risk for suicide.
Family and parenting,Parenting
Dave DeGarmo’s research focuses on family stress models and preventive interventions for families at-risk for compromised parenting with an emphasis on fathering processes. He is a former postdoctoral fellow of the NIMH Family Research Consortium of the National Institute on Mental Health and an affiliated scientist of the Oregon Social Learning Center. DeGarmo is part of a team of researchers that designed a program that used culturally informed outreach with well-located community testing sites to triple turnout for COVID-19 testing in Latinx communities around Oregon. The researchers are hopeful their findings can help shape future public health and other outreach campaigns to Latinx communities across the country. DeGarmo is currently MPI of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) project ‘Investigating the impacts of COVID-19 school closures on long-term adjustment in youth with or at risk for disability (McIntyre, DeGarmo), MPI of the RADx-UP ‘Optimizing SARS-CoV-2 Testing and Promotores Interventions to Serve Latinx Communities’ 3P50DA048756-03S3 (Leve, Cresko, DeGarmo), and PI of the UO Data Science Core for the P50 DA048756-01 (Leve, Fisher) centers of excellence Center on Parents and Opioids.
Cell And Developmental Biology,data science,data science and analytics,Ecology And Evolution,Genetics,Molecular Biology
Geneticist Bill Cresko studies the genomic basis of evolutionary change using comparative studies of natural populations in the wild and experimental approaches in the laboratory. He uses the threespine stickleback fish as his primary model to understand how molecular genetic variation can modify networks of genes and proteins to produce variation in evolutionarily important traits. Most recently, his lab has developed stickleback as a model for studies of how host genetic variation can influence their associated microbial communities. His lab is also well known for developing genomic tools (e.g. RAD-seq) and super-computing software (e.g. Stacks), both of which are now used by thousands of scientists around the world. Cresko’s group has published nearly 100 papers that have been cited thousands of times. In addition to several prestigious fellowships throughout his education from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), Cresko received the Fund for Faculty Excellence Award from the University in 2013 and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016. Cresko holds numerous leadership roles on campus. He is associate vice president of research and leader of the Presidential Initiative in Data Science and a member of the Internal Advisory Board at the University for the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact (KCASI). Work in his laboratory has been supported by grants from the NIH, NSF, the Murdock Charitable Trust and the W. M. Keck Foundation. Cresko co-founded the Applied Graduate Internship Program in Genomics and Bioinformatics, an interdisciplinary training program at UO, which is now part of KCASI. He has also provided key faculty leadership for over $600 million dollars in philanthropic donations to the University of Oregon over the last decade, primarily in support of research, including the largest single gift to a comprehensive public university from Phil and Penny Knight.
Alexandra Rempel, PhD, MArch
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program
University of Oregonpassive cooling
Alexandra Rempel’s research has been published in Building and Environment, Geosciences, and Renewable Energy. As a building scientist, her research efforts in passive solar heating, passive cooling, and natural ventilation combine field studies with energy modeling to reveal patterns that cannot be found by either method alone. She is secretary and treasurer of the Society of Building Science Educators. Rempel previously taught in the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and worked in green building practice at Solarc Architecture and Engineering. She holds a PhD in Biology from MIT and an MArch from the University of Oregon.
Constantine Demetracopoulos, MD
Director, HSS Total Ankle Replacement Center
Hospital for Special SurgeryTotal Ankle Replacement
Dr. Demetracopoulos, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery, is director of the Total Ankle Replacement Center at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). He has special expertise in ankle arthritis, total ankle replacement, foot and ankle trauma/fractures, ankle instability, sports injuries of the foot and ankle, reconstruction of foot deformities, and foot arthritis. He completed his orthopedic training at Hospital for Special Surgery. As a resident, he was awarded the Joseph M. Lane Research Grant for his work in the biomechanics laboratory. In addition, he was selected as a Resident Scholar for the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting in 2010. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Duke University Medical Center where his clinical and research interests focused on the outcomes of total ankle replacement. Dr. Demetracopoulos has published more than 50 original manuscripts, predominantly on topics related to ankle arthritis and total ankle replacement. His work has been recognized with research awards from the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, as well as the International Federation of Foot and Ankle Societies. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. While a medical student, he was awarded the U.S. Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and the David E. Rogers Fellowship from the New York Acade
Total Ankle Replacement
Dr. Scott Ellis is an orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, where he serves as director of research for the Foot and Ankle Service. He is an expert in reconstructive surgery of the foot and ankle and treats a wide range of problems and injuries in patients, from active seniors to professional athletes. Dr. Ellis specializes in Achilles disorders including acute tears and more chronic degeneration (also called tendinosis). He treats a vast array of patients with ankle fractures and has performed hundreds of total ankle replacements for severe ankle arthritis. Additionally, Dr. Ellis specializes in the surgical correction of bunions in both men and women, flatfoot deformity, sports injuries related to ankle instability, cartilage injuries, foot fractures, dislocations, and big toe arthritis (hallux rigidus). Dr. Ellis is a professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he teaches and conducts research focused on improving surgical outcomes. He is currently treasurer of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society and previously served as president of the Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Foundation. Dr. Ellis has writtien numerous papers that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including on the surgical correction of flatfoot deformity.
Mark Fretz, MArch, DDS
Interim Director, Institute for Health in the Built Environment; Research Assistant Professor, Architecture
University of OregonAffordable Housing,affordable housing design,Built Environment,Mass timber
As a designer, Mark Fretz has worked on projects ranging from product design to healthcare, single and multi-family housing, embassies, office buildings and district scale master planning. His research and teaching focus on exploring the unseen in the design of the built environment that affects human health across scales ranging from microbes and molecules to energy and carbon. Fretz is the interim director of the Institute for Health in the Built Environment, an organization with a focus on transdisciplinary collaboration between designers and scientists, and a research assistant professor of architecture. He also directs the institute’s industry research consortium, Build Health, which leverages design thinking and research findings to develop and apply innovative design solutions for low-carbon buildings that simultaneously promote healthier individuals, communities and planet. Prior to practicing architecture, Fretz was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service.
Computer Science,Facial Recognition,image processing,Research
Anshuman “AR” Razdan, vice president for research and innovation at the University of Oregon, was elected to the 2022 class of fellows of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his contributions to the field of computer science. Razdan holds four patents, including on 3-D face authentication and document exploitation as well as image processing. Razdan came to the UO in 2022 after serving as the associate vice president of research development at the University of Delaware.
Physics,soft matter physics
Paulose is a recipient of a 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. Paulose and his research group study soft-matter physics and the behavior of natural, biological, and artificial materials, including micromechanical resonators, miniature robots, and even bacteria. They use concepts of theoretical condensed matter physics to design artificial materials and understand evolving biological populations. Paulose earned his master’s and PhD in applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and conducted post-doctorate research at Leiden University in the Netherlands and at University of California, Berkeley, before joining the University of Oregon faculty in 2018.
Gravitational Waves,LIGO,ligo gravitational waves,Physics
Ben Farr is a recipient is a recipient of a 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. As member of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, Farr co-developed the parameter estimation software used to characterize compact binary mergers from their gravitational wave signatures. More generally, Farr is interested in applying Bayesian forward-modeling techniques to astronomical data sets. Farr received his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from Northwestern University. He has been on the UO faculty since 2017.
Linguistics,Papua New Guinea
Don Daniels documents and describes the underdocumented languages in Papua New Guinea, as well as doing comparative reconstruction. In 2022, he received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty, the CAREER Award. Daniels has been a UO faculty member since 2018. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in linguistics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth.
Ramakrishnan Durairajan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science; Co-Director, Oregon Networking Research Group
University of OregonCybersecurity
Durairajan co-directs the Oregon Networking Research Group at the UO. He leads a team of graduate and undergraduate students in federal, university and industry research projects totaling over $4 million. He takes a data-driven networking approach to build a "robust Internet." To this end, Ram and his students are developing innovative techniques and tools to empirically measure the network infrastructures; and building systems informed by those measurements to address intrinsic threats (e.g., terabit DDoS attacks) and extrinsic threats (e.g., climate change and naturally occurring disasters). He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and is a recipient of a 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. Durairajan earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined the UO faculty in 2017.
Embryonic Development,Genetics,Genomics,left-right asymmetry
Daniel Grimes uses genetic, genomic, and imaging procedures to study how symmetries are broken and maintained during embryonic development and growth, and to understand how they contribute to human diseases, including birth defects and scoliosis. He received an NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award in 2022. A member of the UO faculty since 2019, Grimes received his master’s degree in molecular and cellular biochemistry with honors, and his PhD in developmental genetics, from the University of Oxford.
Cellular Biology,Prions
David Garcia and researchers in his lab examine the molecular activities of abnormal, or prion, proteins, and epigenetic traits that influence how a cell responds to stress and new environments, which has major impacts on its evolutionary success, and its ability to transform into diseased states. In 2022, he received an NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford after earning his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the UO faculty in 2018.
Marian Hettiaratchi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact
University of OregonBiomaterials,Computational Modeling,Polymer Chemistry,Protein Engineering,Regenerative Medicine
Marian Hettiaratchi and members of her lab work to develop protein delivery vehicles for regenerative medicine by integrating cutting-edge techniques in protein engineering, polymer chemistry, and computational modeling to design versatile, clinically-relevant biomaterials. Hettiaratchi is a recipient of an NIH R21 Trailblazer Award for her project, “A Directed Evolution Approach to Affinity-Based Protein Delivery.” She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto after receiving her PhD in biomedical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. She joined the UO faculty in 2020 and holds an affiliate appointment at Oregon Health & Science University.
Climate Change,data science,Earth Observation,Glaciology,Hydrology,Satellites,science communication,Water Resources
Sarah Cooley’s research focuses on dynamic hydrologic change using satellite data. She is particularly interested in global water resources, Arctic surface hydrology and Arctic coastal change and its impact on communities. Her research uses new satellite technologies, including both NASA and commercial satellite data to study a wide range of topics including global water storage variability, shorefast sea ice breakup, Arctic lake area dynamics, and pan-Arctic river ice breakup. She has also participated in numerous field campaigns across Greenland, Northern Canada and Alaska. Her current research is funded by NASA Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Among her many accolades, Cooley was a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a NASA New Investigators Program in Earth Science Awardee. Cooley has a PhD in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences from Brown University, an MPhil in Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BS in geophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. She was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University as part of the inaugural cohort of Stanford Science Fellows.
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