Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

Name Expertise areas Short Bio Updated date
Ed Hackett Environmental Social Science, Group Decision Making, Urban Social-ecological Systems Hackett's interests focus on sociology and the social organization and dynamics of scientific research.
Jerry Coursen Coursen's most recent goal is to refine a curriculum that will continue to focus on the the education of bioengineers in all facets of practical medicine.
Natalia Dounskaia Biomechanics, Motor Control and Learning Dounskaia investigates how the central nervous system adjusts its descending signals to the biomechanical properties of the limbs. Her teaching interests include fundamental issues of motor control and their applications.
Patricia Fall Geography, Earth Systems, Sustainability, Climate Science While at ASU, Fall directed the Laboratory of Palynology and Paleoecology. Her work focused on biogeography, human impact on ancient and modern environments, and paleoecology of Pacific Islands and the Mediterranean Basin.
M_Adelaida Restrepo Bilingual and English Language Learners, Diagnostics, Diverse Learners and Educational Equity, Education of Immigrants, Heritage Language Pedagogy, Learning and Instruction, Learning Sciences, Literacy and Writing, Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Restrepo is a professor of speech and hearing science and associate dean for research. Her research focuses on better understanding bilingual children’s language and literacy skills.
David Ingram David Ingram is a professor of speech and hearing science. He directs the Child Language Research Laboratory and conducts research on how young children acquire language across linguistic contexts.
Brian Sullivan Herpetology, Population Ecology, Urban Impacts Sullivan is a professor and adjunct curator in herpetology. He works on the ecology, behavior, systematics and conservation of amphibians and reptiles of the desert Southwest.
Jeffrey Kleim Studies in Kleim's laboratory are being used to test novel therapies for enhancing motor recovery in stroke patients.
Gregg Zachary
Frank Tuzzolino Finance, Financial Analysis
Philip Hedrick Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics Phil Hedrick is a population geneticist and conservation biologist who studies genetic variation in populations, including how genetics can impact the survival of rare and endangered species.
Stephen Massia
Phillip Stafford
Lee Gutkind Creative Non-Fiction Lee Gutkind founded Creative Nonfiction, the first and the largest literary journal to publish narrative/creative nonfiction exclusively. At ASU, he founded the ThinkWritePublish program, supported by NSF and Templeton Fnd..
Michael Moffett Moffett's expertise has been tapped by more than 50 multinational firms in North and South America, Europe and Asia, and during the past 20+ years he has taught and consulted in more than 25 countries.
Andrew Inkpen Inkpen's research focuses on global strategy, the management of multinational firms, and the management of strategic alliances and international joint ventures. I
Anton Lawson
Thomas Nash
Dale Davison Dale L. Davison, Ph.D., CPA, is a Clinical Professor of Accounting in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include global accounting and global taxation.
Patrick Lynch Global Leadership Lynch is also the founder of a technology startup and consultancy, pioneering innovations in organizational assessment and dashboard analytics.
Melanie Devore
Kylee San Miguel East Asian Studies, Intercultural Communication, International Education and Development, Project Management - general
Martin Ramirez Data Mining, Decision Making, Emerging Technologies, Informatics, Bioinformatics, Cancer, Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurship, AI Differential Diagnosis Engines, Medical Device Design, Medical Diagnostic Devices Industry pioneer mobile 3G/4G/5G and now 6G; award-winning fintech: investment banking, personal finance/advising, cognitive/behavioral finance; e-commerce; healthcare: insurance, AI-guided Dx/decision-support in finance & medicine, tele-medicine.
Margaret Yancy Margaret Yancy's research interests include diabetes and adolescent healthcare. She received her D.N.P. from ASU in 2008.
Marcos Bernazar
Nancy Eisenberg Developmental Psychology, Emotion, Stress and Emotion Eisenberg's research focuses on emotion regulation and developmental psychopathology.
Naomi Mandel Consumer Behavior Naomi Mandel's research examines consumer identity, food decision-making, materialism, and compensatory consumption.
Doris Provine Provine's areas of research reflect her background in law and political science, most recently the role racism that has played in the war on drugs.
David Capco Cancer, Cell biology, Communication, Developmental Biology, Nanotechnology, Reproduction Capco is a cell biologist who studies how different types of cells in the human body relate to disease, illness, and birth defects.
William Griffin Modeling and Simulation, Family and Couple Relationships Griffin builds agent-based models of micro-social interaction.
Juergen Gadau Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Phylogenetics, Populations, Social Insects Gadau is a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist who focuses on understanding the genetic and genomic basis of speciation and species differences.
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Bert Hoelldobler Behavior, Communication, Evolution, Science Communication, Social Insects, Sociality Hölldobler is a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociobiologist who uses insect societies to study behavioral mechanisms of communication, cooperation and conflict. He's a member of several national and international academies.
Stephan Baehr Aging, Evolution, Molecular Biology Baehr is interested foremost in the biology of aging. Baehr seeks to understand aging through the context of evolutionary biology.
Alfredo Artiles Sociology of Education, Sociocultural Issues, Special Education Artiles' scholarship focuses on understanding and addressing educational inequities related to the intersections of disability with other sociocultural differences.
Terence Ball Political Science, Political Theory Ball's research interests include political theory and environmental political theory; conceptual history; history of Western political thought, esp. 17th-19th c., and American political thought.
Robert Weigand Children - Teens - Families, Human Development Weigand's research focuses on teaching activities emphasizing child development and early intervention.
Joel Tharseo
Patricia Gober Geography, Planning, Food, Water, and Energy Nexus, Sustainability, Urban Design and Sustainable Cities, Urban Planning Gober is the founding co-director of the National Science Foundation's Decision Center for a Desert City and previously served on the National Research Council's Committee on Geographical Sciences.
Elizabeth Williamson Undergraduate Student Psychology The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Tong Wu
Jaslin Rubio
Devens Gust Energy and Sustainability, Organic Chemistry, Photosynthesis Regents Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Devens Gust has research and teaching interests in aspects of organic chemistry including artificial photosynthetic solar energy conversion and others.
Kevin Abke
Jacob Pinholster Transdisciplinary, Theatre, Virtual Teams, Design Pinholster's efforts have centered on projection and media design and technology for performance and immersive experience. He heads graduate programs in interdisciplinary digital media, extended reality technologies, and experience design.
Jennifer Santos
Robert Spring Music, Woodwind Instruments Spring is also a guest professor at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. He is a Henri Selmer Paris Artist and performances on the Privilège clarinet.
Carl Yamashiro Applied Research, Biomarker Discovery for Personalized Diagnosis, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Genetics, Genomics, Innovation and Success, Molecular Biology Yamashiro is an Associate Clinical Professor and Program Coordinator for the MS Biomedical Diagnostics program. He researches technology assessment and development in the healthcare field with a core strength in diagnostics.
Norman Dubie Dubie was the author of more than 20 books. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages. His collection, "The Quotations of Bone," won the 2016 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Paul Schmidtke Schmidtke earned his doctorate in astronomy at The Ohio State University. He has worked for Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson and the Center of High-Angular Resolution Astronomy at Georgia State University in Atlanta.