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Stephen Gaughran - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Monk seals are the world’s only tropical seals, with two distinct species living in Hawaii and the Mediterranean Sea. Despite intensive conservation efforts, only about 1,000 individuals survive in each species. My lab is using whole genome sequencing data from hundreds of individuals and population genetic analyses to study the...

Stephen Gaughran - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The platypus is one of the only surviving species of monotremes, a clade of egg-laying mammals. These animals live in rivers and streams of eastern Australia and Tasmania, and show many unusual phenotypes including egg laying, electrolocation, venom production, and adaptations to aquatic life. The species is also of...

Scott Geller - Research Scientist, Molecular and Cell Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are a campus research unit located in Barker Hall at the Northwest corner of the UC Berkeley campus. We support primarily on-campus molecular scientists and related professionals (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, staff, etc) with their DNA sequencing and analysis needs. As DNA sequencing technologies continually advance, so...

Paul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Passionated and interested applied econometrics, statistics, data analysis, and economic development ? Join us. *** Project 1: Hard and Soft Skills for Youth in Uganda 4y and 9y follow-ups*** Data has been collected, now we study the medium and long term impacts (4y and 9y) of two exciting youth entrepreneurship and...

Paul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Passionated and interested in Field Experiments, Research Management, and Data collection? Join a cutting-edge research team at UC Berkeley! Professors Paul Gertler and Laura Chioda are leading an exciting project to understand how innovative, data-driven tools can transform student success. The study evaluates the SC2.0-based continuum model...

Paul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Join a cutting-edge research project investigating the complex relationship between drug cartel violence and labor market outcomes in Mexico. This study explores the unintended consequences of a major initiative by the Mexican government to combat organized crime by targeting cartel leadership. Between 2007 and 2014, more than 164,000 civilians...

Paul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Join a dynamic research team conducting multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs) studying financial inclusion, digital credit, and entrepreneurship training in East Africa and around the world. This position offers hands-on experience with active field experiments and completed studies now in the analysis phase—ideal preparation for predoc positions and...

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project asks, "What defines the "health" of an ecological community, and can the signatures of "health be detected from communities of insects and spiders? And to what extent is that signature captured across scales, from plants, on to imagery – drones, helicopters, and satellites? The work aims to show how...

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

No matter the size, all organisms interact with the world via their senses. Sensory input dictates reactions to stimuli, and the ability of organisms to adapt their neurological and sensory structures is critical to success and survival. Web building spiders in particular use webs as an extension and enhancement of...

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Hawaii is well known for its unique biodiversity – rather like the Galapagos, but much more extreme. This is particularly true of insects and spiders, where almost all the native species are unique to the islands. However, the environments of Hawaii are suffering at the hand of invasive species and climate...

Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Every biodiversity analysis starts with a species survey. However, biodiversity surveys often yield large numbers of specimens difficult to identify because the samples collected are too small, immature, or belong to species that have not yet been formally described. In this project, we focus on identifying species, especially spiders, herbivorous...

J. Keith Gilless - Professor, University and Jepson Herbaria

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Herbaria are museums that house preserved plant collections for scientific purposes. For centuries, plant specimens have been collected from various locations, labeled with essential data, and stored for use by scientists and researchers worldwide. Properly curated plant specimens can last indefinitely, providing data for generations of scholars to study taxonomy...

J. Keith Gilless - Professor, University and Jepson Herbaria

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The spirit collection in the University and Jepson Herbaria houses thousands of plant and algae specimens preserved in alcohol. This preservation method is essential for material that cannot be dried or pressed, as it retains their three-dimensional structure and allows for detailed examination without the distortion or shrinkage that...

Deniz Göktürk - Professor, German

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The German department's open access electronic journal Transit is turning 20. A conference to celebrate this occasion is being planned for April 2026. The journal has been a pioneering platform for multimedia publishing, and we are continuously exploring new forms of presentation. The student will learn to think critically about...

Bethany Goldblum - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Organic scintillators are materials that emit light when excited by ionizing radiation. They are particularly attractive for fast neutron detection with applications in fusion diagnostics, nuclear security and proliferation detection technologies, and curiosity-driven science. Our group works on a wide range of aspects of scintillator science and engineering, from...

Bethany Goldblum - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Scintillators emit light when excited by ionizing radiation. They are used in a variety of applications including basic science measurements, medical imaging, nuclear security and proliferation detection technologies, fusion-energy system diagnostics, etc. A database of scintillator properties is hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (scintillator.lbl.gov) containing a variety of...

Bethany Goldblum - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

As new technologies rapidly evolve, they introduce novel challenges and vulnerabilities for international nuclear security. This project brings together students from the technical and social sciences to explore issues at the intersection of technology, nuclear risk, and policy with the aim of informing the development of effective policy frameworks...

Xiaohua Gong - Professor, Optometry

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The research in the lab has been directed to study molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate the development of the eye and the lens and to investigate the underlying mechanisms of different eye diseases including cataract and retinal degeneration by using techniques from the fields of molecular and cellular biology...

Xiaohua Gong - Professor, Optometry

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project will mainly focus on RNA sequencing and differential expression analysis for comparing genetically mutated mice with wild-type mice. It aims to find target genes involved in cataract formation, retinal degeneration and lens growth...

David Gonzalez - Professor, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

For the past decade, the United States (U.S.) has been the leading global producer of oil and gas, and an estimated 17 U.S. million residents live within 1 km of active oil and gas wells. Drilling and operating wells results in air pollution, water pollution, noise, and other stressors. Recently...

David Gonzalez - Professor, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

In recent years, there has been a growing focus on examining the associations between historical racist policies and present-day health disparities. For example, a growing body of evidence documents that environmental hazards (such as oil wells and urban heat islands) are more likely to be located in neighborhoods that...

Alison Gopnik - Professor, Psychology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

All research in the Gopnik Cognitive Development and Learning Lab is broadly focused on children's development of cause and effect reasoning and how they learn from and about other people. We are looking for dedicated and motivated undergraduate students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in developmental psychology or a...

Bryan Graham - Professor, Economics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Sports analytics involves the use of data to improve training, performance and in-competition decision-making. The field has grown tremendously over the past 25+ years. Many professional and collegiate teams rely on analytics professionals for scouting, recruitment and athlete retention. Sports analytics also influences current practice in sports journalism...

Darcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

HANDCOLOR is a meditation on the strange tenderness of handcolored photographs. Although I consider professional studio work, I focus on amateur practice of painting directly onto black and white photographs from the 1860s to 1950s. HANDCOLOR is now in preparation for publication in Spring 2027 by the George Eastman Museum...

Karsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

My research team is part of a handful of laboratories around the world that is focused on elucidating the role and molecular mechanisms of protective lipid mediator programs that are essential for regulating and orchestrating routine and healthy immune responses and neuroprotection. Research in our lab uses in vitro and...

Karsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Assist in the preparation of biological samples, carry out solid phase extractions for isolation of bioactive lipids. Learn, assist and eventually run an HPLC-mass spectrometry system. The position requires a high degree of motivation and organizational skill as well as the ability to operate complex and state-of-the...

Karsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

We are focused on elucidating the role and molecular mechanisms of neuroprotective lipid mediators essential for inhibiting the death of retinal ganglion cells in glaucoma. We use wide range of techniques in lab including single-cell transcriptomics, morphOMICs, and lipidomics as a tool to investigate and understand the protective mechanisms...

Yangnan Gu - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Plant's responses to external stimuli are highly dependent on the shuttling of intracellular signals to the nucleus, where the genome is reprogrammed to drive transcriptome changes to combat stress. A fundamentally important aspect of this process is the nuclear transport of stress-related signaling cargos mediated by nuclear transport receptors...

Yangnan Gu - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The nuclear envelope (NE) is structurally and functionally vital for eukaryotic cells, yet its protein constituents and their functions are poorly understood in plants. We combined subtractive proteomics and the proximity labeling technology-coupled with quantitative mass spectrometry to understand the landscape of NE membrane proteins in Arabidopsis and identified...

Venkatesan Guruswami - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Computer-assisted and automated theorem proving has been a longstanding goal of artificial intelligence and has gained increasing importance in recent years. Despite notable advancements, such as AlphaProof from Google DeepMind, which achieves silver-medal standard in solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems, challenges persist in obtaining machine-verifiable theorems and...

Kris Gutierrez - Professor, Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project seeks undergraduates who are interested in learning about how to design learning environments that center equity, sustainability, and the radical transformation of systems of inequality that emerge in educational contexts. Specifically, undergraduates will engage readings, data, and collaborate with other undergraduates and graduate students to develop analyses for...

Kris Gutierrez - Professor, Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The anti-testing opt-out movement is a grassroots movement in which parents/guardians choose not to have their children participate in their school’s statewide testing. This research is a social media ethnography in which we critically examine the discourse used in posts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to...

Kris Gutierrez - Professor, Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Writing Data Stories is a new project that seeks to reorganize how young people, especially linguistically and ethnoracially minoritized students, learn about and interact with data. A partnership including Bay Area schools, UC Berkeley, the Concord Consortium, North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin, the project...

Kris Gutierrez - Professor, Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...

Junko Habu - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

At our East Asian Archaeology Laboratory, we are analyzing artifacts and faunal/floral remains excavated from Jomon period sites in Japan. Jomon is the name of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture in Japan, which lasted from approximately 13000 to 2300 years ago. Unlike many other hunter-gatherer cultures, the Jomon...

Junko Habu - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

In this project, you will have an opportunity to work on some of the food related issues faced by the contemporary society, with a focus on examples from Japan. As part of the umbrella project that examines the advantages of small scale food production and distribution mechanisms in terms of...

Özge Hacifazlioglu - Professor , Berkeley School of Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The paradox of progress in educational technology is that, while it aims to enhance student engagement and facilitate personalized learning paths, it often overlooks the diverse personal and sociocultural realities of students’ lives. The challenge lies in balancing the allure of technological solutions with the complex socio-cultural contexts that...

Özge Hacifazlioglu - Professor , Berkeley School of Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Location: On Campus

Over the past two decades research on leadership preparation has focused on exploring signature pedagogies to cater for the needs of leaders who serve students from diverse backgrounds. This led scholars to design and enact equity-centered culturally responsive approaches in alignment with their context (Painter and Clark, 2015; Hacıfazlıoğlu...

Timothy Hampton - Professor, Comparative Literature

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Research developing a bibliography and approach to the history of American protest songs, from the Revolutionary War to the present...

Richard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

The focus of the lab is to understand development; that is, the molecular mechanisms that orchestrate how a single cell (the egg) transforms into an adult animal with a multitude of functioning organs, following a specific body plan. The first milestone in the establishment of the body plan is to...

Richard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Sleep has been shown to be crucial to animal life. Moreover, sleep deprivation during the development of the fetus leads to emotional and cognitive effects in the offspring later in life. Unfortunately, the mechanism behind these behaviors are not defined due to the technical and ethical impediments related to human...

Richard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

We will isolate DNAs encoding cytoskeletal regulators, describe their expression, and knock-out or add back functions to determine whether they are active in controlling cell behaviors. Background. Amphibian embryos have been valuable models to examine the behaviors of cells that contribute to the shape changes of the embryo. The...

Richard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Though sleep is pervasive across animals, the core function of this deeply conserved behavior remains unknown. Sleep has been hypothesized to serve many roles, from the replenishing of molecules consumed during periods of activity, to the facilitation of learning and the formation of long term memories. Recently, colleagues and I...

Eva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

With 3.6 billion people living at risk of infection, and approximately 400 million infections and 96 million cases per year, dengue is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral illness. The disease spectrum includes dengue fever, characterized by debilitating symptoms such as high fever and myalgia; and dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue...

Eva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

The four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) cause the most important mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, with 100 million cases annually. The mechanisms by which the human immune response to DENV provides either protection against or enhancement of a subsequent infection with a different DENV serotype are not fully understood...

Eva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Previous studies in the Harris laboratory have demonstrated the ability of the secreted flaviviral protein, nonstructural protein 1 (NS1), to induce both hyperpermeability in vitro and vascular leak in vivo, both mediated by the disruption of endothelial glycocalyx components and intercellular junction degradation. Further work in the lab aims at...

Eva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) flaviruses are mosquito-borne viruses that are major medical and public health problems worldwide. DENV causes the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, and severe cases manifesting vascular leakage can be fatal. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is a flaviviral protein that participates in...

David Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

REMOTE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS to work with an arts, film, culture nonprofit organization - 9-11 hrs/wk (3 units), including mandatory online weekly meetings (day TBD). We are looking for students interested in gaining work experience across our two distinct workstreams: Web development and art preservation. You do not need to...

David Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Interested in researching the rise of AI and its impact on society and politics while shaping real-world policy...

Gillian Hart - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

I am working on a book that compares the rise of right-wing nationalisms and populist politics in South Africa, India and the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. Instead of seeing the three countries as separate cases or bounded units, the idea is to bring them into...