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George Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

Are you interested in science news and social media? In our lab, we study the ecological and evolutionary history of arthropod (insect and spider) species--the little things that run the earth. We mostly study arthropods from Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific. Outreach and communication are as critical...

George Roderick - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

Biodiversity surveys often accumulate many many insect and spider specimens, but it is usually hard to figure out what the species actually are. Many species are not yet described and many are found in an area for the first time, or the species are not yet in DNA databases. In...

Hector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health

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

This project examines the uptake and impact of California’s Community Health Worker (CHW) Medi-Cal benefit, which took effect in July 2022. Using statewide Healthcare Payments Data from 2021–2025, the study will assess how CHW service use has changed over time and how uptake varies across fee-for-service...

Carlotta Ronda - Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

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

Discovering molecular binders that recognize specific receptors is central to applications in diagnostics, biosensing, and microbiome engineering. Bacterial surface display offers a compact and accessible system to present candidate binders (e.g., nanobodies) on E. coli and test their ability to interact with target receptors. This project will use E. coli...

Carlotta Ronda - Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

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

Gram-positive microbes are important members of host-associated and environmental microbiomes, yet many remain genetically intractable. This project will implement novel microbiome editing tools by developing modular plasmids that can either replicate or integrate into the genomes of these difficult-to-engineer bacteria, and by establishing workflows for introducing...

Carlotta Ronda - Principal Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

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

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder driven by complex interactions between the host, microbiome, and immune system, with disruptions in this network contributing to disease onset and progression. Environmental and microbial factors can activate pathways that regulate intestinal homeostasis and...

Albert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

Aquatic ecosystems transport more than just water, they also move energy, nutrients, and pollutants to adjacent terrestrial ecosystems. One of the key connections between aquatic and terrestrial systems is the movement of biomass via emergent aquatic insects (think mosquitoes): insects which start their life as aquatic larvae, metamorphose, then emerge...

Albert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Sacramento Pikeminnow are a large and long-lived predatory fish endemic to California and native to many rivers and streams in our area. One place they are not native to, however, is the Eel River Basin, a major river system to our north. Since their 1980 introduction, these fish have...

Albert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

In seasonal wetlands like vernal pools, the hydroperiod fundamentally influences community composition and structure. Vernal pools are seasonal wetlands that are wet during the fall and winter, and dry during the spring and summer. They support many endemic plant and animal species, many of which are listed as federally threatened...

Albert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

The largest dam removal project in history was completed in August 2024 in the Klamath River basin, in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Led by Indigenous Tribes, the removal of four hydroelectric dams restored hundreds of kilometers of habitat for salmon that are of cultural and economic significance. Indeed within...

Sayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Location: On Campus

As conventional electronics approach fundamental limits in energy efficiency and scaling, controlling the spin of electrons offers new opportunities for memory, logic, and microwave technologies. Recent advances in quantum and magnetic materials—including topological materials and both collinear and non-collinear antiferromagnets—have revealed unconventional mechanisms for generating and controlling...

Sayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     

It is widely believed that the rate of change in current in conventional MOSFETs cannot be decreased below 60 mV/decade. This means that to change every decade of current one must apply at least 60 mV. As a result, the power supply voltage in modern MOSFETs cannot be reduced...

Sayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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

Modern microelectronic devices operate at length scales where atomic structure, electronic properties, and thermal effects become strongly interconnected. In this project, we will develop machine learning methods to model materials and nanoscale electronic devices. Students will work with atomistic simulations and machine learning models to study nanoscale materials relevant to...

Sayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     

Optimization problems are central to many areas of computing, including scheduling, routing, resource allocation, robotics, graph problems, and circuit design. In this research effort, we are exploring new algorithms and custom hardware accelerators to efficiently solve these problems. We are particularly interested in exploiting the structure and parallelism of optimization...

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

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

Some morphology is affixal, appearing sequentially before or after roots to add derivational or inflectional meanings. In other cases, morphology is stem-internal: it affects the identity of vowels or consonants in the base, changes the tone or stress of the base, or even removes segmental content from the base...

Seth Sanders - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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

This is a hybrid opportunity, with work mostly offsite, except for testing cycles. Responsibilities include design, simulation, and test of a custom analog IC for a Stirling engine control system targeted for space flight. Direct collaboration with Prof. Sanders, industry, and NASA teams. The role involves performing circuit-level analysis...

Carolyn Sangokoya - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Our laboratory is engineering mammalian cells of all types for use in CRISPR screens, with the goal of identifying new pathways and therapeutic avenues for cellular iron regulation. Using functional genomics and systematically perturbing regions of the genome allows us to understand the role of iron in mammalian cells, organoids...

Raluca Scarlat - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

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

Actinide-containing fluoride and chloride molten salts are utilized as fuel salts in molten salt reactors (MSR’s) and have applications in pyrochemical-processing for fuel recovery. However, the thermophysical property data of these salts such as melting point, viscosity, and density and the effects on these properties of varying levels...

Raluca Scarlat - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

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

The SALT group performs high temperature molten salt experiments, with application to fusion and fission nuclear energy and critical mineral. We measure the properties of molten salts and of materials that come in contact with molten salts at high temperature (metal alloys, graphite and other ceramics and composites). We are...

Raluca Scarlat - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

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

This project will investigate whether vapor generated from a flowing FLiBe liquid wall can interfere with the high-energy 248 nm laser beams proposed for next-generation inertial-fusion reactors, with direct relevance to Xcimer Energy’s laser-fusion architecture. The student will help develop an experimental rig to measure how...

Raluca Scarlat - Professor, Nuclear Engineering

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

This project will investigate the feasibility of using printed microelectrodes for electrochemical sensing in molten FLiBe, with the long-term goal of enabling in-situ measurement of tritium concentration and diffusivity in fusion breeding blankets. The student will help fabricate, characterize, and test Si₃N₄-encapsulated platinum microelectrodes, studying their electrochemical...

Alissa Schapiro - Senior Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

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

Working closely with the Magnes's Senior Curator, a cohort of URAP students will co-curate a small exhibition of art by pioneering Polish-American Jewish artist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) at the Magnes. The exhibition will open in the spring semester in honor of the 10th anniversary of the museum acquiring...

Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria

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Welcome to the lichen lab! We study lichens; symbiotic associations between filamentous fungi and green algae or cyanobacteria. We are interested in how the symbiosis forms and is maintained over the lifetime of a lichen and over evolutionary time. We use a variety of approaches, including field work, culturing, and...

Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are using a combination of microscopy and stable isotope (carbon and nitrogen) analyses to better understand the intimacy of the relationship between the filamentous fungal partner and the photosynthetic (green algae or cyanobacteria) partner within the lichen symbiosis, and how this will impact their ability to respond to global...

Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria

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

Natural history collections are incredible repositories of information. However, due to the sensitive nature of the specimens, they remain largely closed to the public. In the Lichen Collection in the University Herbarium at Berkeley, we are endeavoring to make our collections more visible while maintaining their integrity...

Klara Scharnagl - Curator, University and Jepson Herbaria

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

The UC Berkeley Herbaria Archives document botanical exploration and study in California and western North America from the 1860s to the present day. We are seeking an apprentice to help our archivist with digitizing our collections and other archival research tasks...

Christopher Schell - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

The Schell Lab integrates animal behavior, physiology, and genetics to study how carnivores adapt to the challenges and opportunities of life in cities. This project focuses on raccoons in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region that provides an ideal natural laboratory for examining how wildlife persists in densely populated...

Christopher Schell - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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

Rapid urbanization is a major driver of the transition to the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch in which ecosystems are dominated by human influence. Urban regions have been drastically transformed compared to their historical antecedents, and though many species have been unable to persist in these altered landscapes, a surprising...

Stefano Schiavon - Professor, Architecture

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

It is widely known that providing occupants with a “good” view to the outdoors offers measurable benefits, including higher property values and improved mental, physical, and emotional health. However, the selection and design of fenestration materials can significantly degrade this visibility, and we still have a limited understanding of how...

Eric Schickler - Professor, Political Science

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

Union members have increasingly left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party. Despite this, many labor union leaders still prominently support the Democratic Party with a few exceptions. How is that the case when labor unions are ostensibly democratically designed? Specifically, why are union leaders so overwhelmingly supportive of...

Eric Schickler - Professor, Political Science

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

State parties regularly produce platforms that outline their positions on major issues facing the state and nation. These platforms have been used by scholars to understand the development of party polarization, changes in party positions on major issues, and dynamics of accountability and responsiveness in the U.S. political system. They...

Hilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. In a recent collaborative work, we found that the transcription factor Ikaros is expressed in medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTEC), and important for the...

Hilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. We have found that the transcription factor Ikaros is important in development of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell that is part of...

Hilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. Ikaros is an important tumor suppressor in B-cell lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and we have multiple projects in our lab to study how...

Marieka Schotland - Executive Director, Public Health

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

Innovations for Youth (i4Y) is a cross-disciplinary research-action center that catalyzes on innovative interventions, practices and policies to improve equity and well-being for youth locally and worldwide. Our current portfolio includes work on marginalized youth, youth voice, youth participatory action research, and student mental health and wellbeing...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

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

Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, and more. It also provides technical and...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

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

Technology is rapidly changing, giving humans more options than ever to decide how to communicate with each other. Whereas online options to engage with others are expanding, in-person contact seems to be decreasing. How are these changes affecting the way people connect with each other? How does this affect...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

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

How do people navigate their social worlds? Here we explore the psychological processes by which people think about the minds of other people, particularly in workplace contexts. The attributions that people make about others’ minds are consequential because they underlie decisions about how to interact with others, such as whether...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

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

Human-GAI Interaction is inevitably becoming more common. We seek to address the following research questions: 1. What are the pros and cons of mandatory disclosure of non-political deepfake commercials? Would the disclosure affect people's trust towards the political information they see? 2. How could GAI aid crowd-based...

David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Constructed wetlands can passively treat pollutants including nitrogen, pathogens, and trace organic chemicals. Given their low-maintenance and design flexibility, treatment wetlands are appropriate for rural, decentralized, and low-resource settings, and can provide effective, environmentally friendly water-treatment in urban areas. As part of our research, we are conducting...

David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

My project aims to determine the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a subsurface wetland system receiving treated wastewater. I use geomedia sorbents, like activated carbon, to sequester PFAS below ground as water flows through our field site, which we call the Horizontal Levee. I am working to...

David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

My project aims to determine the fate of trace metals in a subsurface wetland system (the “Horizontal Levee”) receiving treated wastewater and municipal wastewater reuse concentrate. This system relies on redox gradients and geomedia sorbents, such as granular activated carbon, to immobilize trace metals below ground as water flows through...

David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Context In regions facing severe water stress like California, onsite wastewater treatment is essential for urban water resilience and circularity. However, because these systems are highly distributed—often installed in high-rise basements or localized settings—they lack continuous manual oversight and require higher autonomy. Existing sensors frequently struggle in...

Youngho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Keywords: cancer, radiopharmaceutical therapy, targeted alpha therapy, alpha particles, image processing, dosimetry, machine learning, digital autoradiography Radiopharmaceutical therapy with alpha-particle emitters (⍺RPT) is an emerging cancer treatment method that has demonstrated high efficacy in clinical trials for several types of cancer. Improvement of these drugs requires thorough pre-clinical...

Youngho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Molecular imaging using ionizing radiation (i.e., gamma- and x-rays) is a powerful method of interrogating biochemical properties of imaging subjects. Particularly in research, we use small animal positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), which are combined with x-ray computed tomography (CT). More commonly...

Youngho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Radiotherapy with alpha-emitting nuclides is an extremely promising technique in cancer therapy. The very short range of alpha particles compared to beta particles allows to deliver a much higher therapeutical dose to the lesion, sparing healthy tissue. A fundamental problem with this technique is the inability of current radiation...

Youngho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco

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

Keywords: image processing, image analysis, segmentation, medical imaging, PET, MRI, cardiac efficiency Myocardial injury causes how the heart muscle consumes energy and converts it to the work required for heart function. This damage could be either localized or global; however, to gain this knowledge, we should compute the local myocardial...

Carlo Sequin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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

Students will participate in the development of JIPCAD, a design environment that can describe geometrical shapes (e.g., abstract sculptures by famous artists such as Charles Perry, Eva Hild, or Robert Engman) either through a simple procedural language or through an interactive graphical user interface. The typical workflow would start with...

Andy Shanken - Professor, Architecture

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

Memorial Women is a global digital archive of monuments to women. It serves the public, scholars, non-profits, NGOs, municipalities, and other public organizations that are interested in how women are represented in public space, both historically and in the contemporary moment. In a moment when people are coming to...

Michael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology

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

Most, if not all, animals harbor extensive microbial communities, which contribute to host health and fitness. In humans, the gut microbiome holds ~100 times more genes than the host genome, encoding diverse functions. This is a theme in most animals, and raises the question of what is the significance of...