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Faculty Experts A-Z

1/9/13

Diana Aga

Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: Environmental pollution; emerging contaminants including nanomaterials, brominated flame retardants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals; wastewater treatment of pharmaceuticals; environmental mass spectrometry

9/12/12

Mark Bartholomew

Professor of Law

Expertise: Intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, cyber law, cybersecurity bills (such as SOPA and CISPA), advertising law

9/13/12

Jason Briner

Associate Professor of Geology

Expertise: Climate change, Arctic glaciers and ice sheets, response of glaciers and ice sheets to climate change

1/9/13

James Campbell

Professor and Chair of Political Science

Expertise: Campaigns and elections, American political parties, election forecasting, campaign finance, presidential politics, presidential-congressional relations

1/9/13

Anne B. Curtis

Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of Medicine

Expertise: Heart health, heart rhythm abnormalities, atrial fibrillation, cardiac devices, pacemakers, implanatable cardiac defibrillators

1/9/13

Helen Domske

Associate Director of UB's Great Lakes Program

Expertise: Great Lakes, water pollution, invasive species, Asian carp, zebra mussels, quagga mussels

1/9/13

Karl Fiebelkorn

Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professional Relations for UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

Expertise: Laws and regulations affecting pharmacy practice, medication errors, systems for improving practice sites, adult asthma, pharmacy business plan modeling

1/9/13

Joseph A. Gardella Jr.

John and Frances Larkin Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: K-12 science education, surface chemistry of plastics and polymers, industrial pollution, air pollution, soil contaminants, brownfield cleanups, urban farming

9/14/12

Ia Iashvili

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles

9/4/12

Arun Jain

Samuel P. Capen Professor of Marketing Research

Expertise: Retail marketing strategy and trends; consumer perception, habits and needs; brand loyalty; coupons; private label groceries; international marketing

10/10/12

Jonathan D. Katz

Associate Professor of Visual Studies

Expertise: Queer history, art history, Cold War-era art

9/14/12

Avto Kharchilava

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, phenomena beyond the Standard Model

1/9/13

Will Kinney

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: Astronomy, cosmic inflation, accelerating universe, dark matter/dark energy, solar storms, cosmic microwave background physics, public outreach in science

1/9/13

Robin Lally

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Expertise: Breast cancer, cancer survivorship, psychosocial oncology

1/9/13

Teresa Miller

Professor of Law

Expertise: Prisoners’ rights; immigration laws and their impact on sentencing; the Attica prison riots; video technology in law school classrooms

1/9/13

Amanda Nickerson

Director of the UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention

Expertise: School violence, bullying prevention and intervention, parent and peer relationships, assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders

1/9/13

Alan Rabideau

Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: Pollution, groundwater contamination, radioactive and hazardous waste management, mathematical modeling

1/9/13

Thomas C. Rosenthal

Professor and Chair of Family Medicine

Expertise: Community health, primary care, primary care physicians, health care reform and policy, rural health care, the medical home concept

9/6/12

Adel Sadek

Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: Traffic; applying information technology to crash risk, border-crossings, environmental effects, infrastructure and land-use design

1/9/13

David Schmid

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: Popular culture, cultural studies, celebrity, crime, manhood, the monstrous, contemporary British and American fiction, American literary and cultural treatments of the city

1/9/13

Michael F. Sheridan

Professor Emeritus of Geology

Expertise: Volcanoes, volcanic eruptions (including pyroclastic flows, avalanches and mud flows), volcanic risk assessment, emergency preparedness near volcanoes

9/4/12

Nallan Suresh

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Operations Management and Strategy

Expertise: Global supply networks, supply chain disruptions, U.S. and global manufacturing

9/4/12

Paul Tesluk

Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organizational Behavior

Expertise: Leadership development, work team design and effectiveness, organizational climate and performance

9/4/12

Cristian Tiu

Assistant Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics

Expertise: Stock market, hedge funds, government bailouts, financial collapses (Peso events), risk management and asset allocation, university endowments, institutional investors

9/4/12

Tom Ulbrich

Executive Director of UB's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Expertise: Entrepreneurship, small businesses, family businesses, women-owned and minority-owned businesses

9/6/12

Shambhu Upadhyaya

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: Cybersecurity, hacking, encryption, cyberattacks

1/9/13

Andrew Whittaker

Director of MCEER, UB's Extreme Events Engineering Research Center

Expertise: Earthquake engineering, blast engineering, risk assessment of nuclear power plants