Faculty - Eberly College of Science
 Reka Albert
Associate Professor of Physics and Biology
122 Davey Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-865-6123
E-mail: ralbert@phys.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Our research is driven by an ongoing dialog between experimental measurements and theoretical modeling. We build our models on the most salient features of a system, and use our results as predictions and guidance for future experiments. Our diverse, interdisciplinary projects are characterized by the common goal of identifying organizing principles of complex systems.
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 Shweta Bansal
NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Grenfell Lab at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
510 Mueller Laboratory, University Park
Email: shweta@sbansal.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I study networks using tools from computer science, physics and statistics; particularly for application in epidemiology. I am interested in probabalistic models of networks, network generation and inference, methods for the analysis of dynamics on networks, and the interplay of structure and dynamics.
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 Vincent Crespi
Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Director, Penn State Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
326 Davey Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-863-0163
E-mail: nanoprof@mac.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational Materials Theory, Adsorption onto Carbon Nanotubes, Beowulf Commodity Supercomputers: Sherwood, Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes, Metastable Semiconductor Alloys, Electronic Properties, Optical Properties, Semiconductors, Optimization of Photonic Structures, Structural Properties of Carbon Nanotubes, Empirical Interatomic Potentials, Quantum Mechanics.
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 Bryan Grenfell
Alumni Professor of Biology
510 Mueller Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-865-9131
E-mail: grenfell@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Investigating how the interaction of noise and non-linear density-dependent feedback drive population processes at different scales; Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of infectious disease and how these are affected by control strategies; Phylodynamics: exploring how pathogen phylogenies are affected by host immunity, transmission bottlenecks and epidemic dynamics – at scales from individual host to population.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Bryan Grenfell's Research Page
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 Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and Professor of Chemistry
401 Chemistry Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-6442
E-mail: shs@chem.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theoretical and computational investigation of chemically and biologically important processes; proton, hydride, and proton-coupled electron transfer reactions; mixed quantum/classical molecular dynamics simulations; development of theoretical and computational methods; applications to reactions in solution and proteins.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The Hammes-Schiffer Research Group
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 Karl Mueller
Professor of Chemistry
002 Chemistry Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-8674
E-mail: ktm2@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Development of experimental and theoretical techniques for solid-state NMR spectroscopy; magic-angle spinning and higher-order averaging of quadrupolar spectra; coherence transfer in solid-state NMR; dipolar-dephasing dynamics and pure dipolar transforms.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Karl Mueller's Research Group
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 William Noid
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
528 Chemistry Building, University Park
Phone: 814-867-2387
E-mail: wnoid@chem.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theoretical/computational chemistry, Theoretical/computational biophysics/biochemistry, Theoretical molecular biology, Unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins, Bioinformatics, Knowledge-based coarse-grained modeling, Many-body structural correlations, Inverse problems in statistical mechanics, Quantum/classical correspondence in vibrational spectroscopy, Ultrafast spectroscopy, Classical nonlinear response theory.
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Tim Reluga
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Biology
109 McAllister Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-7527
E-mail: tcr2@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research interests concern the description, understand, and prediction of the dynamics of biological systems. This currently includes work in ecology, epidemiology, immunology, evolution, and a little economics. Applied math is the language I use to do this.
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 Aleksandra Slavkovic
Assistant Professor of Statistics
412 Thomas Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-4918
E-mail: sesa@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Usability evaluation methods, human performance in virtual environments, statistical data mining, application of statistics to social sciences, algebraic statistics, and statistical approaches to confidentiality and data disclosure. Her Ph.D. dissertation work focuses on statistical methodologies for disclosure limitation and data confidentiality and presents new theoretical links between disclosure limitation, statistical theory and computational algebraic geometry. It is a unique and interesting integration of diverse results from conditional specification of joint distribution, graphical models, disclosure limitation and algebraic statistics.
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