I am a Ph.D. candidate in Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I study ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy and nonlinear optics. My work focuses on developing new ways to probe femtosecond and attosecond dynamics using …
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Ania Bialic
Ania has over a decade of research and engagement experience spanning field such as neuroimmunology, rheumatic disease, virology and parasitology. Previous to her graduate training she was the public engagement manager at the Wellcome Centre …
Adam Borger
Adam Borger has worked in the food industry for 14 years as a microbiologist before joining the UW-Madison Food Research Institute. His area of expertise is food microbiology and food safety, focusing on both consumers …
Jerry Clark
Jerry Clark has been the Crops and Soils Agent for the Division of Extension in Chippewa County since 1998. He provides educational programming and applied research in agronomy and soils focusing on alternative crops, forages, …
Lisa H. Cooper
Lisa H. Cooper is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in the literature and culture of late medieval England; her scholarly investments lie particularly in the intertwined histories of labor, …
Sameer Deshpande
Sameer is an Assistant Professor in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Bayesian treed regression, variable selection, and causal inference. Much of his methodological work is motivated by …
Simon Gilroy
Dr. Simon Gilroy is a professor in the Botany Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is on how plants sense and respond to their environment. He works extensively with NASA on understanding how …
John Hawks
John Hawks has traveled across Africa, Europe and Asia in his research into our origins and evolution. He helped to show that our evolution has rapidly accelerated during the last 10,000 years, and is now …
Max Kroft
Max Kroft is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in the UW-Madison Astronomy Department. His research primarily involves observational studies of exoplanets, planets outside of our solar system. He currently works on detecting and characterizing …
Amanda Latham
Amanda Latham is a Climate Outreach Specialist for the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. She has a background in science communication, having worked as a broadcast meteorologist for five years after completing a B.S. in atmospheric …
Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers is an Assistant Scientist at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He obtained his PhD in microbiology studying anaerobic growth of bacteria at UW-Madison and performed post-doctoral research …
Mel Reusche
Mel Reusche (Roo-SHAY) is the communications and outreach specialist for the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, part of the Natural Resource Institute of the UW-Madison Division of Extension. Her goal is to share the …
Joe Salmons
Joe Salmons is the Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor of Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. With Jim Leary, he co-founded the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and edited …
Sissel Schroeder
Sissel Schroeder received her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University and is currently a Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is also an affiliate of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Center for Culture, …
Titus Seilheimer
Titus Seilheimer has been a fisheries specialist with Wisconsin Sea Grant since 2012 where he leads research, outreach, and education activities focused on Great Lakes fisheries and ecosystems. He has a B.A. in Biology from …
Anastasia Triantafillides
Anastasia is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Astronomy department. Her research focuses on observing and characterizing the atmospheres of gas giant exoplanets through the use of transit spectroscopy. She …
Chris Vagasky
Chris Vagasky is the manager of the Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet (Wisconet), a network of weather and soil monitoring stations across the state of Wisconsin, and a member of the National Lightning Safety Council. Chris holds …
Carol Van Hulle
Dr. Van Hulle received her Ph.D. in psychology with an emphasis in quantitative genetics from the University of Colorado. She is now an academic staff scientist with the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Her research focuses …
John Williams
John (Jack) Williams is Professor in Geography and a former director of the Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison. He studies climate change and ecosystem responses to changing climates, using the end of the last …