School of Humanities and Sciences
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Kelly Gaffney
Professor of Photon Science and, by courtesy, of Chemistry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe research team Professor Gaffney leads focuses on time resolved studies of chemical reactions. Recent advances in ultrafast x-ray lasers, like the LCLS at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, enable chemical reactions to be observed on the natural time and length scales of the chemical bond – femtoseconds and Ångströms. The knowledge gained from x-ray and optical laser studies will be used to spark new approaches to photo-catalysis and chemical synthesis.
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Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and of Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTheoretical / computational neuroscience
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Jeremy Goldbogen
Professor of Oceans and, by courtesy, of Biology
BioJeremy Goldbogen is a comparative physiologist studing the integrative biology of marine organisms, with a particular focus on the feeding biomechanics, energetics, and foraging ecology of baleen whales.
Goldbogen received his B.S. in Zoology from the University of Texas at Austin, where he began his research career studying the biomechanics of locomotion in hummingbirds and Antarctic pteropods. He earned his M.S. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of British Columbia, where his dissertation on the mechanics and energetics of rorqual lunge feeding earned him the Governor General's Gold Medal—UBC's most outstanding PhD award. Following postdoctoral positions at Scripps and the Cascadia Research Collective, he joined Stanford's faculty in 2014.
His research program uses cutting-edge bio-logging technology—animal-attached sensors including accelerometers, video cameras, and echosounders—to study the behavior and physiology of marine megafauna in their natural environment. His lab has made groundbreaking discoveries about whale feeding mechanics, cardiovascular function, and the ecological consequences of body size in cetaceans. Notable achievements include the first recordings of a blue whale's heart rate and insights into why whales are big but not bigger. -
David Goldhaber-Gordon
TG Wijaya Professor of Physics and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHow do electrons organize themselves on the nanoscale?
We know that electrons are charged particles, and hence repel each other; yet in common metals like copper billions of electrons have plenty of room to maneuver and seem to move independently, taking no notice of each other. Professor Goldhaber-Gordon studies how electrons behave when they are instead confined to tiny structures, such as wires only tens of atoms wide. When constrained this way, electrons cannot easily avoid each other, and interactions strongly affect their organization and flow. The Goldhaber-Gordon group uses advanced fabrication techniques to confine electrons to semiconductor nanostructures, to extend our understanding of quantum mechanics to interacting particles, and to provide the basic science that will shape possible designs for future transistors and energy conversion technologies. The Goldhaber-Gordon group makes measurements using cryogenics, precision electrical measurements, and novel scanning probe techniques that allow direct spatial mapping of electron organization and flow. For some of their measurements of exotic quantum states, they cool electrons to a fiftieth of a degree above absolute zero, the world record for electrons in semiconductor nanostructures.
