Fall 2025

Each fall, many faculty give research presentations for students who may be interested in joining their research group. Below is a list of scheduled faculty presentations specifically intended for first-year students. Other faculty have instead requested to meet individually with students interested in their research. This list will be updated as we receive information from faculty, but please do not consider this an exhaustive list of faculty who are taking students into their groups. You are welcome to contact individual faculty members to request a meeting or learn more about their research groups.

All first-year students are required to attend this DGS presentation:

Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 7:00–8:30 pm, 217 Noyes Lab, "How to Choose a Research Group" Seminar
Professors Gregory Girolami (outgoing) & Jeff Moore (incoming), Directors of Graduate Studies

You should not schedule any meetings with individual faculty until after this DGS presentation.

List of individual faculty presentations:

For more information about an individual faculty member, we have a Faculty Directory on our website. To view the faculty directory, either click on the link or click on "People" in the navigation menu at the top of this page and then "Faculty". From the faculty directory you may also choose "Faculty by Research Area" in the menu on the left.

Upcoming faculty research presentations for Fall 2025 will be added to the list below. We encourage you to reach out to faculty members who have research that interests you. This listing will be updated once daily until all presentations have occurred. Past presentations will be listed in a separate section below the upcoming presentations. 

 

Upcoming Presentations:

 

Past Presentations:

Hee-Sun Han - Thursday, August 28, 5:30 PM, 117 RAL

Michael Strauss - Thursday, September 4, 5:00 PM, 117 RAL

Lisa Olshansky - Thursday, September 4, 5:30 PM, 353 NL

Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez - Thursday, September 4, 7:30 PM, 171 RAL

Ying Diao - Friday, September 5, 4:00 PM, 163 NL

Qian Chen - Friday, September 5, 4:30 PM, 171 RAL

Vicky Jun - Friday, September 5, 5:00 PM, 419 RAL

Prashant Jain - Friday, September 5, 5:30 PM, A224 CLSL

Paul Hergenrother - Monday, September 8, 5:00 PM, 217 NL

Samy Meroueh - Tuesday, September 9, 1:00 PM, 117 RAL

Baron Peters - Tuesday, September 9, 4:00 PM, 293 RAL

Stephan Link - Tuesday, September 9, 5:00 PM, 353 RAL

Scott Silverman - Tuesday, September 9, 5:30 PM, 433 RAL

Christy Landes - Tuesday, September 9, 6:00 PM, 353 NL

Liviu Mirica - Wednesday, September 10, 4:00 PM, A446 CLSL

Nick Jackson - Wednesday, September 10, 5:00 PM, 350M NL

Majed Fataftah - Thursday, September 11, 5:00 PM, 353 NL

Angad Mehta - Thursday, September 11, 5:00 PM, 117 RAL

So Hirata - Friday, September 12, 4:00 PM, 350M NL

Josh Vura-Weis - Friday, September 12, 4:00 PM, 171 RAL

Mayuko Isomura - Friday, September 12, 5:00 PM, 419 RAL

Yingjie Zhang - Friday, September 12, 5:00 PM, 171 RAL

Zan Luthey-Schulten - Monday, September 15, 5:00 PM, A552 CLSL

M. Christina White - Monday, September 15, 5:00 PM, 217 NL

Diwakar Shukla - Monday, September 15, 6:00 PM, 293 RAL

Nancy Makri - Tuesday, September 16, 5:00 PM, 350M NL

Mei Shen - Tuesday, September 16, 5:00 PM, 353 NL

Huimin Zhao - Tuesday, September 16, 5:00 PM, 271 RAL

Wilfred van der Donk - Tuesday, September 16, 7:30 PM, 433 RAL

Xiaotang Lu - Thursday, September 18, 4:00 PM, 117 RAL

Cathy Murphy - Thursday, September 18, 5:00 PM, 353 NL

Marty Burke - Friday, September 19, 5:00 PM, 165 NL

Chang Cui - Monday, September 22, 5:30 PM, 314 RAL

Samy Meroueh - Tuesday, September 23, 1:00 PM, 419 RAL

Jonathan Sweedler - Tuesday, September 23, 5:00 PM, A133 CLSL

 

If you are interested in the research of a faculty member who did not hold a presentation or you were unable to attend their presentation, then please contact them directly to set up a meeting. Faculty Directory

 

The following faculty will not be giving a presentation but are pleased to meet with students individually. Please email them directly to set up a meeting, learn more about their research, and discuss joining their research group. 

Tasha Manesis

Ben Snyder