AGREEMENT OF COOPERATION BETWEEN UCDAVIS AND METU
LIST OF INTERESTED FACULTY MEMBERS
October 20, 2005
Lovell Jarvis, Agricultural & Resource Economics
jarvis@primal.ucdavis.edu
economic development, international trade and agricultural development, livestock economics
Ruihong Zhang, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
rhzhang@ucdavis.edu
Bioenvironmental engineering. Air quality control for animal and human environments; conversion of
organic wastes into biofuels.
Nael El-Farra, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci.
nhelfarra@ucdavis.edu
nonlinear process control and estimation, hybrid systems, fault-tolerant control, computational modeling and
analysis of metabolic networks
Bruce Gates, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci.
bcgates@ucdavis.edu
catalysis, catalytic reactors, chemical reaction engineering, material micro structure, sol-gel processing.
Enrique Lavernia, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci., Dean of College of Engineering
lavernia@ucdavis.edu
synthesis of structural materials and composites; nanostructured materials and composites; thermal spray
processing
Karen McDonald, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci., Assoc. Dean of College of Engineering
kamcdonald@ucdavis.edu
biochemical engineering, transgenic plant cell cultures, bioreactor modeling and optimization, protein
purification.
Zuhair Munir, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci.
zamunir@ucdavis.edu
Field-activated processes; energetic material systems; synthesis and processing of materials; combustion
synthesis; functionally-graded and laminated materials; synthesis and densification of nanostructured
materials; gas-solid interactions.
Ahmet Palazoglu, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci.
anpalazoglu@ucdavis.edu
process control, process monitoring, nonlinear systems, statistical modeling, wavelets and hidden Markov
models.
Robert L. Powell, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci., Dept. Chair
rlpowell@ucdavis.edu
colloidal systems, composite materials, continuum mechanics, fluid mechanics, materials science, nuclear
magnetic resonance, particle flows and suspensions, polymers, rheology.
Pieter Stroeve, Chemical Eng. & Materials Sci.
pstroeve@ucdavis.edu
nanotechnology, colloidal systems, interfacial phenomena, membrane science, thin films, self-assembly,
AFM image analysis, fuel cells.
Timothy Ginn, Civil & Environmental Engineering
trginn@ucdavis.edu
modeling reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media including biodegradation and biocolloid transport,
inverse problems and groundwater age distribution estimation, recharge estimation in arid regions, and
statistical mechanical hydrodynamics.
Frank Loge, Civil & Environmental Engineering
fjloge@ucdavis.edu
water and wastewater treatment; water reuse; small and decentralized waste treatment; human and ecological
risk assessment; dynamics of disease transmission in aquatic environments
Geoffrey Schladow, Civil & Environmental Engineering
gschladow@ucdavis.edu
Interaction between fluid transport and mixing processes with water quality in natural and engineered
systems. Examples of such systems include lakes, rivers, estuaries and mining pits.
Kate Scow, Land, Air and Water Resources
kmscow@ucdavis.edu
microbial ecology; biodegradation of organic pollutants; bioremediation of contaminated soil, vadose, and
groundwater; coupling of physical and microbiological processes; microbial ecology of agroecosystems;
carbon cycling in soils; microbiology of invasive plant species; application of molecular tools in
environmental microbiology.
Thomas M. Young, Civil & Environmental Engineering
tyoung@ucdavis.edu
physical/chemical treatment processes; environmental chemistry; remediation of contaminated soil and
groundwaters; supercritical fluid extraction; absorption processes
Bassam Younis, Civil & Environmental Engineering
bayounis@ucdavis.edu
computational fluid dynamics for industrial and environmental flows, turbulence modeling for complex
flows, computational hydraulics, simulation of esturine and river flows.
Emily Albu, Classics
emalbu@ucdavis.edu
Norman historical writing; religions, literatures, and societies in the twelfth century; Byzantium and the west;
the classical tradition
Lynn E. Roller, Classics and Art History
leroller@ucdavis.edu
Anatolian archaeology of the Iron Age and, in general, the first millennium BCE, with special interests in the
art and archaeology of ancient Phrygia
Demet Aksoy, Computer Sci.
aksoy@cs.ucdavis.edu
data broadcast networks and distributed databases; Web page broadcast and performance analysis; impact of
telecommunication technology on data management issues.
Nazli Gundes, Electrical and Comp. Eng.
gundes@ece.ucdavis.edu
algebraic theory of continuous-time and discrete-time linear control systems; decentralized control systems;
stability of feedback systems under sensor and actuator failures and reliable control; simultaneous
stabilization; control of rapid thermal processes
Saif Islam, Electrical and Comp. Eng.
sislam@ucdavis.edu
incorporation of low-dimensional nanowire devices with conventional IC elements, employing processes
compatible with mass-manufacturing; nano-structures integration processes and the applications of nanodevices in bio-chemical sensing, nanophotonics, memory and logic devices for computing; design, fabrication
and characterization of ultra-fast optoelectronic and RF photonic devices
Diane Barrett, Food Science and Technology
dmbarrett@ucdavis.edu
effects of handling and processing on color, flavor and texture of fruits and vegetables, with emphasis on
enzyme-catalyzed reactions which result in qualitative losses.
John Krochta, Food Science and Technology
jmkrochta@ucdavis.edu
edible films and coatings, coatings for paper and plastic, polymers from lactose.
Allyson Mitchell, Food Science and Technology
aemitchell@ucdavis.edu
Food chemistry and toxicology, impact of diet on metabolic systems, application of LC/MS/MS in the
identification and occurrence flavonoids and flavonoid metabolites in foods and biological tissues.
Bob Flocchini, Land, Air and Water Resources
rgflocchini@ucdavis.edu
transport of particulate matter especially with regard to agricultural sources; application of nuclear techniques
to agriculture and environment.
Orhan Orgun, Linguistics
ocorgun@ucdavis.edu
phonetics, phonology, morphology, phonology-morphology interaction, unification-based theories of
grammar
Leo Chalupa, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, Dept. Chair and Dept. of Ophthalmology
lmchalupa@ucdavis.edu
development/plasticity of the mammalian visual system
Carl Keen, Nutrition, Dept. Chair
clkeen@ucdavis.edu
1) the influence of diet on embryonic and fetal development. 2) the study of gene-nutrient interactions, with
an emphasis on how subtle changes in cell mineral concentrations influence the expression of select genes. 3)
the study of how diet influences oxidant defense systems.
Cesar Fraga, Nutrition
cgfraga@ucdavis.edu
putative beneficial effects of plant-derived polyphenolic compounds against degenerative disorders, including
cardiovascular disease and certain cancers.
Baki Tezcan, Religious Studies and History
btezcan@ucdavis.edu
pre-modern Middle Eastern history, Ottoman political history in the 16 th and 17th centuries, fiscal and
monetary history, Kurdish history in the sixteenth century, ethnic and racial identities, Ottoman perceptions
of others, Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography, Islamic law, and the intellectual tradition of Islam.
Alan Bennett, Vegetable Crops, Assoc. Vice Chancellor, Office of Research – Tech. & Industry Alliances
abbennett@ucdavis.edu
molecular biology of tomato fruit development, quality and ripening; molecular basis of cellular membrane
transport processes.
Andrew Waterhouse, Viticulture & Enology
alwaterhouse@ucdavis.edu
Health and taste effects of phenolics and other components