Faculty

In 2008, Professor Young-Shin Jun joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis. She directs the Environmental NanoChemistry Laboratory. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Ewha Woman’s University (South Korea), holds master’s and PhD degrees in Environmental Chemistry from Harvard University, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California-Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She […]

Before joining the faculty of Washington University in 2005, Tao Ju earned his BA in English Language and BS in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Rice University. He conducts research in computer graphics, in particular the construction, processing and analysis of geometric models from real-world data. […]

Shin-ichiro Imai received his MD and PhD degrees in 1989 and 1995, respectively, from Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan, where he studied cellular aging-associated transcriptional regulation in human fibroblasts and proposed his “Heterochromatin Island Hypothesis of Aging.” To expand his aging research, he joined the laboratory of Leonard Guarente at the Massachusetts […]

Tuan-Hua David Ho is a professor in the Plant Biology, Developmental Biology and Molecular Genetics programs of the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his BS in botany from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, and a PhD in biochemistry from Michigan State University. Professor Ho joined […]

Shenyang Guo earned BA and MA in economics from Fudan University, and a PhD in sociology from University of Michigan. Prior to joining Washington University in St. Louis, he served on faculty at Case Western Reserve University, University of Tennessee, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was Wallace H. Kuralt, Sr. Distinguished […]

Daniel Giammar completed his BS at Carnegie Mellon University, MS and PhD at Caltech, and postdoctoral training at Princeton University before joining Washington University in St. Louis in 2002. His research focuses on chemical reactions that affect the fate and transport of heavy metals, radionuclides, and other inorganic constituents in natural and engineered aquatic systems. His […]

Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, is the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery, Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery; Deputy Director, Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis and Member, Institute of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from University of Queensland and his Doctor of Public Health degree […]

Shantanu Chakrabartty’s research explores new frontiers in unconventional analog computing techniques using silicon and hybrid substrates. His objective is to approach fundamental limits of energy efficiency, sensing and resolution by exploiting computational and adaptation primitives inherent in the physics of devices, sensors and the underlying noise processes. Professor Chakrabartty is using these novel techniques to […]

Rajan Chakrabarty obtained his PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Nevada, Reno with dissertation research conducted at the Desert Research Institute. He also holds degrees in Atmospheric Physics (MS) and Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (BEng). His research contributions have been recognized with several prestigious honors, most notably the 2019 Kenneth T. Whitby award […]

Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, is the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, where he serves as the Director of Translational Research in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and is a Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and Medicine. Dr. Apte received his […]