New Faculty 2021-2022: Weinberg College

New Faculty 2021-2022

Diego Arispe-Bazán

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: University of Pennsylvania
Previous title and institution: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Home department: Anthropology
Profile

Diego Arispe-Bazán is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist; his research centers on the production and circulation of history via linguistic and discursive strategies in interaction. More specifically, he focuses on the schism that divides Iberian and Latin American valorizations of the colonial past, and how differences in dialectal Spanish forms reaffirm ideas about national, belonging based on ideologies surrounding colonization. Arispe-Bazán’s ethnographic research moves between Lima, Peru and Madrid, Spain, and investigates the global effects of economic crisis in the “developed” world. Furthermore, his ethnographic and semiotic approach allows for a fine-grained approach to understanding the composition of categories of race and class in Latin America as intertwined colonial processes. More recently, his work touches on diasporic Andean indigenous identities in the US and Europe.

Dotun Ayobade

Assistant Professor

PhD institution: University of Texas at Austin
Previous title and institution: Assistant Professor at Brown University
Home department: Performance Studies
Joint department: African American Studies

Dotun Ayobade is interested in how embodied forms of popular culture shape the meaning of community, justice, and activism in postcolonial West Africa. He also researches how West Africans activated aesthetic and everyday social performance to shape their lived realities, forge belonging, and declare being within the political economy of postcolonial Africa in the late 20th century. Ayobade’s current book project focuses on the storied lives of Nigeria’s Afrobeat Queens, an iconic collective of women artists who deployed dance, voice, and embodiment as strategies of protest and self-affirmation to notable political and moral effect.

Vilna Bashi

Professor

PhD institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Previous title and institution: Professor of Black Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Home department: Sociology
Joint department: Buffett Institute of Global Affairs

Vilna Bashi is a sociologist and visual artist appointed as the inaugural Osborn Professor in the department of Sociology. Her scholarship theorizes about international migration, race and ethnicity, and the dynamics of hierarchical socioeconomic structures both domestically and internationally. She has published several articles and books, including “The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions” (Stanford, 2013), a comparative historical analysis of US ethnic groups’ racialization named to the Zora Canon, a list of the top 100 books ever written by an African American woman. She is the 2020 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award for scholarship in service to social justice. Bashi Treitler is currently at work on a memoir entitled Schooled, about her experiences with public school and higher education, and a related self-portrait series.

Jennifer Brace

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: University of Chicago
Previous title and institution: Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University
Home department: Molecular Biosciences

Jennifer Brace’s graduate and postdoctoral work focused on understanding processes disrupted in cancer cells. Since a failure to complete cell division properly can lead to cancer, she has been exploring the mechanisms normal cells use to ensure the proper order of the cell division cycle. Brace’s goal is to understand the process in normal cells to learn what errors can lead to cancer. Her teaching interests include molecular and cellular biology and she is committed to inclusive teaching and making the study of biology accessible to all.

Federico Bugni

Professor

PhD institution: Northwestern University
Previous title and institution: Professor at Duke University
Home department: Economics
Profile

Federico Bugni’s research interests lie primarily in econometric theory within microeconometrics. The ultimate goal of his research is to develop new methodologies that can improve the quality of inference in a wide array of econometric frameworks, including partially identified models, dynamic discrete choice models, functional data, and randomized control experiments. While Bugni’s work is theoretical in nature, its motivation stems from current applications in economics and other sciences.

Antawan Byrd

College Fellow

PhD institution: Northwestern University
Previous title and institution: Associate Curator, Photography and Media, Art Institute of Chicago
Home department: Art History

Antawan Byrd specializes in modern and contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora, with particular emphasis on histories of photography, urbanism, sound, and Pan-Africanism. He tends to gravitate toward interpretative models that traverse national boundaries and engage problems of circulation, diffusion, and scale. His dissertation research explores the role of listening in sixties-era politics as manifest through art and cultural practices across the Afro-Atlantic world, e.g., in Bamako, Port of Spain, Kingston (Jamaica), and New York.

Jeffrey Coleman

Associate Professor

PhD institution: University of Chicago
Previous title and institution: Associate Professor at Marquette University
Home department: Spanish & Portuguese

Jeffrey Coleman specializes in contemporary Iberian theatre and popular culture. His research examines how race and ethnicity are conceptualized in Spanish culture and society. His first book, “The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage” (Northwestern University Press, 2020), explores how the intersections of race and immigration manifest in Spanish theatre from 1991-2016. He is currently working on his second book project tentatively titled, “España Negra: The Consumption & Rejection of Blackness in Contemporary Spain,” which explores the ways in which Spanish media, popular culture, and literature have portrayed and appropriated Blackness from the early 20th century to the present, leading to the creation of a Black Spain.

Thadeus Dowad

College Fellow

PhD institution: University of California, Berkeley
Previous title and institution: Paul Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Home department: Art History

Thadeus specializes in the art and architectural history of the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, with an emphasis on the transregional impacts of capitalism and empire-building on metropolitan and colonial artistic cultures. He is particularly interested in the history of European imperialism in Islamic West Asia and North Africa as the framework for an integrated history of Ottoman and European art before World War I. Drawing on scholarship in comparative literature, queer theory, and postcolonial studies, his research and teaching explore models of global art history that challenge the paradigms of exchange, encounter, and translation that have dominated the field to date. Other areas of research and teaching interest include transcultural histories of portraiture; European and Ottoman orientalism; queerness in Islamic art; the gendered and racial dynamics of consumerism; and the modernization of Ottoman urban space.

Brendan Fernandes

Assistant Professor

MFA institution: Western University
Home department: Art, Theory & Practice
Profile

Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Brendan’s projects take on hybrid forms: part Ballet, part queer dance hall, part political protest...always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity. Brendan is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2007) and a recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship (2014). In 2010, he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award and is the recipient of a prestigious 2017 Canada Council New Chapters grant. Brendan is also the recipient of the Artadia Award (2019), a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2020), and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant (2019). His projects have been shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennial (New York); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Getty Museum (Los Angeles); the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); MAC (Montreal); among a great many others. He is currently an artist-in-residency and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago.

Ahmad Greene-Hayes

College Fellow

PhD institution: Princeton University
Home department: African American Studies
Joint department: Religious Studies
Profile

Ahmad Greene-Hayes is a historian and critical theorist of race, sexuality, and religion in the Americas, and his research and teaching interests include, but are not limited to, Black critical theory, Black Atlantic Religions, and race and sexuality in the context of African American and Caribbean religious histories. His work examines questions of Black religious innovation in the afterlife of chattel slavery. Greene-Hayes is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, “Gods of the Flesh: Black Atlantic Religion-Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,” which is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press in the Class 200: New Studies in Religion series. In addition, he is in the beginning stages of research on a second project, which is a survey of the history of sexual ethics in Black Atlantic religions from the Reconstruction era to the emergence of sexually transgressive practices in early twentieth century new religious movements.

Walker Hanlon

Associate Professor

PhD institution: Columbia University
Previous institution: NYU Stern School of Business
Home department: Economics
Profile

Walker Hanlon’s research focus is on economic history, with a specific interest in understanding the factors driving technological development and demographic change from the Industrial Revolution until the end of the nineteenth century. He is also interested in the negative consequences of industrialization and urbanization, including pollution and infectious disease transmission. Hanlon’s work focuses mainly on Britain and on interactions between Britain, the United States, and Canada.

Eli Kean

Assistant Professor of Instruction & Academic Advisor

PhD institution: Michigan State University
Home program: Gender & Sexuality Studies
Joint department: The Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising (OUSA)

Eli Kean's interdisciplinary interests include anti-oppressive education, transgender studies, curriculum theory, and qualitative research. Their primary goal as an academic is to help shape gendered educational practices in expansive and affirming directions.

Shana Kelley

Professor

PhD institution: California Institute of Technology
Previous title and institution: Professor at University of Toronto
Home department: Chemistry
Joint department: McCormick School of Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering
Profile

Shana Kelley uses the unique properties of nanomaterials to develop new technology platforms for ultra-sensitive biomolecular and cellular analysis. Kelley’s projects span the interface of chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine as she works to develop new diagnostic tools and therapeutic modalities. At Northwestern, Kelley will advance a new class of implantable sensors for continuous biomarker monitoring as well as high-precision cell profiling tools for cellular and molecular therapy development.

Dahye Kim

College Fellow

PhD institution: McGill University
Previous title and institution: Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
Home department: Asian Languages and Cultures

Dahye Kim's research and teaching interests include modern Korean literature and culture, critical approaches to media history, and the cultural dimensions of communication technologies in East Asia. She is especially interested in changing the significance and signification of literature and literacy in the evolving media studies landscape. Currently, she is at work on her manuscript that is tentatively titled “Techno-fiction: Science Fictional Dreams of Linguistic Metamorphosis and Informatization of Korean Language.” This project situates the cultural phenomenon of online literature and writing as a contentious site where the older axioms undergirding the institution of modern literature come under criticism. To do so, she draws what German media theorists call the technik of writing—which includes both the technological mediation and the compositional technique of writing—to critique the writings of Korean science-fiction fans in the 1980s and 1990s.

Arvind Krishna

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Previous title and institution: PhD candidate / Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology
Home department: Statistics
Profile

Arvind Krishna’s research interest lies in the applications of data science and machine learning. He likes to develop novel methods to address real-world problems. One of Krishna’s research problems is in the field of material informatics, where he has developed a framework to aid in discovering new materials. Krishna also focusses on the field of acoustics, where his methodology aids in designing acoustic metasurfaces for independently modulating the phase and amplitude of acoustic waves. He is currently exploring applications in the field of education.

Erin Leddon

Associate Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: Northwestern University
Previous title and institution: Associate Director of English Language Programs, Northwestern University
Home department: Linguistics
Joint Department: Cognitive Science

Erin Leddon’s interests focus on language learning across the lifespan: how babies acquire language, and how adult language learners acquire new languages. Most recently, she has focused on these issues in language pedagogy, using evidence-based strategies to support students in developing English-language communication skills for advanced graduate study at Northwestern. Her current work is centered on curriculum development and assessment in the language learning classroom. Leddon is passionate about teaching and discovering new ways to engage students interested in studying languages, linguistics, and cognitive science.

Yuchen Liu

Assistant Professor

PhD institution: Princeton University
Previous title and institution: Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton University
Home department: Mathematics
Profile

Yuchen Liu’s research is in algebraic geometry. Specifically, he is interested in the algebraic theory of K-stability that detects the existence of canonical metrics on the class of spherical shaped algebraic varieties, known as Fano varieties. The interplay between algebra and geometry here is robust as K-stability not only bridges canonical metrics to stability but also provides a nice classifying space for Fano varieties.

Christian Malapit

Assistant Professor

PhD Institution: University of Connecticut
Previous title and institution: NIH Pathway to Independence Fellow, University of Utah | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Home department: Chemistry
Profile

Christian Malapit is a Filipino scientist working in the areas of chemical synthesis, drug discovery, and catalysis. His research utilizes a multidisciplinary approach using the concepts of organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and molecular electrochemistry towards the (a) discovery of new reactions relevant to drug discovery, (b) development of sustainable catalytic transformations towards biomass utilization and energy production, and (c) design of new molecules for medicine, agriculture, and energy storage.

Liz McCabe

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD Institution: Northwestern University
Previous title and institution: Lecturer & Lead Instructor at Northwestern University
Home department: Chicago Field Studies

Liz McCabe’s research interests include the history of internships and representations of labor in popular culture, as well as experiential/co-op learning programs, civic education, and Chicago civic systems—all tied to her many years of teaching in Chicago Field Studies, the internship program in Weinberg College.

Sidonia McKenzie

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: Kansas State University
Home department: Economics

Sidonia McKenzie’s research interests are concentrated in the fields of Labor Economics and Macroeconomics. Specifically, she currently studies occupation-specific characteristics, language proficiency as well as U.S. government policies and investigates how they affect the labor market outcomes of immigrants. McKenzie also examines the role of economic shocks in the labor market decisions of youths. In the macroeconomic literature, she is especially interested in the response of emerging market economies and the macroeconomy to U.S. monetary policy decisions and oil price shocks.

Elvia Mendoza

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Home program: Latina and Latino Studies

Broadly, Elvia Mendoza’s work examines the racial-sexual and gendered formations of state violence, displacement/migration, policing/surveillance, memory and self-making, and visual productions. She is the field producer of “Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio” and producer of “Nosotros Tambien Migramos/We too, Migrate,” and other short film productions.

Almaz Mesghina

Assistant Professor of Instruction & Academic Advisor

PhD institution: University of Chicago
Home department: Psychology
Joint Department: Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising (OUSA)

Almaz Mesghina's research sits at the intersection of her roles as a trained psychologist and a dedicated instructor. Her research examines how insights from cognitive psychology can inform our pedagogical practices, and vice versa. Mesghina is particularly interested in understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying when anxiety facilitates vs. threatens our capacity to engage in higher-order reasoning and learning in STEM. Her ongoing work tests student-centered (emotion regulation strategies) and teacher-centered (instructional design) interventions to promote learning at times when anxiety poses a threat.

Adam Miller

Assistant Professor

PhD institution: University of California, Berkeley
Previous title and institution: CIERA Fellow at Northwestern University
Home department: Phsyics and Astronomy
Joint department: CIERA
Profile

Adam Miller is an optical survey astronomer working at the intersection of time-domain astronomy and data science with an aim towards improving our understanding of stellar evolution. His recent efforts have focused on coupling machine learning methods with results from citizen science projects to streamline the discovery and classification of electromagnetic transients. This has enabled a special research program to study supernovae in the hours after explosion, which provides unique insight into the explosion mechanism and progenitor systems. Miller is also the Program Director for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time Corporation Data Science Fellowship Program, which trains graduate students in data science methodology for applications to Petabyte-scale astronomical surveys.

Elvira Mulyukova

Assistant Professor

PhD institution: University of Potsdam, Germany
Previous title and institution: Research Scientist at Yale University
Home program: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Profile

Elvira Mulyukova uses rock physics to investigate the evolution of planetary surfaces and interiors. Planet Earth is mostly made up of solid rock. Thus, understanding what makes a rock strong or weak, and flow or fracture is the key to understanding planetary evolution at large. She develops physical theories of rocks’ crystalline defects and incorporates them into larger-scale geodynamic models of mantle convection, plate tectonics, mountain building, earthquake cycles, and other geological processes that shape the history and the future of rocky planets.

Peter Mwangi

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: Ohio University
Previous title and institution: Visiting Assistant Professor of Swahili at Northwestern University
Home program: Program of African Studies

Peter Mwangi’s research interests include the role of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) in the internationalization of higher education in the United States and Africa, intercultural competence, global citizenship, and issues in global higher education. Currently, he is examining the role of LCTLs in enhancing diversity and inclusion as well as social justice. He has mostly based his research on the STARTALK language program, a National Security Agency-funded language program that sponsors 11 critical need languages in K-16 nationally every summer.

Rana Raddawi

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD Institution: Sorbonne, Paris, France
Home program: MENA Languages

Rana Raddawi holds a PhD in Translation Studies (Arabic/English/French) from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She has more than 15 years of teaching experience in the West and the Middle East at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She masters five languages: English, Arabic, French, Portuguese, and Turkish, with a fair knowledge of Spanish and Italian. In addition to having worked with graduate students on their Master theses, Raddawi is also a certified interpreter and trains interpreters in medical, legal, and societal fields.

Raddawi’s research interests relate to improving curriculum to reflect gender equality and women's empowerment, teaching Arabic as a second language in a real context (i.e. projects that further active communications with the target language community), curriculum design, and critical pedagogy. Raddawi has published her work in International Journals in her areas of expertise. She also has translated works into Arabic, for example, “Natural Medicine for Flu and Cold” (250 pages) and “Happiness is a serious problem: a human nature repair manual” (315 pages). She is also the editor of the book “Intercultural Communication with Arabs” (Springer, Singapore, 2015). Raddawi was the keynote speaker at several international conferences in the United States and the Middle East and she is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cultural Studies and Media.

Luciana Sanga

Assistant Professor

PhD Institution: Stanford University
Home department: Asian Languages and Cultures

Luciana Sanga studies contemporary Japanese literature, with a focus on popular fiction. She is currently writing her book manuscript titled “The New Japanese Love Novel: Genre, Gender, and Material Format.” Her latest publication is the article “Tanabe Seiko, Feminism, and the Making of a Love Novel” in Japanese Language and Literature. Recently she has expanded her research interests to include games and internet literature.

Ted Sargent

Professor

PhD Institution: University of Toronto
Previous title and institution: University Professor, University of Toronto
Home department: Chemistry
Joint department: ECE
Profile

Ted Sargent develops electrocatalytic technologies to synthesize fuels and chemical feedstocks using CO2 and low-carbon electricity.

He also seeks improved ways to harvest energy, exploring perovskites, quantum dots, and photonic strategies.

Sargent works to unite the efforts of synthetic chemists, physicists, and engineers to create new light-emitting materials and devices based on reduced-dimensional semiconductors.

Additionally, his research seeks and deploys new semiconducting materials for next-generation Near Infrared (NIR) and Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) image sensors.

Sargent works on constructing and deploying workflows for computational screening of a large number of candidate materials, accelerated using machine learning; he unites this approach with automation for high-throughput synthesis and characterization of new optoelectronic materials and new catalysts informed by big data and AI.

Danielle Sass

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD Insitution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Previous title and institution: Graduate Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Home department: Statistics

Danielle Sass’ research focuses on spatial and Spatio-temporal statistics with applications to climatology, epidemiology, and entomology. She has developed a methodology that extends the spatial extreme value distribution to allow for a non-parametric representation of the model parameters using fused penalties. Further, Sass has evaluated the efficiency and accuracy of various non-spatial and spatial models in an application of predicting county-level HIV epidemiology across the United States. Lastly, she has quantified the impact of adulticide spraying on West Nile virus risk factors in the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District of Illinois using a generalized additive model with spatial and temporal covariates in conjunction with a fused penalty.

Gus Schrader

Assistant Professor

PhD Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Previous title and institution: Ritt Assistant Professor, Columbia Univeristy
Home department: Mathematics

Gus Schrader works in mathematical physics, with a focus on understanding problems in quantum topology by exploiting their symmetries. These symmetries allow him to bring the techniques of representation theory to bear on the problem and can lead to the phenomenon of ‘integrability’ whereby a complicated many-body system can be solved exactly, leading to explicit and constructive proofs of deep results.

Charif Shanahan

Assistant Professor

MFA institution: New York University
Previous title and institution: Jones Lecturer in Poetry, Stanford University
Home department: English
Profile

Charif Shanahan is a poet, essayist, and translator. His debut collection of poetry won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He joins Northwestern from Stanford University, where he held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and later taught as the Jones Lecturer in Poetry. He is currently at work on two collections of poetry, as well as a creative non-fiction project that explores questions of mixed-race identity in the contemporary United States; Blackness in the Maghreb; and the transnational dimensions of racial experience.

Maxim Sinitsyn

Associate Professor of Instruction

PhD Institution: Northwestern University
Previous title and institution: Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego
Home department: Economics
Profile

Maxim Sinitsyn’s main research interests are in the area of product pricing. He worked on price promotions, investigating how firms should coordinate promotions of related products. He also studied the effects of firms planning promotions in advance. Recently, Sinitsyn has been examining how different types of technology licensing payments affect the market outcomes when a licensee sells a product line.

Jenna Smith

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: Michigan State University
Previous title and institution: Assistant Professor at Pierce College
Home department: Physics and Astronomy

Jenna Smith's research background is in nuclear physics, specifically low-energy nuclear structure and decay. As a teaching-line faculty and Director of Introductory Physics Labs, she will focus on structuring her introductory physics lecture and lab courses as welcoming environments that enable students of all backgrounds to learn physics.

Dayne Swearer

Assistant Professor

PhD institution: Rice University
Previous title and institution: Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
Home department: Chemistry
Joint department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Profile

Dayne Swearer’s research interests lay at the intersection between nanophotonics and chemical processes. The chemical industry is one of the most important industries in the modern world, but also the most energy- and carbon-intensive. His lab will develop nanoscale catalytic platforms that can harvest light and transfer this energy into chemical reactions of industrial and societal importance. The lab's research will span investigations into the fundamental mechanisms of nanoscale energy transfer, the efficient design of photocatalytic processes, and the development of new tools to monitor chemical reactions as they occur under dynamic conditions.

Silvia Vannutelli

College Fellow

PhD institution: Boston University
Home department: Economics
Profile

Silvia Vannutelli is an applied micro-economist who uses original and administrative data and rigorous empirical methods to answer policy-relevant questions. Her research focuses on core topics in public, political, and labor economics that pertain to the collection of revenues and the allocation of government resources, the design of social insurance policies, and the role of institutions and political economy considerations in policymaking.

Jeong Eun Annabel We

College Fellow

PhD institution: Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Home department: Asian Languages and Cultures
Profile

Jeong Eun Annabel We (she/they) specializes in modern Korean literature and culture and decolonial thought. Her current book project focuses on the questions of immobility and de-coloniality in Korean and diasporic literature and culture across the Pacific, engaging the ongoing militarism and settler colonialism in the region. She has written for the journals, Cultural Dynamics, Acta Koreana, A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (GLQ), and the edited anthology, Decolonising the University.

Nina Wieda

Assistant Professor of Instruction

PhD institution: Northwestern University
Previous title and institution: Lecturer at Northwestern University
Home program: Chicago Field Studies

Nina Wieda studies the mechanisms of value-formation on individual and group levels. Her earlier research focused on axiological dimensions of national ideas. In her more recent research, she focuses on axiological underpinnings of vocational choices that people make at different stages of their lives. Wieda explores the interconnections between individual value systems and those of groups to which people belong.

Xiaoyu Zhang

Assistant Professor

PhD institution: Cornell University
Previous title and institution: Postdoctoral Fellow at The Scripps Research Institute
Home department: Chemistry

Xiaoyu Zhang’s research focuses on leveraging chemical biology approaches and chemical proteomic technologies to discover new drug modalities, such as protein degraders, activators, and stabilizers, that alter protein functions through novel mechanisms, therefore expanding druggable space in the human proteome.