I study ethics:—the norms, principles, relationships, and practices that people use in trying to live well. I focus on religious ethics, especially in disciplines of life like monasticism, and I also work in environmental ethics and the environmental humanities more broadly, with a particular interest in literary studies. My first book is Thoreau's Religion (Cambridge, 2021).

My area of expertise is in leadership development.

My research is in quantum error correction using techniques from representation theory.

I am a scholar of the early American republic, specializing in political culture, gender, and partisan development at the turn of the 19th century. More specifically, my work focuses on how elite women used sociability to influence and facilitate the uneven evolution of the two-party system in the United States. 

My primary research interests lie in ocean circulation dynamics and their role in polar climate variability and change. My current work explores the global impacts of glacial melt, ocean–atmosphere–ice interactions in the polar regions, and tropical-to-polar teleconnections, using observational data, ocean state estimates, and state-of-the-art ocean and climate models.

My research focuses on the spin dynamics of photoexcited molecules and their application in quantum information science. The Mao group will develop molecular qubits and quantum sensors by combining synthetic design with time-resolved spectroscopy and magnetic resonance techniques.

I would like to teach students lab skills in analytical and physical chemistry.

My research is in pioneer factors and cell states in early development and tumorigenesis.

My research focuses on the neurocognitive and neurobiological basis of reading and executive function. My expertise is in structural neuroimaging and neuromodulation techniques. 

My research is in the areas of statistics, graphical model, causal discovery, and biomedical data.