Marcus Denard Johnson serves as the Director of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory.  He is a 2008 graduate of the Conservatory and has since worked consistently in Theatre as a theatre administrator, actor, and director. For Johnson's full bio, please visit the School of Theatre's website.

As an Assistant Professor of Urban Science at Florida State University, I investigate a fundamental question: How do the places we live in and the people we interact with shape our choices? My research develops advanced spatial models to uncover these complex relationships between context and human behavior.

My research focuses on preventing cardio-metabolic risk factors and health disparities in Black communities and populations with high comorbidities. As a principal investigator, I have developed and led educational interventions in collaboration with healthcare facilities and community organizations. 

I examine utopia, nation-building, and the archive within the expanded field of painting. I rely on elements of print media, cinema, design history, surrealism, and folklore to evoke parallel universes, investigating the disconnect between past projected futures and reality through altered and imagined space. My interest in post-communist perception and the politics of memory lends itself to ambiguous images and hypnotic, dreamlike compositions that oscillate between flatness and true representation, further emphasizing a silent but steady descent into entropy and euphoria.

My research is in single-electron qubits and hybrid superconducting quantum circuits for quantum information science and high-temperature superconductor electronics.

My interests are in the synthesis and tuning of quantum materials to uncover new phenomena and valuable performance.

I work on solving materials challenges to make nuclear energy safer and cheaper. My research focuses on understanding how materials behave in extreme nuclear reactor environments such as high temperature, radiation, and corrosion. 

My research interests are in Post-Quantum Cryptography, Homomorphic Encryption, Error Correction Codes for 5G/6G Communications, Digital SoC & VLSI Design, Applied Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity.

My research is in soft materials characterization and development.

I am trained as both a chemical engineer and microbial synthetic biologist. I am interested in implementing an interdisciplinary approach combining computational and experimental methods for solving various engineering problems such as antibiotic resistance.