Principal Investigators

Waisman Center Investigators

Andrew Alexander, PhD

Position title: Professor, Medical Physics and Psychiatry

Rebecca Alper, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Karla Ausderau, PhD

Position title: Professor, Kinesiology

Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Lauren Bishop, PhD

Position title: H.I. Romnes Associate Professor, School of Social Work

Daniel Bolt, PhD

Position title: Nancy C. Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Educational Psychology

Pelin Cengiz, MD

Position title: Professor, Pediatrics

Qiang Chang, PhD

Position title: Professor, Medical Genetics and Neurology

Bradley T Christian, PhD

Position title: Professor, Medical Physics and Psychiatry

Richard J Davidson, PhD

Position title: William James & Vilas Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry

Leann Smith DaWalt, PhD

Position title: Director, University Center for Excellence In Developmental Disabilities

Doug Dean III, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Medical Physics

Haley Dresang, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Maureen S. Durkin, PhD, DrPH

Position title: Evan and Marion Helfaer Professor of Public Health and Chair, Population Health Sciences and Pediatrics

Susan Ellis Weismer, PhD

Position title: Professor Emeritus, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Peter Ferrazzano, MD

Position title: Enid and Jerry Weygandt Professor, Pediatrics

David Gamm, MD, PhD

Position title: Sandra Lemke Trout Chair in Eye Research, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Bobby E. Gibbs, II, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Bernadette Gillick, PhD, MSPT, PT, FAPTA

Position title: Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics

H. Hill Goldsmith, PhD

Position title: Leona Tyler Professor of Psychology, Emeritus

Tracy L. Hagemann, PhD

Position title: Associate Research Professor

Sigan Hartley, PhD

Position title: Professor, 100 Women Distinguished Chair in Human Ecology, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Edward Michael Hubbard, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Educational Psychology

Katherine C. Hustad, PhD

Position title: Oros Bascom Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Margarita Kaushanskaya, PhD

Position title: Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Janet E. Lainhart, MD

Position title: Psychiatrist and Professor, Psychiatry

James J. Li, PhD

Position title: A. A. Alexander Professor, Psychology

Ruth Litovsky, PhD

Position title: Oros Family Chair & Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology

Marsha R. Mailick, PhD

Position title: Emeritus Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education

Albee Messing, VMD, PhD

Position title: Professor Emeritus, Comparative Biosciences

Caroline A Niziolek, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Ben Parrell, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Seth Pollak, PhD

Position title: Vaughan Bascom Professor of Psychology and Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics

Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD

Position title: Professor, Department of Medicine

Abbas Rizvi, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Jenny Saffran, PhD

Position title: Letters & Science Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor, Psychology

Kristin Shutts, PhD

Position title: Professor, Psychology

André Sousa, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Audra Sterling, PhD

Position title: Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

John Svaren, PhD

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Brittany G. Travers, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Kinesiology

Houri K. Vorperian, PhD

Position title: Honorary Fellow Emeritus

Daifeng Wang, PhD

Position title: H.I. Romnes Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Computer Sciences

Xinyu Zhao, PhD

Position title: Professor, Neuroscience, Jenni & Kyle Professor, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Waisman Affiliates

Randolph Ashton, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Anjon Audhya, PhD

Position title: Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry

Mei Baker, MD

Position title: Professor, Pediatrics - Genetics & Metabolism

Barbara B. Bendlin, PhD

Position title: Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health

Christopher L. Coe, PhD

Position title: Professor Emeritus, Psychology

Luis Columna, PhD

Position title: Professor, Kinesiology

Erik W. Dent, PhD

Position title: Professor, Neuroscience

Timothy M. Gomez, PhD

Position title: Retina Research Foundation M. D. Matthews Research Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Aviad Hai, PhD

Position title: Vilas Early Career Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Zhen Huang, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Neurology

Jeffrey Johnson, PhD

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Pharmacy

Sterling C. Johnson, PhD

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and the Jean R. Finley Professor of Geriatrics and Dementia, Department of Medicine

Ned H. Kalin, MD

Position title: Hedberg Professor and Chair, Psychiatry

Sunduz Keles, PhD

Position title: Professor, Statistics and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Darcie L. Moore, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Neuroscience

Robert A. Pearce, MD, PhD

Position title: Professor, Anesthesiology

Ari Rosenberg, PhD

Position title: Professor, Computational Neuroscience

Krishanu Saha, PhD

Position title: Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD

Position title: Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Donna Werling, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Genetics

Justin Wolter, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics