Faculty

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Margaret Morris

Senior Lecturer
Occupational Therapy
Board Certification in Pediatrics (BCP) 2012-2022, American Occupational Therapy Association Occupational therapy evaluation and intervention in pediatrics, particularly contextual and strengths-based services Pediatrics Evaluation, including strengths-based evaluation, occupation-based evaluation, context & environment Intervention, including models of occupation-based service provision, contextual services, collaboration, strengths-based, least restrictive environment Program development, including systems approaches, strengths-based, mindfulness, social-emotional regulation, physical literacy Teaching and Learning Models of professional development, andragogy, self-regulated learning Project-based learning, technology in teaching and learning, using visual analog scales in course evaluation, concept mapping Online teaching and learning, course design (F2F, hybrid, online)
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Paul Muentener

Associate Professor
Psychology
Conceptual Development, Causal Reasoning, Language & Thought
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Ng'endo Mukii

Professor of the Practice
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Animation and Filmmaking, New Media, Decolonisation
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Zora Murff

SMFA Endowed Professor of the Practice
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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James Murphy

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Machine learning, harmonic analysis, statistical learning, graph theory, data science, computational mathematics, image processing, signal processing
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Nik Nair

Associate Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
synthetic biology, systems bioengineering, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biofuels, biocatalysis
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Austin Napier

Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Experimental Particle Physics, Electromagnetic Theory, Computational Physics. High Energy Physics: studies of heavy quarks, new particle searches, tests of the Standard Model. Computational Physics: data analysis, simulation, electromagnetism.
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Susan Napier

Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric and Interim Department Chair of International Literary and Cultural Studies
International Literary and Cultural Studies
History and theory of animation Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga) Modern Japanese literature Popular culture, especially science fiction and fantasy Contemporary constructions of gender and the body Technology and culture Fan culture Representations of trauma and loss
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Heather S. Nathans

Nathan and Alice Gantcher Professor of Judaic Studies
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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Jannatun Nawer

Research Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
High-temperature material processing, Material Characterization, Advanced alloy design, Additive manufacturing
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Markus Nemitz

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Pushing towards his vision of rapidly designing robots and materializing them at points of impact, Prof. Nemitz's research interests encompass 3D-printable robots, real-time adaptive additive manufacturing, and automated discovery processes for robotic materials.
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Ingrid Neuman

Lecturer
Museum Studies
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Dilip Ninan

Associate Professor
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
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Kana Okano

Research Assistant Professor
Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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Kasso Okoudjou

Professor
Mathematics
Time-frequency analysis, pure, applied, and numerical harmonic analysis; analysis and differential equations on fractals and graphs.
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Christiana Olfert

Associate Professor
Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics
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Ken Olum

Research Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Gravitational waves, cosmic strings, energy conditions in general relativity, anthropic reasoning in cosmology.
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Fiorenzo Omenetto

Frank C. Doble Professor
Biomedical Engineering
ultrafast nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, biopolymer multifunctional materials, material science, photonic crystals, photonic crystal fibers
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Tasha Oren

Associate Professor and Director of Film and Media Studies
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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Colin Orians

Professor and Director of Environmental Studies
Biology
Agroecology, climate change, climate adaptation, plant-herbivore interactions
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Madeleine Oudin

Associate Professor and Tiampo Family Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
cancer biology, tumor microenvironment, mechanisms of metastasis and drug resistance
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Kevin Oye

Professor of the Practice and Executive Director of Tufts Gordon Institute
Gordon Institute
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Pedro Palou

Fletcher Professor of Oratory
Romance Studies
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Karen Panetta

Professor and Dean of Graduate Education
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Signal processing; image processing; simulation modeling
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Matthew Panzer

Professor and Dean of Research
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ionic liquids, ionogels, eutectogels, polymers, ion transport, electrochemical energy storage
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Aniruddh Patel

Professor
Psychology
Music Cognition
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Abani Patra

Center Director for Data Science of TIAI, Professor of Computer Science and Math
Computer Science
computational sciences, data driven modeling
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Tracy Pearce

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
French language, 20th-century literature, film
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Stephan Pennington

Associate Professor
Music
Popular Music and Jazz of the United States/Europe, African American Music, Transgender Vocality, Issues of Appropriation, and the Performance of Musical Identity with special attention to race, class, gender, and sexuality.
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Greses Pérez

McDonnell Family Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Civil and Environmental Engineering
cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence
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Monica Pessina

Lecturer
Occupational Therapy
Design and analysis of outcome based studies in the acute care setting, and the quantitative analysis of hand function after injury.
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Juan Pestana

Professor of the Practice
Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical, geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil behavior, soil property characterization
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Samantha Petti

Assistant Professor
Mathematics
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Shelly Peyton

Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
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Doris Pfaffinger

Senior Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Second Language Pedagogy/ Teaching, German short film, 20th and 21st century literature and culture
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Joanne Phillips

Associate Professor
Classical Studies
Greek and Latin Languages, Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine, Lucretius