Jennifer Mandel, PhD
Director
Professor, Biological Sciences

William B. “Billy” Dunavant Endowed Chair, Agritech & Sustainable Agriculture
jmandel@memphis.edu

Shawn Brown, PhD
Associate Director
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
spbrown2@memphis.edu

 

Christopher Ramezanpour, MPP
Associate Director
csrmznpr@memphis.edu

Leigh Boardman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Interests: applied entomology, ecophysiology, environmental DNA, invasion biology, pollinators, thermal tolerance

Mohammadreza Davoodi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Interests: control systems; robotics; cyber-physical systems; multi-agent systems; precision agriculture

Rachel Diner, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Interests: pollution and environmental change on host-microbe systems

Maria Susana Jaramillo Echeverri, PhD
Assistant Professor
Business and Marketing
Interests: transformative consumer research, financing nature & biodiversity

Xiaolei Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Interests: agriculture and AI

Wes James, PhD
Pat E. Burlison Professor and Department Chair
Sociology
Interests: rural, health disparities, social determinants, Delta, access to care

Farhad Jazaei, PhD
UMRF Ventures Professor
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Interests: emerging soil and water contamination (Microplastics and PFAS), microplastic pollution

Amber Jennings, PhD
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Interests: biomaterials that promote healing and regeneration

Philip Kohlmeier, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Interests: invasive species biology, biodiversity in urban environments

Youngsang Kwon, PhD
Associate Professor
Earth Sciences
Interests: species distribution models (SDMs), Forest ecology/Forest carbon dynamics, Forest inventory and analysis, GIS/RS, Open source data sciences

Deb Leslie, PhD
Assistant Professor
Earth Sciences
Interests: environmental geochemistry, agriculture, groundwater-surface water interactions

Meredith Ray, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Public Health
Interests: clustering, genetics/epigenetics, statistical applications