CAS Faculty Natural Sciences

Damien Callahan

Assistant Professor
Human Physiology
Phone: 458-205-5343
Office: 163 Onyx Bridge, 1240 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1240
Research Interests: Effects of acute and prolonged disuse on skeletal muscle structure and function

Mark Carey

Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography
Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-8077
Office: 110 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: glaciers and society, climate adaptation, natural hazards, icebergs, mountain geographies, the Arctic, Andes and South America, environmental history, STS (science, technology, and society), environmental humanities, political ecology

Dan Carrere

Associate Teaching Professor
Cybersecurity Faculty
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-2286
Office: 139 Deschutes Hall, 1202 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Unix Systems (BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD | Illumos: SmartOS, OmniOS | Linux: Debian, Ubuntu, RH), Networking (including Optical, WDM), Storage (Filesystems: ZFS), Virtualization (bhyve, KVM, Xen, Related: Zones, Jails)

Mark Carrier

Career Senior Instructor II
Biology
Phone: 541-346-4199

Alison Carter

Associate Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5037
Office: 255 Condon Hall, 1218 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1218
Office Hours: Winter Term: Office hours by appointment, please email me!
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Archaeology, Compositional analysis of artifacts, bead studies

Melynda Casement

Associate Professor
Center for Translational Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Psychology, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-7051
Office: 397 Straub Hall, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Clinical Science, Developmental Psychopathology, Affective Processing, Sleep, Stress Neurobiology, Translational Neuroscience

Katharine Cashman

Research Professor
Earth Sciences
Office: 213 Volcanology, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1272
Office Hours: Tu 3-5
Research Interests: volcanology, igneous petrology, crystallization kinetics

Yvette Cendes

Faculty
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics

Spencer Chang

Full Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-0797
Office: 476 Willamette Hall, 5295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295
Research Interests: Beyond the Standard Model Physics, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Dark Matter, Cosmology

Robert Chavez

Associate Professor
Center for Translational Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Psychology
Phone: 541-346-4943
Office: 433 Straub Hall, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Friday 11am–noon and other days by appointment.
Research Interests: Social/Personality, Social Neuroscience, Self, Interpersonal Perception, Computational Methods

Jieyang Chen

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Office: 337 Deschutes Hall, 1202 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10am - 12pm
Research Interests: High-Performance Computing, Big Data Analytics and Visualization, Distributed Machine Learning, GPU Computing

Xiaojing Chen-Murphy

Associate Teaching Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-0128
Office: 333ATykeson Hall, 1222 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Hank Childs

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-3414
Office: 301 Deschutes Hall
Research Interests: Scientific Visualization, High Performance Computing

Evelyn Cho

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Phone: 971-352-4021
Research Interests: Clinical Psychology

Jee Choi

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-3991
Office: 328 Deschutes Hall, 1202 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1202
Office Hours: MWF 1-2
Research Interests: High Performance Computing, Parallel and Scalable Algorithm Design, Performance Analysis Optimization, Tensor Decomposition & Data Mining

John Christian

Assistant Professor
Geography
Phone: 541-346-4543
Office: 173 Condon Hall, 1251 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: M 2-3, W 2-3, or by appointment
Research Interests: glacier and ice-sheet dynamics, climate, earth-system models

Jeffrey Cina

Professor
Theoretical Physical Chemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry, OMQ
Phone: 541-346-4617
Office: 146 Klamath Hall, 1253 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205

Donald Clayton

Assistant Teaching Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Phone: 541-346-1843
Office: 182 Onyx Hall, 1210 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1210

Shaul Cohen

Associate Professor
Director, UO Prison Education Program; Director, Carnegie Global Oregon Ethics Program
Geography
Phone: 541-346-4500
Office: 107G Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-3:30PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: Prison Education, Ethics, Ethno-territorial conflict, Environment

Tim Cohen

Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: +41227672462
Office: CERN
Research Interests: Particle physics beyond the Standard Model: Large Hadron Collider phenomenology, effective field theory, electroweak naturalness, dark matter. Click <a href="https://inspirehep.net/authors/1056845">here</a> for access to my publications.