CAS Faculty Natural Sciences

Hal Sadofsky

Interim Executive Vice Provost for Academic Administration
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-3280
Office: 206 JH

Valerie Sahakian

Associate Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: 541-346-3401
Office: 325D Cascade Hall
Office Hours: Monday 3:30-4:30
Research Interests: Active Tectonics, Ground Motion Seismology, Marine Geophysics

Gabe Sanchez

Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-9640
Office: 274 Condon Hall
Office Hours: T and Thu from noon to 1 pm or by appointment

Gerard Saucier

Professor
Psychology
Phone: 541-346-4927
Office: 425 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Personality, Values, Cultural Psychology, Moral Psychology

Val Sawiccy

Instructor
Human Physiology
Office: 175 Esslinger

Michelle Scalise Sugiyama

Senior Instructor I
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5142
Office: 273 Condon Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: Evolution of cultural transmission, social learning, and symbolic behavior; evolutionary psychology; hunter-gatherers; oral tradition; traditional ecological knowledge; play; warfare

Billy Scannell

Instructor
Lower Division Lab Coordinator
Physics
Phone: 541-346-5256
Office: 145 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Physics education, demonstrations, and outreach.

Philip W. Scher

Department Head, Cinema Studies and Theatre Arts
Professor of Anthropology and Folklore
Anthropology, Folklore Program, Theatre Arts, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-5104
Office: 322 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: Email for appointment

Robert Schofield

Research Associate Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4783
Office: B2 Volcanology
Research Interests: Gravitational Waves/structural biophysics

James Schombert

Professor
College Scholars, Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5214
Office: 461 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: observational cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution

Jake Searcy

Research Assistant Professor of Data Science
Data Science, Institute for Fundamental Science
Phone: 541-346-6996
Office: 203A Pacific Hall

Margaret E. Sereno

Professor
Neuroscience, Psychology, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-4915
Office: 330 LISB
Research Interests: Cognitive-Neuroscience

Bijan Shahir

Instructor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-8403
Office: 333D Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Mon: 12pm – 12:50pm, Tue: 12:30pm–1:20pm, W: 1pm–1:50pm, or by appointment

Yefeng Shen

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-9077
Office: 308 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: W 2-3, Fri 2-3

Lucas Silva

Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
Biology, Environmental Studies
Office: 248 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm

Chris Sinclair

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-4701
Office: 101A McArthur Court
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11-11:50, Thursdays 12-12:50 via Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/my/cdsinclair

Avinash Singh

Neuroscience Major Interim Director, Instructor
Neuroscience
Phone: 541-346-4544
Office: 214A Huestis Hall

Nadia Singh

Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-9308
Office: 313 Pacific Hall

Dev Sinha

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5627
Office: 307 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: M 11-12 and 2-3, Tu 4-5, W 1-2, F 1-2, 4-5

Elizabeth Skowron

Professor
Psychology
Phone: 541-346-9329
Office: 437 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Clinical, Development, Parenting Processes, Adversity, Self-Regulation, Child & Family Interventions, Translational Science.

Paul Slovic

Professor
Psychology
Phone: 541-485-2400
Office: Decision Research
Research Interests: Social/Personality, Judgment and Decision Making, Risk Perception, Affect and Information Processing, Genocide, Human Rights, Virtuous Violence, Preventing Nuclear War, Behavioral Economics

Clayton Small

Research Assistant Professor
Data Science
Phone: 541-346-4232
Office: 319 Pacific Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4:30
Research Interests: Evolutionary Genomics, Computational Biology, Data Science

Matt Smear

Associate Professor
Neuroscience, Psychology
Phone: 541-346-4389
Office: 212A Huestis Hall
Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience

Brian Smith

Professor
OMQ Director
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5790
Office: 262 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Quantum optics, quantum information science and technology, and optics

Josh Snodgrass

Professor
Core Faculty, Global Health Program
Anthropology, Food Studies, Global Health Program
Phone: 541-346-4823
Office: 354 Condon Hall
Office Hours: By appointment

Melanie Spero

Assistant Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-1440
Office: 291 Onyx Bridge

Kryn Stankunas

Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-7416
Office: 245C Streisinger Hall

Daniel Steck

Assoc. Professor
Multidisciplinary Science, OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-5313
Office: 277 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Quantum and atom optics, quantum nonlinear dynamical systems, laser cooling and trapping of atoms

David Steinberg

Senior Instructor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-0948
Office: 333C Tykeson Hall

Lynn Stephen

Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology
Co-Director of Graduate Studies (Anthropology), Graduate Faculty in Ethnic Studies, Participating Faculty in Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Anthropology, CLLAS, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5168
Office: 316 Condon Hall
Office Hours: T/R 1:30 -2:30 in person in 316 Condon, or by appointment
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Migration, Indigenous Peoples, Americas, Legal Pluralism, Social Memory, Testimony, Gender Violence

Kirstin Sterner

Associate Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-8614
Office: 352 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11am to 1pm in PAC10 or by appointment (Spring 2024 Term)

Matthew Streisfeld

Associate Professor
Institute of Ecology and Evolution director
Biology
Phone: 541-346-4816
Office: 267A Onyx Bridge

David Strom

Professor
Institute for Fundamental Science, Physics
Phone: 541-346-6108
Office: 447 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Quantum black hole production in proton-proton collisions, Higgs (in beyond the Standard Model Scenarios), triggering at hadron colliders, detectors and electronics for linear colliders, precision electroweak measurements, ATLAS

Xiaobo Su

Professor
Asian Studies, Climate Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-4568
Office: 175 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Tourism and urban development, international political economy, China and Southeast Asia

Lawrence Sugiyama

Professor
Anthropology
Phone: none
Office: 329 Condon Hall
Office Hours:

David Sutherland

Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: 541-346-8753
Office: 204 Volcanology, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1272
Office Hours: Thursday, 10a-12p
Research Interests: Coastal physical oceanography, Ice-ocean interactions

Kelly Sutherland

Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-8783
Office: 479 Onyx Bridge

Nicki Swann

Assistant Professor
Center for Translational Neuroscience, Human Physiology, Neuroscience
Phone: 458-205-5293
Office: 348 Gerlinger Hall
Research Interests: Neurophysiology of healthy movement and movement disorders

Emily Sylwestrak

Assistant Professor
Biology, Neuroscience
Office: 225A Huestis Hall