CAS Faculty Natural Sciences

Ashley Walker

Associate Professor
Human Physiology
Phone: 541-346-5058
Office: 162 Onyx Bridge
Research Interests: Aging and Vascular Physiology

Peter Walker

Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-4541
Office: 100 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Political ecology, environmental politics, climate change adaptation, wildfire, collaborative and community based resource management, land use, American West, Africa

Paul Wallace

Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: 541-346-5985
Office: 220 Cascade Hall, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Igneous petrology, volcanology, geochemistry

Hailin Wang

Professor
Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 541-346-4758
Office: 274 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: Experimental optical and condensed matter physics; quantum optics with spins, excitons, and nanomechanical oscillators, quantum information processing

Hao Wang

Courtesy Research Associate Professor
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Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5628

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-2023
Office: 337 Deschutes
Research Interests: Data Mining and Machine Learning, Graph Machine Learning, Network Analysis, Information Retrieval

Micah Warren

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5618
Office: 318 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: Monday 9:30 - 10:30, 1:30 - 3:30, Thursday 10:30-11:30, 1:30 - 2:30

Philip Washbourne

Associate Professor
Biology, Neuroscience
Phone: 541-346-4138
Office: 321B Huestis Hall

James Watkins

Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: 541-346-4681
Office: 205A Cascade Hall, 1272 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1272
Office Hours: Thursday 9-11:00
Research Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry & experimental petrology

Maya Watts

OIMB Education Program Coordinator
Senior Career Instructor
Biology, OIMB
Phone: 541-346-7277
Office: Oregon Inst of Marine Biology
Research Interests: Marine Parasitology, Invertebrate Zoology, Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Mike Wehr

Professor
College Scholars, Neuroscience, Psychology
Phone: 541-346-5866
Office: 213 LISB
Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience

Sara Weston

Associate Professor
Chair of the Graduate Education Committee
Center for Translational Neuroscience, Psychology
Office: 325 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Social-Personality, Health, Personality Development

Peter Wetherwax

Faculty, Retired
Biology
Phone: 541-346-4514
Office: 73A Klamath Hall

Frances White

Professor
Faculty Curator of Biological Collections, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology
Phone: 541-346-5278
Office: 302C Condon Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2024 Monday 3 to 5 pm (Zoom)
Research Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, primate evolution

Julia Widom

Assistant Professor
Division of Physical Chemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry, OMQ
Phone: 541-346-4670
Office: 139 Klamath Hall
Research Interests: RNA, ultrafast spectroscopy, single-molecule microscopy

Brad Wilkins

Assistant Professor
Director of the Oregon Performance Research Laboratory
Human Physiology
Phone: 541-346-1570
Office: 145 Esslinger Hall
Research Interests: Human Performance, Exercise Physiology, and Bioenergetics

Dave Wilkins

Career Instructor I
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-0489
Office: 162 Deschutes Hall
Research Interests: Computing Education

Ariel Williamson

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Phone: 971-342-4004
Research Interests: Clinical, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Community-Engaged Research, Health Disparities, Sleep Medicine, Implementation Science

Eric Wills

Senior Instructor II
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-3954
Office: 156 Deschutes Hall
Office Hours: MWF 11:30-12:30
Research Interests: Computational Biomechanics, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture

David Wineland

Philip H. Knight Distinguished Research Chair
Research Professor, Department of Physics
OMQ, Physics
Phone: 3035068896
Office: 261 Willamette Hall
Research Interests: High-resolution atomic spectroscopy, quantum information, quantum-limited metrology

Lila Wollman

Assistant Professor
Human Physiology
Phone: 541-346-2436

Cathy Wong

Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science Institute, OMQ
Phone: 541-346-7323
Office: 143 Klamath Hall

Michelle Wood

Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-0454
Office: 475 Onyx Bridge

Blanche Wright

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Phone: 541-346-4831
Research Interests: Clinical psychology, equity in evidence-based mental health care, dissemination and implementation science, youth mental health, minority stress, family/parent engagement, Latinx/Latiné diaspora, mental health policy/financing