University of North Texas 
Faculty Mentors
A major strength of UNT's NIH-funded G-Rise Program is its many dedicated faculty, hailing from 13 departments in 6 Colleges, who serve as mentors for our UNT G-Rise PhD students.
Mark Albert
Assist. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Computer Science and Engineering
Research Interest: Biomedical AI/Machine Learning
Website: https://biomed-ai.com/
Ana Paula Alonso
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Metabolism & Biochemical pathways
Oliviero Andreussi
Assist. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Physics
Research Interest: Computational Materials Science
Website: https://facultyinfo.unt.edu/faculty-profile?query=Oliviero+Andreussi&type=name&profile=oa0146
Brian Ayre
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Plant Physiology and Development
Website: http://biology.unt.edu/ayre
Rajeev Azad
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Computational Genomics
April Becker
Primary Department or Program: Behavior Analysis
Research Interest: Learning and Recovery from Brain Injury
Heidi Blumenthal
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Psychology
Research Interest: Developmental Psychopathology
Serdar Bozdag
Associate Professor
Primary Department or Program: Computer Science and Engineering
Research Interest: Multi-omics Dataset Analysis
Website: https://biocomp.engineering.unt.edu/
Warren Burggren
Professor (Oversight Committee Member)
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Epigenetic Inheritance and Developmental Physiology
Sara Champlin
Assistant Professor
Primary Department or Program: Mayborn School of Journalism
Research Interest: Health Communication
Clement Chan
Assistant Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Protein and Cellular Engineering
Website: https://www.clementchanlab.org/
Tae-Youl Choi
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Mechanical and Energy Engineering
Research Interest: Cancer diagnosis
Jingbao Cui
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Physics
Thomas Cundari
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Chemistry
Research Interest: Computational Chemistry and Enzymes
Ed Dzialowski
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Developmental Physiology
Website: http://www.biol.unt.edu/~edzial/
Melanie Ecker
Assistant Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Smart Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Website: www.eckerlab.com
Teresa Golden
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Chemistry
Research Interest: Biomaterials and Drug Analysis for Forensic Applications
Website: http://chemistry.unt.edu/~tgolden/
Lee Hughes
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program:: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Science Education and Microbiology
Website: http://biology.unt.edu/~lhughes/
Amir Jafari
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Physical Human-Robot Interactions, Rehabilitation Robties, Exoskeletons
Pudur Jagadeeswaran
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Genetics of Human Diseases
Amie Lund
Assist. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Pollutants and Cardiovascular and Neurological Disease
Assist. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Electrical Engineering
Research Interest: Wearable and implantable sensors
Brian McFarlin
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Kinesiology
Research Interest: Immunity, Nutrition, Inflammation management
Website: http://appliedphysiologylab.unt.edu/
Marco Nardelli
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Physics/Chemistry
Research Interest: Computational materials and big data systems
Pamela Padilla
Professor (Oversight Committee Member)
Primary Department or Program: Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms of Diet-Genotype Interactions, Stress
Alexandra Ponnette-González
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Geography
Research Interest: Human-pollutant Ineractions
Website: https://ponettelab.cargo.site
Anthony Ryals
Assistant Professor Primary Department or Program:
Primary Department or Program: Psychology
Research Interest: Human Memory and Awareness
Elizabeth Skellam
Asst. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Chemistry
Research Interest: Bioactive molecule biosynthesis in fungi
Danica Slavish
Assistant Professor
Primary Department or Program: Psychology
Research Interest: Sleep Medicine, Health Psychology
Website: https://psychology.unt.edu/sleep/
Manish Vaidya
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Behavior Science
Research Interest: Biosensor Technology
Vijay Vaidyanathan
Professor (Oversight Committee Member)
Primary Department or Program: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Biomedical Instrumentation, exoskeleton design, biomed engineering for the elderly
Guido Verbeck
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Chemistry
Research Interest: Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Biomedicine
Website: http://chemistry.unt.edu/~verbeck/
Jakob Vingren
Professor
Primary Department or Program: Kinesiology
Research Interest: Exercise Physiology and Health
Hong Wang
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Chemistry
Research Interest: Small Molecule Inhibitors
Xuexia (Helen) Wang
Assoc. Professor
Primary Department or Program: Mathematics
Research Interest: Statistical Genetics
Hao Yan
Assistant Professor
Primary Department or Program: Chemistry
Research Interest: Physical Chemistry Materials Science
Website: https://haoyangroup.com/
Huaxiao Yang
Assistant Professor
Primary Department or Program: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Disease Modeling and regenerative Medicine
