All Experts

Yaohui Xu
Assistant professor, dermatology
Expert on detection and treatment of skin cancer, skin surgery and laser surgery, general skin concerns

Sigan Hartley
Associate professor, human development and family studies
Expert on neurodevelopmental conditions and family

Peter McIntyre
Associate professor, Center for Limnology
Expert on global lakes and rivers, fish diversity, fisheries, Great Lakes, and water resource management issues.

Claudia Reardon
Professor, psychiatry
Expert on sport psychiatry, including diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in athletes and benefits of exercise for mental health

Ian Baird
Associate professor, geography
Expert on Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Hmong, Southeast Asia, environmental policy, natural resource management, hydroelectric dams, land concessions, political ecology

Yehui Han
Assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering
Expert on power electronics and renewable energy

Aparna Lakkaraju
Assistant professor, ophthalmology and visual sciences
Expert in cell biology of the retinal pigment epithelium, retinal degenerative diseases and developing treatment strategies

Ellen Damschen
Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
Expert on terrestrial ecology, conservation biology and restoration ecology within grassland and savanna ecosystems.

Michelle Ciucci
Assistant professor, communicative disorders, surgery-otolaryngology, Neuroscience Training Program
Neuroscientist and speech-language pathologist, neural control of movement for voice and swallowing disorders, expertise on Parkinson disease

David Peterson
Assistant faculty associate, program director, Engineering Professional Development
Expert on continuing education in railroad engineering and operations

Lee Wilke
Associate professor, surgery
Expert in benign/malignant diseases of the breast, sentinel lymph-node mapping, neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer, laparoscopic abdominal surgery


Jingshan Li
Associate professor, industrial and systems engineering
Expert on manufacturing, service and health care systems engineering

Catalina Toma
Assistant professor, communication arts
Expert on the social and psychological effects of communication technologies (online dating, social networking sites, email, instant messaging, etc.)

Justin Sydnor
Associate professor, actuarial science, risk management and insurance
Expert in behavioral economics with expertise in areas of insurance decisions and health care.

Gary Lupyan
Professor, Psychology
Effects of language on cognition and perception. How does learning a language transform human cognition. Does learning different languages cause us to think differently?

Robert Howard
Director, Digital Studies Initiative; associate director, Folklore Program; associate professor of communication
Expert on Internet communication and contemporary religious belief

Leonard Polzin
Dairy Markets and Policy Outreach Specialist, UW-Madison Division of Extention
Agricultural economist specializing in dairy markets, policy analysis, risk management, and farm financial management.

Elio Koenig-Tarasevich
Assistant professor, physics
Theoretical physicist studying collective quantum phenomena. These include various phases of electrons in quantum materials and the behavior of artificial quantum devices.