UW–Madison Experts Database

Matthew Hora

Associate Professor, Adult & Higher Education; Director, Center for Research College-Workforce Transitions

Expert on college-workforce transitions, with focus on internships, "soft" or "21st century skills," and postsecondary teaching from a cultural, historical and learning sciences perspective.

Jason Fletcher

Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs

Expert on social networks, teen fertility, mental health, education, adolescent health, obesity, sociogenomics, and social policy

Andrea Ruppar

Assistant professor, rehabilitation psychology and special education

Expert on educating students with developmental disabilities including autism, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities.

Sau Lan Wu

Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics

Avid, discovery-oriented physicist; contributed to discovering the J/psi (1974), gluons (1979) and the Higgs (2012)

Lones Smith

Professor, economics

Expert in counterfeiting, election timing, Bayesian learning, search theory, pairwise matching models, game theory

Julie Dawson

Associate professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on organic agriculture, participatory research, plant breeding, agrobiodiversity conservation

Nicholas Hillman

Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis; Director, SSTAR Lab

Expert on higher education finance and student financial aid policy.

Sean Schoville

Assistant professor, entomology

Expert on evolutionary effects of global change, genetic adaptation to the environment, alpine biodiversity

Rachel Grob

Director, Qualitative and Health Experiences Research Lab

Expert on qualitative research, health experiences research, ethical/legal/social issues in genomics and newborn screening, patient engagement, impact of narrative on primary care

Ned Paschke

Program director, Department of Engineering Professional Development

Expert on pumping facilities, water & wastewater treatment systems, hydraulic engineering, water/energy efficiencies, asset management, and water environmental management.

Bradley Carl

Co-Director, Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative

Expert on district/school accountability systems, "early warning" systems to identify students at risk, and educator evaluation systems.

Mark Hetzler

Associate professor, music

Expert in trombone, contemporary and experimental music and recording arts

Christopher Taylor

Professor, music

Concert pianist

Martha Fischer

Professor, piano and collaborative piano, School of Music

Expert in piano performance, particularly in collaboration with other instruments and voice

Lori DiPrete Brown

Associate director, Global Health Institute, Director, 4W Initiative, Distinguised Faculty Associate, SOHE

Global health expert focusing on women, children and highly vulnerable populations. Works to improve quality of health and social services from a human rights perspective.