All Experts

Susan Carpenter
Wisconsin Native Plant Garden Curator, Arboretum
Expert on native plant gardening, sustainable gardening practices, bumble bee conservation, rusty-patched bumble bee, southern Wisconsin bumble bees, and citizen-based monitoring.

Dudley Lamming
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Expert on how nutrition can be used to promote healthy aging

Daniel Wright
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
I am a hydrologist and water resources engineer, specializing in flood hazards and mitigation strategies in both urban areas and larger watersheds

David Drake
Extension Wildlife Specialist / Professor; Dept. of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Expert on urban wildlife management, wildlife damage management, and general wildlife

Joseph Austerweil
Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science (affiliate)
I am a cognitive psychologist with expertise in human and machine learning. I focus on how and when people solve problems better than machines.

Sanjay Asthana
Associate dean for gerontology; professor and division head, geriatrics
Expert on Alzheimer’s disease, aging, neuroscience, geriatrics, academic research infrastructure, and clinical trials design.

Nathaniel Chin
Assistant professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology
Expert on Alzheimer’s disease prevention strategies and healthy aging for the mind and body

Sumudu Atapattu
Director, Research Centers, UW Law School
Expert on link between environmental issues and human rights, climate change, international environmental law, sustainable development, environmental justice

Jacqueline Gerhart
MD, Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health
Expert on primary care, community health, continuity of healthcare, and wellness over the lifespan. Interested in healthcare systems and quality improvement.

Robert Yablon
Associate Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, State Democracy Research Initiative
Expert on political and election law, federal and state constitutional law, and the federal and state court systems, including the U.S. Supreme Court

Aws Albarghouthi
Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences
Albarghouthi studies the art and science of analyzing software and automatically producing software that is correct.

Carey Gleason
Associate professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology
Expert on cognitive aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as post-menopausal hormone therapy

Timothy Smeeding
Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
Expert on social and economic mobility across generations; inequality of income, consumption and wealth; and poverty in national and cross-national contexts.

Yunji Kim
Assistant Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture; Extension Specialist, Local Government Center
Expert on local government fiscal stress, local government revenues, local government services, and community wellbeing

Martina Rau
Associate Professor; Educational Psychology
Expert on adaptive educational technologies, learning with visualizations in STEM, physical and virtual manipulatives, analytical and intuitive processes, visual misinformation, misleading graphs


Karen Schloss
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, McPherson Eye Research Institute
Color cognition, color preferences, visual reasoning, information visualization

Kristen Pecanac
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Expert on healthcare provider-family/patient communication during treatment decision making

Eric Rubenstein
Post doctoral fellow, Waisman Center
Expert on epidemiological and statistical methods to better understand a wide range of topics that affect people with autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities

Ken Cameron
Professor, Botany; Director, WI State Herbarium
Expert on plant biology, especially orchids, Vanilla, and the flora of Wisconsin; natural history science museum collections