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Christopher Thomas

Assistant Professor

Christopher Thomas studies educational policy and law, including issues related to democracy, student, teacher, and parental rights.

ChrisThomas@coe.ufl.edu 352-273-4297
Education Law Education Policy

Todd Thrift

Associate Professor

Todd Thrift is a beef cattle specialist with expertise in cow/calf management and feedlot management.

tathrift@ufl.edu 352-538-3146
Beef Quality Assurance Cow Calf Management Feedlot Management Beef Cattle Breeding Ranch Management

Patrick Tighe

M.D. | Associate Professor | Co-Director

Dr. Patrick Tighe’s research examines how AI can improve acute postoperative pain and patient safety.

ptighe@anest.ufl.edu 352-273-7844
Tools to Reduce Disparities in Perioperative Outcomes Perioperative Medicine Biomedical Informatics Anesthesiology Artificial Intelligence

Michael Tonks

Interim Chair

Michael Tonks's research is focused on understanding the behavior of materials in harsh environments, including in nuclear reactors.

michael.tonks@ufl.edu 352-846-3779
Materials in harsh environments Molten salt reactors Nuclear energy Nuclear space reactors Computational materials sciences

Patrick Traynor

Professor

Patrick Traynor is an expert in cybersecurity.

traynor@ufl.edu 352-294-2093
Deepfakes Cellular Networks Cybersecurity Computer Networks Mobile Payments

Welson Tremura

Professor | Director

Welson Tremura specializes in musicology-ethnomusicology and is a professor at the School of Music & Center for Latin American Studies.

tremura@ufl.edu 352-273-4728
Folia de Reis Brazilian Studies Music and Religion (Folk Catholicism), Samba, and Bossa-Nova Portuguese Language (Culture, Politics, and Identity) Musicology

Patricia Tripp

Professor | Associate Director

Patricia Tripp has expertise with lower extremity injury, injury prevention, movement screening, clinical policy, and healthcare leadership.

pmcginn@hhp.ufl.edu 352-294-1729
Movement Screening Healthcare Leadership and Administration Lower Extremity Injury Athletic Training ACL Injury

Ana Turner

Associate Professor

Dr. Ana Turner's expertise is street psychiatry, treating those experiencing both homelessness and mental illness on the streets.

aturner@ufl.edu 904-394-8066
Street Psychiatry Homelessness Community Psychiatry

Nikos Tziolas

Assistant Professor

Nikos Tziolas develops interpretable AI techniques and integrated sensing systems to support informed decision-making in agriculture.

ntziolas@ufl.edu 239-255-9925
Soil Science Deep Learning Spectroscopy AI Artificial Intelligence

David Vaillancourt

Professor | Chair

David Vaillancourt’s studies how the brain regulates voluntary and involuntary movement with a specific focus on motor disorders.

vcourt@ufl.edu 352-294-1770
Structural and Functional Imaging in Rodents and Humans Rehabilitative, Surgical and Pharmacological Interventions for Motor Disorders Cortical Oscillations that Underlie Voluntary and Involuntary Movement Neuroscience and the Brain Progression Markers of Parkinson’s Disease

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