University of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA·Public
17 labs on PI Pages. It spends $303M a year on research and awards 403 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 27,662: 24,660 undergraduates, 3,002 graduate
- Postdocs
- 299
- Faculty
- 1,109 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Anthony De Tomaso
Biology
Establish Botrylloides diegensis as a model in which stem cell dormancy can be switched on by cold, heat, starvation or low oxygen and reversed, using live imaging of the vascular mat that survives.
Kenneth Kosik
Neuroscience
Determine the mechanism and build the tools to replicate tauopathy-specific tau fibrils in vitro, including Alzheimer's and corticobasal degeneration folds, so that PET imaging ligands, antibodies and small molecules can be screened against real disease structures.
Simon Billinge
Materials Science
Build an extensible data architecture for experimental powder diffraction, combining metadata schemas, JSON-based records and a public repository with persistent DOIs, curated releases and open APIs for reproducible workflows.
Samantha Stevenson
Earth & Environmental Science·Early-career
Build an oxygen isotope "isoscape" of tropical Pacific seawater and rainfall during El Niño and La Niña, using samples from long-running collection sites and a new high-resolution, isotope-enabled ocean reanalysis.
Qinghua Ding
Earth & Environmental Science
Develop regional models of summertime Arctic sea ice that combine global observational data through machine learning, to forecast ice from weeks to a season ahead and find how far ahead prediction is possible.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.