California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA·Private
18 labs on PI Pages. It spends $445M a year on research and awards 200 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 2,548: 1,044 undergraduates, 1,504 graduate
- Postdocs
- 574
- Faculty
- 328 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Karthish Manthiram
Chemistry
Test the hypothesis that breaking the nitrogen triple bond at a titanium(II) catalyst center is the rate-determining step in electrochemical ammonia synthesis driven by alkali metal electron donors.
Rustem Ismagilov
Microbiology & Immunology
Optimize T-BEAM in germ-free tissue spiked with defined bacteria, targeting over 1,000-fold removal of host nucleic acids while preserving bacterial transcriptional profiles and RNA yield.
Linda C Hsieh-Wilson
Chemistry
Map glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in the hypothalamus and disrupt them in animal models to test effects on food intake, body weight and blood sugar control.
Huy Pham
Mathematics & Statistics·Early-career
Develop new toolkits for first moment obstructions, where counting expected copies of a structure rules it out, to close gaps in the theory of threshold phenomena in random discrete systems.
Kareem El-Badry
Astronomy & Astrophysics·Early-career
Measure how common post-interaction binary stars are across the Milky Way and estimate the mass distribution of black holes and neutron stars, using gaiamock software to correct for which binaries Gaia can detect.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.