46 faculty and 23 courses in Biological and Physical Sciences at Bard College.
- Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing h-index 77
Notable: “Restoration ecology and conservation biology” (2000) · 649 citations
- Antonios Kontos h-index 67
Notable: “Broadband Quantum Enhancement of the LIGO Detectors with Frequency-Dependent Squeezing” (2023) · 126 citations
- John Cullinan h-index 30
Notable: “European Network on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (EUROMENE): Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis, Service Provision, and Care of People with ME/CFS in Europe” (2021) · 196 citations
- Bruce Robertson h-index 27
Es on understanding the direct and indirect impacts of human activities on biodiversity, animal behavior, and species interactions, with special emphasis on how rapidly changing environments may disrupt evolved relationships and trigger beh
Notable: “A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING ECOLOGICAL TRAPS AND AN EVALUATION OF EXISTING EVIDENCE” (2006) · 808 citations
- Gabriel G. Perron h-index 25
Notable: “Antibiotic Pollution in the Environment: From Microbial Ecology to Public Policy” (2019) · 1,016 citations
- Christopher LaFratta h-index 22
Physical chemistry and analytical chemistry; currently working to develop microfabrication technologies for lab-on-a-chip devices. Adjunct professor of chemistry, University of Massachusetts (2008). Author of over two dozen peer-rev
Notable: “Multiphoton Fabrication” (2007) · 583 citations
- Clara Sousa-Silva h-index 20
Notable: “The ExoMol database: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres” (2016) · 537 citations
- Craig Anderson h-index 20
Notable: “Competition between intramolecular oxidative addition and ortho metalation in organoplatinum(II) compounds: activation of aryl-halogen bonds” (1991) · 120 citations
- Hal Haggard h-index 17
Quantum gravity, physics education, semiclassical analysis, symmetry and integrable systems, and general-covariant statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Work published in Physical Review Letters, Annales Henri Poincaré
Notable: “Quantum-gravity effects outside the horizon spark black to white hole tunneling” (2015) · 274 citations
- Cathy Collins h-index 16
Patterns of neotropical birds, historic agriculture, and land-use history. Honors include a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates grant, which allowed her to conduct studies in South Gondar, Ethiopia; and numero
Notable: “Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems” (2015) · 4,552 citations
- Emily White h-index 16
Notable: “Role of the photo-Fenton reaction in the production of hydroxyl radicals and photobleaching of colored dissolved organic matter in a coastal river of the southeastern United States” (2003) · 170 citations
- Kerri-Ann Norton h-index 16
Es on using computational biology to study breast cancer growth. She has developed image-processing algorithms to build 3D representations of tumor vasculature using 3D reconstruction techniques from in vivo experiments in mice. Extensive l
Notable: “Multiscale Agent-Based and Hybrid Modeling of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment” (2019) · 180 citations
- Valerie Barr h-index 13
Also include reanalyzing degree attainment data to better identify and understand long-standing trends in the areas of gender, race, and ethnicity, and in software testing, particularly as applied to artificial intelligence and language pro
Notable: “Bringing computational thinking to K-12” (2011) · 1,656 citations
- Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 13
Notable: “Multicomponent fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene” (2011) · 495 citations
- Michael Tibbetts h-index 13
Notable: “The death effector domain protein family: regulators of cellular homeostasis” (2003) · 219 citations
- M. Elias Dueker h-index 13
Notable: “The biology of fog: results from coastal Maine and Namib Desert reveal common drivers of fog microbial composition” (2018) · 56 citations
- Justin Dainer-Best h-index 12
Clinical Psychology About Justin Dainer-Best Justin Dainer-Best’s research interests are focused on the factors behind mood disorders and include the cognitive bases of depression and novel ways to use the internet and
Notable: “Minds “At Attention”: Mindfulness Training Curbs Attentional Lapses in Military Cohorts” (2015) · 219 citations
- Swapan Jain h-index 12
Biochemistry About Swapan Jain B.S., Kennesaw State University; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral associate, Boston University. Recipient, Best Thesis Award, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Georgia Tech (2007
Notable: “Assembly of an Antiparallel Homo-Adenine DNA Duplex by Small-Molecule Binding” (2004) · 110 citations
- Robert Todd h-index 11
Es on genome instability and adaptation in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Beyond typical laboratory research, Professor Todd is interested in developing curricula and
Notable: “Expandable and reversible copy number amplification drives rapid adaptation to antifungal drugs” (2020) · 144 citations
- Brooke Jude h-index 11
Aquatic microbiology; molecular biology; microbial interactions About Brooke Jude Brooke Jude is a molecular microbiologist who studies isolates of microorganisms cultivated from aquatic sources worldwide. Her work is currently focuse
Notable: “A colonization factor links Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and human infection” (2005) · 361 citations
- Kristin Lane h-index 10
Social psychology About Kristin Lane BA, University of Virginia; MS, Yale University; PhD, Harvard University. Has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, and Tufts University. Recipient, Cabot Postdocto
Notable: “Understanding and Using the Implicit Association Test: IV: What We Know (So Far) about the Method.” (2007) · 258 citations
- Sarah Dunphy-Lelii h-index 9
Developmental Psychology About Sarah Dunphy-Lelii B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Research targets the ways that young children think about the minds of others, how they reason about unseeable
Notable: “Infant social attention predicts preschool social cognition” (2004) · 156 citations
- Theresa Law h-index 8
Focus on human-robot interaction, human-robot trust, and social robotics. Her work explores how we can investigate concerns such as mind, agency, intelligence, and consciousness through building and interacting with artificial agents, with
Notable: “The Interplay Between Emotional Intelligence, Trust, and Gender in Human–Robot Interaction” (2020) · 72 citations
- Lauren Lynn Rose h-index 8
Algebraic combinatorics, commutative algebra, discrete geometry. At Bard since 1997.
Notable: “A dimension series for multivariate splines” (1991) · 80 citations
- Matthew Greenberg h-index 8
Notable: “Anthracene as a Launchpad for a Phosphinidene Sulfide and for Generation of a Phosphorus–Sulfur Material Having the Composition P2S, a Vulcanized Red Phosphorus That Is Yellow” (2018) · 42 citations
- Elena Kim h-index 8
Gender studies, development and institutional ethnography, and violence. Recent journal articles include, among many others, “Bargaining with Virginity-Regulating Practices in Post-Socialist Kyrgyzstan,” Central Asian Af
Notable: “Identification of Genes Upregulated by the Transcription Factor Bcr1 That Are Involved in Impermeability, Impenetrability, and Drug Resistance of Candida albicans a/ α Biofilms” (2013) · 56 citations
- Simeen Sattar h-index 8
Physical chemistry About Simeen Sattar Simeen Sattar has taught both general and physical chemistry to science majors and laboratory-based courses for nonscience majors that are inspired by her interests, including paints and the exam
Notable: “Synthesis of di- and trivalent β″-aluminas by ion exchange” (1986) · 56 citations
- Ethan Bloch, Professor of Mathematics h-index 7
Geometric topology. At Bard since 1986.
Notable: “The space of simplexwise linear homeomorphisms of a convex 2-disk” (1984) · 24 citations
- Emily McLaughlin, Associate Dean; Associate Professor of Chemistry h-index 7
Organic chemistry About Emily McLaughlin B.S., Ohio Northern University; Ph.D., University of Pennyslvania. Research associate and lecturer at University of Maryland. Recipient, Achievement Award for Distinguished Service to the Unive
Notable: “Allylic Oxidations Catalyzed by Dirhodium Caprolactamate via Aqueous tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide: The Role of the tert-Butylperoxy Radical” (2008) · 121 citations
- Sven Anderson h-index 7
Notable: “COMBINING SPEECH AND EARCONS TO ASSIST MENU NAVIGATION” (2003) · 41 citations
- Steven Simon h-index 4
Geometric combinatorics, algebraic topology, and discrete and computational geometry. He has published articles in Israel Journal of Mathematics, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, Geometriae Dedicata , and Journal of Geometr
Notable: “Precipitation of calcium carbonates and phosphates—III” (1965) · 140 citations
- Robert W. McGrail h-index 4
Notable: “FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DISTRIBUTION OF LARVAL BLACKLEGGED TICKS ON RODENT HOSTS” (2003) · 83 citations
- Thomas Hutcheon h-index 4
Es on cognitive control, which is defined as the ability to select relevant sources of information in the face of distracting or competing sources of information. As everyone has experienced, the efficiency of cognitive control varies. At t
Notable: “Limits on the generalizability of context-driven control” (2016) · 27 citations
- Stefan Mendez-Diez h-index 4
Notable: “Geometrization of $N$-extended 1-dimensional supersymmetry algebras, I” (2015) · 23 citations
- Japheth Wood h-index 4
Universal algebra About Japheth Wood B.A., Washington University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Research interests include universal algebra, tame congruence theory, semigroups, and voting theory. Articles published in&nb
Notable: “Elections with partially ordered preferences” (2012) · 26 citations
- Mark Halsey h-index 3
Discrete mathematics: in particular graph theory and matroid theory About Mark Halsey B.A., Hobart College; A.M., Ph.D., Dartmouth College. Assistant professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1984–89). Member, American Mathema
Notable: “Line-closed combinatorial geometries” (1987) · 18 citations
- Caitlin Leverson h-index 3
Low-dimensional topology, symplectic topology
Notable: “Augmentations and rulings of Legendrian knots” (2016) · 12 citations
- Beate Liepert
Also include taking measurements of aerosols and solar radiation and investigating climate effects on ecosystems. Additional activities have included serving as editor for Environmental Research Letters , a UK-based journal; proposal review
- Daniel Newsome
- Emily Hager
- Frank M. Scalzo
- Jordan Ayala
- Joshua D. Nelson
- Keith O'Hara, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Rebecca Cox
- Taylor Hart
The dynamics and evolution of collective behavior and biological networks; mechanisms of social behavior and communication; evolution, development, organization, and function of neural circuits; olfactory sensory neurobiology; and a
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.