40 faculty and 27 courses in Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Alfred Merrill, Professor Emeritus h-index 99
Notable: “A comprehensive classification system for lipids” (2005) · 1,823 citations
- Mark Hay, Regents Chair, Professor h-index 90
Notable: “The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts” (2014) · 1,008 citations
- Shuyi Nie, Assistant Professor h-index 87
Notable: “Soft Lithography in Biology and Biochemistry” (2001) · 2,602 citations
- Joel Kostka, Professor h-index 72
Notable: “Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria and the Bacterial Community Response in Gulf of Mexico Beach Sands Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” (2011) · 871 citations
- Greg Gibson, Regents Professor h-index 71
Notable: “Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases” (2009) · 8,543 citations
- Lin Jiang, Professor h-index 61
Notable: “The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology” (2012) · 1,741 citations
- John McDonald, Professor h-index 60
Notable: “Gold nanorod assisted near-infrared plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) of squamous cell carcinoma in mice” (2008) · 1,154 citations
- Joseph Montoya, Professor h-index 57
Notable: “Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean” (2001) · 732 citations
- Sam Brown, Professor h-index 56
Notable: “Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics” (2016) · 796 citations
- Yury Chernoff, Professor h-index 46
Notable: “Gene prediction in novel fungal genomes using an ab initio algorithm with unsupervised training” (2008) · 1,125 citations
- Julia Kubanek, Professor h-index 46
Notable: “Macroalgal terpenes function as allelopathic agents against reef corals” (2011) · 260 citations
- Michael Goodisman, Professor h-index 38
Notable: “Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality” (2011) · 498 citations
- Timothy Cope, Professor h-index 36
Of Research Neuroengineering
Notable: “Permanent central synaptic disconnection of proprioceptors after nerve injury and regeneration. I. Loss of VGLUT1/IA synapses on motoneurons” (2011) · 143 citations
- Vinayak Agarwal, Assistant Professor h-index 33
Notable: “Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking” (2016) · 4,600 citations
- Thomas DiChristina, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Reductive dissolution of fe(III) oxides by Pseudomonas sp. 200” (1988) · 222 citations
- Abigail Lind, Assistant Professor h-index 30
Notable: “Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals” (2023) · 268 citations
- Kirill Lobachev, Associate Professor h-index 30
Notable: “The Mre11 Complex Is Required for Repair of Hairpin-Capped Double-Strand Breaks and Prevention of Chromosome Rearrangements” (2002) · 405 citations
- Yuhong Fan, Associate Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Integrated genomic analysis identifies recurrent mutations and evolution patterns driving the initiation and progression of follicular lymphoma” (2013) · 732 citations
- Benjamin Freeman, Assistant Professor h-index 28
Notable: “AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds” (2022) · 1,162 citations
- Brian Hammer, Associate Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Quorum sensing controls biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae” (2003) · 895 citations
- Richard Nichols, Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Immunization of Mice with Urease Vaccine Affords Protection against Helicobacter pylori Infection in the Absence of Antibodies and Is Mediated by MHC Class II–restricted Responses” (1998) · 373 citations
- Patrick McGrath, Associate Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Rapid and sequential movement of individual chromosomal loci to specific subcellular locations during bacterial DNA replication” (2004) · 411 citations
- Melinda Millard-Stafford, Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Exertional Heat Illness during Training and Competition” (2007) · 1,013 citations
- Jenny McGuire, Associate Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?” (2011) · 4,261 citations
- Liang Han, Associate Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Identification of a mast-cell-specific receptor crucial for pseudo-allergic drug reactions” (2014) · 1,275 citations
- Edward Balog, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Abnormal regulation of muscle contraction in horses with recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis” (1999) · 87 citations
- Annalise Paaby, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Cryptic genetic variation: evolution's hidden substrate” (2014) · 544 citations
- Nathan Mcdonald, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Independently Evolved Virulence Effectors Converge onto Hubs in a Plant Immune System Network” (2011) · 878 citations
- Saumya Jain, Assistant Professor h-index 13
Notable: “ATPase-Modulated Stress Granules Contain a Diverse Proteome and Substructure” (2016) · 1,695 citations
- Farzaneh Najafi, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Notable: “CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis” (2019) · 1,061 citations
- Sean Anderson, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “The role of divergent ecological adaptation during allopatric speciation in vertebrates” (2022) · 102 citations
- King Jordan, Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Comparative genomics and evolutionary dynamics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ty elements” (2000) · 24 citations
- Steve Diggle, Professor h-index 3
Notable: “An Appealing Computational Mechanism Drawn from Bacterial Quorum Sensing.” (2005) · 23 citations
- Boris Prilutsky, Professor
- Edelle Field-Fote, Professor of the Practice
- Joe Lachance, Associate Professor
- Lesley Baradel, Lecturer
- Mark Lyle, Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Nick Housley, Assistant Professor
- Young-Hui Chang, Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.