University of Florida’s Research Foundation names 2023 Professors

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The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 34 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2023.

“This recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields,” said David Norton, UF’s vice president for research. “Based on the more than 700 UF faculty recognized over the past 26 years, we can expect significant research discoveries, scholarship and technology transfer from this group in the future.”

The UFRF Professors were recommended by their college deans based on nominations from their department chairs, a personal statement and an evaluation of their recent research accomplishments as evidenced by publications in scholarly journals, external funding, honors and awards, development of intellectual property and other measures appropriate to their field of expertise.

The three-year award includes a $5,000 annual salary supplement and a one-time $3,000 grant. The professorships are funded from the university’s share of royalty and licensing income on UF-generated products.

The program was paused in 2020 due to financial uncertainties surrounding the pandemic, so UF Research will recognize the 2020 and 2023 UFRF Professors during an event in the fall.

This year’s UFRF Professors are listed below:

College of the Arts

Jasmin Arakawa
Associate Professor of Piano

Warrington College of Business

Liangfei Qiu
Associate Professor of Business

College of Journalism and Communications

Yu-Hao Lee
Associate Professor of Media Production, Management, and Technology

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Paul Ortiz
Professor of History

Duncan Purves
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Derek Cummings
Professor of Biology

Jonathan Martin
Professor of Geology

Jason Blackburn
Professor of Geography

Lori Knackstedt
Associate Professor of Psychology

College of Medicine

Eric Wang
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Philip Efron
Professor of Surgery

Matthew E. Merritt
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Jada Lewis
Professor of Neuroscience

Carol Mathews
Professor of Psychiatry

College of Design, Construction and Planning

Timothy Murtha
Professor of Landscape Architecture

College of Dentistry

José Lemos
Associate Professor of Oral Biology

College of Education

Joni Williams Splett
Associate Professor of School Psychology

Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Sanjay Ranka
Distinguished Professor of Computer & Information Science & Engineering

Parisa Rashidi
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Bala Balachandar
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Florida Museum of Natural History

David Blackburn
Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles

College of Health and Human Performance

Rachael Seidler
Professor of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology

Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

Jose Dubeux
Professor of Agronomy

Zhifeng Gao
Professor of Food and Resource Economics

Erica Goss
Associate Professor of Plant Pathology

KC Jeong
Associate Professor of Animal Sciences

Jawwad Qureshi
Associate Professor of Entomology and Nematology

Yu Wang
Associate Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Levin College of Law

David Hasen
Professor of Law

College of Nursing

Leslie Parker
Professor of Nursing

College of Pharmacy

Stephan Schmidt
Professor of Pharmaceutics

College of Public Health and Health Professions

Samuel Wu
Professor of Biostatistics

Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology

Katrin Karbstein
Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology

College of Veterinary Medicine

Liang Zhou
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Immunology