{"id":21218,"date":"2024-08-27T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=21218"},"modified":"2024-09-12T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:28:45","slug":"new-natural-sciences-faculty-join-usc-fall-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/new-natural-sciences-faculty-join-usc-fall-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"New faculty members further elevate USC Dornsife\u2019s natural sciences prowess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/New_Faculty_Natural_Sciences_Top-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/New_Faculty_Natural_Sciences_Top-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/New_Faculty_Natural_Sciences_Top-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/08\/New_Faculty_Natural_Sciences_Top-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Photos of each person appear in a grid pattern\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  New natural sciences faculty joining USC Dornsife (clockwise from top left): Nathan Benjamin, Meng Chen, Karen Lloyd, Sandy LaTourrette, Yizhe Zhu, Andrew Steen and Noah Philips. (Photos: Courtesy of each person shown.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>New faculty members further elevate USC Dornsife\u2019s natural sciences prowess<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Professors bring expertise in topics such as quantum field theory, low-energy microbes and mathematical data science.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Margaret Crable<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span 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natural sciences professors join the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences for the fall 2024 semester. Their research focuses on a variety of subjects, from tiny microbes that inhabit deep sea hydrothermal vents to complex questions concerning quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/nathan-benjamin\/\"><strong>Nathan Benjamin<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/\">Physics and Astronomy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is a theoretical physicist interested in quantum field theory, the rules that govern the universe\u2019s tiny particles and forces. His recent research involves using consistency conditions to constrain quantum field theories with conformal symmetry. This work can help us understand things such as how materials change from one form to another (like ice melting into water) and how gravity works on the smallest levels. He is also interested in the deep and often surprising interplay between quantum field theory and pure mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/meng-chen\/\"><strong>Meng Chen<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/psyc\/\">Psychology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chen uses dynamic models to study changes in human behavior over time. She also develops tools for analyzing intensive longitudinal data. In particular, she examines the use of modeling and statistical methods to capture changes within individuals, differences between them, and processes across different time scales. Chen was born and raised in Dalian, China. She received her PhD in human development and family studies from Penn State University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/sandy-latourrette\/\"><strong>Sandy LaTourrette<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>Assistant Professor of Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LaTourrette studies how humans learn language and use language to learn more about the world. His research uses behavioral and computational methods to determine how infants and children navigate the many challenges of language learning \u2014 including variation across speakers, language switching, and the ambiguity of most word-learning contexts. His work addresses how children learn the meanings of words and how labeling objects or individuals changes the way children categorize and remember them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/karen-lloyd\/\"><strong>Karen Lloyd<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/earth\/\">Earth Sciences<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lloyd studies tiny single-celled organisms inside Earth\u2019s crust, through environmental molecular biology and geochemistry. She believes that microbes are best studied in their natural environment, so she designs her experiments to be as field-based as possible, working in <a href=\"https:\/\/oceantoday.noaa.gov\/methane-seepsofthe-deepocean\/\">deep-sea methane seeps<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/geology\/plate-tectonics-subduction-zones.htm\">subduction zones<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/deep-sea-surprise\/\">hydrothermal vents<\/a>, as well as hot springs and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/arctic-mercury-assessment-josh-west\/\">permafrost<\/a> on land. She is helping to discover and describe the vast amount of diverse life that lies buried deep beneath our feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/noah-phillips\/\"><strong>Noah Phillips<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phillips and <a href=\"https:\/\/structuralgeo.github.io\/\">his group<\/a> study how rocks and minerals deform internally to accommodate the movement of Earth\u2019s tectonic plates. His group maps rocks in the field and then analyzes them in the lab using light and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/cryogenic-electron-microscopy-facility-opens\/\">electron microscopy<\/a> to understand \u2014 down to a few nanometers \u2014 how they deformed. These observations are used to develop models of the seismic cycle and tectonic plate motion, and to constrain how critical metals are mobilized and trapped during deformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/drew-steen\/\"><strong>Andrew Steen<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>Associate Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bisc\/\">Biological Sciences<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steen is interested in how microbes live and eat on Earth. His research focuses on how they stay alive and eat in very low-energy environments, such as deep marine sediments and permafrost soils. These organisms appear to live for thousands of years in a state of near (but not total) stasis, a very different mode of life than the fast-growing microbes that dominate Earth\u2019s surface. <a href=\"https:\/\/adsteen.github.io\/\">The Steen Lab<\/a> uses bioinformatics, rate measurements, organic carbon characterization, and machine learning to reconstruct the lifestyles of these microbes, most of which resist growth in the lab. The group\u2019s goal is to understand the physical and chemical environment of Earth microbes, their metabolic requirements and their environmental histories to better understand how they influence \u2014 and are influenced by \u2014 the Earth\u2019s geochemical cycles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/yizhe-zhu\/\"><strong>Yizhe Zhu<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/mathematics\/\">Mathematics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zhu\u2019s research primarily explores high-dimensional probability and mathematical data science. He is analyzing mathematical structures and developing rigorous algorithms for various data science applications, including community detection, signal processing, neural networks and data privacy. 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