List of University of California, Berkeley faculty

This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Berkeley. Faculty who were also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.

By award

Nobel Prize

Turing Award

Fields Medal

Pulitzer Prize

Wolf Prize

Breakthrough Prize

National Medal of Science

National Medal of Technology

Chenming Hu, MS, PhD – professor emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley; 2014 National Medal of Technology and Innovation "for pioneering innovations in microelectronics including reliability technologies, the first industry-standard model for circuit design, and the first 3-dimensional transistors, which radically advanced semiconductor technology"
Arthur H. Rosenfeld – professor of physics (1954–2017); 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation "for extraordinary leadership in the development of energy-efficient building technologies and related standards and policies"

MacArthur Fellowship

The MacArthur Fellowship is also known as the "Genius Grant"

Robert Axelrod – professor (1968–1974) of political science at UC Berkeley; 1987 MacArthur Fellowship
Jillian Banfield – professor (2001–present) in the Department of Biology; 1999 MacArthur Fellowship
Michael Baxandall – professor (1986–1996) of art history at UC Berkeley; 1988 MacArthur Fellowship
Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. 1993 – professor of chemistry (1996–2015); 1999 MacArthur Fellowship
Peter Brown – professor (1972–1986) of classics and history at UC Berkeley; 1982 MacArthur Fellowship
Lu Chen – professor (2003–present) of neuroscience and molecular and cell biology, 2005 MacArthur Fellowship
Robert F. Coleman – professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley; 1987 MacArthur Fellowship
Mark Danner – professor of journalism (1998–present); 1999 MacArthur Fellowship
Michael Dickinson – Williams Professor (1996 – 2002) in the Department of Integrative biology; 2001 MacArthur Fellowship
David Donoho – professor (1984–1990) of statistics; MacArthur Fellowship 1991
Jon H. Else, B.A. 1968 – Prix Italia recipient (The Day After Trinity), recipient of four Emmy Awards, cinematographer on the Academy Award-winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, current professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
Alice Fulton – former lecturer (2004) at UC Berkeley (formally, the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at UC Berkeley); 1991 MacArthur Fellowship
Thom Gunn – lecturer (1958–1966, 1973–2000) in English; 1993 MacArthur Fellowship
Eva Harris, Ph.D. 1993 – professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; researcher of dengue fever; 1997 MacArthur Fellowship
Lin He – current professor of cell and developmental biology at UC Berkeley; 2009 MacArthur Fellowship
Walter Hood, M.Arch., M.L.A. 1989 – Berkeley professor, former chair of Landscape Architecture, College of Environmental Design; 2019 MacArthur Fellowship
John Hopfield – professor (1961–1964) of physics; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship
Raymond Jeanloz – current professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at UC Berkeley; 1988 MacArthur Fellowship
David Keightley – professor emeritus in the Department of History at UC Berkeley; 1986 MacArthur Fellowship
Evelyn Fox Keller – professor (1988–1992) of Women's Studies and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley; 1992 MacArthur Fellowship
Nicole King – professor of integrative biology and of molecular and cell biology (2003–present) at UC Berkeley; 2005 MacArthur Fellowship
M. A. R. Koehl – professor, Integrative biology; 1990 MacArthur Fellowship
Claire Kremen – current professor of conservation biology at UC Berkeley (present); MacArthur Fellowship 2007
Leslie Kurke – professor (1990–present) of literature at UC Berkeley; current Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley; 1999 MacArthur Fellowship
Polina Lishko – current professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; 2020 MacArthur Fellowship
Michael Manga – current professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; 2005 MacArthur Fellowship
Michael Marletta – Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (2001–2011) at UC Berkeley; 1995 MacArthur Fellowship
Pamela Matson – professor (1993–1997) of ecosystem ecology at UC Berkeley; 1995 MacArthur Fellowship
Susan McClary – musicologist, former Berkeley lecturer (1993); 1995 MacArthur Fellowship
Tiya Miles – assistant professor at Berkeley (2000–2002); 2011 MacArthur Fellowship
Richard A. Muller, Ph.D. – professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 1982 MacArthur Fellowship
Sherry Ortner – former professor (1994–1996) of anthropology; 1990 MacArthur Fellowship
George Oster – professor of cell and developmental biology at Berkeley; 1985 MacArthur Fellowship
Margie Profet, B.A. physics 1985 – former Berkeley researcher; researcher in evolutionary biology; 1993 MacArthur Fellowship
Xiao Qiang – adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information (2012–present) and its Graduate School of Journalism (2003–2011); 2001 MacArthur Fellowship
Matthew Rabin – professor of economics; 2000 MacArthur Fellowship
Ishmael Reed – lecturer (1968–2005) at Berkeley; poet and novelist; 1998 MacArthur Fellowship
Adam Riess – post-doctoral Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley; Nobel laureate (2011, Physics); 2008 MacArthur Fellowship
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, B.A. mathematics 1940, Ph.D. 1948 – professor (1976–1985) of mathematics at UC Berkeley, specializing in Hilbert's Tenth Problem; first female president of the American Mathematical Society; namesake of the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship
Emmanuel Saez – current Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley; 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
Pamela Samuelson – current Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at UC Berkeley, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology; 1997 MacArthur Fellowship listed among Time magazine's top ten academic leaders; MacArthur Fellowship 1981
Allan Sly, PhD 2009 Statistics – faculty member at the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley (2011–2016); current professor of mathematics at Princeton University; 2018 MacArthur Fellowship
Dawn Song, Ph.D. 2002 – professor in EECS at UC Berkeley specializing in computer security; 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
Claire Tomlin, Ph.D. 1998 – researcher in unmanned aerial vehicles, air traffic control, and modeling of biological processes; professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Stanford University, where she is director of the Hybrid Systems Laboratory; professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley; 2006 MacArthur Fellow
Gregory Vlastos – Mills Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley (1977–1987); 1990 MacArthur Fellowship
Loïc Wacquant – current professor of sociology at UC Berkeley; 1997 MacArthur Fellowship
Allan Wilson, Ph.D. 1961 – professor (1972–1991) of Biochemistry at UC Berkeley specializing in molecular approaches to understand biological evolution and to reconstruct phylogenies; 1986 MacArthur Fellowship

Enrico Fermi Award

Kellogg National Leadership Award

Galen Cranz – researcher and professor (1975–2018) at UC Berkeley; 1981–1984

Environmental Design Research Association Career Award

Galen Cranz – researcher and professor (1975–2018) at UC Berkeley; 2011 award for "her ability to transcend the boundaries of discipline, to cross from meticulous intellectual work to applied research and design, and her passion, integrity, and deep concern for the rightness of all things and places we use embody what is best about EDRA"

By field

Agriculture

Irma Adelman (B.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Dennis Robert Hoagland – professor of Plant Nutrition

Anthropology

Art and architecture

Astronomy

Biology

Business

Chemistry

Civil engineering

Frank Baron – professor of Civil Engineering
William Garrison – professor emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
T. Y. Lin (M.S. 1933) – professor of Civil Engineering; bridgebuilder
William J. Oswald (B.E. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1957) – professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computer science

Economics

Education

Andrea diSessa – professor of Education
Arthur Jensen (B.A. 1945) – professor emeritus of Educational Psychology
Jean Lave – professor emerita of Education and Geography
Elliot Turiel – professor of Education

Electrical engineering

Ethnic studies

Vévé Amasasa Clark (Ph.D. 1983) – professor of African American Studies
Evelyn Nakano Glenn (B.A. 1962) – professor of Ethnic Studies, and professor of Gender and Women's Studies
Michael Omi – associate professor of Ethnic Studies
Ronald Takaki (Ph.D. 1967) – professor emeritus of Ethnic Studies
Young Shin – lecturer

Film studies

Kaja Silverman (1940) – professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric
Brett Simon (Ph.D. 2003) – professor of Film Studies
Linda Williams (B.A. 1969) – professor of Film Studies

Foreign languages and culture

Geography

Michael J. Watts – professor of Geography and Development Studies

Geology

Walter Alvarez – professor of Geology
Garniss Curtis (Ph.D. 1951) – professor emeritus of Geology

History

Industrial engineering and operations research

Stuart Dreyfus – professor emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Ashok Gadgil (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) – adjunct professor, Energy and Resources Group
Ken Goldberg – professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Law

Linguistics

Literature and rhetoric

Mathematics

Mechanical engineering

Hans Albert Einstein – professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947–1970); son of Albert Einstein
Carlos Fernandez-Pello – professor of Mechanical Engineering and research scientist in combustion
Chang-Lin Tien – university professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990–1997)
Blake R. Van Leer – professor of Mechanical Engineering

Music

Nuclear engineering

Donald R. Olander – professor of Nuclear Engineering and James Fife Chair in Engineering