University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO·Public
36 labs on PI Pages. It spends $718M a year on research and awards 447 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 46,985: 35,164 undergraduates, 11,821 graduate
- Postdocs
- 384
- Faculty
- 1,616 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Alvaro Velasquez
Computer Science
Develop decentralized self-organization methods in which AI agents decompose tasks among peers, assign and enhance roles, and self-refine during execution, using information-theoretic tests to judge whether emergent behavior is useful.
Nicole Lovenduski
Earth & Environmental Science
Investigate how small, highly active Southern Ocean hotspots control the transport of heat and carbon between the surface and the deep ocean, using simulations with the Community Earth System Model.
Virginia Harvey
Earth & Environmental Science
Determine whether the Sun's crossings of cold galactic clouds compressed the heliosphere and altered Earth's radiation, atmosphere and temperature, using astrophysical, heliospheric and whole-atmosphere simulations.
Tomoko Matsuo
Earth & Environmental Science
Identify the causes of day-to-day and longitude-to-longitude changes in the equatorial electrojet, a strong current near the magnetic equator, by assimilating ground and Swarm satellite magnetic data into the TIEGCM upper-atmosphere model.
Matthew Olm
Microbiology & Immunology
Identify ecological forces linked to diverging infant microbiomes through multi-omics profiling of global infant groups. Measure breast milk sugars (HMOs), diet, maternal IgA antibody binding, keystone microbes, and whether microbes come from the mother.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.