California State University-Northridge
Northridge, CA·Public
4 labs on PI Pages. It spends $27M a year on research and awards 11 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 42,018: 35,820 undergraduates, 6,198 graduate
- Faculty
- 918 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily non-residential
Labs here
Jun Li
Mathematics & Statistics
Explore whether results on braids and Dehn twists (basic twisting symmetries) along Lagrangian spheres extend to general symplectic 4-manifolds, using surgery on Lefschetz fibrations.
Xu Zhang
Chemistry
Use density functional theory calculations and machine learning, alongside in-situ characterization, to explain how N-heterocyclic carbene ligands bind noble metal surfaces and thereby control nanocrystal size and exposed facets.
Vinicius Maron Sauer
Engineering
Design new non-premixed counterflow burners using quadric surfaces and their combinations to create unevenly curved flames like those in practical combustion systems.
Debbie Ma
Psychology
Expand the Chicago Face Database with 200 standardized images of people photographed in China and Japan, adding to its existing set of over 800 faces.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.