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2025-2026 faculty members

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Every year Arizona State University welcomes new faculty members from across the country and around the world. Use the search tool below find faculty by academic unit, by discipline or by rank. 

 

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Franco Eloy Vargas Pallete

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences

Researches geometry and topology in low-dimensions, mainly geometric aspects of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Eva Vazquez Ortiz

DBA, IE University (Spain)

Global Management

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial mentoring, startup accelerators, global entrepreneurship.

Nayely Valez-Cruz

PhD, Arizona State University

School of Complex Adaptive Systems

Specializes in Bayesian learning for time-series analysis and multi-level and multi-scale biological systems.

Shayla Victoria

PhD, University of Mississippi

School of Life Sciences

Environmental toxicology; uses the Zebrafish to study how environmental contaminants impact human and environmental health.

John von Heyking

PhD, University of Notre Dame

School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership

Specialist of political philosophy, his research focuses on political friendship, personalism and virtue theory.

Jack Waddell

PhD, Arizona State University

Department of Psychology

Research is focused on the etiology and risks associated with alcohol and cannabis misuse.

Zach Waggoner

PhD, Arizona State University

School of Applied Sciences and Arts

First-year composition, writing program administration, video game rhetoric.

Denise Walker

PhD, University of New Mexico

Nursing and Health

Expert in addiction treatment, cannabis and motivational interviewing.

Jin Wang

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Research bridges database systems, query languages, data integration and natural language processing.

Frank Watkins

DMA, Michigan State University

School of Music, Dance and Theatre

Research include the intersectionality of race, class and gender in the music of African American women in the 21st century.

Michael Weismeyer

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

History of science, history of education, California history, Western history, United States history.

Luis Welbanks

PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

School of Earth and Space Exploration

Specializes in the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres to understand their composition, chemistry, climates and origins.