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Department Chair Directory

Find contact information for general campus department chairs below, along with links to division and department websites for additional information. To request an update to this list, please contact evc105student@ucsd.edu.

School of Arts & Humanities

Department Chair: Luis Alvarez (l2alvarez@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: M. Kazim Ali (mkali@ucsd.edu)

Music

Department Chair: Anthony Burr (aburr@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Dana Nelkin (dnelkin@ucsd.edu)

Theatre & Dance

Department Chair: Lisa Portes (lportes@ucsd.edu)

Visual Arts

Department Chair: Ricardo Dominguez (rrdominguez@ucsd.edu)

School of Biological Sciences

Cell and Developmental Biology

Department Chair: Deborah Yelon (dyelon@ucsd.edu)

Ecology, Behavior and Evolution

Department Chair: Elsa Cleland (ecleland@ucsd.edu)

Molecular Biology

Department Chair: Dong-Er Zhang (d7zhang@ucsd.edu)

Neurobiology

Department Chair: Jing Wang (jw800@ucsd.edu)

Jacobs School of Engineering

Bioengineering

Department Chair: Adam Engler (aengler@eng.ucsd.edu)

Computer Science and Engineering

Department Chair: Sorin Lerner (lerner@ucsd.edu)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department Chair: Bill Lin (billlin@ucsd.edu)

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Department Chair: Stefan Llewellyn Smith (sllewellynsmith@ucsd.edu)

NanoEngineering

Department Chair: Liangfang Zhang (zhang@ucsd.edu)

Structural Engineering

Department Chair: Michael Todd (mdtodd@ucsd.edu)

School of Physical Sciences

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Department Chair: Alison Coil (acoil@ucsd.edu)

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Department Chair: Michael Burkart (mburkart@ucsd.edu)

Mathematics

Department Chair: Michael Holst (chair@math.ucsd.edu; mholst@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Oleg Shpyrko (chair@physics.ucsd.edu)

School of Social Sciences

Anthropology

Department Chair: Paul Goldstein (psgoldstein@ucsd.edu)

Cognitive Science

Department Chair: Douglas Nitz (dnitz@ucsd.edu)

Communication

Department Chair: Patrick Anderson (pwa@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Marc-Andreas Muendler (econchair@ucsd.edu)

Education Studies

Department Chair: Christopher Halter (chalter@ucsd.edu)

Ethnic Studies

Department Chair: Andrew Jolivétte (ajolivette@ucsd.edu)

Linguistics

Department Chair: Robert Kluender (rkluender@ucsd.edu)

Political Science

Department Chair: Lawrence Broz (jlbroz@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: John Serences (jserences@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Kwai Ng (socio-chair@ucsd.edu)

Urban Studies & Planning

Department Chair: Isaac Martin (iwmartin@ucsd.edu)