Experts Directory

The San Diego State University Experts Directory is a rolodex for reporters, designed to assist journalists in their search for subject-matter experts on a variety of topics and academic research areas.

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Vinod Sasidharan

Vinod Sasidharan

Associate ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsL. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementSDSU[email protected](619) 594-4726

Area of Expertise

Sustainable development, sustainable tourism and community empowerment in the California-Baja Mexico transborder region, international tourism, tourism and technology, tourism certification, sustainable tourism assessment, interdisciplinary analyses of tourism, tourism and corporate social responsibility, indigenous tourism and tourism best practices.

Matthew Savage

Matthew Savage

Associate ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of CommunicationSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Health communication, health intervention camapigns, risky behavior.

Henry Scharf

Henry Scharf

Assistant ProfessorCollege of SciencesMathematics and StatisticsSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Bayesian; animal movement; social networks; spatial statistics and ecological statistics.

Melody Schiaffino

Melody Schiaffino

Assistant ProfessorCollege of Health and Human ServicesSchool of Public HealthSDSU[email protected]619-594-6439

Area of Expertise

How healthcare is delivered, care coordination, cancer and aging, health disparities, organizational cultural competence, healthcare, systems science

Emily Schmied

Emily Schmied

Assistant Professor and Behavioral ScientistCollege of Health and Human ServicesSchool of Public HealthSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Military health, sleep health and suicide prevention.

Amy Schmitz Weiss

Amy Schmitz Weiss

ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesSDSU[email protected]619-594-3504

Area of Expertise

online journalism, media sociology, news production, multimedia journalism, and international communication.

Ronnee Schreiber

Ronnee Schreiber

Senior Associate DeanCollege of Arts and LettersPolitical ScienceSDSU[email protected]619-594-5208

Area of Expertise

American politics, public law, women and politics (particularly women in American political institutions and women and public policy), republican primaries, presidential politics

Mathias Schulze

Mathias Schulze

Professor, Director of the Language Acquisition Resource CenterCollege of Arts and LettersEuropean StudiesSDSU[email protected]619-594-0958

Area of Expertise

applied linguistics, (second) language education, German language and society, multilingualism,  language minorities

Bonnie Scott

Bonnie Scott

Professor EmeritusCollege of Arts and LettersWomen's StudiesSDSU[email protected]619-594-6524

Area of Expertise

Feminist theory and criticism, modernist literature, particularly Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and women writers, gender and modernism, ecofeminism and foundations of Women’s Studies.

Ignacio Sepulveda

Ignacio Sepulveda

Assistant ProfessorCollege of EngineeringCivil, Construction, and Environmental EngineeringSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Coastal Engineering, Natural Hazards, Tsunamis, earthquakes, Sea level rise, Remote Sensing, GNSS technology, Uncertainty Quantification and Geophysics.

Satish Sharma

Satish Sharma

ProfessorCollege of EngineeringElectrical and Computer EngineeringSDSU[email protected]619-594-0241

Area of Expertise

Reconfigurable antennas and arrays, active antennas, feeds for reflector antennas, compact antennas for handheld and portable devices, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas, beam steering antennas, global positioning system (GPS) antennas, wideband and multiband microstrip antennas, broadband antennas, ultra-wide bandwidth antennas, dielectric resonator antennas, wire antennas, and microwave passive components such as filters.

Jay Sheehan

Jay Sheehan

Faculty and Production ManagerCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of Theatre, Television, and FilmSDSU[email protected]619-594-4990

Area of Expertise

Production management, theatre and stage management. Sheehan oversees production management and stage management emphasis for the School of Theatre, Television, and Film. Sheehan is the author of "The Production Manager's Toolkit" - the only textbook in the United States written on the subject of production management in the arts.

Bo-Wen Shen

Bo-Wen Shen

Associate ProfessorCollege of SciencesMathematics and StatisticsSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Nonlinear dynamics (chaos; butterfly effect; multistability; predictability; Lorenz model), global weather/climate modeling, hurricane predictions, supercomputing and visualizations and big data analysis

Hongmei Shen

Hongmei Shen

ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesSDSU[email protected]619-594-5120

Area of Expertise

Strategic management of public relations, relationship management, international public relations, internal public relations, crisis communication, health communication and public relations education.

Sam Shen

Sam Shen

Distinguished ProfessorCollege of SciencesMathematics and StatisticsSDSU[email protected]619-594-6280

Area of Expertise

Global warming, climate data science, climate data visualization, climate data delivery technology to classrooms, machine learning, AI applications to education,  progressive education, spectral optimal averaging theory. Shen developed the mathematical methods to quantify the uncertainties in the global warming assessment adopted by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Nicholas Shikuma

Nicholas Shikuma

Associate ProfessorCollege of SciencesBiologySDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Microbiology, developmental biology, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology.

JoAnn Silkes

JoAnn Silkes

Associate ProfessorCollege of Health and Human ServicesSpeech, Language, and Hearing SciencesSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Aphasia, medical speech-language pathology, neurogenic communication disorders, and right hemisphere disorders.

Michael Simpson

Michael Simpson

Professor EmeritusCollege of SciencesBiologySDSU[email protected]619-594-8012

Area of Expertise

Plants, systematics, SDSU Herbarium, SDSU Biodiversity Museum, taxonomy and identification of California native plants and plants of Mediterranean ecosystems.

Damariye Smith

Damariye Smith

Assistant ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsCommunication and Journalism and Media StudiesSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

African-Amerian/Black media studies and rhetoric.

Elisa Sobo

Elisa Sobo

Professor and Department ChairCollege of Arts and LettersAnthropologySDSU[email protected]619-594-6591

Area of Expertise

Sobo can speak to yoga sound bath therapy or sound healing, vaccination (pediatric & COVID), cannabis and other alternative medicines, alternative (e.g., Waldorf) education, medical tourism, medical/health traditions, nutrition/foodways, health education and health-related risk perception.

Christal Sohl

Christal Sohl

Assistant ProfessorCollege of SciencesChemistry and BiochemistrySDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Enzymes, enzymology, kinetics, molecular mechanisms of cancer and tumor metabolism.

Matthew Soto

Matthew Soto

Lecturer, Director of the Adaptive Fitness ClinicCollege of Health and Human ServicesExercise and Nutritional SciencesSDSU[email protected]619.594.0840

Area of Expertise

Persons with Physical Disabilities, long term care of physically disabled Disability and Fitness, Adaptive activities for persons with physical disabilities, and exercise interventions for persons with disabilities.

Dan Sousa

Dan Sousa

Assistant ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersGeographySDSU[email protected](619) 922-7161

Area of Expertise

Remote sensing, reflectance spectroscopy, biogeography, geophysical inverse theory, spatiotemporal analysis, evapotranspiration

Katherine Spilde

Katherine Spilde

Professor and Chair of the Sycuan Institute of Tribal GamingCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsL. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementSDSU[email protected]619-594-4964

Area of Expertise

American Indian economic development, nation building, casino gaming, corporate social responsibility, Indian gaming, tribal government gaming, Native American studies, tribal governance, corporate governance, Macau, Japan, gambling addiction and responsible gaming.

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