UF Research Foundation Professors
Each year, the University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) selects its new class of UFRF Professors among the best and brightest minds on campus. The three-year professorships were created in 1997 in recognition of faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field.
UFRF Professors are awarded a salary supplement and a small research grant and are chosen based on recommendations from their department chairs and on the merit of their research productivity. UFRF professorships are funded from UF’s share of royalty and licensing on UF-generated products, such as Gatorade. Below is a complete list current and former UFRF Professors from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Department of Astronomy
Department of History, affiliated with UF Center for Latin American Studies
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law
Department of English
Department of Chemistry
Department of Psychology
Previous Years' UF Research Foundation Professors
2016-2019:
David J. Daegling, Department of Anthropology
Ryan Duffy, Department of Psychology
Guido Mueller, Department of Physics
Adrian E. Roitberg, Department of Chemistry
Gonda Van Steen, Department of Classics
Luise White, Department of History
2015-2018:
Andreas Keil, Department of Psychology
Ellen Martin, Department of Geological Sciences
Vasudha Narayanan, Department of Religion
John Palmer, Department of Philosophy
Andrew Rinzler, Department of Physics
Tamir Sorek, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law
2014-2017:
Clarence Gravlee, Department of Anthropology
Andrey Korytov, Department of Physics
Michelle Mack, Department of Biology
Joseph Meert, Department of Geology
Victoria Pagan, Department of Classics