Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of California, Davis Department of Chemical Engineering is a 31-PI network with 29 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Materials Science as the leading field (27% of slots across 17 PIs; 17 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (22% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), and Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques as the leading topic (3% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The top weighted PIs are Alexandra Navrotsky (49.9 weighted works; Nuclear materials and radiation effects, Radioactive element chemistry and processing). The strongest pairings are Julie M. Schoenung and Enrique J. Lavernia (23 shared works, weight 9.5). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 27.8, around Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, led by Alexandra Navrotsky, Ricardo H. R. Castro, Julie M. Schoenung.