Organizational charts

The Office of Research consists of staff who facilitate all facets of research and related support, technology commercialization, and business and industry outreach. KU Research also oversees the university's 12 designated research centers and the bulk of its core laboratories.

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Vice Chancellor for Research – Simon Atkinson

  • Chief of Staff to the Vice Chancellor – Julie Popiel

    • Administrative Associate – Kymbre Dwyer
    • Administrative Associate Senior – Shayla Murphy

  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Kathleen Lane

  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Erik Lundquist

    • Facilities Manager (Youngberg, SARF, WRF) – Suzanne Kerich
    • Facilities Manager (Nichols) – Jessica Small
    • Facilities Manager (LSRL, Higuchi) – Scott Jeffress
    • Facilities Manager (SBC) – Carla Ramirez
    • Facilities Manager (MRB) – Ann Smith
    • Facilities Manager (ISB) – Laurie White
       

  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Candan Tamerler

  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research – Alicia Reed

    • Associate Director, Research Administration – Nancy Biles
      • Administrative Assistant Senior – Deanne Stephens
    • Associate Director, Pre-Award Services – Brad Bernet
      • Grant Manager (Team 1 Lead) – Fawn Weber
        • Grant Officer – Kim Wittman
        • Grant Coordinator – Brad Banks
        • Grant Coordinator – Kelly Buszek
        • Grant Coordinator – Mel Jarvis Borchert
        • Grant Coordinator – Lacie Turner
      • Grant Manager (Team 2 Lead) – Tina Roberts
        • Grant Coordinator – Betsy Carlson
        • Grant Coordinator – Dawn Hawkins
        • Grant Coordinator – Jamie Hulse
        • Grant Coordinator – Elizabeth Shafer 
      • Grant Manager (Team 3 Lead) – Matt Stevens
        • Grant Coordinator – Cynthia Beall
        • Grant Officer – Stephanie Phan
    • Associate Director, Contract Negotiations – Aaron Crim
      • Contract Officer – Ashley Coles
      • Contract Officer – Maile Fincher
      • Contract Officer – Laura Irick
      • Contract Officer – Rachel Saalweachter
    • Associate Director, Sponsored Accounts & Revenue Management – Anita Abel
      • Grant Manager, Award Processing Services (APS) – Leena Semyonova-Smith
        • Grant Officer – Jim O’Malley
        • Grant Coordinator – Bruce Montrose
        • Grant Coordinator – Alicia Vanatta
        • Grant Coordinator – Joyce Williams
      • Grant Officer, Sponsored Projects Accounts Receivable (SPAR) – Mandy Kelly
      • Grant Coordinator, Sponsored Projects Accounts Receivable (SPAR) – Jhunu Thapa
      • Grant Coordinator, Sponsored Projects Accounts Receivable (SPAR) – Breanna Jones
    • Grant Manager, Administrative Compliance and Audit (Compliance) – Kara McDowell
      • Grant Coordinator – Jordan Clark
      • Grant Specialist – Robynn Barney
    • Associate Director, Award Management – Jessica Johnson Webb
      • Grant Manager, Education & Social Improvement Team – Aletha Beard
        • Grant Coordinator Senior – Amy Zeigler
        • AAI Program Officer – Krista Benton
        • Grant Coordinator – Liz Coleman
        • Grant Coordinator – Kim Conard
        • Grant Coordinator – Brad Lanpher
        • AAI Program Coordinator – Haining Lou
        • AAI Program Coordinator – Leonie Nguyen
        • Grant Coordinator – Bobbi Scheetz
      • Grant Manager, Humanities & Cross-Disciplinary Team – Jessica Chilcoat
        • Grant Officer – Mindy Russell
        • Grant Officer – Tracie Watkins
        • Grant Coordinator – Shelby Akers
        • Grant Coordinator – Alicia Erickson
        • Grant Coordinator – Rachel Fehr
        • Grant Coordinator – Robin Hinman
        • Grant Coordinator – Elise Stella
        • Grant Coordinator – Lily Tian
        • Grant Coordinator – Claire (Heqing) Yan
        • Grant Coordinator – Ying Ying
      • Grant Manager, Biologies & Pharmacy Team – Jennifer Holladay
        • Grant Officer – Beth Benfield
        • Grant Officer – John Mathews
        • Grant Coordinator – Kelli Delaney
        • Grant Coordinator – Jenny Ding
        • Grant Coordinator – Ola Okosun
        • Grant Coordinator – Julie Roth
        • Grant Coordinator – Derrick Seaton
        • Grant Coordinator – Isley Unruh
        • Grant Coordinator – Kathryn Willson
        • Grant Coordinator – Rozelle Goodman
        • Grant Coordinator – Ryan Zeigler
      • Grant Manager, Engineering & Earth Sciences Team – Tim Spencer
        • Grant Officer – Rebecca Bilderback
        • Grant Coordinator – Michael Blocker
        • Grant Coordinator – Dea Fitch
        • Grant Coordinator – Corinna Johnson
        • Grant Coordinator – David Lytle
        • Grant Coordinator – Kristy McKinney
        • Grant Coordinator – Betty Scheetz
        • Grant Coordinator – Sarah Strickland
        • Grant Coordinator – Delynne Walter
        • Grant Coordinator – Laura Wolfe
    • Manager, Research Data Analytics – Mike Rohleder
      • Principal Analyst – Vacant
      • Business Intelligence Analyst – Matt Quijas
         

  • Executive Director, Fiscal Affairs / Chief Financial Officer – Gina Cregg

    • Director, Budgets & Financial Services – Daniel Wilmot
      • Financial Analyst Senior – Vacant
        • Financial Analyst – Janet Good
      • Associate Director, Budgets & Financial Services – Elizabeth Monroe
        • Accountant – Kelly Baysinger
      • Assistant Director, Procurement/Contracts – Sherry Draper
        • Purchasing Agent – James Edmonds
        • Research Contract Officer – Jody Johnson
        • Administrative Assistant – Sean Jesse
    • Assistant Director, Cash Control & Auditing – Karen Schaller
      • Business Manager – Kevin Teel
      • Accountant Senior – Annie Rajaei
      • Accountant – Brenda Barski
      • Accountant – Lilly Bobb
      • Accountant – Justin Goetting
      • Accountant – Jenni Stinnett
    • Associate Director, Financial Reporting – Susan Rider
      • Financial Analyst, Intermediate – Tricia Roberson
      • Financial Analyst, Intermediate – Jessie Yoon
    • Manager, Functional Systems – Elise Waldron
      • eCompliance Developer – Stephen Klamet
      • Information Specialist – Richard Walker
      • Functional Systems Analyst Senior – vacant
         

  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging and Director, External Affairs – Mindie Paget

    • Communications Specialist – Vince Munoz

  • Director, Research Development – Carol Burdsal

    • Assistant Director, Research Development – Doug Bornemann
    • Administrative Associate Sr. – Gabriel Nehrbass 

  • Director, Research Integrity – Susan MacNally

    • Associate Director, Research Integrity – Vacant
    • Human Research Protection Program Administrator – Alyssa Haase
      • Administrative Associate – Tessa Maclean
      • Human Research Protection Program Coordinator – Jennifer Dumpert
    • Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee Coordinator – Larissa Dobbeleare
      • Compliance Coordinator – Alexander Smith
    • Compliance Officer – Bob Szrot
      • Research Compliance Officer – Rhett Caviel

  • Associate Vice Chancellor, Economic Development – Tricia Bergman

  • Executive Director, KU Center for Technology Commercialization – Cliff Michaels

    • Interim Director, IP Management – Chris Hanson
      • Interim IP Coordinator – Tammi Bramlett
    • Interim Director, Technology Commercialization – Aswini Betha
      • Licensing Associate – Patrick Hanway
    • Director, Administration & Systems – Bridget Stull
      • Senior Administrative Assistant Senior – Tammi Bramlett
      • Operations & Finance Specialist – Bethany Scothorn

Office of Research

Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI)

  • Neal Kingston – Director

    • Accessible Teaching, Learning & Assessment Systems
    • Agile Technology Solutions
    • Center for Certification & Competency-Based Education
    • Center for Evaluation & Educational Leadership
    • Center for Education Opportunity Programs
    • Center for Montessori Research
    • Center for Public Partnerships & Research

Biodiversity Institute (BI)

  • Jorge Soberón – Director

    • Biodiversity Research & Collections
    • Biodiversity Informatics
    • Natural History Museum
    • Paleontological Institute

Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC)

  • Bala Subramaniam – Director

Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems (CReSIS)

  • Carl Leuschen – Director

Hall Center for the Humanities

  • Giselle Anatol – Interim Director

    • Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

Higuchi Biosciences Center (HBC)

  • John Stobaugh – Director

    • Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease
    • Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways
    • Center for Chemical Methodologies & Library Development Legacy
    • KU Alzheimer’s Disease Center – Mitochondrial Genomics & Metabolism

Institute for Information Sciences (I2S)

  • Perry Alexander – Director

    • Center for Communications, Networking & Photonics
    • Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics
    • High Assurance & Secure Systems Center
    • Mathematical Methods & Interdisciplinary Computing Center
    • Radar Systems Laboratory

Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR)

  • Donna Ginther – Director

    • Center for Compassionate & Sustainable Communities
    • Center for Environmental Policy
    • Center for Indigenous Research, Science & Technology
    • Center for Military, War & Society Studies
    • Center for the Study of Injustice
    • Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy
    • Surveillance Studies Research Center

Institute for Bioengineering Research (IBER)

  • Paulette Spencer – Director

Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research (KBS-CER)

  • Sara Baer – Director

Kansas Geological Survey (KGS)

  • Jay Kalbas – Director

Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies (LSI)

  • John Colombo – Director

    • Beach Center on Disability
    • Center for Community Health & Development
    • Center for Research on Learning
    • Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research & Treatment
    • Child Language Doctoral Program
    • Juniper Gardens Children’s Project
    • Kansas Center for Autism Research & Training
    • Kansas Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center
    • KU Center on Developmental Disabilities
    • Life Span Institute at Parsons
    • Merrill Advanced Studies Center
    • SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Education Center
    • Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú

Core Research Resource Labs

Research Laboratories

  • Center for Research Computing – Hoang Tran, Director
  • Instrumentation Design Lab – Rob Young, Director
  • KU Nanofabrication Facility – Ryan Grigsby, Director

Biomedical Research Centers

  • Animal Care Unit – Erin Jackson, Director
  • Biopharmaceutical Innovation & Optimization – Michael Hageman, Director
  • High Throughput Screening Laboratory – Anu Roy, Director
  • Microscopy & Analytical Imaging Laboratory – Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Director
  • Protein Production Core Laboratory – Fei Phillip Gao, Director
  • Purification Analysis Laboratory – Ben Neuenswander, Director

Molecular Structures Group

  • Biomolecular NMR Laboratory – Justin Douglas, Director
  • Mass Spectrometry & Analytical Proteomics Laboratory – Anita Saraf, Director
  • Molecular Graphics & Modeling Laboratory – David Johnson, Director
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory – Justin Douglas, Director
  • Protein Structure & X-ray Crystallography Laboratory – Scott Lovell, Director

Collaborating Laboratories

  • Computational Chemical Biology Core Laboratory – David Johnson, Director
  • Genome Sequencing Core Laboratory – Jennifer Hackett, Director
  • Infectious Disease Assay Development Core Laboratory – Anu Roy, Director
  • Synthetic Chemical Biology Core Laboratory – Chamani Perera, Director