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 11 designated research centers and the bulk of its core laboratories.

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Vice Chancellor for Research – Shelley Hooks

  • Executive Associate to the Vice Chancellor – Theresa Woolley

    • Administrative Associate – Kymbre Dwyer
    • Administrative Associate Senior – Kim Kirschenbaum

  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Kathleen Lynne Lane

  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Erik Lundquist

    • Facilities Manager (Youngberg, SARF, WRF) – Suzanne Kerich
    • Facilities Manager (Nichols) – Jessica Small
    • Facilities Manager (LSRL, Higuchi) – Vacant
    • Facilities Manager (SBC) – Carla Ramirez
    • Facilities Manager (MRB) – Ann Smith
    • Facilities Manager (Gray-Little) – Laurie White
    • Facilities Manager (Simons) – André Faucher

  • 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 Officer– Lacie Turner
        • Grant Coordinator – Brad Banks
        • Grant Coordinator – Kelly Buszek
        • Grant Coordinator – Mel Jarvis Borchert
      • Grant Manager (Team 2 Lead) – Tina Roberts
        • Grant Officer– Jamie Hulse
        • Grant Coordinator – Betsy Carlson
        • Grant Coordinator – Macy Geddes
        • Grant Coordinator – Elizabeth Hougland
      • Grant Manager (Team 3 Lead) – Matt Stevens
        • Grant Coordinator – Tadd Schneider
        • Grant Officer – Stephanie Phan
    • Associate Director, Contract Negotiations – Aaron Crim
      • Contract Officer – Joanne Altieri
      • 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 – Katherine Lindboe
        • Grant Coordinator – Bruce Montrose
        • 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) – Robynn Barney
    • Associate Director, Administrative Compliance and Audit (Compliance) – Kara McDowell
      • Grant Manager – Selene Ronan 
        • Grant Coordinator – Jordan Clark
      • Grant Coordinator – Adela Fuentes
    • Associate Director, Award Management – Jessica Johnson Webb
      • Grant Manager, Education & Social Improvement Team – Aletha Beard
        • AAI Grant Officer – Ola Okosun
        • AAI Program Officer – Krista Benton
        • Grant Coordinator – Perry Chance
        • Grant Coordinator – Sandra Favela 
        • Grant Coordinator – Dyan Wehner
        • Grant Coordinator – Charlie Potter
        • AAI Program Coordinator – Ryan Ziegler
        • AAI Program Coordinator – Leonie Nguyen
        • Grant Coordinator – Bobbi Scheetz
      • Grant Manager, Humanities & Cross-Disciplinary Team – Rebecca Bilderback
        • Grant Officer – Vacant
        • Grant Officer – Elise Stella
        • Grant Coordinator – Shelby Akers
        • Grant Coordinator – Kim Conard
        • Grant Coordinator – Alicia Erickson
        • Grant Coordinator – Brad Lanpher
        • Grant Coordinator – Claire (Heqing) Yan
        • Grant Coordinator – Ying Ying
      • Grant Manager, Biologies & Pharmacy Team – Jennifer Thomas
        • Grant Officer – Beth Benfield
        • Grant Officer – John Mathews
        • Grant Coordinator – Kelli Delaney
        • Grant Coordinator – Jenny Ding
        • Grant Coordinator – Jonnah McKinney
        • Grant Coordinator – Derrick Seaton
        • Grant Coordinator – Kathryn Willson
        • Grant Coordinator – Melissa Smith
        • Grant Coordinator – Sarah Unruh 
      • Grant Manager, Engineering & Earth Sciences Team – Tim Spencer
        • Grant Officer – Rachel Fehr
        • Grant Coordinator – Michael Blocker
        • Grant Coordinator – Dea Fitch
        • Grant Coordinator – Beth Hoffman
        • Grant Coordinator – Jessica Edie
        • Grant Coordinator – Betty Scheetz
        • Grant Coordinator – Sarah Strickland
        • Grant Coordinator – Laura Wolfe
      • Grant Manager, Natural Sciences & Technology Team – Amy Zeigler
        • Grant Officer – David Lytle
        • Grant Coordinator – Michelle Curttright
        • Grant Coordinator – Kristy McKinney
        • Grant Coordinator– Paris Davis
        • Grant Coordinator – Mitchell Newton
        • Grant Coordinator – Julie Roth
        • Grant Coordinator – Jodie Seaton
        • Grant Coordinator – Isley Unruh
        • Grant Coordinator – Delynne Walter

  • Executive Director, Research Fiscal Affairs, BI Reporting & Systems / Chief Financial Officer – Gina Cregg

    • Director, Budgets & Financial Services – Daniel Wilmot
      • Financial Analyst Senior – Seth Mallamo
      • Financial Analyst – Janet Good
      • Associate Director, Budgets & Financial Services – Elizabeth Monroe
        • Accountant – Kelly Baysinger
      • Assistant Director, Procurement/Contracts – Mike Adams
        • Purchasing Agent – James Edmonds
        • Research Contract Officer – Jody Johnson
        • Administrative Assistant – Sean Jesse
    • Associate Director, Cash Control & Auditing – Karen Schaller
      • Business Manager – Jordan Underwood
      • Accounting Manager – Justin Goetting
      • Accountant Senior – Annie Rajaei
      • Accountant – Brenda Barski
      • Accountant – Lilly Bobb
      • Accountant – Jenni Stinnett
    • Associate Director, Financial Reporting – Rich Lloyd
      • Financial Analyst, Senior – Jessie Yoon
      • Financial Analyst, Intermediate – Marie Justis
    • Associate Director, Research Admin BI Reporting/Analytics & Systems Support – Richard Walker
      • Team Lead, Research BI Reporting & Analytics – Mike Rohleder
        • Principal Analyst – Matt Quijas
        • Principal Analyst – Anna Ingram
      • Team Lead, Research Information Systems – elise Waldron
        • Developer – Stephen Klamet
        • Functional Administrator – Lorna Vazquez

  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Impact & Belonging and Director, Communications – Mindie Paget

    • Communications Coordinator – Vince Munoz

  • Director, Faculty Recognition & Awards – Robin Lehman 

  • Director, Research Development – Carol Burdsal

    • Associate Director, Research Development – Doug Bornemann
    • Business Manager – Jen Arbuthnot
    • Administrative Associate Sr. – Gabriel Nehrbass 

  • Director, Research Integrity – Susan MacNally

    • Research Compliance Manager – 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
    • Responsible Conduct of Research Training Administrator – Chelsi Scott

  • Associate Vice Chancellor, Economic Development – Tricia Bergman

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

    • IP Associate– Chris Hanson
      • IP Coordinator – Tammi Bramlett
    • Director, Licensing – Teresa Schultz
      • Licensing Associate – Taylor Escher
      • Senior Licensing Associate – Patrick Hanway
    • Director, Administration & Systems – Bridget Stull
      • Senior Administrative Assistant – Tammi Bramlett
      • Operations & Finance Specialist – Bethany Scothorn
      • Marketing Associate – Danya Turkmani

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)

  • Nico Franz – 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 – Director
    • Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

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 – Craig Kreikemeier-Bower, Director
  • Biopharmaceutical Innovation & Optimization – Michael Hageman, Director
  • High Throughput Screening Laboratory – Anu Roy, Director
  • Microscopy & Analytical Imaging Laboratory – Noraida Martinez-Rivera, Interim 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