Knight Campus Organizational Chart
Updated June 4, 2026
External Advisory Board
Vice President and
Executive Director
Robert Guldberg
Executive Assistant to VP and Executive Director
Courtne Huffman
Direct Reports & Divisions
Senior Associate Vice PresidentMoira Kiltie
- Business Coordinator — Sarah Chunn
- Assistant Director of Research Administration — Sarah Ober-Hicks
- Sr. Research Admin Coordinator — Glen Bennett
- Research Admin Coordinator — Leah Smith
- Research Admin Coordinator — TBH
- Research Admin Coordinator 2 & Financial Data Manager — Shanda Sorenson
- Associate Director of Human Resources — TBH
- Sr. HR Coordinator — Kathy Noakes
- Sr. HR Coordinator — Mel Gold
- Assistant Director of Academic Administration — Khaila Carlstrom
- Sr. Academic Business Coordinator — Jodi Myers
- Academic Business Coordinator — Gabrielle Andrew
- Academic Business Coordinator — Tiffany Swonke
- Sr. Academic Personnel Administrator — Lacey Curran
- Assistant Director of Business Operations — Dan Hays
- Sr. Business Coordinator — Jacinda DeGiusti
- Sr. Business Coordinator — Sarah Chunn
- Business Coordinator — Drew Debban
- Business Coordinator — Nadine Batya
- Business Coordinator — Janelle Taggart
- Business Coordinator — Brandon Leis
- Business Coordinator — TBH
- Assistant Director of Budget and Finance — Margie Altekruse
- Executive Assistant & Administrative Project Manager — Paige Crawford
- Director of Communications — Lewis Taylor
- Research Communications Associate — Rachel Bedford
- Sr. Graphic and Visual Designer — Heather Swift
- Senior Manager of Events and Space Rentals — Helen Aucoin
- Workplace Coordinator (OS2) — Margie Posada
- Workplace Coordinator (OS2) — Maya Lorton
- Temp. Office Specialist (OS1) — Aidan King
- Director of Facilities and Building Systems Services — Greg Normandin
- Custodial Services Manager — Albert Aragon
- Custodians — Wade Owens, Leo Ferrera, Ana Rodriguez, Judy Haines, Rick Gurge, TBH, TBH
- Facilities Operation Manager — Tea Rush
- Scientific Instrument Technician — Andre Aghazarian
- Facilities Ops Coordinator / Trades Maintenance Coord. — Julien Haven
- Custodial Services Manager — Albert Aragon
Professor and Chair, Department of BioengineeringDanielle Benoit
- Curriculum Development Director/Lecturer — TBH
- Career Coach — Julie Voelker Morris
- Student Recruiter & Advisor for Bioengineering — Jenni Van Wyk
- Student Recruiter & Advisor for Materials Science — Allison Fujinaga
- Instructional / Makerspace Manager — TBH
- Research Assistant — Isaac Perkins
Faculty & Labs
- Professor — Robert Guldberg (Guldberg Lab)
- Professor — Keat Ghee Ong (Ong Lab)
- Professor — Bill Cresko (Director, Center for Biomedical Data Science)
- Associate Professor — Paul Dalton (Dalton Lab)
- Associate Professor — Tim Gardner (Gardner Lab)
- Associate Professor — Calin Plesa (Plesa Lab)
- Associate Professor — Marian Hettiaratchi (Hettiaratchi Lab)
- Associate Professor — Nick Willett (Willett Lab)
- Research Professor — Bala Ambati (Ambati Lab)
- Assistant Professor — Parisa Hosseinzadeh (Hosseinzadeh Lab)
- Assistant Professor — Felix Deku (Deku Lab)
- Assistant Professor — Gabriella Lindberg (Lindberg Lab)
- Assistant Professor — David Peeler (Peeler Lab)
- Assistant Professor — Sara Keller (Keller Lab)
- Assistant Professor — Colin Bredenberg (Bredenberg Lab)
- Assistant Professor — Zoe Christenson Wick (Christenson Wick Lab)
- Assistant Professor — TBH ×3
Assistant Vice President for Master's ProgramsStacey Wagner
- Senior Director of Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program — Laura McKnight
- Associate Director, KCGIP — Lynde Ritzow
- Associate Director of Student Success, Inclusion, and Alumni Engagement — Betsy Tanenbaum
- Director of Sensors — Jess Lohrman — Lecturers & Instructors
- Director of Optics — Eryn Cook — Lecturers & Instructors
- Director of Polymers — Casey Check — Lecturers & Instructors
- Director of Semiconductors — Tori Sorg — Lecturers & Instructors
- Director of Bioinformatics — Leslie Coonrod — Sr. Academic Business Coordinator (Kellie Welsh)
- Senior Industry Advisor — Frederick Pool
Student Success Shared Services Team & IMPACT Team report through this branch (see below).
Sr. Director of Academic and Impact ProgrammingNathan Jacobs — IMPACT Team
- Professor of Practice, Journalism and Communication — Mark Blaine
- Associate Professor, Science Libraries — Annie Zeidman-Karpinski
Student Success Shared Services Team
- Reports jointly to Assistant VP for Master's Programs (Stacey Wagner) and Sr. Director of Academic and Impact Programming (Nathan Jacobs)
Research Centers and InstitutesCenter-level leadership
- Center for Biomedical Data Science — Director: Bill Cresko
- Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Oregon — Director: Robert Guldberg; Associate Directors: Mike Hahn & Nick Willett
- Center for Translational Biomedical Research — Director: Robert Guldberg
Director of Brewing Innovation ProgramJim Hutchison
- Brewing Innovation Instructor and Lab Manager — Lindsey Rubottom
Assistant Vice President and Chief Development OfficerCallie Johnston
- Development office reporting directly to the Vice President and Executive Director.
Sr. Director for Professional Development & Workforce ReadinessStacey York
- Professional development and workforce readiness programming across KCGIP and undergraduate tracks.
Project Manager (Community)Julie Langenberg
- Community engagement and project management, reporting directly to the Vice President and Executive Director.
Papé Family Innovation Center Lab ManagerTerra Heibert
- Lab operations and tenant support for the Papé Family Innovation Center.
Sr. Director for Shared Equipment and Core FacilitiesKurt Langworthy
- Director of X-Ray Imaging Core Facility — Angela Lin
- Cleanroom Engineer — Sean Harris
- Biological Shared Facilities Engineer — Raquel Simao Gurge
Note: this chart is transcribed from the June 4, 2026 org chart PDF for web display. A few reporting lines in the source document were ambiguous once flattened out of the visual layout.