Knight Campus Organization Chart

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 CoordinatorSarah Chunn
  • Assistant Director of Research AdministrationSarah 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 ResourcesTBH
    • Sr. HR Coordinator — Kathy Noakes
    • Sr. HR Coordinator — Mel Gold
  • Assistant Director of Academic AdministrationKhaila 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 OperationsDan 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
Professor and Chair, Department of BioengineeringDanielle Benoit
  • Curriculum Development Director/LecturerTBH
  • Career Coach — Julie Voelker Morris
  • Student Recruiter & Advisor for Bioengineering — Jenni Van Wyk
  • Student Recruiter & Advisor for Materials Science — Allison Fujinaga
  • Instructional / Makerspace ManagerTBH
  • 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 ProfessorTBH ×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.