MORTENSON CENTER IN ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES - Key Persons


Aaron Opdyke

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management
  • Construction Engineering and Management Engineering for Developing Communities

Abbie Morton


Abi Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Alexandra Le Moine

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Alireza Doostan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Allie Anderson

Job Titles:
  • CU Boulder Researchers

Allie Davis

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Allie Hayman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Amanda Walker


America Palacios

Job Titles:
  • Financial Services Manager

Amy Javernick-Will

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Associate Director, Graduate Research Nicholas R. and Nancy D. Petry Professor in Construction Engineering and Management
  • Associate Professor Nicholas R. and Nancy D. Petry Professor in Construction Engineering and Management

Andrew Borham

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Andrew Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Virginia

Andrew Tracy

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems

Ann Ruether

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Anna Kroll

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ava Spangler

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Plus Environmental Engineering

Barbara Johnston


Bobby Hodgkinson

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Brian Argrow

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair Director of IRISS National Academy Member

Briar Goldwyn

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

BS Student

Job Titles:
  • Student

Buff Techs Appointments


Caleb Cord

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Engineering Global Engineering

Carlo Salvinelli

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director Teaching Assistant Professor

Carlos Felippa

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )
  • Professor Emeritus

Carol Chang

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science

Carrie Ngai

Job Titles:
  • Smead Program Senior Coordinator

Casey Casias


Casie Venable

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Catherine Patton

Job Titles:
  • Student

Chantal Iribagiza

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Faculty and Staff
  • Research Associate

Chris Muldrow

Job Titles:
  • Smead Director

Christoffer Heckman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor - Courtesy Appointment in AES

Christopher Koehler

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor

Christopher Senesi

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Christopher Williams

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Chuen-Yen Chow

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Colleen Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Student

Conor Canaday

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Cristina Poleacovschi

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Dale Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director of RECUV

Daniel Kubitschek

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Daniel N. Baker

Job Titles:
  • National Academy Member / Director, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics ( LASP ), UCB

Daniel Scheeres

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor a. Richard Seebass Chair

David Klaus

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

DeAndra Beck

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research, Michigan State University

Deb Renshaw

Job Titles:
  • Senior Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Delores Knipp

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Denis Muthike

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Faculty and Staff
  • Research Associate

Dennis Akos

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Alex Dehgan

Job Titles:
  • CEO & Co - Founder, Conservation X Labs

Dr. Thomas Clasen

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Elizabeth Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Emma Stine

Job Titles:
  • Student

Eric Antillon

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Eric Frew

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Chair for Department Affairs

Erik Knudsen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum
  • Teaching Associate Professor Associate Chair for Undergraduate Operations

Erin Arneson

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Evan Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, Mortenson Center
Director | Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering

Florence Berteaux

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Florence Lepropre

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Francisco López Jiménez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Garrett Geer

Job Titles:
  • Chemical Engineering

Gerald Yoho

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Fabrication and Test Engineer

Gunārs Platais

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Faculty and Staff
  • Adjunct Associate Professor

H.T. Sears

Job Titles:
  • Memorial Professor Director, Center for National Security Initiatives

Hank Scott

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Hanli Liu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Adjunct

Hannah Moench

Job Titles:
  • Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Geography

Hanspeter Schaub

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair
Department Chair • Professor • Schaden Leadership Chair • Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair

Harvey Gates

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Adjunct

Hisham Ali

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Howard Singer

Job Titles:
  • Professor Adjunct & Chief Scientist NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

Iana Aranda

Job Titles:
  • President, Engineering for Change

Ilham Siddiq

Job Titles:
  • Student

Isabella Lee

Job Titles:
  • Student

J. Sean Humbert

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Courtesy Appointment in

Jacob Henry

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional and Training & Consulting Lead

Jacquelyn Stang

Job Titles:
  • Finance and Accounting Professional

Jade Morton

Job Titles:
  • Professor Helen and Hubert Croft Professor

James Brasseur

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Aerospace Mechanics Research Center

James Harper

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

James Maslanik

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor Emeritus / Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles

James Nabity

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jason Neff

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Jay McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Jean Koster

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Jeanette Felmlee-Gartner

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jeff Glusman

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Jeff Zehnder

Job Titles:
  • Senior Communications Specialist

Jeffrey Forbes

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Professor
Professor Forbes' research interests include the upper atmosphere environments of Earth, Mars, and other planets; coupling of these environments to lower altitudes and to solar variability; geomagnetic storm effects on satellite drag variability; the vertical propagation of tides and planetary waves in planetary atmospheres, and their electrodynamic and chemical effects; utilization of accelerometer, satellite drag, and satellite remote sensing data to elucidate atmospheric variability, and to test, validate and develop upper atmosphere models. He also conducts numerical simulations of the above phenomena.

Jeffrey Thayer

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
Research Professor • Professor Emeritus • Director of SWx-TREC

Jeffrey Walters

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Jenny Frankel-Reed

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Jeremy Peña

Job Titles:
  • Area Director, Student
  • Area Director, Student Support and Advising Services

Jess Hendricks

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jessica Darby

Job Titles:
  • Student Assistant

Jessica Kaminsky

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Joanie Wiesman

Job Titles:
  • BioServe Research Manager / BioServe Space Technologies

John Evans

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Jack Rominger Faculty Fellow Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum

John Farnsworth

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

John Hauser

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor - Courtesy Appointment in AES

John Mah

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

John Wanberg

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Jorge "Koki" Chau

Job Titles:
  • Professor Adjunct

Joseph Dupris

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor at CU Boulder
Joseph Dupris, a visiting assistant professor at CU Boulder, is a linguist and "maqlaqsyals" user who helped integrate the Modoc language into the short film This Is Their Land. It was recently screened on campus, and a 150th anniversary remembrance is set to be held in Tulelake, California.

K.C. Park

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Kaitlin Litchfield

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Karl G. Linden

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
Associate Director | Mortenson Professor of Sustainable Development

Kat Demaree

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Faculty and Staff

Kate Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Student

Kathryn Gray

Job Titles:
  • Student

Kathryn Wingate

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Katrina Dipietrantonio

Job Titles:
  • Events Coordinator

Katya Arquilla

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kayla Vandegrift

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Suite Manager

Keith Gremban

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Kenneth Jansen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Denver Business Challenge Endowed Professorship Director of AMReC

Khosro Ghobadi-Far

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kimberly Pugel

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Science and Technology Policy

Kira Schulz

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor First Year Students

Kristin Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator

Kristine Larson

Job Titles:
  • National Academy Member

Kurt Maute

Job Titles:
  • Professor Palmer Engineering Chair Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Lakshmi Kantha

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Laura Clayton

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Research Finance and Operations Senior Manager

Laura Hamrick

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Laura MacDonald - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Lauren Cole - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Chairman
  • Manager of Operations
Manager of Operations and Assistant to the Chair: Lauren Cole 303-735-0855 Chair: Professor Hanspeter Schaub 303-492-8183

Louis Stodieck

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
Research Professor • Chief Scientist, BioServe Space Technologies

Lucy Pao

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Courtesy Appointment in

Luis Andrés

Job Titles:
  • Lead Economist, the World Bank

Luis Munoz

Job Titles:
  • Student

Luis Zea

Job Titles:
  • Professor Adjunct

Lydia Pinkham


Maciej Walczak

Job Titles:
  • CU Boulder Associate Professor of Chemistry, Won a $2 Million NIH Grant to Investigate How Certain Sugars Modify a Brain Protein Associated With Neurodegeneration. Read
Maciej Walczak, CU Boulder associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.

Mahmoud Hussein

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Manjeet Raj Pandey

Job Titles:
  • Student

Marcus Holzinger

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Maryam Sanaei

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Maryam Shakiba

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Massimo Ruzzene

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Courtesy Appointment in

Mathias Mortenson

Job Titles:
  • Principal Architect, HMM Architects

Matt Rhode

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Maureen Craig

Job Titles:
  • Lead

Melissa Flores

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Coordinator

Melissa Piper

Job Titles:
  • Curriculum Manager

Melvin Rafi

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Michael McGrath

Job Titles:
  • Professor Adjunct LASP

Morgan Bays


Morteza Lahijanian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Nadir Shakir

Job Titles:
  • Student

Nancy Wright

Job Titles:
  • Financial Manager
  • Member of the Faculty and Staff

Nat Banda

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor ( Last Names H - N, Sk - T )

Natasha Bosanac

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Nate Coyle

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Machine Shop and Fabrication Instructional Lab Coordinator

Nick Valcourt

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Nicole Simmons

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Manager

Nikolaus Correll

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor - Courtesy Appointment in AES

Nisar Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Noah Gershon

Job Titles:
  • Student

Paul Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Penina Axelrad

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Joseph T. Negler Professor

Peter Hamlington

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor - Courtesy Appointment in Smead Aerospace

Prakriti Sardana

Job Titles:
  • Student

Pranav Chintalapati

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Engineering

R. Steven Nerem

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director of CCAR

Rebecca Kallemeyn

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager of Academic Technology Initiatives, Consulting and Training

Rebecca Ventura

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Global Engineering

Renee Conway

Job Titles:
  • CCAR Finance Manager

Rich Content

Job Titles:
  • Editor Accessibility Checklist

Rita Klees

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Outreach Scholar - in - Residence Professor of Engineering Practice

Robert Culp

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Robert Leben

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor Emeritus / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Robert Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Robyn Macdonald

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Sam Miller

Job Titles:
  • Building Manager

Sanghamitra Neogi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Sarah Goodroad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Faculty and Staff
  • Program Coordinator

Sarah Melssen

Job Titles:
  • CCAR Research Manager / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Sean Peters

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Shaye Palagi

Job Titles:
  • Civil Systems Engineering for Developing Communities

Shelby Buckley

Job Titles:
  • Student

Stefanie Countryman

Job Titles:
  • Director

Sydney Eiss

Job Titles:
  • Student

Tesia Golec

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Engineering

Timothy K. Minton

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )
  • Professor

Tobias Niederwieser

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Tom Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Industry & Alumni Relations Manager

Tomoko Matsuo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Torin Clark

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Trudy Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Professor Associate Chair for Experiential Learning

Ursula Grunwald

Job Titles:
  • Student

Vanessa Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Student

Webster Cash

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Courtesy Appointment in

Wesam Beitelmal

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management

Whitney Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Architectural Engineering

William Emery

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Xinlin Li

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Xinzhao Chu

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Zachary Sunberg

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles ( RECUV )

Zia Mehrabi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
Associate Director | Assistant Professor | Environmental Studies

Zoltan Sternovsky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Zoya Popovic

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor - Courtesy Appointment in Smead Aerospace National Academy Member