GARCEA LAB - Key Persons


Abbie Morton


Abi Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Aisha Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Tech Applications

Alexandra Holland

Alexandra got her BS in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and her PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests span genetic engineering of bacteria for environmental detoxification (main focus of her PhD work), algal bioreactor designs, developing models to describe (and optimize) algal growth, as well as immunofluorescence in eukaryotic cells. Alexandra likes to spend time in France with her family, hiking in Boulder and cooking.

Alexandra Le Moine

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Alireza Doostan

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

Allie Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • CU Boulder Researchers

Amber Rauch

Amber graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.S. in Biochemistry. She has a wide range of experience in both industry and academia spanning over 5 years. Amber is now working on projects related to developing thermostable, single-dose vaccines for a variety of viruses. She enjoys playing with her Samoyed/husky mix Razor.

America Palacios

Job Titles:
  • Financial Services Manager

Andrew Borham

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Ann Ruether

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Ann Schmiesing

Job Titles:
  • Executive Sponsor, Executive Vice Provost for Academic Resource Management, Professor of German
  • Member of Committee
  • Office of the Provost

Armando Pares

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education / Ex Officio

Bobby Hodgkinson

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Brian Argrow

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair Director of IRISS National Academy Member
  • Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles ( RECUV )

Buff Techs Appointments


Carlos Felippa

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

Carrie Ngai

Job Titles:
  • Smead Program Senior Coordinator

Catherine Shea

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff, Office of the Chancellor
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Chris Braider

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Professor, French and Italian / College of Arts & Sciences

Chris Muldrow

Job Titles:
  • Smead Director

Christoffer Heckman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor - Courtesy Appointment in AES

Christopher Koehler

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor

Christopher Williams

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

Chuen-Yen Chow

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Conor Canaday

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Dale Lawrence

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

Daniel Kubitschek

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Daniel Moorer

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

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

David Meens

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Deb Renshaw

Job Titles:
  • Senior Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Delores Knipp

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

Dennis Akos

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research

Dirk Grunwald

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of Applied Computer Science, Computer Science / College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Donna Caccamise

Job Titles:
  • Assoc. Dir. / Assoc. Research Professor

Donna Mejia

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Dance, Theatre and Dance
  • Member of Committee

Dyonne Bergeron

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Inclusion and Student Achievement
  • Member of Committee

Emily CoBabe-Ammann

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategic Projects

Emma Rinzler

Job Titles:
  • Student / Leeds School of Business

Eric Frew

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Chair for Department Affairs
  • Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles ( RECUV )

Erik Knudsen

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

Erika Langsfeld

Erika has been involved in the diagnosis and study of small DNA virus infection, particularly HPV, since 2004. Erika earned a BSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences from the University of New Mexico and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Life Sciences with a focus on virology from Northwestern University. After a stint in medical writing, Erika decided she could not stay away from the bench! She now integrates her experience in clinical science to enrich her basic science work on the mechanisms of polyomavirus replication. Erika enjoys cooking, gaming, hiking with her family and cuddling with her cats.

Evan Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Director, Mortenson Center

Frances Draper

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Francisco López Jiménez

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

Geoffrey Rubinstein

Job Titles:
  • Director of Online Learning / Division of Continuing Education

Gerald Yoho

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Fabrication and Test Engineer

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 Hubert

Hannah Hubert (hugh-bear) is a PRA in the Garcea lab and is working on the Gates Project to make specific vaccines more thermostable and multivalent. Hannah is originally from Tennessee, Go Vols, and received her bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University. She recently graduated with her Master's from Colorado State University prior to joining the lab. A fun fact about her is that she is a dual citizen of the US and Netherlands and enjoys hiking with her dog Harper.

Hanspeter Schaub

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

Harsha Gangadharbatla

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

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

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 Maslanik

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

James Nabity

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jay McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Jean Koster

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Jeff Cox

Job Titles:
  • Professor of English and Humanities

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

Jeremy Peña

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

Jeremy Smith

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Musicology / College of Music

Joanie Wiesman

Job Titles:
  • BioServe Research Manager / BioServe Space Technologies

John Evans

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • 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

Jon Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Communications Officer, Strategic Relations and Communications

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

Karen Gebhardt

Job Titles:
  • Director of Online Economics Programs, Economics / College of Arts & Sciences

Karen Ramirez

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Teaching Professor, CU Dialogues Program Director, CU Engage, School of Education, MASP Assistant Director

Katherine Eggert

Job Titles:
  • Office of the Provost

Katherine Erwin

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources

Kathryn Wingate

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Katya Arquilla

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kayla Vandegrift

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Suite Manager

Keith Gremban

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

Kelly Fox - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Kenneth Jansen

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

Khosro Ghobadi-Far

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kimberly Erickson

Kim received her BS in Chemistry and Biology from Baker University and her PhD in Molecular Virology from Purdue University. Her research initially as a postdoc in the Garcea lab used electron tomography and molecular genetics to examine the morphology of polyomaviruses during infection. Kim's current role is to provide administrative support and technical input for ongoing projects. Kim enjoys hanging out with her family and two dogs, trail running, snowboarding, and vegetable gardening in her spare time.

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

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

Lonni Pearce

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor / Assoc. Director for First - Year Writing, Program for Writing and Rhetoric / College of Arts & Sciences

Louis Stodieck

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

Lucy Pao

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Courtesy Appointment in

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 )

Marcus Holzinger

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Mary Kraus

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Education

Maryam Shakiba

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

Massimo Ruzzene

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Courtesy Appointment in

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

Michael Theodore

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Composition, Music
  • Member of Committee

Mike Womack

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Co - Chair, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Art & Art History

Morgan Bays


Morteza Lahijanian

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

Nat Banda

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

Natasha Bosanac

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Nate Bindel

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Nate Coyle

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

Nicole Simmons

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Manager

Nikolaus Correll

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor - Courtesy Appointment in AES

Nisar Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Orrie Gartner - COO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations

Patrick Greaney

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor of German and Humanities, Chair of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Penina Axelrad

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Joseph T. Negler Professor

Peter Hamlington

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

Quentin McAndrew

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

R. Steven Nerem

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director of CCAR

Rebecca Kallemeyn

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

Renee Conway

Job Titles:
  • CCAR Finance Manager

Rich Content

Job Titles:
  • Editor Accessibility Checklist

Richelle Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Campus Landscape Architect

Robert Culp

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Robert Erickson

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Interim Chair of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering / College of Engineering and Applied Science

Robert Garcea

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
Bob integrates medicine, structural biology, and virology in his study of small DNA viruses. Bob received an A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard College, an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, and served his pediatric residency at Stanford. From an early point in his career, he was immersed in both medicine and research, basic studies of virus assembly paralleled his clinical career and interest in developing innovative vaccines. He completed a research fellowship in Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, a fellowship in Pediatric Oncology at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and subsequently was an Assistant then Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Bob came to the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1993 as Professor of Pediatrics and served as Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation at Denver Children's Hospital from 1993 to 2003. Since 2008 he has been a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology and a member of the BioFrontiers Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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

Robert McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Libraries and Senior Vice Provost for Online Education
  • Working Group Lead / Dean of University Libraries

Robyn Macdonald

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

Ruth Moore

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Sam Miller

Job Titles:
  • Building Manager

Sandra Firmin

Job Titles:
  • CU Art Museum Director
  • Member of Committee

Sanghamitra Neogi

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

Sara Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education
  • Dean and Vice Provost, Continuing Education / Ex Officio

Sarah Melssen

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

Scott Adler

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Scott Battle

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Sean Peters

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Stacy Forsyth

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Stefanie Countryman

Job Titles:
  • Director

Susan Szpyrka

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Suzanne Classen

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Ted Rockwell

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

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
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Torin Clark

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Tracy Jennings

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Trudy Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Professor Associate Chair for Experiential Learning

Webster Cash

Job Titles:
  • Professor - Courtesy Appointment in

William Emery

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Xinlin Li

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Xinzhao Chu

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Yumi Roth

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Co - Chair, Associate Professor of Sculpture, Art & Art History

Zachary Sunberg

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

Zoltan Sternovsky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Zoya Popovic

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