RESEARCH - Key Persons


Alison Salie

Job Titles:
  • Senior Financial Officer, Department of Biology, SOS

Amanda Tat

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Officer, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, VPR

Amy Cocchiarella

Job Titles:
  • Reporting and Data Analyst

Ann Skoczenski

Job Titles:
  • Director of Postdoctoral Services

Anne E. White

Job Titles:
  • Associate Provost and Associate VP for Research Administration

Benn Egan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Sponsored Research Officer, Sloan

Boleslaw Wyslouch

Job Titles:
  • Director

Carl Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Director

Carol Wood

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Administration Support, VPR
  • Director of Research Administration Systems and Support

Carole Trainor

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Administration Support and Education Specialist

Caroline Perry

Job Titles:
  • Communications Advisor

Catherine Gyewu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Financial Officer, Department of Chemical Engineering, SOE

Cathy Borgesen


Chris Durham

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of HR / Payroll, VPF

Christina Lo

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategic Sourcing and Contracts, VPF

Colleen Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Provost for Research Administration
  • Assistant Provost for Research Administration, VPR

Corey Schenck

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Daniela Rus

Job Titles:
  • Director

Danielle Khoury

Job Titles:
  • Controller, VPF

David Babson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Climate Grand Challenges

David Sears

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director JPAL, SHASS

Dennis Whyte

Job Titles:
  • Director

Dianne Bickford

Job Titles:
  • Senior Financial Officer, Department of Biological Engineering, SOE

Dominique Fields

Job Titles:
  • Integrity and Compliance Administrator

Doreen Morris

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Provost, Office of the Provost

Eamon Kearns

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director, Emerging Solutions, IS & T

Eileen Ng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, Schwarzman College of Computing ( SCC )

Elizabeth Lennox

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, School of Engineering ( SOE )

Emma C Boettcher

Job Titles:
  • Web Projects and Content Specialist

Geoffrey Beach

Job Titles:
  • Director

Gilbert Cordova

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Officer, MIT Quest for Intelligence, SCC

Greg Moffatt

Job Titles:
  • Chief Research Compliance Officer

Heather Finney Curran

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Director, Financial Planning and Operations, Sloan School

Heather Williams

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, School of Science

Ian Cariolo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Administration Support and Education Specialist

Irina Cyr

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director for Research Administration Systems

Jack Defandorf

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Officer, MIT Kavli Institute, SOS

Jacquin Niles

Job Titles:
  • Director

Janet Johnston

Job Titles:
  • Senior Export Control Officer

Jeannette Gerzon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant for Talent Management

Jeff Sullivan


Jennifer Lu

Job Titles:
  • Programmer Analyst

Jesus del Alamo

Job Titles:
  • Director

Joe O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

John Donahue

Job Titles:
  • Director of Cost Analysis
  • Director of Cost Analysis, VPR

John Joannopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Director

John Larkin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Financial Operations, Processes and Compliance, VPF

Joseph Foley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Cost Analyst

Joshua Freedman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director for Finance and Administration, ISN, VPR

Kalyana Pingali

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Research Development

Karen Shirer

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff
  • Chief of Staff, VPR

Kariuki Thande

Job Titles:
  • Senior Financial Officer, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SOE

Kate Donovan

Job Titles:
  • Export Control Officer

Kate Miller

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Institutional Compliance, RMCS

Kate Sokol

Job Titles:
  • Reporting and Data Analyst

Kathleen McGrath

Job Titles:
  • Director of Financial Operations, VPF

Katie Hammer

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Finance

Ken Goldsmith

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, School of Architecture and Planning ( SAP )

Kenneth H Lloyd

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources and Administration

Kerry Seligman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Integrity and Compliance

Kim Mann

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Research Administration Support

Kimberly Croft

Job Titles:
  • Director of Cost Analysis

Li-Huei Tsai

Job Titles:
  • Director

Lisa C. Ghaffari

Job Titles:
  • Policy and Education Specialist

Lisa Cavallaro

Job Titles:
  • Compliance Coordinator

Long Tran

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Controller, VPF

Lori Spindler-Brooks


Lynn Hinds

Job Titles:
  • Manager for Finance and Research Administration

Marc Baldo

Job Titles:
  • Director / Research Laboratory for Electronics

Marc Jones

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ( SHASS )

Maria T. Zuber - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
  • Vice President for Research
Maria Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research at MIT, where she is responsible for research administration and policy. She oversees MIT Lincoln Laboratory and more than a dozen interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers, including the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the MIT Energy and Environmental Solutions Initiatives, the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Haystack Observatory, and MIT.nano. She leads MIT's Climate Action Plan. Vice President Zuber is also responsible for intellectual property and research integrity and compliance, as well as research relationships with the federal government. Zuber's research bridges planetary geophysics and the technology of space-based laser and radio systems. Since 1990, she has held leadership roles associated with scientific experiments or instrumentation on ten NASA missions, most notably serving as Principal Investigator of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Zuber holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an Sc.M. and Ph.D. from Brown. She has won numerous awards including the MIT James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, the highest honor the MIT faculty bestows to one of its own. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and is a fellow for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society, and the American Geophysical Union. In 2019, she was awarded the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. Vice President Zuber is the first woman to lead a science department at MIT and the first to lead a NASA planetary mission. In 2004, she served on the Presidential Commission on the Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy. In 2002 Discover magazine named her one of the 50 most important women in science and, in 2008, she was named to the USNews/Harvard Kennedy School List of America's Best Leaders. In 2013, President Obama appointed her to the National Science Board, and in 2018 she was reappointed by President Trump. She served as Board Chair from 2016-2018. In 2021, President Biden appointed Zuber to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).​ Vice President Zuber's Executive Assistant is Paul Schierenbeck. He can be reached at schieren@mit.edu.

Mary Ellen Sinkus

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Officer, SOE

Mary Markel Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director for Administration

Melissa Sheehan

Job Titles:
  • Manager for Fiscal Administration, Research Laboratory of Electronics, VPR

Michael Moody

Job Titles:
  • Institute Auditor, Audit Division

Michelle Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Audit Services Manager, Audit Division

Nick Hambridge

Job Titles:
  • Institute Risk Officer, Risk Management & Compliance Services

Olu Brown

Job Titles:
  • Director of Platform Engagement, IS & T

Pam Buckley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director, Practice and Process Improvement, VPF

Pat White

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Paul Schierenbeck

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Pedro Viejo

Job Titles:
  • Business Analyst

Peggy Bryan

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Finance and Administration, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, SAP

Rachel Arons

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Accounts Receivable and Cashier Services, VPF

Robert Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Director

Robert Desimone

Job Titles:
  • Director

Robert Simcoe - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Director

Ronald Hasseltine

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Provost for Research Administration
  • Assistant Provost for Research Administration, VPR

Rosemary Hanlon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Administration Support and Education Specialist

Rupinder Grewal


Sabari Nair

Job Titles:
  • Systems Architect

Sarah Brady

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Finance, SOS

Saumya Khanduja

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Institutional Risk Services, RMCS

Susan Dahill

Job Titles:
  • Business Analyst

Susan Gomes

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Development

Suzanne Pettit

Job Titles:
  • Communications and Special Projects Officer

Tarnjit Singh

Job Titles:
  • Development Coordinator

Thomas M Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Manager

Tom Kiley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor

Tyler Jacks

Job Titles:
  • Director

Vivian Holmes

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Administration Services