SCIENCE - Key Persons


Adaku Okorie

Job Titles:
  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Ahmad Allulu

Job Titles:
  • Systems Engineer

Alissa Nolan

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Advisor

Ambrosio C Torres

Job Titles:
  • Academic Computing Specialist for the Sciences

Amit James

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  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Amy Kornberg

Job Titles:
  • Department Assistant

Andrea Leung

Job Titles:
  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Andrew F Melford

Job Titles:
  • Academic Payroll / Personnel Specialist

Andrew Power


Angela Brooks

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  • Professor

Anna Maria Payne

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  • Research Analyst

Anne R. Kapuscinski

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  • Professor of Environmental Studies

Ashley Vizurraga

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  • IMS Assistant Director

Belinda Au

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  • Research Accountant

Ben Fisher

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  • Academic Advisor

Beth Ann Magyar

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  • Internship Coordinator

Brandon Day

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  • Graduate Program Coordinator / Advisor

Branwyn Stewart Wagman

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  • Senior Director of Development
  • Senior Director of Philanthropy / Dean

Brian Dreyer

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  • Specialist IV

Brooke Eichenlaub


Bruce A Schumm

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  • Distinguished Professor

Bryan Gaensler

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  • Dean
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Dean of Physical & Biological Sciences / Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Camille R Martinez

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  • Business Service Assistant

Carey Cooper Odden

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Accounting
  • Research Accounting

Caroline L Niblett

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  • Graduate Program Adviser

Carrie Anne Häber

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  • Assistant Dean of Planning & Academic Programs

Catherine Hsu

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  • Director of Development, Coastal Initiatives
  • Director of Development, Coastal Initiatives ( 831 - 459 - 1614 )

Chris Parker

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  • Manager

Christine Teresa Megariotis

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  • Adviser

Colt J Hangen

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  • Communication Program Manager

Constance M Rockosi

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  • Professor / Astronomer

Daniel P Costa

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  • Director Institute of Marine

Dave Benet

Job Titles:
  • Diving Safety Officer

David Morrell

Job Titles:
  • Real Estate Expert
Dean's Council member since October 2014 A UC Santa Cruz alumnus (2000, Literature, Kresge College), David is a real estate agent serving Santa Cruz County from Scotts Valley along the coast through La Selva Beach. He served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Long Marine Lab at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. For a list of department leadership and program directors, visit our faculty and researchers page. For a list of our division and department staff, visit our administrative staff director page.

Deana N Tanguay

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Center for Reimagining Leadership

Debbie Zenker

Job Titles:
  • Research Accounting Assistant Manager

Deena Pais

Job Titles:
  • Department Manager

Derek DeMarco

Job Titles:
  • Department Manager

Doug Niven

Job Titles:
  • Senior Systems Engineer

Dr. Carmen Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Director, Student Success

Dr. Rita S. Mehta

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  • Professor

Draven Hawk

Job Titles:
  • ACE Program Manager

Drew Garland

Job Titles:
  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Dylan Charles Green

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Safety, Security, and Space Administrator

Elmira Bachinsky

Job Titles:
  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Eric Palkovacs

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  • Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Eric Shell

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  • Senior Systems Engineer

Erika Check Hayden

Job Titles:
  • Director

Ethan Marquez

Job Titles:
  • Stockroom Storekeeper

Eva Patlak Chudnow

Job Titles:
  • Department Assistant

Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin is a physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur. Born, raised, and educated in Italy, he immigrated to the US in 1968. He is credited with designing the world's first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, and he went on to invent dozens of other integrated circuits. Before that, in 1968 while working at Fairchild Semiconductor, he created a technology that made possible dynamic memories, non-volatile memories, image sensors, and the microprocessor. Faggin started several successful high-tech companies (Zilog, Cygnet Technologies, and Synaptics) that introduced significant products and technologies, including the touchpad and touchscreen that revolutionized the way we communicate with our personal devices. Among the honors Faggin has received are the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama and the 2014 Enrico Fermi Prize. Through the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, Faggin now supports research programs at US universities and research institutes to advance the understanding of consciousness through theoretical and experimental research.

Gina Lynn Hernan

Job Titles:
  • Department Graduate Coordinator

Glenn L Millhauser

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry & Biochemistry ( CHEM )

Guadalupe Figueroa

Job Titles:
  • Analyst

Hart Hancock

Job Titles:
  • Computing Director, Physical and Biological Sciences
  • ITS & Research Computing

India Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Research Accountant

J Ford

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  • Systems Engineer

Jade Loftus

Job Titles:
  • Earth and Planetary Science Program Coordinator

Jason Nielsen

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  • Professor / SCIPP Director

Jennifer M Fish

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  • Graduate Programs Coordinator / Advisor

Jenny Coleman

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  • Facilities Analyst

Jeremy Parker

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  • Coordinator

Jianna DeHoyos

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  • Specialist

Jie Qing

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Professor

Jody E Bruner

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Jonathan J Fortney

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Professor

Joy Ishii

Job Titles:
  • Curriculum Analyst

Judy Straub

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Julie Gentle

Job Titles:
  • Development Assistant
  • Development Assistant, ( 831 - 459 - 2192 )

Karen M. Ottemann

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair

Kathryn Baldwin

Job Titles:
  • Department Manager

Katie Cramton

Job Titles:
  • Department Administrative Assistant

Katie Warren

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  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Kevin D. Keedy

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  • Youth Programs Director

Kitty Mooney

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  • Divisional Resources Analyst

Kiyana Kemayo

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  • Academic Payroll / Personnel Coordinator

Kristen Tibbitts Marinovic

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  • Trustee of the UCSC Foundation Board

Kylie Rose Gilpin


Lara E. Pacheco

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  • Financial Services Analyst

Laura Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Academic Personnel Coordinator

Lauren Donnelly-Crocker

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director

Leah Carver

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources / Financial Analyst

Leah N Taylor


Leanna M Gervais

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Program Manager and Lead Adviser

Lindsay E. Lauver

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  • Associate Director, Creating Equity in STEAM ( CrEST )

Lisa Stipanovich

Job Titles:
  • Department Manager

Lori Etow

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  • Instructional Lab Manager

Lucy Suarez

Job Titles:
  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Margaret Mattson

Job Titles:
  • Divisional Resources Analyst

Margaret Stanfield

Job Titles:
  • Academic Personnel Analyst

Margaret Wuerth

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Finance and Administration

Mariah Peralta

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Advisor

Marla Hesselink

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  • Undergraduate Advisor

Martin Weissman

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  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean of Academic Planning / Professor of Mathematics

Mary Grace Lorraine Kistler-Fair

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  • Assistant
  • Department Manager

Maryanne Campbell

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  • Communications Specialist

Matt Bernd

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  • Director of Regional Philanthropy, Southern California ( 323 - 630 - 1599 )

Matthew E. Clapham

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Chair

Matthew Shetrone

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  • Deputy Director

Maya Mireles Rios

Job Titles:
  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Meg Lehr

Job Titles:
  • Divisional Accounting
  • Divisional Resources Manager

Michael Brumm

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  • Department Assistant

Miguel Orozco

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  • Mathematics & Computer Science Learning Skills Advisor

Nancy Park

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  • Associate Director of Philanthropic Development

Natasha Basey Pedroza

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  • Chief Development Officer, UC Observatories
  • Director of Development, UC Observatories / Lick Observatory ( 831 - 459 - 3455 )

Nathaniel Kenneth Moore

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  • Planned Maintenance Manager

Nicholas Inabnit

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  • Systems Engineer

Nicolas Alan Yarnes

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  • Engineer Tech IV

Nicole Hack

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  • Biology Teaching Laboratory and Facilities Support Technician

Nicolle J. Laird

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  • Assistant Dean of Planning & Personnel

Penny Dawn Crowe

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  • Lick Observatory Administrative Assistant

Peter Cartwright

Job Titles:
  • Energy Executive

Peter J Macht

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  • Aquarium Curator

Peter Phan

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  • Exam Coordinator

Phoebe Royer

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  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Polly Beattie

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  • Research Accountant

Rachael Spencer

Job Titles:
  • Council Chair & Cabrillo College Trustee

Rachana Baskar

Job Titles:
  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Ramon W Berger

Job Titles:
  • Senior Systems Manager

Randolph Skrovan

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  • Manager

Raphael M. Kudela

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair and Distinguished Professor

Rebecca Bard

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  • IMS AHR Administrative Officer

Rebecca Gartner

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  • Academic HR Analyst

Rebekah Jamison

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  • Research Accountant

Renee Wall

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Communications
  • Assistant Director, PBSci Communications
  • Communications & Marketing

Rexton Lynn

Job Titles:
  • Lead Adviser & Chemistry Department Undergraduate Adviser
  • Undergraduate Program Coordinator / Lead Advisor

Rick Wood

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  • Thimann Receiving Manager

Robert W Antrobus

Job Titles:
  • Cabinet Maker Specialist / Fabricator / Welder

Robert W Irion

Job Titles:
  • Director Emeritus

Russell Ivanhoe

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  • Entrepreneur & Cardiologist

Ryan Sirles

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  • Digital Communications Specialist

Sarah Eminhizer

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  • Director of Programs and Workforce Development, Climate Resilience and Coastal Science and Policy

Sarah Thorne

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  • Assistant Director, Fisheries Collaborative Program

Sascha Zepeda

Job Titles:
  • Biology & Mathematics
  • Mathematics & Physics Learning Skills Advisor

Scott Stalnaker

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Dean Paul Koch
  • Executive Assistant to the Dean

Sobhag Jung Rana

Job Titles:
  • Research Accountant

Stefano Profumo

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  • Professor

Stephanie C Zakarian

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  • Department Manager

Steve Mandel

Job Titles:
  • Entrepreneur, Photographer, & Philanthropist
A long-term donor and supporter of campus and former employee in the early 1980s (as an ESL instructor, Director of the Institute for Computer Science, and a University Extension program director), Steve has been expressing enthusiasm in recent years for the Seymour Center, for climate and ocean science, and for our astronomy program, which he has supported since 2015 through the annual Mandel Lecture in Astronomy (held at the Rio Theatre) and as mentor in the Osterbrock Leadership Program for astronomy and astrophysics grad students and postdocs. Steve founded Mandel Communications, which readies business professionals for the kinds of game-changing conversations and presentations that move business forward, "for the moments when what you say and how you say it can make all the difference." For more than 25 years, Steve has been in the business of building moment-of-truth readiness, providing performance-based consulting and training to companies around the globe. Students in the Osterbrock Leadership Program have benefitted from the communications workshop he offers them every year. Steve is an accomplished astrophotographer and established a robotic observatory in the mountains of New Mexico where he imaged previously unseen structures called high-galactic latitude dust clouds. Steve was the co-author on papers in the Astrophysics Journal and was awarded the prestigious Chambliss Award for his work by the American Astronomical Society. He is also an award-winning wildlife photographer, with his work juried into the Smithsonian Natural History Museum for public display. His photos and articles have appeared in NASA publications, Smithsonian Books, Sky and Telescope Magazine, Forbes, the New York Times, and other domestic and international publications. In 2007 Steve established the Lions of Gir Foundation, a nonprofit, to address the needs of the critically endangered Asiatic Lions of the Gir Forest in India. The Foundation now operates two additional programs Oceans360 (providing underwater 3D VR videos for ocean conservation education) and OceansMicro (live-streaming life in a drop of seawater to students in biology classrooms.)

Susanna Honig

Job Titles:
  • ACE Program Director

Svitlana Ravnyago


Ted Buchwald


Teel Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Department Manager

Terrie M Williams

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  • Professor

Tesla E. Jeltema

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  • Professor

Thelma Perez

Job Titles:
  • ACE Program Coordinator

Tracy Grace Tirrell

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  • Academic Human Resources Analyst

Travis Wiggans

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  • Department Manager

Vivan Bee Vadakan

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  • Department Manager

Vivian Larkins

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  • Research Accountant

William Sullivan

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  • Professor

Yaman Inamdar

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  • Student Co - Leader & Peer Mentor

Yuli Ortega

Job Titles:
  • Diversity Program Director