CHANGE - Key Persons


Adam Janke

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Adina Howe

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Alexander Hristov

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Dairy Nutrition

Alexis Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Director, Science Bound

Andrew Vanloocke


Armen Kemanian


Brian Dougherty

Job Titles:
  • Iowa State University / Field Specialist at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach / Email

C. Claire Hinrichs

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Rural Sociology

C. Clare Hinrichs


Chris Morris

Job Titles:
  • Iowa State University / Graduate Research Assistant, Sociology / Email

Christine Costello

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Dana Schweitzer

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director
  • Deputy Director for Regenerative Agriculture at the ISU Bioeconomy Institute.

Daniel Ciolkosz


David Swenson

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Denise Coberley

Job Titles:
  • Iowa State University

Dr. J. Gordon Arbuckle

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Sociology

Emily Heaton

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Crop Sciences
Affiliations University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor, Crop Sciences Extension Biomass Crop Specialist

Frank Montabon

Job Titles:
  • Iowa State University / Professor of Supply Chain Management / Email

H.A. Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Sustainable Agriculture

Heather Karsten


Hilal Ezgi Toraman

Job Titles:
  • Penn State University, Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering / Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Jacqueline Comito

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Jarad Niemi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Statistics

Jim Jordahl

Job Titles:
  • Program Analyst

John Tyndall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Kathleen Hill


Kevin Kimle

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Economics

Lara Fowler


Lisa Schulte Moore

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of the Bioeconomy Institute

Luis Damiano


Mark Gagnon


Mark Mba-Wright

Job Titles:
  • C - CHANGE Coupled Systems Lead / Iowa State University / Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering / Email

Marshall McDaniel

Job Titles:
  • C - CHANGE Coupled Systems Lead / Iowa State University / Assistant Professor of Agronomy / Email

Matthew Helmers

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Matthew Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Education

Matthew Liebman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Agronomy

Matthew Nowatzke

Job Titles:
  • Iowa State University / Graduate Research Assistant, Agronomy / Email

Meaghan Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Iowa State University / Field Specialist at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach / Email

Michael Thompson


Omar de Kok-Mercado

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator, STRIPS

Robert Brown


Rudi Roeslein

Affiliations Roeslein Alternative Energy Founder and CEO

Saurabh Bansal


Suraj Upadhaya

Job Titles:
  • Iowa State University / Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural Resource Ecology and Management / Email
Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Thomas Schwartz - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Sales Manager
  • Vice President of Marketing

Tom Richard

Job Titles:
  • Director, Institute of Energy & Environment

Vikram Koundinya


Zach Simpson

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

Zhiyou Wen