People

Research development staff provide services including exploring potential funding opportunities, supporting application development, developing data management plans, assisting with application submission and providing research development workshops and trainings. Connect with the CLA research team at claresearch@umn.edu.

Name	Contact
Michael Beckstrand Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Associate	mjbeckst@umn.edu
Alexandra K. Brown Arts and Humanities Research Development Coordinator	akbrown@umn.edu
Philip Burton Neuroimaging Research Assistant	burto108@umn.edu
Jennifer Coffman Administrative Project Coordinator / Research Specialist	jcoffman@umn.edu
Christy Dickinson Grant Management Coordinator	dicki219@umn.edu
David Hahn Research Data Systems Engineer	hahnx117@umn.edu
Abbey Hammell Survey Methodologist and Project Designer	hammell@umn.edu
Alicia Hofelich Mohr Research Support Coordinator	hofelich@umn.edu
Judy Kallestad System Engineer	kalle001@umn.edu
Thomas Lindsay Director for Advancing Research	lindsayt@umn.edu
Ann Meier Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs	meierann@umn.edu
Pernu Menheer Research Project Programmer	pernu@umn.edu
David Olsen Research Systems Engineer	dolsen@umn.edu
Taylor Olson Tier 2 Support Coordinator	olsont@umn.edu
Chris Opsal Social Sciences Research Development Coordinator	opsal001@umn.edu
Sam Porter Research Project Specialist	port0228@umn.edu
Chris Scherr System Engineer, Computing and Engineering Team	cbs@umn.edu
Kevin Schmit Lab Manager	kschmit@umn.edu
Joel Turbes Research Computing Coordinator	jrturbes@umn.edu
Robert Wozniak Infrastructure Coordinator	wozniak@umn.edu
Eric Wunderlin System Engineer	wunde005@umn.edu