Our Team
Leadership & Staff
Affiliated Scientists
Post-Doctoral Scholars, Students & Staff
Our Director
Matthew Ginzel
Dr. Ginzel is a forest entomologist with expertise in chemical ecology; and he combines these areas of expertise to develop methods for reducing the impact of native and exotic insect pests of hardwoods.
Leadership and Staff
Lenny Farlee
Sustaining hardwood Extension specialist
Wendy Mayer
Communications coordinator
Phil Woolery
Engagement specialist
Affiliated Scientists
Vikram Chhatre
USDA Forest Service, research geneticist
Anna Conrad
USDA Forest Service, research plant pathologist
John Couture
Plant-Insect chemical ecology
Ellen Crocker
University of Kentucky | Forest health Extension
Aziz Ebrahimi
University of Georgia | Forest Genetics, Genomics, Tree Breeding
Songlin Fei
Measurements & quantitative analysis
Morgan Furze
Plant physiology
Rado Gazo
Wood processing
Ayman Habib
College of Engineering
Brady Hardiman
Urban ecology
Eva Haviarova
Wood products engineering
Joseph Hupy
School of Aviation and Transportation Technology
Douglass Jacobs
Forest biology
Michael Jenkins
Forest ecology
Insu Jo
Forest Ecology
Shaneka Lawson
USDA Forest Service, research plant physiologist
Jingjing Liang
Quantitative forest ecology
Carolyn Pike
USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region — State, Private and Tribal Forestry
Michael Saunders
Silviculture/Fire ecology
Guofan Shao
Forest measurement and assessment/GIS
Song Zhang
College of Engineering
Mo Zhou
Forest economics and management
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Mojtaba Zamani Faradonbeh
Behrokh Nazeri
Bina Thapa
Austin Thomas
Graduate Students
Erin Bell
PhD
Olivia Bigham
PhD
Aishwarya Chandrasekaran
PhD
Kelly French
PhD
Scott Gula
PhD
Lauren Harmon
MS
Suzanne Hooker
MS
Yunmei Huang
PhD
Ellie Joll
PhD
Austin Marshall
MS
Honu Pata
MS
Matt Salima
MS
Mikaela Scherzinger
MS
Helen Shanefield
MS
Elizabeth Siminitus
MS
Tawn Speetjens
PhD
Dylan Tridle
MS
Wang Xiang
PhD
Zhiheng Yin
PhD
Technical Staff
Brian Beheler
Senior farm operations administrator
Don Carlson
Forester
Clayton Emerson
Assistant property manager
Rae Garrett
Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment Field Coordinator
Caleb Kell
Operational tree breeder
Ron Rathfon
Extension forester
Rhonda Taylor
Research associate
James Warren
USDA Forest Service