Our Team
Leadership & Staff
Project Scientists
Associates
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
Elizabeth Jackson
Engagement specialist
Wendy Mayer
Communications coordinator
Rhonda Taylor
Laboratory manager genomics and FESSL
Project Scientists
Vikram Chhatre
USDA Forest Service, research geneticist
Anna Conrad
USDA Forest Service, plant pathologist
John Couture
Plant-Insect chemical ecology
Ellen Crocker
University of Kentucky | Forest health Extension
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
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
Forest Biology/ Ecology of natural systems
Guofan Shao
Forest measurement and assessment/GIS
Song Zhang
College of Engineering
Mo Zhou
Forest economics and management
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Dennis Heejoon Choi
Aziz Ebrahimi
Mojtaba Zamani Faradonbeh
Behrokh Nazeri
Sylvia (Minjee) Park
Bina Thapa
Austin Thomas
Andrei Toca
Graduate Students
Mikaela Scherzinger
MS
Olivia Bigham
PhD
Aishwarya Chandrasekaran
PhD
Elias Bowers Gaffney
MS
Scott Gula
PhD
Yunmei Huang
PhD
Ellie Joll
PhD
Thad Swart
MS
Wang Xiang
PhD
Zhihen Yin
PhD
Technical Staff
Brian Beheler
Senior farm operations administrator
Don Carlson
Forester
Bryce Chupp
Technician
Clayton Emerson
Assistant property manager
Katie Grong
Research associate
Brianne Innusa
Research associate
Caleb Kell
Operational tree breeder
Ron Rathfon
Extension forester
Caleb Redick
Research associate
James Warren
USDA Forest Service
Cameron Wingren
Unmanned aerial systems data collection specialist