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Research Staff

Here you will find contact information for NREL's research and support staff at the National Wind Technology Center. To learn more about us and our expertise, view our organizational charts and read the staff's biographies.

Below is a listing of the research and support staff at the National Wind Technology Center. View organizational charts.

Lab Program Manager, Wind and Water Power Program

Brian Smith

Program Integration, Wind and Water Power Program

Elise DeGeorge
Albert LiVecchi
Teresa Thadison
Dana Levine

Director, National Wind Technology Center

Fort Felker, Center Director
Laura Davis

Deputy Center Director, National Wind Technology Center

Jim Green, Acting

Research Fellow

Bob Thresher

Chief Engineer

Paul Veers

Wind Technology Research and Development

Paul Veers, Group Manager
Beverly Cisneros

Wind Innovation & Reliability

Jason Cotrell, Supervisor
Palmer Carlin
Lee Jay Fingersh
Paul Fleming
Jim Johnson
Kathryn Johnson, Joint Appointee CSM
Bonnie Jonkman
Jon Keller
Bill Lacava, Contractor
Lucy Pao, Contractor
Shuangwen Sheng
Alan Wright

Aero & Systems Dynamics

Pat Moriarty, Supervisor
Marshall Buhl
Matt Churchfield
Rick Damiani
Dennis Elliott
Steve Haymes
Jason Jonkman
Julie Lundquist, Joint Appointee CU
S. Andrew Ning
Khanh Nguyen
Scott Schreck
George Scott

Students, Post-Docs
Matthew Aitken
Andrew Clifton
Sang Lee
Michael Rhodes
Qi Wang

Testing and Operations

Dave Simms, Group Manager
Elisabeth Frizzell
Cynthia Szydlek

Site Operations

Scott Wilde, Supervisor
Don Baker
Troy Boro
Bill Gage
Rob Goldhor, Contractor
Norman Hill
Jerry Hur
Dave Jager
Mike Jenks
Garth Johnson
Mark Murphy, Contractor
Edward Overly
Simon Thao, Contractor

Test Methods, R&D

Scott Hughes, Supervisor
Michael Desmond
Scott Lambert
Noah Ledford
Hal Link
Rich Osgood
David Snowberg
Jeroen van Dam

Test Projects & Partnerships

Arlinda Huskey, Supervisor
Amy Curtis, Contractor
Mark McDade
Ismael Mendoza
Paul Molta
Jason Roadman, Contractor
Joe Smith, Contractor
Robb Wallen

Massachusetts Blade Test Facility

Derek Berry, Supervisor
Tim Boyd
Nathan Post

Offshore Wind and Ocean Power Systems

Walt Musial, Supervisor
Frederick (Rick) Driscoll
Ye Li
Becki Meadows
Eric Nelson
Amy Robertson
Karin Sinclair
Senu Sirnivas
Arielle Wolfe

Students, Post-Docs
James Browning
Levi Kilcher
Michael Lawson
Marco Masciola
Humin Song
Heidi Souder
Yi-Hsiang Yu

Transmission and Grid Integration

Brian Parsons, Group Manager
Kara Clark
Lynn Coles
David Corbus, Lab Program Manager Electricity Systems
Eric Ela
Anthony Florita
Vahan Gevorgian
Bri-Mathias Hodge
Eduardo Ibanez
Debbie Lew
Michael Milligan
Ed Muljadi
Kirsten Orwig
Mohit Singh
Yih-Huei Wan
Kelly Wang

Wind Powering America

Ian Baring-Gould, Technology Deployment Manager
Charles Newcomb, Section Manager
Ruth Baranowski
Corrie Christol
Susan Fabio Hinnen
Michael (Jason) Fields
Tony Jimenez
Julie Jones
Marguerite Kelly
Frank Oteri
Joseph (Owen) Roberts
Robi Robichaud

Strategic Energy Analysis

Katherine Dykes
Maureen Hand
Ben Maples
Suzanne Tegen

Wind and Water Power Program Support

Client Services

Billy Hoffman
Rodd Hamann

Communications

Alexsandra Lemke, Team Lead
Sheri Anstedt
Kathleen O'Dell

Contracts and Business Services

Heidi Oliver

Finance

Vicki Marquette

Library

Tami Sandberg

Site Operations

Tim Johansson
Adu-Darko MacGordon
Dave Sprowls

Environment, Health, and Safety

Michael Stewart