Team
Research Team
Michael Maughan

Professor
PI
Mechanical Engineering
University of Idaho
Damon Woods

Research Assistant Professor
Senior Personnel
Integrated Design Lab
University of Idaho
Lili Cai

Assistant Professor
Co-PI
Forest, Rangeland & Fire Sciences
University of Idaho
Audrey Fu

Assistant Professor
Senior Personnel
Mathematics and Statistical Science
University of Idaho
Ahmed Ibrahim

Associate Professor
Co-PI
Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Idaho
Carolina Manrique Hoyos

Associate Professor
Co-PI
Architecture
University of Idaho
Armando McDonald

Professor
Senior Personnel
Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences
University of Idaho
Daniel Robertson

Assistant Professor
Senior Personnel
Mechanical Engineering
University of Idaho
Randall Teal

Professor
Senior Personnel
Architecture
University of Idaho
Brian Via

Professor
Co-PI
Forest Products Development Center
Auburn University
Sushil Adhikari

Professor
Senior Personnel
Dir. of Center for Bioenergy & Bioproducts
Auburn University
Maria Auad

Professor
Senior Personnel
Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
Soledad Peresin

Assistant Professor
Senior Personnel
Forest Products Development Center
Auburn University
Advisory Board
Staff
Name | Institution | Department | Role |
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Lisha Abendroth | University of Idaho | Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences | Administrative Manager |
Mollyann Jones | University of Idaho | Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences | Financial Manager |
Project Evaluators
Name | Company | Role | Biography |
---|---|---|---|
Heather McInnis | The Implementation Group (TIG) | Vice President | Dr. Heather McInnis is a Vice President and program assessment and evaluation lead at The Implementation Group. She is a broadly trained interdisciplinary scientist and holds a M.S. from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Oregon. She has over a decade of experience designing and implementing strategic assessments and data-driven evaluations of large-scale, transdisciplinary, federally funded STEM programs for universities, research consortia, and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. McInnis will be serving as the external evaluator for this grant. |