Staff Directory

Meet the CHESS personnel.

Please note: Some CHESS staff are working remotely. If you cannot contact a certain person via phone, please try email.

LEADERSHIP

Joel Brock

Director, CHESS

607-255-9006

CHESSDirector@cornell.edu

Richard Cerione

PI, MacCHESS

607-254-6322

rac1@cornell.edu

Darren Dale

Deputy Technical Director, CLASSE

607-255-3314

dd55@cornell.edu

Ernie Fontes

Technical Director, CLASSE

607-255-2959

ef11@cornell.edu

Mike Gilpin

Managing Director

mgilpin@cornell.edu

Sol Gruner

Professor of Physics, MacCHESS co-PI, CHESS Director Emeritus

607-255-3441

smg26@cornell.edu

Jared Maxson

Deputy Director for Accelerators and Beamlines, CHESS

607-255-2328

jmm586@cornell.edu

Matt Miller

Associate Director, CHESS

607-255-0400

mpm4@cornell.edu

Christopher Rogers

Senior Director of Administration

5-7446

cmr269@cornell.edu

Jacob Ruff

Co-PI / Director-CHEXS

607-255-2538

jpr243@cornell.edu

Olena Vatamaniuk

Deputy Director for Domain Science and User Communities, CHESS; Co-Principal Investigator, XLEAP

607-255-8049

okv2@cornell.edu

Jennifer (Jeney) Wierman

Director, MacCHESS

jlw352@cornell.edu

Arthur Woll

Director, MSNC

607-255-4496

arthurwoll@cornell.edu

STAFF SCIENTISTS

Amlan Das

Staff Scientist - CHEXS/MSN-C

amlandas@cornell.edu

Louise Debefve

Staff Scientist - HMF

607-255-1061

lmd252@cornell.edu

Qingqiu Huang

Staff Scientist - HPBio

607-255-9386 (lab) 607-254-3572 (beamline) 607-342-2578 (cell phone)

qh24@cornell.edu

Eli Kinigstein

Research Associate

5-8985

edk59@cornell.edu

Peter Ko

Staff Scientist - FMB

peter.ko@cornell.edu

Stephen Meisburger

Staff Scientist - XBio / FlexX

spm82@cornell.edu

Kelly Nygren

Staff Scientist - SMB

607-255-7163

k.nygren@cornell.edu

Chris Pollock

Staff Scientist - PIPOXS

607-255-3617

cjp227@cornell.edu

Suchismita (Suchi) Sarker

Staff Scientist - QM2

ss3428@cornell.edu

David J. Schuller

Staff Scientist

607-255-9386

schuller@cornell.edu

Kate Shanks

Staff Scientist - FAST

ksg52@cornell.edu

Louisa Smieska

Staff Scientist - XLEAP

607-255-7136

lmb327@cornell.edu

Sasha Temnykh

Staff Scientist

607-255-8780

abt6@cornell.edu

Zhongwu Wang

Staff Scientist - FlexX

607-255-3551

zw42@cornell.edu

Estella Yee

Staff Scientist - XBio / BioSAXS

ey223@cornell.edu

Visiting Scientist

Visiting Scientist

kp525@cornell.edu

D. Marian Szebenyi

Visiting Scientist

dms35@cornell.edu

RESEARCH STAFF

Carter Bagnell

Research Support Specialist

607-255-7163

clb365@cornell.edu

Dale Barrows

CHESS Operator

dcb273@cornell.edu

Elisabeth Bodnaruk

Research Support Specialist

607-255-7163

ecb238@cornell.edu

Kyle Brogan

CHESS Operator

kb756@cornell.edu

Noah Budin

Research Support Specialist

nab248@cornell.edu

Seth Bywater

Research Support Specialist

sjb347@cornell.edu

Chris Conolly

CHESS Technical Director

Research Support Specialist

607-254-1227

der4@cornell.edu

Ahri Rumsey

CHESS Operator

amr388@cornell.edu

Keara Soloway

Programmer/Analyst

607-255-7163

kls286@cornell.edu

Phil Sorensen

Software Developer

607-254-8266

pas37@cornell.edu

Keith Surrena

Research Support Specialist

5-0909

ks2339@cornell.edu

Rolf Verberg

Programmer/Analyst for MSN-C

rv43@cornell.edu

Chris Whiting

Research Support Specialist

607-254-4930

ccw63@cornell.edu

Shijie Yang

Computer Hardware

607-254-8266

sy68@cornell.edu

ADMIN STAFF

Florianna Blanton

Lending Library Coordinator

fgb29@cornell.edu

Savan DeSouza

Communications & Administration

4-4908

scd98@cornell.edu

Chris Mobley

Wilson Lab Administrative Assistant

cjm298@cornell.edu

Cora Oberst

Executive Staff Assistant

co249@cornell.edu

Rick Ryan

Science Communicator, CLASSE

607-255-3852

rjr327@cornell.edu

Katelyn Towner

CHESS User Officer Manager

kan74@cornell.edu

POST DOCS

Jiatang Chen

Post-doc

jc3633@cornell.edu

Purnima Ghale

Post Doc - QM2

pg472@cornell.edu

Sven Gustafson

Post-doc

seg246@cornell.edu

Antonio Torres Lopez

Post-doc

at867@cornell.edu