Leadership

Brian Dyson, Ph.D.

Vice President/President-Elect

Operations Research Analyst, US EPA
dyson.brian@epa.gov
I lived in a small town on Mt. Kilimanjaro for three years while serving in the peace corps.

Kelly Crowe, Ph.D.

At-Large Executive Committee Member

Assistant Professor of Biology at Mount St. Joseph University
kelly.crowe@msj.edu
Kelly formerly served as the director of education and outreach for the Ohio State University chapter of Sigma XI.

Craig Dietsch, Ph.D.

President

Associate Professor Of Geology
dietscc@ucmail.uc.edu
I study the evolution of mountain ranges, from hot rocks deep in earth’s crust to landscape evolution. The highest I have ever been to collect a sample is 5,573 m (18,284 ft).

Anne Vonderheide, Ph.D.

Secretary

Associate Professor Educator and Undergraduate Director, Chemistry
anne.vonderheide@uc.edu
Anne worked for the German government developing a method for the analysis of radioactive Sr, a result of the Chernobyl accident right after graduate school.

Stephen F. Matter, Ph.D.

Treasurer

Associate Professor Of Biological Sciences
mattersf@uc.edu
Steve might be close to the record for the greatest number of individual butterflies of a single species caught by one human... Is that a guinness record?

Joshua Benoit, Ph.D.

Past President

Assistant Professor Of Biological Sciences
joshua.benoit@uc.edu

Margaret Hanson, Ph.D.

Awards and Scholarships Committee, Chair

Divisional Dean and Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
margaret.hanson@uc.edu
Margaret's most recent research uses infrared spectroscopy of hot, massive stars to characterize massive stellar clusters found deeply embedded within our milky way galaxy.

Sarah Pixley, Ph.D.

Membership Committee, Chair

Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
sarah.pixley@uc.edu
Enjoyed the march for science, with other UC and Sigma XI fellows, in downtown cincinnati. We should do that again to raise awareness for science!

Kevin Haworth, Ph.D.

Communications and Website Committee, Chair

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
kevin.haworth@uc.edu
Kevin is a physicist lost in medicine; doing things like listening to singing bubbles and vaporizing droplets to develop new ultrasound-based therapies.

Brooke E. Crowley, Ph.D.

At-Large Executive Committee Member

Associate Professor of Geology and Anthropology
brooke.crowley@uc.edu
Brooke has been passionate about the natural world since she was a little girl. Now she is an ecological detective. She uses chemistry to monitor movement patterns of rare and difficult to observe predators, to reconstruct food webs, and to establish environmental conditions in the recent past.

Andrew Gangidine

At-Large Executive Committee Member

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geology
gangidaj@mail.uc.edu
Andrew researches elemental biosignatures in mars-analogue environments in order to help determine if samples collected from future mars missions may contain evidence of life.