Mentors

Learn more about our mentors below!

Cathy Binger

Professor

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), child language

James Cavanagh

Associate Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cognition, Brain and Behavior, Quantitative Psychology

Kristina Ciesielski

Associate Professor

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Clinical Psychology, Cognition, Brain and Behavior

Benjamin Clark

Associate Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cognition, Brain and Behavior

Vincent Clark

Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cognition, Brain and Behavior

Cristina Takacs-Vesbach

Professor

Biology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Aquatic Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Terrestrial Ecology

James Degnan

Associate Professor

Mathematics & Statistics

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Statistics

Eric Denkers

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Professor

Biology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cell Biology, Genetics, Immunology

Jeremy Edwards

Department Chair

Chemistry Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Felisa Smith

Professor

Biology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Animal Ecology, Historic Ecology, Paleoecology, Terrestrial Ecology, Vertebrate Biology

Jeremy Hogeveen

Assistant Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cognition, Brain and Behavior, Quantitative Psychology

Christopher Johnston

Associate Professor

Biology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Molecular Evolution

Kent Kiehl

Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cognition, Brain and Behavior

Martin Kirk

Distinguished Professor

Chemistry Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Chemical Biology and Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry

Keith Lidke

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Professor

Physics and Astronomy

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Fluorescence Imaging Techniques: Single Particle Tracking, Single Molecule Imaging and Superresolution techniques for measuring protein-protein interactions at the sub-cellular level.

Shuang Luan

Associate Chair

Computer Science Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Computer Science

Manel Martinez-Ramon

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rob Miller

Professor

Biology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Immunology, Vertebrate Biology

Mubarak Syed

Assistant Professor

Biology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience

Tudor Oprea

Professor

Internal Medicine Translations Informatics

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Internal Medicine Translations Informatics

Phyllis Palmer

Department Chair

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Dysphagia, voice

Cristina Pereyra

Department Chair

Mathematics & Statistics

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Analysis

Richard Rand

Department Chair

Physics and Astronomy Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Gaseous halos of galaxies, diffuse ionized gas, the disk-halo connection, superbubbles and chimneys. Star formation processes in spirals, molecular gas, atomic gas, HII region populations. Ring galaxies.

Jessica Richardson

Associate Professor

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Aphasia, brain injury, brain stimulation, discourse assessment, neurogenic disorders, neuroimaging, primary progressive aphasia, stroke, traumatic brain injury

Claudia Tesche

Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Cognition, Brain and Behavior

Davood Tofighi

Associate Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Health Psychology, Quantitative Psychology

Kamilla Venner

Associate Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Clinical Psychology

Steven Verney

Professor

Psychology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology

Helen Wearing

Professor

Biology Department

Role in UNM FIRST Program:
Faculty Mentor

Research Area/s

Mathematical Biology