Staff

Supervisory Staff

Director

Jerry Newhouse

Reactor Operations Manager

Toria Ellis

Operations Supervisor

Amelia Schaeffer

Training Supervisors

Montreal Benesch

Genna Childers

Requal Supervisor

Kaitlyn Li

Projects Supervisor

Nicholas Lutz

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Senior Reactor Operators

• Toria Ellis
• Montreal Benesch
• Kaitlyn Li

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Reactor Operators

• Abdur-Rauf Ahmed
• Hima Aramona
• Conor Bekaert
• Leandra Bruggink
• Vivian Chen
• Genna Childers
• Gavin Dury
• Henry Jacques
• Pratik Kafle
• Orion Lee
• Nicholas Lutz
• Hope Palmer
• Amelia Schaeffer
• Maxwell VanLandschoot
• ZiQi Xie
• Nicole Xu
• Tommy Yoon

Reactor Operations Committee

• Kathy Oleson (Dean of the Faculty)
• Jerry Newhouse (Reactor Director)
• Toria Ellis (Reactor Operations Manager)
• April Sams (Radiation Safety Officer)
• Kori Lay (EHS)
• Amelia Schaeffer (Operations Supervisor)
• Lucas Illing (ROC Chair)
• Jerry Shurman
• Steve Reese
• Wayne Lei
• Norm Dyer

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Previous Staff

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NOTE: This list is correct to the best of our knowledge, but may contain errors or omissions. Please send any corrections to reactor@reed.edu

Directors

• Arthur Scott (June 1968 - Sept 1973)
• Larry Church (Sept 1973 - Sept 1980)
• Michael Kay (Sept 1980 - Sept 1986)
• J. Michael Pollock (Sept 1986 - Sept 1987)
• Larry Ruby (Sept 1987 - April 1990)
• J. Michael Pollock (April 1990 - April 1994)
• Stephen Frantz (April 1994 - June 2011)
• Melinda Krahenbuhl (June 2011 - June 2020)
• Stephen Frantz (March 2020 - October 2020)
• Jerry Newhouse (October 2020 - )

Associate Directors/Reactor Operations Manager

• Curtis Keedy (June 1968 - 1972)
• Michael Pollock (1972 - 1974)
• Michael Pollock (Sept 1987 - April 1990)
• Paul Terdal (March 1992 - Sept 1993)
• Juliet Brosing (Oct 1993 - May 1994)
• Joshua Filner (June 1994 - June 1997)
• Christopher Melhus (June 1997 - June 1999)
• Ryan Gaffney (Aug 1999 - May 2000)
• Juliet Brosing (Jan 2001 - June 2001)
• Eric Weis (June 2001 - May 2003)
• Rachel Barnett (May 2003 - June 2006)
• Susan Beaver (July 2006 - May 2007)
• Vanessa Holfeltz (May 2007 - July 2009)
• Robin Bjorkquist (July 2009 - June 2011)
• Reuven Lazarus (June 2011 - June 2013)
• Brian Fairchild (July 2013 - December 2014)
• Christina Barrett (June 2015 - Sept 2017)
• Ilana Novakoski (Sept 2017 - May 2019)
• Toria Ellis (May 2019 -

Operators