Staff
Supervisory Staff
Director
Reactor Operations Manager
Operations Supervisor
Kees Benkendorfer
Training Supervisors
M Benesch
Jonathan Li
Yilian Liu
Nemo Shen
Requal Supervisor
Kaitlyn Li
Projects Supervisor
Addison Guynn
[ Supervisory Staff | Senior Reactor Operators | Reactor Operators | Supervisory Committees ]
Senior Reactor Operators
- Toria Ellis
- Yilian Liu
- Jonathan Li
- Addison Guynn
[ Supervisory Staff | Senior Reactor Operators | Reactor Operators | Supervisory Committees ]
Reactor Operators
- Kees Benkendorfer
- Ryen Burris
- Ashlee Cook
- Alex Fu
- Henry Scheffer
- Nemo Shen
- Gavin Dury
- Emanuel Gordis
- M Benesch
- Ismayn Ditter
- Riyaz Ditter
- Marie Falkner
- Matt Hwang
- Pratik Kafle
- Kaitlyn Li
- Patrick Park
- Ethan Shek
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)
- Kees Benkendofer (Operations Supervisor)
- Lucas Illing (ROC Chair)
- Jerry Shurman
- Steve Reese
- Wayne Lei
- Norm Dyer
[ Supervisory Staff | Senior Reactor Operators | Reactor Operators | Supervisory Committees ]
Previous Staff
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
First Name | Last Name | Major | RO License Date | SRO License Date |
Robert | Anholt | Chemistry | 1968 | |
Patrick | Call | Physics | 1968 | |
Curtis | Keedy | 1968 | 1984 | |
(James) | Pollock | Chemistry | 1968 | 1987 |
Richard | Davis | Chemistry | 1969 | |
Lawrence | Butcher | Physics | 1972 | |
Debra | Hankins | 1972 | ||
Mary | Ondrechen | 1972 | ||
Sean | Hawley | 1973 | ||
Kathryn | Higley | Chemistry | 1974 | 1975 |
David | Holinstat | Psychology | 1974 | 1976 |
Jon | Youngberg | 1974 | ||
Samuel | Chemistry | 1975 | ||
Sandra | Moffet | Physics | 1976 | |
Jeffrey | Parker | Physics | 1976 | 1976 |
Adriane | Pennington | Chemistry | 1976 | |
Thomas | Biology | 1976 | 1977 | |
Byron | Gaddis | Biology | 1977 | |
Ellen | Hochheiser | Bio-Chem | 1977 | |
Ron | Kathren | 1977 | ||
George | Toombs | 1977 | ||
Brandan | Borgias | Chem-Physics | 1978 | 1979 |
Mark | Hybertsen | Physics | 1978 | 1980 |
Patrick | Roberts | Physics | 1978 | |
Geoffrey | Tyson | Biology | 1978 | |
Granger | Banks | Chemistry | 1979 | 1979 |
Tamar | Enoch | Biology | 1979 | 1979 |
Kelly | Kenison (Falkner) | Chemistry | 1979 | |
David | Kleiner | 1979 | 1979 | |
Janet | Bonar | Physics | 1980 | |
Christopher | Grant | Chem-Physics | 1980 | 1982 |
William | Kallman | Chemistry | 1980 | |
Kil Dong | Kwak | Biology | 1980 | 1980 |
Paul | Shaffer | Chemistry | 1980 | 1980 |
Charles | Fairfax | Chemistry | 1981 | |
Michael | Kay | 1981 | 1981 | |
Ross | Mercer | NA | 1981 | 1981 |
Eric | Pesetsky | Psychology | 1981 | 1981 |
James | Quinn | Chemistry | 1981 | 1981 |
Doug | Richardson | 1981 | 1981 | |
Quentin | Hanley | Chemistry | 1982 | 1983 |
Jason | Shohet | Chemistry | 1982 | |
Timothy | Mitts | NA | 1983 | 1983 |
Tuan | Pham | Biology | 1983 | |
Susan | Abe | Math | 1984 | 1985 |
Alana | Boland | Physics | 1984 | 1985 |
Larry | Church | NA | 1984 | 1984 |
James | Honan | 1984 | ||
Charles | Lefevre | 1984 | ||
John | Lyngdal | Chemistry | 1984 | 1984 |
James | Mohan | NA | 1984 | 1984 |
Katherine | Widdowson | Chemistry | 1985 | |
Craig | Deforest | Physics | 1986 | |
(Douglas) | Jensen | Physics | 1986 | 1987 |
Steven | Jones | Chemistry | 1986 | |
Paul | Terdal | Physics | 1986 | 1987 |
Matthew | Blackwell | Chemistry | 1988 | |
Jeffrey | Bradford | Physics | 1988 | 1989 |
Sarah | Herbelin | Chemistry | 1988 | 1989 |
Chloe | Lewis | Math | 1988 | |
Lawrence | Ruby | NA | 1988 | 1988 |
Michael | Begel | Physics | 1989 | 1990 |
Juliet | Brosing | NA | 1989 | |
David | Moriwaki | Physics | 1989 | |
Ernest | Argetsinger | English | 1990 | 1991 |
Jed | Johnson | History | 1990 | |
Anna | LeRoux | Physics | 1990 | 1991 |
Inga | Sidor | Chemistry | 1990 | |
Eric | Biology | 1990 | 1991 | |
Gabriel | Brandt | Chemistry | 1991 | |
Joshua | Filner | Chemistry | 1992 | 1993 |
Andrew | Funk | Physics | 1992 | 1994 |
Aaron | Mackey | Biochem | 1992 | 1994 |
Justina | Bolz | Chemistry | 1993 | |
Katherine | Hamer | 1993 | 1993 | |
Morning Dove | Howard McCreary | Biology | 1993 | |
Noah | Iliinsky | Physics | 1993 | |
Valerie | Risk | Physics | 1993 | |
Phillip | Wilk | Chemistry | 1993 | 1994 |
Wendy | Evans | Biochem | 1994 | 1995 |
Christopher | Ghormley | Chemistry | 1994 | 1995 |
Katharine | Reeves | Physics | 1994 | |
Patricia | Bennett | Physics | 1995 | |
Stephen | Frantz | Physics | 1995 | 1995 |
Traci | Hilton | Bio-Chem | 1995 | 1996 |
(Yi-Ming) | Huang | Bio-Chem | 1995 | |
Christopher | Melhus | Physics | 1995 | 1996 |
Aubin | Whitley | Physics | 1995 | 1996 |
Nathan | Carstens | High School | 1996 | |
Silas | Cook | Biochem | 1996 | 1997 |
Brian | Halbert | Physics | 1996 | 1997 |
Claire | Jouseau | Biology | 1996 | 1997 |
Chris | Meacham | Philosophy-Physics | 1996 | 1999 |
Eric | Saunders | Linguistics | 1996 | |
Matthew | Shaw | Physics | 1996 | |
Gretchen | Vanderbeek | Biology | 1996 | 1997 |
Zoe | VanHoover | Physics | 1996 | 1997 |
Jeanette | Blaine | Chemistry | 1997 | |
Tobias | Boes | English Lit | 1997 | 1998 |
Jesse | Brown | Psychology | 1997 | |
Ryan | Gaffney | Physics | 1997 | 1998 |
Emilia | Olson | Physics | 1997 | 1999 |
Amaria | George | Physics | 1998 | 1999 |
Lien | Ngo | Chemistry | 1998 | |
Michael | Perry | Math-Physics | 1998 | |
Patrick | Reuther | Math-Physics | 1998 | |
Ryan | Richter | Math-Physics | 1998 | 1999 |
Ben | Tombaugh | Math | 1998 | |
Eric | Weis | Chemistry | 1998 | 1999 |
Alexander | Austin | Math | 1999 | |
Jack | Barnett | Physics | 1999 | 2000 |
Jay | Bodzin | Political Science | 1999 | 2000 |
Reid | Burkland | Philosophy | 1999 | 1999 |
Jesse | Helm | 1999 | ||
David | Jordan | Economics | 1999 | |
Kater | Murch | Physics | 1999 | 2000 |
Matieu | Brener | Physics | 2000 | 2001 |
Timothy | Cassidy | Physics | 2000 | 2001 |
Cilicia | Dorn-Lopez | Biology | 2000 | 2001 |
Ann | Erickson | Physics | 2000 | 2002 |
Nicole | Ford | Biochem | 2000 | 2001 |
Rudy | Gilmore | Physics | 2000 | 2001 |
(Brian) | Hoefler | Bio-Chem | 2000 | 2001 |
Kristina | Lestik | Chemistry | 2000 | |
Joaquin | Ramsey | Chemistry | 2000 | |
David | Rosoff | Math | 2000 | 2001 |
Dan | Spoth | English | 2000 | |
Nancy | Van Prooyen | Bio-Chem | 2000 | |
Jonathan | Young | Bio-Chem | 2000 | |
Rachel | Barnett | Chemistry | 2000 | 2001 |
Lily | Cool | Physics | 2001 | 2002 |
Erin | Freed | Psychology | 2001 | |
Eric | Lawrence | Math-Physics | 2001 | 2002 |
Megan | Othus | Math | 2001 | 2002 |
David | Rubin | Physics | 2001 | 2002 |
Seth | Samuel | Math | 2001 | |
Alex | Bram | History | 2002 | |
Kathryn | Bray | Chemistry | 2002 | |
Nicholas | Chaimov | Chemistry | 2002 | 2003 |
Stephen | Katz | Math | 2002 | 2003 |
Ariah | Kidder | Physics | 2002 | 2003 |
Judy | Kim | Physics | 2002 | |
Andrea | Neuhoff | Religion | 2002 | 2003 |
Peter | Rovegno | Physics | 2002 | |
Joy | Wattawa | Bio-Chem | 2002 | |
Gabriel | Ycas | Physics | 2002 | |
Carl | Anderson | Chemistry | 2003 | 2004 |
Andre | Bach | Physics | 2003 | 2004 |
Nicholas | Blanchard -Wright | Biology | 2003 | |
David | de Regt | Physics | 2003 | 2004 |
Oren | Elrad | Physics | 2003 | |
Derek | Galligan | Biology | 2003 | |
Jesse | Hallett | Linguistics | 2003 | |
Beverly | Lau | Physics | 2003 | 2004 |
Kristen | Lavavej | Studio Arts | 2003 | 2004 |
Maureen | Steckler | Psychology | 2003 | 2004 |
David | Williams | Physics | 2003 | |
Jessica | Biology | 2003 | 2004 | |
Juliana | Arrighi | Biology | 2004 | 2005 |
Drew | Atwater | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
Susan | Beaver | Chemistry | 2004 | 2005 |
William | Draper | Biochem | 2004 | |
Tyler | Freeman | Philosophy | 2004 | |
Ben | Greenspan | Math | 2004 | 2005 |
Jeremy | Harper | Math | 2004 | |
Vanessa | Holfeltz | Math | 2004 | 2005 |
Matthew | King | Biology | 2004 | |
Toms | Kreicbergs | Physics | 2004 | |
Elliot | Naidus | Chemistry | 2004 | 2005 |
Derek | Oldridge | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
Zach | Schultz | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
Jacob | Schwartzman | Biology | 2004 | |
Jason | Seifter | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
Kayce | Spear | Chemistry | 2004 | 2005 |
Craig | Wagner | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
Trevor | Biology | 2004 | ||
Rachel | Bond | Biology | 2005 | 2006 |
Quincy | Cardinale | Psychology | 2005 | |
Asher | Davidson | Physics | 2005 | |
Allison | Edgar | Biology | 2005 | |
Michael | Flashman | Physics | 2005 | |
Ryan | Gersovitz | Psychology | 2005 | |
Hilary | Gray | Classics | 2005 | 2006 |
Edward | Griffith | Physics | 2005 | |
Cindy | Joe | Physics | 2005 | 2006 |
Judith | Levine | Biology | 2005 | |
Grant | Meadors | Physics | 2005 | 2006 |
Tracy | Mehoke | Math | 2005 | 2006 |
Marianna | Mullens | Religion | 2005 | 2006 |
Joseph | Parmalee | Sociology | 2005 | 2007 |
Zoe | Rem | Classics | 2005 | |
William | Rosenbaum | 2005 | ||
(Emmett) | Sartor | Chemistry | 2005 | 2006 |
Rebecca | Schoenberg-Jones | Math | 2005 | 2006 |
Julia | Schornack | Physics | 2005 | 2006 |
Griffen | Thoma | Math | 2005 | 2006 |
Gillian | Woodruff | Biology | 2005 | 2006 |
Robin | Bjorkquist | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
Steven | Case | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
Michael | Chaffin | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
Thomas | Chartrand | Math-Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
Benjamin | Fischer | Math | 2006 | 2007 |
Alex | Gurfinkel | Physics | 2006 | |
Matthew | Jemielita | Physics | 2006 | |
Sarah | Kemp | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
Jordan | Kohn | Chemistry | 2006 | |
Eric | Lindsey | Physics | 2006 | |
Anna | McGee | Psychology | 2006 | |
Alexander | Ragus | Physics | 2006 | |
Emma | Seward | 2006 | ||
Christine | Anthropology | 2006 | ||
Molly | Biology | 2006 | 2007 | |
Tiffany | Biology | 2006 | 2007 | |
Constance | Bailey | Bio-Chem | 2007 | |
Fluffy (Tara) | Cass | Chemistry | 2007 | 2008 |
Rachel | Fordyce | Physics | 2007 | |
Angela | Frey | Art History | 2007 | 2008 |
Kimberly | Hartfield | Chemistry | 2007 | |
Casey | Hurstell | History | 2007 | |
Reuven | Lazarus | 2007 | 2008 | |
Carl | Rodriguez | Physics | 2007 | 2008 |
Jonah | Simpson | Anthropology | 2007 | |
Erin | Smith | Biology | 2007 | 2009 |
Mace (Sarah) | Spiegel | English | 2007 | 2008 |
Daniel | Wall | Psychology | 2007 | |
Kaileigh | Ahlquist | Biology | 2008 | |
Caleb | Arata | Chemistry | 2008 | |
Sophie | Berkman | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
Rosie | Cottingham | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
Todd | Garon | Math | 2008 | |
May-Ling | Li | Physics | 2008 | |
Celia | Oney | Classics | 2008 | 2009 |
Maggie | Post | Physics | 2008 | |
Nick | Salter | Math | 2008 | |
Laura | Sard | Linguistics | 2008 | 2009 |
Jeremy | Silver | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
Mary | Solbrig | Math | 2008 | 2009 |
Moriah | Tobin | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
Harry | Traulsen | Chemistry | 2008 | |
Stephen | von Kugelen | Chemistry | 2008 | 2009 |
Matthew | Carlson | Math | 2009 | 2010 |
Kathleen | Conahan | Studio Arts | 2009 | 2010 |
John | Dieterle | 2009 | ||
Erik | Green | 2009 | 2010 | |
Alina | Kassenbrock | Chemistry | 2009 | 2010 |
Benjamin | Larson | 2009 | 2010 | |
Daniel | Lidral-Porter | Mathematics | 2009 | |
Ellen | McManis | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
Briana | Patton | Biology | 2009 | |
Neal | Reynolds | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
Brandy | Ryan | 2009 | ||
Ahmad | Shabbar | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
Mike | Vignal | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
Wesley | Physics | 2009 | 2010 | |
Ian | Flower | Physics | 2010 | 2011 |
Evan | Green | 2010 | ||
Lucas | Howard | Physics | 2010 | 2011 |
Kathryn | Linthicum | Chemistry | 2010 | 2011 |
Cristian | Panda | Physics | 2010 | |
Evan | Pikulski | Chemistry | 2010 | |
Neha | Rao | Chemistry | 2010 | 2011 |
Michael | Reichert | Philosophy | 2010 | 2011 |
Marcus | Robinson | Mathematics | 2010 | |
Juliet | Shafto | Psychology | 2010 | |
Elisabeth | Thomas | Physics | 2010 | 2011 |
Patrick | Wijngaard | Bio-Chemistry | 2010 | 2011 |
Florence | Williams | Studio Arts | 2010 | 2011 |
Gray | Physics-Psychology | 2010 | ||
Hannah | Allen | Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
Prakher | Bajbai | Physics | 2011 | |
Daniel | Dashevsky | Biology | 2011 | 2012 |
Gianmarco | Greci | Philosophy | 2011 | |
Kelsey | Houston-Edwards | Math-Philosophy | 2011 | |
Audrey | Humphrey | Math-Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
Isaac | Khader | Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
Melinda | Krahenbuhl | Chem Engineer | 2011 | 2011 |
Trevor | Lohrey | Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
Molly | Maguire | Math-Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
Huy | Nguyen | Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
Veronica | Stewart | Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
Christopher | Vittal | Mathematics | 2011 | 2012 |
Andrew | Warren | Mathematics | 2011 | 2012 |
Erin | Weisenhorn | Bio-Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
Drew | Blount | Mathematics | 2012 | |
Maddie | Brandt | Mathematics | 2012 | |
Hannah | Choi | Biology | 2012 | 2013 |
Liz | Grace | Physics | 2012 | |
Xander | Harris | Physics | 2012 | |
Wilson | Horner | Biology | 2012 | 2014 |
Jake | Luton | Bio-Chemistry | 2012 | 2013 |
Alexandra | Mariani | Biology | 2012 | 2013 |
Jared | Milfred | 2012 | ||
Jossef | Osborn | Biology | 2012 | |
Rachael | Otto | Chemistry | 2012 | 2013 |
Grace | Poetzinger | Physics | 2012 | |
Erin | Sheffels | Bio-Chemistry | 2012 | 2013 |
Michaela | Voorhees | Biology | 2012 | |
Lily | Ben-Avi | Biology | 2013 | 2014 |
Miguel | Conner | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
Joshua | Hepworth | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
Lydia | Kerns | Physics | 2013 | |
Simran | Mahtani | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
Charles | McIntyre | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
Stephan | Okar | Physics | 2013 | |
Evan | Peairs | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
Nathan | Showell | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
Marin | Sklan | English | 2013 | |
Natalie | Stone | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
Riley | Thornton | Physics | 2013 | |
Reilly | Villanueva | Mathematics | 2013 | 2014 |
Timothy | Tyree | 2014 | ||
Amanda | Asato | Chemistry | 2015 | |
Audrey | Dannar | Chemistry | 2014 | 2015 |
Yuka | Esashi | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
Hunter | Gill | Physics | 2014 | |
Kevin | Freymiller | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
Vincent | Griffith | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
Kristin | Hirata | Chemistry | 2015 | |
Joewie | Koh | Mathematics | 2014 | 2015 |
Benjamin | Morrison | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
Helena | Pedrotti | Economics | 2014 | |
Edgar | Perez | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
Alexander | Pan | Mathematics | 2014 | |
Sarah | Black | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
Malcolm | McCarthy | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
Abrahams | Alex | 2015 | ||
Gill | Hunter | 2014 | ||
Benjamin | Morrison | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
Andrew | Simler | 2016 | ||
Sarah | Brodessor | Chemistry | 2015 | 2016 |
Natalie | Hawkins | Biology | 2015 | |
Palak | Jain | Math | 2015 | |
Trent | Freeman | Comp Sci | 2015 | 2016 |
Anthony | Loya | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
Helen | Zhang | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
Marjorie | Oxley | History | 2015 | 2016 |
Matyas | Szabo | Physics | 2016 | 2017 |
Emmett | Kahn | Math | 2016 | |
Colin | Whimore | History | 2016 | 2017 |
Christina | Barrett | Biology | 2012 | 2013 |
Zach | Beadle | Physics | 2016 | 2017 |
Maileen | Nakashima | Chemistry | 2016 | 2017 |
Gabe | Yeung | Econmics | 2016 | 2017 |
Rhody | Kaner | Comp Sci | 2015 | 2017 |
Mitzi | Zitler | Economics | 2016 | 2017 |
Gray | Perez | Physics | 2016 | 2017 |
Ilana | Novakoski | Chemistry | 2014 | 2016 |
Nick | Egan | Sociology | 2016 |