Senior Staff

Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Dr. Carl A. Pinkert
cap@ua.edu

Administrative Assistant to VP for Research and Economic Development
Cheryl Leonard
celeonard@ua.edu

Associate Vice President for Research
Dr. John Higginbotham
jhigginb@ua.edu

Interim Associate Vice President for Research
Dr. Susan Burkett
sburkett@eng.ua.edu

Office for Sponsored Programs, Contract and Grant Accounting, Cost Analysis
Cynthia Hope, Assistant Vice President for Research
chope@research.ua.edu

Office for Research Compliance
Carpantanto Myles, Director
cmyles@fa.ua.edu

Economic Development Academy
Neal Wade, Director
fnwade@ua.edu

Office for Technology Transfer
Rick Swatloski, Director
richard.swatloski@ua.edu

AIME
Dan Daly, Director
dan.daly@ua.edu

CAF
Dave Nikles, Director
dnikles@mint.ua.edu