Leadership

Iain D. Boyd is the Director of the Center for National Security Initiatives and the H.T. Sears Memorial Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics (1988) from the University of Southampton in England. He worked for four years at NASA Ames Research Center in the areas of aerothermodynamics and space propulsion. Dr. Boyd was a faculty member in...

Dr. Emily CoBabe-Ammann is the Senior Director of Strategic Projects at the University of Colorado, serving as the Chief Research Strategist for the campus. In that capacity, she works with departments, colleges, centers and institutes to develop new research directions that align with national interests and priorities. She is currently the Acting Associate Director for the Center for National Security Initiatives, working across the campus as it transitions towards conducting...

Tim White is the Associate Director of Research of the Center for National Security Initiatives. Tim also serves as the Gallogly Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Tim received his PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in 2006 from the University of Iowa. Thereafter, Tim spent twelve years working for the U.S. Air Force in the Materials and Manufacturing...

Heather Shocker is the Principal Program Manager for the Center for National Security Initiatives. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Wilkes University, a M.S. in Geology from Michigan Technological University and an MBA from the University of Maryland. Throughout her career, Heather has supported the US Intelligence and Defense communities, and international allies, as an analyst, program manager and business development professional.