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title: "Internal Advisory Board"
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# Internal Advisory Board

The CARC Internal Advisory Board meets regularly to make decisions regarding the center's operations and goals.

**Meeting minutes**

[**IAB meeting minutes 10/28/2021**](https://carc.unm.edu/about-carc/minutes-iab-10-28-2021.pdf){target=_blank}

[**IAB meeting minutes 10/29/2020**](https://carc.unm.edu/about-carc/minutes-iab-10-29-20.pdf){target=_blank}

[**IAB meeting minutes 6/20/2019**](https://carc.unm.edu/about-carc/minutes-iab-6-20-19.pdf){target=_blank}

[**IAB meeting minutes 9/19/2018**](https://carc.unm.edu/images/iab-meeting-packet-9-19-18.pdf){target=_blank}

[**IAB meeting minutes 10/11/2017**](https://carc.unm.edu/about-carc/minutes-iab-10-2017.pdf){target=_blank}

[**IAB meeting minutes 2/28/2017**](https://carc.unm.edu/about-carc/minutes-iab-2-2017.pdf){target=_blank}

**Members**:

- **Susan Atlas, Ph.D.** - Research Professor, Physics and Astronomy
- **Karl Benedict, Ph.D.** - Associate Professor & Director of Research Data Services, College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences
- **Jeremy Edwards, Ph.D.** - Professor, Chemistry
- **Hua Guo, Ph.D.** - Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Department of Physics and Astronomy
- **Jane Lehr, Ph.D.** - Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- **Keith Lidke, Ph.D.** - Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
- **Christopher Lippitt, Ph.D.** - Associate Dean for Research, Arts & Sciences; Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
- **Monika Nitsche, Ph.D.** - Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
- **Marek Osinski, Ph.D.** - Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Center for High Technology Materials
- **Brian Pietrewicz, MBA** - Deputy CIO, Information Technologies
- **Ylva Pihlström, Ph.D.** - Professor, Physics & Astronomy
- **Andrea Polli, Ph.D.** - Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media Professor, Fine Arts and Engineering University of New Mexico Department of Art and Art History
- **Edl Schamiloglu, Ph.D.** - Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Associate Dean for Research, School of Engineering
- **Gregory Taylor, Ph.D.** - Director, Long Wavelength Array; Director, Center for Astrophysical Research and Technology; Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- **Lee Taylor, Ph.D.** - Associate Professor, Biology
- **Tom Turner, Ph.D.** - Interim Associate Vice President for Research; Professor, Biology
- **Katie Witkiewitz, Ph.D.** - Director, Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA); Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico