Affiliates

Name Title Email Areas of Expertise
Margaret Byron, Ph.D. Trethewey Early Career Professor mzb5025@psu.edu
  • Bio-inspired robotics
Stan Ernst Assistant Teaching Professor, Agribusiness Management sce6@psu.edu
  • consumer markets/behavior
  • farm & small firm management
  • technology adoption
  • marketing strategies & techniques
Mark A. Gagnon, Ph.D. Harbaugh Entrepreneur and Innovation Faculty Scholar, mag199@psu.edu
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strategy
  • Agritech entrepreneurship
  • Bio-renewable building product technologies
  • Firm-industry analytics
Sarah Goslee, Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor of Agronomy, USDA-ARS sarah.goslee@ars.usda.gov
  • Habitat Quality Monitoring
Travis Masterson Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention tpm5262@psu.edu
  • Virtual and mixed reality environments for ingestive behavior research;
  • fMRI and behavioral technology for food cue responses;
  • AI for distary interventions;
  • digital health promotion
Scott Medina, Ph.D. William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor of Biomedical Engineering shm126@psu.edu
  • Robotics and Biodevices
Laura Rice, Ph.D. Teaching-Research Assistant Professor lls203@psu.edu
Claudia Schmidt, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing and Local/Regional Food Systems czs786@psu.edu
  • Local Food Systems
  • Regional Economics
  • Production Economics
Baxi Zhong, Ph.D. Assistant Professor bqc5667@psu.edu
  • Bio-inspired robotics

Director, TALiS

Paul Heinemann, Ph.D.
  • Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Director, TALiS

Paul Heinemann, Ph.D.
  • Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering