Bio: Melanie Loots

Melanie Loots is an Associate Vice Chancellor for Research. Her responsibilities include policy development, strategic and tactical planning for the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, work with faculty and staff to implement the University Policy on Conflicts and Interest on the Urbana campus, and liaison to several cross-disciplinary campus units. Loots has served on several panels and committees, including National Science Foundation review panels, the NASA SEDAC user working group, and the NRC Committee for CODATA, as well as organizational and program committees for technical conferences, such as Supercomputing '95. From 1991-2000, she directed the Applications Division of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.