Administrative Contacts | Department of Astronomy

Department Chair

Name	Title	Email
Jessica Werk	Professor and Chair	astrochr@uw.edu

Finance and Administration

Name	Title	Email
Melisa Anderson	Administrator Finance and Budgeting; Policy and Compliance; Personnel; Operations and Administration	melisa3@uw.edu
Ashley Detert	Human Resources Specialist HR and Payroll; Workday; Hiring & Personnel Actions; Costing allocations; Academic HR	detera@uw.edu astrohr@uw.edu (HR) astropay@uw.edu (Payroll)
Jessica Ness	Senior Grants Manager Grants Management; Compliance; Pre-award; Post-award, Financial Reporting; Fiscal administrative support; GCCR's	crabbj@uw.edu
Liza Young	Office Manager, Administrative Specialist Managing front office, Purchasing; Reimbursements; Travel; Communications and Website; Keys; Academic support	liza14@uw.edu Front Office: uwastro@uw.edu

Academic Services

Name	Title	Email
	Senior Academic Counselor Graduate Program Advisor (GPA) Undergraduate Advising	astroadvising@uw.edu
Matt McQuinn	Undergraduate Program Coordinator Associate Professor	mcquinn@uw.edu
Mario Juric	Graduate Program Coordinator Professor	mjuric@uw.edu

Computing Support (PACS)

Name	Title	Email
Emile Bakelaar Sarah Kaye Shane Debolt Alan Jedlow Bill Somsky	Physics and Astronomy Computing Support IT helpdesk; Computing equipment; System administration	help@astro.washington.edu

Name

Title

Emile Bakelaar Sarah Kaye Shane Debolt Alan Jedlow Bill Somsky

IT helpdesk; Computing equipment; System administration

Facilities/Building Support

Name	Title	Email
Jason Alferness	PAB Building Coordinator Building and Maintenance Resources	alf@uw.edu

Name

Title

Jason Alferness

PAB Building Coordinator