Contact Us
David Diercks
Director, Shared Instrumentation Facility
Email: ddiercks@mines.edu
Anne Steputis
Administrator, Shared Instrumentation Facility
Email: steputis@mines.edu
Please contact Dave for questions about SIF capabilities and access. Please contact Anne with general questions or for information about industry partners. For instrument-specific questions, please contact the appropriate manager from below.
Amy Ashford
Water Quality Testing Manager
amyashford@mines.edu
Alejandro Barrios
SEM and FIB Manager
alejandro.barrios@mines.edu
Alex Dixon
Nanofabrication, Surface Characterization & Thin Film Deposition Manager
agdixon@mines.edu
Nathan Fennel
Mechanical Testing Coordinator
nfennell@mines.edu
Garrison Hommer
Mechanical Testing Manager
ghommer@mines.edu
Praveen Kumar
TEM & AFM Manager
kumar@mines.edu
Alex Liethen
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Manager
aliethen@mines.edu
Michael Walker
TOF-SIMS Manager
mawalker@mines.edu
Student Support
Sam Saiter
AttoDry 2100
Email: ssaiter@mines.edu
Bio
Sam is an instructor for the AttoDry 2100 and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Physics Department at the Colorado School of Mines. His research focuses on the fabrication and measurement of devices at low temperature for use in quantum information.
Josh Edwards
X-Ray Diffractometers
Email: jmedwards@mines.edu
Bio
Josh is an instructor for the Panalytical Empyrean and X’pert Pro X-Ray Diffractometers and is currently a doctoral candidate in the George S. Ansell Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. His research interests explore new severe plastic deformation processes and the evolution and characterization of ultra-high strength materials with heterogenous structures at the micro- and nanoscale.
Spencer Hunt
Tescan S8252G Raman-SEM/FIB
Email: shunt1@mines.edu
Bio
Spencer Hunt is an instructor for the TESCAN S8252G RAMAN-SEM/FIB and is currently a graduate student in the George S. Ansell Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. His research interests involve solidification and its effect on defect formation in alloy casting and computational fluid flow modeling of alloy casting processes.
David Loyola
Tescan S8252G Raman-SEM/FIB
Email: dsloyola@mines.edu
Bio
David is an instructor for the Tescan S8252G Raman-SEM/FIB and is currently a graduate student in the George S. Ansell Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines.
