Miami nabs Knoedler for innovation role

Alicia Knoedler will join Miami University as vice-president for research and innovation on November 1.
Knoedler will replace Michael Crowder, dean and associate provost of the university’s graduate school who has been leading the Office of Research and Innovation on a temporary basis.
Knoedler is currently a member of the business and operations advisory committee at US government research agency National Science Foundation, and also acts as vice-chairwoman of the foundation’s equal opportunities committee.
She has been a member of the science and technology council of Oklahoma’s state governor since 2015, and director of team innovation at research collaboration tool publisher Exaptive since April last year.
Earlier in her career, Knoedler spent eight and a half years with University of Oklahoma from 2010 until 2018, latterly as executive associate vice-president for research with responsibility for the institution’s Center for Research Program Development.
She was also president of the National Organisation of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) from 2013 until 2014, and returned to the body in 2018 to peer review university research strategies.
Before joining NORDP, Knoedler spent four years with Pennsylvania State University, starting in 2006 as an associate director for corporate and foundation relations before moving to strategic initiatives and research program development in 2008.
Knoedler also held the position of affiliate assistant professor at Pennsylvania State from 2008 until 2010, and was previously assistant director at University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts from 2000 until 2004.