Former Team Members

Haley Holley

Haley is the Director of Operations for GLASE, interacting with the public and GLASE members and managing GLASE’s events and communications. She has a B.S. in Environmental Science from Texas […]

Christopher P. Levine

Christopher P. Levine is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Horticultural Biology focused on Controlled Environment Agriculture. He received his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 2020, where […]

Masaki Kurosaki

Masaki Kurosaki is a master’s student at Cornell University. Masaki received his degree in biological and environmental engineering from Nihon University in Japan in 2017. He joined as an intern […]

Leah Scott, MBA

Leah has diverse public relations, program administration, and marketing communications experience across non-profit and academic organizations. Leah has professional expertise in developing and directing strategic operations around organizational directives including […]

Matthew Goldman

Matthew Goldman received his BS in cellular biology from The State University of New York at Binghamton in 2018. As an undergraduate student, he worked in a Lyme disease research […]

Jack Wellhofer

Jack Wellhofer received his BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2018. As an undergraduate student at RPI, he joined Dr. Tessa Pocock’s laboratory, working with Dr. Pocock […]

Erico Mattos, Ph.D.

Dr. Erico Mattos was the executive director of the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering consortium for 6 years, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Candidus. Erico earned a […]

Arunas Tuzikas, Ph.D.

Dr. Arunas Tuzikas has degrees in Optoelectronic Engineering and Material Science from the Vilnius University (Lithuania). His thesis aims to investigate how controllable spectral power distribution solid state light impacts […]

Tessa Pocock, Ph.D.

Dr. Tessa Pocock is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After obtaining a PhD in plant physiology in […]

Jonathan Allred

Jonathan A. Allred is a PhD student at Cornell University. He received his BS in plant science at Cal Poly Pomona with a focus in field-crops. In 2015, Jonathan joined […]