Principal Investigator
Martin Wybourne is the Vice Provost of Dartmouth College. He is a also the Francis and Mildred Sears Professor of Physics. In addition, he serves as Chair & Principal Investigator of the I3P.
Wybourne's physics research focuses on the electrical, thermal and mechanical properties of nanoscale systems, ranging from semiconductor devices to nanoparticles organized on biological molecules. Wybourne has published more than 100 peer-viewed papers and holds nine patents. He has been a visiting professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, L’École Normale Supèrieure, Paris, and has organized and chaired numerous international physics conferences. He is also Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
Wybourne has both a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Nottingham. Before coming to Dartmouth, he was a professor at the University of Oregon and also directed the Phonon Physics Research Tea, at GEC Research Laboratories in London.
Executive Director
Martha Austin is the Executive Director of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) at Dartmouth College. In this role she is responsible for the strategic and administrative direction of the I3P. Prior to joining the I3P, Ms. Austin worked for 20 years in the public sector. She most recently served as the Executive Director of the Teton Valley Hospital Foundation in rural Idaho. She has also worked in a variety of positions in the office of United States Senator Judd Gregg, including Chief of Staff in Senator Gregg's Washington DC office from 1992-1995, and as a policy advisor and program director in New Hampshire from 1997-2005. Before joining the Staff of then Governor Judd Gregg in 1990, Ms. Austin served as Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont.
She has a master's in business administration from Yale University, and a bachelor's degree in English literature from Mt. Holyoke College.
Director of Research
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger joined the I3P in 2010. Previously, she was a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation, after serving many years as president of Systems/Software, Inc., a consultancy specializing in software engineering and technology. Earlier in her career, she was a developer and maintainer for real-time, business-critical software systems, a principal scientist at MITRE Corporation's Software Engineering Center, and manager of the measurement program at the Contel Technology Center. She has also held several research and teaching positions at well-respected universities in the US and the UK. She is well-known for her work in empirical studies of software engineering, is the author of many books and articles, and has been named repeatedly by the Journal of Systems and Software as one of the world's top software engineering researchers. Shari earned a BA in mathematics from Harpur College, an MA in mathematics from Penn State, an MS in planning from Penn State, a PhD in information technology and engineering from George Mason University, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Binghamton University.
Associate Director of Research & Operations
Heather Drinan holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, as well as an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. She has worked on committee staff at the US Senate, as a data analyst at the Drug Enforcement Administration, and as a communications consultant for William M. Mercer in Chicago. Heather has been at the I3P since July 2004.
Assistant Director for Communications and Events
Nicole joined the I3P in 2002. Before coming to Dartmouth, she worked for SMITHS Medical Systems in Keene, New Hampshire in the Marketing Department as a Marketing Coordinator. Nicole holds a B.S. in Business Management from Keene State College and A.S. in General Business from Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont.
Communications Assistant
Kiel Alarcón graduated from Castleton State College with a BS in Communications. He is involved with the design of the I3P website and publications as well as other forms of media outreach.
