Academic Personnel and Staff Human Resources

The Academic Personnel and Staff Human Resources unit of the School of Biological Sciences provides the full scope of administrative support for academics and staff in all four sections, the Dean’s Office, and the Business Office. This includes recruitment, appointment, academic review, staff appraisals, labor and employee relations, benefits, leaves, payroll, and timekeeping.

Academics include all ladder rank faculty, teaching professors, adjunct faculty, temporary and continuing lecturers, professional researchers, and postdoctoral scholars.

Staff HR includes administrative and lab staff, student employees, visiting scholars, visiting graduate students, and volunteers.

We assist with...

Academic & Staff Recruitment and Appointment
Academic Reviews
Annual Staff Appraisals
Labor & Employee Relations Support
Classification & Compensation
Benefits
Leaves
Payroll
Reporting
Visas

Contact

For specific inquiries, please see our staff contact list below. Zoom or video calls available upon request.

New Find an AP/HR contact by P.I. name

General Inquiries: aphr@biology.ucsd.edu
Student Hiring Inquiries: biostudenthire@ucsd.edu
Timekeeping Inquiries: biotimekeeping@ucsd.edu

Hours

M-F, 8:00am-4:30pm

Location

Urey Hall, 1700-1800 Suite

Mailing Address

University of California, San Diego
School of Biological Sciences
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code: 0346
La Jolla, CA 92093-0346

Staff

Laura Ta: Senior Director of Academic & Staff HR; lta@ucsd.edu; 858-534-6387

AP and HR unit strategic oversight and supervision; primary contact for all faculty appointments, reviews, leaves, payroll, and benefits

Kim Graves: Lead Academic HR Analyst; kjgraves@ucsd.edu

Adjunct faculty, research scientists, project scientists, specialists, postdoctoral scholars, Unit 18 lecturers, secondary contact for faculty

Kristin Touchet: Academic HR Analyst; ktouchet@ucsd.edu

Adjunct faculty, project scientists, specialists, postdoctoral scholars, Unit 18 lecturers, lab staff, visiting graduate students, visiting scholars

Candace Poon: Academic HR Analyst; ckpoon@ucsd.edu

Adjunct faculty, project scientists, specialists, postdoctoral scholars, Unit 18 lecturers, support for wide variety of other AP actions

Isaiah Gonzalez: Assistant Academic HR Analyst; i2gonzalez@ucsd.edu

Assist with academic personnel actions

Becky Amstadt: Staff HR Supervisor; ramstadt@ucsd.edu

Staff HR unit supervision; primary contact for staff HR inquiries; handles lab and administrative staff, postdoctoral scholars, visiting graduate students, visiting scholars

Samantha Crook: Lead HR Generalist; scrook@ucsd.edu

Lab staff, postdoctoral scholars, visiting graduate students, visiting scholars

Benjamin Reed: HR Generalist; bereed@ucsd.edu

Lab staff, postdoctoral scholars, visiting graduate students, visiting scholars

Nurgess Khurshid: HR Generalist; nakhurshid@ucsd.edu

Lab staff, postdoctoral scholars, visiting graduate students, visiting scholars

Taryn Harrell: HR Generalist; tmharrell@ucsd.edu

Lab staff, postdoctoral scholars, visiting graduate students, visiting scholars

Taylor Thierry: Payroll/Personnel HR Assistant; tthierry@ucsd.edu

Timekeeping and payroll, undergraduate students, volunteers, service awards

Angie Pham: HR Assistant; atp009@ucsd.edu

Assist with human resources actions including staff onboarding and undergraduate students, volunteers