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Updated: July 29, 2025

UC BERKELEY –

VICE CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCH

  • Animal Care & Use
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Laboratory & Environmental Biosafety
  • Laboratory Operations & Safety
  • Non-Ionizing Radiation Safety
  • Protection of Human Subjects
  • Radiation Safety
  • Research Compliance Advisory
  • Research Misconduct
  • Scientific Diving & Small Boat Safety
  • Stem Cell Research Oversight

GLOBAL, INTERNATIONAL & AREA STUDIES

  • Center for African Studies
  • Center for Latin American Studies
  • Center for Middle Eastern Studies
  • Institute of European Studies
  • Institute of International Studies
  • Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • Institute for South Asia Studies
  • Institute of East Asian Studies
  • Industry Alliances Office
  • Office of Technology Licensing

Director

Office of Laboratory Animal Care

GREG TIMMEL

Assistant Vice Chancellor &

Chief of Staff

ELIZABETH BRASHERS

Research Units

LIFE, MATH & PHYSICAL SCIENCES

  • Bakar Labs
  • California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences*
  • Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
  • Miller Institute for Basic Research
  • Radio Astronomy Laboratory
  • Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
  • Space Sciences Laboratory
  • Stem Cell Center

SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES

  • Archaeological Research Facility
  • California Health Benefits Review Program
  • Center for Effective Global Action
  • Center for Race and Gender
  • Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
  • Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
  • Institute of Governmental Studies
  • Institute of Human Development
  • Institute of Personality & Social Research
  • Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
  • Institute for the Study of Societal Issues

ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

  • Blum Center for Developing Economies
  • Center for Environmental Design Research
  • Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society*
  • Energy & Biosciences Institute
  • Institute of Transportation Studies
  • Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute

Chancellor

RICH LYONS

Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost

BENJAMIN E. HERMALIN

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Associate Vice Chancellor

for Research

LOK SIU

Assistant Director

Visiting Scholar & Postdoc Affairs Office

CECILIA FURA

Director

Berkeley Research Development Office

DAVID TRINKLE

Executive Director

Office of Environment, Health & Safety

ALICIA BIHLER

  • Innovative Genomics Institute Intellectual Property Director
  • Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center
  • Berkeley SkyDeck
  • Sponsored Projects Office
  • Office of Animal Care & Use
  • Office for the Protection of Human Subjects

Assistant Vice Chancellor

Intellectual Prop & Industry Research Alliances

CAROL MIMURA

Research Support Offices

Assistant Vice Chancellor

Research Administration & Compliance

KAIRI WILLIAMS

*California Institute for Science & Innovation

Museums, Science Centers & Field Stations

VCR Immediate Office

Compliance Committees

Vice Chancellor for Research

KATHERINE A. YELICK

Director

Research IT

KEN LUTZ

BERKELEY FIELD STATIONS

  • Angelo Coastal Range Reserve
  • Blue Oak Ranch Reserve
  • Central Sierra Snow Laboratory
  • Hastings Natural History Reservation
  • Point Reyes Field Station
  • Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station
  • Sagehen Creek Field Station
  • Lawrence Hall of Science
  • Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • UC Botanical Garden
  • Berkeley Natural History Museums
  • Essig Museum of Entomology
  • Human Evolution Research Center
  • Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
  • UC Museum of Paleontology
  • University & Jepson Herbaria

Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Officer

DARREN COOKE, INTERIM