Trisha Miller is responsible for supporting CSU faculty, leadership, and other R&D partners in identifying funding opportunities, nurturing partnerships, and developing proposals that further the goals of CSU’s research enterprise. As a Research and Proposal Development Manager, Trisha will help ensure that proposals highlight the strengths of the team and the institution, clearly communicate the innovation and impact of the proposed research, and are responsive to the sponsor needs and requirements. Her background is in bioinorganic chemistry with a BS in Chemistry from Creighton University and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California Berkeley. After graduate school, she was a National Security Analyst at Sandia National Laboratories where she led several analysis projects for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Energy (DOE) focused on chemical security, critical infrastructure risk, emergency management, and cyber deterrence and resilience. Before joining CSU, Trisha was on the leadership team at a data science and data visualization startup where she led a division focused on partnering with National Laboratories to help translate R&D into practice. Trisha has also served on two committees for the National Research Council focused on the destruction of chemical weapons and was an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Augsburg College from 2012-2016.