Dr. Caley Allen

Dr. Caley Allen - Managing Director

Caley joined CHASE in January 2022 as the Managing Director. Prior to CHASE, Caley was the Education and Diversity Programs Manager and Interim Managing Director for the NSF STC EBICS at MIT. She was also an active member of several committees across MIT impacting DEI and staff retention inside the School of Engineering. Caley is a graduate of Auburn University, where she earned her PhD in theoretical/computational chemistry with the mentorship of Professor Orlando Acevedo. While she loved her time at Auburn, she will always be a UGA Bulldogs fan! Thereafter, she was a Kimberly-Clark Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech and then a Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, both under the mentorship of Prof. Rigoberto Hernandez. During this time in Prof. Hernandez’s research group, she was a researcher for the NSF CCI Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. She currently lives in Pittsboro North Carolina with her dog Sir Charles Barkelson, her cat Tasha, and her husband Nick. When she is not working, you can usually find her on the disc golf course.