Sarah Naumes

Sarah Naumes is the Senior Director of Strategic Research Development at Columbia Engineering, where she leads strategic research development and supports the development of large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiatives. She works with faculty to shape competitive, complex proposals, build interdisciplinary teams, and develop strategies and processes that strengthen research development across the school. Her work focuses particularly on center-scale opportunities, emerging funding priorities, and the development of new approaches and tools to support proposal development. She has lived and worked in both Canada and the United States.