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Anthony Koppers
Interim Associate Vice President for Research Computing
Affiliated with: VP for Research
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Dr. Anthony Koppers serves as the Interim Associate Vice President for Research Computing at Oregon State University (OSU). In this role, he provides strategic leadership and direction for advancing research computing, high-performance computing (HPC), supercomputing and AI in support of the university’s research and innovation enterprise.

Together with Shayne Huddleston, OSU’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Koppers is co-leading the new Research Computing Office (RCO) where they are combining their expertise to ensure a unified university-wide vision for research computing and technology advancement, and overseeing the acquisition and installation of the NVIDIA supercomputer and other related GPU and AI Services in the Huang Complex data center for use by the university community and OSU’s partners.

Dr. Koppers previously served as the Associate Vice President for Research Advancement and Strategy from 2022-2025 and as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS) from 2019 to 2022. As an Associate Dean, he oversaw the recovery and rebuilding of Burt 2 Hall following the devastating fire in 2018, he guided the college in keeping its large research enterprise highly productive during the COVID pandemic, and he started the upgrading project for the pier and dock in Newport that will host the new OSU research vessel Taani.

Dr. Koppers has a Ph.D. in the Earth Sciences and has been at OSU since 2007 as a faculty member in CEOAS. He has held several leadership roles in the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) that culminated in the 2050 Science Framework and underpin the future of scientific ocean drilling in the United States. As a CEOAS faculty member, he focuses on understanding large-scale geodynamic processes, including the formation and behavior of mantle plumes and convective patterns in Earth’s interior. Since 2007 he is co-director of a multi-user mass spectrometry facility at OSU that specializes in the age determination of geological materials, he was for 14 years co-director of the largest NSF-funded marine sediment core repository in the nation, he is leading the development and maintenance of several online scientific data repositories, and he served as one of five principal investigators on the $350M Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) project for which he designed and oversaw their petabyte scale cyberinfrastructure. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and has secured more than $47M in extramural funding as PI or co-PI from diverse sources.