Dr. Ken Wickiser, the Associate Dean for Research heads the Academic Research Division, and serves as the focal point for research and liaison to external research agencies. Advises the Dean on matters pertaining to academic research and leveraging faculty expertise to the Army and our nation. Provides the institutional oversight on all research activities and research resourcing at West Point.
After earning a B.S. in engineering physics from the United States Military Academy in 1992, Dr. Wickiser commissioned as an aviation officer and has Army experience in aerial exploitation (SIGINT) operations. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University, he conducted three years of post-doctoral research at The Rockefeller University’s Laboratory for Molecular Neuro-oncology studying the molecular underpinnings of terminal neurodegenerative diseases. He’s been a faculty member at West Point since 2007 and has been involved in engineering, clinical biochemistry, and synthetic biology projects since then.
