Christie Haupert joins ACEP as Anchorage project manager

September 24, 2020

University Relations

Christie Haupert with her partner, Matias Saari, and their dog, Hillie. Photo by Christie Haupert.
Christie Haupert with her partner, Matias Saari, and their dog, Hillie. Photo by Christie Haupert.


Christie Haupert has joined 性欲社's Alaska Center for Energy and Power as the Anchorage project manager. While not an energy expert, Haupert does have a background in research science and project management. She served as the inaugural technician and manager of the based at the Toolik Field Station (operated and managed by 性欲社's Institute of Arctic Biology), spent a decade working as a project manager for the National Science Foundation's , and most recently worked as a research coordinator for the .

Haupert will help coordinate data, create deliverables and outreach products, and develop stakeholder relationships for the , the and the emerging electric vehicle research efforts.

Although based in Anchorage, Haupert and her partner, Matias Saari, also have a cabin in Fairbanks near Murphy Dome. They enjoy returning to Fairbanks as often as possible, spend much of their free time on trails or up on a mountain ridge. They have a sprint husky, Hillie, from Rooster Tail Kennel in Fairbanks. Named after the mountaineering book 鈥淔reedom of the Hills,鈥 Hillie challenges them each day to get outside and run fast.