Human Resources Team

PSD Human Resources Team and Unit Assignments

Tayra Hilton

Tayra Hilton

Human Resources Generalist
thilton@uchicago.edu
T: 773-702-4780

Tayra supports staff, student, and academic hiring processes in Workday by developing job descriptions, interviewing, running candidate reference checks, generating approved employment offers, and conducting Workday onboarding.

Tayra is the main point of contact for all HR related matters for the Departments of Chemistry, Geophysical Sciences, GSE Cars, Math, Statistics and UChicago STEM Ed.


Raven Jones

Raven Jones

Human Resources Generalist
rjones16@uchicago.edu
T: 773-702-6197

Raven is the main point of contact for all HR related matters for the Enrico Fermi Institute, James Franck Institute, Departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Chemistry, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics.


Hannah Lawrence portrait

Hannah Lawrence

Associate Dean
hkl@uchicago.edu

Hannah is responsible for leadership and oversight of human resources and equity, diversity, and inclusion. She is also currently serving as the PSD's COVID-19 planning lead.


Luisana Romero

Luisana Romero

Human Resources Generalist
lromero1@uchicago.edu
T: 773-702-9440

Luisana is the main point of contact for all HR related matters for the PSD Dean's Office, Physics, Gardner Group, Graphic Arts, IT, Local Business Center, Engineering Technical Support Group, Facilities & Core Facilities.


Caroline Santana

Associate Director of Human Resources
csantana@uchicago.edu
T: 773-834-4325

Caroline provides strategic advice and support for organizational goals, talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, compensation, benefits, and employee and labor relations. 

She manages the PSD’s graduate student pay process working with relevant stakeholders both inside and outside of the division. Caroline specializes in compensation, job architecture and job description design to provide expertise to the entire PSD. She also serves as the HR partner for the Department of Computer Science.