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Uma Chowdhry is senior vice president and chief science and technology officer. She joined DuPont in 1977 as a research scientist in Central Research & Development at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Del. She spent the first 11 years of her career in CR&D in various research and management roles.
From 1988 to 1992 Dr. Chowdhry served as lab director and business manager in the Electronics Department before she moved to the Chemicals Sector as lab director of Jackson Lab. From 1993 to 1995, she served as R&D director for Specialty Chemicals and was appointed business director for the DuPont Terathane® business in 1995. In 1997, Dr. Chowdhry moved back to Specialty Chemicals as business planning and R&D director. In 1999, she was appointed director of DuPont Engineering's Technology division (DuET) and was named vice president - Central Research & Development in August 2002. In December 2004, she assumed responsibility for the company's core research programs and the DuPont "APEX" research program. In June 2006, she was appointed senior vice president and Chief Technology Officer.
For her contributions to the science of ceramics, Dr. Chowdhry was elected "Fellow" of the American Ceramic Society in 1989. For work ranging from catalysts to superconductors, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
Dr. Chowdhry has served on advisory boards of engineering schools at MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and the University of Delaware as well as on the program advisory board and election subcommittees for the National Academy of Engineering. She has served on the board of directors for the Industrial Research Institute, the national Inventors' Hall of Fame, the Secretary of Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Committee and a Laboratory Operations Board for the Department of Energy for the US Government. Dr. Chowdhry currently serves on the National Academy's committee for science and public policy.
Born and raised in Mumbai, India, she came to the United States in 1968 with a B.S. in physics from Indian Institute of Science, Mumbai University, received an M.S. from Caltech in engineering science in 1970 and a Ph.D. in materials science from MIT in 1976. | 