Division Committee on Engineering and Physical Sciences Member Biosketches Julia M. Phillips (NAE), Chair, is Director Emeritus and Retired Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sandia National Laboratories. Previous positions at Sandia include Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director, Laboratory Research & Strategy Partnerships; Director, Nuclear Weapons Science and Technology Programs Director, Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, and Director of the DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. After 14 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories, she came to Sandia in 1995. Her research has been in the areas of epitaxial metallic and insulating films on semiconductors, high-temperature superconducting, ferroelectric, and magnetic oxide thin films, and novel transparent conducing materials. Dr. Phillips currently serves as Home Secretary for the National Academy of Engineering and is past chair of the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics and served as president of the Materials Research Society. She served as a member of the Working Group for the 2014 NNI (National Nanotechnology Initiative) Review under the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST). Dr. Philips received the 2008 George E. Pake Prize for outstanding achievements in physics research combined with major success as a manager of research or development. Dr. Phillips is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. She has served on the editorial boards of Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and Applied Physics Reviews. She chaired the Advisory Review Board for Journal of Materials Research and has served as its principal editor. She has edited two books, written three book chapters, and prepared more than 100 journal publications, twelve major review articles, and 45 refereed conference proceedings publications. She also holds five patents. Dr. Phillips holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Yale University and a B.S. in physics from the College of William and Mary. Dan Arvizu (NAE) is Chancellor and the 28th Chief Executive of the New Mexico State University System (NMSU). He has had a long distinguished career in advanced energy research and development, materials and process sciences, and technology commercialization. He started his career in 1973 at Bell Labs, spent 21 years at Sandia National Labs, and in 1998 he joined CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd for 6 years and served as a CTO. In January of 2005 he was appointed the 8th Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado and after 11 years he retired in December of 2015, and is presently Director Emeritus. Dr. Arvizu serves on a number of boards, panels and advisory committees including the State Farm Mutual Insurance Board of Directors, the Singapore International Advisory Panel on Energy, and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy Advisory Council. He was twice Presidentially appointed (Bush in 2004, Obama in 2010) to serve on the National Science Board (NSB), the governing body of the National Science Foundation. He served his last 4 years as the NSB Chairman. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Public Administration. Dr. Arvizu has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Andre w Brown, Jr. (NAE) is currently Chief Technology Officer of his own consulting practice – Diamond Consulting. He provides leadership, guidance and solutions for technology and innovation for major corporations, organizations and NGOs. Dr. Brown serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Automotive Research since 2015, and is an Automotive News PACE Judge since 2016, CES Technology & Innovation Judge since 2016. He advises University of Maryland Fraunhofer Software Institute, Wayne State University College of Engineering, Georgia Tech College of Engineering. Dr. Brown retired as Vice President & Chief Technologist for Delphi Automotive. Dr. Brow n provided leadership on corporate innovation and technology issues to help achieve profitable competitive advantage. He also represented Delphi globally in outside forums on matters of innovation and technology including government and regulatory agencies, customers, alliance partners, vendors, contracting agencies, academia, etc. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Brown had responsibility for common policies, practices, processes and performances across Delphi’s 19,000 member technical community globally and its budget of $1.8 billion, including establishing Delphi’s global engineering footprint with new centers in Poland, India, China, Mexico, etc. Dr. Brown was elected to the NAE in 2002, and has served on the NAE Nominating Committee, the Charles Stark Draper Prize Committee, and the Industrial Manufacturing and Operational Systems Engineering Search Committee (as Search Executive). He has served as chair of the National Academies Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, and the Committee on Fuel Economy of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Phases One and Two. Previously, he served as a member on the NAE Industrial, Manufacturing and Operational Systems Engineering Peer Committee, and the Program Committee; and the National Academies Committee on Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Wayne State University in 1971. He received a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from Wayne State in 1975 and a Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on energy and environmental engineering from the University of Detroit-Mercy in 1978. Thomas Budinger (NAE/NAM) is Faculty Senior Staff Scientist and Professor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and University of California, Berkeley (UCB). He received the B.S. in chemistry (magna cum laude, Regis College, Denver, 1954); the M.S. degree in physical oceanography (University of Washington, Seattle, 1957); the M.D. degree (gold-headed cane award, Univ. of Colo. 1964); and the Ph.D. in physical optics of electron microscopy (Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, 1971). Military service was as the International Ice patrol science officer of the U.S. Coast Guard (1957-1960). At UCB, he has held the Henry Miller Research Medicine Chair (1974 –2008) and he has been professor of bioinstrumentation, electrical engineering, and computer sciences since 1976. In 2004 he completed a six-year appointment as founding chair of the department of bioengineering at Berkeley. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of California Medical Center where he served as director of the Magnetic Resonance Science Center (1993-97). At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he has been Medical Research Division Director (1986– 1992), Head, Center for Functional Imaging (1992-2007), and Faculty Senior Staff Scientist (1986- present). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering where he served as Home Secretary. Claude R. Canizares (NAS) is Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is in space astronomy and astrophysics. At MIT, he served as Director of the Center for Space Research (1990-2001), Associate Provost (2001-2006), Vice President for Research & Associate Provost (2006-2013), and Vice President (2013-2015). He oversaw MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2001-2014). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He served on the Board of Directors of L-3 Technologies (now L3Harris). He has served on numerous advisory committees including the NASA Advisory Council, the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Department of Commerce, and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and chaired the National Academies’ Space Studies Board. He has also received several awards including the Goddard Medal, a decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service to the United States Air Force, and two NASA Public Service Medals. He earned his BA, MA and Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. Uma Chowdhry (NAE) retired in 2010 as senior vice president and Chief Science and Technology Officer of DuPont, responsible for the company's corporately funded global research and development programs. Uma is a materials scientist by training who joined DuPont in 1977 as a research scientist in the Central Research & Development (CR&D) Department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in Wilmington, Delaware. From 1981-88 Uma was a manger in CR&D where she led various groups doing research ranging from heterogeneous catalysts to superconducting materials. In 1988 she moved from CR&D to the Electronics department where she was appointed Lab Director and in 1990 became a business manager for Duont’s thick film paste business with products used to print electronic circuits. In 1992 she moved from the electronics department and was appointed Laboratory Director of the Jackson Laboratory for the Chemicals group. In 1993 she became R&D Director, for Specialty Chemicals. In 1995 she became the Business Director for Terathane, a premium polyether glycol used as a soft