Presenter

Dr. Frederica Darema, a Senior Executive Member (SES), retired in January 2019 as the Director of Air Force Office of Scientific Research. In that position she led the entire basic research investment for the AF, an over $500 million investment portfolio on revolutionary research impacting the future AF, and transitioning the discoveries to defense industries & broader commercial sector. Dr. Darema is a graduate of the U of Athens, Greece (BS Physics and Mathematics), the Illinois Inst of Tech (MS Nuclear Physics), and UCDavis (PhD Nuclear Physics), & was a Fulbright Scholar and a Distinguished Scholar. After Physics Research positions at the U of Pittsburgh and Brookhaven Nat’l Lab, she was Technical Staff Member at Schlumberger (SDR). Has held management and executive level positions: at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Center& the IBM Corporate Strategy Group; at NSF and 2-years at DARPA; and Director of the AFOSR Directorate for Information, Math& Life Sciences. See also https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108635/dr-frederica-darema/