Canisius College alumna Kristen Kulinowski ’90, PhD, is the new director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA).
Since 2015, Kulinowski has been a Senate-confirmed member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, and she served as the board’s interim executive authority for the last two years. She also previously worked at Rice University where she held several roles, including director of the International Council on Nanotechnology; executive director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology; and instructor of chemistry. Before that, she was a Congressional Science Policy Fellow.
Kulinowski served as a research staff member at IDA’s STPI from 2011-2015. She led multidisciplinary teams and served as STPI’s liaison to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Kulinowski earned a doctoral degree in 1995 and a master’s degree in 1992, both in chemistry from the University of Rochester. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with honors from Canisius College in 1990.
IDA is a nonprofit corporation that operates three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers in the public interest. IDA answers the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical, and analytic expertise.
Submitted by: Phil Sheridan, PhD, professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
