Lawrence H. Dubois
Vice President, Physical Sciences Division, SRI International
Lawrence H. Dubois joined SRI International as Vice President of
the Physical Sciences Division in February 2000. His responsibilities
include developing R&D programs to provide valuable solutions to
government and commercial clients and pursuing partnerships and
alliances that leverage SRI’s capabilities and intellectual
property. Under his direction, the Division pursues research on advanced
materials, microfabrication, power sources, molecular and optical
physics, catalysts, coatings and environmentally benign processing.
Dubois was with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
from 1995-2000, where he served as Director of the Defense Sciences
Office. He was responsible for managing an annual R&D budget of more
than $300 million and 25 technical program managers in the areas of
advanced materials, energy and environmental technologies, unexploded
ordnance detection, design and manufacturing technologies, biological
warfare defense, and biomedical materials and technologies.
Prior to DARPA, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and
a Technical Manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories; a Research Assistant
in the Materials and Molecular Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory; a Teaching Assistant at the University of California,
Berkeley; and a Technical Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.Dubois has an SB in chemistry from MIT and a Ph.D. in
physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He has
published more than 125 papers in refereed journals and books and holds
four U.S. patents. His awards and honors include the Office of the
Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1998, and an
IR100 Award for a spectroscopy development.
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