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Kristin A. Bennett, Ph.D.
SMI Advisor

Dr. Kristin Bennett brings over 20 years of her technical and management experience at the Department of Energy to the SMI team. She has specialized in creating innovative University – Industry – National Laboratory partnerships in the areas of nanotechnology, advanced materials and instrumentation to accelerate basic and applied research for energy security.

She founded KB Science, LLC this year to offer research and government relations consulting services to universities, small and medium sized companies, non-profits and national laboratories to target, capture, and secure U.S. Government and private sector contracts and grants. She has been working with SMI for the past two years providing opportunity assessment and advice, proposal development and project management support.

As a consultant, Dr. Bennett has served as an advisor on topics across the energy sector; advanced materials for photovoltaics, vehicles systems, hydrogen generation, smart grids, wind and building technologies, superconductors, and international science research parks, science education and federal-state partnerships.

Before becoming a research consultant, Dr. Bennett worked at the DOE as a senior Program Manager in the Office of Basic Energy Sciences where she led inception to completion of the DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers worth over $480 million for DOE, and led project direction for advanced instrumentation programs for ultra fast laser, light and neutron sources. Dr. Bennett also served as program manager for the DOE Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) after nearly ten years as a Technical Staff Member and Project Manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Dr. Bennett earned her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Geology and her B.S. from Trinity College in Mechanical Engineering. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam Germany (1994-1995) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California.

kbennett@kbscience.com

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