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DEPS Executive Office StaffPeter D. Blair, Executive Director
Sheryl Bottner, Manager, Web Communications
Dennis Chamot, Associate Executive Director for Special Projects
Liz Fikre, Editor
Sylvia Gilbert, Executive Assistant
Maria Jones, Report Review/Administrative Coordinator
Susan Maurizi, Senior Editor
Liz Panos, Reports Officer
Dick Rowberg, Associate Executive Director for Communications
Dorothy Sawicki, Editor
Sharon Segal, Financial Officer
Demond Vega-Pancho, Administrative Assistant
Susan Wyatt, Administrative Officer
Contact InformationDivision on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS)
National Research Council
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Telephone: (202) 334-2400
Fax: (202) 334-1528
E-mail: deps@nas.edu for general inquiries
E-mail: sbottner@nas.edu for Web site issues
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Dr. Peter Blair joined the Division for Engineering and Physical Sciences as Executive Director in January 2001. At the time of his appointment he was executive director of Sigma Xi and an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy Analysis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1983-1996 he served in several capacities at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, concluding as Assistant Director of the agency and Director of the Division of Industry, Commerce and International Security. Prior to his government service, Dr. Blair served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and was co-founder and principal of Technecon Consulting Group, Inc., and engineering-economic consulting firm in Philadelphia.
Dr. Blair holds a B.S. in engineering from Swarthmore College, an M.S.E. in systems engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or co-author of three books and over a hundred technical articles in areas of energy and environmental policy, regional science and input-output analysis.
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Dr. Richard E. Rowberg serves currently as Associate Executive Director for Communications in the Division of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Research Council of the National Academies. He retired from the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress at the end of 2001. He was a Senior Specialist in Science and Technology with the Resources, Science, and Industry Division of CRS from 1994 to his retirement. From 1985 to 1994, he was Chief of the Science Policy Research Division of CRS. From 1975 to 1985 he worked for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment where he was manager of the Energy and Materials Program from 1979 to 1985. He also served as a research engineer and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin from 1969 to 1974. He received a BA in physics from UCLA in 1961, and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from UCLA in 1968. Dr. Dennis Chamot serves currently as Associate Executive Director for Special Projects in the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Research Council of the National Academies. Prior to the creation of the division, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the NRC's Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems. Dr. Chamot began his professional career as a research chemist with DuPont. Subsequently he served in several positions with the AFL-CIO, leaving in 1994, when he was executive assistant to the president of the Department for Professional Employees, to join the senior staff of CETS. Dr. Chamot has served as a member of advisory and study committees, including at the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the U.S. Department of Labor, and prior to employment, at the National Research Council. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Chamot earned BS and MS degrees from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now Polytechnic University), Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois, and MBA from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
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