Linda Beth Schilling

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Professional Background

As Director of the Chemistry & Life Sciences Office with the Advanced Technology Program (www.atp.nist.gov) at NIST since October 1996, Ms. Schilling manages R&D program development in chemistry and life sciences.  She supervises a staff of 16 scientific/technical and business/economist project managers across two technical groups that evaluate proposals and manage ATP awards. Ms. Schilling is a chemical engineer, whose technical achievements as an ATP program manager include developing with industry a 1995 ATP Focused Program in Catalysis and Biocatalysis Technologies.  Ms. Schilling received the first NIST George A. Uriano award in December 1996 for strengthening the ties of ATP to the chemical industry and improvements to the ATP competition process.   Ms. Schilling has completed several management detail assignments within ATP as the Acting Deputy Director, and the Acting Director Electronics & Photonics Office, while performing her duties as the Director of the Chemistry and Life Sciences Office.  Through special appointments, Ms. Schilling has acted as the Selecting Official for several ATP general and focused competitions, involving technologies across biotechnology, chemistry and materials, information technology, electronics and photonics and manufacturing.  Ms. Schilling provided expertise in 2003 to the Department of Homeland Security Office of SAFETY Act Implementation, as they created the review process for issuing homeland security technology certifications.  In 2004, Ms. Schilling was appointed to participate in the NIST Biosystems & Health Strategic Working Group and recently began a rotation as the Chair to the Strategic Working Group.

Prior to joining the ATP, Ms. Schilling was a Program Manager in the Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).  While at DOE, Ms. Schilling completed a special assignment in to the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Energy on the coordinating, editing, and briefings associated with the publication of the 1993/94 Domestic Natural Gas and Oil Initiative.  Ms. Schilling combines her Federal service with  previous private sector experience as a Senior Reservoir Engineer/Project Manager for offshore oil and gas field development programs for Shell Offshore Inc. from 1981-89, including special projects in fluid flow simulation and property acquisitions.  Ms. Schilling obtained her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara .   

Date Created: June 1996
Last Update: July 14, 2005

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