
Rosemarie Szostak, Ph.D.
“The first lesson of technology innovation is that solutions are not found in the back of a textbook. Innovation is a process requiring a mix of passion, knowledge, foresight, collaboration, and plain old hard work.”
Rosemarie Szostak, Ph.D., advises companies on technology, patents, innovation and disruptive technology. She has 20 plus years as a thought leader and analyst with broad technical knowledge in chemistry, materials and chemical engineering.
Experience
Dr. Szostak has worked in the academic, industrial as well as government sectors. She managed the Philip Morris USA Environmental Footprint Program, assessing corporate operational environmental sustainability needs and leading efforts to reduce the company’s environmental footprint for energy, waste management and recycling, nitrogen and phosphorous discharge, water usage for buildings and manufacturing facilities, and transportation options.
Dr. Szostak was a program manager for the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where her role was to identify and advance new technologies to enhance national security and new military capabilities. Her efforts led to revolutionary alternative energy concepts and the first to recognize and promote the value of changing the energy footprint of military operations.
While with DoD, she worked landmine issues, improvised explosive devises, chemical/biological weapons, and unexploded ordinance. Her work in depleted uranium use during the first Gulf War resulted in her testifying as a scientific expert to a Presidential Commission tasked for that topic.
Areas of Expertise
- Energy/power
- Military/government
- Inorganic chemistry
- Green innovation
Industries
- Energy
- Advanced Materials
Credentials
- Post Doctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles
- B.S., Chemistry/Physics, Georgetown University
Selected Publications
R. Szostak and L.X. Downey, “Renewable Energy Options for Data Centers” with, PowerPulse.net, May 2009
R. Szostak and M Fiore, “Green Innovation is Optically Clear for Data Centers” SPIE Professional Magazine, 2009
R. Szostak, Ecosystem Genomics and Its Application to Army Natural Resources Management, Futurist report, 2006
Patents
“Novel Blue Pigment,” British patent application 1996 (assigned to Unilever)
“Modified Ferrisilicate Molecular Sieves” U. S. Patent No. 4,92,385 (1990), Szostak, V. Nair (assigned to Georgia Tech)
“Ferrisilicate Molecular Sieves” U. S. Pat No. 5,077,026 (1986), R. Szostak, V. Nair (assigned to Georgia Tech)