Richard Silberglitt

Biography

Richard Silberglitt is a senior physical scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has worked in academia, government, and private industry for more than 30 years performing, evaluating, and managing research in advanced technology areas; has lectured widely on emerging technologies in the United States and Asia; and is currently serving as chair of the International Advisory Board of the APEC Center for Technology Foresight, Bangkok, Thailand. He led a road-mapping effort for the U.S. government's Nano-Enabled Technology Initiative, was a member of the Chemical Industry Vision 2020 team, and participated in the National Nanotechnology Initiative's Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensing Workshop.

In addition to his technology foresight work, Silberglitt has coauthored the development of a method for research and development (R&D) portfolio analysis and management that has been expanded and modified for use by the U.S. Army, Navy, and National Security Agency. He has published more than 100 journal and proceedings articles and reports, and holds two patents.

Prior to joining RAND, Silberglitt worked in the private sector, as well as at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Brookhaven National Laboratory; the U.S. National Science Foundation; and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Silberglitt received his B.S. in physics from Stevens Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in solid state physics from the University of Pennsylvania.