Event Speakers

Dr. Thomas Bowles
Science Advisor to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
On assignment from Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thomas Bowles was appointed as Science Advisor to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson in July 2006. Bowles is responsible for providing advice to the Governor on science and technology (S&T) issues, integrating S&T activities across New Mexico, and working with the national laboratories, universities, and industry in New Mexico to couple advances in S&T into the public sector. Bowles serves as the state lead for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center and the New Mexico Green Grid Initiative.

Bowles previously served as the Chief Science Offi cer of Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had oversight of the full range of science and technology at the Laboratory. As a member of the senior executive board, Bowles had oversight of $100M annually in discretionary research funds, served as the Laboratory’s principal science contact with other institutions, and had responsibility for ensuring the vitality of the scientifi c staff , oversight of external scientific reviews, and strategic science planning.

Bowles has had a distinguished scientific career, leading international collaborations in neutrino astrophysics and fundamental symmetries. He is a Fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as being an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Bowles has received a number of awards, including the M.A. Markov Prize from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Bowles earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Colorado and his doctoral degree in physics from Princeton University.