Dr. Charles Dunlap is the Director of the Research Competitiveness Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has worked for more than two decades leading the design and implementation of programs to strengthen research capacity and competitiveness in more than forty countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
His work on evaluation and assessment includes developing and leading the evaluation of multi-national STEM projects; providing strategic assessments for national university systems and governments; and leading a group at AAAS that has provided the assessment for more than $1 billion in STEM initiatives. His work on peer-review systems includes training and overseeing national funding organizations; creating and leading the International Funding Agency Symposium for the U.S. National Science Foundation; designing and implementating national and regional grant programs; and overseeing the review of more than 1,000 proposals each year in all fields of the sciences and engineering. He has developed and assessed national digital science libraries for ten countries; taught short courses for more than 5,000 researchers and graduate students; led the annual implementation of an international technology entrepreneurship competition, with applicants from 120 countries, for the U.S. Department of State; and organized three international science policy conferences.
Dr. Dunlap received his Ph.D. in geology/geochemistry in 1996 from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he received a U.C. Regents Graduate Fellowship and an IGPP Fellowship for research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His primary research publications have been in the field of isotope geochemistry, using stable lead isotopes to trace the origin, transport, and fate of toxic metals.
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