Darlene Schuster

Darlene S. Schuster is an American chemical engineer who served as the chief executive officer and executive director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers from 2022 to 2024. She was the Clare Boothe Luce Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University.

Career path Schuster earned a B.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1990) in chemical engineering West Virginia University. She received a M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

For more than 20 years, Schuster worked for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Schuster worked as a research engineer at Chevron Oil Field Research Company in La Habra, California. She was later a senior engineer for Gulf Oil Production Research Company in Houston.

Awards Darlene earned a Science Policy Fellowship with the American Chemical Society, where she helped educate Congress and their staff on key technical policy issues.

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