Mary E. Lidstrom

Mary Lidstrom is the Vice Provost for Research, a Professor in Chemical Engineering and Microbiology and holds the Frank Jungers Chair of Engineering at the University of Washington. She served as Vice Provost for Research from 2005 to October of 2010, served as Interim Provost for the 2010/11 academic year, and then returned to the Office of Research as Vice Provost. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. She received a B.S. in Microbiology from Oregon State University, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Lidstrom conducted postdoctoral work as a Leverhulme Fellow in Microbiology at the University of Sheffield, and has previously held academic appointments in Microbiology at the University of Washington, and in Environmental Engineering Science at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Lidstrom has won major awards for mentoring and for research from the American Society for Microbiology, and has a long history of interdisciplinary research, trainee mentoring and outreach programs.