Kate Peretti, PhD, is the Program Manager the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) Secure and Sustainable Materials subprogram. Prior to this, she was the Program Manager for the AMO Consortia pillar. She came to AMO as a AAAS Science and Technology Fellow in 2018, where she worked primarily on projects funded through the RAPID Institute on process intensification and modularization. Her portfolio includes material sustainability where she works on material recyclability, particularly of plastics, and topics related to the circular economy.
Prior to arriving at DOE, she spent a decade in industry where she worked in chemicals research as a lab supervisor and product manager.
She graduated with a BA in Chemistry and Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and earned her PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cornell in 2007.