Dr. Christopher L. Greer
Director
Dr. Chris Greer joins the National Coordination Office from the National Science Foundation, where he served as Program Director for the Office of Cyberinfrastructure and was responsible for strategic planning for digital data activities. Dr Greer has also served as Program Director in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and Cyberinfrastructure Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Director for Biological Sciences and Executive Secretary for the Long-lived Digital Data Collections Activities of the National Science Board. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data of the (NSTC) Committee on Science.
Dr. Greer received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and did his postdoctoral work at CalTech. Dr. Greer was a member of the faculty at the University of California at Irvine in the Department of Biological Chemistry for approximately 18 years where his research on gene expression pathways was supported by grants from the NSF, NIH, and the American Heart Association. During that time, he was founding Executive Officer of the RNA Society, an international professional organization with more than 700 members from 21 countries worldwide.
