Radenka Maric

Radenka Maric is vice president for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, where she oversees the university’s $375 million research enterprise at the main campus in Storrs, the UConn Health campus in Farmington, the School of Law in Hartford, and four regional campuses around the state. Previously, Maric served as the inaugural executive director of UConn’s $132 million Innovation Partnership Building, which houses state-of-the-art specialized equipment and research centers of excellence and serves as a nexus for industry-academic partnerships.

Maric is the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Professor of Sustainable Energy in the University of Connecticut’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She brings her technical background in materials and energy to create, manage and lead innovative programs designed to commercialize new products and develop emerging markets that utilize advanced materials. She has expertise in integrating emerging market needs with technology capabilities to define the vision and strategies of scientific organizations, building and leading diverse teams, prioritizing programs for market development and commercialization, and managing diverse scientific and engineering project portfolios.