About me
Melinda Keefe is a R&D Director at Dow. She is responsible for a global team and capabilities that enable Formulation & Materials Science based technical solutions for Dow businesses and customers in Plastic Packaging, Industrial Intermediates, Consumer Solutions and Coating markets. She is also responsible for Dow’s R&D Laboratory Automation team that designs, builds, and implements bespoke robotic and process control systems for Dow R&D. Prior to her current role- Melinda was a scientist in Dow’s coating business. Her technical work has focused on the synthesis and application testing of new binders and plastic pigments for paint. As a side effort, she leads an on-going collaboration between Dow and the art conservation community to leverage Dow’s technical capabilities to specific challenges in cultural heritage restoration of painted surfaces.
She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Penn State in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Northwestern University in 2001. She joined Dow in 2001.
