Kelley Rogers, Deputy Director

Photo of Dr. Kelley Rogers wearing a Manufacturing USA logo shirt
Education

Ph.D. Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry — Yale University

B.A. Chemistry — Hendrix College

Kelley Rogers, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director for the Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). OAM also serves as the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office for Manufacturing USA. Kelley received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and a B.A. in Chemistry from Hendrix College. 

Kelley joined NIST in 2015, where she served as the Technical Program Director for Biosciences and Health for the Material Measurements Laboratory. During her time at NIST, she has led the strategic and programmatic oversight of the first Commerce-sponsored Manufacturing USA institute, the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, or NIIMBL. She has also served as the first Chief of the OAM Program Operations Division following the expansion of OAM to address growing statutory responsibilities. As Division Chief, she has been responsible for building the OAM team and infrastructure to develop and manage external financial assistance awards, including for the planned expansion of the Commerce-sponsored Manufacturing USA institutes to include the CHIPS-funded Digital Twins institute and the planned Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Manufacturing institute. 

Kelley previously worked in the biopharmaceutical industry as a Principal Investigator for Antimicrobials Drug Discovery. She was a post-doctoral fellow and staff fellow in the National Institute of Digestive, Diabetes, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), at the National Institutes of Health. Kelley’s research background is in bacterial protein synthesis and gene expression.