Currently, Maria T. Zuber occupies the position of Chairman of The National Science Foundation.

She is also on the board of Bank of America Corp., Textron, Inc. and The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and Vice President-Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She previously held the position of Chairman for The National Science Board and Geophysicist at National Aeronautics & Space Administration.

Maria T. Zuber received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate degree and a doctorate from Brown University.