Christopher N. Bowman (born March 9, 1967) is an American chemical engineer, and the James and Catherine Patten Endowed Chair at University of Colorado Boulder.
He earned a bachelor's degree and doctorate from Purdue University.[1] Bowman began teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1992,[2] and was named a distinguished professor in 2012.[3][4] He became a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2018[2] and received the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings from the American Chemical Society's Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering that same year.[5] He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Bowman married Kristi Anseth in 2003.[6]