Christopher N. Bowman

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. Bowman began teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1992, and was named a distinguished professor in 2012. He became a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2018 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. He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Bowman married Kristi Anseth in 2003.