Jennifer Gottwald is a Senior Licensing Manager at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), where she has worked for sixteen years. WARF manages the patenting and licensing of the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW), the WiCell Research Institute, and the Morgridge Institute for Research. Dr. Gottwald is responsible for the licensing of a portfolio of life science research tool and biotechnology intellectual properties, including green technologies. She also leads the WARF Clean Technologies Accelerator group. She is a Certified Licensing Professional and Patent Agent. She received a B.S. in botany and German literature, and a Ph.D. in plant molecular biology, from the UW. She lectures in the M.S. in Biotechnology program at the UW, is a trustee of the WiSys Technology Foundation, serves on the leadership team of LES Wisconsin, and is a founder and active in the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Women Inventors Committee.