Bank of America‘s board of directors appointed Dr. Maria Zuber as a director on the Enterprise Risk and Corporate Governance Committees, effective immediately.

Zuber currently serves as the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and the vice president for research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is responsible for research administration and policy, as well as overseeing MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. She chairs the National Science Board, having been appointed as a member by President Barack Obama in 2013. Since 2010, she has also served as a senior research scientist at NASA. In 2004, President Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy.

In 2002, Discover magazine named Zuber one of the 50 most important women in science, and in 2008, she was named to the U.S. News & World Report/Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership List of America’s Best Leaders.

“Dr. Zuber brings to our board diverse perspectives in several areas, including technology and risk management,” said Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan. “We look forward to benefiting from her unique talents and experience.”