Kazumi Bolden
Kazumi Bolden joined MSIAC on the 1st of August 2025 as the Technical Specialist Officer for Energetic Materials.
Kazumi graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2007 with a bachelor’s ACS Chemistry degree. They joined the US Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center in 2007 as a synthesis chemist in energetic materials where they focused on creating new energetic material compounds for insensitive munitions applications. In 2012, they transitioned into rocket propellant formulation research for minimum signature and high-performance propellants. In 2015, new processing methods for rocket propellants became available, so Kazumi focused on researching how these new processing methods such as Resonant Acoustic Mixing (RAM) and centrifuge mixing could help advance propellant research. This led to them organizing several domestic and international collaborative projects expanding the knowledge base for processing energetic materials using these new methods.
