Doon Gibbs
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Responsibilities
Brookhaven Lab employs about 2,600 scientists, engineers,
technicians and support staff and has an annual budget of
approximately $500
million. In his position at the Laboratory, Gibbs works closely with
the Laboratory Director, Associate and Assistant Laboratory
Directors, and the Science & Technology Steering Committee of the
Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) Board in charting and
implementing the
Laboratory’s future direction in science. Home to six Nobel Prizes,
Brookhaven has major programs in nuclear and high-energy physics,
physics and chemistry of materials, environmental and energy
research, nonproliferation, neurosciences and medical imaging, and
structural biology.
Biographical Information
- B.A. in physics and mathematics from the University of Utah, 1977
- M.S. physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979
- Ph.D., physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982
- Joined Brookhaven in 1983 as an assistant physicist
- Became senior physicist at Brookhaven in 2000
- Past Group Leader of X-Ray Scattering
- Past Associate and Deputy Chair of Physics
- Past Head of Condensed Matter Physics
- Past Interim Director for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials
- Past Associate Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences
- Interests: X-ray scattering studies of the structure and phase
behavior of magnetic materials, their films and interfaces.
- Recognition: Arthur H. Compton Award, DOE Outstanding Scientific
Accomplishment; EP Wohlfarth Lecture, Fellowship in American Physical
Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science
Last Modified: February 20, 2008
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