Reinhold C. Mann
Associate Laboratory Director
Biological and Environmental Sciences
Reinhold Mann’s research interests have been at the intersection of the physical and computational sciences with the life sciences. His work has addressed nonlinear system identification; analysis of flow cytometric data; image processing and analysis (including applications in biology, medicine, and robotics); pattern recognition in DNA sequences; and computational biosciences. He has been managing multidisciplinary research and development (R&D) teams since 1986 and developed several R&D efforts in intelligent robotics, human-machine interactions, advanced information processing, computational biology, and bioinformatics. In 1991, he chaired the DOE working group on Robotics for Space Exploration. In 1994, he chaired a DOE working group on Computational Biology.
From February 1997 until October 2001 he was Director of the Life Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, an organization comprising some 250 staff members, contractors, visiting faculty, and students, with the mission to advance science and technology to understand complex biological systems and their relationship with human health and the environment. From October 2001 to December 2003, Dr. Mann was the Deputy Director for Science and Technology and Chief Research Officer and Associate Laboratory Director, Fundamental Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In January 2004, he returned to ORNL as Associate Laboratory Director for Biological and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Mann serves on the Board of Visitors for the College of Science at Washington State University. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education
- The Executive Program, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, 1996
- Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), magna cum laude (Physics, Dept. of Biophysics), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Thesis title: "Models for the identification of nonlinear time-invariant systems'' (in German), 1980
- Diplom-Mathematiker (M.S. in Mathematics), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; thesis: "Stability and convergence of multistep methods with variable stepsize for the solution of initial value problems in ordinary differential equations'' (in German) , 1977
Honors and Awards
- Senior Member, IEEE, 2004
- Leader of the Year, ORNL, 1999
- Excellence in Research and Development Award for the Life Sciences Division, ORNL, 1999
- R&D100 Award (with E. C. Uberbacher and R. J. Mural) for GRAIL–DNA pattern recognition system, 1992
- Feodor-Lynen-Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt‑Foundation, Bonn, Germany 1981 – 1982
- International Conference on Systems Science, Wroclaw, Poland; contribution recognized among 10 best papers by young scientists, 1979
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