Alfred P. Sattelberger, Ph.D.

Associate Laboratory Director,
Energy Sciences and Engineering

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Alfred P. Sattelberger is Argonne's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences and Engineering.

The Energy Sciences and Engineering directorate is made up of:

Sattelberger has been at Argonne since 2006 and has served as the Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Physical, Biological and Computing Sciences, ALD for Physical Sciences and Interim ALD for Applied Sciences and Technology. Currently, he oversees the Energy Sciences and Engineering (ESE) Directorate, which focuses primarily on energyproduction, storage and use and on national/homeland security challenges. ESE's considerable technical expertise spans the physical sciences, several engineering disciplines, nanoscience and technology, and decision and information sciences. ESE's mission is to expand the frontiers of scientific knowledge through world-leading research and development, to create the characterization tools that enable scientific and technological breakthroughs, and to translate discoveries through engineering to useful products for our sponsors and the public.

Sattelberger obtained a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Indiana University and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining Argonne, he was a faculty member in the Chemistry Department at the University of Michigan and a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At Los Alamos, he held several scientific management positions and was named a Senior Laboratory Fellow in 2005. His personal research interests span actinide coordination and organometallic chemistry, fundamental technetium chemistry, metal-metal bonding and catalysis. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a past chair of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society and holds faculty appointments at Northwestern University and the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also lectures occasionally at the University of Chicago.