Interim Laboratory Director, Associate Laboratory Directors and Chief Financial Officer
A. Paul Alivisatos
Berkeley Lab Interim Director
Phone: (510) 486-4999 | Fax: (510) 486-7768
Location: 50A-4119 | Mail Stop: 50A-4119
APAlivisatos@lbl.gov
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Paul Alivisatos was appointed interim director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory by UC President Mark G. Yudof on January 21, 2009. Alivisatos replaced former laboratory Director Steve Chu, who was sworn in as U.S. Energy Secretary. Prior to becoming interim director, Alivisatos was the deputy director of Berkeley Lab, serving as the lab’s chief research officer, overseeing the discretionary research budget, key research initiatives and technology transfer functions. In addition, he assisted the director in developing the overall strategic direction and institutional planning for the laboratory. Alivisatos is a leader of Berkeley Lab’s Helios solar research initiative, where he directs ground-breaking research on artificial photosynthesis and photovoltaic technology through the creation of nano-inspired devices.
From 2005-2007, prior to being named deputy director of Berkeley Lab, Alivisatos was associate laboratory director for physical sciences. From 2002-2008 he was director of the materials sciences division and from 2001-2005 he was director of the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab. Alivisatos has been a member of the faculty at UC Berkeley since 1988. He is currently the Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology and a professor in the departments of materials science and chemistry.
Alivisatos is a scientific founder of Quantum Dot Corp. and Nanosys Inc., and a board member of Solexant Inc. He is the founding editor of Nano Letters, a publication of the American Chemical Society.
Alivisatos has published widely and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Eni Italgas Prize for Energy and Environment, the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics Award, the Wilson Prize, the Coblentz Award for Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy, and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Awards for Sustained Outstanding Research in Materials Chemistry and Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry. He has held fellowships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Alivisatos attended the University of Chicago and received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry with Honors in 1981. He continued his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1986, he went to AT&T Bell Labs where he worked as a postdoctoral, and it was at this time that he first became involved in research related to Nanotechnology. In 1988, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley and became a principal investigator at Berkeley Lab. His research has earned him recognition as a leading authority on colloidal nanocrystal science.
For more about Paul Alivisatos and his research, visit his Website at http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/pagrp/paulbio.html.
Jay D. Keasling
Acting Deputy Laboratory Director
Phone: (510) 495-2620 | Fax: (510) 495-2630
Location: 978-4000 | Mail Stop: 978R4121
JDKeasling@lbl.gov
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Jay Keasling was named as Berkeley Lab’s Acting Deputy Director in March, 2009. While serving in this interim position he continues his duties as the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute and as a professor of chemical and bioengineering at the University of California Berkeley. From April 2005 to June 2009 he served as Director of Berkeley Lab’s Physical Biosciences Division. He joined that division in 1992 and in 2002 became the first head of its Synthetic Biology Department. In addition, he directs UC Berkeley’s Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center and is also a founder of Amyris Biotechnologies, a leading firm in the development of renewable fuels and chemicals.
Keasling is one of the foremost authorities in the field of synthetic biology research. His work has focused on engineering microorganisms for the environmentally friendly synthesis of small molecules or degradation of environmental contaminants. He led the breakthrough research in which bacteria and yeast were engineered to perform most of the chemistry needed to make artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today. In 2004, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $42.6 million grant to further develop the technology which is now nearing commercialization. For this research, Keasling received the 2009 Biotech Humanitarian Award from the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Keasling is now applying his synthetic biology techniques towards the production of advanced carbon-neutral biofuels that can replace gasoline on a gallon-for-gallon basis.
Keasling grew up on his family's corn and soybean farm in Harvard, Nebraska, then earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska, and his graduate degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Professional Progress Award (2007) and Scientist of the Year, Discovery Magazine (2006). He is a Fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology (2007) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2000). In 2006, he was also cited by Newsweek as one of the country’s 10 most esteemed biologists.
James T. Krupnick
Associate Laboratory Director for Operations/Chief Operating Officer
Phone: (510) 486-6480 | Fax: (510) 486-6498
Location: 50A-4112E | Mail Stop: 50A4112
JTKrupnick@lbl.gov
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Berkeley Lab’s ALD for Operations/Chief Operating Officer oversees the Laboratory’s Environmental Safety and Health, Facilities Management, Financial Services, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Public Affairs Divisions and Departments, plus the Office of Workforce Diversity. Krupnick, who has been with the Lab since 1976, earned his B.S degree in social science and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He was appointed the ALD for Operations in 2008 by Berkeley Lab Director Steven Chu. Previously he was a Division Deputy at the Advanced Light Source, and project director for the construction of the Molecular Foundry, which earned a Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification, and a “Secretary of Energy's Excellence in Acquisition Award" for the project management team. For more information about Jim Krupnick and Operations at Berkeley Lab, visit the Website at http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/Ops/.
Joe W. Gray
Associate Laboratory Director for Life and Environmental Sciences
Phone: (510) 495-2438 | Fax: (510) 495-2535
Location: 84-0322 | Mail Stop: 977
JWGray@lbl.gov
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Berkeley Lab’s ALD for Life and Environmental Sciences over sees the Laboratory’s Life Sciences, Genomics, and Earth Sciences Divisions. Joe Gray holds a Ph.D. in Physics, from Kansas State University, and a degree in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has served as a Berkeley Lab ALD since 2003, and has a joint appointment with the University of California at San Francisco, where he is a professor of Laboratory Medicine and Radiation Oncology. For more information about Joe Gray, visit his Website at http://www.lbl.gov/lifesciences/labs/gray_lab.html.
Horst D. Simon
Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences
Phone: 510-486-7377 | Fax: 510-486-4300
Location: 50B-4241 | Mail Stop: 50B4230
HDSimon@lbl.gov
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Berkeley Lab’s ALD for Computing Sciences oversees the Laboratory’s Computational Research Division and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. Horst Simon holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the Technische Universtät, in Berlin, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has served as ALD for Computing Sciences since 2004. For more information about Horst Simon, visit his Website at http://www.nersc.gov/%7Esimon/.
James L. Siegrist
Associate Laboratory Director for General Sciences
Phone: (510) 486-4397 | Fax: (510) 486-6003
Location: 50-4055 | Mail Stop: 50-4049
JLSiegrist@lbl.gov
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Berkeley Lab’s ALD for General Sciences oversees the Laboratory’s Physics, Nuclear Sciences, Accelerator and Fusion Research, and Engineering Divisions. James Siegrist holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Physics, summa cum laude with special honors, from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Physics, from Stanford University. He has been director of the Physics Division since 1996 and the ALD for General Sciences since 1999. He also has a joint appointment at UC Berkeley as a professor of Physics. For more information about James Siegrist, visit his Website at http://research.berkeley.edu/urap/.
Roger W. Falcone
Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences
Phone: (510) 486-6692 | Fax: (510) 486-4960
Location: 80-0230 | Mail Stop: 80R0114
RWFalcone@lbl.gov
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Roger Falcone was appointed Berkeley Lab’s Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences in March 2009. He has also been the Division Director of the Advanced Light Source since 2006. Falcone received his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University in 1974. He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1979, respectively. Following a three-year fellowship with the Applied Physics Department at Stanford, he joined the faculty of UC Berkeley’s Physics Department in 1983. Falcone is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. For more information about Roger Falcone, visit the web site at www.als.lbl.gov/als/ourorg/falcone.html.
Arun Majumdar
Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environmental Sciences
Phone: (510) 486-7784 | Fax: (510) 486-5454
Location: 90-3026A | Mail Stop: 90R3027D
AMajumdar@lbl.gov
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Arun Majumdar was appointed Berkeley Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environmental Sciences in March 2009. He has also been the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Berkeley Lab since 2007. He received a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1989. He currently holds the Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professorship in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1997. For more information about Arun Majumdar, visit the web site at eetd.lbl.gov/staff/majumdar-a.html.
Jeffrey A. Fernandez
Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (510) 486-5547 | Fax: (510) 486-4944
Location: 937-0630 | Mail Stop: 937R0600
JAFernandez@lbl.gov
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Berkeley Lab’s Chief Financial Officer is responsible for the Laboratory’s fiduciary, financial, procurement and property management systems. Jeffrey Fernandez holds an M.P.A. in Public Administration (with concentrations in Management, Economics, and Public Finance), from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Communications (with minors in Economics, Business, and Accounting) from the University of Vermont. He has served as Berkeley Lab’s CFO since 2003. For more information about the Office of the Berkeley Lab CFO visit the Website at http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/CFO/.
