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Douglas Ray
Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate
ALD
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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MSIN: K9-80
Richland, WA 99352
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Biography
Douglas Ray serves as Associate Laboratory Director for the Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate, a role he has fulfilled since May 2006. The Directorate serves as the primary steward for research supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
As the Associate Laboratory Director, Dr. Ray directs more than 500 staff members in four research divisions: Atmospheric Sciences and Global Climate Change, Biological Sciences, Chemical & Materials Science, and Computational Sciences and Mathematics. Under his leadership, the divisions focus on important scientific problems with national implications as the key to advancing the frontiers of science. He and his staff members seek to
Dr. Ray also served as the Laboratory's Interim Deputy Director for Science and Technology from 2007 to 2008. In this role Dr. Ray directed the integration of the Laboratory's science and technology base to deliver essential scientific capability and accomplishments for advancement of the Department of Energy's missions and meeting the Nation's most critical challenges. He was responsible for guiding the Laboratory's overall capability development strategies and investments.
Previously, Dr. Ray served as Chief Research Officer for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he was responsible for defining and advancing the science and technology portfolio, coordinating discretionary research investments, providing oversight of science and technology quality assurance, as well as working with counterparts at other Department of Energy laboratories to strengthen the value received from the Department's national laboratories.
Dr. Ray also previously served as Director of the Laboratory's Chemical Sciences Division, where he managed 125 staff and was responsible for the Laboratory's Department of Energy research programs in Basic Energy Sciences and Environmental Management Science, initiatives for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology and Interfacial Catalysis, as well as the emerging Institute for Integrated Catalysis, the University of Washington/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Joint Institute for Nanoscience & Nano-technology and, jointly with the University of Washington and Simon Fraser University, the Pacific Northwest Consortium Collaborative Access Team at the Advanced Photon Source sited at Argonne National Laboratory.
Education and Credentials
- A. B. Physics, Kalamazoo College, Michigan, 1979
- Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California/Berkeley, 1985
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado/Boulder, 1985-1990