Dr Ernest J Moniz
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Dr Ernest J Moniz was confirmed by the US Senate as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) on 28 October 1997. As Under Secretary, Dr Moniz advises the Secretary and oversees the DOE’s research and development portfolio, including energy and environmental technologies, national security, and fundamental science. He oversees the national laboratory system and national security programmes, including stockpile stewardship and non-proliferation. Before joining the DOE, Dr Moniz was Professor of Physics and Head of the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was responsible for the research and educational programmes of the department. Prior to that, he served as the Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, a position to which he was nominated by President Clinton in June 1995. His principal research interests are in theoretical nuclear physics. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973 and served as the Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center from 1983. Dr Moniz has served numerous universities, national laboratories, professional societies, and government agencies in advisory roles. He received a BS degree in physics from Boston College in 1966 and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University in 1971. With a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation, he performed research at the Center d’Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1971–73. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens in 1997. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society. |
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