Brookhaven National Laboratory (www.bnl.gov) delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nation's future. Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, 37 R&D 100 Awards, and more than 70 years of pioneering research. The Lab is primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science. Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) operates and manages the Laboratory for DOE. BSA is a partnership between Battelle and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University.
Organizational Overview
The Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate pursues advances in basic energy science, photon science and nanoscience that will underpin transformational discoveries in advanced materials, chemistry for sustainable energy, energy storage, and energy delivery and efficiency. EPS research is conducted across the Energy Sciences Department, the Interdisciplinary Sciences Department and NSLS-II, a DOE BES user facility. The Energy Sciences Department consists of the Chemistry Division, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
The Chemistry Division conducts fundamental and applied research to understand and control energy-relevant physical processes and chemical transformations in complex environments, with a primary theme to advance principles that will underlie new energy conversion and storage technologies that improve energy security and reduce the environmental impacts of energy use.
Position Description
Brookhaven National Laboratory seeks an outstanding research leader for the position of Chair of the Chemistry Division. The successful candidate will be a distinguished scientist with an exceptional research record in chemical sciences or a closely related field and extensive leadership experience in scientific research. The Chemistry Division has approximately eighty personnel including postdoctoral researchers and graduate students, and research staff include joint appointments at Stony Brook University and Columbia University. With a total annual budget of $18M, the Division is engaged in fundamental and applied research to enable new energy conversion and storage technologies, with programs in catalysis, solar photochemistry and radiation chemistry, electrochemical energy storage and electrocatalysis.
The Division's research includes multi-institution centers; it leads the Molten Salts in Extreme Environments Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) and is a partner in the DOE Energy Innovation Hub Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE). Division researchers in nuclear chemistry also partner in international collaborations advancing particle physics investigations of neutrinos and other weakly interacting particles. Research in the division is strengthened by close interaction with Brookhaven National Laboratory's leading facility capabilities including National Synchrotron Light Source II, the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and the division's own Accelerator Center for Energy Research.
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Position Requirements
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