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Biographical Sketches

PETER F. GREEN, Chair, is the chief research officer and the deputy laboratory director for science and technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. He began his professional career at Sandia National Laboratories where he spent 11 years in positions that included senior member of the technical staff and department manager. He subsequently became a professor of chemical engineering and the BF Goodrich Endowed Professor of Materials Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2005, he became a professor and the chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he was also the Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Endowed Professor of Engineering and a professor of chemical engineering, macromolecular science, engineering, and applied physics. During this time, he was the director of the Department of Energy (DOE) Frontier Research Center and the Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion. Dr. Green was the 2006 president of the Materials Research Society (MRS). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom), the American Association for the Advancement Science (AAAS), the American Ceramics Society (ACerS), and the MRS. He is a former divisional associate editor for Physical Review Letters and the inaugural editor-in-chief of MRS Communications. Dr. Green is a former member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Physics and Astronomy and Board on Army Science and Technology. He is a former chair of the National Academies’ Solid State Sciences Committee (currently known as the Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee) and the former chair of the Panel for Neutron Research. Dr. Green is a recipient of the DOE Secretary’s Achievement Award, in 2021 and again in 2023. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He earned his BA and MA in physics in 1981 from Hunter College. His MS and PhD are from Cornell University in materials science and engineering.

KEN ANDERSEN is the director of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. Previously, he was the associate laboratory director (ALD) for neutron sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As ALD, Dr. Andersen oversees the operation and management of two neutron facilities: the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the High Flux Isotope Reactor. Each year these facilities support about 3,000 visiting users. Dr. Andersen aims to further broaden ORNL’s role in neutron sciences globally, expand ORNL’s instrument capabilities, and prepare for a second target station at SNS. Previously, he was the director for the Neutron Technologies Division within the Neutron Sciences Directorate. Between 2010 and 2019, Dr. Andersen was the head of the Neutron Instruments Division at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. He was previously in charge of the Neutron Optics Muon Source in the United Kingdom, as well as having spent a brief period as a postdoc at the KENS neutron facility in Japan. His research interests center around the design and optimization of neutron instruments for both steady-state and pulsed neutron sources. He has a PhD in physics from the University of Keele in the United Kingdom (1994).

PENGCHENG DAI is the Sam and Helen Professor of Physics at Rice University. His research focuses on using neutron scattering as a probe to study strongly correlated electron materials. In his career, he worked on copper, iron, and heavy fermion superconductors; quantum spin liquid; and other magnetic

materials; mostly using neutron scattering to study their bulk magnetic properties. He is a fellow of the APS, the AAAS, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA). He won the Sustained Research Prize of NSSA in 2016, and the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize in 2022. He obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics from the University of Missouri in 1993.

AARON P.R. EBERLE is the energy and technology advisor to ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Planning. Over the past decade, Dr. Eberle has held various assignments across the company within its chemicals, business, and technology organizations. Before joining ExxonMobil, he held a National Academies’ postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research where he studied colloidal systems with cold neutron instruments. He received his BS and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, respectively.

ROSARIO A. GERHARDT is a full professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she has been on the faculty since 1991. She was chosen as the Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair in 2015. Her primary research for several years has related to the underlying structure of materials to their properties from the atomic level to macroscopic dimensions using X-ray and neutron scattering together with transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy to unravel the intricacies of conducting thin films to insulating materials. She has worked with ceramics, ceramics composites, and polymer composites, as well as conducting polymers and metallic alloys, and has expertise on fabrication and characterization of porous materials and percolating composites. She received her DEngSc from Columbia University in 1983. She was a NASA/American Society for Engineering Education faculty fellow at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in 1995 and served as a visiting professor at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL during the 2007–2008 academic year. She is a fellow of the ACerS, was recently elevated to an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers senior member and was recently elected to the World Academy of Ceramics. She delivered the 2017 ACeRS Friedberg Lecture. She has served as a reviewer on many National Science Foundation panels and National Academies’ panels, in particular the Research Associateship Program and the Defense Materials and Manufacturing and Infrastructure Program. Dr. Gerhardt has also assisted the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory as well as SNS and the High Flux Isotope Reactor at ORNL as a reviewer.

CHRISTOPHER R. GOULD is an Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Physics Emeritus at North Carolina State University. He is a nuclear physicist by training, with interests in cosmology, energy research and policy, science education, and neutron and neutrino physics. He has held visiting appointments at Los Alamos National Laboratory; the Institut für Kernphysik, Frankfurt; the Atomic Energy Institute, Beijing; the University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran; and the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies. Following retirement in 2016, he took a 2-year interagency personnel agreement position with the Office of Science at DOE, serving as the program manager for the nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics programs in the Office of Nuclear Physics. His current interests focus on energy issues and the role that nuclear reactors may play in backing up intermittency concerns associated with solar and wind electrical power generation. Dr. Gould is a fellow of the APS, a co-recipient of a 2008 presidential award from RTI-International, and a recipient of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He holds a BSc from Imperial College, London, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

ANDREW HARRISON became the director of science at the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC in 2022, having been the chief executive officer of Diamond Light Source, the United Kingdom’s national synchrotron facility (2014–2022) and the scientific director and then director general of the ILL in Grenoble, France (2006–2014). Prior to that, he held research fellowships and faculty positions at the University of McMaster (1988–1990), the University of Oxford (1990–1992), and the University of

Edinburgh (1992–2006), where he led research in solid-state magnetism, largely using neutron scattering techniques. He has chaired EIROForum, the collection of European international infrastructures, including CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), European Southern Observatory, and the European Space Agency. He is a UK delegate for the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures Council of the European Commission—when the United Kingdom is allowed to participate—and in 2017, he became the chair of the Association of European-Level Research Infrastructures Facilities, the organization that represents European research infrastructures not in EIROForum. His awards include the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2002), Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to science (2021), Fellow of the Royal Society (2022), and he has honorary positions or degrees at St. John’s College, Oxford (2015), the University of Manchester (2017), the University of Edinburgh (2017), and the University of Bath (2019). He has a doctorate and undergraduate degree in chemistry (Oxford 1986 and 1982). He has served on National Academies’ reviews at NIST twice before.

ANDREW J. JACKSON is the group leader for instrument scientists and the acting head of the Neutron Instruments division at ESS. In this role, he leads the development, design, commissioning, and operation of the neutron scattering instruments. He has worked at ESS since 2011, starting as an instrument scientist for small angle neutron scattering. Prior to working at ESS, Dr. Jackson held positions as a guest researcher at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, visiting researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, senior scientist at the University of Delaware, research associate at the University of Maryland, and postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University. He has more than 25 years of experience in the development and application of neutron and X-ray scattering methods to problems in soft matter physics, colloid science, and polymer science. Dr. Jackson also holds a position as an associate professor in physical chemistry at Lund University and his current research interest is in the structure and behavior of deep eutectic solvents, and especially self-assembly in these nonaqueous hydrogen bonded solvents. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from the University of Oxford.

MEGUMI KAWASAKI is a Jack R. Meredith Faculty Scholar and an associate professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University. She previously served as an associate professor at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, where she joined as an assistant professor in 2012. In addition, she held the position of adjunct research associate professor in aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California from 2012 to 2017 and currently holds a visiting research associate professor position in materials science at Osaka Metropolitan University since 2013. Dr. Kawasaki’s research expertise lies in the processing of bulk nanostructured metals and materials (BNM) using severe plastic deformation techniques, as well as characterizing the microstructural evolution of BNM under extreme conditions such as stress and heat using X-ray and neutron diffraction, as well as synchrotron high-energy X rays. Her research has been recognized internationally, with successful beamline proposals awarded in Japan (Spring 8 and JPARC), Germany (DESY), and the United States (ALS). She serves on the International NanoSPD Steering Committee.

THOMAS K. KROC is an applications physicist III at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He develops new applications of accelerators and accelerator technologies such as medical device sterilization. He has led the organizing committee for four workshops on medical device sterilization to promote the use of electron beams and X rays held at Fermilab in 2019 through 2022. For 20 years he worked with the Neutron Therapy Facility at Fermilab, which provided external beam radiation therapy for cancer using high-energy neutrons. He assumed leadership of this program from 2008 until its closure in 2013. His educational and professional experience includes accelerator physics, medical physics, experimental high-energy physics, and nuclear engineering. He was the chair of a National Academies’ committee that published the report Radioactive Sources: Applications and

Alternative Technologies. Dr. Kroc holds a BS in engineering physics from The Ohio State University and a PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ANDREW T. SMOLINSKI is the chief of the Radiation Sources Section at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), responsible for facility management of the research reactor and cobalt irradiator facilities. His expertise is in radiation facility management, operations, and engineering, with 24 years of experience working with more than 10 research and power nuclear reactors under the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), naval reactors, and DOE regulatory frameworks. Mr. Smolinski performed engineering, research support, and facility management functions for hot cells and research reactors at Idaho National Laboratory to support DOE advanced nuclear fuels and materials. He served as a senior reactor operator-certified shift technical advisor at the Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station and worked for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory as a test engineer in support of reactor startups for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. He has held NRC SRO licenses from AFRRI and the University of Wisconsin. He serves on the executive committee of the National Organization of Training, Research, and Test Reactors, various standards committees for the American Nuclear Society, and several reactor and radiation safety committees, including AFRRI and the University of Maryland.