Doon Gibbs Named Brookhaven Lab's Deputy Director for Science and Technology
June 11, 2007
UPTON, NY - Doon Gibbs has been named Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective June 11. A member of the Laboratory staff since 1983, Gibbs had been Associate Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences since 2002.
Brookhaven Lab employs about 2,600 scientists, engineers, technicians and support staff and has an annual budget of $492 million. In his new position at the Laboratory, Gibbs will work closely with the Laboratory Director, Associate and Assistant Laboratory Directors, and the Science & Technology Steering Committee of the Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) Board in charting the Laboratory's future direction in science. Home to six Nobel Prizes, Brookhaven has major programs in nuclear and high-energy physics, physics and chemistry of materials, environmental and energy research, nonproliferation, neurosciences and medical imaging, and structural biology.
"Increasingly, in all the sciences, we're in the era of team science," Gibbs said. "This is an approach in which Brookhaven Lab performs very well, since we are a multidisciplinary lab. For example, we are currently formulating an integrated team approach to energy-related research, a major focus at the Lab. With the Center for Functional Nanomaterials now beginning operations, and with the promise of a new light source at the Laboratory, we are well positioned to meet the challenge of tackling the nation's energy problems by enabling breakthroughs in the effective use of renewable energy through improved conversion, transmission and storage. There has never been a more exciting time at the Laboratory than now, and I'm looking forward to helping formulate the Lab's direction."
Doon Gibbs earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Utah in 1977, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1979 and 1982, respectively. He joined Brookhaven in 1983 as an assistant physicist and progressed through the ranks to become a senior physicist in 2000. Gibbs's managerial experience at Brookhaven includes the posts of Group Leader of X-ray Scattering, Associate and Deputy Chair of Physics, Head of Condensed Matter Physics, Interim Director for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and Associate Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences.
Gibbs was honored with the 2003 Advanced Photon Source Arthur H. Compton Award "for pioneering theoretical and experimental work in resonant magnetic x-ray scattering, which has led to many important applications in condensed matter physics." Over the last five years, Gibbs had been instrumental in overseeing the design and construction of Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and he has overseen the growth of Brookhaven's basic energy sciences programs, including chemistry, materials science, and condensed matter physics. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.
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