BESAC Membership

Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
2024-2025 Membership

Yohannes Abate
University of Georgia
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Athens, Georgia 30602 
James De Yoreo
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999
MS K2-01
Richland, Washington 99352
Surya Mallapragada
Iowa State University
Department of Chemical & Bioengineering
2610 Beardshear Hall
515 Morrill Road
Ames, Iowa 50011
John Allison
University of Michigan
College of Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
2300 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tabbetha Dobbins
Rowan University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
107 Gilbreth Parkway, Suite 103
Glassboro, New Jersey 08028 
Nadya Mason
University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Ken Andersen
Institut Laue-Langevin
71 Avenue des Martyrs
CS 20156
38042 Grenoble Cedex 9
France
Thomas Epps
University of Delaware
150 Academy Street, 215 CLB
Newark, DE 19716
Gabriel Montaño
Northern Arizona University
Department of Applied Physics & Materials Science
525 S. Beaver Street
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Stacey Bent
Stanford University
Shriram Center
Department of Chemical Engineering
443 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305
Cynthia Friend, Chair
The Kavli Foundation
5715 Mesmer Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90230
Abbas Ourmazd
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1900 East Kenwood Boulevard
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
Joseph Berry
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
15013 Denver West Parkway
Golden, Colorado 80401
Laura Gagliardi
University of Chicago
Department of Chemistry
5735 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Daniel Resasco
University of Oklahoma
Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering
100 Boyd Street
Norman, Oklahoma 73019
Jennifer Brodbelt
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Chemistry
105 East 24th Street, Stop A5300
Austin, Texas 78712
Jamie Garcia
IBM
Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road
San Jose, California 95120
Jose Rodriguez
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chemistry Division
Building 555A
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, New York 11973
Lin Chen
Argonne National Laboratory/ Northwestern University
Building 241, B267
Lemont, Illinois 60439
J. Murray Gibson
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
2525 Pottsdamer Street, B-206
Tallahassee, Florida 32310
Rachel Segalman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials
Santa Barbara, California 93106

Donna Chen
University of South Carolina
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
631 Sumter Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208

Padmaja Guggilla
Alabama A&M University
Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics
4900 Meridian Street, VMC 135
Normal, Alabama 35762

Esther S. Takeuchi, Vice-Chair
Stony Brook University/BNL
1000 Innovation Road
Stony Brook, New York 11794

Valentino Cooper
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Road
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Javier Guzman
ExxonMobil
22777 Springwood Village Parkway
Spring, Texas 77389
Jinke Tang
University of Wyoming
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Laramie, Wyoming 82071

Theda Daniels-Race
Louisiana State University
School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
3325 Patrick Taylor Hall
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
Sossina Haile
Northwestern University
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2220 Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Matthew Tirrell
University of Chicago/ ANL
Institute for Molecular Engineering
Eckhardt Research Center
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Abhaya Datye
University of New Mexico
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
MSC 01 1120
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
Ashfia Huq
Sandia National Laboratories, California
P.O. Box 969
Livermore, California 94551

Serena DeBeer
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Stiftstrasse 34 - 36
45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr
Germany
Lia Krusin-Elbaum
The City College of New York
Department of Physics
New York, New York 10027

Designated Federal Officer:
Linda Horton, Associate Director of Science
for Basic Energy Sciences
Phone: 301-903-7506
linda.horton@science.doe.gov
Committee Manager:
Kerry Hochberger
Basic Energy Sciences
Phone: 301-903-7661
kerry.hochberger@science.doe.gov

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