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Ernest
J. Moniz
Cecil
and Ida Green Professor of Physics
and Engineering Systems
Director, Laboratory
for Energy and Environment
Director, MIT
Energy Initiative
Ernest
J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green
Professor of Physics and Engineering
Systems, Director of the Laboratory
for Energy and the Environment and
the Director of the MIT Energy Initiative
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he has served on
the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz
served as Under Secretary of the Department
of Energy from October 1997 until
January 2001. In that role, he had
programmatic oversight responsibility
for the offices of Science; Fossil
Energy; Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy; Nuclear Energy, Science and
Technology; Environmental Management;
and Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.
He served as DOE chair of the Laboratory
Operations Board and of the Research
and Development Council, through which
he initiated a portfolio approach
to managing and advancing the Department’s
R&D programs. He also led a comprehensive
review of the nuclear weapons stockpile
stewardship program and served as
the Secretary’s special negotiator
for Russia initiatives, with a particular
focus on the disposition of Russian
nuclear weapons materials. Dr. Moniz
also served from 1995 to 1997 as Associate
Director for Science in the Office
of Science and Technology Policy in
the Executive Office of the President,
where his responsibilities spanned
the physical, life, and social and
behavioral sciences, science education,
and university-government partnerships.
At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of
the Department of Physics and as Director
of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center,
a DOE user facility. His principal
research contributions have been in
theoretical nuclear physics, particularly
in advancing nuclear reaction theory
at high energy. His current research
centers on energy technology and policy
studies. He served as co-chair of
the MIT Energy Research Council, an
interdisciplinary faculty group that
advanced the MIT President’s
energy initiative. Moniz was appointed
Director of the MIT Energy Initiative
in 2006.
Dr.
Moniz received a Bachelor of Science
degree summa cum laude in physics
from Boston College, a doctorate in
theoretical physics from Stanford
University, and honorary doctorates
from the University of Athens, the
University of Erlangen-Nurenburg,
and Michigan State University. Dr.
Moniz is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Humboldt Foundation,
and the American Physical Society
and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. He received the 1998 Seymour
Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award
for vision and leadership in advancing
scientific simulation. He serves on
the Boards of the Gas Technology Institute,
Nexant, and American Science &
Engineering, on the Keystone Energy
Board, and on the advisory councils
of EPRI, Cummins, BP, and the Massachusetts
Executive Office of Environmental
Affairs.
Updated
July 2007
News
and announcements:
Selected
Publications by Ernest J. Moniz
Prof.
Moniz in Boston Globe – 3 Little
Numbers Haunt Big Energy Producer
(April 14, 2008)
Prof.
Moniz quoted in NY Times (February
7, 2008)
ESD
Prof. Ernie Moniz on $50m funding
for energy research (January
17, 2008)
Prof.
Moniz named director of MIT Energy
Initiative (September 21,
2006)
ESD'
Moniz, MIT's Deutch, Heywood featured
in Scientific American (September
9, 2006)
Prof.
Moniz on Living on Earth
(March 14, 2006)
ESD
Professor Ernest Moniz co-authors
A Plan for Nuclear Waste,
published in Washington Post
(January 31, 2006)
ESD's
Prof. Moniz, MIT profs, colleagues
propose nuclear-energy plan
(May 11, 2005)
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