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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 Energy Initiative,
and Director of the Laboratory for
Energy and the Environment at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he has served on the faculty
since 1973. He served as Head of the
Department of Physics and as Director
of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center.
His research focus is energy technology
and policy, including a leadership
role in MIT interdisciplinary technology
and policy studies on the future of
nuclear power, coal, nuclear fuel
cycles, natural gas, and solar energy
in a low-carbon world.
Dr.
Moniz served as Under Secretary of
the Department of Energy from 1997
until January 2001 and, from 1995
to 1997, as Associate Director for
Science in the Office of Science and
Technology Policy in the Executive
Office of the President. At DOE, he
had oversight of the science and energy
programs, led a comprehensive review
of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship,
and served as the Secretary’s
special negotiator for Russian nuclear
materials disposition programs.
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-Nurenberg,
and Michigan State University. He
is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and received the 1998 Seymour
Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award
for vision and leadership in advancing
scientific simulation.
Updated
December 2008
News
and announcements:
Selected
Publications by Ernest J. Moniz
Ernest
Moniz quoted in article about oil
industry “Strapped
Universities Can Count On Big Oil”
CattleNetwork (Dow Jones Newswire)
(February 23, 2009)
Ernest
Moniz interviewed in NPR report about
Energy secretary nominee Steven Chu
“Energy
Secretary Pick Faces Confirmation
Hearing” National Public
Radio, "Morning Edition,”
audio on site (January 13, 2009)
Ernest
Moniz and energy policy “Wanted:
energy experience” Baltimore
Sun, op-ed by John A. Bewick (December
4, 2008)
Ernie
Moniz interviewed in story on a clean
coal power plant “Touring the
'clean coal' factory” NBC Nightly
News with Brian Williams, "Our
Planet" series (November
18, 2008) link
to video
Prof.
Ernest Moniz and energy policy “Candidates
for Obama Administration Positions”
Washington Post, by Sholnn Freeman
(November 5, 2008)
Prof.
Ernest Moniz included in story about
coal industry and sustainability in
Ethical Corporation (September
4, 2008)
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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