| 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 articles
about carbon capture project (The
Los Angeles Times - August 12, 2009 and The
Washington Post - August 11, 2009)
Ernest
Moniz and recent MITEI research report on coal plants
(MIT News Office - June 19, 2009)
New
York Times article about MIT report on carbon capture; Ernest
Moniz quoted (June 19, 2009) Also, similar coverage
on Wall
Street Journal Environmental Capital blog
Ernest
Moniz and recent MITEI research report on coal plants
(MIT News Office)
Prof.
Moniz quoted in article on climate change bill (The
Boston Globe - May 15, 2009)
Ernest
Moniz named to President Obama's science and technology
advisory council
(MIT News Office - April 27, 2009)
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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