Jeffrey Wadsworth

Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and President and CEO, UT-Battelle, LLC

Corporate Officer and Senior Vice President for DOE Science Programs, Battelle

Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6255

On August 1, 2003, Jeffrey Wadsworth became director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and president and CEO of UT-Battelle, LLC.  As director of ORNL, he is responsible for the management of the largest multipurpose science laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with 3800 staff members and an annual budget of $1 billion. He is also a corporate officer of the Battelle Memorial Institute, in Columbus, Ohio, where he is senior vice president for DOE Science Programs.  He joined Battelle in August 2002, and was a member of the White House Transition Planning Office for the Department of Homeland Security. 

Prior to joining Battelle, he was the Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he oversaw science and technology across all programs and disciplines in support of the Laboratory’s mission. His responsibilities included programmatic and discretionary funding, technology transfer, and workforce competencies, and he often served as acting director in the absence of the director. He held line responsibilities for management of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, the University Relations Program, the Planning, Policy and Special Studies Office, the Department of Defense Office, and the DOE Joint Human Genome Institute.  He joined the laboratory in 1992 and was associate director for Chemistry and Materials Science before becoming deputy director in 1995.

From 1980 to 1992, Wadsworth worked for Lockheed Missiles and Space Company at the Palo Alto Research Laboratory, where he was manager of the Metallurgy Department, with responsibility for the direction of research activities and acquisition of research funds. Activities included the aging behavior of materials for applications, including the insertion of new, very high temperature designs in the Trident C4 and D5 missile post-boost control (nuclear weapons delivery) systems and radically new, lightweight materials in the manufacture of classified satellite systems. 

Wadsworth attended the University of Sheffield, graduating with baccalaureate and doctoral degrees in 1972 and 1975, respectively; he was awarded the D. Met. for published work in 1990.  He joined Stanford University in 1976 and conducted research on the development of steels, superplasticity, prediction of long-term materials behavior, and Damascus steels.  He lectured at Stanford after joining Lockheed, and remains a Consulting Professor.

He has authored and co-authored more than 270 papers in the open scientific literature on a wide range of materials science and metallurgical topics; one book, Superplasticity in Metals and Ceramics (Cambridge, 1997); and four U.S. patents.  He has presented or co-authored more than 230 talks at conferences, scientific venues, and other public events, and has twice been selected as a NATO Lecturer.  His work has been recognized with various awards including those from Sheffield University (Metallurgica Aparecida Prize for Steel Research and the Brunton Medal for Metallurgical Research). He was elected Fellow (1987) of the American Society for Metals (ASM International), Fellow (2000) of the Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society (TMS), and Fellow (2003) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  He is a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the American Ceramic Society (ACeRS).

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