ETEC - Stephen Streiffer, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Friday, May 2, 2025 (7:30 AM - 8:30 AM) (EDT)
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Join us at ETEC in-person or virtually on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 7:30am to hear from Dr. Stephen Streiffer, the Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will be delivering a State of the Lab address. His bio is below.
No registration is necessary for in-person attendance.
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This month's ETEC Friday Morning Meeting Series are sponsored by City of Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board.
Stephen Streiffer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
As director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Dr. Stephen K. Streiffer leads more than 7,000 staff members in fulfilling the laboratory’s mission to deliver scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs needed to realize solutions in energy and national security, accelerate innovation, and increase U.S. competitiveness. ORNL’s critical national missions leverage the laboratory’s world-leading facilities, tools, and signature strengths in neutron science, high-performance computing, advanced materials, biology and environmental science, energy technologies, nuclear science and engineering, isotopes, and national security research.
Streiffer came to ORNL in October 2023 from Stanford University, where he served as interim director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He joined Stanford in June 2022 as the university's vice president responsible for oversight of the lab. He previously spent 24 years in research and leadership positions at Argonne National Laboratory, concluding his tenure as the lab’s deputy director for science and technology.
His time at Argonne included leading the Photon Sciences Directorate and serving as director of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility that generates ultra-bright, high-energy X-ray beams for researchers from government, academia, and the private sector. While overseeing APS, Streiffer helped to lead the $815 million APS Upgrade that improved photon performance by two to three orders of magnitude.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 through May 2022, Streiffer served as co-director of DOE’s National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory (NVBL), a consortium that leveraged the national labs to address challenges related to testing, treatment, epidemiological modeling, and supply chain bottlenecks. Also at Argonne, he helped to create and lead Argonne’s Physical Sciences and Engineering Directorate—which includes Materials Science, Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Nanoscience and Technology, High Energy Physics, and Physics divisions. Streiffer also served as deputy associate laboratory director for its predecessor Energy Sciences and Engineering Directorate. From 2000–2009, he served a leadership role in developing Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials, another Office of Science user facility.
Streiffer’s scientific expertise is in nanostructured complex oxides and the structural characterization of materials using transmission electron microscopy and X-ray scattering techniques. He has authored or co-authored more than 180 scientific publications and holds one patent. Streiffer earned his doctoral degree in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in materials science from Rice University. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Materials Research Society and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN 37830 United States
Click here to register for the VIRTUAL version of the meeting
Hailey Lewis
Complimentary coffee, bagels, muffins and pastries served.
The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's.
Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center.
The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked.
-If you are coming from Knoxville via S. Illinois Ave (TN-62W); take a right onto S. Rutgers Ave, and continue until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd, across from ORNL Corporate Headquarters; after the Quality Inn, take a left onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center.
-Alternatively, if you are coming from Knoxville via S. Illinois Ave (TN-62W); you can take a sharp right and merge onto Lafayette Dr; turn left onto W. Gettysburg Ave; turn right onto Manhattan Ave; then at the intersection of Manhattan Ave and S. Rutgers Ave, continue straight across onto Rice Rd until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd; take a right onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center.
-If you are coming from Oak Ridge via the Turnpike, you will find us between the intersection of S. Rutgers Ave and Wallace Rd, between the Applebee's and Dairy Queen, across the street from St. Mary's School. The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked.
-If you are coming from Oak Ridge via Illinois Ave; turn onto S. Rutgers Ave, and continue until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd, across from ORNL Corporate Headquarters; after the Quality Inn, turn onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked.
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