FPN06-11

Zinkle to Head ORNL Materials Division

February 2, 2006

Steve Zinkle has been named Director of the Metals and Ceramics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He succeeds Everett Bloom. Zinkle has been leader of the Metals and Ceramics Division's muclear materials science and technology group. He previously managed ORNL's fusion materials program.

Steve joined ORNL in 1985 as a Wigner Fellow. He earned bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering and master degree in materials science from the University of Wisconsin.

He can be reached at: zinklesj@ornl.gov