FPN11-52
Jeff Quintenz to Head NNSA ICF Program Office
September 21, 2011
Dr. Jeff Quintenz will become Director of DOE NNSA's Office of Inertial
Confinement Fusion (ICF) effective September 25. Jeff retired from
Sandia National Laboratories in 2010 after 34 years of service. His most
recent position there was as Director of the Facilities Management and
Operations Center. However, Jeff has had a long association with
inertial confinement fusion. After receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1975, Jeff joined Sandia
as a member of the Plasma Theory Division. He performed research on the
physics of high power electron and ion beams and pulsed power
accelerators and, in 1993, became manager of Sandia's Inertial
Confinement Fusion Program. In 1999, he became Director of the Pulsed
Power Sciences Center, with responsibilities that included the ICF
Program, high energy density physics, dynamic materials science, high
energy and high power laser physics and other related areas.
In 2004, Jeff left his fusion responsibilities to become President of
Lockheed Martin Nevada Technologies, Inc. and Deputy General Manager for
the Stockpile Stewardship Program and Operations of Bechtel Nevada. In
2006, Jeff returned to his most recent post at Sandia.
He is the author or co-author of more than 80 publications and co-author
of two book chapters on intense particle beams. He is a Fellow of the
IEEE and a former member of Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors.
After September 25, he can be reached at jeffrey.quintenz@nnsa.doe.gov