Dr. Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research at MIT, where he has served on the faculty since 1973, has focused on energy technology and policy. Dr. Moniz also serves as the Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. From 1997 until January 2001, Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy. Prior to that, he served as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President from 1995 to 1997. In addition to his work at MIT and the Department of Energy, Dr. Moniz has served on a number of boards of directors and commissions, including the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2009-Present), the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (2010-Present), and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (2010-2012). Dr. Moniz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society. In 1998, he received the Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation. Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University.

• The President will announce his intent to nominate Dr. Ernie Moniz to lead the Department of Energy (DOE).

• Having run the MIT Energy Initiative and served on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2009-present) and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (2010-2012), Dr. Moniz is well-versed on the energy challenges facing our country and ready to lead the Department from day one.

• Dr. Moniz brings decades of experience to DOE and the President is fully confident in his ability to continue to implement the President's 'all of the above' energy approach that takes advantages of all of our energy resources to achieve greater energy independence, cut harmful pollution, and help American families lower their energy bills.

• As a nuclear physicist and the Director of MIT Energy Initiative, Dr. Moniz has led efforts to tackle complex energy challenges like increasing energy supply, improving efficiency, and addressing environmental impacts of energy consumption. The MIT Energy Initiative has promoted hundreds of energy research, analysis and technology development projects with a clean energy focus.

• Dr. Moniz is familiar with the Department of Energy. In 1997-2001 he served as Undersecretary at DOE where he had oversight of the science and energy programs, advanced science and technology for environmental remediation, led a comprehensive review of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, and served as the Secretary's special negotiator for Russian nuclear materials disposition programs.