FPN15-27

New Appointment at US Department of Energy

October 26, 2015

Adam Cohen has been named Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the Department of Energy. He has been Deputy Director of Operations at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) since 2009. He will assist Under Secretary Franklin (Lynn) Orr, Jr. in overseeing the DOE Office of Science and several other DOE program offices. Adam received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1997 from Northwestern University. He served as Deputy Associate Director for Energy Sciences and Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory from 2006 to 2009, when he joined PPPL.