Brookhaven National Laboratory Director Search

Search Home

Search Committee

Progress

Charge

Announcements

Comments

BNL Home

DOE Home

---

BNL Director Search

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is renowned for its strong record of scientific achievement coupled with excellent facilities for research. The Lab’s broad mission is to produce excellent science in a safe, environmentally sound manner with the cooperation, support and appropriate involvement of its many communities. Established in 1947 on Long Island in Upton, New York, BNL is a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Brookhaven Science Associates LLC (BSA), a partnership between the Battelle Memorial Institute and Stony Brook University. BSA is committed to excellence in science and technology, excellence in operations and management, and interactive communications with the communities in which it operates.

The Director, as President of BSA, is responsible to the Board of BSA for the effective, responsible and safe operation of the laboratory in support of the missions of the department.

The BSA board is alternately chaired on a two-year rotation by the President of Stony Brook and the CEO of Battelle. A limited liability company, BSA comprises executives from both partners as well as representatives of the Presidents of the six collaborating universities that are core participants in the missions of the Lab: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Yale.

BNL scientific programs are organized in five directorates: Basic Energy Sciences, Energy/Environment/National Security, High-Energy and Nuclear Physics, Life Sciences, and Light Sources. Major facilities include the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN). The Laboratory has over 2,600 employees, an annual budget of approximately $500 million, and more than 4,500 scientific users of its facilities per year. Six Nobel Prizes have been awarded for discoveries made at the Lab. The Lab conceives, constructs and operates complex, leading-edge, user-oriented research facilities and develops advanced technologies that address national needs and initiates their transfer to other organizations and to the commercial sector. A history of the Lab can be found at: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/