Doon Gibbs

Brookhaven National Laboratory
Associate Director for Basic Energy Sciences

Overseeing research in chemistry, materials science, and condensed matter physics, and for shepherding Brookhaven’s new Center for Functional Nanomaterials from blueprints to a functioning center by 2007. The center will be one of five being built by DOE’s Office of Science at national laboratories around the U.S. for the study of materials at ultra-small dimensions - on a scale of a nanometer, or a billionth of a meter.

Biographical Information

• B.A. in physics and mathematics from the University of Utah, 1977
• M.S. physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979
• Ph.D., physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982
• Joined Brookhaven in 1983 as an assistant physicist
• Became senior physicist at Brookhaven in 2000
• Past Group Leader of X-Ray Scattering
• Past Associate and Deputy Chair of Physics
• Past Head of Condensed Matter Physics
• Past Interim Director for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials
• Past Interim Associate Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences