MIT professor nominated to head DOE Office of Science

(MIT, November 14, 2013)

President Barack Obama intends to nominate MIT’s Marc Kastner to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which manages much of the nation’s basic research on energy. The DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. Kastner is the dean of MIT’s School of Science, as well as the Donner Professor of Physics. He has been on the MIT faculty since 1973 and has led MIT’s Department of Physics and its Center for Materials Science and Engineering. “In nominating Dean Kastner to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, President Obama made an inspired choice,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif says.