Praveen Chaudhari, a longtime scientist and manager at IBM, has been named as the new director of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He takes over the position vacated in 2001 when John Marburger was appointed by President Bush to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Physicist Peter Paul, who has served as the interim director, will continue at the lab in his longtime position as deputy director for science and technology when Chaudhari begins work 1 April.
“I guess the first few months will be a very, very steep learning curve,” Chaudhari said. “I’m preparing for that, but I’m not unfamiliar with Brookhaven. I’ve known it over many years and even have done an experiment there.”
Chaudhari, a condensed matter physicist, spent 36 years at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in York-town Heights, New York. In addition to working as a staff scientist at IBM, he has served as...
