Simon P. “Pete” Worden has been named director of NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffet Field, California, replacing G. Scott Hubbard, who left in February after a four-year stint as director to take a position with SETI. Worden, a retired US Air Force brigadier general, was a research professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He began his new post in May.
Norbert Holtkamp has been named principal deputy director general of ITER, the international prototype fusion energy reactor. Director of the accelerator systems division of the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, since 2001, Holtkamp had previously been head of the linear collider research group at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. He was named to his new post in April.
