I am Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for the Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where I am also a Senior Scientist. In this role, I coordinate the Directorate research activities in quantum information science, including those of the Brookhaven Lab-led Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), a U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Center. I work closely with scientific and Lab leadership to align research with broader institutional goals in quantum science and technology.
I am also currently leading the NSRC Recapitalization Project, major DOE project to modernize the U.S. nanoscience infrastructure by developing and installing new instrumentation across six national laboratories in the DOE complex.
From 2016–25, I was the Director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The CFN is a national scientific user facility, operated for the DOE as a resource for the worldwide scientific community. Each year, the CFN supports the science of more than 700 researchers from around the world — from universities, industry, and national laboratories.
Prior to becoming Director, I was Group Leader for Electronic Nanomaterials in the CFN, responsible for managing the staff and setting group research directions using nanostructured electronic materials for clean energy.
From 1996 to 2006, I was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where my collaborators and I pioneered using polymer self-assembly for high-resolution patterning in semiconductor electronics.