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Los Alamos, NM-based Los Alamos National Laboratory has Promoted Duncan McBranch as Chief Technology Officer
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Located near Santa Fe, New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. LANL enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and is a center for research in a wide range of scientific disciplines, including space exploration, geophysics, renewable energy, supercomputing, medicine, and nanotechnology.
About the Person
Since 2007, Duncan McBranch has overseen institutional programs for science and energy,including DOE energy and science programs, and enabling support services such as Laboratorydirected Research and Development, student and postdoctoral programs, the research library, educational institutes, and technology transfer. Duncan has been an R&D leader in materials chemistry and nanotechnology, an entrepreneur in biotechnology, and a business development leader in growing new programs at Los Alamos with industry. Duncan was previously Division Leader for Technology Transfer at Los Alamos (2005-2007), where he was responsible for collaborations with industry, for the commercialization of inventions, and for the spin-out of regional technology businesses. Previously, he led teams solving complex research, technology, and business problems for over 15 years. This includes founding a biotechnology company (QTL Biosystems), to develop rapid assays for the life sciences markets and handheld detection solutions for environmental pathogen detection. Duncan began his technical career at Los Alamos as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, and then led a research team investigating polymeric materials for nanotechnology with applications in optics and electronics. He has published more than 70 articles in technical journals in materials, chemistry, and biotechnology, and is an inventor with patents across a broad range of applications. He earned his Ph.D. in materials physics (University of California, Santa Barbara).
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