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NNadir

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Sun Jan 23, 2022, 04:12 PM Jan 2022

President Biden has nominated Kathyrn Huff to be Assistant Secretary of Energy.



Dr. Kathryn Huff.

Kathryn “Katy” Huff, who is currently serving as the Department of Energy's principal deputy assistant secretary of nuclear energy, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to head the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy as assistant secretary of energy. The role has been vacant since Rita Baranwal announced she was leaving the position on January 8, 2021.

Sustained commitment: Since Huff was named principal deputy assistant secretary of nuclear energy in May 2021, she has also served as acting assistant secretary of energy for nuclear energy.

Huff is on unpaid leave from her role as assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she led the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles Research Group. Huff was also a Blue Waters assistant professor with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Prior to joining the NPRE faculty at UIUC, Huff was a postdoctoral fellow in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California–Berkeley. Huff received her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2013, and her undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Chicago...


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President Biden has nominated Kathyrn Huff to be Assistant Secretary of Energy. (Original Post) NNadir Jan 2022 OP
This woman is a "super-brain." I love it!..nt SheilaAnn Jan 2022 #1
The President has done well to bring this kind of expertise into government. NNadir Jan 2022 #2

NNadir

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2. The President has done well to bring this kind of expertise into government.
Sun Jan 23, 2022, 08:56 PM
Jan 2022

It's something that wouldn't have come close to happening 4 years ago.

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