Dr. Alfred P. Sattelberger
Alfred P. Sattelberger has held several senior leadership positions at Argonne National Laboratory since March, 2006. He is currently the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Engineering and Systems Analysis (EESA). The EESA Directorate focuses on energy production, storage and use, and on national/homeland security challenges. It traces its roots back to Enrico Fermi and the Chicago Pile reactors and is home to a very strong nuclear engineering division. Today, EESA’s technical expertise spans several science and engineering disciplines, and decision and information sciences. It is home to almost 850 employees and has an annual operating budget of approximately $280M.
Dr. Sattelberger obtained a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Indiana University and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining Argonne, he was a faculty member in the Chemistry Department at the University of Michigan (1977-1984) and a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1984-2006). At Los Alamos, he held several scientific leadership positions including Director of the Chemistry Division (2000-2004), and was named a Senior Laboratory Fellow in 2005. His personal research interests span early actinide (thorium to americium) and technetium chemistry. Dr. Sattelberger is the author or co-author of over 110 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 3 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society, a past chair of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society and holds adjunct faculty appointments at Northwestern University and the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNLV. He also lectures occasionally on f-element chemistry at the University of Chicago. Dr. Sattelberger has served on several NRC panels with a focus on nuclear waste disposition and was one of the organizers of the 2011 DOE workshop on Nuclear Separations Technologies.
