2013 Conference Acknowledgements


Gibbs

Dr. Doon Gibbs
Deputy Director for Science & Technology
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Doon Gibbs obtained his B.A. in physics and mathematics from the University of Utah in 1977, and his Ph. D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982. 

Gibbs joined Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in 1983, and has served as Group Leader of X-ray Scattering, Head of Condensed Matter Physics and Associate Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences.  He is currently the Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology overseeing BNL’s broad science and technology portfolio. His research interests include the structure and phase behavior of magnetic materials and of thin films and interfaces. He is a Fellow of the APS and AAAS and previous winner of the APS Compton Award, the IOP EP Wohlfarth Award, and the DOE Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment Award for his work in x-ray magnetic scattering studies of the structure and phase behavior of rare earth metals.