Paul Alivisatos, an internationally renowned chemist who has run the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the past seven years, has been tapped to lead the research enterprise at UC Berkeley.
Alivisatos, who has been a UC Berkeley professor of chemistry since 1988, will assume the position of vice chancellor for research on March 1. He will oversee campus research, which annually generates approximately $700 million in grants and contracts. Alivisatos announced his plans to step down as director of Berkeley Lab last year, and his successor was approved today by the UC Board of Regents.
Read more from Berkeley News | January 21st, 2016: https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/21/outgoing-berkeley-lab-director-to-take-research-helm-at-uc-berkeley/