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Directors > Alan Schriesheim > Complete Biography | |
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Dr. Schriesheim is broadly knowledgeable on energy issues and is the Distinguished Energy Scholar inn Residence at the Illinois Math and Science Academy. He is on the Board of HEICO, an aerospace and defense manufacturing company, and chairman of an advisory panel to the Aeronautics Division of NASA, helping them to focus their programs and dealing with issues concerning appropriate allocation of resources in a dollar constrained environment. Dr. Schriesheim is former CEO of Argonne National Laboratory, having served as the Director of Argonne from 1983 to 1996. He joined Argonne after a long career with Exxon Corporation. Dr. Schriesheim was the first national laboratory director to be recruited from industry, and he successfully launched a series of initiatives to diversify Argonne’s core competencies, broaden its research scope, and expand its relationships with other government, academic, and industrial organizations, both nationally and internationally. During his tenure, Argonne undertook programs spanning the full range of science—from high-temperature superconductors to developing biological microchips and sequencing the human genome, to establishing a virtual-reality advanced parallel-processing computer center. Dr. Schriesheim was the driving force behind the establishment of ARCH, a separate entity between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory designed to commercialize technology from both institutions. He is the author or co-author of numerous publications and holds 22 U.S. patents. He currently serves as Director Emeritus of Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Schriesheim is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a past chairman of the National Conference on the Advancement of Research. He has been active in community, educational, and cultural affairs, placing emphasis on developing the scientists of tomorrow. Dr. Schriesheim holds a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic University in New York and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University.
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