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![Kathy McCarthy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-11/McCarthy%20thumb.jpg?h=3a805815&itok=RClF2hyH)
As the world grapples with climate change, there’s never been a more exciting, urgent time to be working in nuclear energy.
![Jeff Nichols](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-11/Nichols%20thumb.jpg?h=1d835d65&itok=JIhmt-AM)
Nichols is ensuring ORNL remains a global leader by growing programs in quantum computing and networking and evolving the lab’s computational portfolio to accommodate the coming data revolution.
![Xin Sun](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-11/Sun%20thumb.jpg?h=c0a9cb01&itok=gT9Nvqc_)
Decarbonization is just one of many initiatives Sun is focused on in her role leading ORNL’s largest applied science directorate.
![Balendra Sutharshan](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-11/Sutharshan%20thumb.jpg?h=fb4d34fd&itok=_rCQuKaJ)
Leading a complex directorate requires expertise and vision. Sutharshan first began developing those qualities not in a radiological lab or at a nuclear reactor, but under the Golden Arches.
![Stan Wullschleger](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-11/Wullschleger%20thumb.jpg?h=74a4b02e&itok=5ORNV5fn)
As head of the Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate, Wullschleger leads a diverse and inclusive organization focused on advancing understanding of the natural world and developing innovations that benefit the environment and grow the nation’s bioeconomy.
![Bryan P. Maldonado Puente](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-11/Puente_0.jpg?h=481fb8d2&itok=LFVkJOJs)
"As a scientist, I enjoy learning and contributing to the understanding of our natural world."
![Yiling Yu](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-11/Yu_0.jpg?h=aa8d2d0e&itok=airOeRo9)
"I am always curious about the underlying mechanisms of how things work and why things appear in their current forms in nature."