Corporate Fellows

Larry is recognized as a world leader in pellet physics and fueling systems for fusion devices, including leading the team that pioneered the cryogenic shattered pellet injection technology for disruption mitigation.

Craig Blue serves as ORNL’s chief manufacturing officer and defense manufacturing program director and is founding director of ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. He has nearly three decades of experience as a distinguished R&D staff scientist in building teams and programs in the field of materials and manufacturing science.

Distinguished R&D staff scientist Robert (Bob) Hettich leads the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry group in ORNL’s Biosciences Division. He is recognized as a founder of the field of metaproteomics and a pioneer in the development and demonstration of advanced biological mass spectrometry technologies.

Distinguished R&D staff member Mark Lumsden leads the Spectroscopy section in ORNL’s Neutron Scattering Division. He came to ORNL in 1999 as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow and joined the Laboratory’s research staff in 2001. Mark has been a leading force in the development of ORNL’s inelastic neutron scattering capabilities at the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor.

Jun Qu leads the Surface Engineering and Tribology group in ORNL’s Materials Science and Technology Division. His research interests include advanced lubrication, surface engineering, materials tribology, nanostructured materials and manufacturing. Jun is a world-recognized thought leader in tribology and is best known for leading the global research direction of ionic liquid lubricants during the past two decades.

For her advancement of the scientific underpinnings of mass spectrometry as well as collection technologies and strategies with a focus on nuclear nonproliferation.

For her contributions to the development and application of advanced electron microscopy techniques for the study of a broad range of energy and quantum materials.

For his fundamental and translational research including development of leading systems, processes, sensors and controls.

For his scientific and technology contributions to Earth system model development and applications, significantly improving predictions of how terrestrial ecosystems respond to climate change.

For significant achievements in advancing battery and energy storage technologies, which are critical for the clean energy transition.