Tim Valentine
Contact:
University of Tennessee
Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Center for Public Policy
1640 Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996-4014
Office: 865.974.0931
Fax: 865.974.8777
Email: tvalenti@utk.edu
Bio: Timothy Valentine is the Director of Strategic Planning and Communications for the Energy & Engineering Sciences (EES) Directorate of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is also director of the energy and environmental policy programs at the Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee on loan from ORNL. The EES Directorate is the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) largest energy research and technology organization, annually executing over $350M of programs for a variety of government and industrial sponsors in all aspects of energy science and technology. Included is research in all forms of energy production, distribution, and utilization. Specific initiatives include energy efficiency and renewable energy concepts in storage, transportation, electrical and pipeline distribution, traffic management, hydrogen economy, enhanced buildings technology, design and application of solar concepts, policy analysis and investigating the intersection of technology and policy, and concepts to impact industry’s approach to energy demand reduction. Also included are emphasis areas of nuclear fission and fusion, nuclear science and technology, nuclear nonproliferation, and all dimensions of fossil energy extraction, production, and use, including abatement of greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, the intersection of water technology with the energy sector is an area of research.
Dr. Valentine joined ORNL in 1995 conducting research on nuclear safety and nuclear nonproliferation. He was the principal investigator on nuclear safety experiments and validation for research reactor fuel and was the principal investigator for development of technologies to verify dismantlement of nuclear weapons. In 2000, Dr. Valentine became a senior research engineer conducting nuclear physics experiments at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator and was the program manager of ORNL’s nuclear data program. From 2003 until 2005, Dr. Valentine was the science and nuclear policy advisor for Senator Alexander of Tennessee and for Senator Bingaman of New Mexico. Dr. Valentine was responsible for developing legislation on science and energy policy, staffing hearings on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and creating and staffing the Senate Science and Technology Caucus. From 2005 until 2007, Dr. Valentine served as a senior advisor to ORNL’s leadership team on matters of science and energy policy and served as ORNL’s Program Director for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
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