Office of Fusion Energy Sciences

Mr. Thomas J. Vanek, Acting Associate SC Director for Fusion Energy Sciences

Tel: 301-903-4941

Fax: 301-903-8584

Organization Chart

Mailing Address:

Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
SC-24/Germantown Building
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290

Delivery Address:

Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
U.S. Department of Energy
SC-24
19901 Germantown Road
Germantown, Maryland 20874-1290

Personal Assistant

Shahida Afzal. Personal assistant to Associate Director and Office Manager for SC-24. (301-903-4941)

Executive Assistant

Al Opdenaker. Supports Associate Director with specific programmatic, technical and administrative assignments. (301-903-4927)

Visual Information Specialist

Suellen Velthuis. Provides graphic, webmaster, and other administrative support. (301-903-2848)

ITER & International Division (SC-24.1)

Erol Oktay, Acting Director

Tel: 301-903-3068
Fax: 301-903-1233

Personal Assistant

Sandy Newton. Personal assistant to Director and Division Office Manager (301-903-3068)

International Administration

Debra Frame. Manages operational and administrative processes for all of fusion's formal international activities plus supports OFES participation in international fusion policy meetings. (301-903-5771)

ITER Technical and Administrative Staff

Jeff Hoy. U.S. ITER Project Officer (301-903-4936)

Sharon Stevens. Manages operational and administrative processes for ITER.   (301-903-5565)

Erol Oktay. ITER Science Officer. (301-903-4928)

Gene Nardella. ITER Technology Officer. (301-903-4956)

Marvin Singer. ITER Agreement Issues. (Detailee) (301-903-9142)


Research Division (SC-24.2)

Gene Nardella, Acting Director

Tel: 301-903-4095

Fax: 301-903-4716 or 301-903-1225

Administrative Support

Marty Carlin. Personal Assistant to the Director and Research Division Office Manager. (301-903-4095)

Terry  Jones. Division of Research Support Staff (301-903-3563)

John Sauter. Manages administrative processes for all OFES all research grants, cooperative agreements and interagency agreements & initiates all procurement actions and maintains files. Coordinates and submits monthly changes to OFES financial plan. (301-903-3287)

Technical Staff

Sam Barish. Stellarator Program Manager, HBCU programs. (301-903-2917)

Curt Bolton. Theory Team Leader. Manages Next Step Options physics activities, manages Advanced Computation Team activities, analyzes critical physics issues. (301-903-4914)

Michael Crisp. Atomic Physics, SC fusion computing allocation, Basic Plasma Science programs. (301-903-4883)

Rostom Dagazian.  Sci-DAC Program Manager, MHD and RF Physics Theory and Experiment Coordinator, Theory Program Manager for ORNL, GA, NYU, and MIT theory groups. Computational SBIR/STTR.. (301-903-4926)

Steve Eckstrand.  NSTX Program manager, SciDAC, Fusion Simulation Project, Transport, MHD, and alternate concept theory. (301-903-5546)

Vacant. University Toroidal Experiments and plasma-materials interactions. 

T.V. George. Manages fusion plasma heating and fueling R&D program, manages OFES involvement in SBIR/STTR programs. (301-903-4957)

John Mandrekas. (IPA--GA Institute of Technology)  Theory Program (301-903-0552)

Darlene Markevich. Diagnostic development programs, educational outreach, and manpower development activities (fellowships, etc.). (301-903-4920)

Gene Nardella. Leads Enabling Technologies Team, also manages programs in the areas of magnetic fusion chamber technology, remote handling, high heat flux components, and manages advanced materials science research program. Manages fusion fuel handling, safety, and inertial fusion energy technology research programs, and fusion engineering/technology fellowship program.  (301-903-4956)

Erol Oktay. Tokamak Team Leader. DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics, collaborations on International tokamaks. (301-903-4928)

Adam Rosenberg .   Alcator C-Mod Program manager.  (301-903-3709)

Barry Sullivan .   National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) project and Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator project.  In addition, serves as environmental, safety, and health point of contact.  (301-903-8438)

Francis Thio. Alternate Concepts Program, IFE International, High Energy Density Physics, Innovative Confinement Concepts . (301-903-4678)


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