Prior to establishing Science Strategies, she was associate vice chancellor for research at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She came to UCLA as the founding institute director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), where she was responsible for establishing the initial leadership, strategic direction, and administration of CNSI. CNSI is focused on the understanding and design of nanostructures and their integration into complex systems with new properties beyond those already found in nature. Earlier, Dr. Krebs was a senior fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, where she led studies in R&D management, planning, and budgeting.

From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Krebs served as assistant secretary and director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy (DOE), responsible for the $3.5 billion basic research program that underlay the Department’s energy, environmental, and national security missions. She also had the statutory responsibility for advising the secretary on the broad R&D portfolio of the department and the institutional health of its National Laboratories. During her tenure, she built international collaborations in particle physics, strengthened interagency collaborations for human genome sequencing, synchrotron radiation, and global climate research. She oversaw the advocacy and successful construction of eight major scientific user facilities. She served on the National Science and Technology Council’s Interagency Committee on Science and its Committee on the Environment.

From 1983-1993, she served as associate director for planning and development at the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she was responsible for strategic planning for research and facilities, laboratory technology transfer, and science education and outreach. From 1977-1983, she served on the House Committee on Science, first as a professional staff member and then as subcommittee staff director, responsible for authorizing DOE non-nuclear energy technologies and energy science programs.

She received her bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in physics from the Catholic University of America. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the Association of Women in Science. She is a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and its Board on Chemical Science and Technology. She is also a trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses. She is married to Philip E. Coyle III. They have four children and four grandchildren. She enjoys cooking and is an avid reader.

Linda K. Trocki
Bechtel Fellow and Project Manager
Bechtel National, Inc.

Dr. Linda Trocki has over thirty years of experience in research and development, technology assessment, business development, and general management. Her technical areas of expertise are energy and environmental technology systems, natural resources, and technology policy.

Dr. Trocki is currently Bechtel’s project manager for a Former Soviet Union project Bechtel is performing for the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Since joining Bechtel in 1996, she has also served as vice president and manager of research and technology, as well as senior manager at two facilities Bechtel managed for the U.S. Department of Energy. She is a Bechtel Fellow and advises the corporation on energy and environmental technical issues.

She spent much of her career between 1976 and 1996 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she specialized in systems studies and assessment of energy and environmental technologies. Dr. Trocki was special assistant to the deputy secretary of energy in 1994-1995 and to the president of Chevron Petroleum Technology Company in 1995-96.

Dr. Trocki graduated with a BS degree in geology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. She obtained her MS in geochemistry in 1983 and her Ph.D. in Mineral Economics in 1985, both from Penn State.

She serves on many advisory committees and boards, has published a number of papers, and organized professional conferences. Recent advisory board membership includes National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Lab Operations Board of the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board; Electric Power Research Institute, Chemistry and Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Savannah River National Laboratory; Smith College’s Picker Engineering Program; UC Riverside College of Engineering; the American Geological Institute; and MentorNet.

Paul J. Turinsky
Professor,
Department of Nuclear Engineering
North Carolina State University

Dr. Paul J. Turinsky is professor and department head, Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he has been a member of the faculty since 1980. Prior to joining the NCSU faculty, he occupied engineering and management positions at Westinghouse Electric Corporation and was a member of the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Turinsky’s main research interest is in the development of computational capabilities to analyze the reactor physics of nuclear reactor cores. His research team of graduate students and research associates have produced capabilities and associated software that is used by a number of organizations world-wide, including Southern California Edison, to optimize the economic performance of nuclear reactor cores while satisfying all safety and operational constraints. Within recent years, his research team has made significant contributions to sensitivity/uncertainty analysis and adaptive simulation, all applied to nuclear reactor core analysis. Dr. Turinsky currently receives research support from the NC State Electric Power Research Center (see below), US Department of Energy, and Idaho National Laboratory.

In addition to serving as head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at NCSU, Dr. Turinsky is founding faculty member and faculty coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Computational Engineering and Sciences. He is also co-founding faculty member and director of the Electric Power Research Center, an industrial sponsored, research center focused on nuclear fuel management optimization. He also serves as the NCSU representative to Idaho National Laboratory (INL), with NCSU being one of the five national universities that successfully teamed with the Battelle Memorial Institute to form the Battelle Energy Alliance, which won the contract to operate INL for the next decade.

Dr. Turinsky consults widely, and includes among his consulting clients: The International Atomic Energy Agency; General Electric Company; Carolina Power and Light Company; Electric Power Research Institute; Management Analysis Company; Duke Power Company – Nuclear Safety Review Board; Nuclear Safety Analysis Center; Quantum Research, Inc. – Member, Board of Directors; Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC); United States Department of Energy; Nuclear Fuel Management Associates – President; South Carolina Electric and Gas Company; United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

Dr. Turinksy’s professional society memberships include the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Computer Society, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

The honors and awards Dr. Turinsky has received include: The Mark Mill Award (ANS), American Nuclear Society Fellow, IBM Supercomputing Award-Engineering Category (IBM), Glenn Murphy Award (ASEE), Outstanding Teaching Award (NCSU), Power Engineering Educator Award (Edison Electric Institute), Alcoa Distinguished Researcher Award (NCSU), E.O. Lawrence Award in Nuclear Technology (DOE), Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Merit Award (University of Michigan), Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physics Award (ANS), and Arthur Holly Compton Award (ANS).

Dr. Turinsky earned the Ph.D./M.S.E. in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan, following completion of a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He also has an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jan Hamrin
President
Center for Resource Solutions

Dr. Jan Hamrin is the president of the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS), a non-profit corporation located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. CRS designs and operates national and international programs that support the increased supply and use of renewable energy resources and is dedicated to fostering international leadership in sustainability by building the human capacity to meet environmental, economic, and cultural needs.

Dr. Hamrin has served as advisor to the G-8 Renewable Energy Task Force, as well as to numerous legislatures and regulatory commissions in the United States and internationally. She has co-authored three books for National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners: Regulator's Handbook on Tradable Renewable Certificates, 2003; Affected with the Public Interest: Electric Industry Restructuring in an Era of Competition, 1994; and Investing in the Future: A Regulator's Guide to Renewables, 1993.

In 1981, Dr. Hamrin founded and served nine years as executive director of the Independent Energy Producers' Association (IEP) in California and played a key role in the implementation of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) in California and elsewhere.

Dr. Hamrin received her Ph.D. in Ecology, with emphasis on public policy evaluation of environmental and energy programs, from the University of California, Davis. She also holds Master's degrees in Public Administration and Consumer Science from UC Davis, as well as a bachelor of science from the University of New Mexico.