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Christopher P. Fall
Dr. Chris Fall serves as Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the nation's largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. He oversees the Office's two principal thrusts: direct support of scientific research, and development, construction, and operation of unique, open-access scientific user facilities that are made available to external researchers. The Office of Science also is responsible for stewardship of 10 of the Department's 17 national laboratories. Before joining the Office of Science, Fall served as a Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Energy and as Acting Director of DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). He came to DOE from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Before government service, Fall was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia. Fall also holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.