DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

	Daniel M. Neumark Chemical Sciences Division Director

In support of the Basic Energy Sciences mission of the DOE, the Chemical Sciences Division carries out fundamental research in the chemical sciences and engineering to provide a basis for new and improved energy technologies and for understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of energy use. The Chemical Sciences Division

• sets the standard for world leadership in several key areas of chemical sciences and engineering: catalysis, actinide chemistry, reaction dynamics, photoionization.
  
  
• explores chemical processes and elucidates their fundamental mechanisms so that they can be integrated into future technologies.
  
  
• provides graduate or postdoctoral training to many of the most talented people beginning careers in chemical science and engineering.
  
  
• publishes widely in the scientific literature.
  
  
• has constructed and operates the Chemical Dynamics beamline as a national user facility at the Advanced Light Source.
  
  
• operates the Molecular Environmental Sciences Facility at the ALS.
  
  
• is unique in the U.S. as a center for education in nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry.

View Daniel M. Neumark's Biography.

	Chemical Sciences Division Research Affiliations
	Our four core programs-Chemical Physics; The Glenn T. Seaborg Center; Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences; Catalytic Science-maintain affiliations at LBNL with the Advanced Light Source, Environmental Energy Technologies, Earth Sciences, Nuclear Sciences and Materials Sciences Divisions, and at U.C. Berkeley with the Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Physics Departments.