Richard O. Buckius to Head NSF Engineering Directorate. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Richard O. Buckius, professor of mechanical engineering and former head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), as the new NSF assistant director for engineering. Buckius has been serving as acting assistant director since Sept. 1, 2005, and assumes his new role for a 2-year term beginning Sept. 15, 2006.

August 10, 2006.

April 2012 to present: Founding Director of New York University's Center for Urban Science and Progress.
May 2009 - November 2011: U.S. Department of Energy's second Senate-confirmed Under Secretary for Science.
2004 - 2009: Chief Scientist, British Petroleum (BP), London, England.
Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Koonin.
MIT Video of "Energy Trends and Technologies for the Coming Decades", November 15, 2007.

Dr. Steven Koonin, Chief Scientist, British Petroleum (BP), November 15, 2007.

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