Dr Jeffrey Wadsworth

DR. JEFFREY WADSWORTH has been a director of Carpenter since 2006 and is a member of Carpenter's Science and Technology Committee. Dr. Wadsworth is Executive Vice President for Laboratory Operations at Battelle, a $4 billion Research and Development enterprise headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. He formerly was Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Chief Executive Officer and President of UT-Battelle LLC and Senior Vice President for U.S. Department of Energy Science Programs at Battelle. Previously, he was director of Homeland Security Programs at Battelle and part of the White House Transition Planning Office for the newly formed U.S. Department of Homeland Security. From 1992 to 2002, Dr. Wadsworth was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where from 1995 he was deputy director for Science and Technology. Prior to that, he was with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Research and Development Division. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005, and has been elected Fellow of several technical societies. Dr. Wadsworth holds a bachelor's degree in metallurgy, Ph.D., D.Met and D.Eng. degrees from Sheffield University, England.