Adam Cohen (government official)

Adam Cohen is the President and CEO of Associated Universities, Inc. He formerly served as Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the United States from 2015 to 2017 and deputy director for operations of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Biography
Cohen received a B.S. in metallurgy with honors from Columbia University in 1985. After Columbia, he served in the United States Navy as a nuclear submarine officer and worked for Babcock & Wilcox in Virginia.
He then spent twenty years at Argonne National Laboratory and became its chief operating officer. In the meantime, he also received a Ph.D. in materials science from Northwestern University in 1997, and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 2000.
In 2017, Cohen was named president of Associated Universities, Inc., an organization dedicated to building and managing federally-funded research facilities in the physical, biological, and engineering sciences, including the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the Green Bank Observatory, and the Long Baseline Observatory.
He is also a senior associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
 
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