The Board’s role is to provide guidance, oversight, direction, and advice to laboratory management with respect to scientific and technical issues, long-range objectives, budget and facility plans, cooperative research and development, and other matters, and the relationship with the US Department of Energy's Office of Science under the prime contract.
The FRA Board of Directors is chaired by University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos, and members include national and international leaders in science and industry.
Members
![Paul Alivisatos](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/PaulAlivisatos-byJasonSmith-1116-newheadshot.png?itok=7qqlqf7b)
Paul Alivisatos
President
University of Chicago
![Henry Bartoli](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/bartoli.gif?h=71a16a47&itok=j6DxVQKD)
Henry Bartoli
Managing Director
Bartoli Consulting Group, LLC
![Hardik Bhatt](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/bhatt.jpg?h=529834e9&itok=8dgsw3nJ)
Hardik Bhatt
Chief Executive Officer
SDI Presence LLC
![Rolf Heuer](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/Heuer.jpg?h=75fd682b&itok=NNiUUuxJ)
Rolf Heuer
President of the Council of Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME)
![Randy Hultgren](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/hultgren.jpeg?itok=xIqUq7vH)
Randy Hultgren
President & CEO
Illinois Bankers Association
![Joseph R. Incandela](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/A-4519898-1533117510-9897.jpeg.jpg?itok=PdSBeL8D)
Joseph R. Incandela
Vice Chancellor for Research
University of California, Santa Barbara
![William H. Joyce](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/p0jjcxj_thumb_standard.jpeg?h=aec4ab44&itok=sH3GPzx6)
William H. Joyce
Vice Chair of the Universities Research Association Board of Trustees
Chairman and CEO (Retired)
NALCO Company
CEO
Advanced Fusion Systems
![David Mark Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/DMark.jpg?itok=syK9kg7T)
David Mark
Former Vice President, Internal Audit
Abbott
![Andrea Meloni](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/meloni.jpg?h=4bd894b5&itok=OyCf7IF7)
Andrea Meloni
Former Italian Ambassador
![John C. Mester](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/JohnMester.png?itok=lvFXneQC)
John C. Mester
President & Chief Executive Officer
Universities Research Association
![Juan de Pablo](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/bio_dePablo.jpg?h=5833aa8a&itok=LmqwaSUE)
Juan de Pablo
Executive Vice President
Science, Innovation, National Laboratories, and Global Initiatives;
Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago;
Senior Scientist,
Argonne National Laboratory
![Sam Pitroda](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/sam-pitroda-img.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=niWVN8h3)
Sam Pitroda
Former Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovation
![Jimmy Samartzis](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/samartzis_crop.jpg?h=2b0cd4d6&itok=TUClK811)
Jimmy Samartzis
CEO
Lanzajet
![Maxine Savitz](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/images/headshots/savitz.jpg?h=38f9ee00&itok=SGp5ufEo)
Maxine Savitz
Vice Chair
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology