Dr. Michelle V. Buchanan

Since 2021, Dr. Buchanan has served as Senior Technical Advisor to the Deputy Director for Science Programs at the DOE Office of Science.  Prior to this assignment, she served as Deputy for Science and Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory between 2017 and 2020.  Dr. Buchanan was the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences for more than a decade.  She served as director of the ORNL Chemical Sciences Division from 2000 to 2004 and as associate director of the ORNL Life Sciences Division from 1999 to 2000.  She initiated the Center for Structural Molecular Biology and led the Organic and Biological Mass Spectrometry Group in the Chemical Sciences Division from 1986 to 1999.  She joined ORNL after earning a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.