James Duderstadt
 James Duderstadt MMPEI Faculty Fellow |
- President Emeritus
- University Professor of Science and Engineering
- Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Gerald R.Ford School of Public Policy
- Director, the Millennium Project
James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.
A graduate of Yale and Caltech, Dr. Duderstadt’s teaching, research, and publishing activities include nuclear science and engineering, applied physics, computer simulation, science policy, and higher education. He has served on and chaired numerous National Academy and federal commissions including the National Science Board, the Executive Board of the National Academy of Engineering, the Nuclear Energy Research Committee, the Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education, and the Intelligence Science Board. He has received numerous awards including the E. O. Lawrence Award for excellence in nuclear research, the Arthur Holly Compton Prize for outstanding teaching, the Reginald Wilson Award for national leadership in achieving diversity, and the National Medal of Technology for exemplary service to the nation.
At the University of Michigan he currently directs the program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Michigan Energy Research Council, and the Millennium Project.
Dr. Duderstadt is the lead author of a February 2009 Brookings paper outlining the establishment of several dozen "energy discovery-innovation institutes,"—known as e-DIIs—across the country. The concept, developed by a 2005 National Academy of Engineering commission chaired by Duderstadt, aims to couple fundamental scientific discoveries with the innovation needed to commercialize and deploy new technologies. For more information on this report ...
Dr. Duderstadt is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.