Dr. Andrew R Schwartz

Deputy Associate Director, Basic Energy Sciences

Acting Division Director, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division

Acting Division Director, Scientific User Facilities Division

Dr. Andrew Schwartz is the Deputy Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences. He also currently serves as Acting Division Director for Materials Sciences and Engineering and Scientific User Facilities. He served as Division Director for Materials Sciences and Engineering from 2022 to 2024, after serving as Acting Division Director since July 2020. From 2013 to 2022 he served as Senior Technical Advisor for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs), leading the team of BES Program Managers and support staff in management of the EFRC program. From 2008 to 2013 Dr. Schwartz was Program Manager for the BES Experimental Condensed Matter Physics program.

In addition to program management duties, Dr. Schwartz has represented BES in various other capacities. He served on the committee that developed and executed the inaugural DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program solicitation and award process in 2010. Since 2009 he has represented DOE on the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) subcommittee, the interagency group charged with coordination of federal government activities related to the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), and since 2019 he has served as one of two agency co-chairs of NSET. Dr. Schwartz also represents DOE on the OSTP Subcommittees for the Materials Genome Initiative and for Microelectronics Leadership.

Prior to joining BES, Dr. Schwartz spent seven years in industry leading a multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering team in the research and development of a new technology for semiconductor metrology. In this role he was actively involved in project planning, strategic planning, budgeting, project execution, and business development.

Dr. Schwartz received a B.A. in physics from Amherst College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of California Los Angeles. His research focused on the electrodynamic response of various materials, including high temperature superconductors, low-dimensional conductors, and colossal magnetoresistive oxides. Dr. Schwartz has co-authored over 30 technical papers and holds seven U.S. patents.