Dr. Colin McCormick is the Senior Advisor for R&D in the Office of the Under
Secretary at the Department of Energy. He previously served as the Team
Lead for Emerging Technologies in the Building Technologies Program of the
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Prior to joining
the Department of Energy he was an energy and security analyst at the
Federation of American Scientists, a staff member with the House Science and
Technology Committee, and a AAAS Congressional Fellow on the staff of Rep.
Ed Markey of Massachusetts. Dr. McCormick received his PhD in atomic and
optical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and did
post-doctoral work in quantum optics at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) in the group of 1997 Physics Nobel Laureate William
Phillips.
