{"678972":{"#nid":"678972","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Alum Johney Green Selected as New Lab Director at the Savannah River National Laboratory","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohney Green Jr., M.S. ME 1993, Ph.D. ME 2000, has been chosen to serve as the new laboratory director for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.srnl.gov\/\u0022\u003ESavannah River National Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E (SRNL). A proud Yellow Jacket, Green received both his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and currently serves on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s (SEI) External Advisory Board. He also served on the board of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E from 2017 to 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSRNL has truly found an exceptional leader in Johney. His vision and dedication are inspiring, and I am genuinely excited to see the remarkable contributions he will make in advancing SRNL,\u201d said Christine Conwell, SEI interim executive director. \u201cWe look forward to his continued partnership with SEI and the positive impact he will bring to the energy community in 2025 and beyond.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Battelle Savannah River Alliance (SRNL\u2019s parent organization) selected Green for this role, describing him as \u201ca dynamic leader who brings deep, wide-ranging scientific expertise to this new position.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith an annual operating budget of about $400 million, SRNL is a multiprogram national lab leading research and development for the Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Offices of Environmental Management and Legacy Management and the National Nuclear Security Administration\u2019s weapons and nonproliferation programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreen currently serves as associate laboratory director for mechanical and thermal engineering sciences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). In this position, he oversees a diverse portfolio of research programs including transportation, buildings, wind, water, geothermal, advanced manufacturing, concentrating solar power, and Arctic research. His leadership impacts a workforce of about 750 and involves managing a budget of more than $300 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt NREL, Green transformed the lab\u2019s wind site into the innovative Flatirons Campus and transitioned the campus from a single-program wind research site to a multiprogram research campus that serves as the foundational experimental platform for the DOE\u2019s Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are immensely proud to call Johney a Woodruff School alumnus. His achievements and service to Tech through advisory board engagement inspires us, and we are excited to see him step into this prestigious role at SRNL. We look forward to deepening our collaboration with him as he continues to make a powerful impact,\u201d said Devesh Ranjan, Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair and professor in the Woodruff School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his role at NREL, Green held several key leadership roles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As director of the Energy and Transportation Science Division and group leader for fuels, engines, and emissions research, he managed a broad science and technology portfolio and user facilities that made significant science and engineering advances in building technologies; sustainable industrial and manufacturing processes; fuels, engines, emissions, and transportation analysis; and vehicle systems integration. While Green was the division director, ORNL developed the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) demonstration project, a model of innovative vehicle-to-grid integration technologies and next-generation manufacturing processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarly in his career, Green conducted combustion research to stabilize gasoline engine operation under extreme conditions. During the course of that research, he joined a team working with Ford Motor Co., seeking ways to simultaneously extend exhaust gas recirculation limits in diesel engines and reduce nitrogen oxide and particulate matter emissions. He continued this collaboration as a visiting scientist at Ford\u0027s Scientific Research Laboratory, conducting modeling and experimental research for advanced diesel engines designed for light-duty vehicles. On assignment to the DOE\u2019s Vehicle Technologies Office, Green also served as technical coordinator for the 21st Century Truck Partnership. He also contributed to a dozen of ORNL\u0027s 150-plus top scientific discoveries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreen was the recipient of a National GEM Consortium Master\u2019s Fellowhip sponsored by Georgia Tech and ORNL, and he served as the National GEM Consortium chairperson from 2022-2024. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an SAE International Fellow. He has received several awards during his career and holds two U.S. patents in combustion science.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohney Green Jr., M.S. ME 1993, Ph.D. ME 2000, has been chosen to serve as the new laboratory director for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.srnl.gov\/\u0022\u003ESavannah River National Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E (SRNL). A proud Yellow Jacket, Green received both his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and currently serves on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s (SEI) External Advisory Board. He also served on the board of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E from 2017 to 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Johney Green Jr., M.S. ME 1993, Ph.D. ME 2000, has been chosen to serve as the new laboratory director for Savannah River National Laboratory. A proud Yellow Jacket, Green currently serves on the Strategic Energy Institute\u2019s External Advisory Board."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2024-12-18 03:26:37","changed_gmt":"2024-12-18 03:27:56","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675883":{"id":"675883","type":"image","title":"Johney Green","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJohney Green\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1734491853","gmt_created":"2024-12-18 03:17:33","changed":"1734492186","gmt_changed":"2024-12-18 03:23:06","alt":"Portrait of Johney Green, SEI EAB Member","file":{"fid":"259557","name":"J_Green_Headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/12\/17\/J_Green_Headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/12\/17\/J_Green_Headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":173176,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/12\/17\/J_Green_Headshot.jpg?itok=5PqEw86h"}}},"media_ids":["675883"],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPriya Devarajan\u003C\/a\u003E || SEI Communications Program Manager\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}