Workshop Organizers

Leonard J. Buckley is Head of the Materials Chemistry Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory’s Chemistry Division. As manager of the Materials Chemistry Branch he has the responsibility of guiding research and technology that ranges from fundamental studies in materials synthesis and polymer science to engineering problem solving for Navy systems. Dr. Buckley was also recently detailed to the Defense Science Office at DARPA. Dr. Buckley joined DARPA in July 2001 and assumed the responsibility for managing the Electro-active Polymers program as well as other efforts involving polymer science and materials chemistry. Dr. Buckley has a doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in Polymer Science from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering from DrexelUniversity.

Sharon Haynie is a Research Associate atDuPont Biochemical Science and Engineering Group. Haynie earned a B.A. degree in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1982. She began her DuPont career in 1984 in the company’s Experimental Station on behalf of the Membrane Scouting Group for Polymer Products after three years with the former AT&T Bell Laboratories. Subsequent assignments included the Vascular Graft Program and the Fibers Department Biomaterials Group. Haynie has worked the last 10 years in Central Research in the Biochemical Science & Engineering program, seven years with the groundbreaking bio-3G team.

Haynie, chair-elect of the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society, is most proud of her collaborations with multi-disciplinary teams of chemists, biologists and engineers in the quest for new ways to make better products that benefit society.

Douglas Ray is the chief research officer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He is responsible for defining and advancing the Laboratory's science and technology portfolio, coordinating its scientific discretionary investments, providing oversight of the peer-review process at PNNL and its affiliate scientist program as well as working with counterparts at other Department of Energy laboratories to strengthen the value DOE gets from its national laboratories. A laser spectroscopist, Dr. Ray's research interests are in the effects of weak intermolecular interactions on chemical phenomena in condensed phases, at interfaces, in clusters and in supramolecular complexes. Dr. Ray received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder, Colorado prior to joining PNNL as a Senior Research Scientist in 1990. He has served in a series of leadership positions in his career at the Laboratory.