Dr. Roland Hirsch
Climate & Environmental Sciences Division
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
SC-23.1/Germantown Building
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290
e-mail:
Roland.Hirsch@science.doe.gov
Phone: (301) 903-9009
Fax: (301) 903-8519
Roland F. Hirsch is a program manager in the Office of Biological & Environmental
Research in the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). His
responsibilities include managing research in structural molecular biology, analytical
chemistry, and research supporting the cleanup of contamination at the Manhattan
Project sites. He received his A.B. from Oberlin College (1961) and M.S. and
Ph.D. (1965) from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining DOE he was a health
sciences administrator at the National Institutes of Health. He served on the
faculty of Seton Hall University from 1965 to 1988, the last four years on leave
at the Chemical Sciences Division of DOE. At Seton Hall he was chair of the Chemistry
Department, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and mentor to
six students receiving the Ph.D. in chemistry. He has served as chair of the
North Jersey Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS), as well as
the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry and the ACS Committee on International
Activities, and received the ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement
of Analytical Chemistry in 2000.