Dr. Roland Hirsch
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.