Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Operations and Governance

Operations and Governance

The site consists of 76 buildings (owned by the U.S. Department of Energy) located on 200 acres (0.81 km2) owned by the University of California in the Berkeley Hills. Altogether, it has some 4,000 University of California employees, of whom about 800 are students. Each year, the Lab also hosts more than 3,000 participating guests. There are approximately two dozen DOE employees stationed at the laboratory to provide federal oversight of Berkeley Lab's work for the DOE.

The Laboratory Director is appointed by the Regents of the University of California and reports to the President of the University of California. On January 21, 2009 Paul Alivisatos was appointed interim director to replace former laboratory Director, Steven Chu, who was sworn in as U.S. Energy Secretary. Alivisatos was officially named Berkeley Lab's seventh director by the University of California Board of Regents on November 19, 2009. Although Berkeley Lab is governed by UC independently of the Berkeley campus, the two entities are closely interconnected: more than 200 Berkeley Lab researchers hold joint appointments as UC Berkeley faculty and more than 500 UC Berkeley graduate students conduct research at Berkeley Lab.

The Lab's budget for fiscal year 2010 is $652 million, plus $122 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.