Kathryn Huff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Dr. Kathryn D. Huff was most recently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she led the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles Research Group and was a Blue Waters Assistant Professor with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Before her faculty appointment, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow
in both the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California-Berkeley.
Dr. Huff received her Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013, and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Chicago. Her research includes modeling and simulation of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel cycles. She has been an active member of the American Nuclear Society, Chair of the Nuclear Nonproliferation and Policy Division, a past chair of the Fuel Cycle and
Waste Management Division, and a recipient of both the Young Member Excellence and Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement awards. Through leadership within Software Carpentry, SciPy, the Hacker Within, and the Journal of Open Source Software, she has also advocated for best practices in open, reproducible scientific computing.
Aimee Witteman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental
Affairs Aimee Witteman most recently was Director of U.S. States Policy at Energy Innovation, where she supported state efforts to build an equitable and just energy economy. She previously was Program Director at the McKnight Foundation where she designed and led the Midwest Climate & Energy program focused on decarbonizing the power, buildings, transportation, and working lands sectors in the upper
Midwest, embedding a focus on strategic democratic participation and racial equity. Witteman served as executive director for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition in Washington, D.C. where she advocated for policy reform to advance the sustainability of food systems, natural resources, and rural communities. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and a M.S. from Tufts University.
