Dr. Stephen E. Nagler is a Corporate Research Fellow of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Director of ORNL’s Quantum Condensed Matter Division. He is a faculty member of the Bredesen Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and affiliated with the department of Physics. His primary research interest is in condensed matter physics, especially quantum materials. He is an expert on neutron scattering techniques, especially inelastic scattering to investigate the dynamics of materials. Nagler also has extensive experience with high resolution and time resolved x-ray scattering methods using both in-house and synchrotron based x-ray sources. He has published over 100 refereed journal articles on topics ranging from low dimensional materials such as one-dimensional quantum magnets and phase transitions in two dimensions, non-equilibrium behavior of alloys and polymers, quantum criticality, frustrated magnetism and novel superconductors. Nagler received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto in 1982, and moved that year to the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. In 1984 he joined the faculty of the University of Florida, where he received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award in 1986. Nagler served as a Professor of Physics at Florida until moving to ORNL in 1995. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Riso Laboratory in Denmark. Nagler is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Neutron Scattering Society of America, and has been named as an outstanding referee by the American Physical Society . He served the maximum two terms as a Divisional Associate Editor of the journal Physical Review Letters.