Frederick M. Bernthal, Ph.D.

Experience

The Higher Education Innovation Group, LLP

Partner (2018 – Present)

Universities Research Association, Inc. 

President (1994-2011)
President (ret.) and Senior Advisor to the Board of Trustees (2011-Present)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Deputy Director, Acting Director (1990-1994)

U.S. State Department

Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment, and Science (1988-1990) 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Commissioner (1983-1988)

U.S. Senate Staff 

Chief Legislative Assistant (1980-1983) and Legislative Assistant (1978-1980), Senator Howard H. Baker

Michigan State University 

Associate Professor,  Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Physics (1970-1980)

The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

NATO Senior Scientist Fellow (1976-1977)

Yale University 

Post-Doctoral Research Associate (1969-1970)

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., Nuclear Chemistry

Valparaiso University

B.S. Chemistry

Selected Boards 

Director, Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (2006-date)
Director, Talen Energy Corporation, Inc. (2015-2016)
Director, PPL Inc. (1996-2015) 
Director and Treasurer, Society for Science and the Public (2001-2008)
Chairman, 50-nation Response Strategies Working Group, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1988-1991)

Honors and Awards

NATO Senior Scientist Fellow, 1977
Congressional Science Fellow, American Physical Society, 1978-79
D.Sc. (honoris causa), Valparaiso University
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science