Dr. Kaufmann is Associate Director of the Strategic Planning Group at the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois. He is concurrently a physicist with the Materials Science Division at Argonne. He has been with Argonne since 1989 and has served in several positions.
Dr. Kaufmann holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, where he was also a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant. Prior to joining Argonne, Dr. Kaufmann was with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California in the Chemistry and Materials Science Department as a Division Leader of Materials, and he was also with the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey as a member of the Radiation Physics Research Department.
Dr. Kaufmann is a member of the Materials Research Society in which he held several positions including President (1985). He is also a member of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
He was Program Chair/Organizer of the Joint ISTEC/MRS International Workshops on High Temperature Superconductivity 5 times, Secretary of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (2001-2002), Chair of the Commission on Publications of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (1998-present), and Executive Editor of the periodical IUMRS Facets among other activities.
Dr. Kaufmann has published approximately 100 technical papers in refereed journals and books and has served as co-editor of two proceeding volumes. His Avocations are writing, editing, and fine art photography.