Karen B. Hellman

Karen Hellman is Interim Deputy Laboratory Director for Operations/COO. She has been at Argonne since 1994 in a succession of roles across facilities, engineering, operations, and infrastructure. Karen has worked with all the directorates to help them achieve their mission and research goals, giving her outstanding knowledge of the lab’s science, campus, and teams. She has been instrumental in maintaining strong relationships with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), modernizing the laboratory’s facilities, upgrading aging infrastructure, and building state-of-the-art research facilities.