Dr. Tim Kidd
Program Manager
Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
SC-32.2/Germantown Building, Rm F-414
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290
E-Mail:Timothy.Kidd@science.doe.gov
Phone: 240-723-5879
Dr. Tim Kidd joined the Department of Energy in 2024 to manage the DOE EPSCoR program. Before joining DOE, he served as a professor of physics at the University of Northern Iowa for nineteen years. Working extensively with undergraduate students, he established the first continuously funded scientific research program at his university. He was awarded the university’s Lubker Research Award in 2024, the Regent’s award for Faculty Excellence in 2019. He was also elected to serve in faculty leadership roles as Chair of the Faculty and Chair of the Faculty Senate. Before his career as a professor, Dr. Kidd was a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National laboratory after earning his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002.
Dr. Kidd has published one book chapter, one patent, and over fifty peer-reviewed publications. His work has spanned many areas of materials physics, incorporating a wide variety of synthesis and characterization techniques. His research mainly focused on nanomaterials and low dimensional systems and their emergent properties electronic and magnetic properties. His most recent projects involved investigations of spin-based Q-bit storage materials and the development of high-strength polymers from agricultural by-products. He has trained over 80 research assistants and developed new curriculum for STEM education for science, science education, and high school coursework as well. His work with students across STEM and STEM education disciplines led to his election to three terms as Zone Councilor for the Society of Physics Students and Chair of the Physics section of the Iowa Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kidd began his research career with the Naval Research Laboratory as an undergraduate student, and he has devoted his work to science and science education ever since.
