Avi Shultz is the director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Office (ITO). He leads ITO's strategy to accelerate the research and development of innovative cost-effective technologies that position American industry to secure supply chains and lead in evolving domestic and global markets. Avi also works with DOE leadership and interagency partners to position ITO and the department for the most significant impact across America’s industrial sector.
Previously, Avi was the deputy director of ITO. Before his tenure in ITO, he was the program manager for concentrating solar-thermal power for the DOE's Solar Energy Technologies Office. Avi has been with DOE since 2013, where he started as a science and technology policy fellow, supporting the concentrating solar-thermal power program on a wide variety of topics.
Before joining DOE, Avi was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam, after getting his bachelor and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Columbia University and Northwestern University, respectively.