Brian H. Davison is Corporate Fellow and Chief Scientist for Biotechnology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). A Fellow of AIChE, the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), his honors include an R&D100 Award, SIMB鈥檚 C.D. Scott Award, and multiple ORNL awards for science communication, technology transfer, and inventions.
He served on AIChE鈥檚 Board of Directors (2020鈥�2022), on the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) Board since 2012, and is a Trustee of the AIChE Foundation since 2023. Brian co-founded SBE鈥檚 Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology workshop and contributed to multiple roadmaps for the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE).
He was the Chief Science Officer of DOE鈥檚 Center for Bioenergy Innovation, and the previous BioEnergy Science Center. A longtime advocate for inclusion, he founded ORNL鈥檚 LGBTQ+ employee group in 1995 and participated in establishing AIChE communities including LGBTQ+Allies. With the Creative Discovery Museum, he championed public bioenergy education reaching over 350,000 people since 2009. Brian earned his BS from the Univ. of Rochester and his PhD from Caltech, both in chemical engineering.