ASCA Leadership

Allison Bennett Irion serves as Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of Argonne’s Advanced Energy Technologies (AET) directorate. In this role, she works to strengthen AET’s scientific reputation, leads strategic program planning, and develops a shared vision for creating value across scientific disciplines and program areas.

Julie Carrera serves as the Director of the Strategic Security Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory. She was previously the Deputy Director of the division. As director, Carrera leads a team devoted to translating discovery and applied science innovations into practical solutions to enduring and emerging national security challenges.

Charles Macal leads the Social, Behavioral, and Decision Science group in Argonne National Laboratory’s Decision and Infrastructure Sciences division. He applies computational modeling and simulation tools to complex systems to solve problems in a variety of fields, including energy and national security.

Lawrence ​“Paul” Lewis is the Program Lead for Community Resilience and Sustainable Development in Argonne National Laboratory’s Decision and Infrastructure Sciences division. In this capacity, Paul leads multidisciplinary analyses of critical infrastructure protection and community resilience strategies across the country, and the development of decision support tools to address these challenges.