Susan Hamm

Dr. Susan Hamm serves as the Director for Integrated Strategies in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). She brings to EERE a wealth of experience in operations, budget, and management, as well as a broad interest in accelerating the nation’s clean energy transition. In this role, she leads efforts to support the administration’s priorities in equity, environmental and economic justice, place-based work, and cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Prior, Dr. Hamm was the Director for the Geothermal Technologies Office in EERE, leading efforts to improve performance, lower costs, and accelerate deployment of geothermal technologies. Prior to that, she served as the Directorate Operations Officer for the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, managing human capital, space, and budget. She served as a senior advisor to the Assistant Director on these and other policy issues.

Before serving the Foundation, Dr. Hamm worked with the nascent Department of Homeland Security in the Science and Technology Directorate. In the Office of the Assistant Secretary, she focused on strategic planning, budget development, policy planning, and congressional affairs. She has also worked as an advocate for professional science societies and as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. 

She has a bachelor's degree in Geology from Amherst College, as well as a master's in Geophysics and a Ph.D. in Material Sciences from the University of Minnesota.