William "Bill" Peter

Dr. Bill Peter is the program director for Advanced Manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and has over 25 years of experience in advanced manufacturing and materials research for energy and national security applications. Peter is the former director of the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL where he attracted over $1 billion in follow-on private funding for manufacturing and materials research, developed over a dozen new manufacturing systems, and collaborated with over 250 companies. Peter has led groups of greater than 160 people in joining research, metal and ceramic processing, carbon fiber and composites, energy storage, separations, manufacturing systems development, techno-economic analysis, and additive manufacturing.