Carol Jean Burns is an American chemist who is deputy director of Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
She spent a term at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
[2] After completing her doctorate, Burns joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a J. Robert Oppenheimer postdoctoral fellow.
[4] In 2004, Burns returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she was made head of the chemistry division.
She oversaw a group of researchers who could analyze debris and identify the people responsible for terrorist attacks.