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Jim Kerby

Project Director, LBNF/DUNE-US

Jim Kerby is the LBNF/DUNE-US Project Director. He manages all aspects of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment-US project — the largest international DOE project ever hosted on U.S. soil — at both Fermilab and Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. With over 30 years of engineering and technical management experience, Kerby led the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) project at Argonne National Laboratory, where he oversaw the planning, construction and implementation. Prior to that, he led the US-LHC Accelerator Project at Fermilab, which helped construct the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Kerby holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Purdue's Krannert School of Management.