Katherine (Kate) J. Evans is the Director of the Office of Institutional Strategic Planning for Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Until June of 2024, she served in science management roles including most recently, Division Director for the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, which delivered scalable computational science to address challenges across the physical, engineering, health, and quantum information sciences. Evans has been an active researcher in the areas of computational earth science applied to weather and climate models. As part of her numerical methods research, she also makes connections to other applications, including ice sheets, more general fluid flow, disease propagation, and oncology. Evans earned her PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences with an emphasis in math from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000, where she was awarded the William Rhodes fellowship and the senior Dean’s fellowship for most outstanding senior PhD student. She is a member of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians, where she received the 2024 prize for the Mathematics of the Planet Earth activity group.