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Karl van Bibber
Born	Karl van Bibber
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Awards	LLNL Director’s Distinguished Performance Award (1997) DOE Deputy Secretary’s Award for the B Factory (2000) LLNL S&T Award (2002) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007) Navy Superior Civilian Service Award (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Nuclear Engineering
Institutions	Stanford University Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Naval Postgraduate School University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Study of the Gamma Deexcitation Following Deep Inelastic Scattering of 16O with 27Al  (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Stephen G. Steadman

Karl van Bibber is an American professor of Nuclear Engineering and a Particle Physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor van Bibber founder the Physics and Accelerator technology group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California and later served as its chief scientist in 2001. He was the deputy director of the laboratory science and technology office. During his time in LLNL, he was awarded the director's distinguished performance award, deputy secretary's award and S and T awards. In 2009, he became the vice president and dean of research at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In 2012, he moved to University of California, Berkeley as a faculty at the department of Nuclear Engineering. He served as the department's chair until 2023. Professor van Bibber lives in Berkeley, California.