Johns Hopkins University’s second-ranking administrator has been nominated by President Obama to be undersecretary of energy.

If approved by the Senate, Kristina Johnson, currently Hopkins’ provost, will serve under Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

Johnson’s nomination was announced to Hopkins students and employees in an e-mail from university president Ronald Daniels on Thursday.

“Given the centrality of global warming and clean energy in President Obama’s recent address to Congress, the nomination of Provost Johnson to this role is a testament to her outstanding record of scholarship, innovation and leadership,” he said in the e-mail.

Johnson was appointed provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Sept. 1, 2007.

According to her biography on the university’s Web site, www.jhu.edu, she is an electrical engineer with 129 patents and the first woman to be university provost.

Johnson received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif.

She was previously on the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, in Durham, N.C.
 

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