Selected Physical Science Experts

Aidan Thompson

I work on the development of predictive atomistic materials modeling capabilities enabled by extreme...

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Landera’s research interests include physical property predictions via EOS (Equation of State) modeling. Having...

Alina Kononov

Alina develops and applies cutting-edge methods to model excited electron dynamics in materials. Her current...

Dr. Allen C. Robinson is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia...

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Brian Young is an R&D geophysicist and a senior member of technical staff at...

Brian Hehr, R&D Scientist

Brian Hehr is currently a Principal R&D Scientist and Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories...

Brian Bentz

LTP diagnostics typically have demanding spatial and temporal resolution requirements for resolving phenomena of...

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Education Ph.D., Physics, UC Berkeley (2004) Research Interests First-principles calculations of the structural, electronic, transport...

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The Applied Bioscience & Engineering group at Sandia is comprised of three departments: Systems...

In his work investigating catalysts and combustion physics, Christopher Kliewer has developed an array...

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Prior to joining Sandia in 2016, I held the position of professor in the...

Dr. Shaddix completed his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in...

Craig Taatjes is the senior manager for Physical Sciences at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion...

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My research resides at the intersection of classical and quantum computing. As a member...

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Danny Dunlavy is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Machine Intelligence and Vis...

Darren W. Branch is a distinguished researcher and technical leader at Sandia National Laboratories,...

Dave was born in Albuquerque New Mexico and attended the University of New Mexico...

David's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of chemical reactions. To obtain the greatest...

The CMOS technology is famously approaching its scaling limit: within the next decade or...

Eric Christopher Cyr

Eric is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at the Computer Science Research...

Eric Keiter is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Electrical Models &...

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Ernesto has been working at Sandia since November of 2022. He is a computational...

Ethan S. Hecht is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Combustion...

My research priority is to manage the data volume from scientific simulations to accelerate...

Habib Najm is a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratory. He leads a research...

Hemant Choudhary is currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National...

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Jeffery Greathouse works in the nuclear waste disposal R&D program, specializing in clay mineral...

Jeff Koplow specializes in multi-disciplinary problem solving in the physical sciences and their corresponding...

Dr. Jens Schwarz joined the Laser Operations and Engineering Department at Sandia National Laboratories...

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and spectroscopic-based tools in conjunction with multivariate image analysis to understand the fundamental spatial-temporal...

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Dr. Jessica Kustas is an analytical chemist at Sandia National Laboratories located in Albuquerque,...

Adam joined Sandia in 2013 as a senior member of technical staff. He currently...

John Henry Judah Niederhaus

Modeling and simulation research background: High-velocity and hyper-velocity impact. Pulsed power systems. Explosives. Exploding...

I am a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Computational Mathematics Department...

John Siirola is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Discrete Math &...

As the Principal Investigator of the Advanced Imaging Laboratory, Jonathan Frank has extensive experience...

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Whiting’s work focuses on chemical analysis and sensor development based on MEMS based gas...

I am a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the CCR at Sandia National...

Judit joined Sandia in 2007 and is currently a Distinguished Member of Staff. Her...

Dr. Manin obtained his MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering and in Automotive and Transportation...

I'm a staff member in Organization 1425, working in the field of quantum information...

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Dr. Khachik Sargsyan is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National...

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Laura M. McCaslin is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the CRF...

Since 2002, Lyle Pickett has been the Principal Investigator for the Spray Combustion project...

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At Sandia, Forrer works to develop and support the Experiment Data Depot, a software...

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In the past 10 years, Mary Tran-Gyamfi has worked on many different projects. In...

Matt Hopkins

Matthew M. Hopkins has been a technical staff member at Sandia for over 20...

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Development and the system-level packaging of chemical analysis systems and components. Moorman has lead...

Michael Krygier

Michael C. Krygier earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology,...

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Mike Kent began his career at Sandia National Labs as a materials scientist studying...

Nick's research focuses on the intersection of machine learning, probability theory, and partial differential...

Nils Hansen

Nils Hansen, the Principal Investigator of the Flame Chemistry and Diagnostics Laboratory at the...

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My work over the last forty years has focused on improving the understanding of...

Patrick Griffin, R&D scientist

Patrick J. Griffin is a Laboratory Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories in the Advanced...

Peter A. Schultz

Projects/Research interests High-performance computing in atomistic materials science Development and application of high-performance atomistic materials...

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Meagher’s main research interest is the development of novel techniques and devices for nucleic...

Roger P. Pawlowski

Roger is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Computational Science Department...

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Ronen Polsky’s research activities are focused on the fundamental principles and fabrication of devices...

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Dr. Ryan D. Davis is an analytical/physical chemist at Sandia National Laboratories. His career...

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As an undergraduate student at the University of Tulsa, Ryan Davis assisted on projects...

Dr. Simon Garcia de Gonzalo is a senior member of technical staff in scalable...

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I have a background in making quantum chemistry run fast on classical computers; since...

Taylor Moehling started at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA in 2020 as a...

My primary research is in quantum information.  I have pioneered cluster expansion methods for...

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Dr. Wei Pan is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National...

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Gaillard is focused on developing electroporation microchips for automated and high throughput cell transfection/transformation...