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3168 Appendix A
3169
3170
3171
3172 Biographical Sketches of Panel Members
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3175
3176 John F. Ahearne (NAE) Chair, is the executive director emeritus of Sigma Xi, The Scientific
3177 Research Society, an adjunct professor of engineering at Duke University, and an adjunct scholar
3178 at Resources for the Future. He has extensive expertise in nuclear and radiation engineering and
3179 risk assessment. His professional interests are in reactor safety, energy issues, resource
3180 allocation, and public policy management. Dr. Ahearne served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959
3181 to 1970, resigning as a major. He has also served as deputy and principal deputy assistant
3182 secretary of defense (1972-1977), in the White House Energy Office (1977), as deputy assistant
3183 secretary of energy (1977-1978), and as commissioner and chairman of the U.S. Nuclear
3184 Regulatory Commission (chairman, 1979-1981). He is a fellow of the American Physical
3185 Society, the Society for Risk Analysis, the American Association for the Advancement of
3186 Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy
3187 of Engineering, Sigma Xi, and the American Nuclear Society. He has previously chaired or
3188 served as a member on committees for over 30 other NRC studies. Dr. Ahearne received a Ph.D.
3189 in physics from Princeton University.
3190
3191 Douglas Eardley, Vice Chair, is professor of physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical
3192 Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Eardley’s research interests include
3193 general relativity: black holes, gravity waves, and quantum gravity; theoretical astrophysics: X-
3194 ray sources, quasars, active galactic nuclei, and cosmology; mathematical physics: nonlinear
3195 partial differential equations and geometry; physics and society: national security, nuclear
3196 weapons, and arms control. Dr. Eardley has been a member of several National Research
3197 Council study committees, including the Working Group on Related Areas of Science of the
3198 Astronomy Survey Committee (“Field Committee”) in 1979-1980; the Committee on the
3199 Atmospheric Effects of Nuclear Explosions in 1983-1984; and the Science Panel of the
3200 Astronomy Survey Committee in 1989-1990. He was chair of the External Advisory Board of
3201 the Institute for Fundamental Theory of the University of Florida at Gainesville from 1990 to
3202 1994; a member of the Physics Advisory Committee of Lawrence Livermore National
3203 Laboratory from 1991 to 1996; the plenary speaker at the Texas Symposium on Relativistic
3204 Astrophysics in 1992; a member of the Openness Advisory Panel of the Secretary of Energy
3205 Advisory Board for DOE from 1996 to 2002; and co-coordinator of the Institute for Theoretical
3206 Physics’ Program in Black Hole Astrophysics from 1999 to 2002. Professor Eardley has been a
3207 member of the JASON Study Group since 1981; a member of the National Security Panel of the
3208 University of California’s President’s Council on the National Laboratories from 2000 to 2007;
3209 chair of the External Review Panel for the Radiation Effects Sciences Program for Sandia
3210 National Laboratories since 2000; and a member of the Joint Mission Committee for Los Alamos
3211 National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 2007. He received a
3212 B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
3213 physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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3214
3215 Robert C. Dynes (NAS) is professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, San
3216 Diego. He served as the 18th president of the University of California (UC) from 2003 to 2007,
3217 and as chancellor of UC San Diego from 1996 to 2003. His position as chancellor followed 6
3218 years in the physics department, where he founded an interdisciplinary laboratory in which
3219 chemists, electrical engineers, and private industry researchers investigated the properties of
3220 metals, semiconductors, and superconductors. Prior to joining the UC faculty, he had a 22-year
3221 career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and
3222 material physics research and director of chemical physics research. Dr. Dynes received the 1990
3223 Fritz London Award in Low Temperature Physics, was elected to the National Academy of
3224 Sciences in 1989, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Canadian Institute for
3225 Advanced Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the
3226 executive committee of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness. A native of London, Ontario,
3227 Canada, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, Dr. Dynes holds a bachelors degree in mathematics and
3228 physics and an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Western Ontario, and
3229 masters and doctoral degrees in physics and an honorary doctor of science degree from
3230 McMaster University. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Université de Montréal.
3231
3232 David Harding is a senior scientist at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser
3233 Energetics and a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research interests
3234 include the science and engineering associated with the making of fuel capsules for fusion
3235 experiments performed at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He has
3236 worked at the University of Rochester for 15 years; prior to that he was a senior research
3237 engineer in the Materials and Structures Division at the NASA Lewis Research Center. He has
3238 participated as a panel member on two review committees: the National Ignition Facility Target
3239 Fabrication Review (2008) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a DOE review of its
3240 Solar Thermal Program (1992). Dr. Harding received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
3241
3242 Thomas Mehlhorn is superintendent of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Plasma Physics
3243 Division, and a member of the Department of the Navy Senior Executive Service with
3244 responsibility for a broad spectrum of research programs in plasma physics, laboratory discharge
3245 and space plasmas, intense electron and ion beams and photon sources, atomic physics, pulsed
3246 power sources, radiation hydrodynamics, high-power microwaves, laser physics, advanced
3247 spectral diagnostics, and nonlinear systems. He began his career at Sandia National Laboratories
3248 in 1978 and worked on a variety of projects related to the generation, focusing, and interaction of
3249 intense beams of electrons and ions with plasmas. From 1989 to 1998 he was a manager in the
3250 Sandia Light Ion ICF Program and from 1998 to 2006 he managed Sandia’s High Energy
3251 Density Physics and ICF Target Design Department in the Pulsed Power Fusion Program. From
3252 2006 to 2009 he was a senior manager with accountability for dynamic materials and shock
3253 physics, high energy density physics theory and modeling, and advanced radiographic source
3254 development and applications. Dr. Mehlhorn joined NRL in 2009. He is a recipient of two
3255 NNSA Defense Programs Award of Excellence (2007 and 2008), a Lockheed Martin NOVA
3256 award (2004), and an Alan Berman Research Publication Award from NRL (1983). Dr.
3257 Mehlhorn is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in
3258 Physics (2006). He serves on the Advisory Board for Plasma and Atomic Physics at GSI,
3259 Darmstadt, Germany (2004-present, chair in 2006). He is a member of the Nuclear Engineering
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3260 and Radiological Scieinces Department Advisory Board at the University of Michigan (1996-
3261 1999, and 2004-present), as well as of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
3262 Alumni Society board of governors (2009-present). In 2010 Dr. Mehlhorn served on the
3263 Department of the Navy Space Experiments Review Board as well as the University of
3264 Missouri’s Research and Development Advisory Board. Dr. Mehlhorn received B.S, M.S., and
3265 Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan.
3266
3267 Merri Wood-Schultz is a part-time consultant for SAIC and serves as a laboratory associate at
3268 LANL for Improvised and Foreign Devices. Dr. Wood-Schultz’s early career focused on the
3269 physics design of secondaries of thermonuclear weapons. She was responsible for the conceptual
3270 and physics design of numerous nuclear tests and add-on experiments; the areas of focus of these
3271 tests included stockpile systems, weapons physics, and advanced development. Dr. Wood-
3272 Schultz played an active role in the development of nuclear weapons-related laboratory
3273 experiments (AGEX), serving as the lead designer for a series of experiments on the Sandia
3274 National Laboratories’ SATURN pulsed-power machine and as a member of the inaugural
3275 LANCE (neutron scattering facility) Users Group. Later phases of Dr. Wood-Schultz’s career
3276 included involvement in developing concepts and methods for certification without nuclear
3277 testing, notably the quantification of margins and uncertainty (QMU), and an increase in her
3278 work in nuclear intelligence. The latter led to a 6-month, change-of-station assignment to a DOE
3279 intelligence organization. Dr. Wood-Schultz is currently a member of the Nuclear Forensics
3280 Science Panel for the Department of Homeland Security and engages in continuing technical
3281 collaborations on nuclear weapons design, yield certification using QMU, and nuclear
3282 intelligence. Dr. Wood-Schultz became a fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2001,
3283 received the Department of Energy Award of Excellence in 1988, 1999, and 2004, the
3284 STRATCOM Medal of Excellence in 1997, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
3285 Distinguished Performance Award in 1996. Dr. Schultz received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
3286 in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
3287
3288 George Zimmerman is a part-time consultant on computations and modeling for LLNL and on
3289 nuclear reactor modeling for TerraPower, LLC. He joined LLNL in 1970 as a staff member in
3290 the A Division, where he developed the LASNEX computer program to design laser fusion
3291 targets and analyze experiments. In 1980 he was appointed associate division leader in the X
3292 Division, where he led a group of physicists responsible for developing numerical methods to
3293 accurately perform integrated simulations involving laser absorption, magnetohydrodynamics,
3294 atomic physics, and the transport of photons, neutrons, and charged particles. From 1984 to
3295 1987 he was leader of the Computational Physics Division. He then led the inertial confinement
3296 fusion code development project in the AX Division until his retirement. Mr. Zimmerman
3297 received the Department of Energy’s 1983 E.O. Lawrence Award for contributions to national
3298 security and the 1997 Edward Teller Award for developing the LASNEX inertial confinement
3299 fusion code. He also received the Defense Programs Award of Excellence for significant
3300 contributions to the Stockpile Stewardship Program in 2002 and 2005. He retired from
3301 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2007 and is currently a fellow of the
3302 American Physical Society. Mr. Zimmerman received a B.S. in physics from Harvey Mudd
3303 College and an M.A. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley.
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