Leadership
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Eric N. Brown
LANSCE User Facility Director
Dr. Eric N. Brown is the Director of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and Senior Director for the Associate Laboratory Directorate of Physical Sciences at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. LANSCE is a premier accelerator-based user facility for research underpinning Laboratory missions in national security, energy security, and fundamental science, with over 700 user visits annually. Dr. Brown has overall operational responsibility for LANSCE and oversees the basic, applied, and national security research performed at the 5 target stations that comprise LANSCE, including neutron scattering research at the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center, nuclear science and technology at the WNR facility, national security research at the proton radiography facility, fundamental research at the Ultra-Cold Neutron Facility, and the production of medical radionuclides at the IPF.
Dr. Eric N. Brown has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2003. He arrived as a Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Materials Science and Technology Division to study the dynamic behavior and nonlinear fracture of polymers and energetic materials. He developed a research program spanning fracture and damage of complex heterogeneous polymers and polymer composites for energetic, reactive, and structural applications including crystalline phase transitions, plasticity, and dynamic loading conditions. In 2007, he took an Interagency Personal Act appoint as the Technical Advisor for the Joint DoD/DOE Munitions Technology Program in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense. In 2010, Eric became the Deputy Group Leader and then Group Leader of the Neutron Science and Technology Group in Physics Division. In 2015, he was named the Division Leader for the Explosive Science and Shock Physics Division. He was most recently a Scientist 5 in Office of Experimental Sciences. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials and is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Society for Experimental Mechanics.
Before LANL, Eric received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked in industry at Mitsubishi Motors of America and in the Motorola Corporate Manufacturing Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he performed the foundational work in the field of self-healing materials with Prof. Nancy Sottos.
Past Leadership
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Michael Furlanetto |
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Gus Sinnis |
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Kurt Schoenberg |
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Paul Lisowski |
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Roger Pynn |
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John C. Browne |
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Peter Barnes |
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Ed Knapp |
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Don Hagerman |
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Gerald Garvey |
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Louis Rosen |
