Terminello appointed Nuclear Forensics leader
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Lou Terminello
Lou Terminello has been appointed the Lab’s new Nuclear Forensics leader. The announcement was made Wednesday by the Global Security and Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) principal directorates.
Nuclear forensics is a major challenge for the United States, and LLNL is in a position to be a national leader in providing critical science and technology in support of this enduring mission. WCI’s capabilities, derived from more than a half-century of nuclear weapons design, development, and testing, together with Global Security’s expertise in domestic and international security, provide the framework for executing cutting-edge research and development that is of benefit to the operations of responsible government agencies.
Terminello will have overall responsibility for formulating and integrating LLNL’s strategy in Nuclear Forensics. He will work with Global Security’s Program director for Domestic Security and Global Security’s Forensics and Attribution Program leader and the leaders of WCI’s A, B and W Programs to ensure coordinated implementation and execution.
Terminello will continue as the Materials Program leader for WCI.
Terminello was the lead for the RRW-2 phase 1 study efforts at LLNL until the recent project completion. During his Lab career, he has served as division leader for the Materials Science and Technology Division in the Chemistry, Materials, Earth and Life Sciences Directorate, and he also was the leader of the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science.
Prior to joining LLNL in 1991, Terminello was a post-doctoral researcher at IBM Yorktown Heights. He received his Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley, and his bachelor’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He if the author of more than 150 publications, holds several patents, has served on numerous scientific advisory and review committees, and has edited six books in the field of materials characterization using synchrotron radiation.
Terminello is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
