Dr. Heather Whitley, Ph.D - High Energy Density Science - Weapons & Complex Integration Directorate - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Send us Fan MailDr. Heather Whitley, Ph.D. is Associate Program Director for High Energy Density Science ( https://heds-center.llnl.gov/ ), Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where she is responsible for providing technical oversight and management of the design, execution, and analysis of experiments at the National Ignition Facility and other laser programs. Prior to this role, Dr. Whitley served as a detailee on assignment to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs Office of Experimental Sciences. Dr. Whitley completed her graduate studies of quantum systems at the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry, prior to joining LLNL as a postdoctoral researcher in September 2007. She was hired as a permanent staff member in August 2010 and was a recipient of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering. Her work at LLNL has broadly supported the physics data and modeling needs of nuclear warhead studies and high-energy density experiments. She was awarded the NNSA Defense Programs Award of Excellence twice in 2018. Support the show