Sandia Labs FY21 LDRD Annual Report

FY21 ANNUAL REPORT

THE INDICATORS Professional Fellows (American Physical Society)

One relevant indicator of advancement and leadership in an ST&E field is the election of individuals as fellows of professional societies. This indicator reflects success for both the individual researcher and the affiliated laboratory. The NNSA laboratories consider American Physical Society (APS) Fellowships as the exemplar award because physicists naturally link with NNSA’s core stockpile stewardship mission, and APS Fellowship is awarded based on scientific merit and impact over an extended period of time. As a premier engineering and science laboratory, Sandia produces relatively fewer APS fellows when compared to the NNSA physics laboratories. Of the two APS fellows elected in the past three years, both had LDRD experience. Over the past ten years, over 81% of Sandia’s APS fellows have had LDRD experience.

LDRD and American Physical Society Fellows at Sandia National Laboratories

Single Years

Five Years

To Date*

FY19 FY120 FY21

FY11-15 FY16-20

FY11-21

Total Awards

2 2

0

0

12

10

22 18

Awards with LDRD Roots

N/A

N/A N/A

9

9

% with LDRD Roots

100% N/A

75% 90%

81%

Average Years from First LDRD Experience

12.0

N/A

N/A

14.7

13.0

13.8

*Initial year to date: Each NNSA laboratory has chosen the appropriate lookback period to ensure data integrity.

Other Professional Societies In addition to APS awardees, researchers at Sandia have been elected as Fellows to numerous other prestigious scientific and engineering societies, with the greatest number elected to the societies listed below. Since 2011, 42 individuals have been elected Fellow to one professional society (excluding APS). Four individuals have been elected Fellow to two professional societies, and 80% of Fellows had LDRD experience during their Sandia careers. • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics • American Society of Mechanical Engineers • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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