Sandia Labs FY22 Laboratory Directed Research & Development Annual Report

FY22 ANNUAL REPORT

NEWLY PROMOTED SENIOR SCIENTIST HIGHLIGHTS

DAVID P. ADAMS

David P. Adams joined Sandia as a postdoc in 1994, and is currently a member of Sandia’s Material, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Center. He leads several teams involved with the research of thin film deposition processes, process-structure-property relationships and microfabrication, and has over 130 publications in these areas. In FY22, he was elected as Fellow of AVS Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing (formerly referred to as

the American Vacuum Society), and will serve as President of AVS in 2024. He has contributed to LDRD projects as a PI, team member, and mentor since 1998.

LAURA SWILER

Laura Swiler has had a distinguished career at Sandia focused on developing and deploying uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods across many mission areas. Her research interests include uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of computational models, design of computer experiments, parameter

“I had an LDRD early in my career that resulted in two of my most cited publications, a patent, a lasting collaboration with another center, and follow-up funding from external sponsors. This LDRD had a profound influence on my career. Overall, LDRDs are essential to the Laboratories, allowing us to investigate technical expertise in the future. LDRDs allow one to collaborate broadly across Sandia mission areas and multiple centers and are an important vehicle for early career staff to explore and prove out new ideas.” and develop innovative, foundational capabilities that will support Sandia’s

calibration, adaptive sampling algorithms, Bayesian inference, and surrogate models. She has applied UQ methods to nuclear reactors, nuclear waste disposal, cyber, additive manufacturing, and climate. She led five LDRD projects and is currently a co-lead for the CLDERA Grand Challenge (CLimate impact:

Determining Etiology thRough pAthways).

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