Sandia Labs FY22 Laboratory Directed Research & Development Annual Report

FY22 ANNUAL REPORT

MATT EICHENFIELD joined the University of Arizona’s Wyant College of Optical Sciences as the inaugural SPIE Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences. Eichenfield, part of Sandia’s new Faculty Loan Program for Joint Appointments, has led eight LDRD projects, including

STEPHEN PERCIVAL was awarded “2022 Excellence in Review” from Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (American Chemical Society). Percival is a former Sandia postdoctoral researcher and current staff member leading an LDRD focused on sustainable carbon dioxide capture. BRAD BOYCE will serve on a panel for the National Academies on Autonomous Materials Science. Boyce is currently leading the Beyond Fingerprinting Grand Challenge LDRD. PETER MARLEAU was nominated as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Materials Management for the Nonproliferation and Arms Control technical division. Marleau is an experienced LDRD PI and team member who has led several arms control-related projects. He is also the chair of two international working groups tasked with understanding and developing verification technologies.

Matt Eichenfield

“Phononic Memory and Optical Teleportation Using Optomechanics: Hardware Accelerators for Quantum Computers,” described here. LESLIE PHINNEY , Thermal Sciences & Engineering manager, and TRACY VOGLER , Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, were inducted into the University of Texas at Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2022. Phinney has served as team member on numerous engineering-science focused LDRDs; Vogler, an American Physical Society Fellow and former LDRD PI, is an expert in shock propagation in metals, ceramics, and granular materials. LARICO TREADWELL was

ALEC TALIN was appointed to the Science Magazine Board of Reviewing Editors. Talin has led 10 LDRD projects and contributed to many others. He has written over 200 publications and been cited more than 12,000 times. He was elected as Fellow of the

named to the Executive Board for the National Organization for the

Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. Treadwell is a chemist at the Advanced Materials Laboratory, who

American Physical Society in 2018. Alec Talin

has led multiple LDRD projects at Sandia. His work covers the materials science spectrum. He was named a Black Engineer of the Year: Most Promising Scientist in 2021. LaRico Treadwell

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