Brian Jensen
Director and Professor: Institute for Shock Physics and the Applied Science Laboratory, Department of Physics, Washington State University.
- Role
- Faculty Research Affiliate at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Location
- Pullman, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brian Jensen
Prof. Brian Jensen has more than 25 years of experience in the field of dynamic high pressure physics using powder and gas gun systems, explosives, and lasers to examine the dynamic response of condensed matter subjected to high pressures. He graduated from Knox College in 1997 with a B.A. in Physics and Classics, and later from Washington State University in 2003 with a doctorate in Physics. In 2004, he joined the Dynamic Experiments Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member working in the Shock and Detonation Physics group where he spent nearly 20 years studying the response of matter at extreme conditions. During those years, he served as the team leader for the historic Shock Physic team and as the High-Z Project Leader for actinide science in the Office of Experimental Science’s Dynamic Materials Properties Program. Central to his efforts has been the development of diagnostics and facilities dedicated to dynamic compression science including the modernization of the Los Alamos TA-55 40mm actinide impact facility – a national signature facility for actinide research, in re-establishing the 40mm pRad capability at LANSCE for dynamic proton imaging, the development of advanced light source capabilities, and led Los Alamos Laboratory’s new Dynamic Equation of State Facility (DEOS) project that modernized and consolidated the historic shock physics capabilities that extend back to the 1960s. He has served as the Chair of the APS topical group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (GSCCM), elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and was awarded the Los Alamos Fellow’s Prize in 2022. In September of 2023, Dr. Jensen joined the Physics Department at Washington State University as Professor and became the next Director of the Institute for Shock Physics.
Experience
Faculty Research Affiliate
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sep 2023 — Present · Los Alamos, NM, US
Faculty Research guest with the M9 Shock and Detonation Physics Group.
Education
Knox College
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Physics and Classics
1993 — 1997
Washington State University
PhD, Physics
1997 — 2003
Skills
- Particle Physics
- Dynamic Compression and Impacts
- Fortran
- Machining
- Solid State Physics
- Mathematica
- Experimental Physics
- Interferometry
- Inventor
- High Speed Imaging
- Physics
- Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Plasma Physics
- Numerical Analysis
- Labview
- Matlab
- High Pressure
- Materials Science
- Laser Physics
- Latex
- Optics
- Explosives
- C++
- Characterization
- Spectroscopy
- Nanotechnology
- Mathematical Modeling
- Experimentation
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