Scott Turner
R&D Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Role
- R & d Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Location
- Los Alamos, NM, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Scott Turner
Nuclear Engineer with over 30 years in computational physics, over 25 years in WMD nuclear emergency response and nuclear forensics, over 20 years in Intelligence Work, and 15 years in management and leadership.• Prior Group Leader of up to 30 staff, postgrads, students, affiliates, associates, guest scientists, contractors, and visitors with a $13M annual budget.• Prior Deputy Group Leader of up to 100 staff, postgrads, students, affiliates, associates, guest scientists, contractors, and visitors with a $21M annual budget.• Prior DOE/NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Transport Project Leader with a $4.5M budget.• Multiple clearances issued by multiple agencies and departments.• Multiple awards for excellence from the Department of Energy, NNSA Defense Programs, DoD Joint Special Operations Command, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.I am a Nuclear Engineer and Computational Physicist who excels in high risk, intense pressure, and quick response situations with many years of experience developing and applying computational physics codes on everything from HPC machines occupying the highest positions of the Top500 List down to rugged laptops in the field solving problems in real time. I have secured and managed multi-million dollar budgets for projects involving a mixture of world-class science and software engineering both for open publication and global security programs.
Experience
R & d Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
May 1993 — Present
Weapons of Mass Destruction Nuclear Emergency Response (1996-present)• R&D Scientist (1993-present)• Acting Deputy Group Leader of Intelligence & Systems Analysis (20••••16)• Group Leader of International Research and Analysis (20••••15)• Intelligence Work Project Leader (20••••14)• Deputy Group Leader of Computational Physics & Transport Methods (20••••13)• ASC Transport Project Leader (20••••13)• Team Leader for Deterministic Radiation Transport, Transport Methods Group (20••••04)• Technical Staff Member, Computational Physics, Transport Methods Group (19••••01)• Post-Doctoral Candidate, Computational Physics, Transport Methods Group (1996)• Graduate Student Research Assistant, Diagnostics and Transport Methods Group (19••••95)
Education
Oregon State University
BS, Nuclear Engineering
1986 — 1990
University of Michigan
Master's Degree, Nuclear Engineering
1991 — 1992
University of Michigan
PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Scientific Computing
1993 — 1995
Skills
- Simulations
- Radiation
- Experimentation
- Numerical Analysis
- Scientific Computing
- Programming
- Nuclear
- Algorithms
- Threads
- Nuclear Forensics
- Data Analysis
- Numerical Simulation
- Fortran
- R&D
- Supercomputing
- Physics
- Software Development
- Python
- Reactor
- Nuclear Engineering
- Mathematical Modeling
- High Performance Computing (Hpc)
- Perl Script
- C++
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Nuclear Physics
- Software Project Management
- High Performance Computing
- Computational Modeling
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Mpi
- Computational Physics
- Science
- Parallel Computing
- Engineering
- Parallel Programming
- Software Engineering
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