Past SGS Visitors, Staff and Students

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1 Past SGS Visitors, Staff and Students Ali Ahmad has been a post-doctoral researcher with the Program on Science and Global Security and Princeton University s Nuclear Futures Laboratory since Fall His work is supported by the Woodrow Wilson School s Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy. It focusses on nuclear technology assessment of small modular reactors and on nuclear energy policy in the Middle East. Prior to joining Princeton, Ali was a research associate in applied nuclear physics at the Rutherford-Appleton Lab (UK). A physics graduate from the Lebanese University in Beirut, Ali holds a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Cambridge University. Laura Berzak Hopkins received her Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Princeton University in From , she held an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellowship, where she served as a scientific advisor for U.S. Senator Kent Conrad and on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. Her Congressional portfolios included issues ranging from alternative energy technology to nuclear nonproliferation and arms control. During her graduate studies, Laura was a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Stewardship Science Graduate Fellow at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Oleg Bukharin (Research Scientist) came to Princeton as a fresh PhD in physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in September 1990 to take courses related to arms control, nonproliferation and international security. He returned to MIPT's Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies in August 1991 and served as Acting Director while Anatoli Diakov was visiting Princeton. During , Bukharin was an SSRC/MacArthur Foundation Peace and Security Fellow in Princeton and Moscow. He joined Princeton's research staff in July 1995 and was promoted to Research Scientist in Dongli Chen (Visiting Fellow) is the Director of Beijing Science, Technology, and Security Advisory Center. He joined the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association as the Director of Biological Security Program during Before that, he served at Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences in China. Visited SGS fall 2010 through March Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress (Research Fellow) holds an MSc and PhD in high-energy physics from Carleton University, Canada, specializing in ultra-low background detectors. He worked in several international collaborations and has contributed to many articles in high energy and nuclear physics. He joined SGS in the summer of 2008 to work on verification methods and novel detection schemes for determining the declared inventory of naval reactor cores by simulating the effectiveness of detector systems. In March 2009, he accepted a position at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies.

2 Mark Gubrud (Postdoctoral Research Associate) previously taught physics at the University of North Carolina, and received his PhD in experimental physics from the University of Maryland in December He has long been an engaged commentator on space, high technology and robotic weapons issues, and is a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. Anfeng Guo (Visiting Fellow) is the Chief Scientist in Beijing Science, Technology, and Security Advisory Center, and Council Member of China Arms Control and Disarmament Association. Guo started her research on biodefense at the Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences in China in Since 1991, she gradually engaged in policy research on national biodefense strategies and bio-arms control policies, including mechanisms and measures to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention and the impact of scientific and technological advances on biological weapons. During the period of the BWC Protocol negotiation, she participated in BWC meetings in Geneva for 12 times as a biological expert on the Governmental Expert Panel of China. She received her B.S. in Public Health from Peking University and M.D. in Military Preventive Medicine from Academy of Military Medical Sciences. Visited SGS fall 2010 through March Joshua Handler (PhD graduate in the Woodrow Wilson School) joined our group in September Prior to that he had been most recently Director of Greenpeace International's campaign for the Comprehensive Test Ban. His thesis research examined the bureaucratic and political obstacles within the U.S. and Russian governments that prevented greater progress on nuclear disarmament between 1990 and Joshua completed his thesis during the fall of 2002 and left us to pursue a career in Washington DC as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. Moritz Kütt was a Visiting Student Research Collaborator at the Program on Science and Global Security and the Nuclear Futures lab in He is a PhD candidate in the Physics Department at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He is doing research on the role of Open Source Software in the field of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Before starting his PhD, he received a master s degree in Physics from and a BA in Political Science from the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Pervez Hoodbhoy (Consultant) retired in 2010 as Chair of the Department of Physics at Quaidi-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. In 2003, Hoodbhoy was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science. He is a long-time collaborator with Mian and Nayyar in an effort to educate the Pakistani public on the dangers of nuclear weapons. In 2001, with support from the Center for Defense Information, Hoodbhoy and Mian completed the documentary film, Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow, which Hoodbhoy directed and narrated. In 2004, with MacArthur Foundation support, they completed a second film, Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, India, Pakistan on the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir, the most likely flashpoint for a South Asian nuclear war., In 2010, he was awarded jointly with Abdul Nayyar the American Physical Society s Joseph Burton Award for broadening the public understanding of science in Pakistan and for informing the public of the dangers of the nuclear arms race in South Asia. Pervez is a frequent visitor to SGS.

3 Jungmin Kang (Consultant) joined our group in the summer of 1998 as a Visiting Student. His work with us resulted in him being awarded a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Tokyo University in July While with PS&GS, Kang completed articles on South Korea's options for storage of its spent nuclear fuel and examined a once-through uranium-thorium fuel cycle as an alternative to plutonium recycle. He also co-authored with us a history of South Korea's nuclear and weapons programs and analyzed the feasibility of disposing of plutonium in "storage MOX" and converting Russian ice-breaker reactors from weapon-grade to low-enriched uranium. Kang returned to South Korea in January 2001 and is now based at Seoul National University. The Ploughshares Fund has supported his work on South Korean fuel-cycle and technical issues relating to possible cooperative approaches to getting an agreement with North Korea to shut down its nuclear program. He has also received support from Margaret Spanel. Tadahiro Katsuta (Visiting Research Scholar) is spending the academic year at the Program on the prestigious Abe Fellowship, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the Social Science Research Council. He is researching and writing on issues of Japanese nuclear power and nuclear proliferation. Katsuta previously was a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo starting in 2005, where he studied barriers to past proposals of multilateral approaches by the nuclear fuel cycle. In 2006, he researched Japan s spent fuel and plutonium management challenges for the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). From , he conducted research on the economics of nuclear power relative to other sources of electrical power, and on energy scenarios in Japan through 2050 as an analyst at the Citizens Nuclear Information Center (CNIC). Katsuta received his PhD in experimental nuclear fusion physics from Hiroshima University in Katsuta is a representative of the non-governmental organization Peaceful Energy in Japan. Kenneth Luongo (Visiting Research Collaborator) was Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Nonproliferation Advisor to the Secretary of Energy during He also supervised the development of the U.S.-Russian collaborative program to strengthen nuclear material security in the former Soviet Union. He is currently the Executive Director of the Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, which has offices in Washington and Moscow. Gordon MacKerron (Visiting Senior Research Scholar ) was with the Program from March to end-june 2014, working on a MacArthur-funded project on nuclear fuel reprocessing, as well as the development of management strategies for separated civilian plutonium. He was until December 2013 the Director of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) University of Sussex and retuned there as Professor of Science and Technology Policy. He was previously Chair of the UK Government s independent Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM: ), which formulated current UK policy on radioactive waste management. Caroline (Reilly) Milne joined SGS in fall 2010 as a PhD candidate in Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School, working with Christopher Chyba on questions of nuclear force posture and arms control. Prior to coming to Princeton, she was a research assistant with the RAND Corporation, involved mostly with strategic force planning issues. Caroline is writing a dissertation on the processes by which nuclear-armed adversaries perceive and respond to the condition of mutually-assured destruction. In the fall, she will return to RAND as a Stanton

4 Nuclear Security Fellow. Caroline has a B.S. in aerospace engineering from MIT and a M.A. from the War Studies Department at King s College London. Seyed Hossein Mousavian (Visiting Research Scholar) is a former diplomat who served as Ambassador to Germany ( ), head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran s National Security Council ( ) and as Iran s nuclear negotiator (2003-5). He has taught at Islamic Azad University and was Vice President of Iran s Center for Strategic Research, He has PhD (2002) in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK. He is currently doing research on Iran s nuclear diplomacy. Abdul Nayyar (Summer Visiting Senior Research Scholar) is Executive Director of the Ali Institute for Education, Lahore, Pakistan. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, leading their programs on security and energy issues, and on reforming the curriculum and textbooks used in Pakistan s public schools. He retired in 2005 from the Department of Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He has been a regular summer visitor with the South Asia Project since In 2010, he was awarded jointly with Pervez Hoodbhoy the 2010 American Physical Society s Joseph Burton Award for broadening the public understanding of science in Pakistan and for informing the public of the dangers of the nuclear arms race in South Asia. Nayyar is a frequent visitor to SGS. Robert Nelson (Research Staff) received his PhD in Astrophysics from Cornell University in For three years, starting in 1998, he was a Council of Science and Technology Teaching Fellow in Princeton University's Department of Astrophysics. In June 2000 he joined our group. Since September 2002 we have shared him with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, where he is working with Richard Garwin. Ali Nouri (Associate Research Staff) worked on issues related to biological security. He is currently an AAAS Congressional Fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-Va). Prior to joining the program, Nouri was engaged with biotechnology-related activities at the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General. He holds a BA in biology from Reed College and a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University, where he studied the role of various tumor suppressor genes during animal development. Prior to Princeton, he was a research assistant at the Oregon Health Sciences University where he studied the molecular basis of retroviral entry into cells. Sébastien Philippe (Ph.D. candidate MAE) joined Princeton University in July 2012 as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering within the Nuclear Futures Laboratory. Prior to coming to Princeton, Sébastien worked for two years within the French Ministry of Defense: first as a graduate research fellow within the Strategic Research Institute of the French Military Academy in Paris (IRSEM); and then for 18 months in the defense procurement agency (DGA) as an engineer responsible for implementing and maintaining military nuclear safety regulations in the French oceanic strategic force. He received a master s degree in Mechanical and Design Engineering from the French National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA, Lyon) in 2010 and a B.A.I. from Trinity College Dublin in 2009 as part of a joint European degree program.

5 R. Rajaraman (Summer Visiting Senior Research Scholar) is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He is a Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy and co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. He has been contributing articles to India s nuclear weapon debate since 1970 and has been a regular summer visitor with Princeton s Program on Science and Global Security since Rajaraman is a frequent visitor to SGS. Scott Steele (Research Associate) joined PS&GS in February 2003 after he finished his molecular biology PhD thesis. He left at the beginning of July 2003 to join the FBI to work on interagency policy coordination in the area of prevention of bioterrorism. During his 4.5 months with PS&GS, he wrote a paper on the national need for high-containment laboratories to study countermeasures to pathogens that might be used by terrorists. He also organized the Princeton workshop and seminar series on biodefense R&D. Mark Walker is a PhD candidate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. For the last three years, he has been involved with research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on verification technology for nuclear arms control treaties, with a specific focus on active neutron interrogation techniques. In the summer of 2010, he was also an intern at the U.S. Office of Naval Reactors. He is a 2011 recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, and earned his bachelor s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Ting Wang joined SGS in 2013 as a post-doctoral researcher. He is working on space debris problems, missile defense and anti-satellite weapons. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University and at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He was a visiting scholar at the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2003, where he began to be interested in security issues. He received a Ph.D. at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China and has worked at the Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering. Sharon Weiner (Research Staff) received a PhD in Security Studies from M.I.T in 1998 after working as a staffer for the House Armed Services Committee in the late 1980 s. She joined our group in June She has been working full time on activities associated with the conversion of excess weapons workers in Russia's closed nuclear cities. Weiner is currently supported in large part by a two-year Carnegie Corporation Scholars Program fellowship (September 1, August 31, 2003) to write articles and a book assessing the U.S. and international programs established to help stabilize and downsize Russia's nuclear-weapons complex. Houston Wood (Visiting Research Scholar) is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia. He worked on the U.S. Department of Energy s gas centrifuge development program from 1967 until 1985, when the program was terminated. Over the last 15 years, he has been active in teaching, lecturing and consulting on issues relating to nuclear non-proliferation.

6 Jie Yan joined SGS for one year beginning in June 2014 as a post-doctoral researcher with the Program on Science and Global Security. He is working on using the zero-knowledge approach to arms control inspection and verification problems. Prior to joining Princeton, he was an associate professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, China Academy of Engineering Physics. His work was focused on neutronics physics and their applications to military and homeland security. He received a PhD in Particle and Nuclear Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Fumihiko Yoshida (Visiting Lecturer) writes the editorials on nuclear-weapon policy, climate change and other global issues for the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's leading national newspapers. From , Yoshida was a journalist with the Asahi Shimbun specializing on nuclear and security issues, including three years each on assignment in the newspaper's Washington and Brussels bureaus. He has a PhD in International Public Policy from Osaka University and has written four books, including three on nuclear security policy. He served on an advisory committee on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation policy to Japan's Foreign Minister. During the fall semester of 2010, he co-led with von Hippel a Woodrow Wilson School graduate policy workshop on "Plutonium, Proliferation and Radioactive Waste Politics in East Asia." Yoshida visited SGS during the fall 2010 term.