Michael R. Anastasio

Dr. Michael R. Anastasio
Michael R. Anastasio in 2008
9th Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Incumbent
Assumed office June 1, 2006
Preceded by	Robert W. Kuckuck
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Born	1948
Profession	Theoretical nuclear physics

Michael Anastasio (born 1948) was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and president of the Los Alamos National Security LLC, the company that operates the laboratory.^[1] He is the former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The University of California Board of Regents appointed Michael R. Anastasio the director of LLNL on June 4, 2002. He started on July 1, 2002. In 2005 he became the president of the Los Alamos National Security LLC, and became the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory on June 1, 2006. During his directorship at Lawrence Livermore, the laboratory won 25 R&D 100 Awards and maintained its world-class leadership position in high-performance computing and its application to global climate modeling.

He has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Johns Hopkins University and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical nuclear physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His career at LLNL began in 1980 as a physicist in B-Division, one of the two nuclear weapons design divisions. He participated in the development of the W87, W84, and B83 warheads and 10 nuclear tests; he was project physicist on four of these tests. In 1991, he was made B-division leader and program manager responsible for primary weapons design. From 1996 to 2001, he served as associate director for Defense and Nuclear Technologies, responsible for all activities in the laboratory’s nuclear weapons program. In that capacity, he was instrumental in the development and execution of the national Stockpile Stewardship Program. From 2001 to 2002, Anastasio served as LLNL’s deputy director for Strategic Operations.

He has 18 publications in intermediate energy theoretical nuclear physics and 800 citations. He received the Department of Energy Weapons Recognition of Excellence Award in 1990 and is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society; U.S. Strategic Command, Strategic Advisory Group; and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Capabilities.

He will be retiring from his position as Laboratory Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory effective June 1st 2011.

References

1. ^ Biography on the LANL website

• "Michael R. Anastasio." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: K2016964329. Fee. Accessed 2009-10-24 via Fairfax County Public Library.

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Name	Anastasio, Michael
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