Dr. Don Brown - 2023 THE ISRAELI CONFERENCE ON ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING: Research to Applications
Conference and Exhibition on March 13th, 2023, at Kfar Maccabiah
Don Brown received his BS in Physics from Bowling Green State University in 1993 and PhD in Physics from the Penn State University in 1998. His dissertation focused on using x-ray and neutron scattering techniques to characterized materials confined to nano-voids. He began his professional career as a postdoc working at the neutron scattering center at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
He has been the co-instrument scientist of the Spectrometer for Materials Research at Temperature and Stress (SMARTS) since the commissioning in 2003.
SMARTS was the first neutron scattering instrument designed for the study of engineering materials and is based on a philosophy of studying materials response to conditions simulating operation and/or processing.
Don has extended this philosophy to include large scale x-ray scattering facilities such as the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab.
His work has focused on the study of nuclear weapons and energy materials, but includes components of aerospace, automotive, and functional materials as well. Most recently, his research has included in-situ processing and performance of additively manufactured materials. He is now a Senior Scientist at LANL and Materials Scattering Team Leader in the Materials Science and Technology Division with roughly 250 co-authored publications and an h-index of 42.