Dr David Meier

Dr. David Meier began work at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2008 as a research scientist in the National Security Directorate (NSD).  David has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia.  His thesis work focused on the nuclear production and separation of 35S and 147Pm from irradiated materials and their subsequent incorporation into betavoltaic power conversion technologies.  Currently, he is the technical group manager of the Nuclear Materials Processing group in the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory (RPL) facility. 

Dr. Meier leads the NNSA’s Multi-laboratory Plutonium Processing Signatures Project at PNNL.  These processing, analytical, and modeling capabilities, expand our knowledge of nuclear forensics and morphological signatures associated with plutonium processing chemistries.  He also engages with the training and mentoring of the next generation of radiochemists and nuclear scientists and collaborates with staff from other National Laboratories in both the U.S. and the U.K.