Stephen LaMont

Stephen LaMont is a Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he currently leads nuclear forensics and treaty monitoring projects in the Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Washington State University and has contributed to and led Dept. of Energy sponsored projects at the Hanford Site (1994-97), SRNL (2001-2004), LANL (2004-2010, 2015-present), and DOE Headquarters (2010-2015) where he served as the Chief Scientist for the Nuclear Material Information Program.  His work has focused on the radiochemistry and mass spectrometry of the actinides with applications to internal dosimetry, nuclear forensics, proliferation detection, and environmental safeguards, including the discovery and interpretation of materials signatures to better assess the production history and provenance of nuclear materials.