Don
Brown received his PhD in Physics from the Penn State University in 1998
focusing on using x-ray and neutron scattering techniques to characterized
materials confined to nano-voids. He
began his career as a postdoc working at the neutron scattering center at Los
Alamos National Lab. He has been the co-instrument
scientist since the commissioning of the Spectrometer for Materials Research at
Temperature and Stress (SMARTS) in 2003 until now. 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 conditions. Don has extended this philosophy to include large scale x-ray scattering
facilities such as the advance photon source at Argonne National Lab. His work
has focused on the study of nuclear weapons and energy materials, but included
components of aerospace, automotive, and functional materials as well. Most
recently, his research has included in-situ processing and performance of
additively manufactured materials.
