Dana Dattelbaum is an American physicist and scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[5] Her work elucidated excited state electronic structures in Re, Ru, and Os polypyridyl complexes and she was the first to develop time-resolved near infrared spectroscopy using step-scan Fourier transform interferometry.
Dattelbaum is an R&D Scientist within the Dynamic Experiments (M) division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
She has over 200 publications (h-index of 37[6]), and is Past-Chair of the American Physical Society’s Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter.
She is the LANL representative for the Stockpile Stewardship Academic Alliance, a steering committee member for the Chicago-DOE Alliance Center (CDAC), LANL’s elector for NSF’s COMPRES consortium,[11] and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Dynamic Behavior of Materials.