Susan Seestrom

Susan Joyce Seestrom is an American experimental nuclear physicist and physics administrator, the Chief Research Officer at Sandia National Laboratories.

[1] Before moving to Sandia, she was the first female head of the Physics Division[2][3] and the Weapons Physics Directorate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and she became the first female chair of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.

At Sandia, she became Associate Laboratories Director for Advanced Science and Technology and Chief Research Officer in 2017.

[1] Seestrom was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994, after a nomination from the Division of Nuclear Physics, "for experimental studies of the nuclear isospin response in inelastic pion scattering, and for her contributions to our understanding of parity violation in compound nucleus neutron resonance".

[5] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020, "for her pathbreaking work in nuclear physics, especially using ultracold neutrons, and her leadership, both in her community and at national laboratories".