Amanda Dodd Email & Phone Number

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Amanda Dodd is Director of the Computation and Analysis for National Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories. She is also Program Area Director for the Homeland Infrastructure Security and Resilience Program within Sandia’s Energy & Homeland Security Portfolio. Amanda leads the center in anticipating, addressing, and reducing national security risks by developing and applying cross-domain computational and analytical capabilities, as well as contributing to all of Sandia’s missions to advance the Labs’ capabilities for nuclear deterrence needs, today and tomorrow. Our work spans foundational research, development, and application, with deployment and engineering missions shaping our expertise. The Center stewards capabilities in engineering sciences, codes, models, data analytics, computing, information and mathematical sciences, agile component and systems design, and cyber and intelligence science.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

The Computational Sciences and Analysis group consists of five departments (~100 researchers) that conduct high-impact research and development in computational and information sciences, multi-physics modeling and simulation, and decision support frameworks to impact multiple core programs in national security.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

The Energy Innovation Department is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists that creates game-changing technologies to advance the use of clean energy. Collaborative expertise in engineering and materials science is focused on topics in energy storage, heat transfer, and energy conversion. Work in the group spans theory, modeling, applied experimentation, and electro/mechanical design. A multi-disciplinary approach is used to invent valuable “outside-of-the-box” solutions aimed at addressing energy security and strengthening U.S. competitiveness. The department also leads hydrogen/materials and plasma diagnostics contributions for the DOE/SC Fusion Energy Sciences office.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

The University of Texas Partnerships manager is part of an initiative that Sandia National Laboratories is pursuing to develop strategic partnerships with a select set of universities. This role includes broadly partnering with UT Austin to focus on three high-level partnership goals: solving the nation’s big problems, sustaining and engaging human capital, and accelerating the adoption of new technologies. Activities include spearheading partnership development, technology transfer, and enhancing recruiting efforts and leadership development opportunities with UT. Developing and fostering partnerships with the vice president of research, deans, faculty, administration, students, and students working for Sandia in a variety of research areas are all part of the responsibilities associated with this position. Additional endeavors include reaching back to Sandia across a broad range of technical disciplines to connect researchers and identifying opportunities for further collaboration.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Sandia/California's Thermal/Fluid Science and Engineering Department is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and researchers who specialize in fluid mechanics and heat and mass transfer. The work mix in the group includes theory and modeling, scientific and high-performance computing, and applied engineering analysis of experiments and mechanical designs. The group plays two primary roles in science-based engineering at Sandia: (1) developing new computational methods, capabilities and tools to describe fluid mechanics and heat transfer; (2) performing computational analysis to predict the design performance of engineered systems in defense, energy, and industry applications. Recent activities within the group include hydrogen storage and safety technology, combustion and heat transfer modeling, multiphase and porous media flow modeling, and turbulent heat transfer simulation. This position encompasses a broad range of technical, programmatic, and personnel management responsibilities including program development, hiring, and staff career development.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

• Principal Investigator on multiple projects in which quarterly communication of progress and results to management, yearly development of project plans, and project management of a team of engineers is required.• Leads Organic Materials Decomposition Capability Realization Team to integrate experimental, computational capability development, and modeling efforts to meet strategic and tactical deliverables and provide impact stockpile and Life Extension Programs.• Manages organic materials decomposition projects to develop modeling approaches to simulate the behavior of organic materials that pyrolyze, liquiefy and flow when exposed to fire-like heat fluxes. • Drives composite material fires modeling effort to develop decomposition models, physics models, and coordinate with experimentalist and code developers to design experiments, analyze data, and implement new code capability and physics.• Supervises and mentors new staff, summer students, and postdoctoral candidate to become familiar with physics of projects and expand their sphere of influence.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Lead of projects involving model development for organic material decomposition and composite material fires. Integration of analysts, experimentalists, and code developers to meet goals of improved predictive capability of computational models use for heat, mass, fire analyses. Served as a thermal subject matter expert on a independent assessment team that reports to the Lab Director. Developed solid models, meshing, performing thermal analysis, uncertainty quantification, and optimization for a wide range of applications from developing decomposition kinetics models for organic materials and composites to modeling large thermal systems.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

• Project lead for thermal validation project. Performed analysis of experimental data and computational modeling to aid in validation and verification processes. Designed hardware and experimental setups for testing. Organized large documentation effort across experimental and modeling projects to meet Level 2 milestone. • Development of models using optimization techniques and experimental data to simulate thermal degradation of energetic materials. Collaboration with experimentalists, analysts, management, and external customers to communicate results through numerous presentations, develop and maintain unified approach to experimental and modeling efforts.

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

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