Donald Hornback
Director, National Security Program Office
Brookhaven National Laboratory
National Security Program Office
Bldg. 490C, Room 5-1
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7026
dhornback@bnl.gov
Donald heads the National Security Program Office for BNL, supporting the Deputy Director for Science and Technology, John Hill. In this role he is charged with leading and implementing BNL’s broad strategy for national security which seeks to leverage the laboratory’s unique science and technology expertise in a way that enhances BNL’s core science mission while also providing science-based solutions to national security sponsors.
Expertise | Research | Education | Publications
Expertise
Donald joined BNL in November 2022 after serving as a program manager in government for seven years focused on national security related research. Prior to that he was research staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) from 2010-2016 working in both fundamental and applied physics.
Donny's graduate research was as a member of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics Group at the University of Tennessee and ORNL focused on heavy quark measurements as a member of the PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at BNL.
Research Activities
Donald's reserach activities have included experimental particle physics and applied R&D focusing on radiation detection and related analysis software development, computational modeling, system integration and field measurement deployments in support of DOE, DHS, and DOD missions.
Education
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey, CA.
PhD, nuclear physics, University of Tennessee, 2008
Selected Publications
- Romano C, Ault T, Bernstein L, et al (2018) Proceedings of the Nuclear Data Roadmapping and Enhancement Workshop (NDREW) for Nonproliferation. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
- Archer D, Bandstra M, Davidson G, et al (2017) Modeling Urban Scenarios & Experiments: Fort Indiantown Gap Data Collections Summary and Analysis. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
- Akimov D, Albert JB, An P, et al (2017) Observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Science 357:1123–1126. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao0990
- Adare A, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, et al (2012) Cold-Nuclear-Matter Effects on Heavy-Quark Production in
- Allen J, Awes T, Badalá A, et al (2010) Performance of prototypes for the ALICE electromagnetic calorimeter. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 615:6–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.12.061
Brookhaven National Laboratory
National Security Program Office
Bldg. 490C, Room 5-1
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7026
dhornback@bnl.gov
