Nicholas D'Imperio

Nicholas D’Imperio joined the computational staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2000 as a physics associate, developing highly parallel, scalable, data-intensive simulations of particle accelerators. Since then, he has held a series of leadership positions, including Group Lead for New York Blue, which ranked fifth on the June 2007 TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, and Group Lead of the HPC Code Center, where he led the development of a diverse range of scientific software.

D’Imperio later served as Chair of the Computational Science Department within Brookhaven’s Computational Science Initiative. In 2024, he was tasked with establishing the Laboratory’s new Computing and Data Sciences Directorate and was named its interim Associate Laboratory Director. He was appointed permanent Associate Laboratory Director in 2026.