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Security Working Group Co-Chair and NCNK Membership Committee
Visiting Professor
CISAC, Stanford University
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Security
Biography
Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker is a visiting professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and an emeritus director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Hecker's research interests include plutonium science, nuclear weapon policy and international security, nuclear security (including nonproliferation and counter terrorism), and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. Over the past 15 years, he has fostered cooperation with the Russian nuclear laboratories to secure and safeguard the vast stockpile of ex-Soviet fissile materials. His current interests include the challenges of nuclear India, Pakistan, North Korea, and the nuclear aspirations of Iran. Hecker works closely with the Russian Academy of Sciences and is actively involved with the U.S. National Academies, serving on the National Academy of Engineering Council and its International Programs Committee, as chair of the Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States, and as a member of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control Nonproliferation Panel.
Hecker joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a graduate research assistant and postdoctoral fellow before returning as technical staff member following a tenure at General Motors Research. He led the laboratory's Materials Science and Technology Division and Center for Materials Science before serving as laboratory director from 1986 through 1997, and senior fellow until July 2005. Among his professional distinctions, Hecker is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in metallurgy from Case Western Reserve University.
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