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Siegfried S. Hecker
Advisor to the Board of Directors
Siegfried S. Hecker is Director Emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was Director from 1986 to 1997, and is currently Visiting Professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He served as Chairman of the Center for Materials Science and Division Leader of the Materials Science and Technology Division before becoming Director. From 1970 to 1973 he was a Senior Research Metallurgist with the General Motors Research Laboratories.
Dr. Hecker is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the TMS (Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials Society), Fellow of the American Society for Metals, Honorary Member of the American Ceramics Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Council on Foreign Relations, Tau Beta Pi Honorary Engineering Fraternity, Alpha Sigma Mu Honorary Metallurgical Fraternity and the Society of Sigma Xi.
In addition to his current research activities in plutonium science and nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, he works closely with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy on a variety of cooperative threat reduction programs. Dr. Hecker is also actively involved with the U.S. National Academies, serving on the Council of the National Academy of Engineering, serving as chair of the Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control Nonproliferation Panel.
