As the Associate Labs Director for Global Security at Sandia National Laboratories, Justine Johannes leads the Global Security portfolio, including global threat reduction, nuclear risk reduction, chem/bio security, and nonproliferation and international security programs. 

Justine began her career at Sandia National Laboratories in 1994 after completing her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and her Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her early career focused on chemical kinetics and integration of verification and validation in developing predictive capabilities.

jejohan@sandia.gov

Site Occupational Medical Director

Dr. Rick Sauerman has been the site occupational medical director (SOMD) for Sandia’s clinics since 2009 and has been a physician with Sandia since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and he has a master’s degree in Public Health from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed a residency for board certification in Occupational Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

rbsauer@sandia.gov

Johanna received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the University of New Mexico, and later went back for her Master’s of Science in Nursing with a focus on nursing education. She completed her Post Master’s Nurse Practitioner certificate at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Educating and helping both patients and peers is her passion. She is a Certified Diabetes Educator and is board certified in Advance Diabetes Management.

jmgrass@sandia.gov

Senior Scientist Livermore National Labs 

A multi-program national security laboratory, LLNL’s primary stated mission is to enhance the nation’s defense and reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Prior to LLNL, he spent 12 years at the Sandia National Laboratories location in Livermore, California, where he engaged in a wide range of research and development activities, such as developing laser-based diagnostics for studying combustion processes. Rakestraw’s experience with lasers lead him to a new area of research that used the high-sensitivity of laser-based detection to develop high-speed DNA sequencing instruments. Then, a few years later in 2000, using technologies his research team developed at Sandia, Rakestraw co-founded a company that specialized in applying microfluidics for chemical analysis. Over the past 5 years, Rakestraw has focused on STEM education where he is developing inquiry-based activities that take advantage of the sensors in smartphones.

rakestraw1@llnl.gov

Dr. Emily Teti is an applied data scientist specializing in international nuclear safeguards. Her formal background is in statistics, human perception, and machine learning. In her free time she enjoys playing with her three dogs and participating in local theater. She is excited to share the quirky side of AI with the camp participants! 

Having recently obtained a Bachelor's degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, I am now getting ready to relocate to Tucson, Arizona to pursue a PhD in Optical Sciences. 

Priscila Rosa received her PhD in physics in 2013 from the University of Campinas, Brazil. She then moved to the University of California at Irvine as postdoctoral researcher. In 2015, she was awarded a Director’s postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory before becoming a staff scientist in 2016. Her main research interest is the synthesis and characterization of strongly correlated quantum materials that exhibit emergent phenomena, such as unconventional superconductivity, electronic nematicity, complex magnetism, and non-trivial topology. Priscila has coauthored over 120 peer-reviewed articles as well as one patent and two book chapters. She has also presented 45+ invited talks in national and international conferences. At Los Alamos, her research further focuses on the application of extreme conditions (high pressure, high magnetic field, and low temperatures) to tune novel materials towards desired functionality.