Research Expertise and Interest

applied nuclear physics, neutron detection, scintillation physics, machine learning applications, nuclear weapon policy

Research Description

Bethany Goldblum is an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and faculty scientist in the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on neutron detection, applied nuclear physics, and nuclear weapons policy. She is Executive Director of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, a multi-institution initiative that brings together eleven universities and five U.S. DOE National Laboratories to train the next generation of nuclear security experts. Goldblum also leads the Bay Area Neutron Group, a research team focused on neutron detection for national security applications, and founded and directs the Nuclear Policy Working Group, an interdisciplinary team of scholars developing policy solutions to strengthen global nuclear security. Her work has appeared in Science, Reviews of Modern Physics, Materials Advances, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among other outlets. She is recipient of the 2020 James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building, and Communication and faculty fellow with the Berkeley Risk and Security Laboratory. Goldblum received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.