Dr. Terence J. Tarnowsky
Terence J. Tarnowsky is a Scientist on the Prompt Diagnostics Team in Physics Division (P-2) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and an Adjunct Professor at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University.
He earned his Ph.D. in experimental high-energy nuclear physics from Purdue University, where he studied heavy-ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma in the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). His career has included research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University and work with the U.S. Army at the United States Military Academy.
At LANL, his work has spanned nuclear diagnostic data analysis, high-performance computing, and national security applications. His current research focuses on developing new methods for extracting, analyzing, and interpreting complex nuclear data. For the 28th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2026), he is presenting work on accelerator-driven molten-salt technology for commercial tritium production to support deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion energy.