Directors Technical Staff
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA

Dr. Lowell Wood is a member of the Directors Technical Staff at the University of Californias Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, where he has worked in a variety of capacities for the past 38 years. During this same time, Dr. Wood has served as an interviewer of applicants for the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, which supports graduate studies in the applied physical sciences. He has also served as an officer and member of the board of Directors of the Hertz Foundation. He continues to serve on various advisory groups supporting the legislative and executive branches of the federal government.

Dr. Woods professional interests center in science and technology applied to national security problems, and extend more generally to national issues having a significant technical component. Dr. Wood received his Bachelors degrees in Chemistry and Math in 1962 and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1965 from the University of California at Los Angeles.