Dan Shumaker, PhD

Dan E. Shumaker is a computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who has spent his career working on the plasma physics and transport theory relevant to inertial confinement fusion. Shumaker received his Hertz Fellowship in 1971 and completed his doctorate in plasma physics at the UC Davis/Livermore program, where his dissertation calculated transport coefficients in an axisymmetric plasma — the kinetic theory parameters governing how heat, momentum, and particles diffuse in magnetized plasma configurations. At LLNL, he has continued as a computational physicist, applying numerical methods to problems in plasma transport and fusion simulation.