Dr. Thomas Mason, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and President  & CEO of Triad National Security, was the keynote speaker at NC State Dean’s Colloquia on Engineering, Science and Public Policy. Dr. Kostadin Ivanov, Nuclear Engineering Department Head, facilitated the first session where Mason spoke with faculty on collaborative opportunities. Dr. Jerome Lavelle, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, facilitated the session with various engineering student scholars and honors as they discussed career opportunities. The public lecture addressed engineering, science and nuclear security research conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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Before joining LANL, Mason was the Senior Vice President for Global Laboratory Operations at Battelle where he held responsibility for governance and strategy across the six National Laboratories that Battelle manages or co-manages.  And prior to joining Battelle, he worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for 19 years, including 10 years as the Laboratory Director. Mason moved to ORNL from the University of Toronto where he was a faculty member in the Department of Physics and previously worked as a Senior Scientist at Risø National Laboratory and a Postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories.  For the past 30 years, he has been involved in the design and construction of scientific instrumentation and facilities and the application of nuclear, computing, and materials sciences to solve important challenges in energy and national security. Dr. Mason has a PhD in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from McMaster University and a BSc in Physics from Dalhousie University.