Lisbeth Dagmar Gronlund(born 1959)[1]is an Americanphysicistandnuclear disarmamentexpert, the former co-director of the Global Security Program for theUnion of Concerned Scientists.
Education and career
editGronlund graduated from theUniversity of California, Santa Barbarain 1982, majoring in physics,[2]and earned her Ph.D. atCornell Universityin 1989 with a dissertation concerningquasicrystals.[3]
After postdoctoral research at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) in the MIT Defense and Arms Control Studies Program, and two years as an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Peace and Security at theUniversity of MarylandCenter for International Security Studies, she joined the Union of Concerned Scientists as a staff scientist in 1992, also becoming a research fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program.[2]She retired as co-director of Global Security at the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2020.[4]
Recognition
editIn 2001, Gronlund was named aFellow of the American Physical Society(APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on Physics and Society, "in recognition of her many important contributions to arms control, including work on missile defense, missile capabilities and the nuclear fuel cycle as it relates to proliferation, made possible by her ability to analyze technical issues and by her community".[5]She was elected as a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Sciencein 2007.[6]
Gronlund was also one of the 2001 winners of the Joseph A. Burton Forum Award of the APS, "for creative and sustained leadership in building an international arms-control-physics community and for their own excellence in arms-control physics".[2]She shared the award with George N. Lewis and David C. Wright, of the MIT Security Studies Program and Union of Concerned Scientists respectively.[7]
References
edit- ^Birth year fromLibrary of Congress catalog entry,retrieved 2020-10-27
- ^abc2001 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award Recipient: Lisbeth D. Gronlund, UCS/MIT,American Physical Society,retrieved2020-10-27
- ^WorldCat catalog entry forQuasicrystals: studies of stability and phason relaxation(PhD dissertation, Cornell University, 1989), retrieved 2020-10-27
- ^Union of Concerned Scientists Appoints National Security Policy Veteran to Head Global Security Program,Union of Concerned Scientists, April 30, 2020,retrieved2020-10-27
- ^APS Fellows Archive: Forum on Physics and Society, 2001,American Physical Society,retrieved2020-10-27
- ^AAAS Fellows(PDF),American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007,retrieved2020-10-27
- ^"APS Honors Physics Contributions",Physics Today,54(4): 80–81, April 2001,Bibcode:2001PhT....54R..80.,doi:10.1063/1.2405625