I am a Distinguished Scientist in the Scientific Computing and Theoretical Physics Groups at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and I currently serve as the Director of Science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. I am also a Joint Faculty Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Tennessee.

I have spent a lot of time learning about, using, helping to build, programming, and otherwise finding excuses to be around many of the world’s biggest computers over the past 25 years or so. A lot of this effort has been dedicated to using these machines to study the death of stars and the formation of compact objects like neutron stars and black holes.

Fellow, American Physical Society (2025)

Member – American Physical Society Committee on Informing the Public (2018–2020)

Technical Papers Committee – ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC16, SC17, SC18, SC19, SC22, SC24, SC25)

Co-Chair – Nuclear Astrophysics, ASCR-NP Exascale Requirements Review (2016)

Working Group Organizer – Astrophysics Theory and Computing, Division of Nuclear Physics Town Meeting on Nuclear Astrophysics (2014)

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• bronson@ornl.gov
• 865 241 7340
• bronson.messer
• Building 5600 Room D333, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA