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.

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

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

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