John L. Sarrao

{{Short description|American physicist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John L. Sarrao | image = John L. Sarrao, 2013.jpg | caption = Sarrao in 2013 | order = 6th | title = Director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | term_start = October 2, 2023 | term_end = | president = Joe Biden | predecessor = Chi-Chang Kao | successor = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | other_names = | citizenship = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | website =  | footnotes = | module = {{Infobox scientist | embed = yes | fields = Physics | workplaces = {{plainlist| * Los Alamos National Laboratory * SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory }} | alma_mater = Stanford University (BS)<br />University of California Los Angeles (MS, PhD) | thesis_title = Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy( RUS) study of the structural phase transition in lanthanum-strontium copper oxide (La(2-x) Sr(x) CuO(4)) | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/304049322/ | thesis_year = 1993 | doctoral_advisor = W. Gilbert Clark | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | awards = }} }}

'''John Louis Sarrao''' (born February 1, 1967){{citation needed|date=May 2024|reason=Unable to locate reliable citations that mentions date of birth.}} is an American physicist. He was the deputy director for science, technology, and engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deputy Director, Science, Technology, and Engineering|url=https://www.lanl.gov/about/leadership-governance/deputy-director-ste.php|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hedden|first=Adrian|title=New Mexico partners with Los Alamos, Sandia national labs to develop 'clean' hydrogen power|url=https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2022/01/19/new-mexico-los-alamos-sandia-national-labs-clean-hydrogen-power/6562539001/|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Las Cruces Sun-News|language=en-US}}</ref> As of 2 October 2023, he became the sixth director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deputy Director, Science, Technology, and Engineering|url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/07/17/john-sarrao-named-director-slac-national-accelerator-laboratory/}}</ref>

== Education == In 1993, Sarrao received his PhD in physics from the University of California Los Angeles following a M.S. in physics from UCLA in 1991 and a B.S. in physics from Stanford University in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Leadership Team, Triad National Security, LLC|url=https://triadns.org/leadership-team/|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Physical Sciences alumni, UCLA.|url=https://www.physicalsciences.ucla.edu/alumni/|language=en-us}}</ref>

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science;<ref>{{Cite web|title=AAAS Members Elected as Fellows {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-members-elected-fellows-4|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.aaas.org|language=en}}</ref> the American Physical Society;<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of American Physical Society Fellows (2005).|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Physical_Society_Fellows_(1998%E2%80%932010)#2005|language=en-us}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=September 2023}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=John L. Sarrao, American Physical Society Fellow.|url=https://physics.aps.org/authors/john_l_sarrao|language=en-us}}</ref> and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellowship Membership (Active Fellow).|url=https://www.lanl.gov/collaboration/fellows/fellows-directory.php|language=en-us}}</ref>

== Career == He is the principal architect of LANL's Dynamic Mesoscale Material Science Capability (DMMSC).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dynamic Mesoscale Material Science Capability.|url=https://www.lanl.gov/science-innovation/science-facilities/dmmsc/index.php|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Barnes|first=C.W.. ...|date=2014|title=The science of dynamic compression at the mesoscale and the Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes (MaRIE) project|journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series |volume=500 |issue=9 |publisher=Journal of Physics: Conference Series 500|article-number=092001|doi=10.1088/1742-6596/500/9/092001 |bibcode=2014JPhCS.500i2001B |s2cid=109792180 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

He is a board member of the Technology Research Collaborative (TRC).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Reporter|first=Los Alamos|date=2019-10-07|title=John Sarrao Named To State Technology Research Collaborative Board|url=https://losalamosreporter.com/2019/10/07/john-sarrao-named-to-state-technology-research-collaborative/|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Los Alamos Reporter|language=en}}</ref>

Sarrao's research includes quantum computing.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Waters|first=Richard|date=2018-02-05|title=Early quantum computing investors see benefits|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/b2f1c0ea-e4ff-11e7-a685-5634466a6915|access-date=2022-01-19}}</ref>

On June 7, 2018, Sarrao presented Congressional Testimony for the House Science, Space & Technology Committee Subcommittee on Energy on topics including electric grid research and big data.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sarrao|first=John Louis|date=2018-06-04|title=Prepared Statement of Dr. John Sarrao, Principal Associate Director, Science, Technology & Engineering, Los Alamos National Laboratory|doi=10.2172/1440505|osti=1440505|s2cid=115287921}}</ref>

== Honors and awards == In 2013, he was awarded the United States Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his research in Condensed Matter and Materials Science: "For the discovery and study of new materials, especially those based on Plutonium, advancing understanding of unconventional magnetic and superconducting states in strongly correlated f-electron condensed matter systems."<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, John L. Sarrao, 2013.|url=https://science.osti.gov/lawrence/Award-Laureates/2010s/Sarrao|language=en-us}}</ref>

He was honored for his discovery and study of new materials, especially those based on Plutonium, that advance understanding of novel magnetic and superconducting states in strongly correlated f-electron condensed matter systems.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Superconductivity in plutonium compounds | last=Sarrao|first=J.L. ... |date=2015 |journal=Physica C: Superconductivity and Its Applications | volume= 514 | issue= 15|pages=184–188 | doi=10.1016/j.physc.2015.02.031|bibcode=2015PhyC..514..184S |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Superconductivity in Cerium- and Plutonium-Based '115' Materials | last=Sarrao|first=J.L. ... |date=2007 |journal=Journal of the Physical Society of Japan |volume=76 |issue=5 | article-number= 051013 |doi=10.1143/jpsj.76.051013|bibcode=2007JPSJ...76e1013S }}</ref> The complexity of strongly correlated materials, resulting from coupling among charge, spin, and lattice degrees-of-freedom, allows the emergence of new states and new phenomena, helping promote the development of useful and novel functional materials.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/15/28/368/meta |title=Discovery of plutonium-based superconductivity | last=Sarrao|first=J.L. ... |date=2003 |journal=Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter | volume= 15 | issue= 28|pages=S2275–S2278 |doi=10.1088/0953-8984/15/28/368 |bibcode=2003JPCM...15S2275S |s2cid=250871411 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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