Scholar
Thomas Proffen
Google Scholar ID: wPoubEkAAAAJ
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,205
H-index
34
i10-index
100
Publications
20
Co-authors
68
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America, and Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association; published multiple papers including 'Understanding the Hydronium Cation in the Solid State: A Study in Synthetic Hydronium Uranyl...' (Inorganic Chemistry), 'Integrated edge-to-exascale workflow for real-time steering in neutron scattering experiments' (Structural Dynamics), etc.
Research Experience
- After his PhD, Proffen worked as a Postdoc at the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University, continuing his work on analyzing diffuse scattering from disordered materials. In 1998, he took a Research Associates position at Michigan State University, adding the atomic pair distribution function method to his portfolio of analysis tools for disordered materials. These efforts continued when he moved to the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2001, where he upgraded the neutron total scattering instrument NPDF, promoting the total scattering technique applied to disordered crystalline and nanomaterials.
Education
- Proffen received his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich in 1995, focusing on structural disorder in stabilized zirconia.
Background
- Thomas Proffen is leading the High Performance Computing and Data Analytics Science Initiative of the Neutron Science Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was previously the Neutron Data Analysis and Visualization Division Director and Group Leader for Diffraction after joining ORNL in 2011.
Miscellany
- In his free time, Proffen founded and volunteers with Oak Ridge Computer Science Girls.
