Dr. Susan Pepper

Faculty

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Advisory Board Member

Susan Pepper received her bachelor and master's degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with an emphasis on structural and geotechnical engineering. A Brookhaven Lab employee since 1985, Pepper worked in the Department of Nuclear Energy's Structural Analysis Division for eight years before joining NNS, where she served as liaison officer at the U.S. Mission to UN System Organizations in Vienna.

After living in Vienna for four years, she returned to Brookhaven to head the International Safeguards Project Office (ISPO), a position she held for more than a decade. In this capacity, Pepper worked extensively with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to provide its Department of Safeguards with the tools it needs to track nuclear material under the terms of the Nonproliferation Treaty. She is credited with creating an internship program in the IAEA Department of Safeguards to recruit students or recent graduates to work side by side with more senior staff.

Pepper continued to manage ISPO until being named deputy department Chair in September 2010, and then interim Chair in January 2015 and Chair in October 2015.

Pepper won the Edway R. Johnson Meritorious Service Award, given by the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) "for her accomplishments as a professional in the field of international safeguards and her many enthusiastic contributions to the institute." The INMM is the premier nonprofit technical organization devoted to ensuring the safe, secure and peaceful stewardship of nuclear materials for the benefit of mankind.

 

 

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