Dr. Meghan McGarry

Biography

Meghan McGarry is the point of contact for the MTV consortium at LLNL as well as a systems analyst: she creates rigorous frameworks to address poorly-bounded problems.  Her technical work is focused on modeling and simulation of the nuclear fuel cycle. She has a variety of global security interests including international safeguards, critical infrastructure resilience, intelligent adversary risk assessment, and cybersecurity. She is passionate about issues at the intersection of science and policy, particularly in the areas of nonproliferation, space policy, and deterrence. Dr. McGarry earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, using X-ray emission for tomographic imaging and temperature measurements in magnetically confined plasmas.