McClelland has been a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee for 23 years and has been instrumental in weapons physics, advanced radiography programs and accelerator physics at the Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics. McClelland received his doctorate in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
"I cannot think of a more challenging set of issues than those currently under investigation in the Weapons Physics Directorate," said McClelland. "And I don't believe there is a greater team of people to work with on these issues."
McClelland's work on advanced radiography includes research and development in proton radiography, optimization of the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrotest facility, and simulation and analysis of Advanced Hydrotest Facility design and theory. As program manger for nuclear physics, McClelland represented a diverse experimental and theoretical effort that linked with outside collaborators at universities and other national laboratories and included substantial Laboratory Directed Research and Development funding.
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