Rich Williamson

Dr. Richard L. Williamson is a retired Laboratory Fellow at Idaho National Laboratory. With a career spanning over 40 years at INL, Rich has extensive experience in many key areas of computational methods research and model development, including nonlinear thermo-mechanics, fracture mechanics, shock wave and detonation, and thermal plasma spray. From 2009 to 2016, Rich led the team developing Bison, INL’s state-of-the-art nuclear fuel performance code. He later served as the Technical Lead of the Fuels Area within the DOE-NE Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation program. He is the author or co-author of approximately 180 scientific publications, including over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles with several thousand citations to his work. Rich was given the INL Laboratory Director's Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 2014.