PNNL

Bryan Fulsom is a physicist and group leader for the Detection Physics group in the Physical Detection Systems and Deployment Division of the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

As group leader for the Detection Physics group, he manages equipment, laboratory spaces, and approximately 65 staff members focusing on research in fundamental physics, nuclear nonproliferation, quantum and low-temperature science, and ultra-low background radiation detection techniques. His personal scientific work at PNNL focuses on data analysis, software, and detector development for national security.

A particle physicist by training, he also has extensive expertise in the experimental study of exotic multiquark matter, and spent more than 20 years working on high-energy and nuclear physics experiments in Japan, Europe, Canada, and the US. Before coming to PNNL in 2014, he was a research associate at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and earned his BS and MS in physics at Queen’s University and his PhD in physics at the University of British Columbia.

• Particle physics
• Mathematical modeling
• Statistics
• Experimentation
• Physics
• Spectroscopy
• Scientific computing

• PhD in physics, The University of British Columbia
• MS in physics, Queen’s University
• BS in physics, Queen’s University