PNNL

Dana Arbova is a chemist with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL’s) Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering group on the Actinide Chemistry team. In this role, she develops readiness capabilities for nuclear forensics, conducts experiments focused on nuclear fuel characterization, and supports work examining the medical isotope production ecosystem.

Prior to joining PNNL, Arbova’s research included ultratrace analysis of actinides (e.g., uranium, plutonium, and americium) in biological tissues and analysis of radium in brain tissue samples from the Radium Girls cohort using multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) for analysis at the University of Missouri. Arbova was also an International Safeguards Policy Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Seaborg Graduate Fellow with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and selected for the Dr. G. Robert Keepin Nonproliferation Science Summer Program.

• Separation chemistry
• Nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards
• Nuclear forensics
• Medical isotopes

• PhD in chemistry, University of Missouri – Columbia, 2022
• BS in biological engineering, University of Missouri – Columbia, 2017