Benjamin T. Manard

Benjamin T. Manard is a Senior R&D staff member and Group Leader of the Chemical and Isotopic Mass Spectrometry Group.  He earned a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Clemson University (2014), during this time he had an appointment as a visiting scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for six months. Benjamin then completed a Glenn T. Seaborg postdoctoral research fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM. After his fellowship, Benjamin was converted to a Staff Scientist position at LANL in the same group (Chemistry-Actinide Analytical Chemistry). Upon arriving at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2018), Benjamin has 10+ years experience with elemental and isotopic analysis of nuclear materials and has 80+ publications in the field.  His primary research efforts are directed toward improvements in elemental/isotopic methodologies including innovative sample introduction schemes (e.g., laser ablation, single particle, and microextraction) as well as novel detection strategies (e.g., collision/reaction cell).