John Horn, a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected as a graduate scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
Through the Livermore Graduate Scholar Program, Horn will become an official employee of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory while completing his doctoral degree from Texas A&M. As a program scholar, Horn will have the opportunity to conduct research of interest to LLNL, spending about 75 percent of the year at LLNL while earning a highly competitive salary.
The laboratory’s scholar program plays a critical role in helping recruit new scientific and engineering talent, and a key feature of the program is the relationship between the student, the university thesis advisor, and the laboratory technical supervisor. While at LLNL, Horn will be supervised by Jason Ortega of the laboratory’s Engineering Technologies Division. Ortega also will serve on Horn’s dissertation committee.
As a graduate student at Texas A&M, Horn conducts research under the supervision of Duncan Maitland, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Horn’s research interests include using particle image velocimetry and laser induced fluoroscopy to study the effects of cardiovascular devices on the fluid dynamics and heat transfer of blood flow.
“This scholar program provides a highly competitive fellowship that is available to all Ph.D. graduate students in U.S. institutions, with 10 or fewer awards made each year to students who have passed their preliminary or qualifying exam,” Maitland noted.
“John was selected based on his academic record and his strong preliminary work in multiscale, multiphysics simulations of blood clotting in porous media,” Maitland added. “Given that the program also considers long-term employment potential, John also was selected as someone that could excel in a national laboratory environment.”
For more than half a century, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has applied cutting-edge science and technology to enhance national security. Established in 1952 at the height of the Cold War to meet urgent national security needs, the laboratory remains focused on ensuring the nation’s security through scientific research and engineering development, responding to new threats in an ever-changing world, and developing new technologies that will benefit people everywhere.