People

Name	David Moore
Team	Explosives Detection
Position	Team Leader
Phone:	(505) 665-6089
Email:	moored@lanl.gov
Research Interests:	He is presently a technical staff member in DE-9. He is the author of more than 110 publications and five book chapters, as well as holder of four patents. Moore presently leads an LDRD Defense Research project on quantum control methods applied to initiation of explosives, a Campaign 2 ultrafast laser generated shock project to measure initiation chemistry and equations of state of explosive crystals, a NA-42 funded project testing and evaluating portable Raman instrumentation for explosives detection and identification, and Department of Homeland Security-funded projects on trace explosives detection.
Research Highlights:	Fellow of the American Physical Society (2004), received for breakthroughs in the use of nonlinear optical and ultrafast spectroscopies to understand the behavior of molecules under shock compression. He has employed stimulated Raman scattering and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering to observe molecular vibrations behind a shock and harnessed the capabilities of femtosecond laser sources to both drive sustained shock waves and measure, with sub-picosecond time resolution, material motion, shock rise time, and chemical reaction. He also has developed Raman and surface enhanced Raman methods for trace explosives detection and identification.
Education:	Moore received a B.S. in Chemistry (University of Utah, 1974) and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (University of Wisconsin, 1980). He was a Los Alamos National Laboratory Director-Funded Postdoctoral Fellow (1980-1981) and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Essen 1993-94).
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