McDonald Luther W

Prof. McDonald is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Utah (UU). He joined the UU in January 2014 and has led the development of a radiochemistry laboratory, mentoring over forty students, and managing research projects from NEUP, DTRA, NNSA, and DHS. Simultaneously, McDonald served as the University Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Nuclear Forensics Undergraduate Summer School in 2016 – 2017. Prior to joining the UU, McDonald performed a post-doctoral fellowship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in National Technical Nuclear Forensics, worked as a visiting scientist at the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique in Saclay, France, and completed his Ph.D. at Washington State University in Radiochemistry. He served at the elected Secretary of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology from 2013 – 2016 and was named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Science in 2017.