Megan Bruck Syal

Megan Bruck Syal is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her undergraduate education was at Williams College (Williamstown, MA), where she majored in Astrophysics and Mathematics and Statistics. She attended Brown University (Providence, RI) for graduate school, earning a PhD and ScM in Planetary Geosciences and a ScM in Engineering. Her research includes kinetic and nuclear deflection of asteroids, shock physics experiments, and multi-physics simulations. She leads the Planetary Defense project at Lawrence Livermore.