Ron S Moore

Bio

Ronald Moore joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in June 2021 as a senior R&D staff member focused on stable isotope R&D and operations. In his role with the Enrichment Science and Engineering Division of the Isotope Science and Engineering Directorate, he coordinates operation and studies for Electromagnetic Isotope Separator (EMIS) devices; develops software models of EMIS units to understand beam transport and increase efficiency; and writes code to analyze diagnostic data to monitor and improve system hardware and software.

Prior to joining ORNL, Ron spent seven years as a senior physicist and radiation safety officer with Knoxville's ProNova Solutions, a company that developed a proton beam therapy system for cancer treatment. Before that, he was an assistant physicist in the Department of Radiology in the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he also was an assistant professor in Harvard Medical School's Department of Radiology. He began his career as a scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL, where he served in multiple roles including leading operation of the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, and twice received the Fermilab Exceptional Performance Recognition Award.

Ron holds Bachelor of Science degrees in physics and mathematics from Pennsylvania State University, from which he graduated with honors. He holds a Master of Science degree and doctoral degree in high energy physics from the University of Michigan, where he received the Regents' Crane Fellowship and conducted research on the L3 experiment at CERN.  He was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan where he worked on DAQ and trigger electronics upgrades for the CDF experiment at Fermilab.

Ron completed Radiation Safety Officer Training for Laboratory Professionals from the Harvard School of Public Health and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business's Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program (for FNAL & ANL). He is a member of the American Physical Society and Phi Beta Kappa.