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Alexander Glaser, PhD

Program on Science and Global Security

Princeton University

221 Nassau Street, 2nd Floor

Princeton, NJ 08542 (USA)

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JUNE 2009 UPDATE Flat Cursor

 

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LATE 2008 UPDATE

 

 

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EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. degree in Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, April 2005.

From September 2001 to August 2003, visiting scientist at the Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), holding a training and research fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC/MacArthur) within the Global Security & Cooperation Program.

Master's degree in Physics (German degree: Diplom-Physiker) from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, May 1998.

 

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WORK

 

Since February 2005, member of the research staff of the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Since January 2006, member of the research staff of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), www.fissilematerials.org.

From 1999 to 2005, member of the research staff of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science, Technology, and Security (IANUS), Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

 

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TEACHING

 

Graduate level course, Topics in International Relations: Protection Against Weapons of Mass Destruction (WWS-556d), with F. von Hippel, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Spring 2006 and Spring 2007.

From 2000 to 2004, co-organization of a graduate-level seminar series at Darmstadt University of Technology dedicated to technical aspects of arms control and nonproliferation. Title of the course in the Spring/Summer 2004: Nuclear Weapons and Their Proliferation.

Teaching assistant for the course Systems Analysis of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (22.351) taught by M. Kazimi at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nuclear Engineering Department, Spring 2003.

From 1994 to 1996, teaching assistant for various courses in Theoretical Physics at Darmstadt University of Technology, including Introduction to Theoretical Physics, Classical Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Mechanics.

 

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SLIDES FROM SELECTED LECTURES AND TALKS

 

 

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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament: Developing the technical basis for cooperative international policy initiatives to support nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament; Verifying a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT); Reducing --and eliminating if possible-- global stocks of fissile materials; Assessing fissile material production capabilities worldwide based on detailed reactor models and neutronics calculations.

Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Detecting clandestine fissile material production; Converting research reactors to low-enriched fuel and eliminating highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the civilian nuclear fuel cycle; Improving safeguards on centrifuge enrichment plants; Limiting the use of proliferation-prone nuclear technologies in the nuclear fuel cycle.

Nuclear Energy: Assessing the potential role of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world, with a particular emphasis on proliferation implications that would be associated with any significant expansion of nuclear energy; Assessing the viability of specific reactor and fuel cycle concepts considered for future use.

Nuclear Forensics: Determining signatures of plutonium from various types of dedicated production reactors; Determining signatures of highly enriched uranium obtained with different enrichment processes; Evaluating the role, capabilities, and limits of nuclear forensic analysis; Applying nuclear forensics to support nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament initiatives.

 

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MISCELLANEOUS

 

Since July 2008, member of the Science & Global Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, www.thebulletin.org.

In 2007-2008, member of a joint working group of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Nuclear Forensics: Role, State of the Art, Program Needs.

Since 2007, coordination of the seminar series of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University.

Since 2007, member of the Independent Group of Scientific Experts (www.igse.net), which has been formed to develop and demonstrate technologies and procedures for remote environmental sampling for clandestine fissile material production and other novel methodologies.

Since 2005, Associate Editor of the Journal Science & Global Security.

Adviser to the German Federal Ministry of Environment and Reactor Safety (BMU, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit), March 2000-June 2001.

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