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Arian L. Pregenzer is Senior Scientist at the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Under her leadership, the CMC was established in 1994 to enable international technical cooperation on security problems.
The CMC is a unique facility dedicated to the exploration of how sharable technology can contribute to achieving nonproliferation, arms control, and other international security objectives. It promotes effective dialogue between policy and technology experts, and enables international technical cooperation to develop new approaches to security problems. CMC projects have brought together researchers from Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority; India and Pakistan; and Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Russia, and China. More information about the CMC can be found on the website http://www.cmc.sandia.gov/.
Dr. Pregenzer has written on such diverse topics as crisis prevention in Northeast Asia and nuclear material security in India and Pakistan. In the last two years she worked closely with U.S. government officials and with colleagues in Jordan and at Sandia to establish a Cooperative Monitoring Center in Amman, Jordan – the CMC@Amman. Dr. Pregenzer has also developed a cooperative project with the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) to revitalize the Iraqi science and technology community. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
From August 1990 to August 1992, Dr. Pregenzer served as a technical advisor to the Department of Energy's Office of Arms Control. During this period, she represented DOE at the multilateral chemical weapons negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
Dr. Pregenzer has Bachelors Degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy from the University of New Mexico. In 1983 she earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California at San Diego. Prior to her career in international security, she worked at Sandia to develop lithium ion sources for particle-beam-driven inertial confinement fusion. |