Biographical Sketch: Dr., Prof. Joseph M. Mack
ASE Co-founder
Dr. Joseph Mack is presently an Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he is teaching two classes and performing independent research. Dr. Mack provides ASE with more than 35 years of scientific and leadership experience derived from a broad spectrum of activities within the aerospace industry, the national laboratory system, the defense community, and university-level education. Early involvement with ballistic missile defense at Martin Marietta Aerospace led to eventual employment with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which continues as a guest scientist. Staff and leadership positions at LANL involved responsibilities in LANL’s Nuclear Weapons Test Program (diagnostic design), the Strategic Defense Initiative Program (non-nuclear weapons testing, heavy ion and electron beam lethality, and flash X-ray radiography), threat reduction technology (post 9/11), inertial fusion diagnostic development for the National Ignition Facility, and new business development for the Lab dedicated to Department of Defense priorities, several of which involved work with the Defense Advanced Project Research Agency (DARPA). Dr. Mack remains in active pursuit of new initiatives through the nuclear power industry, fusion research, and teaching physics and nuclear engineering at the University of Florida.
Dr. Mack received his Ph. D. with a dual degree in reactor and plasma physics from the University of Florida, Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences. Over the intervening years he has worked in a variety of positions and diversified projects. During the course of his career, Dr. Mack has garnered direct experience in computational and experimental science, including explosives technology, extensive development and application of Monte Carlo transport theory, particle‑in‑cell methods as applied to pulse‑power and beam propagation, theoretical heavy element atomic structure and spectroscopy, radiographic analysis, laser-matter interaction physics, and various magnetic fusion concepts.
Dr. Joseph Mack is presently an Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he is teaching two classes and performing independent research. Dr. Mack provides ASE with more than 35 years of scientific and leadership experience derived from a broad spectrum of activities within the aerospace industry, the national laboratory system, the defense community, and university-level education. Early involvement with ballistic missile defense at Martin Marietta Aerospace led to eventual employment with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which continues as a guest scientist. Staff and leadership positions at LANL involved responsibilities in LANL’s Nuclear Weapons Test Program (diagnostic design), the Strategic Defense Initiative Program (non-nuclear weapons testing, heavy ion and electron beam lethality, and flash X-ray radiography), threat reduction technology (post 9/11), inertial fusion diagnostic development for the National Ignition Facility, and new business development for the Lab dedicated to Department of Defense priorities, several of which involved work with the Defense Advanced Project Research Agency (DARPA). Dr. Mack remains in active pursuit of new initiatives through the nuclear power industry, fusion research, and teaching physics and nuclear engineering at the University of Florida.
Dr. Mack received his Ph. D. with a dual degree in reactor and plasma physics from the University of Florida, Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences. Over the intervening years he has worked in a variety of positions and diversified projects. During the course of his career, Dr. Mack has garnered direct experience in computational and experimental science, including explosives technology, extensive development and application of Monte Carlo transport theory, particle‑in‑cell methods as applied to pulse‑power and beam propagation, theoretical heavy element atomic structure and spectroscopy, radiographic analysis, laser-matter interaction physics, and various magnetic fusion concepts.