Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh is the Cyclotron Road Division Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and an Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Slaybaugh researches computational methods applied to nuclear reactors, nuclear non-proliferation and security, and shielding. Slaybaugh recently served as a Program Director at the Department of Energy's ARPA-E. She is also Board Chair for Good Energy Collective, a Faculty Affiliate at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science, and serves on several advisory committees.
Slaybaugh received a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State, where she served as a licensed nuclear reactor operator, and a PhD from University of Wisconsin–Madison in Nuclear Engineering. Slaybaugh’s Rickover Fellowship took her to Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory before joining Berkeley.