Brian Weston

Brian Weston, PhD, is a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with a career spanning from June 2014 to the present, where previous roles included Postdoctoral Researcher and Graduate Student Researcher. Brian's expertise in data analysis and statistical modeling has been cultivated through experience at NASA Ames Research Center, where work involved high-dimensional turbulence data and CFD simulations. Academic roles at UC Davis included serving as a Teaching Assistant, while earlier positions at UC Santa Cruz featured instruction in introductory Physics & Astronomy courses and research in the detection of extrasolar planets. Educational qualifications comprise a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Physics (Astrophysics) from the University of California, Santa Cruz.