2020s
James S. Peery became Sandia Director
Sixteenth Director of Sandia National Laboratories January 1, 2020
2020
January 1, 2020
James S. Peery became Sandia Director
James Peery began his career at Sandia in 1990 and worked in the Computational Solid Mechanics and Structural Dynamics Department and the Computational Physics Department. He left the Laboratories in 2002 and served in several leadership roles at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He returned to Sandia in 2007 and was named vice president of Defense Systems and Assessments in 2015. He left Sandia a second time in 2017 to serve as Associate Laboratory Director of National Security Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee before returning to Sandia as the 16th Laboratories Director. James holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University.
