Dr. Astrid Morreale

Program Manager for Nuclear Theory

Dr. Astrid Morreale has served as a program manager for the nuclear theory subprogram within the Office of Nuclear Physics (NP) since 2022.

Prior to joining DOE, Dr. Morreale worked as a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Morreale’s research expertise spans heavy ion colliders as well as fixed-target experiments. Her expertise focuses on hadronic/nuclear structure in a variety of collision systems and center of mass energies in terms of underlying theory, experimental methods, and instrumentation.

After receiving her PhD from the University of California in 2009 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Dr Morreale worked at the atomic energy commission in France. She received the French “Habilitation thesis in Physics” from The University of Paris Diderot, the highest title that can be conferred upon a scholar in France. Before becoming a staff physicist at LANL, Dr Morreale was an associate professor at the Engineering School IMT of Nantes and was an external project evaluator for the European Research Council. She has served the chair line of the American Physical Society for the four corners region and is a current elected member of the APS committee of Scientific Publications.

Dr Morreale is a veteran of the US Marines recipient of the national defense service medal and is fluent in four languages.