Researcher

 

Beau Barker joined the Analytical Laboratory at INL’s Materials and Fuels Complex as an analytical chemist in January of 2017. He received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2002, a master’s degree in computational chemistry from the University of Minnesota - Duluth in 2004, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2010. Before coming to INL, he was a Seaborg postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory investigating resonant non-radiative energy transfer in actinyl containing crystals. Beau was also a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University, where he studied the spectroscopy of small actinide containing molecules.