Houston Wood
About
Dr. Houston G. Wood is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He received his B.A. and M.S. in mathematics from Mississippi State University and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia. Since 2009, he is Director of the Applied Mathematics Program in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and since 2012 he is Director of the Rotating Machinery and Controls Laboratory. He worked on the United States’ gas centrifuge development program at both the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant and the University of Virginia. He has organized three International Workshops on Separation Phenomena in Liquids and Gases, and, in conjunction with the Institute of Science and International Security, he organized two workshops at the University of Virginia on Nuclear Non-proliferation Verification. He has held visiting positions at Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, Saclay, France, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton, New Jersey.
He has been a leader in the Northeast Chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), where he has served as Member-at-Large, Vice President, President, and Past President. He is active in the International Safeguards Division of INMM, and he helped organize an INMM Workshop on State Level Concept at the University of Virginia. He has been elected Fellow of INMM.
Education
B.S. Mathematics, Mississippi State University, 1965
M.S. Mathematics, Mississippi State University, 1967
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Virginia, 1978
"My research in nuclear non-proliferation related to safeguards for uranium enrichment plants has the goal of reducing the spread of nuclear weapons."