Nicole Lloyd-Ronning
Computational Physics and Methods,
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Nicole
Nicole Lloyd-Ronning is an astrophysicist in the Computational Physics and Methods group at Los Alamos National Lab. She models the multi-scale physics behind the bright, explosive deaths of very massive stars, the black holes they create, and uses these explosions as tools to learn about star formation and their evolution in our universe. She is the author of Great Mysteries in Astrophysics: A Guide to What We Don’t Know, a book about the most pressing unsolved puzzles in our universe. She facilitates LANL’s APS Inclusivity Diversity and Equity Alliance, and works as part of several other LANL Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging focus groups. She grew up all over the U.S. and Germany, and graduated high school in Honolulu, Hawaii. She received her B.A. in physics from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, and has been living in and loving New Mexico since 2003. In her free time, she likes to run, swim, listen to music, read, cook, and eat.
Honors
2022 - APS Fellow
2020 - LANL Community Medal
2019 - Distinguished Mentor Award
2016 - M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
LANL, 08/2003 - 06/2004
CITA, 08/2001 - 08/2003
Ph.D.
Physics/Astrophysics, Stanford University, 04/2001
Bachelor's
Physics, Cornell University, 05/1996
