Dr. Thomas Quirk is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator. 

Dr. Thomas Quirk is a Research and Development Manager at Sandia National Laboratories leading the Experimental Operations Department, which supports nuclear reactor experiments, radiation effects testing and modeling and simulation software development for the survivability mission space. He is one of only a handful of licensed professional nuclear engineers in his state. He actively develops consensus standard test methods through ASTM and is an organizing member of the International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry. He completed both an M.S. in Medical Physics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico as a DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow. Additionally, he also completed post-graduate work in Computational Science and Engineering (UNM) and Space Systems Engineering (Air Force Institute of Technology). In 2011, he became his laboratory’s first Fellow of the World Nuclear University at Oxford University. Following this intensive leadership development, Tom took a leave of absence to work for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria. He is a French-American Foundation Young Leader, a delegate of the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, an American Council on Germany Young Leader, a US-Spain Council Young Leader, and an Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leader. His driving passion is becoming an astronaut, ideally operating a nuclear reactor on the moon.