Left Brain — Mareena Robinson Snowden

Beyond Convention - Alternative Career Paths in Nuclear Security

This summer I had the opportunity to speak to current SSGF fellows about my experience post graduate school. My goal was to share with them my thought process, missteps and strategies to defining my career path during the critical first few years after the PhD. Thank you to the DOE NNSA SSGF for not only inviting me to speak, but for generously supporting my PhD work.

PresentationMareena RobinsonJune 27, 2019NNSA, SSGF, Postdoc, STEM, Nuclear Engineering, My Story

A Year of Completion: Introducing Dr. Robinson Snowden!

At the beginning of 2017, my dear friend Joy Johnson gave me a daily planner. In the introduction pages of this planner, it said 2017 would be a year of completion. In the middle of a uniquely challenging time for me in my PhD career, I didn't know how true those words would ring, only five months later.

PresentationMareena RobinsonMay 31, 2017Nuclear Engineering, PhD, MIT, PhD Defense

MIT Nuclear Engineering Graduate Research Expo

My poster, entitled Nuclear Warhead Monitoring: A Study into Passive Detectability, explained my work to understand the accessibility and usefulness of high energy gamma emissions that are generated naturally inside plutonium based warheads.

Presented Research at the 2016 Stockpile Stewardship Graduate Fellowship Program Review

This past summer I presented my research at the 2016 DOE NNSA SSGF Program Review. This fellowship has generously supported my graduate research since 2012, and provided me with a supportive network inside academia and the national labs.