The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has promoted Huban Gowadia to principal associate director of global security, where she will lead the Californi nuclear weapons facility’s nonproliferation and nuclear counterterrorism programs, the lab announced recently.
Livermore’s Global Security Security Principal Directorate also includes the lab’s efforts to counter chemical, biological, and explosive threats. The lab announced Gowadia’s promotion in a press release last week, officially placing her among Livermore’s four principal associate directors. Gowadia replaces Bruce Warner, who according to his LinkedIn profile retired in October.
Gowadia was most recently deputy principal associate director for programs at Livermore’s National Ignition Facility & Photon Science Directorate, according to her LinkedIn profile. She joined the lab in that capacity in 2018 after a two-year stint at the Transportation Security Administration. Prior to that, she spent six years at the administration’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, including four years as director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
Gowadia has a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from University of Alabama.
