Theron Rodgers

Theron Rodgers is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Computational Materials Science Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He joined Sandia as a postdoc in 2015 and became a staff member in 2018. Theron’s research focuses on simulating advanced manufacturing, quantifying material microstructures, and utilizing material information in engineering analyses. He has developed simulation methods for various advanced manufacturing techniques including vapor deposition, welding, plasma spray, cold spray, and additive manufacturing. During his career, he has coauthored 26 journal articles and released multiple applications in the open source SPPARKS code repository. As a postdoc, he served on the Sandia Postdoc Development Association board from 2015 to 2018 and later assumed the role of staff advisor from 2019 to 2023. Theron has led the hiring process for three postdoctoral appointees and four student interns He has also participated on hiring panels for many additional candidates. Theron holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia.