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Elliot Wainwright

Principal Investigator, RA2–FA2

elliot.r.wainwright.civ /at/ army.mil


Bio: BA in Physics & Mathematics, The College of Wooster, Wooster OH (2015). MSE & PhD in Materials Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2018 & 2020). Elliot joined the US Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) as a civilian in Aug. 2020. He serves as a Research Materials Engineer working in the Detonation Science & Modeling branch within the Weapon Sciences Division, Army Research Directorate. His research specializes in reactive & energetic materials synthesis, characterization, and scale-up, particularly for powder, metal-based fuels with applications as explosive, propellant, and pyrotechnic additives.