Dr. Richard L. Williamson is a Laboratory Fellow at Idaho National Laboratory. With a career spanning over 40 years at INL, Rich has extensive experience in many key areas of computational methods research and model development, including nonlinear thermo-mechanics, fracture mechanics, shock wave and detonation, and thermal plasma spray. From 2009 to 2016, Rich led the team developing Bison, INL’s state-of-the-art nuclear fuel performance code, which is currently in use at numerous national and international laboratories, at roughly twenty universities, with growing acceptance in industry. He is currently Technical Lead of the Fuels Area within the DOE-NE Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation program.  He is the author or co-author of approximately 180 scientific publications, including over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles while there are several thousand citations to his work. Rich was given the INL Laboratory Director's Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 2014.