Page • Beginning in the 1970’s, CRF combustion researchers and Sandia computational experts collaborated to develop the CHEMKIN suite of codes for analyzing chemical kinetic sensitivities and reacting flow phenomena. Initially developed as tools to aid internal research, CHEMKIN codes became widely popular in the combustion research community, which ultimately led to...
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Craig A. Taatjes
Staff Page • Senior Manager. Biography Craig Taatjes is the senior manager for Physical Sciences at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility (CRF) in Livermore, California. His research focuses on kinetics and mechanisms of fundamental chemical reactions important in combustion and hydrocarbon oxidation. His work has concentrated on direct measurements of elusive intermediates...
CRF confronts COVID-19 and gets back to work
Post, March 8, 2021 • The 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 affected all of the Labs’ sites with enforced stay-at-home orders in most locations. The Chemistry, Combustion and Materials Science Center, including the CRF, is located in California where the governor mandated a statewide quarantine in March 2020, which stayed in force for more than eight...
CRF Researcher Recognized for Outstanding Mentorship from ORISE
Post, February 9, 2026 • Pieterjan Robbe received recognition as an outstanding mentor on the ORISE (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education) website in celebration of National Mentoring Month (January 2026). Pieterjan was nominated by his former SCGSR grad student intern, Aleksei Sorokin, who summarized, “Dr. Pieterjan Robbe was my collaborating scientist and mentor...
Cristian E. Lacey
Staff Page • R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineering. Biography Cristian joined Sandia in 2023 as a senior member of technical staff in the Plasma & Reacting Flows department. His research focuses on developing models and algorithms to mitigate the computational cost of high-fidelity, multi-physics simulations (in particular, turbulent reacting flows), often adopting a physics-based...
Cryo-cooled Ion Spectroscopy
Page • Technical Details Studies of the infrared and ultraviolet spectroscopy of large molecular ions and complexes are carried out in a versatile, multi-stage mass spectrometer that incorporates a cryogenically cooled octopole ion trap that is cooled to 5 K. Single-conformation IR and UV spectra are recorded using IR-UV double resonance photofragment...
Dario Lopez Pintor
Staff Page • Engineering Science, Senior Member of Technical Staff. Biography Dr. Dario Lopez Pintor is the principal investigator in the Sandia Low-Temperature Gasoline Combustion Engine Laboratory, the Off-Road Diesel Engine Laboratory and the Light-Duty Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition Engine Laboratory. Dario is currently responsible for research to improve efficiency and reduce emissions of off-road...
Data Science and Machine Learning
Page • We develop data science and machine learning (ML) methods targeted at advancing the state of the art in the computational modeling and analysis of physical systems. We focus particularly on scientific ML, where ML systems are constrained by available physical laws, aside from the explicit learning from data. Machine Learning...
Dave Chandler
Staff Page • Fellow, Combustion Research Facility, Transportation Research Center. Biography Dave was born in Albuquerque New Mexico and attended the University of New Mexico where he obtained his bachelors in Chemistry and was captain of the gymnastics team in 1975. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry at Indiana University and performed a...
David Chandler Awarded Herschbach Medal
Post, December 3, 2025 • David W. Chandler was awarded the Dudley Herschbach Medal at the XXIX Dynamics Of Molecular Collisions meeting in Snowbird Utah, July 6-11, 2025. The medal, named for Professor Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University), who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986, recognizes “bold and architectural work, inspiring and empowering” in...
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