Dr. Jennifer Heimberg has been a Senior Program Officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) since 2011. She has directed studies related to nuclear security, nonproliferation, and nuclear environmental cleanup. Other topics include reproducibility and replicability in science (Reproducibility and Replicability in Science, 2019), and estimating the costs of climate damages (Valuing Climate Damages: Updating the Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide, 2017).  

Prior to coming to the National Academies, she worked as a program manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) where she established its nuclear security program with the Department of Homeland Security. She received a BS cum laude in physics from Georgetown University, a BSEE from Catholic University of America, and a PhD in physics from Northwestern University.