Andrea Sjoreen

Andrea L. Sjoreen is a scientist in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Computational Physics and Engineering Division (CPED). At ORNL her main responsibilities have been designing, implementing, and documenting models to assess the effects of accidents at nuclear power plants. The models she has developed are used for planning and during response to radiological emergencies by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Ms. Sjoreen has also worked with groundwater flow and transport models on parallel computers and in database design. She has been employed at ORNL since 1980. Previously she was employed at the Indiana State Geological Survey and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ms. Sjoreen has a B.S. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and an M.S. in Geophysics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.