Dr. Larry A. Rahn

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
SC-22.1/Germantown Building
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290

e-mail:  larry.rahn@science.doe.gov
Phone: (301) 903-2046
Fax: (301) 903-0271

Larry Rahn is presently a detailee from Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA and is working on both the Gas-Phase Chemical Physics and Separations and Analyses Programs.  Larry is a Senior Scientist in the Center for Biological and Energy Sciences at Sandia.  After earning his Ph.D. in physics at Kansas State University and performing postdoctoral studies at Michigan State University, Dr. Rahn joined Sandia where he contributed to early efforts that led to the founding of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF). He became a principal investigator in the BES Chemical Science Program at the CRF, earning a promotion to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and election to Fellow of the Optical Society of America. After seventeen years of research in laser-based combustion diagnostics, he managed the Reacting Flow Research Department at the CRF for almost a decade, when he was promoted to Senior Scientist.  His research has resulted in more than 60 journal publications in Raman and nonlinear optical spectroscopy, combustion diagnostics, molecular physics, solid state physics, and collaborative data sharing environments.