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Bio:
Maurice {Mo} Payne is a senior member of the technical staff in the International Safeguards and Engagements department at Sandia National Labs. He has over 14 years of research experience in synthetic actinide chemistry and chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation. Mo also supports material attractiveness assessments for advanced nuclear fuel cycle facilities. He has extensive real-world experience in low resource regions of the world collaborating with partners to ensure the security of weaponizable agents across the WMD/CBRNe spectrum. Mo received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Iowa in 2019. While at Iowa he synthesized and scrutinized metal-organic materials for their candidacy in a variety of novel applications like water treatment.