Brandon Zimmerman

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Brandon Zimmerman would represent Lawrence Livermore at the inaugural National Lab Research Slam.

But at first, he was not exactly looking for a spotlight.

At the time, Brandon was a postdoc.

And at Lawrence Livermore, the postdoc years are not just a holding pattern.

They're a proving ground.

The lab is watching for people who can grow into staff roles, people who can contribute not only to the research, but to the culture around the research.

So he entered, and set forth solving the puzzle of explaining what he does.

Brandon's real work is in solid mechanics.

He studies materials that are 3D printed, built up layer by layer into shapes that couldn't exist any other way.

Lattices full of tiny holes.

Structures that interact with shock waves in ways nature never made.

These descriptions alone could lose a room.

So Brandon went looking for the version of his work that everyone already understands.