Dr. Walid Younes is a staff scientist in the nuclear theory and modeling group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received his PhD from Rutgers University in 1996 and joined LLNL soon after as an experimentalist, performing gamma-ray spectroscopy measurements in actinides with the GEANIE spectrometer at LANSCE/WNR. From 2002 to 2005, he developed a program with Dr. H. C. Britt to extract fission cross sections using the surrogate reaction method, which closely combines modeling with experimental data. In 2006, Dr. Younes began developing a microscopic description of the fission process with Dr. D. Gogny. He is currently applying this approach to the calculation of fission-fragment properties.