Bronson Messer is a Distinguished Staff Scientist and the Director of Science of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a Joint Faculty Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Tennessee. His primary research interests are related to the explosion mechanisms and phenomenology of supernovae, especially neutrino transport and signatures. He has also worked on machine learning applied to galaxy merger simulations and on performance modeling for HPC architectures. Messer recently served on the American Physical Society’s Committee on Informing the Public (2018-2020) and in 2020 he was awarded the Secretary of Energy’s Honor Award for his part in enabling the COVID-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium.