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Micaela Padilla
Staff Page • Administration Clinical Support. Biography Micaela began her career at Sandia National Laboratories as a year-round undergraduate intern during her senior year of college. She was then brought on as a regular staff member after receiving her bachelor’s degree. She has experience working in both television and cinema. One of her...

Michael Devin
Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Michael Devin joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2021 and is a member of the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department. He supports platform design optimization and computational hydro-structural analysis for offshore vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs). His research interests include multidisciplinary design optimization, novel wake control strategies, and...

Michael Rios
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Michael Rios is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering in 2011 at the University of San Diego where he was a Ronald E McNair Scholar. He completed his masters and doctorate degrees at the...

Michael Ropp
Staff Page • Principal Member, Technical Staff. Biography Dr. Ropp has over twenty years of experience in research and education in power engineering, power electronics, and photovoltaics. He has authored over eighty technical publications and holds six patents. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is active in standards creation, and...

Michelle Bester
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Appointee. Biography Michelle Bester is a Postdoctoral Appointee in the Electric Power Systems Research department at Sandia National Laboratories. Her primary research includes remote sensing analysis and modeling of fuel characteristics and vegetation treatments for wildfire grid resilience. She received her doctorate degree from West Virginia University and was...

Michelle Williams
Staff Page • Materials Research. Biography Michelle joined Sandia National Laboratories in July 2020 and is a senior member of the technical staff in the Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department. Her research focuses on materials characterization supporting the DOE sponsored-Blade Reliability Project; specifically, lightning effects on wind blades and the NDI robotic...

Microgrid Design Toolkit
Page • Sandia National Laboratories developed the Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT), a decision support software for microgrid designers that is publicly available for download. Intended for use in the early stages of the design process, MDT uses powerful search algorithms to identify and characterize alternative microgrid designs in terms of user-defined inputs and...

Microgrids & Energy Storage for Emergency Grid Resilience Webinar Series
Page • As extreme weather events and other potential disruptions to the electric grid increase in frequency, the need for new technologies and approaches for providing resilience in the grid increase as well. This five-session series explored technologies, policies, economics, applications, and case studies associated with microgrids and battery energy storage as...

Microgrids, Infrastructure, and Advanced Controls Launchpad (MIRACL)
Page • Microgrids, Infrastructure, and Advanced Controls Launchpad (MIRACL) The Microgrids, Infrastructure, and Advanced Controls Launchpad project is a four-year research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, and led by the National Laboratory of the Rockies with partners at Idaho National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...

Microsystem Assembly and Brazing Facility
Facility • The Microsystem Assembly and Brazing Facility offers advanced capabilities for epoxy die bonding, soldering, wire bonding, seam sealing, holistic packaging and materials process analysis, metal deposition (e.g., PVD, CVD, ALD), 3D printing (e.g., PEEK, Composite, FDM), laser machining, temperature cycling and aging, and PWA rapid prototyping. The image depicts a...

Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA)
Facility • The Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA) Complex integrates the numerous scientific disciplines necessary to produce functional, robust, integrated microsystems and represents the center of Sandia’s investment in microsystems research, development, and prototyping activities. Visit the MESA website Take a virtual tour of MESA

Miguel D. Leyba
Staff Page • R&D S&E, Systems Engineering. Biography Miguel D. Leyba joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020, as a Senior R&D Electrical Engineer. He has been a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia since 2023, as part of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility team, which is an extension of the Concentrating...

Miguel Jimenez Aparicio
Staff Page • Senior Member of Technical Staff. Biography Miguel Jimenez Aparicio is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. His research focuses on fast, signal-based protection for distribution systems under scenarios of high renewable energy penetration. Miguel is also involved on the...

Mobile Instrumentation Data Acquisition System (MIDAS)
Facility • Sandia created the Mobile Instrumentation Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) to provide on-site data acquisition and analysis capabilities for testing of radioactive and hazardous materials packages. MIDAS allows researchers, designers, and regulators to examine and understand how a package behaves in a variety of environments. MIDAS is exceptionally consistent and widely trusted throughout...

Modeling
Page • Informed policy and decision-making related to the Arctic requires better understanding of this complex region. Achieving this understanding depends on not only increasing the amount of data available for analysis, but also improving existing Earth system models—efforts that call for a coordination across multiple disciplines. What We Do Sandia’s climate...

Modeling, data opportunities available for photovoltaic performance and modeling community
News Article, July 28, 2023 • The Photovoltaic (PV) Performance and Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) has announced several upcoming solar research opportunities that may be of interest to the PVPMC community, including PV modeling comparisons and the chance to participate in the Department of Energy’s Solar Data Bounty Prize. 2023 Blind PVPMC Modeling Comparison Call for Participants:...
A researcher stands among a field of photovoltaic solar panels

Molten salt facility awarded $2.5M to restart testing 
News Article, June 16, 2025 • Concentrating solar thermal power and nuclear industries may soon have a safe, reliable, radiation-free environment to test components in flowing, molten nitrate salts. The U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office awarded $2.5 million in funding to Sandia to restart the Molten Salt Test Loop facility at the National...
Images of Principal Investigator Ken Armijo standing by the Molten Salt Test Loop at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, NM.

Molten Salts and Materials Testing
Page • The National Solar Thermal Testing Facility is a leader in advanced molten salt testing, achieving world record temperatures of up to 750° Celsius. Molten Salts and Materials Testing The NSTTF boasts the world's largest molten salt research and development test loop supporting both concentrating solar power and industrial processes. Currently,...

Nathan Schroeder
Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Nathan Schroeder is an R&D Mechanical Engineer working at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Nathan is involved in Gen 3 particle- based acquisition and controls systems. He has conducted over 200 hours of falling particle receiver test operation as part of the Generation 3...

Nathaniel deVelder
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Researcher. Biography Nathaniel deVelder is a postdoctoral researcher in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He holds a master’s of science and PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he worked jointly in the Wind Energy Center and the Theoretical and Computational...

National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC)
Facility • The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) is a modeling, simulation, and analysis program within the Department of Homeland Security comprising personnel in the Washington, D.C., area, as well as from Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. NISAC prepares and shares analyses of...

National Security
Page • National Security Solutions to National Security Technology Barriers With our deep understanding of wind technology and national security, we quantify barriers and identify pathways to technical solutions. Sandia leads efforts to reduce barriers through: Wind turbine radar interference research and interagency teaming for on- and offshore wind farms Radar interference...

National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)
Facility • Operated by Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) and solar thermal test facility in the United States. The primary goal of the NSTTF is to provide experimental facilities, equipment, and personnel for testing, validating, and...

National Solar Thermal Test Facility and University of Arizona partner for HelioCon project
News Article, January 31, 2024 • Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility is partnering with the University of Arizona's Professor J. Roger Angel for one of four projects the Heliostat Consortium awarded last year. The project, “Twisting Heliostats with Closed Loop Tracking,” targets the U.S. Department of Energy’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation,...

National Solar Thermal Test Facility prepares for new tower construction
News Article, January 23, 2023 • Construction on the new tower at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is planned to begin Feb. 16, 2023, with a groundbreaking ceremony to take place at the facility. The tower is part of the Phase III, $25 million award announced by The U.S. Department of Energy...
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