Peter Nugent is a Senior Scientist and the Division Deputy for Science in the Applied Math and Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Nugent attended Bowdoin College and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics with a concentration in astronomy from the University of Oklahoma. He joined LBNL in 1996 as a postdoctoral fellow working with Saul Perlmutter on the measurement of the accelerating universe with Type Ia Supernova, for which Dr. Perlmutter received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011. In 2008 he co-founded the Computational Cosmology Center and became their first Group Leader. He was promoted to Senior Staff Scientist at LBNL in 2010 and the same year joined the faculty in the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley.