Dr Steve Rottler

Non-Executive Director

J. Stephen (Steve) Rottler is currently serving on the AWE ML Board and will continue his work with AWE as he moves to the plc Board. Steve is Senior Vice President for Global Laboratory Operations at the Battelle Memorial Institute, representing Battelle in the management and operation of national laboratories for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration.

Steve was Deputy Laboratories Director and Executive Vice President for National Security Programs at Sandia National Laboratories prior to his retirement in April 2017. In this role, he led the Laboratories’ Nuclear Weapons

Program and was responsible for Sandia’s Counterintelligence Program. He held other executive roles during his 32-year career at Sandia, including Vice President of Sandia’s California Laboratory. In this role, he managed Sandia’s site in Livermore, California and led Sandia’s energy and climate business unit.

Steve is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a recipient of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration Silver Medal for Distinguished Service, Department of the Air Force Award for Exemplary Civilian Service, and Texas A&M University Dwight Look College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award.

Latest news

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Constructing AWE Aldermaston: How the UK built its nuclear future

Post War 1950’s Britain saw short supplies of labour and materials of every kind. This formed part of the huge challenge faced by William Penney, who was tasked with creating the UK’s nuclear capability: AWE Aldermaston.

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Press Releases

16 Jun 2025

King’s Birthday Honours for three at AWE

Three people from AWE Nuclear Security Technologies feature in the King’s Birthday Honours List.

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Two decades of collaboration reaps rewards

A team of AWE physicists and academics from the University of Oxford who have been collaborating for 20 years to solve a ‘grand challenge’ – which had proved elusive until now – have had their work published in the Journal of Applied Physics.