Jason earned his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at MIT in 2012, where his thesis focused on kinetic modeling, automated optimization, and experimentation in microreactor systems. Before joining LLNL, he worked in Dow Chemical’s Reaction Engineering group of Core R&D, modeling and testing polymerization and flow processes. In 2016, Jason joined the PLS Material Science Division’s Mesoscale & Hazard Response subgroup in Reaction Dynamics.  Jason’s research focuses on “cookoff” modeling of high explosives using data from several different thermal-experiments - including ODTX - as well as modeling for LLNL’s development and scale-up of energetic material flow synthesis.

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA

M.S. Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, Cambridge, MA

B.S Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Jason Moore*, Steven Hawks, Alan Burnham. "Updating Critical Temperature Calculations of Several Secondary High Explosives." North American Thermal Analysis Society Conference. September 2024.

Jason Moore*, Keith Morrison, Alan Burnham, Ana Racoveanu, Keith Coffee, Batikan Koroglu, Greg Klunder, John Reynolds – "Understanding TATB Thermal Decomposition." 17th International Detonation Symposium. August 2024.

Jason Moore, Keith Morrison, Alan Burnham, Ana Racoveanu, John Reynolds, Batikan Koroglu, Keith Coffee. "Understanding TATB (1,3,5‐triamino‐2,4,6‐trinitrobenzene) Thermal Decomposition." (Invited Special Issue Editorial) Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics. 49 (2024).

Jason Moore, Keith Morrison, Alan Burnham, Ana Racoveanu, John G. Reynolds, Batikan Koroglu, Keith R. Coffee, Greg L. Klunder. "TATB Thermal Decomposition: An Improved Kinetic Model for Explosive Safety Analysis." (Featured on Journal Cover) Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics. 49 (2024).

Keith Morrison, Jason Moore, Keith Coffee, Batikan Koroglu, Alan Burnham, John Reynolds. "TATB Thermal Decomposition: Expanding the Molecular Profile with Cryo‐Focused Pyrolysis GC‐MS." Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics. 49 (2024).

Keith Morrison, Ana Racoveanu, Jason Moore, Alan Burnham, Batikan Koroglu, Keith Coffee, Adele Panasci-Nott, Gregory Klunder, Bradley Steele, Matt McClelland, John Reynolds. "New Thermal Decomposition Pathway for TATB." Scientific Reports. 13 (2023).

John Reynolds*, Ana Racoveanu, Alan Burnham, Jason Moore, Keith Coffee, Adele Panasci-Nott, Keith Morrison, Batikan Koroglu, Greg Klunder, Christopher Colla, Jonathan Lee, Harris Mason, Joseph Van Horn, Evan Kahl. "Isotopic Substitution in TATB Facilitates Understanding of Structural Features and Thermal Decomposition." American Physical Society SCCM. June 2023.

Jason Moore*, Alan Burnham, Keith Morrison, Ana Racoveanu, Keith Coffee, Batikan Koroglu, Greg Klunder, John Reynolds. “Modeling of TATB-Based HE Cook-off for Safety Analysis.” American Physical Society SCCM. June 2023.

John Reynolds*, Ana Racoveanu, Alan Burnham, Jason Moore, Keith Coffee, Adele Panasci-Nott, Keith Morrison, Gregory Klunder, Joseph Van Horn. “Isotopic Substitution in Energetic Materials Facilitates Understanding of Decomposition Mechanisms in Abnormal Thermal Environments.” American Physical Society SCCM. June 2023.

Batikan Koroglu, Jonathan Crowhurst, Evan Kahl, Jason Moore, Ana Racoveanu, Harris Mason, David Weisz, John Reynolds, Alan Burnham. “Experimental Investigation of the thermal decomposition pathways and kinetics of TATB by isotopic substitution,” Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics. 46 (2021): 1352–1366.

John Reynolds, Nicholas Muetterties, Art Nelson, Harris Mason, Jason Moore, Keith Coffee, Evan Kahl. “LX-17 Thermal Decomposition – Characterization of Solid Residues from Cook-off in a Small-Scale Vessel under Confinement,” Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics. 46 (2021): 1136–1149.

Evan Kahl, Nicholas Muetterties, Art Nelson, Harris Mason, Jonathan Crowhurst, Keith Coffee, Jason Moore, John Reynolds. “Characterization of Solid Residue Formation in LX-17 Exposed to Abnormal Thermal Environments,” AIP Conference Proceedings 2272, (2020).

Jason Moore*, Matthew McClelland, Peter Hsu, Evan Kahl. “Modeling of TATB-Based HE Cook-off for Safety Analysis.” American Physical Society SCCM. June 2019.

Jason Moore*, Matthew McClelland, Peter Hsu, Fred Ellsworth, Evan Kahl, Keo Springer. “Thermal Safety Modeling of TATB-based Explosive.” 16th International Detonation Symposium. July 2018.

Matthew McClelland*, Raymond Ryckman, Jason Moore, Evan Kahl, John Densmore, Peter Hsu, Martin DeHaven, Fred Ellsworth. “ALE3D Simulation of Thermal Decomposition and Violence in Slow Cookoff Experiments with LX-17.” 16th International Detonation Symposium. July 2018.

Peter Hsu*, Stephen Strout, John Reynolds, Evan Kahl, Austin Nye, Jason Moore, Matthew McClelland, Micha Gresshoff, Fred Ellsworth, Tom Healy. “Thermal Safety Characterization of Energetic Materials in the ODTX/P-ODTX System.” 16th International Detonation Symposium. July 2018.

Seung‐Won Choi, David Sholl, Sankar Nair, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast. “Modeling and Process Simulation of Hollow Fiber Membrane Reactor Systems for Propane Dehydrogenation,” AIChE Journal. 63 (2017): 4519–4531.

Jason Moore*, Matthew McClelland, Craig Tarver, Peter Hsu, Benjamin Yancey, Keo Springer. “Optimizing LX-17 Thermal Decomposition Model Parameters with Evolutionary Algorithms.” American Physical Society SCCM. July 2017.

Seung-Won Choi, Wun-Gwi Kim, Jung-Seob So, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Carsten Sievers, David Sholl, Sankar Nair, Christopher Jones. “Propane Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by Gallosilicate MFI Zeolites with Perturbed Acidity,” Journal of Catalysis. 345 (2017): 113–123.

Seok-Jhin Kim, Shuai Tan, Micaela Taborea, Laura Briones Gil, David Sholl, Christopher Jones, Sankar Nair, Karren More, Yujun Liu, Jason Moore, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr. “One-Step Synthesis of Hybrid Zeolite Membranes Containing Catalytic Metal Nanoclusters.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 8 (2016): 24671–24681.

Shuai Tan, Bo Hu, Wun-Gwi Kim, Simon Pang, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, David Sholl, Sankar Nair, Christopher Jones. “Propane Dehydrogenation over Alumina-Supported Iron/Phosphorous Catalysts: Structural Evolution of Iron Species Leading to High Activity and Propylene Selectivity,” ACS Catalysis. 6 (2016): 5673–5683.

Seok-Jhin Kim, Yujun Liu, Jason Moore, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr., David Sholl, Christopher Jones, Sankar Nair. “Thin Hydrogen-Selective SAPO-34 Zeolite Membranes for Enhanced Conversion and Selectivity in Propane Dehydrogenation Membrane Reactors,” Chemistry of Materials. 28 (2016): 4397–4402.

Michael Poindexter*, Paul Gillis, Jason Moore, Lizbeth Rostro, Wu Chen, Jason Tubbs. “Optimization of New Flocculant Technology for Dewatering Oil Sands Mature Fine Tailings.” International Oil Sands Tailings Conference. December 2016.

Carol Mohler, Domonique Downing, Paul Gillis, Stephanie Hughes, Jason Moore, Michael Poindexter, Thomas Sanders, Harpreet Singh, Cole Witham. Flocculation of High-Solids Mineral Slurries. US Patent US10781117B2, 9 August 2016.

Seok-Jhin Kim, Yujun Liu, Jason Moore, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr., David Sholl, Christopher Jones, Sankar Nair. “Fabrication of Micron-thin Selective SAPO-34 Zeolite Membranes for Enhanced Conversion and Selectivity in Propane Dehydrogenation Membrane Reactors,” International Conference on Inorganic Materials. July 2016.

Paul Gillis*, Michael Poindexter, Jason Moore, Irfan Khan, Mike Cloeter. “The Development and Scaling of Static and Dynamic Mixing Systems to Dewater Canadian Oil Sands Mine Tailings.” MIXING XXV, Global Mixing Conference. June 2016.

Jason Moore, Christopher Smith, Klavs Jensen. “Kinetics Analysis and Automated Online Screening of Aminocarbonylation of Aryl Halides in Flow,” Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 1 (2016): 272–279.

Shuai Tan, Seok-Jhin Kim, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, David Sholl, Sankar Nair, Christopher Jones. “Propane Dehydrogenation over In2O3–Ga2O3–Al2O3 Mixed Oxides,” ChemCatChem. 8 (2016): 214–221.

Jason Moore, Michael Landoll, William Fan. “Novolac Phenol-Formaldehyde Oligomerization Kinetics Analysis,” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 54.51 (2015): 12757–12762.

Michael Poindexter*, Paul Gillis, Jason Moore, Jason Tubbs, Robert Mahood, Gavin Freeman. “Geotechnical Column Evaluation of New Flocculant Technology for Dewatering Oil Sands Mature Fine Tailings.” Tailings and Mine Waste Conference. October 2015.

Shuai Tan, Laura Gil, Nachal Subramanian, David Sholl, Sankar Nair, Christopher Jones, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast. “Catalytic Propane Dehydrogenation over In2O3-Ga2O3 Mixed Oxides,” Applied Catalysis A. 498 (2015): 167–175.

Shuai Tan*, Sankar Nair, David Sholl, Christopher Jones, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr. “Kinetic Study of Propane Dehydrogenation over In2O3-Ga2O3 Mixed Oxide.” North American Catalysis Society Annual Meeting. June 2015.

Cole Witham, Paul Gillis, Michael Poindexter, Jason Moore. Method of Treating High-Solids Mineral Slurries with Polymeric Flocculants. US Patent 11001514B2, 22 May 2015.

Seung-Won Choi, Christopher Jones, Sankar Nair, David Sholl, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr. “Material Properties and Operating Configurations of Membrane Reactors for Propane Dehydrogenation,” AIChE Journal. 61.3 (2015): 922–935.

Seok-Jhin Kim, Christopher Jones, Sankar Nair, Yujun Liu, Jason Moore, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr., Sagar Sarsani. “Ion Exchange of Zeolite Membranes by a Vacuum ‘Flow-Through’ Technique,” Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 203 (2015): 170–177.

Norbert Heublein, Jason Moore, Christopher Smith, Klavs Jensen. “Investigation of Petasis and Ugi Reactions in Series in an Automated Microreactor System,” RSC Advances. 4 (2014): 63627–63631.

Shuai Tan*, Seung-Won Choi, Sankar Nair, David Sholl, Christopher Jones, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John G. Pendergast, Jr. “Kinetic Study of Propane Dehydrogenation over Chromia-Alumina Catalyst.” AIChE Annual Meeting. November 2014.

Seung-Won Choi*, Christopher Jones, David Sholl, Sankar Nair, Jason Moore, Yujun Liu, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr. “Material Properties and Operating Configurations of Membrane Reactors for Propane Dehydrogenation.” AIChE Annual Meeting. November 2014.

Seok-Jhin Kim*, David Sholl, Christopher Jones, Yujun Liu, Jason Moore, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr., Sankar Nair. “Comparative Study of MFI and SAPO-34 Zeolite Membrane Reactors for Propane Dehydrogenation.” AIChE Annual Meeting. November 2014.

Jason Moore, Klavs Jensen. “Batch Kinetics in Flow with Online IR Analysis and Continuous Control,” Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. 53.2 (2014): 470–473.

Paul Gillis, Jason Moore, Michael Poindexter*, Cole Witham, Wu Chen, Harpreet Singh, Carol Mohler, Jesus Atias. “The Effects of In-line Static Mixer Flow Loop Operational Parameters on Flocculant Performance in Mature Fine Tailing Samples.” Tailings and Mine Waste Conference. November 2013.

Seok-Jhin Kim*, David Sholl, Christopher Wones, Sankar Nair, Yujun Liu, Jason Moore, Ravindra Dixit, John Pendergast, Jr. “Vacuum-Assisted Ion Exchange of Zeolite Membranes,” AIChE Annual Meeting. November 2013.

Pengfei Li, Jason Moore, Klavs Jensen. “A Microfluidic System for Continuous Recycling of Unmodified Homogeneous Palladium Catalysts via Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation.” ChemCatChem. 5.7 (2013): 1729–1733.

Jason Moore, Klavs Jensen. “Automation in Microreactor Systems.” in Microreactors in Organic Chemistry and Catalysis. Ed. Thomas Wirth. 2013.

Jason Moore, Jonathan McMullen, Klavs Jensen*. “Automated Optimization, Kinetic Modeling, and Scale-up of Flow Chemistry Processes.” AIChE Annual Meeting. October 2012.

Jason Moore, Klavs Jensen. “Automated Multitrajectory Method for Reaction Optimization in a Microfluidic System using Online IR Analysis.” Organic Process Research and Development. 16 (2012): 1409–1415.

Jason Moore*, Klavs Jensen. “Online Kinetic Analysis of Reactions in a Microreactor System.” AIChE Annual Meeting. October 2011.

Jason Moore*, Jerry Keybl, Klav. Jensen. “Microreactor with Inline IR Analysis for Reaction Screening.” Mettler Toledo International Process Development Conference. May 2010.

Jason Jiang, Jason Moore, Henry Edelhauser, Mark Prausnitz. “Intrascleral Drug Delivery to the Eye Using Hollow Microneedles.” Pharmaceutical Research. 26.2 (2009): 395–403.

Wijaya Martanto, Jason Moore, Tracey Couse, Mark Prausnitz. “Mechanism of Fluid Infusion during Microneedle Insertion and Retraction.” Journal of Controlled Release. 112.3 (2006): 357–361.

Wijaya Martanto, Jason Moore, Osama Kashlan, Rachna Kamath, Ping Wang, Jessica O’Neal, Mark Prausnitz. “Microinfusion using Hollow Microneedles.” Pharmaceutical Research. 23.1 (2006): 104–113.

Director’s Science and Technology Excellence in Publication Award

MIT Presidential Fellow