Bruce Remington received his BS degree from Northern Michigan University in 1975 and his PhD degree in experimental heavy-ion nuclear physics from Michigan State University in 1986. He held a 2-year postdoctoral appointment in the Physics Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) working on nuclear modeling and simulations of pre-equilibrium reactions, and then joined Laser Program [now the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Directorate] at LLNL in 1988.  He has been a staff physicist in the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program and/or High Energy Density (HED) Physics Program since 1988. He was a Group Leader from 1996 to 2014. Since 2014, he has served as Program Leader for Discovery Science on NIF, which is the program that allows outside academics (and inside scientists, as well) to pursue basic science research using the NIF laser. 

Bruce works on laser-driven, high energy density (HED) hydrodynamic instabilities and mixing in in a variety of settings, HED laboratory astrophysics, and solid-state dynamics at high pressures and strain rates (HED materials science). He is author/coauthor on over 400 publications in the areas of nuclear physics, plasma physics, HED materials science, hydrodynamics, and laboratory astrophysics.  He is a recipient of the APS-DPP Excellence in Plasma Physics award (now known as the Dawson award) for his work on ablation-front Rayleigh‒Taylor (fluid) instabilities and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the Edward Teller Medal in 2011 for “pioneering research and leadership in inertial fusion sciences and applications,” and he became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (DMTS) at LLNL in 2012. He is the recipient of the 2023 Duvall prize in shock physics, which recognizes outstanding contributions to understanding condensed matter and non-linear physics through shock compression.