Peter Nugent is a Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he is the Department Head for Computational Science. He is PI of the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4) and a member of the DESI, Euclid, and LSST-DESC experiments. His research spans both theory and observation with the latter focused on the discovery and observation of astrophysical transients while the former involves radiation hydrodynamic studies of supernovae as well as large-scale structure formation in the universe.