At Sandia, Vogler has supported a wide range of national security programs through fundamental studies of the behavior of materials at high pressures and strain rates. This work has primarily involved understanding the strength and failure of material as well as phenomena at engineering length scales that emerge from lower length scales. This research has utilized experimental capabilities including Sandia’s Z machine, gas guns, explosive facilities, the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne, and the proton radiographic facility at Los Alamos as well as the DOE’s high performance computing capabilities for continuum, mesoscale, atomic, and ab initio simulations. Since moving to California, he has also supported the development and sustainment of DOE systems through large-scale simulations and experiments.
Vogler has been active in the American Physical Society’s Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter including serving as the group’s secretary-treasurer (2007-2009), co-organizing their biennial international conference (2011), serving as the vice-chair/chair-elect/chair (2011-2013), and in several other roles including founding and running the group’s virtual seminar series that began in 2020. He was selected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019. Vogler has also served on the selection committee of the DOE NNSA’s Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship since 2008, on the external advisory committee for the UT Austin ASE/EM department (2013-2015) and on the National Academies external advisory committee for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (2015-2016).