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Lab Alumnuss

Logan Abel


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Aljazzy Alahmadi
Mentored by Saleem Al Dajani

Focus Area: Non-destructive spinodal decomposition detection

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Abdulla A Alhajri


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Nouf AlMousa (Princess Nourah Univ., Saudi Arabia)


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Isabel K Alvarez
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg

Focus Area: Rapid Automated Materials - Discovery, Development, Deployment

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Brandon Aranda


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Francisco Arellano
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Irradiation of hydride moderators for microreactors

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Rasheed Auguste


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Tsolmon Bazarragchaa
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Bethany Belleque
Mentored by Alexis Devitre

Focus Area: Measuring vacancy-type radiation defects using positrons

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Matteo Bucci

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention
Matteo's Personal Website

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Penghui Cao

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention, Deconvolving Radiation Damage, Wigner Energy
Penghui's Personal Website

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Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao (McGill)

Xiangkun's Personal Website

Hervé Caralp (Brown)
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Modeling the effect of radiolysis on the corrosiveness of molten fluoride salts

Max Carlson

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention
Focus Area: Fouling-resistant coating design
Max's Personal Website

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Ki-Jana Carter


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Amelia J Cavallaro
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg

Focus Area: Irradiation-corrosion issues when using silicon carbide (SiC) as a plasma-facing material (PFM)

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Michelle Chen


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Sean Chen
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Matthew Chew
Jointly supervised by Jacopo Buongiorno


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Caroline Colbert


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Rachel Connick (She/her)
Jointly supervised by R. Scott Kemp

Active Projects: Wigner Energy
Focus Area: Calorimetric fingerprints of historical uranium enrichment

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Jaron F Cota
Mentored by Samuel McAlpine

Focus Area: Vetting new, radiation resistant stainless steels

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Liam J Coy
Mentored by Zoe Fisher

Focus Area: Effects of Magnetic Fields on Superconductors for Fusion Reactors

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Kaylee Cunningham (She/Her)
Mentored by Angus Wylie

Focus Area: The neutron-ion handshake - Replicating neutron damage with multiple ion beams
Kaylee's Personal Website

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Benjamin Dacus

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Focus Area: Rapid down-selection of structural materials

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Nicholas Dallaire (U. Ottowa (Canada))
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: TGS measurement of nanotube thermal transport

Akshay Dave
Jointly supervised by Lin-Wen Hu

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention

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Alexandra Delmore


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Adam Deng
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Jessica L Dett
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Exploring the influence of oxygen and EuF3 on corrosion in molten fluoride salt

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Matteo Di Giacomo (Polito, Italy)

Focus Area: PKA sensitivity analysis of HTS for fusion reactor design

Hannah Didehbani
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Fiber coupled TGS end-station design

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Jennifer Dumel (Penn State)


Ittinop (Pun) Dumnernchanvanit


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Andrew Dykhuis


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Surya Effendy
Jointly supervised by Martin Bazant

Active Projects:
Focus Area: Localized corrosion mechanism elucidation

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Terran Lee Winter Fox


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Andrea L Garcia
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: CuCrZr coolant tubes for plasma facing components

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Hadrick Green


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Jake Hecla


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Alberto Hernandez


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Khalil Hill (Penn State)


Charlie Inman


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Rossana Iturbide


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Mujtaba Jebran

Active Projects: Geigers for Everyone

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Quincy T Johnson
Mentored by Nouf AlMousa

Focus Area: Brazing alloys for plasma facing components

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Pavlina Karafillis


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Si Ying Khew (NUS, Singapore)


Taeyong Kim (UNIST)
Mentored by Nouf AlMousa

Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion

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Yelena Kim (INP, Kazakhstan)

Focus Area: Radiation damage of EP-450 duplex steel

Andrew Thomas Lanzrath
Jointly supervised by Zach Hartwig

Focus Area: Irradiation damage of high-temperature superconductors in large magnetic fields

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Nikhita A Law
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of EuF3 as a molten salt chemical buffer

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Gabrielle Ledoux


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Yen Lin Leow


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Leigh Lin


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Lige Liu


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Julie Victoria Logan
Jointly supervised by Areg Danagoulian

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Davide Loiacono (PoliMi, Italy)
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: TGS of amorphous alumina coatings for nuclear fuel
Davide's Personal Website

Sean Lowder


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Max Major


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Armando Martinez
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Tracking changes in thermal diffusivity vs. irradiation for tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs)

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Samuel McAlpine

Active Projects:
Focus Area: Multimetallic layered composites (MMLCs) and high entropy alloys (HEAs)

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Vikash Mishra (U. Arkansas)


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Riley Moeykens
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou

Focus Area: Studying the influence of proton irradiation on Ni-20Cr corrosion in fluoride salts

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Joonho Moon (PNU)


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Gilberto Mota

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention

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Eleni T Mowery
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg

Focus Area: RAM-3D rapid analysis of V-Ti-Cr alloys for fusion

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Lucy M Nester
Mentored by Alexis Devitre

Focus Area: Investigating Specific Positron Trapping Rates Through DFT Simulation

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Irura Nyiha
Mentored by Charlie Hirst

Focus Area: Rapid Automated Materials - Discovery, Development, Deployment

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Si Ci Ong (Imperial)

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Ekaterina Paramonova


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Jordan Parker-Ashe
Mentored by Avery Nguyen

Focus Area: Forensic uranium enrichment reconstruction via chlorinated Teflon calorimetry following irradiation

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Bren Phillips
Jointly supervised by Matteo Bucci

Active Projects: Fouling Deposit Prevention

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Charles Phu
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Detecting short-range ordering via changes in thermal diffusivity using TGS

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Pradchar (Max) Pradyawong (Tokyo Tech)


Dylan J Raphael
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with Molecular Dynamics

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Daniel Reinfurt
Mentored by Rachel Connick

Active Projects: Wigner Energy
Focus Area: Forensic fingerprints of uranium enrichment

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Sean Robertson

Focus Area: Non-contact measurement of molten salt thermophysical properties

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Jamie Sahote (Imperial)


Syakira Saiful (Imperial)


Madalyn Scherwinski (Mary U.)
Mentored by Saleem Al Dajani

Focus Area: Material property changes in irradiated hydrides for microreactors

Daniel Schumaker

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Keldin Sergheyev


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Mohammad Shahin

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Robert Simpson (SUTD, Singapore)

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage

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Maniesha Singh (Imperial)


Natasha Skowronski


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Kangpyo So
Jointly supervised by Ju Li

Active Projects: Wigner Energy
Kangpyo's Personal Website

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Johan J Soto
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: In situ TGS measurement of hydrided Zircaloy 4

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Peter Stahle
Jointly supervised by Ronald Ballinger

Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion

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Ethan Stewart
Mentored by David Fischer

Focus Area: Simulating Irradiation Tolerance of Superconductors for Fusion with First Principles Atomistics

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Reid Tanaka


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Kevin Tang
Jointly supervised by Gregory Wallace


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Shoki Taniura (Tokyo U. (東京大学))


Daniel Taylor


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Yanisa Techagumthorn


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Joshua Torres
Mentored by Nouf AlMousa

Focus Area: Non-destructive delta ferrite detection in steels

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Courtney Tower (U. Ottowa (Canada))


Brendan C Vaughan
Mentored by Samuel McAlpine

Focus Area: Machine learning prediction of radiation void swelling

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Kavya Velmurugan (RPI)

Focus Area: Modeling nucleation and growth of irradiated PTFE recyrstallization

Lawrence Waldron (Imperial)


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Kay Whiteaker (they/them)

Focus Area: Thermal transport of irradiated metal hydrides

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Angus Wylie (U. Manchester (UK))

Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage

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Yang Yang

Yang's Personal Website

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Kayen Yau


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Emre Yildirim (U. Manchester (UK))
Mentored by Sean Robertson

Focus Area: TGS measurement of thermal transport in tungsten alloys

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Kagei Yu (Tokyo Tech)
Mentored by Benjamin Dacus

Focus Area: Measuring coupled strain and thermal transport in semiconductors

Annie Yun


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Arthur Zangi
Mentored by Kevin Woller

Focus Area: Plasma-material interactions using TGS/DIONISOS

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Naiqiang Zhang (NCEPU)


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William Zhou
Jointly supervised by Bilge Yildiz

Active Projects:
Focus Area: Failure modes of water-based environmental coatings

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Kristýna Zoubková (CTU Prague)
Mentored by Angus Wylie

Focus Area: TGS analysis of NiTi shape memory films


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