Full-Time Research Faculty
Post-Docs and Research Scientists
Shradha Agarwal
Research Scientist I
Mohamed El Amine Benkechkache
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Sophie Blondel
Research Scientist I
Dwaipayan Dasgupta
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Kaifu Gan
Research Scientist I
Kathleen Goetz
Research Scientist I
Veronica Karriem
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Ane Lasa Esquisabel
Research Scientist I
Eric O’Quinn
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Terry Price
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Jun Ren
Research Scientist I
Rachel Sandler
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Seokbin Seo
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Xianfei Wen
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Li Yang
Research Associate III
Part-Time Research Faculty
- Jun Ding, Research Associate Professor, PhD, UT
Research interests: Design, simulation and monitoring of advanced reactors using digital twins; instrumentation and control for autonomous nuclear systems; training machine learning for advanced reactor diagnosis technology - Mario Fontana, Research Professor, PhD, Purdue, PE
Research interests: Power reactor safety (including response to potential terrorist attack, and advanced reactor systems
- Barry D. Ganapol, Research Professor, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research interests: Deterministic and analytical transport theory.
- Andrei Gribok, Research Associate Professor, PhD, Moscow Institute of Biological Physics
Research interests: Artificial intelligence techniques, surveillance and diagnosis, inverse and ill-posed problems, regularization theory
- Martin L. Grossbeck, Research Professor, PhD, Illinois
Research interests: radiation effects in materials, burnable absorbers, research reactors, and ultra-high vacuum technology
- Richard A. Lillie, Research Professor, PhD, UT
Research interests: radiation transport methods development and nuclear system shielding
- John T. Mihalczo, Professor, PhD, UT
Research interests: radiation measurements for nuclear safeguards and nuclear criticality safety, reactor physics
- Jack Miller, Research Professor, PhD, University of California
Research interests: space radiation protection and radiological engineering
- Hanna Moussa, Research Assistant Professor, PhD, UT
Research Interests: radiation safety, Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport
- F.R. Mynatt, Research Professor, PhD, UT
Research interests: radiation transport, isotope production and nuclear regulations - Arthur E. Ruggles, Professor, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Reactor thermalhydraulics, liquid metal flow and heat transfer, cavitation and fluid transients, accelerator target design, and microchannel flow.
- Andrew Stephan, Research Assistant Professor, PhD, UT
Research interests: radiation detection and homeland security
- Timothy Valentine, Research Associate Professor, PhD, UT
Research interests: nuclear system safety and energy policy
- James White, Research Associate Professor, PhD, UT
Research interests: nuclear security, non-proliferation, fusion, and instrumentation and controls
- Martin Williamson, Research Associate Professor, PhD, UT, PE
Research interests: nuclear nonproliferation and arms control, fissile material detection and characterization, nuclear criticality safety