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MNM Lab

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Roopeksha Agrawal
Roopeksha Agrawal – Undergraduate Student (UROP) (Wellesley)
Mentored by Avery Nguyen
Focus Area: Wigner energy of lightly irradiated ceramics

Saleem Al Dajani
Saleem A Al Dajani – Research Affiliate
Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage

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Aroush Ali
Aroush Amir Ali – Undergraduate Student (UROP) (Wellesley)
Mentored by Michael Short
Focus Area: RAM-3D: Combinatorial optimization of materials

Kuba Anglin
Kuba Anglin (he/him) – Visiting Student (Northeastern)
Mentored by Myles Stapelberg
Active Projects: Geigers for Everyone
Focus Area: TGS mapping of PVD combinatorial fusion materials

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Oshrat Appel
Oshrat Appel – Visiting Scientist (BGU, Israel)

Rachel Batista
Rachel Batista – Administrative Assistant

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Brock Billingsley
Brock Billingsley – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Michael Short
Focus Area: RAM-3D: Magnetic material combinatorial optimization

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Elena Botica Artalejo
Elena Botica Artalejo – Graduate Student
Mentored by Gregory Wallace
Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Focus Area: Combinatorial Synthesis and Rapid Testing of CuCrX Alloys for Fusion RF Plasma Antennas

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Wande Cairang
Wande Cairang – Graduate Student
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou
Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion
Focus Area: Radiation-Decelerated Corrosion in Liquid Lead

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Rome Campbell
Rome O Campbell – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Stanley Chang
Focus Area: Quantifying spinodal decomposition-induced stiffening

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Angelo Chaca
Angelo Chaca – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Avery Nguyen
Focus Area: Wigner energy of lightly irradiated ceramics

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Stanley Chang
Stanley Chang – Graduate Student
Jointly supervised by Zach Hartwig
Focus Area: Proton Cyclotron Irradiation for Examining Fusion Materials

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Merrill Chiang
Merrill K Chiang – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Max Chu
Focus Area: Quantifying spinodal decomposition-induced stiffening

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Max Chu
Max Rae Chu – Graduate Student
Mentored by Angus Wylie
Focus Area: The neutron-ion handshake - Replicating neutron damage with multiple ion beams

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Dagny Davis
Dagny Davis – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Avery Nguyen
Focus Area: Wigner energy of lightly irradiated ceramics
Dagny's Personal Website

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Aaron De Leon
Aaron De Leon – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou
Focus Area: Impact of grain orientation on molten salt corrosion

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Alexis Devitre
Alexis Rustam Devitre (He/Him) – Graduate Student
Jointly supervised by Zach Hartwig
Mentored by David Fischer
Focus Area: Degradation and recovery of superconducting properties under irradiation at cryogenic temperatures

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Angela Dong
Angela Dong – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Alicia Elliott

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Cameron Eddington
Cameron Eddington – Undergraduate Student (UROP) (Wellesley)
Mentored by Avery Nguyen
Focus Area: Wigner energy of lightly irradiated ceramics

Alicia Elliott
Alicia M. Elliott – Graduate Student
Focus Area: The neutron-ion handshake - Replicating neutron damage with multiple ion beams
Alicia's Personal Website

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Sara Ferry
Sara Elizabeth Ferry – Research Scientist
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Focus Area: ARC vacuum vessel and blanket tank materials design

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David Fischer
David Fischer – Research Scientist
Focus Area: Irradiation enhancement of REBCO superconductors for fusion energy

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Zoe Fisher
Zoe L Fisher (she/her) – Graduate Student
Jointly supervised by Dennis Whyte
Mentored by David Fischer
Focus Area: Current pulse annealing of irradiated high-temperature superconductors

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Frank Garner
Frank A Garner – Research Affiliate (TAMU)
Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage

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Hannah Gazdus
Hannah Gazdus – Research Scientist
Jointly supervised by Haruko Wainwright
Focus Area: Automated toenail NAA machine building

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Alyona Glushko
Alyona Glushko – Visiting Scientist (Kharkiv Poly.)
Mentored by Michael Short

Lucy Greenup
Lucy Greenup – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Aurélien Legoupil
Focus Area: TGS analysis of irradiated optical fibers

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Anna Koel Hill-Jones
Anna Koel Hill-Jones – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Michael Short
Focus Area: RAM-3D: Combinatorial titanium alloy optimization

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Timo Horn-Domonkos
Timo Horn-Domonkos – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Youho Lee
Focus Area: Radiation-assisted corrosion of tungsten in FLiPb molten salt

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Caroline Jiang
Caroline Jiang – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Angus Wylie
Focus Area: Cryo-irradiation of HTS layers

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Poorvja Joshi
Poorvja Joshi – Undergraduate Student (UROP) (Wellesley)
Mentored by Zoe Fisher
Focus Area: TGS of thermal properties of irradiated ceramics

Alina Jugan
Alina Jugan – Graduate Student

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Samantha Karlson
Samantha Karlson – Graduate Student
Mentored by Angus Wylie
Focus Area: Irradiation induced changes in metal hydride thermal transport

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Matthew Kim
Matthew H Kim – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Max Chu
Focus Area: Quantifying spinodal decomposition-induced stiffening

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Nayoung Kim
Nayoung Kim – Graduate Student
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou
Focus Area: Impurity-driven irradiation/corrosion in molten salts

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Evan Lambert
Evan Lambert – Graduate Student
Jointly supervised by Zach Hartwig
Focus Area: 10-30MeV proton irradiation of nuclear materials

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Jared Lavarra
Jared Lavarra – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Angus Wylie
Focus Area: Cryo-irradiation of HTS layers

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Youho Lee
Youho Lee – Research Affiliate (SNU, Korea)
Focus Area: Corrosion in FLiPb, <i>in situ</i> Zircaloy hydride analysis

Nate Martinez
Nate Martinez – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Wande Cairang
Focus Area: Irradiation/corrosion of Nb-1Zr

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Liam McCummings
Liam J McCummings – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Angus Wylie

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Mikhail Merezhko
Mikhail Merezhko – Research Affiliate (INP, Kazakhstan)
Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage

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Taichi Miyagishi
Taichi Miyagishi – Visiting Student (Tohoku U. (Japan))
Mentored by Zoe Fisher
Focus Area: I3TGS of flow stresses in irradiated ceramics

Ishan Nahian
Ishan Nahian – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Michael Short
Focus Area: RAM-3D: Combinatorial thermal barrier coating (TBC) optimization

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Avery Nguyen
Avery Nguyen (they/them) – Postdoctoral Associate
Active Projects: Uranium Forensics
Focus Area: Measuring radiation damage of PCTFE gaskets for nuclear enrichment forensics

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Adria Peterkin
Adria Peterkin – Graduate Student
Mentored by Weiyue Zhou
Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion
Focus Area: Radiation-affected corrosion in impurity-laden molten salt

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Celestina Pint
Celestina Pint – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Nayoung Kim
Focus Area: Corrosion in molten fluoride salts

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Grace Qiu
Grace Qiu – Undergraduate Student (UROP) (Wellesley)
Mentored by Samantha Karlson
Focus Area: TGS of Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels

Brianna Ryan
Brianna Ryan – Graduate Student
Jointly supervised by Joe Formaggio
Focus Area: New neutrino detection techniques for nuclear safeguards

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Akmal Safarov
Akmal Askarovich Safarov – Research Affiliate (SSU Uzbekistan)
Focus Area: Toenails for citizen science

Stefano Segantin
Stefano Segantin – Research Affiliate (Polito, Italy)
Focus Area: Linking potential energy landscape heterogeneity to radiation damage resistance

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Pavel Shilenko
Pavel Shilenko – Graduate Student
Focus Area: Materials for microstirling engines

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Michael Short
Michael Philip Short (Chaotic/Good) – Professor
Focus Area: Tricky radiation and coupled effects

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Caio Silva
Caio Silva – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Jonas Rajagopal
Focus Area: Compact TGS system design

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Donghyeon Son
Donghyeon Son – Visiting Student (SNU, Korea)
Mentored by Angus Wylie
Focus Area: TGS of irradiated Zircaloys containing hydrogen

Trace St. Julian
Trace St. Julian – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Jonas Rajagopal
Focus Area: Non-destructive asessment of reactor pressure vessel health

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Myles Stapelberg
Myles Stapelberg – Graduate Student
Jointly supervised by Dennis Whyte
Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Focus Area: Rapid Automated Materials - Discover, Down-select, Deploy!

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Ziv Ungarish
Ziv Ungarish – Research Affiliate (BGU, Israel)
Focus Area: Irradiation resistance of uranium-based high entropy alloys

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Ash Unnithan
Ash Unnithan – Undergraduate Student (UROP)
Mentored by Avery Nguyen
Focus Area: Wigner energy of lightly irradiated ceramics

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Keshav Vasuveda
Keshav Vasuveda – Graduate Student
Jointly supervised by Sara Ferry
Focus Area: Corrosion of SiC with sintering additives

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Gregory Wallace
Gregory Wallace – Research Scientist
Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Focus Area: Radiation resistant Cu-alloys for RF antennas for fusion

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Kevin Woller
Kevin B Woller – Research Scientist
Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion, Deconvolving Radiation Damage

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Angus Wylie
Angus Wylie – Research Scientist
Active Projects: Deconvolving Radiation Damage
Focus Area: The neutron-ion handshake - Replicating neutron damage with multiple ion beams

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Weiyue Zhou
Weiyue Zhou – Research Scientist
Active Projects: Irradiation/Corrosion
Focus Area: Mechanisms of radiation-affected corrosion

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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