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MIT Nuclear Science & Engineering Department
 

People

  • George Apostolakis

  • apostola@mit.edu, 617-252-1570
  • KEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Methods for reliability and risk assessment and management for complex engineering systems; nuclear and toxic waste risk assessment and management; nuclear reactor safety; risk-informed regulation.

  • Ronald G. Ballinger

  • hvymet@mit.edu, 617-253-5118
  • Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering
  • Corrosion and fatigue; environmental degradation of materials; stress corrosion cracking behavior in nuclear systems; nuclear fuel behavior modeling; life assessment; failure analysis.

  • Jacopo Buongiorno

  • jacopo@mit.edu, 617-253-7316
  • Carl R. Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering
  • Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Design and analysis of advanced nuclear reactor systems. Thermal-hydraulics and structural mechanics.

  • Michael J. Driscoll

  • mickeyd@mit.edu, 617-253-4219
  • Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering

  • Benoit Forget

  • bforget@mit.edu, 617-253-1655
  • Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Computational transport theory, Reactor physics and Nuclear Fuel Cycle

  • Charles W. Forsberg

  • cforsber@mit.edu
  • Research Scientist; Executive Director, MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project

  • Michael W. Golay

  • golay@mit.edu, 617-253-5824
  • Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Risk and reliability; nuclear technology performance improvement methods.

  • Pavel Hejzlar

  • hejzlar@mit.edu, 617-253-4231
  • Principal Research Scientist;
    Director, Advanced Reactor Technology Program

  • Lynn W. Hobbs

  • hobbs@mit.edu, 617-253-6835
  • Professor of Materials Science and Engineering;
    and Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Radiation effects in materials; point and extended defects in non-metallic solids; nuclear waste disposition; high temperature corrosion; radiation-induced amorphization; atomistic and topological modeling of the amorphous and amorphizing states.

  • Lin-Wen Hu

  • lwhu@mit.edu, 617-258-5860
  • Research Scientist

  • Andrew C. Kadak

  • kadak@mit.edu, 617-253-0166
  • Professor of the Practice, Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Energy policy; advanced nuclear energy plants; management effectiveness; high level radioactive waste disposal; nuclear plant license renewal; reactor vessel embrittlement; nuclear plant operations; safety analysis; regulatory effectiveness.

    • Walter Kato

  • walter.kato@worldnet.att.net, 617-253-8643
  • Research Affiliate

  • Mujid S. Kazimi

  • kazimi@mit.edu, 617-253-4206
  • Tokyo Electric Power Company Professor of Nuclear Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
  • Nuclear systems safety; nuclear fuel cycle; two-phase flow and heat transfer.

  • Richard K. Lester

  • rklester@mit.edu, 617-253-7704
  • Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering;
    Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center
  • Nuclear fuel cycle and waste disposal; electric power industry restructuring; productivity and innovation; industrial performance.

  • Thomas J. McKrell

  • tmckrell@mit.edu, 617-253-5368
  • Research Scientist

  • Edward E. Pilat

  • pilat@attbi.com, 617-253-7404
  • Research Scientist

  • Youssef Shatilla

  • shatilla@mit.edu, 617-253-7384
  • Visiting Professor; ABET Program Evaluator (PEV)
  • Nuclear reactor physics; in-core fuel management optimization.

  • Jefferson Tester

  • testerel@mit.edu, 617-253-7090
  • H. P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
  • Environmental remediation and control technology, chemical processes in supercritical fluids, renewable and geothermal energy systems, gas hydrates in natural environments.

  • Neil E. Todreas

    todreas@mit.edu, 617-253-5296
  • Korea Electric Power Company Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  • Reactor engineering; reactor thermal analysis; heat transfer and fluid flow.

  • Bilge Yildiz

  • byildiz@mit.edu, 617-324-4009
  • Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Interplay between structure, properties, and performance in electrochemically active material interfaces in nuclear technologies; New spectroscopic techniques, analytical theory, and simulations to probe the interfacial material properties at a molecular level in the areas for hydrogen production and alloy corrosion.

  • Sidney Yip

  • syip@mit.edu, 617-253-3809
  • Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering;
    and Materials Science and Engineering
  • Theory and atomistic simulations in transport and collisional phenomena; multiscale materials modeling.