People

Faculty

George Apostolakis

KEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering,
and Professor of Engineering Systems

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; terrorism risk analysis.

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; Two-phase flow and heat transfer; Nanofluid technology.

Paola Cappellaro

pcappell@mit.edu
617-253-8137

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Control in quantum systems.

Sow-Hsin Chen

sowhsin@mit.edu
617-253-3810

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Neutron diffraction and spectroscopy; applications of laser light scattering to complex fluids and biological problems.

David G. Cory

dcory@mit.edu
617-253-3806

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Solid-state NMR imaging and spectroscopy; Theoretical and experimental aspects of NMR imaging; magnetic resonance; quantum information processing; medical imaging.

Michael J. Driscoll

mickeyd@mit.edu
617-253-4219

Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Deep borehole waste disposal; Fast reactor physics and engineering.

Benoit Forget

bforget@mit.edu
617-253-1655

Norman K. Rasmussen Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Computational transport theory, Reactor Physics and Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Charles W. Forsberg

cforsber@mit.edu
617-324-4010

Executive Director, MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project

Integrated nuclear fuel cycles; advanced high-temperature nuclear reactors using liquid-salt coolants; development of global nuclear-renewables energy systems.

Jeffrey P. Freidberg

jpfreid@mit.edu
617-253-8670

KEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering,

Theoretical plasma physics; fusion systems engineering.

Michael W. Golay

golay@mit.edu
617-253-5824

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Risk and reliability; nuclear technology performance improvement methods.

Kent F. Hansen

kfhansen@mit.edu
617-253-7384

Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Nuclear energy policy and management; nuclear plant operations and simulation.

Linn 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.

Ian H. Hutchinson

hutch@psfc.mit.edu
617-253-8760

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering,

Experimental plasma physics; controlled fusion.

Alan Jasanoff

jasanoff@mit.edu
617-452-2538 (v),
617-253-0760 (f)

Associate Professor of Biological Engineering,
Nuclear Science & Engineering, and Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); molecular neuroimaging; behavioral and systems neuroscience

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.

Mujid S. Kazimi

kazimi@mit.edu
617-253-4206

TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering;
Professor of Mechanical Engineering;
Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)

Nuclear systems safety; nuclear fuel cycle; two-phase flow and heat transfer.

Richard K. Lester

rklester@mit.edu
617-253-7704

Head of the Department, and 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.

Ronald Parker

parker@psfc.mit.edu
617-258-6662

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering,
and Electrical Engineering,

Plasma physics; fusion system engineering.

Neil E. Todreas

todreas@mit.edu
617-253-5296

KEPCO Professor and Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering

Reactor engineering; reactor thermal analysis; heat transfer and fluid flow.

Dennis G. Whyte

whyte@psfc.mit.edu
617-253-1748

Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Plasma-surface interactions (PSI) in magnetic confinement fusion power reactors.

Jacquelyn C. Yanch

jcyanch@mit.edu
617-258-6999

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Nuclear medical imaging; computational modeling in both therapy and image restoration; radiation health physics; neutron dosimetry.

Bilge Yildiz

byildiz@mit.edu
617-324-4009
Bldg. 24-210

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 Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering,
and Materials Science and Engineering

Theory and atomistic simulations in transport and collisional phenomena; multiscale materials modeling.