Faculty
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.
Michael J. Demkowicz
demkowicz@mit.edu
Bldg 4-142, 617-324-6563
John C. Chipman Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Atomistic modeling of radiation effects in structural materials, ion-matter interactions at grain boundaries and interfaces, inert gas-assisted bubble nucleation and growth, radiation effects in amorphous metallic alloys, hardening and embrittlement, mechanical behavior.
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
Assistant Professor
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.
Michael W. Golay
golay@mit.edu
617-253-5824
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Risk and reliability; nuclear technology performance improvement methods.
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.
Lin-wen Hu
lwhu@mit.edu
617-258-5860
Principal Research Scientist, Associate Director, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Aydin Karahan
karahan.mit.edu
617-258-0752
Research Scientist
Simulating complex fluids and multiphase flows;
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.
Thomas J. McKrell
tmckrell@mit.edu
617-253-5368
Research Scientist
Ed Pilat
pilat@mit.edu
617-324-6753
Research Scientist
Michael Padowski
Visiting Professor
Eugene Shwageraus
eugenesh@mit.edu
617-253-4231
Visiting Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Neil E. Todreas
todreas@mit.edu
617-253-5296
Korea Electric Power Company Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
Reactor engineering; reactor thermal analysis; heat transfer and fluid flow.
Bilge Yildiz
byildiz@mit.edu
617-324-4009
Norman C. Rasmussen 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.
