Ph.D. 2025, Texas A&M
Research Interests: Thermal Energy Storage, Phase Change Materials, and Phase Stability and Transformations. Engineering Education
Ph.D., 2012, Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Nuclear Fuels and Materials with emphasis on characterization and property evaluation; Mechanical and Thermal properties of materials; Reactor Irradiation; Radiation damage in materials; Ion Implantation; Kinetics; Composites; Nanostructured materials; Multi-Scale simulation of nuclear fuel.
Lab Website: Materials for Nuclear Advancement and Technology in Extreme Environments (MANATEE) Group
Ph.D., 2008, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Ceramics, Biomaterials, Nanomaterials, Materials Processing, Polymeric Materials
Lab Website: Andrew Research Group
Research Interests: Nuclear Security and Detection, Electronic Materials, Non-Destructive Examination, Radiation Imaging; applied aspects of cargo monitoring, detector testing and characterization for gamma-ray spectroscopy, and development and analysis of techniques for environmental sampling and surveys related to on-site inspections.
Ph.D., 2017, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Machine Learning and AI; energy storage materials, functional and electronic materials, lithium-ion batteries, structure-property relationships, X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, local structure, amorphous and disordered materials
Lab Website: Butala Research Group
Ph.D., 2019, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Polymeric Materials, Materials Processing, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials
Ph.D., 2010, Chalmers, University of Technology, Sweden
Research Interests: Nuclear Security and Detection, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Reactor Physics and Thermal Hydraulics, Nuclear Fusion, Machine Learning and AI, Engineering Education
Lab Website: Enqvist Research Group
Ph.D. 2014, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Metallurgy, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Nanomaterials, Machine Learning and AI, Materials Processing; CALPHAD, Phase-field method, Ferroelectric materials, Recycling aluminum, Additive manufacturing, Microstructure evolution, Rapid solidification, Phase transformation
Ph.D., 2018, University of Florida
Research Interests: Engineering education, Computational Modeling and simulation; Monte Carlo methods, nuclear policy, workforce development
Ph.D., 2000, Washington University in St. Louis
Research interests: Machine Learning and AI, Computational Modeling and Simulation, Energy Materials, Electronic Materials, Engineering Education, Nanomaterials; AI-driven and ab initio materials science; deep learning and generative models for materials prediction and inverse design; interpretable machine-learning force fields; quantum and superconducting materials; molecular magnetic qubits and spin coherence; electronic-structure and phonon-based modeling of electron–phonon coupling; electrochemical and solid–liquid interfaces; and open computational frameworks linking predictive AI, first-principles simulation, and experiment.…
Ph.D., 2006, University of Florida
Research Interests: Electronic Materials, Materials Processing, Advanced Materials Characterization, Energy Materials
Ph.D., 1987, University of California-Berkeley
Research Interests: Electronic materials, semiconductor processing and characterization, ion implantation, transmission electron microscopy.
Lab Website: Swamp Group
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Dr. Kevin S. Jones is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Fredrick N Rhines Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UF.…
Ph.D., 2015, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Machine Learning and AI, Energy Materials, Nanomaterials; Advanced electron microscopy techniques, Quantitative analysis of electron microscopy data, Digital image processing, Understanding materials properties at the atomic scale, Functional oxides and semiconductors
Lab Website: Kim Electron Microscopy Group
Ph.D., 2023, Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Nuclear Fusion, Computational Modeling and Simulation; Plasma Physics, Magnetic Confinement Fusion, Plasma-Material Interactions
Ph.D. 2019, University of Akron
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Polymeric Materials, Machine Learning and AI, Biomaterials, Materials Processing, Nanomaterials, Electronic Materials; Computational Soft Materials, Structure-Property Relations of Soft Materials, Polymer Physics, Bio-Inspired and Biomimetic Materials, Sustainable Polymers, Colloidal Suspensions.
Website: The Liang Lab
Ph.D., 2008, University of California San Diego
Research Interests: Nuclear Fusion, Computational Modeling and Simulation, Machine Learning and AI; Computational plasma physics, magnetic fusion, tokamak disruptions, scientific machine learning, plasma-material interaction.
Lab Website: McDevitt Lab
Ph.D., 2016, University of California Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Metallurgy, Materials Processing, Advanced Materials Characterization, Machine Learning and AI; Fundamentals of Structural Evolution in Crystalline Materials, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques, Recovery and Recrystallization, Deformation Mechanisms and Texture Development
Lab Website: Metallic Orientation, aNisotropy, and microSTructure Engineering Research (MONSTER) Group
Ph.D., 2019, University of Akron
Research Interests: Polymeric Materials, Biomaterials, Engineering Education, Nanomaterials, Machine Learning and AI; Enzyme Catalysis, High-Throughput Data-Driven Techniques
Ph.D., 2020, University of Michigan
Research Interests: Biomaterials, Polymeric Materials, Nanomaterials; Polymer Synthesis, Hydrogels, Drug Delivery, Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Ph.D., 2017, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Polymeric Materials; structure and phase behavior of charged polymer blends and solutions; small-angle scattering; rheology and additive manufacturing
Ph.D., 2015, Idaho State University
Research Interests: Reactor Physics, Radiation Imaging, Monte-Carlo Methods, Pre- and Post-Irradiation Analysis, Radiation Detection
Ph. D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Ceramics, Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Machine Learning and AI, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Nuclear Security and Detection, Materials Processing
Lab Website: Nino Research Group (NRG)
Ph. D., 1989, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Electronic Materials; electronic, photonic, and magnetic thin-film materials; electronic oxide materials; thin-film deposition
Research Interests: Biomaterials, Polymeric Materials; hydrogels, cell-material interactions, bioinspired materials, peptide materials, mechanical properties.
Ph.D., 2021, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Research Interests: Nanomaterials for sensing and wastewater treatment applications, thermally resistant materials for extreme environments, and the structure-property relationships of semiconductor nanomaterials, transmission electron microscopy
Ph.D., 1985, University of Florida
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Energy Materials, Metallurgy, Ceramics
Lab Website: Phillpot Research Group
Nagarajan Rajagopal is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University in India and a Master’s and Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Florida, USA. He has also worked as an engineer with General Motors and Axogen.…
Ph.D., 2003, Tulane University
Research Interests: Engineering Education; characterization techniques, surface physics, solid-state devices, dye-sensitized solar cells.
Ph.D., McGill University, 2017
Research Interests: Metallurgy, Advanced Materials Characterization, Engineering Education
Ph.D., 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests: Two-phase flow, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, quantitative visualization, nuclear reactor safety, computational and numerical methods including coupled codes, advanced nuclear power systems
Ph.D., 1992, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Research Interests: Semiconductor oxides for energy harvesting and storage, photocatalysis and photolysis, electrodes for secondary batteries, barrier coatings, nanostructures in surface science and, biomedical applications of nanoparticles
Lab Website: Sigmund’s Group
Ph.D., 2016,
Research Interests: Metallurgy, Ceramics, Advanced Materials Characterization, Energy Materials, Machine Learning and AI, Materials Processing, Nuclear Fuels and Materials; High-temperature Materials, Metastability and Interface Engineering, Electron Microscopy, In-situ Microscopy, Microstructure Evolution, Deformation Behavior and Mechanical Performance in Extremes, Green Processing & Energy
Research interests: Computational Materials Science, Materials in Harsh Environments, Nuclear Materials, Reactor Kinetics and Dynamics, Neutronics, Thermal Hydraulics, Multiphysics Simulation, Advanced Numerical Methods, Advanced Code Coupling Techniques, High Performance Computing, Astronuclear Systems
Ph.D., 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Ceramics, Electronic Materials, Energy Materials, Machine Learning and AI, Materials Processing, Metallurgy, Nanomaterials, Nuclear Security and Detection, Radiochemistry
Lab Website: Tonks Research Group
Ph.D. 2001, Florida State University
Research Interests: Radiochemistry, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Engineering Education, Nuclear Security and Detection
Ph.D., 1993, University of Paris, XI
Research Interests: Radiochemistry, Nuclear Security and Detection, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Energy Materials, Nanomaterials
Lab Website: Wall Research
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Nuclear Fusion, Machine Learning and AI, Quantum Computing, Atomic and Molecular Scattering
Ph.D., 2010, Penn State University
Research Interests: Reactor Physics and Thermal Hydraulics, Computational Modeling and Simulation; Reactor Kinetics and Dynamics, Neutronics, Thermal Hydraulics, Multiphysics Simulation, Advanced Numerical Methods, Applied Mathematics, Advanced Code Coupling Techniques, Scientific Software Development, High-Performance Computing
Lab Website: Florida Advanced Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation (FAMMoS) Lab
Ph.D., 2005, Princeton University
Research Interests: Nanostructured electronic materials, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, surfaces and interfaces, energy materials, photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes and other optoelectronic devices
Lab Website: Xue Research Group
Ph.D., 2018, KU Leuven, Belgium
Research Interests: microstructure modeling using the phase-field method and machine learning-based approaches
Ph.D., 2020, Michigan Technological University
Research Interests: Metallurgy, Materials Processing, Advanced Materials Characterization; Mechanical Behavior, Kinetics, Crystallographic Properties, Materials Processing and Characterization
Ph. D., 2005, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests: Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Metallurgy, Machine Learning and AI, Materials Processing; structural and fuel materials for nuclear energy systems; LWRs sustainability and aging management, advanced fabrication and joining technologies, used fuel dry storage and disposition.
Lab Website: Nuclear Materials Degradation Research Group (NuMad)