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| | WT Partners, LLC | William Thai | Managing Director |
Small Business
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Grid
| WT Partners, LLC (WTP) was founded in 2018 and is a U.S. certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) consultancy based in Florida. WTP provides technical, advisory, strategy, grant/proposal writing, and management services solely to the Power, Energy, and Utilities ecosystem. Our former and current clients include academia, government, industry organizations, utilities, startups, and venture capital/private equity. |
| FL |
| | North Technical Management, LLC | Bernard North | Owner |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| BSc and MSc in materials science. 41 years of full time work experience primarily in research, development, scale-up and commercialization of Si3N4 and SiC ceramics and W and WC-based materials, working from 1981 to 2014 for Kennametal Inc., a leading W materials and products manufacturer. Knowledgeable of supplier situation, processing methods, and W-based products including property trade-offs. Served as a director of the International Tungsten Industry Association. Since leaving full time employment in 2014 have worked part-time as a consultant, advisory board member, and technical article author in the tungsten, wear-resistant materials, ceramics, metal cutting, and technical project management fields.
I would like to support a category A project team by providing input and advice on W materials sourcing, processing, properties, and materials and components development. I can supply a resume and am happy to discuss possibilities with organizations who believe I could contribute to this critical development. |
Website: None
Email: bnorth524@msn.com
Phone: 4123104094
Address: 100 Hawkshead Lane, Greensburg, PA, 15601, United States
| PA |
| | University of Toledo | Ala Qattawi | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Functionally graded metals manufacturing, material modeling, and testing: The University of Toledo possesses advanced manufacturing capabilities for producing multimetal structures with varying metal composition in both vertical and horizontal dimensions using laser powder bed fusion.
We have extensive capabilities for material characterization, including high-temperature mechanical testing and microstructure imaging to analyze diffusion bonding across interlayers. Our research has yielded successful preliminary results in manufacturing pure tungsten-reduced activation ferritic martensitic (RAFM) steel structures, utilizing heat-assisted laser powder bed fusion with in-situ heating capabilities of up to 700°C.
Furthermore, in addition to tungsten and tungsten alloys additive manufacturing, the University of Toledo has established collaborations and ongoing projects with Materion focused on additive manufacturing of Beryllium.
We also offer access to other metal additive manufacturing technologies, including binder jets, wire arcs, and hybrid wire-powder additive manufacturing processes. |
| OH |
| | Nucleon Power Inc | Garrett Young | Senior Scientist |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| We operate a high-flux DT neutron fusion device that allows samples to be irradiated with 14 MeV neutrons and heated to 650C. |
| TN |
| | LLNL | Timofey Frolov | staff scientiest |
Federal Government
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Other Energy Technologies
| Computational Material Science, structure prediction methods, large-scale atomistic simulations, mechanical properties |
| CA |
| | University of Utah | Zak Fang | Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Professor Zak Fang is a scientist and innovator in metallurgical and materials engineering. He has spearheaded research programs in areas such as nano tungsten powder synthesis and sintering, functionally graded hard metals, ultrafine grain tungsten with enhanced ductility, low-cost and energy-efficient processes for titanium production, microstructure and mechanical properties of powder metallurgy titanium, intermetallic coatings, and metal hydrides for hydrogen and thermal energy storage. His Powder Metallurgy Laboratory (PML) at the University of Utah is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and best-equipped research laboratories in the U.S., specializing in PM processes. The PML is equipped with a comprehensive suite of equipment for powder and material characterization and processing, including an SLM Solutions printer and an ExOne binder-jetting printer. Prior to joining the University of Utah, Fang had a successful industrial R&D career, holding various technical and management positions in several industrial corporations, including Smith International Inc., now a part of Schlumberger Ltd. With his practical and rewarding industrial experiences, he developed expertise in a wide range of materials and manufacturing technologies. These include hard metals, polycrystalline diamond, fracture-mechanical behavior of brittle materials, wear-resistant materials and coatings, steel, synthetic rubber, and other advanced materials processing technologies. |
| UT |
| | University of New Mexico | Eric Lang | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Eric Lang is an Assistant Professor at UNM in the Nuclear Engineering Department. My research involves refractory metal characterization, irradiation damage, and refractory metal synthesis experience. Plasma-material interactions, with a focus on He irradiation effects in tungsten and tungsten alloys/composites, and sputtering of multi-component tungsten systems. Our current research utilizes SEM/TEM techniques with in-situ characterization methods with UNM's microscopy facility (SEM/EBSD/TEM/STEM). Our group also utilizes UNM's Directed Energy Depostion (DED) system and our home-built low fluence ion irradiation facility. |
| NM |
| | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Vasily Bulatov | Senior scientist, Edward Teller fellow |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Physics and mechanics of materials strength and degradation
Materials under extreme conditions
Radiation effects of metal strength
Direct numerical simulations of metal dynamics: atomistic, mesoscale, continuum
Microstructure and its effects on materials properties
Efficient mathematical algorithms for computer simulations of complex materials
High-performance computing
Bayesian optimization of material properties
Uncertainty quantification in engineering calculations |
| CA |
| | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Charles Hirst | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| An incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my research involves investigating the interplay between radiation damage, temperature, and stress on microstructural evolution. I plan to develop an in-situ ion irradiation mechanical testing station for subjecting materials to tensile, creep, fatigue, and creep-fatigue environments during irradiation. In addition, I will investigate the effect of repeated irradiation annealing cycles on radiation damage formation, recovery, and stored energy release in structural and magnet-relevant materials. Finally, I plan to establish a high-throughput facility to study the mechanisms behind hydrogen retention and release in plasma facing materials. |
| WI |
| | University of Louisville | Thomas Berfield | Director, AMIST; Assoc. Prof., Mechanical Eng. |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science and Technology has extensive expertise in powder-based additive manufacturing and new capabilities in AM-compatible material development. Major capabilities of note related to this call include:
- A research scale alloying and atomization platform (RePowder from Amazemet) capable of producing LPBF or DED size distribution metallic powders from a variety of feedstock sources and form factors, including refractory element-based materials
- Novel, high-throughput screening techniques for both material composition and laser powder bed fusion deposition parameters
- High-temperature mechanical testing |
| KY |
| | University of Alabama | Qiaofu Zhang | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| With a combinatory experience in industrial and academia, our research group at University of Alabama focuses on ICME-based materials design and development, including: 1) computational models development to predict materials microstructure evolution under various processes and conditions, and further predict materials' behavior. 2) develop and optimize materials composition, microstructure and manufacturing processes to achieve desired properties. 3) materials of interests includes high temperature super-alloys, refractory alloys, and high entropy alloys, as well as ceramic-metal composites (cermets). Our research group also has intermediate access to rapid prototyping and electron microscopic facilities at UA. |
| AL |
| | Texas Tech University | Zeeshan Ahmad | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Background in high throughput material screening through molecular simulations and machine learning. Interested in rapid materials screening and discovery through multiscale modeling (DFT, continuum modeling) and data-driven techniques applied to simulations or experiments. |
| TX |
| | Carnegie Mellon University | Sneha Prabha Narra | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Metal additive manufacturing - electron beam powder bed fusion, laser powder bed fusion, wire arc additive manufacturing, laser hot wire additive manufacturing covering fabrication, numerical modeling and multi-scale material characterization (defects and microstructure). Relevant to this call would be the powder bed fusion technologies.
Access to metal additive manufacturing lab and materials characterization facility at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| PA |
| | University of Michigan | Yang Zhang (YZ) | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Our research can be summarized into two words: Matter and Machine. In the realm of Matter, we synergistically integrates statistical mechanics and molecular fluid mechanics theories, accelerated molecular simulations, understandable AI methods, and neutron scattering experiments to extend our understanding of rare events and long timescale phenomena in complex material systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the physics and chemistry of liquids and complex fluids, especially at interfaces, under extreme conditions, or when driven away from equilibrium. Concurrently, on the Machine front, leveraging our expertise in materials and modeling, we advance the development of soft robots and human-compatible machines, swarm robots and collective intelligence, and robots in extreme environments. These two research areas, spanning from fundamental to applied, serve as integral pillars in our overarching mission to foster a sustainable, resilient, and secure energy infrastructure.
Matter
Rare events and long timescale phenomena in complex material systems
Physics and chemistry of liquids, glasses, and complex fluids, especially under interfacial/extreme/non-equilibrium conditions (water, metallic liquids, molten salts, ionic liquids, electrolyte solutions)
Statistical mechanics and molecular fluid mechanics theories, accelerated molecular simulations, understandable AI methods
Neutron scattering, sources, and instrumentation
Machine
Soft robots and human-compatible machines
Swarm robots and collective intelligence
Robots in extreme environments |
| MI |
| | University of Illinois | Marie Charpagne | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| My research group specializes in alloy design for additive manufacturing. We use some unique aspects of the AM process to synthesize novel alloys, that could not be manufactured any other way. Our laboratory hosts a laser direct energy deposition system, of which we are the sole users. This gives us tremendous versatility and flexibility in materials development, along with accelerated throughput in alloy synthesis. Our expertise includes functional grading for rapid screening and alloy development; feedstock modification via addition of inoculants, refractory particles; and metal matrix composites. We have unique expertise in microstructure characterization and implement machine learning and computer vision techniques for automated and non-human-biased statistical analysis, to relate microstructure to the material's performance. |
| IL |
| | Tokamak Energy | Emre Yildirim | Dr. |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My background is in irradiation damage and plasma-surface interaction in plasma-facing materials through my PhD at the University of Manchester, with a stint visiting the Nuclear Science and Engineering department at MIT. This included ion-irradiations and advanced characterisation through SEM/TEM and thermal property measurements.
Interests include any way to cool the divertor and any materials that can keep up with the multifaceted problem PFC materials face, specifically the divertor (this includes both liquid and solid divertor designs). Also, things like PFC maintenance and utilising machine learning and artificial intelligence for material degradation prediction and novel material development are also of great interest.
At Tokamak Energy we collaborate with internal and external partners to design and develop novel plasma facing components and utilise our own lab, including our high-heat flux testing rig, to further our design and development. |
| Oxfordshire |
| | Frazer-Nash Consultancy | Huw Dawson | Dr |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Frazer-Nash is an engineering consultancy based across the UK that delivers engineering and technology solutions; including the energy and nuclear sectors. Frazer-Nash have a Materials, Advanced Manufacturing (AMTecH) and Fusion teams.
Frazer-Nash have worked significantly with UKAEA’s STEP program as a Tier 1 supplier in three frameworks as well as working with other private fusion companies. We are keen to continue working further in the fusion space. Frazer-Nash have also carried out small and major projects in materials development and testing for fission, aerospace, civil and other sectors.
We would be happy to be involved with the First Wall Discovery program: leading or assisting with technical work or project management. While we do not have our own testing or manufacturing capabilities we are highly experienced in data analysis, design and modelling activities. We are also well placed to have a role organizing and supervising work through our wide network of organizations throughout industry, academia and RTOs.
Some specific experience, capabilities and interests to the First Wall exploration project are listed below:
Experience in leading projects in RAFM testing and development. This includes several years of developing novel RAFM alloys for higher temperatures and irradiation damages using Rapid Material Synthesis and screening.
Experience in manufacturing projects using tungsten.
Extensive materials testing and data analysis.
Radiation damage characterization through various experimental technique including synchrotron and neutron scattering.
Test rig design and development: including fusion relevant lithium flow loops.
Irradiation damage modelling.
Structural and thermal modelling of materials.
Neutron activation calculations.
Materials design modelling.
Bayesian Optimization for improved parameter selection.
We are also beginning to apply AI and Machine Learning to advanced materials and would be interested to utilize this approach for this opportunity.
Please feel free to reach out to us to discuss the opportunity further or if you would like to find out more about the capabilities listed. |
| Gloucester |
| | UK Atomic Energy Authority | Sergei Dudarev | Prof. |
Federal Government
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Sergei L. Dudarev studied theoretical and mathematical physics at Moscow Engineering Technical University, receiving MSc and PhD degrees in Theoretical Nuclear Physics in 1983. In 1989 was awarded a Moscow Komsomol Prize for outstanding scientific achievements and a Royal Society Research Fellowship in 1991. Moved to Oxford, UK in 1992, becoming a Fellow at Linacre College in 1995 and a Lecturer at Materials Department in 1997. From 2005 S.L. Dudarev leads computational materials science research at UK Atomic Energy Authority, and a European programme in modelling and simulation of radiation effects in fusion reactor materials. He has held visiting professorships at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong, and a distinguished visiting lectureship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and is a visiting professor at the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, and a visiting professor at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. Author of a book on Electron Diffraction and Microscopy published by the Oxford University Press in 2004, reprinted in paperback in 2011, and over 250 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals on subjects spanning the theory of electron diffraction and imaging, methods of electronic structure calculations, and mathematical models for fusion reactor materials. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a member of editorial boards of Physical Review Materials, Nuclear Fusion, and the Journal of Nuclear Materials. He leads a group of internationally leading experts in mathematical models for fusion reactor materials, and is himself an established authority in scattering of particles (electrons, ions, and neutrons) and radiation in materials, including density matrix-based treatment of electron diffraction, and applications to electron microscopy and spectroscopy of materials, including electron energy loss spectroscopy and Auger surface spectroscopy. Electronic structure of materials, including strongly correlated systems, transition metal oxides, applications of LSDA method. Models for nuclear materials, including ab initio calculations of structure of radiation defects, magnetic and scalar interatomic potentials, Langevin and related stochastic methods, mathematical algorithms for large-scale predictive modelling of complex alloys and steels under extreme high temperature and irradiation conditions, and multiscale methods for fusion reactor design. |
| Oxfordshire |
| | Tokamak Energy, Inc. | Aaron Washington | Technical Project Manager |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Tokamak Energy was founded in 2009 as a spin-off from UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Our US subsidiary, Tokamak Energy Inc, was established in 2019. We are the only private fusion company with over a decade’s experience developing the two technologies that offer the most efficient and commercially attractive route to fusion energy: the compact spherical tokamak and high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. The tokamaks are the most researched and best understood path to fusion energy. A tokamak is a device that uses a magnetic field to confine and control a plasma. Scientists first realized the potential of tokamaks to achieve fusion conditions back in the 1960s. Then in the 1980s, a study by one of our founders, Alan Sykes, revealed that modifying the shape of the tokamak would significantly improve performance. The compact spherical tokamak, which has a more compressed, spherical shape, was found to offer key advantages in terms of efficiency, plasma stability, and cost-effectiveness.
We have completed design work on our next advanced prototype fusion device, which has the potential to de-risk and accelerate the development of multiple technologies required for the delivery of sustainable fusion energy. This device, scheduled for build completion in the late 2020s, will also demonstrate multiple advanced technologies required for fusion energy and inform the design of a fusion pilot plant. Our fusion pilot plant will demonstrate the capability of delivering electricity into the grid in the 2030s, paving the way for globally deployable 500-megawatt commercial plants.
Our pathway to commercial fusion is built on proven science and an unrivalled track record. In 2022, we reached a peer-reviewed plasma ion temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius in our ST40 spherical tokamak, the threshold for commercial fusion. We also achieved the highest triple product by a private company; a widely recognized industry test of plasma density, temperature and confinement that is a key measure of progress on the path to commercial fusion.
We’re also widely recognized as a world-leader in the development of HTS magnet technology, producing robust HTS magnets with built-in quench protection. We recently produced a world-first set of HTS coils to be assembled and tested in power plant-relevant scenarios in our Demo4 system. |
| DE |
| | Tokamak Energy | Jim Pickles | Dr |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Interest: materials development for fusion systems, with a specific focus on novel first wall materials (including liquid metal solutions), advanced radiation shields and novel breeder blanket structural materials. |
| Oxfordshire |
| | Type One Energy | Daniel Clark | Senior Materials Scientist |
Large Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Type One Energy Group is mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world. The company was formed in 2019 by a team of globally-recognized fusion scientists with a strong track record of building state-of-art stellarator fusion machines, together with veteran business leaders experienced in successfully scaling companies and commercializing energy technologies. Type One Energy applies proven advanced manufacturing methods, modern computational physics and high-field superconducting magnets to develop its optimized stellarator fusion energy system. Its FusionDirect development program pursues the lowest-risk, shortest-schedule path to a fusion power plant over the coming decade, using a partner-intensive and capital-efficient strategy. Type One is interested in partnering underneath this FOA to develop novel plasma facing materials and components for its upcoming fusion devices. |
| TN |
| | University of Wisconsin Madison | Yongfeng Zhang | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Taking a multiscale, microstructure-based modeling approach, we will i) uncover the fundamental mechanisms that are responsible for materials degradation, ii) develop materials models to predict the in-service degradation rates of materials in harsh environment, and iii) aid in development of advanced materials with improved performance in harsh environment. The focused area include
1) Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of defects and long-term irradiation behavior of nuclear fuels and materials,
2) Thermomechanical analysis of fuels and structural materials,
3) Corrosion and molten salt corrosion. |
| WI |
| | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Adrien Couet | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| The Materials Degradation under Corrosion and Radiation (MaDCoR) laboratory has expertise in accelerated irradiation and corrosion of materials for fission and fusion technologies. In particular, the laboratory houses a DOE NSUF ion accelerator to irradiate materials with proton/helium/heavy ions and has unique capabilities for accelerated irradiation experiments thanks to an innovative high-throughput irradiation platform. The group has also expertise in various characterization techniques such as electron microscopy (SEM/EDS/EBSD/FIB/TEM), thermal diffusivity, etc... The research group also have a large variety of high-temperature corrosion testing with a strong emphasis on molten salt and gas corrosion. |
| WI |
| | Sandia National Laboratories | Robert Kolasinski | Materials Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Sandia is the primary US laboratory dedicated to understanding and developing plasma facing component (PFC) technology for all magnetic confinement concepts. Our research group supplies PFCs for near term devices, provide science-based understanding of plasma-surface interactions (PSI), and develops PFC technology essential for fusion energy. Through our extensive interactions with US and foreign fusion programs, we apply the latest results and guide laboratory studies in the PFC Program in their relevance to present and future devices. Our R&D includes work on confinement systems, exploratory plasma research, and international collaborations.
Key areas of emphasis include:
1) Developing an understanding of hydrogen isotope transport and trapping in PFC and blanket materials. Sandia has several on-site plasma sources for materials exposures and testing, as well as several instruments available for measuring hydrogen permeation.
2) Provide materials expertise and surface analysis of plasma facing materials, including the development of PSI experiments and edge diagnostics in the lab and for DiMES / DIII-D. Currently Sandia leads the operation of the DIII-D Langmuir probe array and has developed Pd-MIS flux sensors for measuring charge exchange neutral flux.
3) Simulating radiation damage on materials at Sandia's Ion Beam Laboratory. Capabilities are also available for Nuclear Reaction Analysis (for assessment of hydrogen retention) as well as Rutherford Backscattering (RBS) (for erosion / redeposition studies).
4) Atomic-scale materials modeling (DFT / MD) of plasma-facing and structural materials for fusion, including development of interatomic potentials based on ML/AI methods.
5) Use of field line tracing and thermal modeling for design and analysis of plasma-facing component design.
6) Use unique in-situ surface analysis techniques / diagnostics to quantify how PFC surface composition evolves during plasma exposure. |
| CA |
| | Digital Materials Solutions (DMS) | Nasr M Ghoniem | Distinguished Professor (UCLA) |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| I am a "Distinguished Professor" at UCLA, with more than 45 years of experience in fusion materials research (please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=otTEfXUAAAAJ&hl=en ). I am a fellow of ANS, ASME, MRS, AAM, JSPS. One of my publications has the highest number of citations for any research paper that define the relationships between material properties and the design of fusion energy structures (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920379600003203). I also published two books on material instabilities in harsh environments (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/instabilities-and-self-organization-in-materials-9780199298686?cc=us&lang=en& ). I am currently working as research professor at UCLA (part time), and a self-employed consultant for my company (Digital Materials Solutions (DMS)). I provide guidance to private companies (ZAP energy, and potentially TAE) on fusion material properties, radiation damage modeling, and incorporation of material properties into mechanical design procedures. This is because of my unique expertise in nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials science on equal footing (very few individuals have this combination). Recently, I have been developing materials databases for the properties of structural materials in a fusion environment, using a combination of existing property measurements, cross-property correlations, and theoretical-empirical modeling. This is because I believe that this is the fastest way to produce reasonable fusion designs without waiting forever for a specialized fusion test facility or the results of fundamental research. I would like to participate in a team (potentially leading it) to complete this goal. Because of my dual academic-private company affiliations, I believe that I can be of great help to the community. |
| CA |